It appears Tom Hanks and Oprah are unavailable and so, speaking to a small group of reporters tonight, Vice-President Jo Biden announced that he is going to run for President in 2020.

Despite formally announcing in October 2015 that "the window had closed on mountaing a realistic campaign for president," CNBC reports that Biden said "Yeah, I am. I am going to run in 2020," when asked if he would run for office again. 

When asked what role he would run for, the 74-year-old Vice President responded: "For president. And also, you know so, what the hell man, anyway."

 

The vice president said, however, he wasn't making a commitment to run when reporters asked if he was kidding.

 

"I'm not committing not to run. I'm not committed to anything. I learned a long time ago, fate has a strange way of intervening," Biden said.

It seems some merchandizing has begun...and guesses at his running mate too... "Joe's With Mo"?