During his first sit-down interview since announcing hispresidential campaign,Joe Bidenis opening up about his candidacy.
Before his appearance, McCain told fans she was “thrilled” to have Biden on the ABC daytime show. “It’s no secret of my love and friendship with Joe,” shetweeted.
Bidenannounced his campaignearly Thursday morning with a video message.
“The core values of this nation… our standing in the world… our very democracy…everything that has made America — America –is at stake,” the text alongside the video said. “That’s why today I’m announcing my candidacy for President of the United States.”
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The longtime Delaware senator served as former PresidentBarack Obama‘s right-hand man for two terms and enters a crowded field of Democratic candidates as the immediate frontrunner in name recognition and most polling, even if his age and historically more moderate voting record put him at odds with the party’s progressive wing.
Also on Thursday, Biden revealed he purposely urgedBarack Obamato hold off on declaring his approval. “I asked President Obamanot to endorse,” Bidentold reporterson Thursday. “Whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits.”
Added Biden, “I’m incredibly proud to have served with him.”
Biden was also asked if he’d commit to serving only one term as president if elected, which he turned down.
” I may end up — if I get elected — only having one term,” he joked, before adding, “I think it’s important for people, it is a legitimate question to ask, about my age … It’s a question whether or not, hopefully, I can demonstrate not only with age has come wisdom and experience … that’s for you all to decide, not for me to decide.”
In his 2017 memoir,Promise Me, Dad,Biden wrote that he was prevented from challenging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination because his oldest son, Beau,died of brain cancer.
This is not the first time Biden has made an appearance onThe View.
Most memorably,in December 2017, the former vice president was a source of comfort for McCain during her father and late Arizona senator John McCain’s battle with glioblastoma, the same brain cancer that took the life of his late son, Beau, in 2015.
Before his death, Biden visited McCain at the Republican’s Arizona ranch, where the friends on opposite sides of the aisle sat on McCain’s deck and spoke from the heart. “I wanted to let him know how much I love him and how much he matters to me and how much I admire his integrity and his courage,” Biden toldThe New York Timesafter the trip. “I wanted to see my friend.”
Biden also spoke at McCain’s funeral after he fiercely defended the late politician against Trump and the White House’s“trail of disrespect”following McCain’s death. “People have wondered when decency would hit rock bottom with this administration. It happened yesterday,” Biden said.
However, on Wednesday, Cindy McCain, refuted reports that she and her family would endorse Biden’s candidacy. “Joe Biden is a wonderful man and dear friend of the McCain Family. However, I have no intention of getting involved in presidential politics,” shetweeted.
source: people.com
