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Obama Didn't Want Kamala Harris as the Nominee and Argued for an Open Convention

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Two liberal journalists, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, have published a new book that reveals that Barack Obama did not want Kamala Harris as the Democrat nominee and that Obama argued behind the scenes for an open convention.

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Obama was working against Kamala Harris behind the scenes, didn't think she could win, new book reveals

Reporter Jonathan Allen said Tuesday that former President Obama worked against VP Kamala Harris as she sought to replace President Biden on the top of the Democratic ticket.
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"President Obama absolutely did not think that Joe Biden should continue, according to our sources close to President Obama," Allen told MSNBC. "And he also didn’t want Kamala Harris to be the replacement for Biden. He didn’t think that she was the best choice for Democrats, and he worked really behind the scenes for a long time to try to have a mini-primary, or an open convention, or a mini-primary leading to an open convention, did not have faith in her ability to win the election."

Allen, a senior politics reporter at NBC News, and Amie Parnes, a senior political correspondent for The Hill, joined MSNBC to discuss their new book set to be released this month, titled, "FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House."
 
Why are you linking to a FOX News article about an interview on MSNBC?
 
I'll ask what I always ask when people rabbit on about how Harris was a terrible choice:

Who else could it have been? Was there a more viable alternative? Name them, and explain why they would have succeeded where Harris failed.
 
theprestige said:
Because if you go to the MSNBC version, it reveals that the book is a hoax and everything in it is lies.
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Yeah, and if it's the one news source we can trust it's the one that had to pay a billion dollars because they blatantly lied to the public with no remorse. Skepticism at its finest.
 
Mistakes were made but not by Obama. Sheesh that mini-primary/open convention idea was absurd. Biden put the Democrats in an impossible situation; the idea that things would have been better if they had gone with (say) Buttigieg or Newsom ignores that skipping over Kamala would have been a slap in the face to women, Blacks and Asians. Kamala may not have been a perfect candidate (she should have broken with Biden over the border), but going with one of the other guys because they were perceived as more "electable" is like marrying a gal because you've heard she's a good cook--you won't really know until it's too late to back out.
 
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TragicMonkey said:
I'll ask what I always ask when people rabbit on about how Harris was a terrible choice:

Who else could it have been? Was there a more viable alternative? Name them, and explain why they would have succeeded where Harris failed.
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The obvious answer to that, which I'm sure you've heard, is that if they'd had a competitive primary we would have found out.
 
Brainster said:
Mistakes were made but not by Obama. Sheesh that mini-primary/open convention idea was absurd. B
iden put the Democrats in an impossible situation;the idea that things would have been better if they had gone with (say) Buttigieg or Newsom ignores that skipping over Kamala would have been a slap in the face to women, Blacks and Asians. Kamala may not have been a perfect candidate (she should have broken with Biden over the border), but going with one of the other guys because they were perceived as more "electable" is like marrying a gal because you've heard she's a good cook--you won't really know until it's too late to back out.
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Yes, that. Biden screwed the party, the US, and the world. Granted, the GOP nominated trump so, yes they are worse but that doesn't exonerate Biden.
 
ahhell said:
Yes, that. Biden screwed the party, the US, and the world. Granted, the GOP nominated trump so, yes they are worse but that doesn't exonerate Biden.
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Trump, the Republican establishment and right wing propaganda machine that props him up, and the millions of people stupid and gullible enough to fall for an obvious con screwed the U.S. and the world.

Stop bending over backwards to take agency and personal responsibility from these people just because you're on the same team with them.
 
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Brainster said:
Mistakes were made but not by Obama. Sheesh that mini-primary/open convention idea was absurd. Biden put the Democrats in an impossible situation; the idea that things would have been better if they had gone with (say) Buttigieg or Newsom ignores that skipping over Kamala would have been a slap in the face to women, Blacks and Asians. Kamala may not have been a perfect candidate (she should have broken with Biden over the border), but going with one of the other guys because they were perceived as more "electable" is like marrying a gal because you've heard she's a good cook--you won't really know until it's too late to back out.
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That's not nearly as stupid as voting for a guy who already had one failed tenure even before his disastrous handling of the pandemic, who promised to only be more bigoted, stupid, and unhinged and then being surprised he is again doing a crappy job.
 
ahhell said:
Yes, that. Biden screwed the party, the US, and the world.
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Its always easy to say "You screwed up because your party was defeated". But sometimes you can make decisions which at the time were reasonable.

Biden was an incumbent president, and that by itself provides a certain advantage when it comes to a presidential election. He defeated Trump in 2020, and he seemed to attract a significant number of minority voters. Prior to his bad debate performance (which may or may not be due to him being sick at the time) he seemed to be competent enough. So there were some valid reasons to stay in the 2024 election.
 
Donal said:
That's not nearly as stupid as voting for a guy who already had one failed tenure even before his disastrous handling of the pandemic, who promised to only be more bigoted, stupid, and unhinged and then being surprised he is again doing a crappy job.
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Tell me about it--I voted for Kamala.
 
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