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Attention Biden alumni! Scheduled reunion Tuesday postponed. Joe’s going to . . . Iowa.


Vice President Biden speaks July 4 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Attention former Biden staffers! A reunion for former staff of Vice President Biden that had initially been scheduled for Tuesday in Washington and Delaware has been postponed, according to an unsigned e-mail we got Monday night.

A Biden counselor had e-mailed a save-the-date for the event back in July, but no actual invite with time or location was ever set. The postponement note, as we reported with colleague Sean Sullivan, blamed the “large number of Delaware and DC folks who wanted to be able to attend both events to reconnect with friends and former colleagues.” So, to “accommodate we are going to have the events on different dates.”

While there was never any indication that Biden would attend, it could not escape notice that he’s scheduled to head to Iowa on Wednesday to speak at a Nuns on the Bus “We the People, We the Voters” tour kickoff event.

In July, Loop Fans may recall, Biden arranged a brief conference call with some of his former staff (unclear how many) that raised a few eyebrows about his electoral aspirations. We dismissed it, however, as just Joe being friendly.

Then came the save-the-date in August, which raised more eyebrows, but we still dismissed the notion that Biden was seriously contemplating a third presidential bid, despite Hillary’s disastrous memoir rollout.

But now he’s headed to Iowa? Home of the first 2016 caucus? This looks really suspicious. Well, given the last-minute reunion postponement, the effort so far seems a bit slipshod. On the other hand, campaigns reunions are never easy to organize.


Eric D. Schwerin
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com

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