Joseph Biden abandons presidential ambitions

US Vice President Joseph Biden has stated that he has no intentions of running in next year's presidential election.

He announced this in the Rose Garden of the White House in the presence of the current head of the United States Barack Obama.

The former ‘first lady’ and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders, former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, former Senator Jim Webb from Virginia, as well as former Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island are among the applicants for the status of the presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, Tass reports.