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Email Suggests Biden Aide Sabotaged His Presidential Aspirations To Help Hillary

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A new email released by WikiLeaks in connection with its dump of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s email server suggests a senior aide to Vice President Joe Biden may have undermined his presidential aspirations to help Hillary Clinton.

Ron Klain, a Democrat stalwart who served as chief of staff to Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden sent an email to Podesta suggesting the Clinton campaign wasn’t sitting idly by while Biden was deliberating whether or not to run for president.

“It’s been a little hard for me to play such a role in the Biden demise – and I am definitely dead to them — but I’m glad to be on Team HRC, and glad that she had a great debate last night,” he wrote to Podesta and Clinton Communications Cirector Jennifer Palmieri.

The email was sent on Oct. 14, a full week before Biden’s Rose Garden announcement that he would not seek the presidency on Oct. 21. It is unclear what “the Biden demise” refers to, what role Klain played in Biden’s ultimate decision not to run for president, or how much the Clinton campaign was involved in that decision.

Klain’s defection from the administration further underlines the extent to which establishment Democrats rallied around Clinton in advance of the campaign. The Daily Caller first reported Tuesday that interim Democratic National Convention chair Donna Brazile may have shared questions for a CNN town hall with the camp Clinton in advance. She strongly denied the allegation in a statement yesterday. (RELATED: Revealed: Donna Brazile Shared CNN Town Hall Questions With Clinton Camp)

The Clinton campaign did not comment on this story by press time.

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