Obama’s betrayal of Biden exposes the party’s lack of ethics
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It feels like the Democrat Party has already forgotten the drama surrounding the race for the 2020 nomination, where senior party leaders claimed that a President Bernie Sanders would not have won a general election, and yet they were picking Kamala Harris to carry on a Biden legacy after just his first (and only) term.
Now, propping up Kamala Harris over Sen. Joe Manchin — who actually won a tough reelection bid to remain at the Capitol Hill helm— makes the party look like a total embarrassment.
A long-time Democrat Party operative associated with the takedown is Clinton advisor David Axelrod, who has stated the obvious, that Harris shouldn’t “waltz into the president nomination because President Biden handed it to her.”
“I do think in the fall, we’ll see clearer judgment on her and we’ll see if in fact she can entrench and substantively get through these challenges that are facing the administration,” said Axelrod. “Because the other side will have something to say about it.”
“This is a pretty different political environment than it was in 2020 where the Democratic electorate was in terror of another Trump term and so he basically had a passive club handed to her,” Axelrod told Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week.
Democrats are confident that Biden’s showcasing of Harris during the nominating rubble will be enough to win a second term for the party. Parading around as a virtuous team, orchestrating a coup on the Democrat Party’s presumptive nominee, however, paints a much different picture. It’s not believable that Biden would step aside for his party and come back to endorse a candidate who no one is particularly excited about securing a win in November 2024.
At some point, former President Obama will have to reckon with his own record on endorsements, seeing as he’s had some recent failures at maintaining presidential stage endorsements in the swing-state battlegrounds. Obama merely jumping behind Kamala and refusing to commit to an immediate endorsement ahead of the Democrat Party’s convention in less than two weeks has left party insiders scratching their heads.
Associating older Americans with their political decisions are not indicative of mental prowess — remember, that’s what Democrats have decided. Perhaps that’s the reason why they don’t want Biden, who will be 86 in the fall, to stay as president. Remember, Biden is only three years older than socialite and television personality Caitlyn Jenner, who supported him.
