Biden reportedly told friends he wants to run in 2020. Trump says he's 'not worried.'

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Former Vice President Joe Biden has told friends he would like to run for president in 2020, Axios reported Saturday, joking, "If I'm walking, I'm running." Biden's younger brother also said last week he expects the campaign will happen. However, a formal decision is yet to be made, Axios' sources say, and an announcement is not yet scheduled.

President Trump reacted to Biden's possible candidacy in an interview with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro late Saturday, calling him "weak" and a "one-percenter" because Biden "ran two or three times, [but] he never got above 1 percent [of the vote]. And then, [former President Barack] Obama came along and took him off the trash heap, and he became the vice president." Biden withdrew from the 2008 Democratic primaries after a poor showing in Iowa and soon endorsed Obama.

"I'm not worried," Trump concluded, reflecting on the 2020 Democratic field more broadly. "So far, I love the competition. I love what I see."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.