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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/