In 2019, there’s a tiny group of Democrats who believe the party hasn’t lurched leftward. Oh, and their boss happens to be winning the primary.
While most presidential campaigns produce strategists and operatives who become high-profile political characters in a yearslong drama, you’ve probably never heard of the Joe Biden brain trust., the frenetic operative who single-handedly bulldozed the unknown mayor onto the cover of magazines and into the chairs of late-night talk-show hosts. Cory Booker has Addisu Demissie, who became a social media celebrity running a telethon-like fundraiser to get his candidate qualified for a debate.
Top: Biden greets the staff at the Tasty Cafe during a quick campaign stop at the Eldridge, Iowa, restaurant in June. Bottom: At a Nov. 30 campaign stop in Council Bluffs. | Getty ImagesThere’s the inner circle, which is sometimes defined to include a few other longtime political allies, and there are the “new people,” which means anyone who joined the Biden operation since about 2007.
As his rivals mount a contest to define the new era of the Democratic Party, the Biden campaign is, in many ways, a home for the refugees of all its other eras. The one newcomer at the top is Anita Dunn, 61, whose history in presidential politics is with progressive candidates: Bill Bradley in 2000 and Barack Obama in 2008, when she was his communications adviser during the general election campaign then in the White House. Like Biden himself, the Biden campaign sometimes has a chip on its shoulder about the lack of respect it receives from the press and the larger universe of Democratic professionals.
Arriving in Biden world in 2013 also makes Schultz “new,” and many of the 200 or so staffers who only recently joined the Biden campaign consider him their point person. “Most people wouldn’t have any interactions with the Ricchettis and the Anitas of the world,” said a senior Biden staffer. “If you’re not senior staff, you probably wouldn’t know who some of those names are. If this is your first time on a campaign, Greg’s your guy.”his job isn’t to worry about strategy but to “execute” it.
Two prominent freshmen House Democrats who mark very different paths for the party: Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger , who represents a congressional district that Trump won in 2016, and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , whose Queens-based seat is one of the most heavily Democratic districts in the nation. | Getty Images
He had what now seems like a profound insight. “Everyone is misreading the electorate,” he told his guest. “I campaigned in swing places, and the candidates who are winning are people who can get the middle.” “You’re sitting down for breakfast and there’s a steaming pile of shit on your table and you say, ‘Can we get this shit off of my table?’” he told me recently. “And Elizabeth says, ‘I’m going to build you a new house!’ And Bernie says, ‘I’m going to build you a new city!’ And I’m like, no, just get this fucking shit off my kitchen table and we’ll get back to normal life!”put it more diplomatically.
Ignoring the noisy activist left and its megaphone on social media was perhaps the most consequential decision Biden made at the start of the campaign. Klain said, “It would be preposterous for him to stand up and say, ‘I’m the furthest to the left candidate in the field,’ or for him to stand up and say, ‘I’m a complete outsider and I have no experience doing things.’ We’re running the kind of race that is him.”Biden in a debate or at a diner interacting with voters or delivering his stump speech, they tend to have two main impressions: Biden looks very old and he rambles, sometimes to the point of incoherence.
In a speech at the White House Rose Garden in October 2015, Vice President Biden announces that he will not run for the 2016 presidential nomination. | AP But the media narrative of a more volatile race has been skewed by the influence of college-educated whites, who now represent the largest group in the Democratic electorate. This group is over-represented in the two early voting states where Biden has been overtaken in the polls. And this group has been the most volatile, fueling the surges of Kamala Harris, Warren and Buttigieg. Not surprisingly, this is also the group that is most represented in the media and online.
In 2008, Obama made history by winning with a coalition of white-collar whites and African Americans. For the first time, the cool-kid candidate of liberal elites won. In 2016, Clinton beat Sanders with this same Obama-style coalition. College-educated whites are now a large and ideologically diverse group in the Democratic electorate, so Biden could end up enjoying a sizable share of their support.
The Biden universe is not as expansive as the multigalaxy Clinton network. “There’s just one planetary system,” Anita Dunn said. But as is common for politicians who have been around a while, there are lots of outside advisers, and there’s always conflict between the official campaign and the concentric circles of outside advisers.
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