Subject: Joe Biden 2016: Josh Earnest mum on whether he’d work for possible Biden campaign - POLITICO
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 10:47:24 -0400

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> Josh Earnest mum on whether he'd work for possible Biden campaign
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> White House spokesman Josh Earnest loves Vice President Joe Biden but he’s keeping quiet on whether he’d work for him.
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> On Monday morning on CNN, Earnest was asked if rumors of him leaving the Obama White House early to help Biden with a possible presidential run were true.
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> Earnest, praised Biden’s time in the administration.
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> “Joe Biden has served this administration admirably,” he said. “The president has often described choosing Joe Biden to be his running mate as the smartest decision he’s ever made in politics and despite all of that hype Vice President Biden has actually exceeded that hype … there is no denying that Vice President Biden has been a terrific vice president, but ultimately he has his own personal decision to make.”
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> ”I think there are a lot of people in Washington D.C. that if, certainly a lot of democrats, that if he made that decision that they would be honored to work with him,” Earnest said. “But the fact is we’ve got some great candidates on the Democratic side already but ultimately each of the candidates will have to make up their own mind about whether or not they want to be a candidate.”
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> Biden’s latest flirtation with a presidential run came to light in Maureen Dowd column <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-joe-biden-in-2016-what-would-beau-do.html> in The New York Times that said his son Beau, who recently died of brain cancer, urged his father to run for president.
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> Although Clinton leads Democratic polls, Biden’s favorability ratings put him at 13 percent, which is the same as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and one percentage point higher than former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/hillary-clinton-backers-skeptical-of-joe-biden-run-120918.html?hp=rc2_4>.
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