"Joe Biden Is 100% In": Wilmington,VT Advisor Josh Alcorn Can’t Keep Secret On Crowded Amtrak Train

[big_dog]

NEW YORK — Things at the Draft Biden super PAC just got really real after fundraiser Josh Alcorn was overheard yelling into his phone in the cafe car on an Amtrak train from New York to Wilmington that he was “100 percent that Joe is in the race.” It seems Alcorn was so loud in the cafe car it was making it hard to work, so the passengers just decided to eavesdrop instead. Looks like Alcorn was less certain of when Biden would officially drop the bomb, but he guessed it would be mid-October.

Alcorn was also overheard saying test ads were doing well in converting Hillary Clinton supporters to Biden supporters, and money had been lined up to come in right before the announcement. Apparently Jim Torrey, an Obama bundler, was interested in joining the cause. Alcorn was less confident about New Hampshire, but the plan was to come in second in Iowa, finish respectably in New Hampshire and then win Nevada and South Carolina.

..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. ...Alcorn did not deny that he had made the comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=157&v=7szyL-xw3c4
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/joe-biden-fundraiser-heard-100-report-article-1.2365626

[DCBob]

1. sounds like he intended to be overheard.

[big_dog]

2. this is the part he WANTED to be overheard...

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'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.'

[enough]

3. Why?

I don't understand why we need a second main-stream establishment Democrat to run. If we want that, Hillary is a good candidate. What would Biden running accomplish?

[leftofcool]

4. There are some advantages to his running.

[Pope Sweet Jesus]

5. Like killing Hillary's candidacy for sure

Bernie wins out, after seeing the stark contrast on both candidates vs Bernie.

[leftofcool]

6. Nope! Try again!

[Warren DeMontague]

10. it's a GOOD sign for her campaign!

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[enough]

11. What are you thinking of? (nt)

[Warren DeMontague]

8. because we need a candidate who will..... promise to arrest pot smokers in Colorado?

...okay, fine, I got nothin'

[big_dog]

13. Biden is plan b

if something goes haywire

[Puzzledtraveller]

7. Steven Lesser owes me a Coke.

[restorefreedom]

9. ok, don't repeat this.....

BUT JOE IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT IN THE RACE. I AM CONDUCTING THIS PHONE CALL YELLING ON A CROWDED TRAIN WITH NO PRIVACY BECAUSE I DONT WANT THIS TO BE LEAKED

got it?

okay


when i hear it from joe himself i will believe it

[brooklynite]

12. I don't know when Josh was last in a room with Joe Biden...but I was 10 days ago

My takeaway from what he said and how he said it tells me he won't be running.