specifically the concern is about donald trump. they saw in 2016 and have spoken to other democrats that he s shown that there s nothing sacred to him, that he s willing to attack a candidate s family based on the truth and based on lies. so one of the major factors in the coming weeks, biden will be doing one final round of gut check conversations with his children and grandchildren, making sure everyone is ready for the fact that a lot of the family s laundry will be aired in the public and they want to make sure they re comfortable with it. aides insist this is not 2015. he is much closer to saying yes than he was back then. have you seen anything from your reporting that joe is willing to lengthen the field, he doesn t feel compelled to announceneck week. he could wait until the middle of march or maybe even the end of march. we heard that from the vice president just weekend.
consider the effect the campaign will have on his family. they have lived in the public eye and endured tragedy in the public eye. as he looks at a potential race against donald trump, some of the conversations he s having, he s been interested in the perspective of others about what happens when you have a potential opponent in donald trump for whom nothing is sacred? it s clear even if donald trump is not doing what he did to some of his former republican opponents in the 2016 race think about ted cruz and his father being behind the kennedy assassination, the attacks on jeb bush and his family. it s going to be an issue on its own. that s sort of where they are in running what biden calls these final traps. he wants to have final gut check conversations with his children and grand children there are also reports that some of biden s people have reached out to beto o rourke to discuss the possibility of being