Joe Biden: "I would have been the best president"
Vice President Joe Biden says he thinks he would have been the best commander in chief.
"I 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 said in an interview that aired Wednesday on ABC News' "Good Morning America."
"No one should ever seek the presidency unless they're able to devote their whole heart and soul and passion and to just doing that, and Beau was my soul," Biden added about his late son Beau Biden, who died of a long battle with brain cancer last year at the age of 46.
Biden said his one regret is that Beau is no longer here, adding, "I don't have any other regrets."
In the same interview, he said he's "confident" that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee.
"And I feel confident she'll be the next president," Biden said.
Though Clinton lost the West Virginia primary on Tuesday, she's still leading Bernie Sanders in terms of delegates. According to CBS News' latest count, she has 2,239 delegates, including superdelegates while Sanders trails with 1,458.
The vice president said Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, has been underestimated from the beginning of the 2016 race, but he said the "constant attack coming from the Republican side, the sort of vitriol that's pouring out" won't wear well over the next several months.
Biden opted out of the presidential race last October, saying in a speech from the White House Rose Garden that he was "out of time" to mount a winning campaign. In January, he said regrets not running for president "every day." But now his mission is to fight cancer.
"This allows me to pour all of my energies into doing something that hopefully, five years from now if someone is diagnosed with what my Beau was diagnosed with, they live," he told ABC.
