What if Obama 'had been assassinated' in 2008? - Biden

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HANOVER, NH – Joe Biden often touts his relationship with former President Barack Obama. But at a campaign event Friday night in New Hampshire, the former vice president took a very unusual turn.

The former vice president asked the audience what would have happened if his former boss had been assassinated.

Toward the end of the town hall at Dartmouth College, Biden spotlighted two of his political heroes, Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy – who were both murdered five decades ago.

Biden asked “Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee? What would have happened in America?"

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The event was held on the 11th anniversary of Obama choosing then-Sen. Biden of Delaware as his running mate in the 2008 election.

Senior Biden adviser Symone Sanders quickly took to Twitter to explain the former vice president's unusual comment.

"He was putting into perspective, for young folks in the room, about how traumatic the assassinations of RFK and MLK were for the country," she wrote.

Biden kicked off the event in Hanover criticizing the current president, not his predecessor. He took aim at the Republican president, speaking as President Trump prepared to head off to the G-7 summit of the world’s top economic powers.

“As long as this man is president, and this is no hyperbole, we are in trouble,” Biden said.

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