Washington,
\nFormer Vice President Joe Biden said he is uncertain about a run for president in 2020, but indicated he\u2019s looking for fresh blood to lead the Democratic Party back to the White House.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve done it a long time,\u201d said Biden, who previously ran for president in 1988 and 2008, \u201cand I\u2019m just not sure it\u2019s the appropriate thing for me to do.\u201d His comments came in an interview with Snapchat\u2019s \u2018Good Luck America\u2019 set to be released Tuesday morning, in one of Biden\u2019s first on-camera interviews since leaving office in January. The Associated Press was provided with an exclusive preview of the interview.<\/p>\n
Biden suggested that if \u201cno one steps up,\u201d he\u2019d be open to giving it another try. \u201cI\u2019m not doing anything to run,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not taking names, I\u2019m not raising money, I\u2019m not talking to anybody, but something\u2019s got to happen.\u201d Biden has launched a handful of outside political and policy organisations since leaving the Obama administration, including the Biden Foundation, formed to advocate for his domestic priorities.<\/p>\n
The roster of Democrats considering a White House run has swelled well into the double-digits, with potential candidates emboldened by President Donald Trump\u2019s historically low poll numbers.<\/p>\n
Biden was interviewed alongside Ohio Gov John Kasich, a Republican, at the University of Delaware last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re both hoping that both our parties generate some real energetic people who have the depth and the capacity to do it,\u201d Biden said of the pair.<\/p>\n
Biden, 74, considered a run for the Oval Office in 2016, but decided against it, later citing the trauma of his son Beau\u2019s death to cancer in May 2015 for keeping him from the race. The painful subject forms the story of his new memoir, \u2018Promise Me, Dad,\u2019 set for release this week. Biden is launching a month-long tour to promote the book\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s become a vocal critic of Trump\u2019s administration in public appearances in recent months.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe gotta turn this ship around,\u201d Biden said of the country. \u201cAnd I\u2019d much prefer to be helping someone turn it around than being the guy trying to turn it around.\u201d In an interview with Oprah Winfrey released Sunday, Biden said he regrets not being in the White House, but not his decision to stay on the sidelines last year. \u201cI don\u2019t regret the decision I made because it\u2019s the right decision for my family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, Former Vice President Joe Biden said he is uncertain about a run for president in 2020, but indicated he\u2019s looking for fresh blood to lead the Democratic Party back to the White House. \u201cI\u2019ve done it a long time,\u201d said Biden, who previously ran for president in 1988 and 2008, \u201cand I\u2019m just not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10061,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions\/10061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}