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    <em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: Biden's in for 2020. But in 2016, Obama Talked Him Out of It.

    Is America too fractured for jokes? Plus: earthquakes—or marsquakes, rather—on the Red Planet, a warning about aquariums, the long history of the anti-vax movement, and more
    by Saahil Desai Apr 25, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Reuters

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    The former vice president announced his 2020 campaign after months of pondering … but what stopped him from running in 2016? Biden is running now as an heir to Obama, but four years ago, Obama talked him out of a presidential run, instead favoring Hillary Clinton for the office. In the summer of 2015, Obama sent a top adviser, David Plouffe, to meet with Biden and lay out how hard winning the nomination would be. “Do you really want it

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