Book: Obama ‘Enamored’ with Beto O’Rourke, Skeptical of Joe Biden in 2020 Democratic Primary
Feared 'Biden would dishonor himself with a bad campaign'
Andrew Stiles - March 4, 2021 4:00 PM
A new book on the 2020 election provides more evidence suggesting former president Barack Obama has a remarkably low opinion of his former sidekick, Joe Biden.
"Obama's fears about Biden and his team ran deep—deeper than defeat," journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes write in Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency. "Obama worried that his former vice president would embarrass himself on the campaign trail and that the people around him would not be able to prevent a belly-flop."
Obama, who had vowed to remain neutral during the Democratic primary in 2020, had repeatedly urged Biden not to run for president. "It had stung Biden badly in 2015 when Obama made clear his preference for Hillary Clinton," the authors write. "Adding insult to injury, Obama's advisers told Biden aides back then that they didn't think he could beat Clinton. They pressured him to get out of the way."
Obama's lack of support in 2016 was especially insulting to Biden because the former VP thought Hillary was a "terrible candidate" who would be easy to beat.
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