Time to admit it...Biden won't run for President.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

He's certainly wearing on the patience of party leaders at this point.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

It's way too late-IIRC the only time a modern candidate has entered this late was either Thompson or Perry, both of whom absolutely bombed.

The surrogate attacks on Biden are already starting, and he's left it too late. 

It's pretty much my view. People were giving him until the end of September, but the basic view is, if he really wanted to mount a run, he would have done it by now.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

There's more to it dudeabides.

You cannot run for president as a serious candidate without equally serious fundraising and organisation. The longer he waits, the greater the risk that loses all of those people and is reliant on another established candidate collapsing.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

There's more to it dudeabides.

You cannot run for president as a serious candidate without equally serious fundraising and organisation. The longer he waits, the greater the risk that loses all of those people and is reliant on another established candidate collapsing.

There is no question he has to decide by Oct  25 or so but he will be able to raise plenty of money and he will get a ground game going.

Pretty much all of the best people have been drawn up - his machine right now is the Draft Biden movement. Even if he does run, he's left himself very little time to get a machine going.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I think that's the issue - Biden can't really look too opportunistic. Should either Hillary or Bernie screw up massively tomorrow, then it's better than he's already in the race, rather than CLEARLY waiting for someone to screw up and ride in on his white charger.