Joe Biden: Hillary Clinton, 'God willing,' will be the next POTUS

After spending most of the Democratic primary being neutral, Vice President Joe Biden offered his support for Hillary Clinton on Thursday night.

He did not formally endorse Clinton like President Obama did earlier in the day, but while speaking at the American Constitution Society convention Thursday night in Washington, D.C., Biden said there's a need to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia by "whoever the next president is, and in my view, God willing, it'll be Secretary Clinton."

Before the death of his son Beau last year, Biden had been considering his own run, and last month he told Robin Roberts of ABC he "would have been the best president."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.