U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden said he >decided not to run for President because he realised he “couldn’t win”, days after announcing that there was too little time to “mount a winning campaign” for the 2016 polls.
“I’ll be very blunt, if I thought we could’ve put together the campaign that our supporters deserve and our contributors deserved I’ll — I would have gone ahead and done it,” Mr. Biden said.
“[I think, I] couldn’t win,” he said.
In his first interview since announcing he would not contest the presidential election, the 72-year-old explained he took quite a time to take the decision.
“Because it took that long for us to decide as a family. Look, dealing with the loss of Beau, any parent listening who’s lost a child, knows that you can’t — it doesn’t follow schedules of primaries and caucuses and contributors and the like. …everybody grieves at a different pace,” he said.
Mr. Biden, who >lost his son Beau in May , put his election plans on hold.
“I’ve said from the beginning that I don’t know whether our ability to deal with the loss of Beau would reach a point where we could do that before time ran out. And there was nothing we could control,” he said.
Mr. Biden also sought to dispel rumours that his late son had made a last-minute plea to him to run for President.
