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LiberalElite

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Sun Oct 25, 2015, 09:37 PM Oct 2015

Biden explains 2016, through voice of his granddaughter: ‘You’re not going to leave me, are you, Pop

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/25/biden-explains-2016-through-voice-of-his-granddaughter-youre-not-going-to-leave-me-are-you-pop/

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Just as he began to seriously ponder a 2016 presidential campaign, Vice President Biden's 11-year-old granddaughter curled up next to him and delivered the emotional punch that framed his decision-making process.

"Pop, I see Daddy all the time. I see Daddy all the time," Natalie Biden told the vice president, according to his recounting for an interview aired Sunday night on CBS's "60 Minutes." "Pop, you smell like Daddy. You're not going to leave me, are you, Pop?"

It was late August and the swirl of speculation was mounting over whether Biden would enter the Democratic presidential contest and challenge former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the speculation would hang for almost two months longer. But, as Biden said in the interview, the death of his elder son, Joseph R. "Beau" Biden, hung over the family for so long that by the time they were ready to really analyze a presidential campaign, it was too late to mount a credible challenge to Clinton or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
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Biden explains 2016, through voice of his granddaughter: ‘You’re not going to leave me, are you, Pop (Original Post) LiberalElite Oct 2015 OP
That just breaks my heart Evergreen Emerald Oct 2015 #1
Mine died when I was young too so LiberalElite Oct 2015 #2
I am so sorry. Evergreen Emerald Oct 2015 #3
Thank you.nt LiberalElite Oct 2015 #4
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