Vice President Joe Biden told ABC News on Tuesday that while he would have made for the “best president,” he was not able to devote himself to a campaign after the death of his son, Beau Biden.
“I had planned on running. It’s an awful thing to say. I think I would have been the best president. But it was the right thing, not just for my family, for me,” Biden told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview that aired on Wednesday. “No one should ever seek the presidency unless they’re able to devote their whole heart and soul and passion into just doing that. And Beau was my soul. I just wasn’t ready to be able to do that.”
Biden told ABC that taking charge of the administration’s “cancer moonshot” has been “bittersweet” after his son’s battle with cancer.
“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,” he continued.
