Joe Biden said the vice president can be a “value added” for the president, as he believes he has been for President Barack Obama. | AP Biden to Gingrich: 'Gonna do it?'

Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday tried to get an answer from Newt Gingrich on whether he was going to be Donald Trump’s running mate.

Biden, speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, appeared on stage after the former House speaker. Before answering the first question posed to him, Biden said he wanted to get something out of the way, and called out to Gingrich, who was seemingly still in the crowd.


“Gonna do it?” he asked of Gingrich, who was seated in the front row.

Gingrich responded with a question: "Should I? Is it a good job?"

Biden, who considered his own run for president, went on to talk to the moderator, Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson, about the role a vice president should play in an administration, as well as the relationship that he’s had with President Barack Obama.

“The personal relationship really matters. Trust matters,” he said. “When I show up with another head of state, they know I speak for the president. it’s not because of me. It’s because [Obama] said ‘I have this relationship with Biden, Biden speaks for me.’”

Biden said the vice president can be a “value added” for the president, as he believes he has been for Obama.

“I never looked for this job, though,” he said, laughing.

Biden did, however, clear the air about his thoughts on Gingrich as Trump’s running mate, looking directly into the camera as if to speak to Trump himself.

“Donald, I’m not endorsing him,” Biden said. “He’s bright as hell, but I disagree with him.”

During his own Aspen panel, also on Saturday, Gingrich spoke expansively and critically about Trump, arguing that he needs to "quit screwing up and get the election down to three or four issues, all of which come down to a single concept: enough."

Gingrich said that Clinton, who is blitzing Trump with million of dollars in ads across key swing states, was "just wasting a lot of money while allowing him to think through how he wants to run the fall campaign."

"Everything the Clinton campaign is doing to suppress Trump will, in the short run, suppress Trump — because he's not trying,"he said. "The thing she's got to worry about is if he is still alive as a candidate on the first of October."

Gingrich downplayed talk that he is being considered as Trump's running mate, noting, "It really messes up your life."

"None of you should bet on all this. It's wild speculation," he told the crowd.

But the former House speaker also seemed to suggest that he might be the right man for the moment, as "Trump has said over and over again he needs a vice president who understands Washington, because he doesn't."

Ultimately, Gingrich said, he would be listening for how Trump defines the job: "I have a very simple test question: If it's about [going to] funerals, I'm not interested."