On Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden finally made official what his camp had been teasing for months: He’s running for president, for the third time. While former President Obama has made clear that he believes Biden is a good candidate, he refuses to give an official endorsement, something Biden claims he actually requested. “The vice president actually asked the president not to endorse,” Biden’s spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield told the press last week. “He wants to make his own case. He is running on an incredibly strong message of wanting to restore the soul of the nation.”
At the beginning of the 2016 election cycle, Biden likewise publicly pondered a presidential run, but after weeks of agonizing over the decision, the vice president chose to let Hillary Clinton have her ultimately very disappointing day. Amid the buzz about Biden’s big announcement, and with Obama unwilling to fully throw his weight behind him, The New York Times revealed some more details about what went on behind the scenes in 2015, particularly Obama’s efforts to convince Biden not to run.
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