U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke privately with Vice President Joe Biden for an hour Thursday, a meeting that comes at a time when he and other Democratic presidential candidates are trying to lock down the network of party fundraisers and campaign supporters who had been hoping Mr. Biden would run for president.

A spokesman for Mr. Sanders said the senator didn’t ask for an endorsement.

Mr. Biden spent months weighing a possible presidential bid, but announced last week in a Rose Garden speech that he does not have enough time to mount a successful campaign and would stay out of the race. Some Democrats loyal to Mr. Biden had stayed on the sidelines while he deliberated, waiting for his decision before committing to a candidate. Some have said they would like a signal from Mr. Biden as to which of the three major Democratic candidates they should support — Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Clinton or possibly Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland.

A statement from Mr. Sanders’s presidential campaign said the two men met at Mr. Biden’s residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory. They discussed the importance of a campaign finance overhaul that would diminish the influence of money “in the political process,” the Sanders statement said. They also talked about  measures that would make a college education more affordable.

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