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Biden opted out on 2016 Dem race because he ‘couldn’t win’

Biden opted out on 2016 Dem race because he ‘couldn’t win’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden says he decided against running for president because he "couldn't win," not because he would have had too little time to get a campaign up and running. "I'll be very blunt. If I thought we could've put together the campaign … that our supporters deserve and our contributors deserved, … I would have done it," he said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes."

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden says he decided against running for president because he "couldn't win," not because he would have had too little time to get a campaign up and running. "I'll be very blunt. If I thought we could've put together the campaign … that our supporters deserve and our contributors deserved, … I would have done it," he said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes."…