Former Democratic White House candidate John Edwards said he has no desire to stand as Barack Obama's running mate in the US presidential race, in an interview published in Spain Friday. "I have already been a candidate for vice president in 2004. I want to work hard for the campaign, but the vice presidency is not a position that I desire," he told the newspaper Vanguardia in comments published in Spanish. Edwards, a two-time presidential hopeful, was John Kerry's running mate in the 2004 elections won by George W. Bush.
Last month, he formally endorsed Obama as the Democratic candidate for the November election, four months after dropping out of the race himself.
The former North Carolina senator was in Madrid on Friday as part of a European tour, where he met with Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.