Joe Biden lets it slip he’s running for president
Former US Vice President Joe Biden has accidentally suggested that he is running for president in the 2020 election.
At a speech in Delaware to members of the state Democratic Party on Saturday, Biden said he had the "most progressive record of anybody running."
He then quickly corrected himself and said, "anybody who would run" — and then added, "I didn't mean it."
"We Democrats, we choose hope over fear, we choose unity over division, and we choose truth over lies," he said.
Biden was interrupted by Democrats present in the room who celebrated his apparent slip, before he moved on to rail at President Donald Trump.
"We have to bring this country back together again," Biden said.
"As Americans, we are much bigger than ourselves and this president snares at those values and thinks that we are weak, but he is wrong ... it is these values that make our country strong and you can't define any American by religion race or gender."
Biden, who has been considering a 2020 bid for months, is one of the last high-profile candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination after former US Rep. Beto O'Rourke announced Thursday that he was running for president.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons has recently said Biden was "95 percent" ready to run for president. And an announcement should be made "in the coming weeks," Coons said on CBS News podcast, “The Takeout”.
Should Biden announce the decision, he would be the front-runner in the Democratic primary field that could host other high-profile figures including Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.
The above names are a few among more than a dozen possibilities for the Democratic nominee for US president in the 2020 election.
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