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Joe Biden: US vice-president announces he will not run for president in 2016, easing months of suspense

      Wed 21 Oct 2015   

Photo: US vice president Joe Biden announces he will not seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. (Reuters: Carlos Barria)

 

US vice-president Joe Biden says he will not run for president in 2016, ending months of suspense and easing Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's path to the party's nomination.

 

Mr Biden, who had been pondering a run since August, appeared in the White House rose garden with his wife Jill and president Barack Obama to say the window for mounting a successful campaign had closed.
"While I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent," Mr Biden told reporters.
"I intend to speak out clearly and forcefully to influence as much as I can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation."

Read it all here:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-22/us-vice-president-joe-biden-will-not-run-for-president/6875008.