Obama adviser reveals private conversations urging Biden not to run in 2016

A top strategist for former President Barack Obama said he discouraged then-Vice President Joe Biden from running in the 2016 presidential election. 

The University of Virginia’s Miller Center on Monday published an interview with Obama strategist David Plouffe, who was tasked with informing Biden that he should not run for president because he "could not win." At the time, Biden was grieving the death of his son Beau Biden and was well behind Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. 

"What I would say is...