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President Joe Biden speaks to the press.

Biden: 'You always think you could've won'  But he said it wasn’t worth dividing his party.

By Myah Ward and Adam Cancryn

President Joe Biden briefly gaggled with reporters before taking off from Chicago on Air Force One.

He said he hasn’t spoken to Nancy Pelosi, but that no one “influenced” his decision to drop out of the race.

“What I decided to do was, I didn’t want to — the extent that the party felt they’d lose Senate seats and House seats, that would’ve been the topic you had to cover the entire campaign. That wasn’t worth it,” he said.

Biden, asked if he believes he could’ve won in November, said yes, while acknowledging that it was a tight race. But he said it wasn’t worth dividing his party, which he said only played into Trump’s hand.

“You always think you could’ve won. If you go back and look at the numbers, we weren’t that far behind,” he said. “But it would’ve been close.”

He called the reception at the DNC “overwhelming,” and said the highlight of his night was the speech from his daughter, Ashley Biden, introducing him.