(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden said Sunday that he would keep his distance from a super-PAC that a group of allies is preparing to launch as his campaign fundraising has fallen behind other leading Democratic presidential hopefuls.
“I haven’t discouraged the move but I haven’t encouraged it either,” he told reporters Sunday after an event in Durham, North Carolina, according to a video from CBS News. “I’ve just stayed away, just hands off.”
Earlier this year, the former vice president and his campaign disavowed a potential super-PAC, a fundraising tool into which wealthy donors could contribute unlimited amounts of money.
But with cash relatively low and with President Donald Trump consistently attacking Biden and son Hunter’s overseas business ties, Biden’s campaign said last week that it would no longer stand in the way of the creation of a super-PAC. A handful of political strategists have been preparing such a group and reaching out to potential donors ahead of a formal launch.
“I cannot stop them if I wanted to stop them. It’s their right to do it,” Biden said Sunday. He’s previously called for a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and stressed Sunday that if he’s elected, he’ll continue his decades-old push for public financing of elections.
Biden Suggests He’d Be a One-Term President (9:16 AM)
Joe Biden, among the front-runners for the 2020 Democratic nomination, suggested in an interview this weekend that if elected president, he might only serve one term.
Biden, 76, was asked by the Associated Press if he’d pledge to serve only one term.
He didn’t go so far as to promise, but said, “I feel good and all I can say is, watch me, you’ll see,” Biden said. “It doesn’t mean I would run a second term. I’m not going to make that judgment at this moment.”
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