WASHINGTON — Even as his own fate on a frantic election night remained unresolved, Joe Biden found time to call Jaime Harrison after he delivered his speech conceding to Lindsey Graham in South Carolina's U.S. Senate race.
Biden simply wanted to "pick him up and offer words of encouragement," according to a friend of Harrison's. Now, many Democrats assume Biden's next call to the 44-year-old Harrison will be a formal offer to steer the national party.
"Because he ran for DNC chair, because he was a state party chair, because he worked on the Hill and certainly because he ran for the Senate, he knows what it takes," said Clay Middleton, a Democratic National Committee member from South Carolina who is close to Harrison. "If President-elect Biden were to pick Jaime, there would not be an outcry of pushback."
