--- title: Joe Biden Run Explains Why He Didn't Run for President description: A lack of time led Joe Biden to opt not to run for president, the vice president told CBS Sunday canonical: https://time.com/4086304/joe-biden-presidential-run-decision/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-25T16:36:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:00.493Z article:section: Politics og:title: Why Joe Biden Decided Not to Run for President og:description: Joe Biden speaks out in his first interview since announcing his decision og:url: https://time.com/4086304/joe-biden-presidential-run-decision/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43987fe4f6f62def/69886929cf40a8303dc404a1/2015-10-21t162526z_1361910702_tb3ebal1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4160 og:image:height: 2340 og:image:alt: U.S. Vice President Biden announces his he will not seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination during appearance in the White House Rose Garden in Washington og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Joe Biden Decided Not to Run for President twitter:description: Joe Biden speaks out in his first interview since announcing his decision twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43987fe4f6f62def/69886929cf40a8303dc404a1/2015-10-21t162526z_1361910702_tb3ebal1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Joe Biden Decided Not to Run for President > Sponsored content. 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Carlos Barria—Reuters  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 25, 2015 4:36 PM UTC Joe Biden said he didn’t have enough time to run for president his way, he told CBS Sunday. “You know, I just don’t think there’s time…I don’t think we can run the kind of campaign we have to run to be able to win,'” Biden recalled saying. The [remarks](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-and-wife-on-decision-not-to-run/) on _60 Minutes_ mark Biden’s first interview since he [announced](http://time.com/4081594/joe-biden-president-campaign-transcript-full-remarks/) his decision not to run for president on Wednesday. Biden had been publicly flirting with the possibility of a run after his son Beau died in May, leaving him little time to mount a serious campaign. In the interview, Biden’s wife Jill said she agreed with her husband’s assessment that time was short but said she was disappointed she would never get to see a Joe Biden presidency. “I’ve seen, you know, the strength of his character, his optimism, his hope,” she said. “I believed he would’ve been the best president.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4086304/joe-biden-presidential-run-decision/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4086304/joe-biden-presidential-run-decision/"},"headline":"Why Joe Biden Decided Not to Run for President","datePublished":"2015-10-25T16:36:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:00.493Z","description":"Joe Biden speaks out in his first interview since announcing his decision","url":"https://time.com/4086304/joe-biden-presidential-run-decision/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43987fe4f6f62def/69886929cf40a8303dc404a1/2015-10-21t162526z_1361910702_tb3ebal1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43987fe4f6f62def/69886929cf40a8303dc404a1/2015-10-21t162526z_1361910702_tb3ebal1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. Vice President Biden announces his he will not seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination during appearance in the White House Rose Garden in Washington","caption":"U.S. Vice President Biden announces his he will not seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination during appearance in the White House Rose Garden in Washington","creditText":"Carlos Barria—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4086304/joe-biden-presidential-run-decision/","name":"Why Joe Biden Decided Not to Run for President"}}]}] ```