Exclusive: Michelle Obama's private frustration with the Bidens
Former First Lady Michelle Obama privately has expressed frustration over how the Biden family largely exiled her close friend Kathleen Buhle after Buhle's messy divorce from Hunter Biden, two people familiar with the relationship told Axios.
Why it matters: The family tensions — and the former first lady's disdain for partisan politics — are partly why one of the Democrats' most popular voices hasn't campaigned for President Biden's re-election, the sources said, even as former President Obama has been a willing surrogate.
Reality check: Michelle Obama's absence from the campaign trail to this point in 2024 isn't just about her relationship with Buhle — it also reflects her longstanding distaste for partisan politics.
Speaking about his daughters at a splashy Hollywood fundraiser for Biden this month, Barack Obama said: "Michelle drilled into them so early that you would be crazy to go into politics."
They could be thinking about "non-partisan Michelle" being a replacement for Joe or Kamala. A Newscum/Obama ticket is a possibility if the Dems can work out the difficulties involved in replacing Joe. Time is of the essence.
Dan Bongino is always saying that Michelle won’t run. He bases that on his observations of her as her Secret Service detail. I’m not convinced... this woman (for reasons that mystify me) is always touted as the most popular woman in America. If you take Dan’s observation and couple it with the mess the Dims are in right now, it would be easy to see them running her and framing it as a huge sacrifice on her part. They could point to Bongino’s observations and say “see, she’s shy and avoids the lime-light, she’s only running for the good of the country.” If Biden is ousted I see this as a very likely scenario.