Posted on 03/05/2024 6:26:19 AM PST by Red Badger
“Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign.”
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Amid speculation that the Democratic Party will replace Joe Biden before their national convention in August, Michelle Obama’s office has issued a statement categorically denying that she will run for president.
NBC News received a statement that noted “As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president.”
Crystal Carson, director of communications for the former first lady’s office, added “Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign.”
NBC News further notes that Michelle Obama plans to help Biden get reelected, but will play an even more limited role than in 2020.
The report adds that the Biden campaign plans to brandish Michelle Obama’s popularity among Democratic voters to increase voter turnout.
Michelle Obama previously told Oprah Winfrey that politics is “not in my soul,” and that she has no desire to run for president.
Speculation about her being a surprise candidate has been rife, especially after she declared that she is “terrified” of Donald Trump winning another election.
For a time, more bets were being placed on Obama winning the presidency than Joe Biden, even though she isn’t running.
New York Post columnist Cindy Adams has further stoked the rumours by claiming sources told her Barack Obama has polled donors asking how they’d feel about his wife as the Democratic candidate.
Megyn Kelly discussed the rumour on her show earlier this year, noting that the timeline is for a May announcement before the August convention:
Sources close to Trump, including Vivek Ramaswamy, have claimed Democrats are preparing to replace Joe Biden with Michelle Obama and that it doesn’t even really matter if she doesn’t want to run, because she won’t have a choice in the matter.
Trump himself is also adamant that he will not be running against Biden.
In January, JP Morgan Asset Management strategist Michael Cembalest predicted that Joe Biden will not make it to the 2024 election in November and will drop out of the race due to poor health, to be replaced by a new candidate.
Speculation has also focused on California Governor Gavin Newsom, who seems far too engaged in worshipping and fawning over Biden, prompting some to suspect he already knows Biden is stepping down.
Moochie has it too good to mess with all that drama.
Big Mike ain’t too bright, but he’s smart enough to stay out of that meat grinder....LOL
Beware...Didn’t say “he’s” not running.
My guess is Barack says no.
The Wookiee needs more vacations
I only have heard right wingers push for an Mike Obama run. I have never heard a left winger speak fondly about it.
Why run when you can do it behind the curtain.
She’s less likable than Hillary, and that’s saying something!
Perhaps she’s tired of her mulatto-marxist-muslim’s 12-year term as president.
I agree SHE won’t be running, but will HE be running??
She has a lot of puff-stuff in her work bio, but nothing of real significance and no real-world work experience.
I never thought for one minute she would, in spite of hearing it over and over.
Michelle, showing up for work every day, answering questions, knowing what’s going on in the world, having to be responsible for so much? No flippin’ way.
Michelle is more of the shopping, hanging out with snotty friends, looking down her nose at her lessors, and staying away from the large part of America she loathes. Give her Oprah and the Hollywood creeps and she’s happy...and lazy.
How many of you first misread the source of this article and thought it was from "Maternity News"?
Give Cankles one more shot at the brass ring.
-Yet.
Wait until the convention when Joe's drool bucket is overflowing, and Kamala can't stop cackling, then she'll say "it is with great personal reluctance but a strong sense of duty to my Country and my party that I accept the nomination for President of the United States..."
If I was living the dream, why would I pick the most stressful job in history?
Uh oh…
Whenever a democrat DECLARES something.. you can bank on the exact opposite.
..or something even worse..
Of course she doesn’t want to run. She wants to be anointed.
Anybody who trusts anything an Obama says is either a Democrat or a fool (I know redundant).
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