Obama Refuses To Endorse Hillary For 2016 Election After She Does THIS President Obama will not endorse a Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential primary race, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday McDonough said that Obama, in the final 11 months of his presidency, will wait until voters pick a nominee, as he has in the past George W. Bush didnt endorse his partys nominee in 2008 until March 5, by which point Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., had just about locked up the bid. Ronald Reagan didnt endorse his sitting Vice President, George H. W. Bush, as the Republican nominee until May 1988. Reagan said he wanted to wait until the outcome of the nomination race was clear. Bill Clinton was the only two-termer in the past 30 years to break with the tradition. He endorsed his sitting vice president, Al Gore, in December 1999. Fox News It seems that while Obama might be following tradition, he also is distancing himself from Hillary with all of the scandals she is facing. Do you think Hillary should be cut from the running? 