Subject: Biden games out presidential run with circle of advisers - Edward-Isaac Dovere - POLITICO
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 20:45:50 -0400

Biden games out presidential run with circle of advisers - Edward-Isaac
Dovere - POLITICO

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/biden-games-out-presidential-run-with-circle-of-advisers-121626.html

Biden games out presidential run with circle of advisers

Vice President Joe Biden met Thursday at his home in Wilmington, Del. with
the small circle of advisers who are plotting out a potential late-entry
presidential campaign, according to a person familiar with the meeting.

Only a few people are involved in the real decision-making: Biden’s longest
and closest political adviser, his sister Valerie Biden Owens, his son
Hunter, chief of staff Steve Ricchetti, former political adviser Mike
Donilon and former top aide Sen. Ted Kaufman. Ricchetti, Donilon and
Kaufman were at the meeting, debating the ups and downs of getting in and
how to make a race happen.

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Kaufman declined to comment. Donilon did not return a call for comment.

The group last week began exploring early primary-state travel and
identifying a handful of potential big-dollar donors who could bankroll a
race via a super PAC. But Biden has not made an official decision, and has
yet to discuss the race with top people at the White House or President
Barack Obama.

If he ran, Biden would be counting on the implosion of Secretary of State
and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and a strategy pinned to a
decent performance in Iowa, writing off New Hampshire and banking on a
South Carolina win that could upend the primary battle. But he’s taken no
organizational steps to even begin to prepare for a long slog of a race,
and would be rushing to hire staff.
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