--- title: Joe Biden: Donald Trump Presidency Is 'Possible' description: Vice President Joe Biden said it's "possible" that Donald Trump could become president in an interview on the TODAY show Tuesday morning canonical: https://time.com/4176826/joe-biden-donald-trump-election/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-12T14:21:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:44.115Z article:section: Politics og:title: Joe Biden: Donald Trump Presidency Is 'Possible' og:description: The Vice President said he hopes Trump won't get elected og:url: https://time.com/4176826/joe-biden-donald-trump-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5f4b03ac3b3f78f/698878b6a988cace6d6b6131/biden-joe.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Biden, Ukrainian PM Attend US-Ukrainian Business Forum In Washington og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joe Biden: Donald Trump Presidency Is 'Possible' twitter:description: The Vice President said he hopes Trump won't get elected twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5f4b03ac3b3f78f/698878b6a988cace6d6b6131/biden-joe.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joe Biden: Donald Trump Presidency Is 'Possible' > Sponsored content. 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Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jan 12, 2016 2:21 PM UTC Vice President Joe Biden believes Donald Trump could become the next U.S. president. “Yes, I think it’s possible,” Biden said in an [interview on the _TODAY_ show](http://www.today.com/news/joe-biden-it-s-possible-donald-trump-could-be-next-t66536) on Tuesday morning when asked whether he thought Trump could be elected. Trump [remains the Republican frontrunner](http://time.com/4176787/clinton-trump-poll-lead/?xid=homepage) less than three weeks away from the Iowa caucus. “I hope that if that were to occur — I hope it doesn’t because I have fundamentally different views than he does — I hope that he gets a lot more serious about the issues, a lot more serious about gaining knowledge about how this nation functions and foreign policy and domestic policy, but look, that’s a long way off,” Biden said. In the interview, Biden discussed his political career and his [decision not to run for president](http://time.com/4086304/joe-biden-presidential-run-decision/). He said last week that he [regrets not joining the race](http://time.com/4170922/joe-biden-regrets-not-running-president/), though he thinks it was the right choice for his family. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4176826/joe-biden-donald-trump-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4176826/joe-biden-donald-trump-election/"},"headline":"Joe Biden: Donald Trump Presidency Is 'Possible'","datePublished":"2016-01-12T14:21:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:44.115Z","description":"The Vice President said he hopes Trump won't get elected","url":"https://time.com/4176826/joe-biden-donald-trump-election/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5f4b03ac3b3f78f/698878b6a988cace6d6b6131/biden-joe.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5f4b03ac3b3f78f/698878b6a988cace6d6b6131/biden-joe.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Biden, Ukrainian PM Attend US-Ukrainian Business Forum In Washington","caption":"Biden, Ukrainian PM Attend US-Ukrainian Business Forum In Washington","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4176826/joe-biden-donald-trump-election/","name":"Joe Biden: Donald Trump Presidency Is 'Possible'"}}]}] ```