Ridin' With Biden? Clinton Challenge A Rough Road For The Vp

By LISA LERER and JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Sat, 08/29/2015 - 9:06am

In his place, backers greeted a curious few in a hotel suite 20 floors above the official gathering, handing out chocolate bars wrapped with a stylized photo of Biden behind the wheel of a convertible and an "I'm Ridin' with Biden" label. In any other year, a sitting vice president would have headlined such a meeting as the heavy favorite for the party's nomination. Clinton's years-long flirtation with a second White House campaign — time her allies used to lock up support of much of the Democratic Party's leadership — and her undeniable political celebrity have upended the traditional script. While Biden has no campaign operation beyond the small Draft Biden group, Clinton has for months built a sprawling machine of hundreds of employees working out of her Brooklyn campaign headquarters and in dozens of offices across the country. Clinton's team has also devoted significant resources already to wooing super delegates — the party and elected officials empowered to select the presidential nominee at the Democratic national convention regardless of the 2016 primaries. Clinton backers, who sported gold H'' lapel pins at the DNC meetings, were rewarded for their loyalty with invitations to private briefings from Clinton and top campaign officials. Clinton learned the importance of that support in 2008, when she ended her long, hard-fought primary campaign after it became clear she lacked enough delegates to capture the nomination.

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