NYT learned that Biden considers Obama the “puppeteer” of the campaign against himself

Biden has been resentful of Obama since 2016, when the latter dissuaded his vice president from abandoning the election in favor of Hillary Clinton. Now that the campaign against Biden has been launched, Obama is not opposing it Joe Biden and Barack Obama

Former US President Barack Obama, under whom current head of state Joe Biden was vice president, is now doing nothing to ensure that Biden remains in the presidential race, which is why he is offended by his predecessor, writes The New York Times (NYT) with reference to sources.

Biden has been in politics long enough to suggest that the leaks appearing in the media in recent days are being coordinated to increase pressure on him to resign, according to people close to him. He views Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, as the chief instigator [of the campaign] but is also irritated with Obama, seeing him as a behind-the-scenes puppet master.

The newspaper writes that Biden has been “harboring a grudge” against Obama since the former president dissuaded his vice president from running in 2016. Then Hillary Clinton became the rival of Donald Trump, who won the election, from the Democrats. 

The last time the former and current president saw each other was at a charity evening with Hollywood stars to attract sponsors for the election campaign on June 17. A former Obama aide who attended the evening noted that after the event, the politician probably realized how old Biden had become.

Pelosi's participation in the campaign against Biden's nomination, as the newspaper writes, is expressed in the fact that some of her allies in Congress, for example, member of the House of Representatives from California Zoe Longfren (Pelosi also represents this state), spoke out against the head of state.

Another former President, Bill Clinton, is also named among those whose position Biden is dissatisfied with. The current head of state criticized the two ex-presidents privately, believing that they, the culprits of the Democrats’ defeats in the midterm elections in 1994 and 2010, cannot lecture him, since under Biden the same elections in 2022 were more successful than expected. And while Clinton was now putting pressure on donors to donate to Democrats, Obama is “a different story,” the NYT notes.

According to The Washington Post, 37 Democrats in Congress out of 263 have joined calls for Biden to withdraw from the presidential election. The campaign for Biden's withdrawal has gained momentum amid his disastrous debate with Trump and the assassination attempt on the latter. Biden will say for now that he is continuing the presidential race. However, in recent days he had to curtail his public activities due to infection with COVID-19 .