A top political aide to the late Beau Biden is joining a group urging Vice President Biden to launch a White House bid.
Josh Alcorn is joining the Draft Biden super-PAC as a senior adviser, the group confirmed with The Hill.
{mosads}Alcorn, a longtime Democratic operative, previously served as a senior adviser and finance director for Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46 in May.
Alcorn helped raise money for Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential bid before serving at the helm of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) fundraising efforts.
“I’m thrilled that Josh is joining Draft Biden,” the group’s executive director William Pierce said in a statement Sunday, according to CNN.
“Biden supporters across the country know how close he was to Beau and his family. Josh joining the Draft Biden effort only increases the serious nature of what to date has been an enormously successful effort,” Pierce added.
The addition comes after reports published over the weekend suggested Biden was still mulling a challenge to Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Before he died, Beau Biden reportedly urged his father to run for president, and the family got rubber bracelets with “WWBD,” or What Would Beau Do, according to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.