This wasn’t a good look for Barack Obama.
The timing was even worse.
Barack Obama was deeply embarrassed over what he got caught on camera doing.
As 2024 Battleground reports:
Barack Obama and Joe Biden spoke in person for the first time since Obama helped lead the coup that snatched the Democrat Party nomination for President away from Biden and handed it to Kamala Harris.
Cameras caught the two having what looked like a tense conversation.
The New York Post hired lip-reading expert Jeremy Freeman to analyze the footage.
Freeman deduced that Obama and Biden were discussing the coup to depose him.
Just not in the way anyone thought.
Instead, Biden was still grousing that he had a better chance to beat Donald Trump.
“She’s not as strong as me,” Freeman claimed Biden said to Obama.
Obama – who never wanted Kamala as the nominee and which is why he endorsed an open process to pick a nominee – agreed with Biden that Kamala Harris was a weak candidate.
“I know … that’s true … we have time,” Obama reportedly replied.
“Yeah, we’ll get it in time,” Biden shot back.
Biden was just telling Obama what he’s been saying all along – which is that he never wanted to get out and that he thought Kamala Harris was a weak candidate.
In an interview on The View shortly after quitting the race, Biden told the co-hosts he thought he could beat Trump, but that other Democrats – i.e. Nancy Pelosi – thought Biden remaining on the ticket would tank the party down-the-ballot.
“Our relationship is fine. Look — I never fully believed the assertions that somehow there was this overwhelming reluctance of my running again. I didn’t sense that. And although the polling, they said Biden’s polling was different, the fact of the matter is, my polling was about, always within range of beating this guy,” Biden stated.
“What I did was … I think there were — it didn’t make sense. There were some folks who would like to see me step aside, so they had a chance to move on. I get that, that’s just human nature. But that wasn’t the reason I stepped down. I stepped down because I started thinking about it … you know, it’s hard to think, I know you’re only thirty,” Biden said to co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin.
“But it’s hard to think of, it’s hard for me to even say how old I am.”
Democrats stuck with Biden for so long – right up until the moment where the debate made it untenable to do so – because they knew ditching him meant getting stuck with Kamala Harris.