Joe Biden grief may dash hopes of presidency

US vice-president, Joe Biden, has said he is overwhelmed by his son’s death and unconvinced he could commit to being president, in an emotional interview that cast a deep pall over his deliberations about the 2016 presidential race.

Biden said he’d be lying if he said he knew he was prepared to run, following Beau Biden’s death in May, from brain cancer. With a candour seen rarely in politics, he recalled becoming emotional during a recent visit to a Colorado military base, when a well-wisher yelled out the name of his son and referenced his decorated military service in Iraq. “All of a sudden, I lost it,” Biden said. “How could you — that’s not — I shouldn’t be saying this: You can’t do that.”