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Obama worked behind the scenes to knife Kamala, new book’s author claimsApril 2, 2025 | Chris Donaldson
A new book on the 2024 campaign alleges that Barack Obama worked behind the scenes to knife Democrat nominee Kamala Harris, who would go on to be pulverized in the election by President Donald J. Trump.
The post-mortems of the Biden administration are already hitting bookshelves as the media tries to whitewash its role in the national disaster and in “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” reporters Jonathan Allen of NBC News and The Hill’s Amie Parnes drop the bombshell that the nation’s 44th president was against Harris’ candidacy and wanted an open primary because he believed she was a sure loser.
During a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the duo hawked their just-released book and Allen claimed that contrary to popular belief, Obama wasn’t down with the way that Harris was just handed the nomination after he and ex-House speaker Nancy Pelosi led a coup to topple then-President Joe Biden, who quickly endorsed his vice president as his replacement. ...
“He didn’t think that she was the best choice for Democrats, and he worked really behind the scenes for a long time to try to have a mini-primary, or an open convention, or a mini-primary leading to an open convention, did not have faith in her ability to win the election,” he continued. “As it turned out, she didn’t win, but he was really working against her.”
The author also said that Obama wasn’t prepared to throw his own support behind the deeply unpopular Harris when he talked to her on the day that Biden announced he was stepping down. ...
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/02/obama-worked-behind-the-scenes-to-knife-kamala-new-books-author-claims-1533419/
