Biden: I’m not running for president ‘at this point’

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is not a candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination “at this point.”  

“I think there are many people in the Democratic Party who can defeat [President] Trump,” he said in London when asked whether he would have better foreign policy than Trump, according to CNN. “And not a single aspiring candidate that I can think of for the nomination — and I am not one at this point — does not have a better understanding and formulation of American foreign policy than President Trump, in my view.”

{mosads}Biden added that he was not being “rankly partisan,” saying Trump “acknowledged from the outset that he didn’t know a lot about foreign policy.”

“I think he’s getting more and more informed out of necessity, but I think there are any number of candidates seeking the nomination — from [Democratic California Sen.] Kamala Harris to a whole range of people in my party — who would pursue a much more enlightened foreign policy than the president.”

Joe Biden: “There are many people in the Democratic Party who can defeat Trump & not a single aspiring candidate that I can think of for the nomination – and I am not one at this point – does not have a better understanding and formulation of American foreign policy than @POTUS.” pic.twitter.com/2Xk53WADMU

— The Hill (@thehill) October 10, 2018

Biden is seen as a potential front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2020, but so far he hasn’t said whether he will run. Previous polling has shown Trump trailing Biden and other possible nominees, such as Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), in potential 2020 match-ups.