A new book on the 2024 campaign alleges that Barack Obama worked behind the scenes to knife Democrat nominee Kamala Harris, who would go on to be pulverized in the election by President Donald J. Trump.
The post-mortems of the Biden administration are already hitting bookshelves as the media tries to whitewash its role in the national disaster and in “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” reporters Jonathan Allen of NBC News and The Hill’s Amie Parnes drop the bombshell that the nation’s 44th president was against Harris’ candidacy and wanted an open primary because he believed she was a sure loser.
During a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the duo hawked their just-released book and Allen claimed that contrary to popular belief, Obama wasn’t down with the way that Harris was just handed the nomination after he and ex-House speaker Nancy Pelosi led a coup to topple then-President Joe Biden, who quickly endorsed his vice president as his replacement.
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“President Obama absolutely did not think that Joe Biden should continue, according to our sources close to President Obama,” Allen said. “And he also didn’t want Kamala Harris to be the replacement for Biden.”
“He didn’t think that she was the best choice for Democrats, and he worked really behind the scenes for a long time to try to have a mini-primary, or an open convention, or a mini-primary leading to an open convention, did not have faith in her ability to win the election,” he continued. “As it turned out, she didn’t win, but he was really working against her.”
The author also said that Obama wasn’t prepared to throw his own support behind the deeply unpopular Harris when he talked to her on the day that Biden announced he was stepping down.
“In one moment, he had set up a phone call with Congressman Clyburn from South Carolina on the day that Joe Biden handed off the baton to Kamala Harris, and Obama had set up a call with Clyburn for like 5:30 that afternoon,” Allen continued. “And Clyburn thought to himself, this guy is going to try to rope me into the open convention thing, I better get my endorsement of Harris out there fast, so this is a short conversation.”
“And when Harris talked to Obama on the day that Biden handed off to her, Obama was unwilling to give his endorsement then,” he added.
Barack and Michelle Obama did endorse Harris, but not for days after she was formally crowned without having received the support of Democrat voters who were deprived of an open primary process.
The endorsement was revealed by Obama along with a cringeworthy social media video showing the doomed candidate receiving the good news by phone.
Earlier this week, Michelle and I called our friend @KamalaHarris. We told her we think she’ll make a fantastic President of the United States, and that she has our full support. At this critical moment for our country, we’re going to do everything we can to make sure she wins in… pic.twitter.com/0UIS0doIbA
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 26, 2024
“We told her we think she’ll make a fantastic President of the United States, and that she has our full support,” Obama said in a post to X, even though he would be sneakily working in the background to undermine her.
In a post to X promoting his book, Allen boasts that he and Parnes “reported our asses off and wrote like our hair was on fire.”
In its description of “Fight,” which was published on Monday, Amazon calls the election “arguably the most consequential contest in American history. The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a would-be assassin’s bullet, and a vice president, unexpectedly thrust into the arena, to mount an unprecedented 107-day campaign to lead the free world.”
“Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form—the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness. At every turn, the combatants went for the jugular, whether they were facing down rivals in the other party or their own,” the description reads.
Allen’s claim of Obama’s dissatisfaction with Harris comes as the failed candidate mulls her political future, and another potential White House run in 2028.
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