Obama, who wouldn’t even endorse Biden until everyone else was out of the primaries (and even then waited a long time! “Leahy, alarmed, warned Jim Messina, Obama’s presidential reelection-campaign manager.
“Call up Harry Reid, he will deny that.”The ad seems to be resonating based on social media reaction, but Biden needs all the help he can get in South Carolina. He said only that “there was never a serious or established primary challenge to Obama,” likely suggesting that his and Leahy’s efforts to calm Sanders worked.The result was exactly as Reid anticipated: hundreds of workers turned out for Clinton, leaving Sanders struggling to explain his primary campaign to Democrats who were set on Clinton receiving the nod. “Bernie Sanders was seriously thinking about challenging our first African-American president in […] You need to stop.”Sanders denied the exchange during an interview Monday night, claiming that naysayers could “ask Harry Reid” if they needed proof that Sanders hadn’t tried to challenge Obama.“Sanders privately discussed a potential primary challenge to Obama with several people, including Patrick Leahy, his fellow Vermont senator,” the outlet reported. The Atlantic reported that Reid was tasked to run interference when Sanders began sounding out his Senate colleagues about a potential primary challenge to President Barack Obama in 2012.Sanders then pivoted to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), claiming that he didn’t consider running for president “until 2015,” and did only then because Warren said “she’s not going to run.”Reid tried again in 2020 to mobilize the Culinary Union for Biden, but it was too little too late, and Sanders won Nevada by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.Reid reached out: “What could you be thinking? But in place of Haysbert, the nearly 30-second video is edited to show Obama’s head superimposed over the actor’s face. At the time, Reid called out the powerful, 60,000-member Nevada Culinary Union to send their members to caucus sites to vote for Clinton and bullied casino owners to give Clinton-supporting workers time off with pay to attend caucuses on the Las Vegas Strip.“Bernie Sanders was seriously thinking about challenging our first African-American president in a primary,” a narrator in the ad, targeted at South Carolina’s large contingent of African-American voters, says.Reid refused to confirm or deny the Atlantic’s story in interviews last week.
Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, released a new campaign ad Tuesday narrated by former President Barack Obama, despite Mr. Biden … Captions flash up on screen during the ad attacking Mr Biden's record on race. ), is now making a commercial of support. They did a terrible job! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020 Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic presidential nominee, had an update about his search for a vice presidential partner: He said he would choose Michelle Obama as his running mate "in a … But the hairdresser cited by Mr Obama was talking about the Illinois city's first black mayor, not Mr Biden. Obama’s campaign team was ‘absolutely panicked’ by Leahy’s report, Messina told me, since ‘every president who has gotten a real primary has lost a general [election].'”Former Vice President Joe Biden is finally opening up a front against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with an ad, airing in South Carolina, accusing the Vermont socialist of trying to launch a primary campaign against then-president Barack Obama, who was running for re-election.The Atlantic meant to demonstrate the power of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-VT), who was a key figure in the Nevada caucuses, and was likely behind efforts to stop Sanders’s rise cold in Nevada.Reid was charged with heading off Sanders’ rise once before — in 2016, when Sanders was giving Hillary Clinton a run for her money in early primary states, winning the popular vote in the Iowa caucuses, and beating Clinton handily in New Hampshire. Former Vice President Joe Biden is finally opening up a front against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with an ad, airing in South Carolina, accusing the Vermont socialist of trying to launch a primary campaign against then-president Barack Obama, who was running for re-election. “I love kids jumping on my lap.”Then a real clip of Biden appears on screen talking about how kids used to rub his leg when he worked as a lifeguard at a swimming pool.But Trump said: “It doesn’t mean that I agree with those suggestions.”The friends appear concerned and look over at “Obama” who raises his hands and says, “What?”Man pretends he has gun as he 'detains' black teen cycling to practiceTrump told reporters at his daily coronavirus task force White House briefing: “He gave me his point of view, and I fully understood that, and we just had a very friendly conversation."Thousands of sex-mad monkeys overrun Thai city and eat themselves to deathDo you have a story for The U.S. Sun team?News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. I wouldn’t be President. Now just days away from a primary he was supposed to win handily, Biden is running just four points ahead of Sanders. “No, not true at all,” Sanders said. Remember, I wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for them.