By Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE
A new book exploring the future of the Democratic Party details how former President Barack Obama helped President Joe Biden secure the 2020 nomination after backing Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen, authors of The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party, said sources told them Biden called Obama after it became clear Clinton would lose to Donald Trump in 2016 to say, “Boss, I told you. People just don’t like her.”
The book, which will be released on Tuesday, claims Obama told Biden to stand down in the 2016 election but pushed Democrats out of the 2020 primary to pave the way for Biden to become the party nominee, according to the Daily Mail.
Although Biden reportedly held the belief he could win the 2016 election instead of Clinton, he announced in October 2015 from the White House Rose Garden that he would not run for president.
“Obama’s team had demanded Biden make an immediate decision,” the authors wrote, adding that Obama’s team reportedly told Biden that this “isn’t going to end well for you.”