Biden opted out of race because he ‘couldn’t win’

Associated Press

WASHINGTON

Vice President Joe Biden says he decided against running for president because he “couldn’t win,” not because he would have had too little time to get a campaign up and running.

“I’ll be very blunt. If I thought we could’ve put together the campaign ... that our supporters deserve and our contributors deserved, ... I would have done it,” he said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

In the wide-ranging interview, in which Biden took questions for a time joined by his wife, Jill, the vice president also said he would not have gotten into the race just to stop Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.