WASHINGTON — Tucked away at his family home in Delaware, Vice President Joe Biden has been huddling with longtime aides and family members, evaluating what it would take to launch a viable presidential campaign against well-funded Democratic opponents with a huge head start.

Although Biden has yet to make a decision, his advisers say the vice president and his associates have started gaming out mechanics like fundraising, ballot deadlines and an early primary state strategy. Also under consideration are the personal consequences for Biden, who is 72, and his family, who are still mourning the death of the vice president’s son, Beau Biden, a few months ago.

In recent days, longtime Biden confidantes Mike Donilon and former Sen. Ted Kaufman have spent time at his home outside Wilmington, along with Biden’s grandson, Hunter Biden, and his sister, Valerie Owens Biden, who had a key role in all his previous campaigns.

Biden’s team has settled on a window from Sept. 1 to Oct. 1 in which he could potentially announce plans to run.

The vice president long ago set an end-of-summer deadline for his decision, and the last full day of summer is Sept. 22. The longer he waits, the less time he has to build a formidable campaign, but competing events on the administration’s calendar make it difficult to launch in the next couple of weeks.

If Biden’s not in by Oct. 1, it will likely be too late, people who have spoken to Biden recently said. He’ll need at least two full months to get the petition signatures and delegates lined up by the beginning of December to qualify for the ballot in early primary states.

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