CHICAGO — Before President Joe Biden announced he wouldn’t seek a second term, his chances of winning reelection were in the “single digits,” the leader of a big money outside group charged with aiding his campaign said on Monday.

Chauncy McLean, head of Future Forward, a super PAC tapped by Biden’s reelection campaign in July 2023 to help reelect him in 2024, painted a grim picture of Biden’s chances against former President Donald Trump. Before Biden bowed out of the race on July 21 and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, Future Forward’s polling models showed him losing under most scenarios, McLean said at a downtown Chicago event ahead of the opening of the Democratic National Convention.