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Former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have spoken about what needs to happen with regards to getting President Joe Biden off the presidential ticket this fall as the Democrat Party panics over the prospect of a blowout loss to former President Donald Trump.
Democrats are reportedly looking to the two to help convince or pressure Biden to quit his re-election since he reportedly does not trust Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and doesn’t have a deep enough bond with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
CNN reported that in the future it will become “far more apparent than currently known” just how much Obama and Pelosi had their “fingerprints” all over the efforts to pressure Biden to drop out of the race.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said this week that Biden’s campaign believes that Obama is the puppet master pulling the strings behind the scenes in coordinating the effort to oust Biden. Scarborough added that Biden is “deeply resentful of his treatment under not only the Obama staff but also the way he was pushed aside for Hillary Clinton” in 2016.
Even Trump acknowledged what is widely known in politics, Obama looks down on Biden and his disdain for him.
“OBAMA AND BIDEN HATE EACH OTHER!” Trump posted on social media. “OBAMA NEVER RESPECTED BIDEN, THOUGHT HE WAS DUMB, AND A TOTAL LIGHTWEIGHT. WILL BE AN INTERESTING COUPLE OF WEEKS. OBAMA WANTS HIM OUT, WANTS V.P. HARRIS IN!”
Obama has largely remained silent over the last two weeks after acknowledging after the debate that Biden did “bad.”
Biden’s allies believe that Obama was behind George Clooney’s op-ed in The New York Times this week in which Clooney said that Biden was “the same man we all witnessed at the debate” at a recent fundraising event.
Obama allegedly warned Democrats several years ago against choosing Biden for the party’s nominee, saying: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.”
Obama also allegedly told one of the other Democrats who ran in 2020: “And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.”
The New York Times reported in 2019 that Obama tried to discourage Biden from running, saying: “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t.” Obama also reportedly summoned a meeting with top officials from Biden’s 2020 campaign where he told them that they needed to make sure that Biden did not “embarrass himself” or “damage his legacy” during the campaign.
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