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

Vice President Joe Biden.
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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."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.