JOE Biden has insisted he would have beaten Donald Trump if he had stayed in the 2024 presidential race.

President-elect Donald Trump, who crushed Vice President Kamala Harris in a landslide victory in November, is set to take the oath of office on January 20.

Now, with 12 days remaining in his presidency, Biden firmly believes he would’ve secured a second term but admitted he did not want to be president in his mid-80s.

“It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” Biden told USA Today when asked if he could have won the 2024 election against his predecessor and soon-to-be successor.

“I had no intention of running after Beau died – for real, not a joke,” the president said of his son, who died in 2015 at age 46 of brain cancer.

“[Then, in 2020], when Trump was running again for reelection, I really thought I had the best chance of beating him.

“But I also wasn’t looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old. And so I did talk about passing the baton.

“But I don’t know. Who the hell knows.”