Obama not ruling out endorsing candidate in Democratic primaries

Washington, Aug 24 (EFE).- U.S. President Barack Obama is not ruling out endorsing one of the candidates in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday.

“I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of an endorsement in the Democratic primary,” Earnest said, adding that – regardless of who he might endorse in the primaries – whoever winds up being the Democratic presidential nominee will enjoy the president’s full support.

Earnest was responding to a question about reports that Vice President Joe Biden may decide to mount a presidential campaign for the third time in his life, having made bids for the party’s nomination in 1988 and 2008.

If Biden decides to run – something that he is said to be considering but about which he had made no public decision as yet – this would constitute a very serious challenge to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the current front-runner for the Democratic nomination.

Both Biden and Clinton competed against Obama for the 2008 Democratic nomination, but they wound up serving in key posts in his administration, respectively as vice president and secretary of state, although the former first lady stepped down from that post in 2013.

If both Biden and Clinton run in the primaries, Obama will find himself torn between supporting his loyal vice president or the party’s current front-runner. EFE

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