Joe Biden discusses decision not to run, Clinton, Trump

U.S. vice president Joe Biden has admitted that he decided against running for the White House because he “couldn’t win” – not because he would have had too little time to get a campaign up and running.

The vice president said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday that reports that Beau Biden – the Delaware attorney general and rising Democratic political star who died of brain cancer in May – was fueling his father’s desire to mount one last campaign were overdone.

“I don’t think it’s healthy, and I hope he reconsiders this sort of attack on all immigrants”, said Biden. And everybody goes up, and she’s lying between my legs with her head on my shou- my chest and turns around and puts her arms around me and starts sobbing and says, “Pop, I see Daddy all the time”.

And- and so a few mornings-we’d say, like I remember about a month ago we were on the porch at home and I said, “You know, when- maybe we should just- I don’t know if we’re going to get there in time. I believe that we should bring back Glass-Steagall legislation so that you do not have the absurd situation of commercial banks and investment banks and large insurance companies being together”. “That’s the reason to run – I wouldn’t run against Hillary”.

“I still think I could do a better job than anyone else could do” as president, he said.

On trade, Sanders took aim at the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal Clinton helped promote as secretary of state and once said she hoped would be a “gold standard” for trade.

In a press interview last Saturday, Hillary Clinton said at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, “I haven’t been shouting, but sometimes when a woman speaks out, a few people think it’s shouting”.

Sanders criticized the shouting from both sides on gun issues in the first Democratic presidential debate.

Biden said he was not directing his complaints of a lack of bipartisanship at her but instead at Washington as a whole. “That was a reference to Washington”. Or near-confirmation – Dovere wrote that the vice president wasn’t the most consistent storyteller: “Before that moment and since, Biden has told the Beau story to others”.

‘Beau all along thought that I should run and I could win, ‘ he said.

Hillary Clinton took the “shouting” remark of Bernie Sanders against her because of her gender.

“It’s the right decision for the family, it’s the right decision for us. And I’m not going to be talking about people”.

“I think everybody at the time knew that it was simply homophobic legislation”, Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. “I don’t want negative ads and I don’t believe in negative campaigning, but what is the sense in being in a campaign if you don’t differentiate your difference with your opponents?”

Ryan “knows you cannot function – this government can’t function – without reaching a few consensus, and he wants to do that”, said Biden.