AOL: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would not run for president in 2016, ending months of suspense and easing Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s path to the party’s nomination.
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,” 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,” Biden said… (more)
