2020 is just around the corner.
Via Daily Mail:
On Thursday, two of America’s queens of talk, Oprah and Ellen, released footage from interviews with Vice President Joe Biden, which will air in full later this week.
‘I have a regret that I am not president,’ Biden candidly told Oprah, for an interview with OWN, which airs Sunday. ‘Because I think there’s so much opportunity. I think America’s so incredibly well-positioned.’
On Ellen, the comedian pleaded with the ex-vice president to run for the presidency in 2020.
‘Just remember, that is what I’d like to see,’ Ellen said. ‘I don’t know if it’s going to be myself or Oprah as your running mate,’ she said, grabbing his hand.
Biden told Ellen that right now he just wanted to focus on ‘my boy,’ the late Beau Biden.
The title of the ex-veep’s new book, ‘Promise Me, Dad,’ comes from Beau asking that the former vice president be OK as his son faced the cancer that eventually killed him.
It was that grief over losing Beau, Biden said, that kept him from entering the presidential race, which the Democrats eventually lost to now President Donald Trump.
‘Oprah, no woman or man should announce they are running for president unless they can answer two questions: One, do they truly believe they are the most qualified person for that moment. I believed I was,’ Biden said.
It was the second question that stopped him.
‘But was I prepared to be able to give my whole heart, my whole soul and all my attention to the endeavor?’ he mused. ‘And I knew I wasn’t.’
In another clip from the interview, he repeats that he knew, a month out, that Hillary Clinton’s candidacy was doomed.
‘A month out, I came back and said, we’re going to lose this election,’ Biden said.