presumably if it is hillary? >> and certainly a nominee, and him not running increases her o position, and joe biden faced a uphill climb, but if he did, he was a missile aimed directly at her coalition, and the intrin c intrinsics are the white working class voters which are stronger than bernie sanders, and he was a threat to her hold on the minority voters which are her firewall. and once you get past the all-white states of iowa and new hampshire and the more diverse states in the coalition, and without him there, bernie sanders has a doubly larger challenge to break into the minority vote which could be so crucial to her. >> ron, thank you for the insight. i know that you will have more to say about this, and c nshgs nshn is covering this throughout the day today and just a recap if you are watching, and blink and you missed it. the vice president without any warning, really, coming into the rose garden at the white house with the president behind him to announce that he in fact would not be seeking any kind of