Former President Barack Obama and ex-speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke privately this week about their growing concerns for President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign — as a growing number of “very-connected Democrats” plot to get him to drop out quickly, according to reports.
Obama and Pelosi are said to have discussed how much harder they think it has now become for the embattled 81-year-old president to beat his GOP rival, former President Donald Trump, but neither are sure what to do, sources told CNN.
A slew of Democrats have also been begging Obama and Pelosi behind the scenes to help quickly end the ongoing turmoil before even more damage is done just four months out from the election, the sources added.
Biden has rejected mounting calls for him to give up his candidacy in the wake of his train wreck first presidential debate against Trump on June 27.
Those cries will likely only get louder following his error-laden “big boy” press conference Thursday night, which had only been called to try and dispel the Democratic clamor for Biden to step aside.
“They are watching and waiting for President Biden to reach a decision on his own,” a longtime Democrat close to Obama, Pelosi and Biden told CNN.
Meanwhile, other sources told Axios that high-powered Democrats — mostly veterans of the Obama and Clinton administrations — have been plotting on an hourly basis on how best to get Biden to drop out.
The group, which the outlet dubbed the “unofficial Committee to Unelect the President,” have apparently been firing off a barrage of texts and emails, commissioning polls and organizing donors in a bid to get rid of him.
Instead of squeezing a defiant Biden and his family, the Dems in question have instead been trying to pressure the likes of Obama, Pelosi, the Clintons, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, according to the sources.
Obama’s team wouldn’t comment on the reports about his private discussions, while Pelosi’s suggested no one could have such insight.
“There is no member of Congress who would have any knowledge of any conversation that Speaker Pelosi would have with President Obama,” a Pelosi spokesperson said. “Anyone who says they do is not speaking the truth.”
The developments came just hours after Biden spoke with a raspy voice, frequently paused to cough and repeatedly lost his train of thought during his closely-watched press conference in Washington Thursday night.
He ended up calling Vice President Kamala Harris “Vice President Trump” — sparking immediate ridicule from his successor and 2024 GOP rival on social media.
“Crooked Joe begins his ‘Big Boy’ Press Conference with, ‘I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president.’ Great job, Joe!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social.
The gaffe came soon after he introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin” — confusing him with the Russian tyrant whose forces have waged war on his nation for two-and-a-half years.
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