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Obama pushed Joe Biden not to challenge Hillary Clinton in 2016

By Zach Halaschak
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Obama pushed Joe Biden not to challenge Hillary Clinton in 2016

President Barack Obama dissuaded Joe Biden from running for president in the 2016 election.

Obama thought that if his vice president ran, he would be beaten in the Democratic primaries by Hillary Clinton. In summer of 2015, Obama “gently pressed” Biden against his 2016 aspiration, according to the New York Times.

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