Former Vice President Joe Biden has given himself a deadline of the end of 2018 to decide whether he’ll launch a White House run in 2020.
Biden was spotted by the Hill boarding the D.C. shuttle to LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday. When asked when he will decide whether to run for president, Biden told the Hill, “Oh, not until the end of the year.”
Biden’s political future has been a subject of speculation for several months. The former vice president has not ruled out a presidential run.
During an interview broadcast Sunday on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” Biden said there are “really good people” who can run in 2020 and is “really hoping” that others step up.
“I got to walk away knowing that it is—there’s somebody who can do it and can win because we’ve got to win,” Biden said. “We’ve got to win in 2020.”
The former vice president, who is still recovering from the death of his son Beau in 2015, said he knows he has to decide whether to run by the end of the year.
“It takes time to come back,” Biden said in the interview with MSNBC. “Look, no man has a right to say, ‘Help me become president,’ unless I can look at you and say, ‘You’ve got my whole heart, my whole soul, all of my passion, all my attention.’ And I know I got to make that decision by, you know, by the end of this year.”
