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Biden fumes over pressure from allies to exit race
The Straits Times
|July 21, 2024
He views Pelosi as main instigator and Obama as puppet master behind the scenes: Sources
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Sick with Covid-19 and abandoned by allies, US President Joe Biden has been fuming at his Delaware beach house, increasingly resentful about what he sees as an orchestrated campaign to drive him out of the presidential race and bitter towards some of those he once considered close, including his one-time running mate Barack Obama.
Mr Biden has been around politics long enough to assume that the leaks appearing in the media in recent days are being coordinated to raise the pressure on him to step aside, according to people close to him. He considers Mrs Nancy Pelosi, the former House Speaker, the main instigator but is irritated at Mr Obama as well, seeing him as a puppet master behind the scenes.
The friction between the sitting president and leaders of his own party so close to an election is unlike anything seen in Washington in generations-especially because the Democrats now working to ease him out were some of the allies most critical to his success over the last dozen years.
It was Mr Obama who elevated Mr Biden from a presidential alsoran to the vice-presidency, setting him up to win the White House in 2020, and it was Mrs Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, who pushed through Mr Biden's landmark legislative achievements.
But several people close to Mr Biden, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal matters, described an under-the-weather president coughing and hacking hundreds of miles from the corridors of power as his presidency meets its most perilous moment.
He has watched with rising exasperation as a succession of news stories appeared, one after the other, reporting that Mr Schumer, Mrs Pelosi, Mr Obama and Mr Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the House Democratic leader, all had warned of a devastating defeat for the party in November.
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