Vice President Joe Biden, potential presidential candidate for upcoming elections, has decided not to run. According to CNN, Biden said “Unfortunately, I believe we’re out of time, the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination.”

“I intend to speak up 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.

Biden has seen many tragedies in his lifetime, most recently in May of 2015 when he lost his son Beau.

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