Biden supporters exploring vice president mounting challenge to Clinton

Biden has yet to tell his staff whether he will run or personally ask them to do any planning for a potential campaign, according to several people close to the vice president.

“I’m thrilled that Josh is joining Draft Biden”, said Will Pierce, the executive director of the Super PAC, on CNN.

Speculation about Biden’s political future revved up Saturday when The New York Times reported that the vice president is taking a “second look” at a 2016 presidential run.

But say the vice president decided to make a run at Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic frontrunner.

The vice president’s younger son, Hunter, also encouraged him to seek the presidency, the Times said.

Conversations this week with people close to Biden, from his home base in Delaware to Washington and beyond, suggest agreement on three points: He has not made up his mind. Biden has been dispatched many times when some of the President Obama’s policy priorities have been stalled on Capitol Hill. Aside from rising panic over Hillary Clinton’s falling poll numbers and Bernie Sanders’ increasing appeal to voters across the political spectrum, what are the implications for 2016?

Biden, 72, has a large and loyal collection of friends and advisers from more than four decades in Washington.

The ads will focus on Clinton’s legal work on behalf of families and her relationship with her late mother Dorothy, central themes of her early campaign.

Some recent polls have showed a dip in how she would fare against top Republicans.

Biden, however, would be the oldest president ever elected, and by a wide margin at that.

Mr. Biden’s advisers have started to reach out to Democratic leaders and donors who have not yet committed to Mrs. Clinton. When obamacare passed in 2010, the vice president voiced his approval in a way only Joe Biden can. If you’re the Clinton campaign, you are scrambling, trying to reassure donors to have confidence in the campaign while questioning whether Biden is a viable general election candidate. Momentum for a Biden run hasn’t slowed, organizers say, as Clinton begins laying out policy positions in early voting states. Recently, he appeared at Democratic fundraisers in Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco, which were the first such events he had participated in since the death of his son. “Joyless” was how one prominent Democratic Party official who supports Mrs. Clinton – and would only criticize the campaign without attribution – described her candidacy.

“In camp Biden, there are discussions about fundraising and launching a political action committee, and while the vice president himself hasn’t authorized any of these moves, one adviser tells ABC News he believes Biden is 90 percent in”, Vega said.