• Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama speak in June in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Obama is the man in the middle as his vice president weighs challenging his former secretary of state for the 2016 Democratic nomination. While Obama would officially stay neutral in a Biden-Clinton faceoff, the contest would essentially be a fight over which of his closest advisers is the rightful heir to his legacy. | AP
    Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama speak in June in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Obama is the man in the middle as his vice president weighs challenging his former secretary of state for the 2016 Democratic nomination. While Obama would officially stay neutral in a Biden-Clinton faceoff, the contest would essentially be a fight over which of his closest advisers is the rightful heir to his legacy. | AP

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama may issue an endorsement in the Democratic primary, his press secretary said Monday, as Vice President Joe Biden considers whether to challenge former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

While Obama considers his selection of the former Delaware senator as his running mate the best political decision he’s ever made, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, the president so far has remained neutral in the Democratic contest to succeed him.

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