President Biden, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and a longtime member of the Democratic Party, is considering a run for president democratic National Committee, Two sources in the DNC orbit confirmed this to Fox News.

Sources told Fox News that Rahm Emanuel has been quietly reaching out to DNC committee members as he considers a bid to replace current chair Jaimie Harrison, whose term expires early next year. After last week’s huge disappointment, Harrison is unlikely to seek a second four-year term election results Up and down voting for Democrats.

A veteran of President Bill Clinton’s administration, Emanuel went on to serve in Congress and led the DCCC through its very successful 2006 cycle. He later served as former President Obama’s Chief of Staff before winning the 2011 election and being re-elected as mayor of Chicago in 2015. Emanuel had served as the US ambassador to Japan during the Biden administration for the past four years.

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U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel speaks to the media after meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa at the foreign ministry in Tokyo on November 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)

Emanuel appears to have a key advocate in his friend, veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod (the political mastermind behind Obama’s 2008 White House victory and 2012 re-election victory).

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“‘So what should we do? Who should run the party?’ I will take Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, bring him back from Japan, and appoint him as chairman of the Democratic National Committee,” Axelrod said Tuesday on his podcast “Hacks on Tap.”

On Wednesday, Axelrod wrote to @HacksonTap: Ambassador @RahmEmanuel. There may be others, but he’s kind of a natural born: Dude knows how to fight and win!”

But it’s not clear that Emanuel would be well received by others if he accepted the offer to chair the DNC.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel speaks during a visit to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ F-35 fighter jet final assembly and inspection facility in Toyoyama, western Japan’s Aichi prefecture, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (U.S. Embassy via AP)

A DNC insider who wished to remain anonymous told Fox News Digital: “Rahm is undoubtedly talented. But we need to know what we need to do to move forward as a party. We need new blood. We need modernization. We need it.” Someone who understands the dramatically changing new media landscape and is willing to invest in it. “I don’t know if Rahm is up to it.”

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Another DNC staffer, who wished to remain anonymous, was much more blunt, arguing in a comment to Fox News Digital that “the last person we need to lead us is an arrogant elitist who has never worked a day in his life.”

The news about Emanuel was first announced early Friday By Axios.