Biden Not Sure Family Ready for Another Run

Vice President Joe Biden told DNC members “that he was uncertain if his family had the ’emotional fuel’ for another presidential campaign,” the New York Times reports.

Were he to run, he would “have to be able to commit to all of you that I would be able to give it my whole heart and my whole soul,” he said, “and right now, both are pretty well banged up.”

He added: “I’m not trying to skirt your question. That’s the truth of the matter, but believe me, I’ve given this a lot of thought and dealing internally with the family on how we do this.”

First Read: “Folks, this isn’t a way to stoke the 2016 fire. Indeed, it’s more throwing water on it. It’s as if Biden was trying to tell the political world: calm down.”