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BIDEN: "Look, the polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race, we would have been down to the wire. But what happened was, a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was gonna hurt them in their races. And I was concerned, if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic. You'd be interviewing about why did Nancy Pelosi say, why did so and — and I thought it would be a real distraction."