Biden super PAC moves out of the shadows
October 30, 2019
The super PAC supporting Joe Biden’s campaign for president launched into public view on Wednesday, announcing its senior leadership and launching a website as it begins a drive to back Biden with millions of dollars in spending.
The group, Unite the Country, will be "committed to fighting back against Trump, his allies, the Russians, and the Republican Party - all of whom are engaged in unprecedented attacks against Vice President Biden in order to deny him the Democratic nomination,” Mark Doyle, the chairman of the super PAC's board, said in a statement.
Along with Doyle, a former Biden aide who led the veterans-focused nonprofit Rags of Honor, the super PAC's other board members are: ex-Biden aide John MacNeil, who will work as its secretary; strategist Larry Rasky, a past Biden spokesman during his presidential bids, who will be the group’s treasurer; Democatic strategist Mark Riddle, who also operates the group Future Majority; and Michèle Taylor, former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Additionally, Unite the Country is employing a three Democratic strategists: Amanda Loveday, Steve Schale and Julianna Smoot.
Loveday is a former executive director for the South Carolina Democratic Party and ex-communications director for South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, current House Majority Whip. Schale was a former state director for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, and an employee of the Draft Biden PAC in 2008. And Smoot, a professional fundraiser, was a former finance director for Obama.
Unite the Country launched a website and released a video featuring Biden speaking about the state of the country, saying people in America “can in fact do anything we set our minds to.”
“We can unite this country — folks, this the United States of America. Stand up. Take it back,” Biden says in the ad.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misspelled the first name of Michèle Taylor, former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Source: https://www.politico.com/
