Draft Biden Official: ‘I Am 100 Percent That Joe Is In’

When Josh Alcorn joined the Draft Biden super PAC, MSNBC headlined its story on the move “Draft Biden just got real.” Alcorn had been finance director and senior adviser to the late Beau Biden, the vice president’s son, and had worked as finance director for Harry Reid as well. Judging from phone conversations Alcorn had on an Amtrak train from New York to Wilmington yesterday, the Biden campaign is about to get still more real.

Another passenger said that Alcorn was being loud enough in the café car to make it hard to work. He said that Alcorn had said on one call, “I am 100 percent that Joe is in.” He was less certain of when Biden would announce, but guessed it would be in mid-October. Alcorn’s own plans to travel to California in early October would have to be canceled if Biden announced earlier.

The other passenger said that Alcorn said that test ads were doing well in converting Hillary Clinton supporters to Biden supporters, and that money had been lined up to come in right before the announcement. He had just had breakfast with Jim Torrey, an Obama bundler, whom he described as wanting to be “the Penny Pritzker” of the Biden campaign. Pritzker was the national finance chair of Obama’s 2008 campaign and is now the Secretary of Commerce.

#share#Alcorn, according to this passenger, was less confident about New Hampshire, which was described as a challenge requiring the deployment of resources. At one point during his calls Alcorn said that the plan was to come in second in Iowa, finish respectably in New Hampshire, and then win Nevada and South Carolina.

Alcorn, contacted through Draft Biden, confirmed the breakfast with Torrey and said, “I can tell you that he wants to be very involved,” but could not remember whether he had compared him to Pritzker. Brad Bauman, a Draft Biden adviser also on the line, said that the comment that Biden was 100 percent likely to run was “ridiculous” since the organization had not been in direct contact with the vice president. Alcorn did not deny that he had made the comment. Bauman also said, “There are no ads.”

— Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor of National Review.

MORE HERE FROM THE DAILY MAIL:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3239014/Draft-Biden-committee-chief-blabs-phone-call-Joe-train-s-entire-cafe-car-hears-him.html

‘Draft Biden’ committee finance chief blabs in phone call that ‘I am 100 per cent sure that Joe is in’ – and an train’s entire cafe car hears him!

* Chief political fundraiser for Vice President Joe Biden’s late son Beau was overheard on the phone saying the VP will run for president

* Josh Alcorn spoke loudly enough in the cafe car of an Amtrak train that everyone around him heard the details

* Biden hasn’t said whether he plans to enter the Democratic primary but the party’s shallow bench makes the prospect enticing

* Alcorn was heard saying he guessed the VP would announce his candidacy in mid-October

* Train was bound for Wilmington, Delaware, home of the Biden family

The D party brass realize that Hillary is a royal loser.
Also, same for the fake squaw and the fake environmentalist.

This leaves the obvious choice of their current VP.

Now, everyone can see that VP Biden has some major problems.
But he is VP. And who else do the D brass have?
(They may like Bernie but doubt he is really able to sell to the broad masses in a General Election.)

I think the D party brass will go with Biden, unless somebody like Trump comes their way...

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