Meet Biden's group of longtime, loyal aides and family who are advising the president as he weighs exiting the 2024 contest

President Joe Biden is getting much isolated and his soul circle is increasing moreover smaller arsenic he fights calls a increasing tidal activity of calls to driblet retired of nan statesmanlike race.

As nan walls adjacent successful connected nan 81-year-old, nan aides who person stayed by his broadside are hunting leakers and reporting immoderate signs of disloyalty to First Lady Jill, DailyMail.com has learned.

Biden has heavy leaned connected nan tight knit group of friends and family members who person go progressively much defiant and frustrated.

During his COVID isolation astatine his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,home, they person go moreover much protective arsenic signs of nan extremity of his governmental profession started to show.

Wife Jill, sister Valerie Owens, and boy Hunter stay livid pinch immoderate unit successful nan measurement they dealt pinch nan aftermath of nan car clang statesmanlike statement performance.

And astir devoted advisors Mike Donilon, Annie Tomasini, and Anthony Bernal - who person stuck pinch him done nan very worst times of his profession - person a monolithic power successful immoderate determination going forward.

One source, who knows each of Biden's soul circle, describes them arsenic 'terrified of Biden's temper.'

As he grows progressively disappointment astatine nan members of his statement who are abandoning him, they will beryllium exposed to his anger that they person tolerated for years.

But arsenic nan president's profession has risen, truthful has theirs, leaving them each tied to 1 another's fate.

What they each person successful communal is nan logic why they person obtained their positions of powerfulness and influence: loyalty to nan Bidens.

Here's a look astatine each of nan players successful Biden's orbit, from nan aides pinch nan astir power to nan family members who will make nan last call:

MIKE DONILON

Donilon, 65, has been pinch Biden since nan beginning: nan Senate, nan vice presidency and nan White House.

He was pinch Biden erstwhile he won each of his governmental campaigns. He was location erstwhile Beau Biden died. 

Donilon was nan man who drafted nan winning strategy for Biden's 2020 run against Trump: threat to democracy.

And it was Donilon that Biden sent to Capitol Hill aft nan statement to reassure lawmakers astir his candidacy. 

His worth is that he is said to beryllium personification who tin knows Biden truthful good he tin divine what nan president thinks and really he will respond to immoderate situation.

Donilon is nan 1 Biden calls for news connected polling but that has led immoderate Democrats to inquire what polls nan president is being shown. Biden has said many times he has seen polls that shows he tin triumph successful November.

When erstwhile Speaker Nancy Pelosi precocious said to nan president, telling him she had seen polls that showed he could not win, the president had pushed back, saying he had polls showing otherwise.

Pelosi challenged him, The New York Times reported.  

'Put Donilon connected nan phone,' Pelosi told nan president. 'Show maine what polls.'

Donilon near his West Wing occupation to activity for nan run but wherever he useful doesn't alteration his influence. He is simply a changeless beingness connected nan telephone to Biden. 

ANTHONY BERNAL 

Bernal's, 51, title is elder adjutant to Jill Biden and typical adjunct to nan president.

Don't fto that fool you. 

It hardly comes adjacent to measuring nan power he has successful nan White House. And, arsenic nan unit grows for President Biden to exit nan title and nan soul circle tightens, Bernal's power has grown. 

He is now watching unit for immoderate motion of leakers, DailyMail.com confirmed, and reports immoderate disloyalty to nan first lady.  

Bernal has been pinch nan Bidens since nan 2008 run and is known arsenic nan enforcer wrong nan White House.  He sits successful elder unit meetings successful nan West Wing. A erstwhile TV producer, he is connected manus to cheque settings for immoderate nationalist quality by either Biden. 

His loyalty to Jill Biden, who he refers to arsenic 'our lady,' is without question. He would return a slug for her and past get up and guidelines successful beforehand of a moving train to protect her.

Bernal runs nan East Wing while White House lawman main of unit Annie Tomasini runs nan West Wing. The duo speak aggregate times a time and joke they are each other's activity spouse.

The 2 became 'family' to nan Bidens during nan 2020 run when, during nan COVID lockdown, they were nan only 2 allowed successful nan Bidens' Wilmington home. 

And they animate panic successful younger staffers, who do not want to get connected either's bad side. 

They are nan family gatekeepers pinch an all-access walk to nan residence successful nan precocious floors of nan White House.

ANNIE TOMASINI

Annie is 'family.' 

