Former President Barack Obama appears to be souring on President Joe Biden’s re-election chances in private talks with allies, just days after he published a statement backing the failing 81-year-old president.
The Washington Post reported that Obama is telling top allies who reach out that Biden’s “already-tough path to reelection grew more challenging” after his disastrous debate performance.
The report said that Obama has long warned Biden about how hard it will be for him to beat Trump and that he has expressed serious concerns to Democrats in recent weeks about the trouble they are in for the upcoming election.
The Post’s report about Obama’s harsher tone about Biden in private comes as new polling from Reuters/Ipsos released on Tuesday found that only former first lady Michelle Obama is able to beat Trump in a head-to-head matchup and she does so by a double-digit…
