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Barack Stabber --Obama turns on Biden, pressures prez to drop 2024 bid: report
By Josh Christenson Published July 18, 2024, 12:34 p.m. ET
Former President Barack Obama is pressuring President Biden to reconsider his 2024 run for re-election, according to a new report.
Obama and Biden have only spoken once since the president’s debate debacle on June 27 — but stressed during that conversation that his old running mate’s chances of beating Donald Trump were “greatly diminished,” the Washington Post reported.
The 44th president also stressed that while Biden’s legacy was important to him, only his former vice president could make the call on whether to stay in the race.
“Our campaign is not working through any scenarios where President Biden is not at the top of the ticket. He is and will be the Democratic nominee,” said Quentin Fulks, principal deputy campaign manager for the Biden-Harris campaign.
“The president has said it several times: he’s staying in this race,” he told reporters at a counter-programming press conference in Milwaukee amid the Republican National Convention. “I talk to the president every single day in some form. … He is usually fact-checking me on a statistic that I got wrong.”
Reps for Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Sources also spilled to the Washington Post that Biden’s former boss in the White House has been fielding calls with Democrats panicking on Capitol Hill — including House Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
The Democratic Party elder has refused to close the debate about Biden’s floundering candidacy — and publicly ignored the president’s vow to Congress that he was committed to moving forward with his campaign.
Pelosi, House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the most influential party leaders in Congress, have privately warned Biden, 81, about the possibility of a landslide loss for Democrats on Election Day.
The president was “defensive” about some of the stark polling data shared with him on a private phone call with Pelosi, sources told CNN, as well as more bleak numbers Schumer told him about last Saturday when the Majority Leader visited him on vacation in Rehoboth Beach, Del.
“Schumer forcefully made the case that it would be better for Biden, better for the Democratic Party, and better for the country if he were to bow out,” ABC News’ Jonathan Karl revealed on air Wednesday while reporting live from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
A Schumer spokesman confirmed Wednesday that the Majority Leader had “conveyed the views of his caucus directly” to the oldest-ever president.
Reps for Pelosi and Jeffries did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday night ahead of a speech before a Latino advocacy group in Las Vegas — and quickly boarded Air Force One to fly back to his Delaware vacation home to recover.
The Democratic National Committee confirmed Wednesday that it was delaying plans to nominate Biden via electronic vote ahead of the party’s convention Aug. 19-22 — after Schumer had demanded more time to make a decision.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a close congressional ally of the former speaker, became the 21st Democrat to call for Biden to abandon his campaign on Wednesday, as the talks with senior party leaders leaked.
Schiff told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” earlier this month that his party’s leader “should be mopping the floor with Donald Trump,” who he called “a criminal,” but the race was close due to “the President’s age.”
Calls for Biden to step aside and name a successor have mounted since the president’s disastrous debate performance against Trump, 78, last month and his “big boy” press conference at the NATO summit in Washington, DC, both of which were punctuated by incoherent statements and mix-ups of US and foreign dignitaries.
Some of the most recent polling memos circulated among Democrats also show Biden losing ground to potential successors like Vice President Kamala Harris and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
“Down-ballot Dems can only run so far behind a nominee who is losing in every swing state,” one congressional source griped to The Post this week.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/18/us-news/obama-pressuring-biden-to-reconsider-2024-run-report/
Here is what the Democrats are telling Biden behind the scenes.
Joe, you have two options.
1. You can bow out, and we will tell everyone COVID gave you a heart condition, so you can no longer go on. The history books will portray you as a great leader forced to leave the race due to that evil covid.
or
2. You can be known as the leader who was forced out because he had dementia and put the nation at risk.
Take your pick, Joe.
Here is what the Democrats are telling Biden behind the scenes.
— Sadie (@Sadie_NC) July 18, 2024
Joe, you have two options.
1. You can bow out, and we will tell everyone COVID gave you a heart condition, so you can no longer go on. The history books will portray you as a great leader forced to leave the race…
I have set the over/unders on how many days it will be until Kim Cheatle is no longer the Director of the Secret Service at 6 days. She was a DEI hire who has now become a DIE hire. The evidence revealed in the FBI investigation that the shooter was under video surveillance as a "person of interest" for 1 hr. and 12 minutes before firing the first shot, and the evidence that the Secret Service had a video camera on him while he was on top of the building a full 20 minutes before he fired the 1st shot is hard to fathom. She should already be gone.
Can only imagine the lawsuit the dead firefighter's family will file based on the evidence coming out.
NEW SECRET RECORDINGS LEAK OF TRUMP’S TOP RNC SPEAKER
MSNBC Host Blasted,
Spoken like a true MAGAT….
Spoken like a true RINO….
Local Police Told The Secret Service,
So they didn’t here him walking on a metal roof WTF
No truer words spoken,
https://www.facebook.com/45TrumpTeam/posts/122135168924345501/
WE AGREE😱
VOTE VOTE!
Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle: "That building in particular
has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made
to secure the building, from inside."
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1...
