Vice President Joseph R. Biden said he feels “confident” that Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton will win the party’s nomination and ultimately the presidency.
“I feel confident that Hillary will be the nominee, and I feel confident she’ll be the next president,” Mr. Biden said in an interview for ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Mr. Biden did say that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump “has been underestimated from the beginning.”
But the vice president also said he doesn’t think the “constant attack” coming from the Republican side is going to “wear well” over the next several months.
Mr. Biden announced in October that he would not mount his own run for president. His son, Beau, had died in May 2015 after battling brain cancer.
“I [had] planned on running. It’s an awful thing to say — I think I would have been the best president,” he said. “But it was the right thing not just for my family — for me.”
“No one should ever seek the presidency unless they’re able to devote their whole heart and soul and passion [into] just doing that,” Mr. Biden said. “Beau was my soul. I just wasn’t ready to be able to do that.”
“My one regret is my Beau’s not here,” he said. “I don’t have any other regrets.”
Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state, still maintains a significant lead over Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont among both pledged delegates and superdelegates.
But Mr. Sanders picked up another win in West Virginia on Tuesday, and Mrs. Clinton’s inability to chase the 74-year-old Democratic Socialist from the race stands in stark contrast to Mr. Trump, a relative political neophyte who has already knocked out all 16 of his major Republican opponents from the contest.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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