Sources close to Biden’s tight-knit team say that during a long-planned huddle this week, his political brain trust largely focused on the task at hand — making key strategic calls about the structure and message of his campaign.
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the media at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Construction and Maintenance conference on April 5, 2019 in Washington, DC.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — This was supposed to have been the week Joe Biden quietly set the wheels of his 2020 candidacy in motion.
Biden or other senior officials spoke in some cases multiple times with surrogates and potential staff in key early voting states, shoring up his political organizations there and discussing the potential contours of a post-announcement barnstorming tour. A pair of initial statements, first from a spokesman and then days later from Biden himself, sought to be respectful of Flores’ experience without acknowledging any wrongdoing.
The unplanned video post did give Biden’s team an unexpected chance to measure his resonance and reach on social media, with heartening results. By Thursday evening, the Twitter video had nearly 5.7 millions views. By comparison, only Bernie Sanders’ announcement video had more views on Twitter at just under 7.5 million. Beto O’Rourke’s announcement video had 5.1 million views on the platform, followed by Kamala Harris , Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren .
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