Former President Obama is keeping tight-lipped following reports he’s working “behind the scenes” to force President Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.
Multiple media outlets reported Thursday morning on Obama’s alleged efforts, including Politico, which stated the former president was given a “heads-up” by actor George Clooney concerning his damaging New York Times guest essay calling on Biden to drop out.
“While Obama did not encourage or advise Clooney to say what he said, he also didn’t object to it,” the report said.
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Former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden. (Getty Images)
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough went a step further, stating on “Morning Joe,” a favorite program of Biden’s, that “what’s going on behind the scenes is the Biden campaign and many Democratic officials do believe that Barack Obama is quietly working behind the scenes to orchestrate this.”
A source close to Obama declined to comment on the reports, but pointed Fox News Digital to the former president’s statements in support of Biden, both at the Los Angeles fundraiser that became the subject of Clooney’s op-ed, and his disappointing showing in the first presidential debate last month.
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Obama has since remained quiet publicly as a number of his close allies and former staffers ramp up their calls for the president to step aside, including former adviser David Axelrod and the “Obama bros,” a group of three close advisers often referred to by that name during his tenure in the White House.
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