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

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:21pm EDT

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

NEW YORK | BY EMILY FLITTER

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.

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[tularetom]

1. He needs to shit or get off the pot

He doesn't really want to be president or he would already be in the race.

As opposed to Hillary Clinton, who wants to be president too much for us to allow it to happen.

[PatSeg]

2. I think there is a lot more

going on behind the scenes than we know about and I think he is going to run. Two or three weeks ago, I would have said no, but recent national general election polls show Joe beating the top republican candidates.