“I would be very lucky to have the same man in front of me again in the next election,” the 79-year-old Democrat said at a press conference in Brussels, where he is attending a series of international summits.
Joe Biden, whose trust rating is very low, recalled that he did not initially plan to run for the White House but changed his mind after a far-right demonstration in Charlottesville, in 2017.
The rally began on the evening of August 11 with a march of neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan parading by the light of their torches. The next day, clashes erupted between these supporters of white supremacy and anti-racist counter-demonstrators.
A neo-Nazi sympathizer, James Fields, then drove into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a 32-year-old young woman, Heather Heyer, and injuring 19 people.
Republican President Donald Trump had denounced the violence “on both sides,” which earned him a charge of complacency toward the far right.