Rachel Sadon
(Photo by Erick Sanchez)
Speaking to reporters at the U.S. Capitol last night, Vice President Joe Biden left the door open for a 2020 run.
“Yeah, I am. I am going to run in 2020,” Biden said. “What the hell man, anyway.”
When asked if he was kidding, Biden walked back the statement a bit.
“I’m not committing not to run. I’m not committed to anything,” he said. “I learned a long time ago, fate has a strange way of intervening.”
Biden considered entering the race in 2016, but decided he’d run out of time while grieving for his oldest son, Beau. “The process doesn’t respect or much care about things like filing deadlines or debates and primaries and caucuses,” the vice president said last October.
Biden would turn 78 shortly after Election Day in 2020. At 70, President-elect Donald Trump is the oldest person ever elected to the presidency.
Even the possibility of a run should cheer the vocal contingent of Biden fans in D.C., who recently organized a “Thank You, Uncle Joe” rally that the vice president showed up to. “It has been the honor of my life serving, I really mean that,” the vice president told the group to cheers.
This has been your periodic reminder that it is Biden’s town, we’re all just living in it.
Also, best part of this exchange: “(pause for about 4 seconds)”
(via @KellyO) pic.twitter.com/mJTOFheQtk
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) December 5, 2016
