Joe Biden tells a grieving Meghan McCain that loss gets easier
A day after announcing his 2020 presidential bid, former Vice President Joe Biden appeared on ABC’s “The View” Friday. And he was asked by co-host Meghan McCain, whose father, Sen. John McCain, died in August, if dealing with death ever gets easier.
Biden’s son Beau Biden died in 2015 from complications of brain cancer. His first wife, Neilia, and daughter Naomi died in a car accident in 1972.
“Yes,” Biden said. “There’s going to come a time when you think of your dad and you walk by that closet, and smell that fragrance, or you pass a field that he loved, or you sit there out in Arizona in that beautiful ... overlooking that creek, that you’re going to get a smile before you get a tear.”
He added: “They’re still with you. They’re in you. They’re there.”
The last time he was on “The View,” Biden comforted a distraught Meghan McCain after her father’s diagnosis. (Since then, Meghan McCain said, she’s referred to Biden as the “Grief Whisper” and called him “more times than people could imagine.“)
.@JoeBiden to @MeghanMcCain’s question: “Does death ever get easier?”
Biden: “Yes. There’s going to come a time when you think of your dad…that you’re going to get a smile before you get a tear.” https://t.co/wzmx0t2TOJ @TheView pic.twitter.com/Iq9ER3Z0ks— Dan Linden (@DanLinden) April 26, 2019
The former vice president also delivered the eulogy at John McCain’s funeral in Arizona.
Biden has said the death of his son was one of the reasons he declined to enter the 2016 presidential race.
On “The View,” Joe Biden said his son’s death-bed message helped motivate him to run in 2020.
“He made me promise him, not a joke, looking across, he said, ‘You will not back away,’” Biden said. “He didn’t want me to withdraw from the things that have motivated me my whole life.”
Biden added: “I hope he’s proud of me.”
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