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Obama reportedly told Biden ‘you don’t have to’ run for president

By Mike Brest
Published August 16, 2019 5:29pm ET
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Obama reportedly told Biden ‘you don’t have to’ run for president
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the University of Utah Thursday Dec. 13, 2018, in Salt Lake City. Biden says he initially refused to run with then-presidential candidate Barack Obama a decade ago. | (Rick Bowmer/AP)

Former President Barack Obama reportedly told his former Vice President Joe Biden that he didn’t “have to” run for president in 2020.

“You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” Obama told Biden earlier this year, according to The New York Times.

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