- Barack Obama has private concerns about Joe Biden’s election prospects, according to a report.
- According to Politico, Obama told another Democrat during the 2020 primary campaign: “Do not underestimate Joe’s ability to f-things.”
- The report claims that there are tensions between the Biden and Obama camps over the perceived lack of support from the former president for his former vice president in the presidency.
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Barack Obama has privately questioned the ability of Joe Biden, his former vice president, to defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a report.
According to Politico, Obama told an unnamed Democrat during the primary campaign in 2020, in which he refused to support any candidate: “Do not underestimate Joe’s ability to fk things.”
Obama has now supported Biden in the run-up to the November election against President Trump, but is said to be privately concerned that Biden has no intimate connection with voters.
“And you know who really does not have it? Joe Biden,” Obama told another Democratic nominee during the primary run, according to Politico, citing his former vice president’s lack of an intimate relationship with the voters of Iowa.
There have apparently been tensions between the Biden and Obama camps over the former president’s failure to pray Biden White House strongly enough, dating back to 2016 when Obama supported Hillary Clinton over Biden as his successor in 2016. .
This year, Biden said Obama had to discipline colleagues for failing to “lift a finger” to help him win the South Carolina primary, and complained that he had to win the support of black voters on his own.
“[Biden] felt that he needed to go out and earn it himself, as opposed to people seeing it as an extension of a third Obama term or that it would be any kind of referendum directly on Obama, “said Anita Dunn, a Biden adviser, in comments reported by the Daily Mail.
Obama’s support for Biden’s presidency this year was markedly qualified. “I believe Joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now … and I know he will surround himself with good people,” he said.
It contrasted with Obama’s confirmation of Hillary Clinton in 2016 when he said, “I do not think there is ever anyone who is so qualified to hold this office.”
