Mr Biden instead used the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner to make both jokes and grim warnings about Republican rival Donald Trump's fight to reclaim the US presidency.
An evening normally devoted to presidents, journalists and comedians taking pokes at political scandals and each other this year often seemed to illustrate the difficulty of putting aside the coming presidential election and the troubles in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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