Joe Biden has yet to endorse a candidate for the 2016 election. | AP Photo Biden 'confident' Clinton will be Democratic nominee

Vice President Joe Biden says he is "confident" that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic presidential nominee and that she will be the next president, even as the former secretary of state has been unable to shake Bernie Sanders.

“I feel confident that Hillary will be the nominee, and I feel confident she’ll be the next president,” Biden told ABC's Robin Roberts in an interview for "Good Morning America" published Tuesday afternoon.


Biden ruled out a presidential run of his own last October and has not endorsed a candidate in the Democratic primary. But until his remarks to ABC, he sought to be even-handed in how he assessed Clinton and Sanders.

"This country’s ready for a woman," Biden said during an interview with Mic last month. "There’s no problem. We’re gonna be able to elect a woman in this country. I would like to see a woman elected.”

Biden reiterated that both Clinton and Sanders are qualified, and in an interview with The New York Times later in April, the vice president suggested that he favored Sanders' approach.

“I like the idea of saying, ‘We can do much more,’ because we can,” he said.