When Jill Biden donated her inaugural outfits to nan Smithsonian American History museum, she invited her sisters and Annie Tomasini, nan lawman White House main of staff.

When nan grandkids recreation pinch nan president and first lady, it's Tomasini, 47, who keeps an oculus connected them.

And erstwhile unit bask uncommon downtime during agelong activity trips, it's Tomasini who is location watching cautiously truthful thing gets excessively retired of hand, particularly erstwhile reporters are around.

She is nan ever-present beingness astatine President Biden's side, riding adjacent to him successful nan Beast a connected trips, minding his scheduule and guarding acces to him successful nan Oval Office.

A Catholic woman from Boston, she is nan three-time skipper of her assemblage hoops squad astatine Boston University.

She is simply a longtime loyalist. Tomasini worked for Biden erstwhile he was a legislator and later vice president. 

She was pinch him successful Las Vegas this past week erstwhile he tested affirmative for COVID. And she rode pinch him successful nan motorcade to Rehoboth Beach, wherever nan president is isolating pinch Jill Biden successful their formation house.

Bernal is astatine nan location too.  

OTHER AIDES 

Other advisers, specified arsenic Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed person been pinch Biden for years. 

But they do not person nan aforesaid power arsenic nan halfway group.

They do person their areas though. Ricchetti manages relationships connected Capitol Hill. Reed is nan argumentation guru.

Meanwhile, sometimes adjacent aides for illustration run chair Jen O'Malley Dillon, erstwhile main of unit Ron Klain, attorney Bob Bauer, and advisor Anita Dunn - each of whom helped successful nan statement prep - are said to beryllium connected nan outs amid nan family fury. 

JILL BIDEN

Don't underestimate nan powerfulness of nan first lady.

She and Joe person been joined 47 years. He still calls her 'the ray of my life and nan ray of my love.'

She is besides 1 of nan past group he consults earlier he makes a last determination connected immoderate awesome issue. She has been described arsenic his 'gut check.' 

Jill Biden was nan first 1 to take sides him aft his unspeakable statement capacity against Donald Trump, telling him 'you answered each question.' 

She has made it clear she will guidelines by him and his desire to enactment successful nan race.

'That's nan determination he's made and conscionable arsenic he has ever supported my career, I americium each successful too,' she told run events successful Florida past week.

She has campaigned for him frequently, sometimes spending much clip connected nan way than he does.  

More so, nan first woman has noted each nan family has had to strengthen since Biden decided to tally for president, peculiarly nan national cases against Hunter for his weapon acquisition and his taxation issues.

Finally, she is nan keeper of nan family occurrence and considers loyalty nan eventual quality. And unit knows it.

She does person a playful side, including nan ocassional applicable joke. But erstwhile Jill Biden, a assemblage professor, uses her teacher's voice, aides jump to listen.

VALERIE BIDEN OWENS

Valerie Biden Owens, 78, nan president's younger sister, has agelong been 1 of his apical governmental advisers. 

She managed his first Senate run successful 1972 and has been profoundly progressive successful each his run since, including his statesmanlike runs.

She besides became a surrogate mother to Hunter and Beau aft Biden's first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, and their 1-year-old girl Naomi were killed successful a postulation mishap in  1972 soon aft Biden won his first US Senate race.

She moved into her brother's location to look aft nan boys while Biden commuted regular connected Amtrak to Washington D.C. 

She remains an important sounding committee for her large brother.  

HUNTER BIDEN

President Joe Biden talks to his only surviving boy regular and texts pinch him aggregate times a day.

And Hunter is adament his begetter enactment successful nan statesmanlike race.

In nan aftermath of nan disastrous debate, Hunter Biden was reported to person taken a much progressive domiciled successful his father's administration, joining him successful meetings astatine nan White House.

Republicans person utilized Hunter's business dealings to effort and bring down nan president. Joe Biden has said many times he has nary engagement successful his son's dealings.

And nan family rallied astir Hunter during his caller ineligible case. Valerie Biden was successful nan courtroom each time and Jill Biden made 4 flights betwixt Wilmington, Delaware and Paris, France to beryllium pinch her measurement son.

Additionally, nan Bidens person embraced his woman Melissa and boy Beau, inviting them to awesome White House events for illustration nan Easter Egg Roll and Christmas Tree arrival. 

The family remains tight.

No last determination will beryllium made without Hunter's input.