Biden Campaign Believes Obama Is Plotting To Replace Biden

The Daily Beast reported that the Biden campaign believes former President Barack Obama is plotting to oust Joe Biden.

In the report, the outlet pointed to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough’s recent comments about what the Biden campaign thinks of Obama’s staff.

Scarborough shared, “Joe Biden is deeply resentful of his treatment.”

Scarborough added, “Not only of the Obama staff but also the way he was pushed aside for Hillary Clinton… He’s always felt like an outsider, always felt like people look down upon him.”

Scarborough’s comments come after it was revealed that George Clooney had called Obama before he wrote in a New York Times op-ed calling for Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

Biden Aides Believe Obama Is Plotting Joe’s Ouster After Clooney Op-Ed https://t.co/zXWfRfPK4J

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Check out what The Daily Beast reported:

The Biden campaign believes that former President Barack Obama is working behind the scenes to oust President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said.

“Joe Biden is deeply resentful of his treatment. Not only of the Obama staff but also the way he was pushed aside for Hillary Clinton… He’s always felt like an outsider, always felt like people look down upon him,” Scarborough said of Biden during Thursday morning’s episode of Morning Joe.

The comments come after Politico reported that actor George Clooney called Obama shortly before his bombshell op-ed in The New York Times calling on President Joe Biden to step aside was published.

The former president notably did not push back against Clooney’s call for his former vice president to drop out of the 2024 race against Donald Trump, Politico reported.

Obama attended the same glitzy Hollywood fundraiser where Clooney wrote that he noticed Biden’s decline.

The former president was one of the first major voices to defend Biden after his disastrous debate performance, which sparked the cascade of calls for his withdrawal.

Just remember Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review. So that's who Clooney had edit his Biden piece. Sheesh https://t.co/3htFYUF9CN

— The Last Government Watchdog (@LastGovWatch) July 11, 2024

Per Newsweek:

Former President Barack Obama is “working behind the scenes” to undermine President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said Thursday morning.

Democrats remain divided after Biden’s shaky debate performance against former President Donald Trump last month. Some prominent Democrats, including several of Biden’s colleagues on Capitol Hill, have called for the president to drop out of the presidential race and allow another Democrat to run for the party’s nomination.

Biden has repeatedly vowed to stay in the race, telling ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an interview released last week that he will drop out only if God tells him to.

On Thursday’s show, Scarborough and his co-host and wife, Mika Brzezinski, implied that Obama encouraged actor George Clooney to write his recent New York Times op-ed calling for Biden to step down from his campaign.

“Are you saying that Barack Obama put him up to this?” Scarborough asked Brzezinski.

“I think that Barack Obama has a lot of influence, and I think that there’s a lot there,” Brzezinski responded.