Former United States vice-president Joe Biden will run for the White House in the 2020 presidential election, a Democratic lawmaker has confirmed, The Hill revealed in an exclusive report.
It is assumed that if Biden runs for the White House, the already crowded Democratic primary field will steer clear to make him the clear front-runner for his party's nomination against US President Donald John Trump.
The Hill quoted the Democratic Congressman as stating that Biden said, 'I'm giving it a shot', during a phone call with the lawmaker during the past week, interpreting it as a sure sign that Biden will run in 2020.
According to the lawmaker, Biden also asked if he could get some campaign strategy ideas and invited him to sit down with him in person in the near future.
In a 2017 interview, Biden revealed he would have run for president in 2016 had his son Beau not fallen seriously ill with cancer.
'I had planned on running, and I wasn't running against Hillary or Bernie or anybody else. Honest to God, I thought that I was the best suited for the moment to be president,' Biden had said, referring to former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the Democratic candidates in the 2016 primaries.
Biden served two terms as US vice-president, from 2009 to 2017.
