Biden: ‘I have no intention of running’ in 2020

Biden started things off by joining Stephen Colbert to give a family pep talk and comfort America over peoples’ anxieties about Donald Trump’s imminent presidency.

“I don’t plan on running again”, he told the host.

US Vice President Joe Biden is travelling to Ottawa today for a quick and final official visit to Canada before the new administration of Donald Trump takes over the White House. The investor said in an interview that he’d cast a vote for Biden if he ever ran again for president, “even though I’m a Republican”.

“The fact that you took your time on that day of importance to you, to shed some light and offer some joy to someone who was struggling – that’s the Joe Biden that has us here for two hours offering these tributes”.

“That is the sound of a door creaking open is what that is”, Colbert quipped. His reasons for staying away of course have always been reported: Hillary Clinton locked up most of the Democrats’ big dollar donors; she was still seen as the inevitable presidential nominee at the time; President Obama didn’t want him to run, thinking he would lose terribly; and Biden just lost his oldest son to cancer. “You don’t know what’s gonna happen”. We’re all going to miss you.

Watch the full clips below. “I mean, what the hell?”

Biden spoke in particular to concerns about the explosion of fake news stories related to the 2016 presidential election, which has gotten more attention after a man showed up with a firearm at Washington, D.C. restaurant and bar to investigate internet-fueled rumors. “For president. So, uh, what the hell, man”.

The vice president will leave office January 20, the first time since early 1973 that he hasn’t held a federal office. During his acceptance speech, Biden said that his niece works for Starbucks, and he told Schultz: “I hope you’re paying her well”.

It’s been nearly a full month since Donald Trump’s electoral upset, but tensions are still running high-especially among disappointed liberals. “Joe Biden’s life is the stuff of which movies are made”, he said. “I’m not sure I would have been able to put my whole heart into it”, Biden said. “This is the Senate that I know and I love”. Biden went on to cite some of the low points of that year, including the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. So Biden seems like the actual ideal candidate to run for President at the head of the 2020 Democratic ticket.