Mr Biden's time as vice president could mean he has a better chance of beating Donald Trump than any of his Democratic rivals.
While both Mr Biden and Mr Sanders have the advantage of name-recognition, their age will be a factor; many Democrats feel it's time for the party to skip a generation. Hillary Clinton was 69 when she was beaten by Donald Trump, who's now 72.
He managed to overcome bereavement and continue his political career in the 1970s, but the premature death of his son hit him hard. This is a man who reacted to reports of Mr Trump's crude comments about women by telling a cheering crowd:"If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him."Mr Biden later expressed regret for the threat, which had prompted the president to tweet:"Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault.
Mr Biden knows how unpredictable elections can be. Who could have forecast that his first run for the White House would crumble largely because he plagiarised a speech by the then-leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock?When it was discovered that he had adopted some of Mr Kinnock's rhetoric without crediting him, reporters began to closely scrutinise other comments and found more inconsistencies.
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