Joe Biden: 'I Think I Would Have Been The Best President'
NEW YORK (CBSnewYork/AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden is predicting that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic Party's nomination and says he feels confident that she'll be the next president.
Biden's remarks came in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," which aired on Wednesday morning.
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"I had planned on running. This is an awful thing to say: I think I would have been the best president," Biden told Robin Roberts on Wednesday, Politico reported.
Biden's comments go further than President Barack Obama has in predicting the outcome of the Democratic primary. Obama has offered no predictions and says that the process should be allowed to play itself out.
Biden spent months deliberating with his family and political advisers about a potential late entry to the Democratic primary.
But he also said he was not be emotionally ready to run after his 46-year-old son Beau died of brain cancer in May 2015.
He announced that he wasn't going to run in late October of last year.
Clinton is engaged in a tougher-than-expected primary with Sen. Bernie Sanders, though she is nearing winning the total number of delegates needed to secure the nomination.
With 29 delegates at stake Tuesday, Sanders gained at least 16 delegates while Clinton picked up at least 11. Two delegates remain to be allocated, pending final vote tallies.
Based on primaries and caucuses to date, Clinton has 1,716 delegates to Sanders' 1,430.
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