2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonors Not Interested in Biden Running
As Joe Biden considers a possible run for president, the donors hed need to be viable appear to be ruling him out, Politico reports.
Not all 400 people who gathered at a waterfront estate here on Sunday have been die-hard supporters of Hillary Clinton. In fact, many of them recall a rough summer eight years ago when Marthas Vineyards liberal elite split their loyalties between Clinton and Barack Obama. But on Sunday, they were reveling in party unity and had little appetite for Biden to complicate the field, despite their affection for him.
The Fix: If he decides at the end of this month that he wants to run, he immediately begins in a $45 million (and probably much larger) hole against Clinton. Super PACs could make up some of that ground, but remember that virtually every major fundraiser in the party including many who were once Biden people is now on Clintons team. So whatever Biden raises, Clinton almost certainly raises double. Maybe triple.
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http://politicalwire.com/2015/08/17/donors-not-interested-in-biden-running/
Gothmog
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(25,960 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)was little more than a media hallucination. Bored with the lack of action similar to the kind going on in the GOP, the media decided, "let's promote Joe." Of course, "sources close to Biden" (probably someone he met in a diner in 2007) became a reliable source for the hallucination. Joe's gone as high in electoral politics as he ever will.