By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--March 27, 2017
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"I had planned on running for president and although it would have been a very difficult primary, I think I could have won. I don't know, maybe not. But I thought I could have won. I had a lot of data and I was fairly confident that if I were the Democratic Party's nominee, I had a better than even chance of being president."Biden went on to say...
“But do I regret not being president? Yes. I was the best qualified."I'm not 100% sold on the "qualified" part, but I get it. As VP for an inexplicably popular President, "Crazy Uncle Joe" was in the catbird seat. He's never lost an election and had the unique advantage of being well-respected by his own party while not being despised by his opponents. No other viable candidate (save possibly Rand Paul) could make the same claim. So, yes. I think Biden could have won. In fact, I thought so at the time, and was surprised when he declined. Then, we began hearing his reasoning, and it all made sense. Yesterday, at Colgate University, he reminded everyone why he "just couldn't do it."
“I had a lot of data,” Biden said. “I was fairly confident that if I was the Democratic Party nominee, I had a better-than-even chance of being president.” “But, um.” Biden looked at his hand, flexing it back and forth. I lost part of my soul, my, uh.” He cleared his throat. “Excuse me.” He then recounted how the sudden illness and death of his son Beau Biden in the run-up to the Democratic primaries weighed on his decision to contest in the 2016 race. “The press began to think I was playing a game, but I couldn’t tell them about my boy,” Biden said. “He wanted me to run. … My son Hunter, my daughter Ashley, my wife, all thought I should.” “I didn’t,” he said. “At the end of the day, I just couldn’t do it.”
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