Democrats 2020: Will Joe Biden Run For President? He's Not Saying No

Vice President Joe Biden raised the possibility Monday he would seek the presidency in 2020, which, should he win the nomination and election, would make him the oldest U.S. president ever.

Biden, 74, in a brief exchange with reporters on Capitol Hill, was asked if he planned to run for anything again.

“Yeah I am,” Biden responded. “I am going to run in 2020 so uh.”

Asked what he was going to run for, Biden said, “For president.”

He then added he wasn’t committing to anything but also “not committing not to run.” Biden had been expected to retire at the end of the current administration.

Biden toyed with running for president this cycle, but mourning the death of his son, Beau, to cancer left him without enough time to build an organization. He then threw his energy behind Hillary Clinton.

The vice president has said he plans to spend his time now working on finding a cure for cancer. He also has plans to write a book and maybe work on a policy project with a major university.

Biden first ran for president in 1988 and then again in 2008, failing in the primaries.

Biden began his political career on the New Castle County Council, winning his first election by less than 3,000 votes. In 1972, he took on incumbent Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, running a shoe-string campaign managed by his sister and pulling out an upset victory. He would spend the next 36 years in the Senate.

“I love this place,” Biden said Monday, referring to the Senate, which took up a cancer treatment bill renamed to honor his son.

Even though the results of the 2016 election have yet to be certified, the names of other possible 2020 candidates already have surfaced, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Clinton running mate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who was just elected to the Senate, as well as Sen. Corey Booker, D-N.J., and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who tried for the 2016 Democratic nomination.

Kanye West announced at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards that he planned to run in 2020.