President Barack Obama’s remaining campaign apparatus will relaunch Sunday as a tax-exempt group to support his second term agenda, a senior Democrat familiar with the plans confirms to POLITICO.

The new organization will be separate from the Democratic National Committee, with Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina the national chair of the group.

Action will begin the day the president is formally sworn in to his second term, when Obama campaign staff and volunteers will meet at the Washington Hilton at an event dubbed the Obama Legacy Conference.

Since he won re-election, Obama’s campaign has emailed supporters to drum up support for the president’s positions during the fiscal cliff stand-off and, on Thursday, on Obama’s proposed gun violence reforms. The vast majority of its employees are gone, though Messina and spokeswoman Katie Hogan remain on board.

While Obama has not spoken publicly about the future fate of his campaign apparatus, Vice President Joe Biden has twice this week hinted at it playing a role in the administration’s second term.

During a Monday meeting to discuss gun violence with Democratic members of Congress, Biden told the small group that he and Obama have the campaign’s organizations at its disposal as it seeks to influence public opinion […]