(PatriotsUnited.org) – Michelle Obama has said she will not run to be President in 2024. Her statement crushed the hope of some Democrats that she could replace the current U.S. President Joe Biden. The erstwhile First Lady still wields major influence in the world of the Democrat Party. Crystal Carson, who runs Obama’s communications team, reiterated that Michelle Obama had no current plans to run for the Oval Office.
Speaking to NBC News on Tuesday March 5th, she said her boss fully backed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election bid. The news comes after a new Rasmussen survey unveiled dissatisfaction with the country’s current leader, finding that almost half of Democrats backed a replacement for Biden. In the poll Michelle Obama outpaced VP Harris as the favorite to replace Biden, garnering 20 percent of the support, as opposed to Harris’ 15.
Several right-wing commentators have claimed that there is a secret plan to install Michelle Obama as the Democratic nominee at the eleventh hour, due to Joe Biden’s health and age-related issues. Despite extensive speculation prompted by the ex-First Lady’s recent remarks to Jay Shetty’s podcast that she was “terrified” of the upcoming election’s implications, she has previously rebuffed claims of a bid for the top job on multiple occasions. She also told a 2023 Netflix documentary that politics is “hard” and “not in my soul.” She expressed similar sentiments in a 2022 interview with the BBC.
Nevertheless, tensions reportedly arose between Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, wife of the current President, after the latter publicly ruled out the former as a possible running mate to her husband during his 2020 campaign. Surveys repeatedly show a degree of concern about Joe Biden’s age, and a Feb. 2024 report from special counsel Robert Hur regarding the President’s handling of classified documents also contained concerns regarding his fitness for office.
Meanwhile VP Harris, the first ever woman and African-American to take up the role of second-in-command to the U.S. President, has long been unpopular with voters, having a disapproval rating of more than 50 percent in December 2023.
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