Former President Barack Obama dismissed Democrats calling for Joe Biden to be replaced as their presidential nominee, claiming “bad debate nights happen” but Biden is still the best choice.
“Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself,” Obama wrote on X Friday.
Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 28, 2024
“Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November.”
Satan has spoken you are stuck with Joe pic.twitter.com/s1jnZQ77YP
— Karli Bonne’
(@KarluskaP) June 28, 2024
Given that Obama is still seen as the de facto standard bearer of the Democrat Party, his remarks are meant to put to rest speculation among the base and media that Joe Biden will bow out before November.
Once the media starts to realize that they're not going to get Biden out of the race, they're all going to quickly retreat from the past 24 hours and get back on board.
Obama is directing them to do that and giving them the script to use: https://t.co/ChMyZWf9jJ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 28, 2024
But Biden’s performance was not just a “bad debate night” — it was an unmitigated disaster even by mainstream media standards.
CNN feels like Biden’s funeral
“It’s not just panic, it’s pain.” pic.twitter.com/h3MKtuiCcu
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) June 28, 2024
In fact, it was so shockingly terrible and so thoroughly humiliating that Obama’s reassurances risk appearing tone-deaf, even delusional to most Americans — almost as delusional as the Democrat Party’s post-debate victory lap on X.
The winner of tonight’s debate
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— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) June 28, 2024
Just last week, Obama was in the headlines after he was seen escorting Biden offstage at a California fundraiser, leading to growing concerns Biden is becoming blatantly feeble which prompted the White House and mainstream media to claim the scene was a “cheap fake” and “manipulated video.”
The matter of Biden’s viability is still not put to rest despite Obama’s endorsement: Biden’s official nomination as the Democrat presidential candidate must still be decided at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 19.