Vice President Joe Biden indicated Monday that he could be open to running for the White House in 2020.
“I am going to run in 2020,” Biden said when asked by reporters on Monday whether he would run again.
Reporters asked Biden several times to clarify his statement, which seemed like it might have been a joke. “Just to be clear, were you kidding about running for president in 2020?” a reporter asked.
“I’m not committing not to run,” Biden replied. “I’m not committed to anything. I learned a long time ago, fate has a strange way of intervening.”
Biden would be 78 years old if he decides to run for president in 2020.
He announced in October 2015 that he wouldn’t seek the presidency, citing his family’s grief following the death of his son, Beau, who died of brain cancer earlier that year.
The vice president frequently criticized president-elect Donald Trump while he campaigned for former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
