For Clinton and Biden, a long and tangled friendship

FILE - In this April 2, 2013 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appear onstage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Over the past quarter century or so, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joe Biden have collaborated and competed, shared more than a dozen staff members, and served in a presidential Cabinet. Now, their long and tangled relationship is being tested. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past quarter century or so, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joe Biden have collaborated and competed, shared more than a dozen staffers and served together in a presidential Cabinet. On many issues they've seen eye to eye. On others, they've been at odds.
Now as Biden considers challenging Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, their long and tangled relationship is being tested.
In late 2011, when President Barack Obama's re-election looked uncertain, his advisers secretly polled whether they should consider replacing Biden on the ticket with Clinton.
Four years later, it's Clinton's candidacy that is stressed, leading some prominent Democrats to question whether Biden would make the stronger candidate.
Yet despite the prospect of a primary faceoff, aides and colleagues say their relationship remains relatively warm.

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