Subject: Top Obama Strategist Joins Draft Biden Effort - NBC News
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Alexander S. Mackler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:37:36 -0400

Top Obama Strategist Joins Draft Biden Effort - NBC News

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/top-obama-strategist-joins-draft-biden-effort-n412706

Top Obama Strategist Joins Draft Biden Effort

A top Democratic strategist has joined the effort to recruit Vice President
Joe Biden into the 2016 presidential race.

Steve Schale - who served as President Barack Obama's top Florida
strategist during his 2008 and 2012 White House campaigns -- has joined the
Draft Biden committee, NBC News has confirmed.

This makes Schale the biggest Obama World person to join up with Draft
Biden.

Schale tells NBC News that he has no knowledge of Biden's White House
intentions, but wanted to join the effort.

Biden is expected to make his decision about a 2016 run in the coming
weeks. He spent part of a recent vacation calling close friends to inform
them he is thinking of running.

Biden supporters feel Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has become
increasingly vulnerable as controversies surrounding her use of a private
email server continue to plague her campaign. But Biden so far has little
infrastructure in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and a
late entrance into the race may be difficult to overcome.

A CNN/ORC poll released on Wednesday found a majority of Democrats, 53
percent, say Biden should run in 2016.

*-- NBC's Andrew Rafferty contributed to this report. *

Eric D. Schwerin
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