(Colgate University)A year and a half after giving up a 45-year-old dream to become president, Joe Biden told an audience on Friday that he could have beaten Donald Trump, had the death of his child not intervened. Then he sat down with the university's president, Brian W. Casey, unbuttoned his suit jacket, folded his hands and became quiet. [How time ran out on Joe Biden’s presidential dream]“I lost part of my soul, my, uh.” He cleared his throat. Do I regret not running for president, in light of everything that was going on in my life at the time? Biden got to his feet and excoriated President Trump — his policies and his attacks on the news media.

Source: Washington Post March 26, 2017 15:03 UTC