Joe Biden Says He Has ‘No Intention’ of Serving in a Hillary Clinton Administration
Amid reports that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was looking at Vice President Joe Biden as her top pick to serve as secretary of state in her administration if she wins the election, Biden made it clear Friday afternoon that he is not interested.
BIDEN tells CNN affil KBJR re Secretary of State: "I don't want to remain in the administration. .. I have no intention of staying involved"
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 28, 2016
He confirmed, though, that he is still fully behind the Democratic nominee and will help her however he can.
“I’ll do anything I can if Hillary’s elected to help her, but I don’t want to remain in the administration,” Biden told Minnesota station KBJR-TV.
“I have no intention of staying involved,” he said.
Although reports emerged Thursday night that Clinton’s short list of candidates had Biden as the front-runner, the vice president had yet to be approached by the Clinton campaign about the matter.
“I think it should be no surprise that Vice President Biden would surface as a possibility for this role,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters Friday on Air Force One.
He praised Biden for having “deep foreign policy credentials” and said the vice president would bring an element of “star power” while still having “the integrity and character to represent the United States’ interests around the globe.”
In an interview with John Dickerson that aired Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation, Biden shared his plans after his time as vice president is over.
He said he wants to continue having an impact in government, but admitted he is still figuring out exactly what he wants to do and how to make that impact.
Asked by Dickerson what he would do on his last day in office, Biden replied, “What I’m going to do is go home and begin to figure out what I do for the rest of my life.”
@dcexaminer he may not need to worry!
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Politico reported Clinton is considering several other people for the secretary of state position, including former Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman; former Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns; Kurt Campbell, Clinton’s assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs when she was in the job; and Strobe Talbott, the deputy secretary of state during Bill Clinton’s first term and a longtime friend of the Clintons who is now the president of the Brookings Institution. (For more from the author of “Joe Biden Says He Has ‘No Intention’ of Serving in a Hillary Clinton Administration” please click HERE)
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