Vice President Joe Biden ended months of intense speculation about his political future today by announcing he wouldn't seek the presidency, abandoning a dream he's harbored for decades and putting Hillary Clinton in a stronger position to capture the Democratic nomination.
With his wife, Jill,
and President Barack Obama at his side in the White House Rose Garden,
Biden said the window for a successful campaign "has closed," noting his
family's grief following the death of his son, Beau. He said
'I will not be silent'
"While
I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent," he said in a speech
that highlighted Democratic themes on income inequality along with a
call for a national movement to cure cancer. "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."
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