April 14th, 2020
Report: Obama Had ‘Long Conversations’ With Bernie Sanders, Pressed Him Out Of Primary Race
By Emily Zanotti DailyWire.com
Former President Barack Obama “nudged†Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) out of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, holding “long conversations†with the Vermont socialist over the last couple of weeks, trying his best to press Sanders out of the primary in service of defeating President Donald Trump.
“For months, [Obama] kept in close contact with senior party officials, in hopes of preventing a repeat of the protracted and nasty 2016 primary race,†the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday, echoing suggestions from earlier in the year that Obama was playing a considerable “behind the scenes†role, streamlining the race for the Democratic nod.
The New York Times gave Obama even more credit in a retrospective of the former president’s involvement in the 2020 campaign, published on Tuesday. In it, the NYT claims Obama was quietly involved in his former Vice President’s decisions, guiding Joe Biden through campaign shakeups and helping to clear the field once Biden had notched a few victories.
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