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The Joe Biden-Hillary Clinton cold war heats up
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 3:25 PM ET, Tue October 20, 2015 | Video Source: CNN

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Washington (CNN)—Joe Biden hasn't yet said whether he'll run for president -- but his campaign against Hillary Clinton has already quietly begun.

The vice president and the former secretary of state are already engaged in a cold war of sorts, both jockeying for the mantle of heir to President Barack Obama's legacy as they trade veiled shots over political styles, foreign policy decisions and more.

Though the two profess warm feelings toward each other, Clinton's campaign knows Biden is a threat: Polls consistently show he pulls most of his support from Clinton if he enters the race -- turning the campaign into a three-way race and giving Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders room to pass both. Tuesday, she rolled out a long list a long list of endorsements -- more than 50 African-American mayors, many of them from the key early-voting state of South Carolina.

And Biden knows he'll have to cut away at Clinton's base -- in part by wrestling Obama supporters away from her.

Biden made the contrasts hard to ignore Tuesday morning at a tribute to former Vice President Walter Mondale, when he invoked Clinton -- not by name, but also without prompt, signaling that she is clearly on his mind -- several times.

One was a shot at Clinton's remark during the first Democratic presidential debate a week ago that Republicans are among the enemies she's most proud of making.

"I really respect the members up there and I still have a lot of Republican friends. I don't think my chief enemy is the Republican Party. This is a matter of making things work," Biden said.

It was the second such remark Biden made in two days, as the vice president made similar comments at a climate change event on Monday.

"I don't consider Republicans enemies," Biden said. "They're friends."

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