Race grows more fluid as summer's stumbles melt Clinton's advantage," by Dan Balz and Phil Rucker in Minneapolis, with Anne Gearan: "Will Biden get in the race? Or, as many party leaders privately asserted, is it already too late? DNC members who were on a conference call with the vice president last week came away with significant doubts that he was emotionally ready to run as he and his family still grieve ... For all their glee at watching the Republicans, Democratic leaders are more inwardly focused today than they have been all year ...
"Inside the Clinton team, there is an acknowledgment that the [email] issue has been badly handled and that it has given rise to broader worries about her trustworthiness and sense of entitlement. 'Stuff is coming in from outer space to us and that's challenging, but I think what she did a few days ago was important in terms of acknowledging that people have questions,' said Robby Mook, Clinton's campaign manager. ...
"Still, a senior Democratic official said the e-mail story was 'an absolutely self-inflicted wound.' Democrats are crying out, "Just talk to me, tell me what's going on." She just can't ever do that. I just don't understand it. It seems so easy, and I think it's maybe not in her makeup to go there,' said this official ... Her speech here on Friday was a rhetorical mixture of scorn, humor and outright attack, all designed to say to Democrats that she is their strongest general-election candidate.
"Senior Clinton advisers ... are almost singularly focused on winning the early primaries and caucuses. ... As the vice president goes through a process of consideration, party leaders from some key states said they were surprised at the absence of direct outreach by him. ... Clinton has been diplomatic in dealing with a possible Biden candidacy." http://wapo.st/1fORH5F
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