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Michelle Obama won't replace Biden in 2024, former senior Obama advisor says
Just the News ^ | February 11, 2024 | Madeleine Hubbard

Posted on 02/12/2024 7:12:08 AM PST by Twotone

Conservatives have speculated that Michelle Obama could replace Biden in the presidential race.

Former first lady Michelle Obama has no plans on replacing President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, former Obama White House advisor David Axelrod said.

Axelrod told CNN host Michael Smerconish on Saturday that Michelle Obama "never was interested in a political life" even though her husband, former President Barack Obama, ran for U.S. Senate in 2004 and later served in the White House from 2009 to 2017. "She is not someone who likes politics. She doesn't like the tone and tenor of politics."

Speaking to the possibility of Michelle Obama replacing Biden on the Democratic ticket, Axelrod said: "I would be floored if she would consent to that. They feel that they gave 10 years of their life to this. And I'm sure she feels as Barbara Bush did when she said there has to be someone other than the Bushes and the Clintons who could be President of the United States. My guess is that's her attitude."

Conservatives, meanwhile, have speculated that Michelle Obama could replace Biden in the presidential race.

"I think that it should not be shocking to see someone like Michelle Obama take the role of the nomination," former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital on Saturday.

After the special counsel's report on Biden's alleged mishandling of classified materials was released, Ramaswamy said that the former first lady offers Democrats "a convenient path out of that problem" because she is "an alternative to Biden that they may view as more palatable in a general election."

Texas GOP Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday on X, formerly Twitter: "I’ve said for over a year many times that Joe Biden would not be on the ticket and Michelle Obama would be the likely nominee. It’s clear the Democrat deep state run by Barack Obama knew they had to take him down to give them a chance in November."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; axelrod; bigmike; michelleobama; obamanation
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To: Twotone

Define “replace”. What if Biden is already out of the loop?


21 posted on 02/12/2024 7:27:52 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: CodeToad

I really wonder what the actual, private, internal polling is?
And of those still supporting his name in the polls, how soft that support might be when it comes to bothering to actually show up and vote?


22 posted on 02/12/2024 7:28:12 AM PST by desertsolitaire
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To: joshua c

I think that’s very accurate statement.


23 posted on 02/12/2024 7:28:31 AM PST by Ronald77
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To: Ronald77

The horse’s axle has spoken, he is a confirmed liar.


24 posted on 02/12/2024 7:30:39 AM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Twotone

I have heard from several sources that Michelle wants nothing to do with the meat grinder of Washington politics. I think there is some truth to it.


25 posted on 02/12/2024 7:30:41 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Twotone

Mikey don’t like it?


26 posted on 02/12/2024 7:31:10 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: mrmeyer

“It’s an actual job with actual work involved.”

The Biden presidency has proven your comment wrong!


27 posted on 02/12/2024 7:32:07 AM PST by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: Salman
This one story convinces me they really are going to try it

I won't be convinced until Dick Morris says the opposite.

28 posted on 02/12/2024 7:33:38 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Twotone

Biden is way too stubborn to agree to step down and his dementia makes that worse.

The Dems are in a mighty fine conundrum. Biden is unelectable.


29 posted on 02/12/2024 7:34:58 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Twotone
A recent blog kept advertising an interview with MB. In the blurb, MB, when asked what keeps her up at night, replied 'the war in the region', 'AI'.

That response may have sounded haughty, but they showed shallowness on her part.

What war? What region? Which combatants? And what about 'AI'?

Her response was little more than word salad.

[Disclaimer: I never listened to the actual podcast, so she may have been more revealing in it.]

30 posted on 02/12/2024 7:35:05 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Twotone

“Hello” he lied.


31 posted on 02/12/2024 7:36:22 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Twotone

When you have been there for 8 years and have left to nice life on Marthas Vineyard it is hard to want to come back and go through it again. Unless of course you are a power hungry mad woman like Hillary.


32 posted on 02/12/2024 7:36:35 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: bigbob

Do you really expect them to say the real reasons?

That Michelle is a nasty, lazy, racist, incompetent, example of affirmative action who doesn’t really like people.

That she makes millions putting out a book once a year ghost written by someone else that no one will buy.


33 posted on 02/12/2024 7:37:14 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: brownsfan

Big Mike ain’t no she..........


34 posted on 02/12/2024 7:38:33 AM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: joshua c

Every bit as unqualified as Barack. She’s perfect!


35 posted on 02/12/2024 7:38:41 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Twotone
Kamala is the of the CA RATS and is quietly tied to Pelosi and Newsom. There is an internal struggle between that camp and Obama camp.

Remember, Hillary said she wasn't running a few times, too.

36 posted on 02/12/2024 7:39:37 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: Eccl 10:2
Exactly.
37 posted on 02/12/2024 7:39:46 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Beowulf9

38 posted on 02/12/2024 7:40:01 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: circlecity

You got sources.....Whoa..I’m impressed.


39 posted on 02/12/2024 7:40:42 AM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: Twotone

So she’s running then. Never believe anything until it’s been officially denied.


40 posted on 02/12/2024 7:43:46 AM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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