On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of reporters at the Capitol, “I’m going to run in 2020.”
“For what?” a reporter asked. “For president,” Biden said, drawing laughter from some reporters. “What the hell, man,” added Biden.
Asked if he was kidding about running, Biden said: “I’m not committing not to run. I’m not committing to anything. I learned a long time ago fate has a strange way of intervening.”
When Arizona senator John McCain was asked on Tuesday if Biden should run in 2020, the former GOP presidential candidate, who is now 80 years old, said with a smile: “At my age, absolutely I think he should. He’s just getting mature enough.”
Biden would be nearly 78 years old, while Donald Trump would be 74, on Election Day in 2020. The oldest major party U.S. presidential nominee ever was Ronald Reagan, who won reelection in 1984 at the age of 73.
