Update….
Here’s the link to his campaign donation site….
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Biden is NOT gonna worry about where the money comes from it appears…
While other Democrats boast small money contributions?
Biden is going for the long game and building a war chest….
He IS leading the field in the current polling and if his second quarter take is off the charts it will hurt other candidates that will see their fund-raising money dry up forcing them to drop out early ….
Biden has been Barack Obama’s Vice President and is well known among Democratic money people…
His campaign committee will be called ‘Biden for President’….
The flip side of this will be that Biden MUST raise a LOT of money for 2nd quarter to satisfy the expectations game that the media will have….
Biden polls better than any of the others in leading Donald Trump right now …
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has begun accepting financial donations for a 2020 presidential campaign, an unambiguous sign that he intends to begin his challenge to President Trump within days.
Several Democratic donors and party fund-raisers received emails in recent days encouraging them to write sizable checks to support Mr. Biden’s planned candidacy, and to mail them to a Democratic consulting firm in Northern Virginia.
Two fund-raising solicitations, circulated by Democratic donors in California and Pennsylvania, said Mr. Biden’s campaign committee would be called “Biden for President.”
The pre-emptive push for large donations stands in sharp contrast to the effort many Democratic candidates have made to court small donors as a sign of their appeal to the party’s grass-roots base. In the emails reviewed by The New York Times, Mr. Biden’s allies acknowledged he was not yet able to accept online contributions because he has not become a candidate. He is expected to announce his campaign next week.
Thomas M. McInerney, an employment litigator in San Francisco, wrote in one solicitation on Wednesday that he was part of a group of Democratic donors who think Mr. Biden “would be a very strong candidate well-positioned to take on Trump.”
“We are trying to assess what kind of hard financial commitments we would have on day one, in support of his presidential candidacy,” Mr. McInerney wrote. He urged recipients to help Mr. Biden “make a splash” when he announces…..
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Larry Sabato
@LarrySabato
Charlottesville may be the starting site for @JoeBiden ‘s campaign next Weds. Cville makes sense—Aug 2017 was one of Trump’s all-time low points….
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