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| US Vice President Joe Biden |
Vice President Joe Biden announced on today that he will not be running for president, ending months of speculation about whether he would challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
He delivered the news against the formal backdrop of the White House Rose Garden with his wife Jill and President Barack Obama at his side.
Supporters have prodded Biden to jump into the race, citing his son Beau's deathbed request that his dad make a bid for the nation's highest political office.
But Biden said:
'there is no timetable' for grieving, and his opportunity has passed. 'I believe we're out of time,' he said. 'As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along ... that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president,' Biden said, 'that it might close.'
'I've concluded it has closed.'
The VP had played it coy for months.
His announcement came just days before the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, a marquee event in the state's political season scheduled for Saturday in Des Moines.
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