Obama plans to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden for Democratic presidential nomination
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Via: vic-eldred • 5 years ago • 85 commentsBy: By Molly Nagle and John Verhovek
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Former President Barack Obama plans to endorse his former vice president, Joe Biden , in a video message set for release Tuesday, according to sources close to both men.
A senior advisor to Biden tells ABC News that they anticipate that Obama’s endorsement will be done in a way so that “everybody will know how strongly he feels about this.”
The announcement comes as Biden has continued to consolidate support within the Democratic party as the presumptive nominee. Sources familiar with former President Obama’s thinking had previously said he was unlikely to endorse during the Democratic primary, citing his belief that “ a robust primary in 2007 and 2008 not only made him a better general election candidate, but a better president, too.”
Biden also weighed in on the former president’s endorsement shortly after entering the 2020 race, saying he asked the former president not to throw his support behind him.
“I asked President Obama not to endorse me,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware the day he announced his candidacy. “Whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits.”
Despite holding off on an endorsement, Obama did have some kind words for his former vice president after he announced his third run for the presidency.
“President Obama has long said that selecting Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 was one of the best decisions he ever made,” Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill said. “He relied on the vice president’s knowledge, insight and judgment throughout both campaigns and the entire presidency. The two forged a special bond over the last 10 years and remain close today.”
The expected endorsement will be the second show of party unity in the last two days following Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ announcement yesterday that he is backing Biden’s bid.
“Today, I am asking all Americans, I'm asking every Democrat, I'm asking every Independent, I'm asking a lot of Republicans to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy -- which I endorse,” Sanders said Monday on a joint livestream event on the nation’s economic response to the novel coronavirus.
Obama himself has spoken with several former 2020 candidates, including Sanders, in recent weeks about how to best position the Democratic Party to win in November, according to a source familiar with the conversations, and stressed that defeating Trump is “paramount.”
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The lipstick has finally been applied to the pig.
Biden's going to name a woman VP but he hasn't found one to stand still yet.
As Iv'e said before, his VP pick will be potentially, the most consequential of all time.
So much for believe all women..
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The media has been through a lot the better part of 4 years. There was that boy who cried wolf.
Well the Times did publish a tweet, then let the Biden campaign alter it to their taste.
It's truly amazing how blatently partisan the supposed objective media is.
The Times has done that in the past. Remember when they changed their front page because it looked too favorable to the President?
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He's Xi's poodle!
Nah !
"Alzheimer's" is the New "Good "RED" meat" in Liberal Land
! Easier to control. 
Barack Obama has endorsed Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden. Liz Warren and Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobeshire have endorsed Biden as well. Everybody is linings up to endorse Joe. So, it seems like to me just about everybody likes Joe except for a few far far rightwing nutters and of course the professional Russian trolls on the internet who wanted anybody but Joe. So, sweep that under your damn rugs. Biden 2020!
Are you better off than you were when Barack Obama and Joe Biden were in charge?
Didn't they protect us from H1N1 and Ebola? Let's return America to Normalcy...
Really? Here in reality Biden is WHOOPING Trump in all the swing states...
I expect with Obama on board Biden will beat Trump by over 10%. M'kay?
Here is the poll that's important:
"Former Vice President Joe Biden has emerged as Democrats’ top choice for the presidential nomination in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, but with only bare majority support within his party and a massive enthusiasm gap in a November matchup against President Donald Trump .
Indeed, strong enthusiasm for Biden among his supporters – at just 24% – is the lowest on record for a Democratic presidential candidate in 20 years of ABC/Post polls. More than twice as many of Trump’s supporters are highly enthusiastic about supporting him, 53%."
Everything else is just conversation.
"Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale blasted the move, saying the former president was left with “no other choice.”
“Barack Obama spent much of the last five years urging Joe Biden not to run for president out of fear that he would embarrass himself,” Parscale said Tuesday. "Now that Biden is the only candidate left in the Democrat field, Obama has no other choice but to support him.”
He added: “Even Bernie Sanders beat him to it. Obama was right in the first place: Biden is a bad candidate who will embarrass himself and his party. President Trump will destroy him.”
I see you Barack, going out on a limb. Now there's a profile in courage.