Former vice president Joe Biden is expected to begin accepting money from billionaires, corporations, and special interests through a new super PAC to support his 2020 bid, despite repeated promises not to do exactly that.

The latest Biden flip-flop came in a statement from Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield on Thursday that laid out the justification for the career politician reneging on his word.

“As president, Joe Biden will push to remove private money from our federal elections. He will advocate for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and end the era of unbridled spending by Super PACs,” she wrote. “Until we have these badly needed reforms, we will see more than a billion dollars in spending by Trump and his allies to re-elect this corrupt president.”

“In this time of crisis in our politics, it is not surprising that those who are dedicated to defeating Donald Trump are organizing in every way permitted by current law to bring an end to his disastrous presidency,” Bedingfield wrote.

The Washington Post reports as recently as three weeks ago Biden campaign officials insisted the former vice president would not accept Super PAC cash, a promise that several other Democrat candidates in the 2020 presidential primary have so far kept.

But even as Biden’s reps insisted the 76-year-old would keep his word, the career politician’s backers were already scheming to pump money into his floundering campaign. Among those working to court big dollar donors for Biden are Democrat money man Philip Munger and political strategist Mark Riddle, according to The New York Times.

Others involved, according to the Post, include former Biden staffers Larry Rasky and Mark Doyle, as well as Obama fundraiser Julianna Smoot.

Last week, Biden’s campaign reported $9 million on hand, about a third as much as other leading Democrats in the primary, leading some Democrat heavyweights to suggest he’s toast without corporate cash.

“Given his anemic cash-on-hand and laggard online fundraising, the SuperPAC route seems inevitable for @JoeBiden,” David Axelrod tweeted Thursday. “He needs it to survive the race.”

The new Biden Super PAC isn’t yet a reality, but it will happen, Rasky told the Post.

“We intend to fight back against the lies and distortions we’re seeing from Trump, his allies, the Russians, and the Republican Party,” he wrote in an email. “While other candidates have groups supporting their efforts, no other Democrat has to fight this two-front war.”

The so-called “two front war” – attacks from fellow Democrats and Donald Trump – is essentially the campaign’s justification for lying about super PAC support throughout the primary.

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“Let’s be clear: Donald Trump has decided that the general election has already begun,” Bedingfield said in the prepared statement Thursday. “He and his allies are already spending (a) massive amount of money on paid television and digital advertising to intervene directly in Democratic primaries with the goal of preventing Joe Biden, the opponent that Trump fears most, from becoming the Democratic nominee.”

Biden’s Democratic rivals in the primary see the reversal a little differently.

“It’s disappointing that any Democratic candidate would reverse course and endorse the use of unlimited contributions from the wealthy to run against fellow Democrats,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has kept her word to shun PAC money, posted to Twitter. “A handful of wealthy donors should not be allowed to buy the Democratic nomination. That’s not who we are.”

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, offered a similar response.

“The former vice president has been unable to generate grassroots support, and now his campaign is endorsing an effort to by the primary thro8ugh a super PAC that can rake in unlimited cash from billionaires and corporations,” Shakir wrote in a statement to the Post. “That’s not how we defeat Trump.

“It’s a recipe to maintain a corrupt political system which enriches wealthy donors and leaves the working class behind.”