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Is Pres. Obama Working to Undermine Pres. Biden?

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The Biden campaign feels that Obama is working to undermine Joe’s reelection campaign, further evidencing the chaos in the Democratic party.

From The Washington Free Beacon. President Joe Biden’s campaign believes former president Barack Obama is “quietly working behind the scenes” to undermine the incumbent and his reelection bid, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough reported Thursday.

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“What’s going on behind the scenes is the Biden campaign and many Democratic officials do believe that Barack Obama is quietly working behind the scenes to orchestrate this,” Scarborough said. “The pathway to Joe Biden graciously stepping aside does not go through the Obamas or the Clintons … Joe Biden is deeply resentful of his treatment under, not only the Obama staff but also the way he was pushed aside for Hillary Clinton.”

The claim came after it was reported that actor and Democratic mega-donor George Clooney reached out to Obama before he published his all-telling New York Times op-ed on Wednesday, calling on Biden to suspend his reelection campaign. Although Obama did not “encourage” or “advise” Clooney’s narrative, he didn’t object to it either, people familiar with the exchange told Politico. …

Although the 44th president was one of the first to defend Biden after his abysmal debate performance last month, the Obama-Biden relationship has been growing tense since 2015. That year, then-vice president Biden was weighing a presidential run and President Obama discouraged it …

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(Excerpt from The Washington Free Beacon. Photo Credit: Daniel Schwen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4614989)

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