Former President Barack Obama stepped from the political sidelines on Tuesday and officially backed his former Vice President, Joe Biden, providing the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate an increase from the party’s greatest fundraising event and among its most popular figures.
In a 12- minute video launched by the Biden campaign, Obama stated Biden has “the character and the experience to guide us through one of our darkest times and heal us through a long recovery” and would, if elected president, surround himself with people “who actually know how to run the government and care about doing a good job running the government”.
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Without pointing out President Donald Trump by name, Obama stated strong management – management directed by sincerity, humbleness, grace and compassion – required to come from the White House and not simply the state homes and mayor’s workplaces around the nation.
“This crisis has reminded us that government matters,” Obama stated. “It’s reminded us that good government matters. That facts and science matter. That the rule of law matters. That having leaders who are informed and honest, and seek to bring people together rather than drive them apart – those kind of leaders matter.”
I’& rsquo; m proud to back my good friend @JoeBiden for President of the United States. Let’s go: https://t.co/maHVGRozkX
—– Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 14, 2020
Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright called the recommendation a “game changer” for Biden.
“He is a uniting partner in helping bridge this party after an intense primary and paving the road ahead,” Seawright stated of the former president.
Obama and Biden are understood to be buddies from their 2 terms in the White House, and Biden leaned greatly on his association with the former president throughout the Democratic primary, promoting their relationship and framing his pitch as an extension of Obama’s presidency.
However Obama remained above the fray in the main, seldom speaking up about the intra-party battle. The former president used his private counsel to any Democratic presidential competitor who asked for it, however made no efforts to boost any single prospect’s campaign —– consisting of Biden’s, regardless of their long history.
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In a declaration launched by President Trump’s campaign, campaign manager Brad Parscale stated Obama’s decision to back Biden was born from need and not interest.
“Barack Obama spent much of the past five years urging Joe Biden not to run for president out of fear he would embarrass himself,” Parscale stated. “Now that Biden is the only prospect left in the Democratic field, Obama has no other option however to support him. Even Bernie Sanders beat him to it. Obama was ideal in the first location: Biden is a bad prospect who will humiliate himself and his party.
“President Trump will destroy him,” Parscale added.
On Monday, Bernie Sanders backed his former competitor for the Democratic election and motivated his progressive advocates to rally behind him in an immediate bid to beat President Donald Trump in the November basic election. Media reports in the United States recommend that numerous telephone call in between Obama and Sanders in current weeks contributed in his decision to withdraw from the race and back Biden.
Obama invested a considerable part of Tuesday’s Biden recommendation video applauding Sanders, calling him “an American original”.
“The ideas he’s championed; the energy and enthusiasm he inspired – especially in young people – will be critical in moving America in a direction of progress and hope,” Obama stated.
