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Obama comes out of the shadows, sticks the knife into Biden

July 19, 2024 | | Print Article

The pressure on President Joe Biden to end his troubled reelection campaign has been officially joined by Barack Obama who emerged from the shadows to stick the knife into the flailing incumbent.

According to the Washingon Post, the Democratic party’s biggest rock star has told allies that “Biden’s path to victory has greatly diminished and he thinks the president needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy,” a big sign that the pressure on the geriatric career politician to quit will continue to be dialed up until he leaves.

The paper reported that the two have only spoken once since last month’s CNN presidential debate but that Obama “has been deeply engaged in conversations about the future of Biden’s campaign” and has been “taking calls from many anxious Democrats” including former speaker Nancy Pelosi who is working behind the scenes to oust the party’s own candidate.

An internal mutiny has been raging within the party since Biden’s disastrous performance during the nationally televised event brought fears about his ability to defeat former President Donald J. Trump in the November election to the forefront with the previously friendly media turning on the 81-year-old and congressional Dems speaking out that Joe has got to go.

The report of Obama shoving Biden out the door is significant because until now he has been content to let surrogates like actor George Clooney do the dirty work but with the clock ticking, he has now been forced to come out into the open.

As is now customary for modern American media, the WaPo report cited the usual array of anonymous sources.

Recent days have seen Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) make a house call on the embattled octogenarian to urge him to quit and the highest-ranking House Democrat, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), met with him at the White House.

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Also joining the calls for Biden to hang it up was Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a serial liar and conspiracy monger who is Pelosi’s top lieutenant.

“A second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundation of our democracy, and I have serious concerns about whether the President can defeat Donald Trump in November,” Schiff said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.

News of Obama’s shivving his underling comes amid reports that it’s imminent that Biden will soon cave to pressure and bow out, possibly as early as Sunday.

The notoriously stubborn Biden – who’s hunkered down at his Delaware compound after testing positive for COVID – may not be as easily dislodged as reports suggest.

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“Can we all just remember for a minute that these same people who are trying to push Joe Biden out are the same people who literally gave us all Donald Trump? In 2015, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer pushed Biden aside in favor of Hillary; they were wrong then, and they are wrong now,” an unnamed source “close to Biden” told NBC News.

The source added, “How did all this work out for everyone in 2016? Perhaps we should learn a few lessons from 2016; one of them is polls are BS — just ask Secretary Clinton. And two, maybe, just maybe, Joe Biden is more in touch with actual Americans than Obama-Pelosi-Schumer?”

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