Interviews with influential senators, Democratic leaders and senior aides show Clinton is the runaway choice of the 55-member Senate Democratic Caucus for 2016. Even the two Delaware senators hedged when asked whether they wanted Biden to run.
Another old friend of Biden, Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, said in an interview that she recently reached out to the vice president to let him know she was backing Clinton.
“I think the vice president is terrific, but I think it’s Hillary’s time,” Stabenow said…
The decision to jump behind Clinton so early is part cold political calculation, part private frustration that lawmakers have with President Barack Obama. Most Democratic senators believe Clinton is the party’s best — perhaps only — hope of holding the White House. But Biden also seems to be saddled with a growing weariness in Senate Democratic circles with his boss.
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