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		</div><p>US 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.</p>
<p>“I’ll be very blunt. If I thought we could have put together the campaign that our supporters deserve and our contributors deserved I would have done it,” he said on CBS’s 60 Minutes TV programme.</p>
<p>In the wide-ranging interview, in which Biden took questions for a time joined by his wife, Jill, he also said he would not have got into the 2016 race just to stop Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>“I’ve said from the beginning, ’Look, I like Hillary. Hillary and I get along together’,” he said. “The only reason to run is because &#8230; I still think I could do a better job than anybody else could do.”</p>
<p>He used the interview to play down suggestions his announcement not to run, made at the White House on Wednesday with President Barack Obama at his side, included a jab at Mrs Clinton.</p>
<p>At the White House event, Mr Biden, 72, lamented partisan bickering in Washington politics and said: “I don’t think we should look at Republicans as our enemies.”</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton had made a statement to that effect during the Democratic presidential debate earlier this month.</p>
<p>“That wasn’t directed at Hillary,” Mr Biden told 60 Minutes. </p>
<p>“That was a reference to Washington, all of Washington.”</p>
<p>Mr Biden also sought in the interview to dispel recurrent rumours that his late son Beau, 46, who died of brain cancer earlier this year, had made a last-minute plea to his father to run for president. He said there was no such “Hollywood moment”.</p>
<p>“Nothing like that ever, ever happened,” he said. “Beau all along thought that I should run and I could win.</p>
<p>“But there was not what was sort of made out as kind of this Hollywood-esque thing that, at the last minute, Beau grabbed my hand and said, ’Dad, you’ve got to run’.”</p>
<p>The vice president said he wanted to continue to have a voice in party affairs and would speak up whenever he wished. He has not endorsed a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.</p>
<p>“I will make no bones about that,” he said. “I don’t want the party walking away from what Barack and I did.”</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley remain in the race.</p>
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