Blockbuster Report: Obama Anxious About Biden Vs. Trump II

(Congress Report) – Former President Barack Obama is sweating bullets over President Joe Biden’s general election rematch with former President Donald Trump, noting that he’s ready to play his part, doing whatever it is he can do, to help his former vice president stop Trump from taking home a win this November. And he has every reason to worry, given how much Biden has trashed the economy. Americans are royally ticked off about high inflation, insane grocery prices, and the absurd cost of housing. The middle class is now rapidly disappearing, leaving only the poor and the rich.

According to The Western Journal’s Bryan Chai, an interesting new report dropped Monday from New York Magazine that took a deep dive beneath the cool demeanor of Obama to reveal that he’s indeed no fool and sees how bad things are going for Biden at the moment. And he really doesn’t have a whole lot of great things to say about the president.

“The report first broaches the topic of the outside perception of Obama and Biden’s sometimes-frosty relationship. In short, while some Democrats see and feel a strain between the two, many of those Democrats are also assuming that Obama has some grand plan to boost his former vice president. The report described it as a ‘contradictorily’-type of belief,” Chai wrote.

NYM divulged, “As the rumor mill had it, Obama was especially unnerved about the race, which Biden was losing, if swing-state polls were to be believed. Not only that, the 44th president had supposedly urged the 46th to install a trusted senior adviser or two at his campaign headquarters in Wilmington — someone like Obama’s 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe — rather than keeping his inner circle intact in Washington.”

“As the whispers circulated, so did the confusion: Obama’s freaking out? And he wants Biden to hire Plouffe to fix the campaign?” The NYM article said.

The story then points out that Obama’s fear and anxiety is rooted in a place very familiar to Democrats.

“Though ‘his anxiety about the election is real,’ in the words of one Obama friend, the ex-president’s concerns sounded a lot like those of other top Democrats, according to others who’ve spoken with him,” the piece notes. “Those who are in regular touch with Obama say these nerves are not a reflection of any particular angst about Biden or his team but of the broader reality: The country is closely divided, the media landscape is fractured, and Donald Trump may very well win,” it stated.

“Obama has always acknowledged to friends and worried supporters in search of reassurance that the race is likely to be a nail-biter. Yet he has remained careful about not evincing any specific concern or complacency about the campaign, aware that reports about his feelings are unlikely to help the Democratic cause,” the writer explained.

It then adds, “None of which is to say he’s exactly holding back.”

At the beginning of Biden’s bid for a second term, Obama was inclined not to get too involved, but that changed as the election cycle moved forward. Obama clearly sees that Biden is floundering in the deep end of the pool and has far more working against him than for him.

“This year’s race has been a fundamentally different story from the start,” the report went on. “Without having to scale a hobbling primary campaign into a national one amid a pandemic, and with the benefit of three years of incumbency, Biden and his aides saw little reason to rely on Obama so heavily again.”

“Obama spoke occasionally to both the president and some of his top aides when they had questions or he was interested in hearing updates, but he mostly sat back and focused on his own foundation, giving paid speeches, and working as a producer,” the story disclosed. “He was confident that the Democrats knew where to find him whenever they needed him. By late 2023, as the rematch between Biden and Trump became obvious, they came calling.”

After Democrats ran to their faux-savior Obama, he was quick to don his cape and weigh in on “campaign mechanics.” What does that entail? Having more field offices on the campaign trail, coming up with new and more effective tactics for reaching young black and Latino voters, and ensuring that Obama himself is “in the loop” with Biden’s thinking.

“And while Obama will clearly continue to whisper these thoughts in Biden’s ear (the piece is actually entitled ‘What Obama Is Whispering to Biden’), the report expects the 44th president to become a far more public figure ‘once Election day is in view,'” NYM noted.

The first major test for the Biden campaign is the presidential debate with Trump. The outcome of that event will determine what direction the campaign takes next and whether or not they will survive come November.