Joe Biden says we're 'in a fight for America's soul'

Former Vice President Joe Biden raised the question of his 2020 ambitions with a speech targeting the Trump administration Saturday night at the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner in Washington.

Former President "Barack [Obama] and I agreed we would be quiet for the first year to let the new administration get up and running. God forgive me," Biden said. "This is deadly earnest. We are in a fight for America's soul."

Both Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, who also spoke, described President Trump as a "bully," and there's "nothing that makes either of us more angry than a bully," Jill Biden said. Watch a clip of her comments below. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.