Joe Biden Election Decision Nears As Supporters See Surge In Momentum
Dan Roberts in Washington
Thursday 13 August 2015 14.49 EDT Last modified on Thursday 13 August 2015 15.24 EDT
US vice-president Joe Biden is nearing an imminent decision on whether to challenge Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination as supporters report a surge in interest from potential backers.
“We have seen a huge spike in momentum not only in the last day or two, but over the past few weeks,” said William Pierce, director of Draft Biden, a political action committee formed in March to prepare the ground for a possible campaign.
“We’re seeing people signing up on the website, the phone ringing off the hook, people donating, people emailing in and writing Biden letters,” he said.
Though officially unconnected to Biden, the Super Pac has had 195,000 people register their support for him running and sufficient donations to employ eight staff in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, together with a similar number at its headquarters in Chicago.
Pierce declined to speculate on the cause of the recent surge but it coincides with setbacks for Clinton, who fell behind Sanders for the first time in a recent New Hampshire opinion poll and has been beset by continued questions over her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of state.
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