Former Vice President Joe Biden has tamped down speculation he is considering another run for the White House.
“I’m just not sure it’s the appropriate thing for me to do,” Biden, 74, told Snapchat’s Good Luck America in an interview to be released Tuesday.
Biden, who launched unsuccessful bids for the presidency in 1988 and 2008, made the comments during an appearance alongside Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the University of Delaware in October.
“We gotta turn this ship around,” Biden continued, referring to the country. “And I’d much prefer to be helping someone turn it around than being the guy trying to turn it around.”
But the Delaware Democrat, currently promoting his forthcoming book Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, told Oprah Winfrey in a pre-recorded interview published in full on Sunday that he had “not yet” ruled out another attempt to become elected commander in chief.
“And I say that ‘not yet’ because I’m a great respecter of fate,” Biden said.
In the Winfrey “SuperSoul Sunday” interview, Biden admitted after doing 83 campaign events for Hillary Clinton in 2016 he suspected “we’re going to lose this election.”
“I think what happened is we got to the point where it became identity politics,” Biden said. “They learned the wrong lessons from Barack’s brilliant campaigns.”
