Former Vice President Joe Biden has told friends he would like to run for president in 2020, Axios reported Saturday, joking, "If I'm walking, I'm running." Biden's younger brother also said last week he expects the campaign will happen. However, a formal decision is yet to be made, Axios' sources say, and an announcement is not yet scheduled.
President Trump reacted to Biden's possible candidacy in an interview with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro late Saturday, calling him "weak" and a "one-percenter" because Biden "ran two or three times, [but] he never got above 1 percent [of the vote]. And then, [former President Barack] Obama came along and took him off the trash heap, and he became the vice president." Biden withdrew from the 2008 Democratic primaries after a poor showing in Iowa and soon endorsed Obama.
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