Vote like your life is depending on it,
https://yt3.ggpht.com/EmxxGDd3W76SQVcXQI0IM4Z3Mh5xiygv3eQk-gMMYJCIJeD1Gn-qfCSli7nIcKIR63UASvtcSRF5=s810-nd-v1
Long but very interesting,
https://rumble.com/v577hw5-breaking-this-changes-everything-new-details-in-trump-assassination-redacte.html
All Stood Up Against Democrats And Were Shot….
https://yt3.ggpht.com/TtlcgBa6ZgMabmq0YD-idhPx77vMyt40Il7vCnj7dA5GoCxq2Pw8Hg_05f85Pydq23AFI4UIs7Vcwg=s1600-nd-v1
The convention in Milwaukee provides further evidence that the Republican party is morphing into something most long-time conservative Republicans neither recognize nor understand. Last night's speech buy Trump's pick for his VP running mate provided stark evidence of that. JD Vance sounded like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, as pointed out by many commentators, including conservative commentators and Trump's buddy, Joe Kernan on CNBC this am. He bashed corporations and business(s), bashed Wall Street, and seemed to assail capitalism and our free enterprise system. Perhaps he and DJT are trying to capture the dem vote, but a lot of Republicans are clearly alienated by this terrible pick of a running mate by DJT.
You mean January 6th I agree 😄
Nah, but here was the real freak show, at the Nations Capital no less.
https://images.app.goo.gl/bQEVj7tbgjM5nca4A
The entire Republican Convention is a Freak Show.
Johnnie must be living rent-free in your tiny maggot mind every single day!
You’ve been restricted to 1/day
and use it to attack Johnnie with non-substantial drivel.
It’s all you’ve got.
Johnny Nice exit stage left. I don’t blame you. I’d go hide too. 😂. Safe travels.
28 posts yesterday Johnnie?!?!? Wow!!!
The God-Emperor TRUMP must be living rent-free in your tiny democrat mind every single day!
You won't enjoy that motorhome tour - you'll be thinking about TRUMP all day, every day, wondering what people on Ihub are saying!
He owns your mind and will live in it rent-free until you die or decide that you can focus your energy instead on making your own sad, miserable life a little bit better!
And oh no! Biden has COVID now! TRUMP emerged more powerful than ever from recent days and Biden has COVID while being asked to step down by his own party! Even CNN is against him now!
You know why the media is turning.
They personally HATE trump...but they LOVE the ratings he gives them
MAGA Makes Racist Attacks Against JD Vance's Wife
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-wife-attacks-maga-trump-running-mate-1926194
It's absolutely shocking that people famous for being racist bigots would act like racist bigots.
It's absolutely shocking that people famous for being racist bigots would act like racist bigots.https://t.co/DUCiXhdxcj pic.twitter.com/3thiTCfaiw
— Gene Wu (@GeneforTexas) July 17, 2024
Agree , it was historical to watch such a unified convention, the tide is turning against the criminals and they know it ! The D’s have been ransacked by far left criminals and the blind is waking.
I know how sad all the MAGA posters will bbe when they read this. It is my last post for a while, We are leaving for a US tour in our motorhome today, and I will not be on for at least 4 to 5 months. Hope EVERYONE stays well and I will hope for a Trump defeat in NOVEMBER.... See YA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As usual Weasel you don’t understand the judicial system. Lmao. ACCEPT YOUR DEFEAT! YOU LOST WEASEL. Go change your ALIAS. LMAO. How’s that basement?
Conspiracy central, says it's part of the deep state team carrying out a legal official act executive order from the fake Joe Biden. God bless the Supreme Court.
Or maybe you'll be screaming, crying, whinning, that your election was stolen, again. 😅🤣😂😃
Why won’t you accept Jurisprudence? Lmfao. Weasel. Besides you’re already CRUSHED. YOU LOST! 😂🤣😂
Ironically many here were likening Trump supporters to Hillbillies sitting on wet couches and now you’re going to end up with a Hillbilly VICE PRESIDENT! 😂🤣😂👏👏👏👏👏
Possible 2nd shooter?
𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍: Video emerges suggesting there may have been a second shooter...
— legislation (@legislationpage) July 17, 2024
Are we witnessing another FBI coverup?
Credits: https://t.co/xax8TiBTrr pic.twitter.com/sVviEavqeq
Take your meds, old loon ! You'll be on your knees...... screaming at the sky.... again! 🇺🇸 🇺🇲 Reap what you sow! BRING ON THE "DICTATOR" !!!!!!!
And this explains why Maga Mojo won't commit now to accept the outcome of the elections because it's DONE.
These magas love blowing smoke, pounding their chests, but they are all chickenshit Cowards to back up their words. Because they want to be able to scream their election was stolen if they lose. Lose? Maga MoJo said it's DONE. 🤔
Oh wait the bogeyman tooth fairy is going to create voter fraud yet the only real confirm voter fraud was by Republicans.
This is just so funny, Lmfao 😁 🤣😅😂
Trump yearns to be Putin’s VP.
He is going to be Putin's VP? And get the pee tape buried for Good?
by all means johnie..bend on over like you are so used to doing.
the only diving you have ever done is into the dumpster. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
ps. don't wake up
go woke and go broke
Indeed! After all the Trump persecution and even trying to kill him, Biden is Done! #Winning !!!
Biden wasn't President "since the 4th qtr of 2019" ya goofball. Taking Trump numbers and cooking the books is f'd up.
Call it whatever you want Johnny. I’m not miserable and unlike you I’m winning. 😂
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