Former Vice President
Joe Biden isn't bashful about the reason he's running for president.Biden, though not bereft of policy plans, isn't leading a specific "movement" like some of his
Democratic competitors, namely Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). In that sense, there doesn't appear to have been an ideological motivation that spurred the 77-year-old's decision to jump into the crowded Democratic primary last year, except for defeating the incumbent,
President Trump, The
New York Times reports.In fact, Biden reportedly told the Times while campaigning in Iowa before the state's caucus kicks off the
election process next week that he likely wouldn't even have launched a campaign if someone like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was the one seeking re-election, amplifying Biden's message that
Democrats and
Republicans need not be in a state of "perpetual war" in a post-Trump America. It's Trump, and Trump alone, that compelled former President Barack Obama's right hand man to take one last crack at the Oval Office. Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com
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