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Telling the 200 people gathered, Biden appeared to be in his classic, convivial form, saying “The president said, ‘Look, Joe, just go be Joe. So he let me loose.”

The vice president paid a visit to the campaign’s headquarters in downtown Chicago, where he said he “noticed four of my eight top people from my campaign are now in the headquarters so I am ‘all in.”

In a clear rebuke of Ron Suskin’s new book, which reportedly portrays a president indecisive during the early days of his administration amid the economic collapse, Biden said of Obama: “He stepped up. He didn’t hesitate.”

“Folks he literally saved this economy from falling off a cliff,” Biden said.