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onehandle

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Wed Oct 21, 2015, 07:35 PM Oct 2015

Hillary Clinton Praises Joe Biden After He Decides Against Run

Source: New York Times

“I am confident that history isn’t finished with Joe Biden,” Mrs. Clinton said in a statement. “As he said today, there is more work to do.”

@VP is a good friend and a great man. Today and always, inspired by his optimism and commitment to change the world for the better. -H

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/21/hillary-clinton-praises-joe-biden-after-he-decides-against-run

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Hillary Clinton Praises Joe Biden After He Decides Against Run (Original Post) onehandle Oct 2015 OP
Not bad after his slam. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #1
Biden’s decision boosts Clinton and sets up a two-way race with Sanders L. Coyote Oct 2015 #2

L. Coyote

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2. Biden’s decision boosts Clinton and sets up a two-way race with Sanders
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 08:19 PM
Oct 2015

Biden’s 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 Biden’s 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. ...
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