At SCSU, Joe Biden Says Jury Is Out On Whether He'll Challenge Trump In 2020
By Russell Blair
rblair@courant.com
Former Vice President Joe Biden pulled his punches in front of a sold-out crowd at Southern Connecticut State University Friday night, declining to escalate a feud he sparked this week with President Donald Trump. But Biden said “the jury’s still out” on whether he will challenge Trump in 2020.
After saying Tuesday that he would have “beat the hell out of” Trump in high school for the crude comments the president has made about women, Biden on Friday offered a wide-ranging discussion that focused mostly on his long career in public service, speculation that he could run for president and his assessment of the political divide in the country today.
“Honest to God I don’t know,” Biden said when he was asked by WNPR host Lucy Nalpathanchil, who moderated the discussion, about his plans for 2020. “I have to be able to stand in front of a mirror and look in the mirror and know that if I don’t run it’s not because I’m afraid of losing, it’s not because I don’t want to take on the responsibility, it’s because there’s somebody better to do it and/or because emotionally I’m not positioned to be all in. And so the jury’s still out.”
Biden’s name continues to be floated as a possible Democratic challenger to Trump even though Biden would be 78 on Inauguration Day in 2021. Biden declined to run in 2016 partly due to the death of his son, Beau, from brain cancer, a decision he later said he regretted.
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