Vice President Biden may be on his way out of the White House, but Democrats aren’t ready to see him out of politics yet.

Biden made his final appearance at a House Democratic caucus meeting on Tuesday, just a day after he declined to rule out running for president in 2020.

The news that Biden made the night before about leaving the door open to a presidential run didn’t come up during the meeting. Despite the long odds facing a potential Biden run in 2020, when he’ll turn 78, multiple lawmakers said there was a playful contingent urging Biden to seek the White House in four years.

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"There were some '2020' chants," said Rep. Tim Walz (D-Minn.). "People were hollering at him, and he didn't really respond."

Biden stayed just as noncommittal outside the caucus meeting, brushing aside questions from reporters about whether he intends to launch a candidacy four years after he decided to stay out of the 2016 race.

Asked by The Hill whether he'll run for president in 2020, Biden replied, "Heck, I don't know what’s going to happen."

One lawmaker even implored him during the meeting to run for chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) told The Hill afterward that she thinks Biden, with his Scranton, Pa., roots, is the right messenger for Democrats trying to reach working-class voters.

“That’s who we need,” Speier said. “He’s the other side of the coin of [President-elect] Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE, really. Unscripted, authentic. That’s who the American people want to hear from.”

“We’re too poll-driven,” she added. “People want the real deal. He’s the real deal.”

Biden, however, isn’t interested in the DNC post. “No, thank you,” he said.

Biden’s appearance was part pep rally and part election post-mortem. He complained that the campaign didn’t focus enough on policy issues, and that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Poll: 51 percent of voters want to abolish the electoral college MORE faced double standards as a female candidate.

The vice president stressed that Democrats needed to focus more on appealing to working-class voters and helping the middle class. Democrats didn’t have to abandon their liberal priorities, Biden said, but had to make their platform resonate more broadly.

“The Republican Party cannot become the repository of working-class people. It cannot,” Biden said, according to a Democratic lawmaker in the room.

To which Democrats responded: Who better a messenger than Biden himself?

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) predicted Biden would have a prominent role to play in the Democratic Party beyond his term as vice president.

“I think he’s going to be very much involved; he’s a senior statesman in our country. He also is uniquely, I think, positioned to have great confidence by working men and women who think he’s real, who think he gets it,” Hoyer told reporters. “I think that’s very, very important for our party.”

One policy area of interest to Biden will likely be ensuring adequate funding for cancer prevention. Biden presided over a Senate vote Monday night to advance a medical innovation bill that includes funding for cancer research. Incidentally, his comments about possibly running for president came after he spoke with reporters outside the Senate chamber.

Biden’s son Beau died last year from brain cancer. A portion of the bill was named in his memory.

“He has a personal commitment to [cancer research], obviously a great tragedy of losing his son Beau. But beyond that, he understands that he has a role to play in bringing people together to solve this scourge, this health scourge that confronts not just Americans but all mankind,” Hoyer said.

— Scott Wong and Mike Lillis contributed.