Former Vice President Joe Biden reportedly dismissed the idea that he needed an endorsement from his former boss, noting that people already knew he was close with former President Barack Obama. “I don’t need an Obama endorsement.”His comments came amid ongoing speculation that the former president didn't have confidence in his former right-hand man. “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” Obama told Biden early in 2019, according to The New York Times. OBAMA REPORTEDLY TOLD BIDEN HE DIDN'T HAVE TO RUN IN 2020And according to a Politico Magazine story from November, Obama told another candidate that Biden didn't have an intimate bond with the electorate like he did in 2008. And if it’s true, and he said it, there’s truth to it," Biden reportedly said when asked about the comment.

Source: Fox News December 03, 2019 18:45 UTC