Obama lauds ‘brother’ Biden at DNC weeks after reported role ousting him for Kamala Harris

CHICAGO – Former President Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on Tuesday evening, when he praised President Biden just weeks after reportedly helping oust Biden from his re-election effort. And that was asking Joe Biden to serve by my side as vice president,” Obama said on Tuesday evening from the DNC. And as we worked together for eight – sometimes, pretty tough – years, what I came to admire most about Joe wasn’t just his smarts and experience, but it was his empathy and his decency. FLASHBACK: OBAMA WAS ONE OF EARLIEST BIG-NAME DEMS TO ENDORSE WALZ AT DAWN OF HIS POLITICAL CAREER “History will remember Joe Biden as an outstanding president who defended democracy at a moment of great danger. And I am proud to call him my president, but even prouder to call him my friend,” the 44th president continued of his former vice president. Harris became the Democrat nominee for president upon Biden’s withdrawal from the race after his disastrous June debate performance against former President Trump, which included the president losing his train of thought, stumbling over his words and appearing more subdued than during other public events in recent years. After the White House and Biden campaign repeatedly denied the president would drop out of the race, Biden announced in a post on a Sunday afternoon last month that he was ending his campaign and would carry out his final months in the White House. Ahead of Biden dropping out of the race , Obama allies notably helped lead the charge in calling for the president to get out of the race in favor of a candidate they believed was more suitable to take on Trump. Obama’s former chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, said last month, for example, that Biden is “not winning this race.” While actor and longtime friend of the Obamas, George Clooney, called on Biden to drop out of the race in a bombshell op-ed that was published just weeks after the Hollywood star co-hosted Biden, alongside Obama, at a ritzy campaign event in Los Angeles. OBAMA ALLIES, ADVISERS HELPED LEAD THE CHARGE AMONG DEMS LOOKING TO SINK BIDEN AHEAD OF OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Another ally in Obama’s orbit, Jon Favreau, who served as former director of speech writing for Obama, also called on Biden to drop out of the race last month, saying he attended the fundraiser in Los Angeles with Clooney and Obama and witnessed firsthand Biden’s state of mental acuity. Harris and Walz were notably nearly 100 miles away from the DNC during Obama’s speech, holding a rally in Milwaukee instead. “[The] Obamas are still not on the White House good side,” a source familiar with the situation told Fox News. Harris currently has fewer than 76 days to inspire voters to rally behind her White House run, which has notably included adding a bevy of Obama orbit insiders and advisers to her election effort, such as David Plouffe, Eric Holder and Jennifer O’Malley Dillon. Obama’s connections to Harris run deep, with the pair having a longstanding friendship that stretches back to the early 2000s. Harris was in attendance when Obama announced his candidacy for president in 2007, after first meeting him in 2004 when he was an Illinois state senator running for the U.S. Senate. OBAMA TAKES SUBTLE SWIPE AT VANCE WHILE PRAISING WALZ AS ‘IDEAL’ HARRIS RUNNING MATE Harris was among the first elected Democrats in the nation to endorse Obama’s first run for president in the 2008 election, snubbing Hillary Clinton in favor of the then-Illinois senator. “Barack Obama will be a president who finally ends the era of fear that has been used to divide and demoralize our country,” Harris said during California’s Democratic convention in 2008. As Harris built her political career from San Francisco district attorney to California attorney general and then senator, she was even dubbed “the female Obama” by some political analysts . Didn’t matter she had knocked on doors for my campaign in Iowa – she was going to fight to get as much relief as possible for the families who deserved it,” he said. As president, she won’t just cater to her own supporters and punish those who refuse to kiss the ring or bend the knee. Obama, when he served as an Illinois senator, was one of the few high-profile Democrats in the nation to campaign for Walz at the dawn of his career in 2006. “I just remember standing on that stage, and we were coming off it, and there was someone there who was a supporter of mine who said, ‘Stop, let me take a picture,’” Walz said in 2017 of how Obama traveled to Minnesota to support him during his first congressional run in 2006. MEET KAMALA HARRIS’ RUNNING MATE WHO CALLED REPUBLICANS ‘WEIRD PEOPLE’ The pair, as well as then-Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar, took a photo together, which Walz framed and hanged in his house, he told the MinnPost in 2017 . “A future congressman, a future senator, and a future president,” Walz said he captioned the photo, noting that Obama was one of the few high-profile Democrats at the time to support him back in 2006. Obama also took shots at former President Trump during his speech, painting him as power hungry. He killed a bipartisan immigration deal written in part by one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress that would have helped secure our southern border because he thought trying to actually solve the problem would hurt his campaign,” he said. Harris is slated to take the DNC stage on Thursday evening, when she will deliver her acceptance speech for the Democratic Party’s nomination before the DNC concludes. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-lauds-brother-biden-dnc-weeks-after-reported-role-ousting-him-kamala-harris