WASHINGTON _ It was January and Joe Biden's top aides saw the urgent need to make a change as they were hurtling toward bruising defeats in Iowa and New Hampshire.
So they approached Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, the widely heralded aide to former President Barack Obama who also had managed Beto O'Rourke's recently ended presidential campaign, discreetly about becoming campaign manager, according to three Democrats with knowledge of the situation, including one Biden adviser. The job could be hers immediately, if she wanted it.
But she did not want it _ at least not yet.
