--- title: Jill Biden: America Missed Out on President Joe Biden description: "Joe would have made a great president" canonical: https://time.com/4295895/joe-biden-jill-vice-president/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-15T15:11:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:47:22.577Z article:section: Politics og:title: Jill Biden Says America 'Missed an Opportunity' to Have Joe as President og:description: "Joe would have made a great president" og:url: https://time.com/4295895/joe-biden-jill-vice-president/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6528cbce12a36f13/69888f4fe20a87c0f8a906f1/gettyimages-518771606.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: NCAA Men's Final Four Semifinal - Villanova v Oklahoma og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jill Biden Says America 'Missed an Opportunity' to Have Joe as President twitter:description: "Joe would have made a great president" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6528cbce12a36f13/69888f4fe20a87c0f8a906f1/gettyimages-518771606.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jill Biden Says America 'Missed an Opportunity' to Have Joe as President by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 15, 2016 3:11 PM UTC  Vice President Joe Biden, right, and wife Jill Biden react prior to the NCAA Men's Final Four Semifinal between the Villanova Wildcats and the Oklahoma Sooners at NRG Stadium on April 2, 2016 in Houston, Texas. Streeter Lecka—Getty Images Vice President Joe Biden, right, and wife Jill Biden react prior to the NCAA Men's Final Four Semifinal between the Villanova Wildcats and the Oklahoma Sooners at NRG Stadium on April 2, 2016 in Houston, Texas. Streeter Lecka—Getty ImagesStreeter Lecka—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 15, 2016 3:11 PM UTC Jill Biden [said in a new interview](http://www.today.com/news/jill-biden-america-missed-opportunity-when-joe-didn-t-run-t86526) that with her husband Vice President Joe Biden out of the race for the White House, the American people might have “missed an opportunity.” “I really do feel that Joe would have made a great president,” Biden [said on the _Today_ show](http://www.today.com/news/jill-biden-america-missed-opportunity-when-joe-didn-t-run-t86526). “One of his strengths is compromise. So I feel, maybe America missed an opportunity.” Biden himself has said that he regrets not running for president, a decision he made in the wake of his son’s death from cancer. During his remaining time in office, Biden has been tasked with leading a White House “moonshot” effort to find a cure for cancer. But still, both Bidens have said the timing was not right for the Vice President to enter the race. “It just wasn’t the right time,” Jill Biden said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4295895/joe-biden-jill-vice-president/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4295895/joe-biden-jill-vice-president/"},"headline":"Jill Biden Says America 'Missed an Opportunity' to Have Joe as President","datePublished":"2016-04-15T15:11:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:47:22.577Z","description":"\"Joe would have made a great president\"","url":"https://time.com/4295895/joe-biden-jill-vice-president/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6528cbce12a36f13/69888f4fe20a87c0f8a906f1/gettyimages-518771606.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6528cbce12a36f13/69888f4fe20a87c0f8a906f1/gettyimages-518771606.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NCAA Men's Final Four Semifinal - Villanova v Oklahoma","caption":"NCAA Men's Final Four Semifinal - Villanova v Oklahoma","creditText":"Streeter Lecka—Getty Images","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/4295895/joe-biden-jill-vice-president/","name":"Jill Biden Says America 'Missed an Opportunity' to Have Joe as President"}}]}] ```