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Much fuss has been made about President Barack Obama and his family choosing to stay in D.C. until daughter Sasha finishes high school. But, as befits the holder of his matching friendship bracelet, it looks like Vice President Joe Biden is sticking around, too.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Biden said he plans on remaining in the District, at least part time, after he leaves office, a decision the paper describes as “largely driven by family.”

His wife, Dr. Jill Biden, will continue to teach at Northern Virginia Community College. The vice president said during a visit to an Ohio Clinton campaign office in October that he was talking to “a couple of major universities” about his own professorship and considering writing a book. “This might disappoint you, it won’t be a tell-all book,” he said. He’s also discussed his excitement at being able to get back behind the wheel of his 1967 Stingray.

Now, though, he is concerned about the state of the Democratic Party after its crushing defeat in November.

“My dad used to have an expression. He said, ‘I don’t expect the government to solve my problems. But I expect them to understand it,” Biden told the LA Times. “I believe that we were not letting an awful lot of people—high school-educated, mostly Caucasian, but also people of color—know that we understood their problems.”

He didn’t blame Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in particular for the loss, though he did say her campaign struggled to define why she chose to run. ““I don’t think she ever really figured it out. And by the way, I think it was really hard for her to decide to run,” he said. “She thought she had no choice but to run. That, as the first woman who had an opportunity to win the presidency, I think it was a real burden on her.”

But as Democrats try to figure out a path forward, Biden was careful to emphasize that he didn’t mean the party should be less progressive. “We should be proud of where the hell we are, and not yield an inch,” he said. “But, in the meantime, you can’t eat equality. You know?”

An effort to draft Biden as the chair of the Democratic National Committee failed in November. “The vice president is not interested in being DNC chair,” spokesperson Kate Bedingfield told Politico. “But he intends to remain deeply involved in helping shape the direction of the Democratic Party moving forward.”

Could that include a run in 2020? “Yeah, I am. I am going to run in 2020,” Biden told reporters in early December, followed by, “What the hell man, anyway.” It was unclear whether he was joking.

Even before he moved into the Naval Observatory, the vice president has been a fixture in D.C. Since he was first elected as a senator from Delaware at age 29, Biden has been making the journey south to the District on the train as “Amtrak Joe.” He’s now 74.

At a recent “Thank You, Uncle Joe” rally, some of the dozens of attendees held up signs saying “Don’t Pack, Joe.”

Biden showed up to the rally, aviators in hand. “There’s still a lot more that has to be done. We gotta give this other administration a chance too. This is the way democracy works,” Biden told the crowd. “But I tell you what, we will have ice cream together. And by the way I’m not going anywhere. I’ll no longer be vice president … but I’m going to stay involved in the things I’ve always been involved in.”

Looks like he was being literal about the whole “I’m not going anywhere” thing.