--- title: Biden: Age Would Be 'Legitimate Issue' In Presidential Run description: Former Vice President Joe Biden, 75, said his age would be a "legitimate issue" were he to run in 2020. canonical: https://time.com/5428374/joe-biden-age-presidential-run/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-18T13:28:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T21:46:57.437Z article:section: Politics og:title: Joe Biden, 75, Says His Age Would Be a 'Legitimate Issue' If He Runs for President og:description: "They're gonna judge me on my vitality" og:url: https://time.com/5428374/joe-biden-age-presidential-run/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt105555ac628dcd66/69893ce822fb85afe2e26eda/joe-biden-age-presidential-race.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Biden Cancer Summit Welcome Reception og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joe Biden, 75, Says His Age Would Be a 'Legitimate Issue' If He Runs for President twitter:description: "They're gonna judge me on my vitality" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt105555ac628dcd66/69893ce822fb85afe2e26eda/joe-biden-age-presidential-race.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joe Biden, 75, Says His Age Would Be a 'Legitimate Issue' If He Runs for President > Sponsored content. 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Paul Morigi—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 18, 2018 1:28 PM UTC Joe Biden, who this week [led a poll](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/16/democratic-candidates-poll-2020/1656532002/) as the top Democratic choice to challenge President Trump in 2020, said it’s too early to think presidential polls – but said his age will be a factor in deciding whether to run for president. “I don’t think about polling data,” the former Vice President [told CBS This Morning Thursday](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-explains-how-he-will-decide-whether-to-run-for-president-2020/). “I think about whether I should run based on very private decisions relating to my family and the loss of my son and what I want to do with the rest of my life. But I don’t think of it in terms of can I win, can I – will I lose. That’s not part of the calculation.” Biden, 75, added that his age would be a “legitimate issue” were he to run in 2020\. Trump, 72, will turn 74 before the 2020 election. “I think people are going to judge it, if I were to run” Biden said. “I think they’re going to judge me on my vitality. Can I still run up the steps of Air Force Two? Am I still in good shape? Do I have all my faculties? Am I energetic? I think it’s totally legitimate people ask those questions.” Biden echoed a statement he made earlier in the week during a Q&A at the Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan Speaker Series on Tuesday, [CNN reports](https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/16/politics/biden-age-legitimate-issue/index.html). “I think age is a totally legitimate thing to raise,” he said. “I think it’s totally appropriate for people to look at me and say if I were to run for office again, ‘Well God darn you’re old.’ Well, chronologically, I am old.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5428374/joe-biden-age-presidential-run/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5428374/joe-biden-age-presidential-run/"},"headline":"Joe Biden, 75, Says His Age Would Be a 'Legitimate Issue' If He Runs for President","datePublished":"2018-10-18T13:28:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T21:46:57.437Z","description":"\"They're gonna judge me on my vitality\"","url":"https://time.com/5428374/joe-biden-age-presidential-run/","keywords":["Joe Biden","White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt105555ac628dcd66/69893ce822fb85afe2e26eda/joe-biden-age-presidential-race.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt105555ac628dcd66/69893ce822fb85afe2e26eda/joe-biden-age-presidential-race.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Biden Cancer Summit Welcome Reception","caption":"Biden Cancer Summit Welcome Reception","creditText":"Paul Morigi—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/joe-biden/","name":"Joe Biden"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5428374/joe-biden-age-presidential-run/","name":"Joe Biden, 75, Says His Age Would Be a 'Legitimate Issue' If He Runs for President"}}]}] ```