Bidens decision boosts Clinton and sets up a two-way race with Sanders
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-decides-against-a-2016-presidential-bid/2015/10/19/bfb58df8-7089-11e5-8248-98e0f5a2e830_story.html
By Paul Kane and Karen Tumulty October 21 at 5:00 PM
Vice President Bidens announcement Wednesday that he will not seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination has given a further boost to resurgent frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton and clarified her terms of engagement with Bernie Sanders, who is waging a challenge from her left.
Biden ended months of speculation with his blunt acknowledgment that the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president has closed for him, as he and his distraught family have worked through their grief over the death in May of his eldest son, Beau.
Unfortunately, I believe we are out of time the time necessary to mount a campaign for the nomination, Biden said as President Obama stood protectively by his side in the White House Rose Garden. ...