Vice President Joe Biden says it’s too bad he decided not to run for the White House, because he would have been the “best president.”
“I had planned on running. This is an awful thing to say: I think I would have been the best president,” Biden told ABC’s Robin Roberts in an interview with “Good Morning America” that aired Wednesday morning.
Biden also told Roberts he felt “confident” that Hillary Clinton would be the Democrats’ nominee and that he is “confident she’ll be he next president.”
Biden said he had planned to launch a 2016 presidential campaign, but changed his mind after his eldest son Beau died last May at the age of 46 after battling brain cancer.
“No one should ever seek the presidency unless they’re able to devote their whole heart and soul and passion into just doing that,” he said. “And, Beau was my soul. I just wasn’t ready to be able to do that. But, so, my one regret is my Beau’s not here. I don’t have any other regrets.”
Biden announced in October he would not launch a presidential campaign.
Biden originally sat down with Roberts to discuss his “Cancer Moon Shot” initiative, which he launched to ultimately find a cure for cancer.
“It’s kind of bittersweet,” Biden said of leading the efforts. “But this is, this allows me to pour all my energies into — doing something that — hopefully will — five years from now if, someone’s diagnosed with what my Beau was diagnosed with, they, they live.”
