Daley: Clinton-Biden flip talk necessary
Former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley on Friday defended a decision to test replacing Vice President Biden with Hillary Clinton.
Daley described the discussions as an example of “out of the box” thinking necessary during a campaign.
He also hastened to say that discussions about replacing Biden never got serious a day after reports that the book Double Down will say top Obama aides seriously considered moving Clinton to the number two spot on the ticket.
{mosads}“I think one of the jobs of chief of staff is to recommend lots of things out of the box, but not for a moment was there a serious discussion or a belief that Joe Biden should be replaced, period,” Daley said on “CBS This Morning” on Friday. Daley is now a CBS News contributor.
In an interview with The New York Times punished on Thursday, Daley said he wanted to research what a switch in the vice president would mean for Obama, whose approval rating at the time was one of the lowest in his presidency.
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