Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi have spoken privately about Joe Biden and the future of his 2024 campaign. Neither is quite sure what to do.
Both the former president and ex-speaker expressed concerns about how much harder they think it's become for the president to beat Donald Trump.Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi have discussed their concerns about Joe Biden.
And if those two feel otherwise, several leading Democrats say, they need to say that clearly as soon as possible before even more damage is done less than four months before the election.Many of Pelosi's colleagues are hoping that she can bring an end to the turmoil that has engulfed Democrats for the last two weeks.
When the history of this extraordinary two-week period of American politics is written, the fingerprints of Obama and Pelosi will be far more apparent than currently known, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, as the Democratic elders have served as a guidepost for a party in panic. According to others familiar with the call, though, Obama stuck to his posture of being a "sounding board and private counsellor".In conversations with some Democrats over the past two weeks, Obama has swatted away the notion that he could push Biden one direction or the other even if he wanted to, which underscores their long-running complicated, yet loyal, relationship.
Though Obama believes that he was trying to help his then-vice president focus on his grief and not wade into what would have been an incredibly hard primary campaign against Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, that may not be how another conversation would go. Obama's hands-off approach – at least publicly – has been seen by some close to him as a way to keep his powder dry in case he needs to have a blunt, difficult conversation with Biden.
Biden woke up the day before the fundraiser — after several days of G-7 meetings — and had to fly overnight across five time zones to get there, because campaign co-chair Jeffrey Katzenberg was eager to do the Hollywood-themed event, and Clooney told the campaign there was only one day he was available, given his shooting schedule.
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