Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's more than a month before Donald Trump even enters the White House, but Joe Biden says he's running for president in 2020. 
  
 Maybe. 
  
 "I'm going to run in 2020. For president. So, uh, what the hell, man," the departing vice president told reporters Monday with only a slight smile on his face. Given a chance to walk it back, he did — but only a bit. 
  
 Asked if he was joking, he said: "I'm not committing not to run. I'm not committing to anything. I learned a long time ago, fate has a strange way of intervening." 
  
 Biden, who turned 74 last month, will turn 78 shortly after the 2020 election. Ronald Reagan was just a few days short of turning 78 when he left office in January 1989, making him the oldest person to serve as president. 
  
 The vice president decided to not seek the White House in 2015 and instead backed this year's eventual Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. He ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination in 2008, when now-President Barack Obama selected him as his running mate, and in 1988. 
  
 Biden was asked about his plans while chatting with reporters after presiding over Senate debate on a biomedical research bill he's supporting. 
  
 A senator for 36 years before becoming vice president, Biden was emotional after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a friend, got the Senate to name a portion of the measure after Biden's son, Beau, who died of cancer last year. 
  
 Shortly after Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972, his first wife and year-old daughter died in a car crash. ||||| "I'm not committing to not running. I'm not committing to anything," Joe Biden said. | John Shinkle/POLITICO Biden: 'I'm not committing to not running' in 2020 
  
 Vice President Joe Biden is leaving his options open for 2020. 
  
 After presiding over the Senate Tuesday, where a cancer-treatment bill was renamed to honor his late son Beau, Biden spoke to reporters about his final days in the Senate before saying he was "going to run again." 
  
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 "Yeah I am. I am going to run, in 2020," he said, with reporters responding with chuckles. 
  
 When asked what he was going to run for, he said: "For president, and also you know what, what the hell man." 
  
 Biden was asked if he was kidding about running. After a pause, he said he was not "committing to anything." 
  
 "I'm not committing to not running. I'm not committing to anything. I learned a long time ago fate has a strange way of intervening," Biden said. 
  
 Biden considered running for president this year, but decided against it after Beau died from cancer in May 2015. |||||
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Fans of Joe Biden memes, rejoice: The vice president has hinted at a 2020 White House run—though he may have been less than 100% serious. After presiding over a Senate session Monday, CNN asked Biden if he plans to run for office again, and he said: "Yeah, I am. I'm going to run in 2020." Asked what position he was going to run for, the six-term senator said: "For president. What the hell, man." The AP notes that Biden, who will turn 78 in 2020, had a slight smile when he spoke, and he walked the remarks back a little when asked if he was joking. "I'm not committing not to run. I'm not committing to anything," he said. "I learned a long time ago, fate has a strange way of intervening." Biden, who ran for president in 1988 and 2008, had considered running for president this time around but decided against it because he was still dealing with the May 2015 death of son Beau Biden from cancer, Politico notes. Biden was in the Senate Monday for a vote on a bipartisan cancer treatment bill that will speed up drug approvals. The AP reports that lawmakers from both parties applauded and lined up to speak with an emotional Biden after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sought and received approval to rename part of the bill after Beau. Biden has "known the cruel toll this disease can take. But he hasn't let it defeat him," McConnell said. The measure passed with an 85-13 vote.