“I think that Hillary Clinton probably will be the candidate,” Axelrod said Friday on MSNBC. “If she doesn’t run I think Biden will run.”

Axelrod’s comments are perhaps the boldest prediction about the 2016 presidential race he’s made to date.

Both Clinton and Biden have suggested an openness for running for president and a number of top Democratic lawmakers have already said they would support Clinton if she decided to run.

Axelrod has previously said that Clinton would be a “very strong” candidate if she decided to run. In January, Axelrod told The Wall Street Journal that Clinton would be a unique Democratic candidate if she decided to run.