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brooklynite

(93,898 posts)
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:30 PM Sep 2015

Exclusive: Joe Biden backers hiring staff in more states in hopes of 2016 run

Source: Reuters

A group of Joe Biden supporters trying to build momentum for a White House run by the vice president is hiring paid staff in about a dozen crucial primary states.

The political action committee backing the vice president, Draft Biden, has begun building operations in 11 states holding primary elections on "Super Tuesday" in March 2016, two of the group's officials told Reuters, an important series of votes for any candidate seeking their party’s nomination.

Draft Biden doesn't have a firm number for how many staff in total it will hire in those states, said Josh Alcorn, a senior advisor to the group, but the recruitment process is under way.

Whatever the number, adding paid staffers in the 11 states suggests a growing confidence within Draft Biden that Biden will mount a challenge to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the front runners for the Democratic presidential nomination.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/25/us-usa-election-biden-exclusive-idUSKCN0RP24Q20150925



Key words being "backers" and "in hopes of"...
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Exclusive: Joe Biden backers hiring staff in more states in hopes of 2016 run (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2015 OP
true, but who hires staff in eleven states..... virtualobserver Sep 2015 #1
Moveon.org iandhr Sep 2015 #10
How is that progressive? JackRiddler Sep 2015 #13
Is it that Biden wants to run or his supporters want him to run? Dawson Leery Sep 2015 #2
How he doesn't try is beyond me...He has a shot, I think he will do it. randys1 Sep 2015 #3
Because "having a shot" isn't the same as winning... brooklynite Sep 2015 #6
I agree, he's a long shot. StoneCarver Sep 2015 #9
Joementum on the rise... WheelWalker Sep 2015 #4
next batch of Hillarys email scheduled for Wednesday sept 30... 4139 Sep 2015 #5
There was a Draft Warren movement, too. PADemD Sep 2015 #7
I like Joe. gvstn Sep 2015 #8
sounds like his peeps restorefreedom Sep 2015 #11
he's "Plan B" if Hillary crashes and burns. One awful e-mail, FBI report, debate, testifying before magical thyme Sep 2015 #12

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
10. Moveon.org
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 04:38 PM
Sep 2015

And other progressive groups.

They hired field organizers to get Warren in the race even thought she said a million times she wasn't running.

brooklynite

(93,898 posts)
6. Because "having a shot" isn't the same as winning...
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:57 PM
Sep 2015

He's smart enough to know that the odds are still long, and he'd rather go out as a respected VP than as a three time Presidential loser.

 

StoneCarver

(249 posts)
9. I agree, he's a long shot.
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 07:15 PM
Sep 2015

His heart isn't in it. I know you're a Hillary supporter and Bernie is the long shot. He's a sniper with a "one shot, one..." -long shot. It's not about Bernie. It's about a movement. Bernie's just the embodiment -like e.g. MLK Jr. (Obama was a false start -with all the hope and change stuff.) All of history is people who get the credit for being the "leaders" of a movement. Women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, etc. Bernie is riding the train of an organic movement, Occupy Wall Street (first), Anti TPP, Keystone, global warming, citizens united, etc. (second), gay rights (third) and Bernie is the embodiment (fourth) -and it won't stop. You win some you lose some but it continues. We'll see where it ends -but it's not over by a long shot. The 1% and Monopoly "game" capitalism are screwed and they just don't realize it. (corporations may be "people" with unlimited $ -but they can't vote, they can't vote!)

Biden is just some DNC raw hamburger to the nervous middle. If you see Biden enter, it's the end. The DNC will throw the race to Jeb. There is little difference in policy between GW Bush, BH Obama, and Hillary. It's a continuation of the illusion of choices. Nader was right it's a choice between "Tweedledee and Tweedledum". Even Al Gore didn't contest the election- he won! He won! He just conceded. That was our first wake up call.
Stonecarver

4139

(1,893 posts)
5. next batch of Hillarys email scheduled for Wednesday sept 30...
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:44 PM
Sep 2015

Earliest announcement for Joe the following week.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
8. I like Joe.
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 06:11 PM
Sep 2015

I have met him several times. I think his heart is in the right place.

I am not sure he is the best candidate because of health factors. He is 70+ and has had two brain aneurysms. He just isn't isn't as sharp as he has been in the past. I would support him but wouldn't be confident that he was the best choice.















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magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
12. he's "Plan B" if Hillary crashes and burns. One awful e-mail, FBI report, debate, testifying before
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 06:12 PM
Sep 2015

Benghazi committee...any one of these has the potential to trigger a collapse in support from her 1% base.

He *won't* announce before a major Hillary crash and burn, though. He doesn't want derailing the "first female president" to be his legacy.

All imo, of course.

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