Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Former President Barack Obama is talking up Elizabeth Warren to the Democrat's wealthy donors. The Hill. Though Warren has attacked wealth donors as part of her platform, Obama has been privately meeting with many of them to ensure that they will support Warren if she becomes the candidate. He has also gone to bat for her when she was criticized. Though Obama claims he would throw his support behind any of the candidates should they win, 200 of his staffers recently announced their support for Warren. Obama has not thrown his support for his former Vice President Joe Biden.
My Comment:
It seems clear that Warren is Obama's favorite in the 2020 primary race. Though he claims he isn't endorsing her, I think this report is a message to the other candidates. Obama wants Warren to win for some reason and the fact that he is going to bat for her is a big sign that she's getting his help.
I also think that having 200 Obama staffers endorse Warren is a big sign that Obama himself wants her to win. I doubt all 200 of them just decided on their own to pick Warren, they were probably instructed to do so by Obama himself. That way he can appear to be independent but also send a message to those in the know that he wants Warren to win.
This has to be a bitter pill to swallow for Joe Biden. He was Obama's Vice President and a close friend from back in their Senate days. He probably thinks he earned Obama's support through his work with him during the presidency. But Obama hasn't really commented on his campaign at all.
I do think that Warren's anti-rich people campaign will hurt her with donors. I've even heard that some of the bigger donors might switch over to President Trump if she is the candidate as her rhetoric has been so over the top that they feel they have no choice. That includes even the big tech companies who are otherwise completely opposed to President Trump.
Barack Obama is aware of this weakness and is trying his best to herd the cats in his direction. By sticking up for her he might convince some of these rich donors to stay with the Democrats or even give Warren some support on the down low. She might not publicly support wealthy donors but I doubt she wouldn't accept some kind of help from them if it wasn't public.
So why is Obama doing this? I think it has less to do with Warren and everything to do with how weak Joe Biden is as a candidate. He's approaching senility and has made dozens of major gaffes on the campaign trail. He touches women and girls without their consent and is implicated in the Ukraine scandal, which, thanks to impeachment, isn't going away anytime soon. He's still in the lead but I think Obama knows that Biden doesn't have much of a chance in beating President Trump.
But I do wonder why on earth he thinks that Warren has a better shot. I consider her one of the few people in politics that approaches, or maybe even surpasses, the unlikability of Hillary Clinton. I have always thought that Warren comes off as a shrill, elitist, know it all that despises regular people almost as much as she hates the wealthy. Plus her racist use of affirmative action alone should disqualify her as president.
Most of all though, I think she's a terrible matchup against President Trump. Warren cannot keep her cool around President Trump and has been totally embarrassed by him in the past. She handled President Trump's attacks on her supposed Native American ancestry in about the worst way possible when she accidentally proved that her supposed Indian ancestry was essentially background noise in her DNA test.
All of this should be obvious to Barack Obama and I'm not sure why he would throw his support to Warren. It could be political beliefs, even though Obama and Warren have clashed in the past. Maybe he's just trying to keep the other candidates out of the office, even though he says he supports them? Either way, I find this move puzzling to say the least.
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