Former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenPelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Hillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns Fox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio MORE on Saturday sought to reassure Democrats that the party would bounce back from its defeat in November, arguing that voters would ultimately reject President Trump's politics, the Miami Herald reported.

“The state the nation is today will not be sustained by the American people,” Biden told party activists during a speech in Hollywood, Fla. “We are better than this.”

Biden's comments come as Democrats work to regroup after Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonFox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio Trump, Biden court Black business owners in final election sprint The power of incumbency: How Trump is using the Oval Office to win reelection MORE's 2016 loss to Trump in a race that had been thought by many pollsters and pundits to be a shoo-in for the former secretary of State.

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Since then, Democrats have been locked in a debate over the direction of the party. Biden said on Saturday that Democrats should not choose between progressive values and appealing to working-class voters who sent Trump to the White House.

“We can’t get bogged down — and I hope I don’t offend anyone here — in this phony debate in the Democratic Party,” he said, according to the Herald. “There is no need to choose. They are not inconsistent.”

Speculation has swirled that Biden could potentially seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

He launched a political action committee last month, further fueling questions of whether he could mount a campaign.