{"id":1420525,"date":"2022-04-05T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420525"},"modified":"2022-04-05T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T20:30:02","slug":"obama-returns-to-white-house-for-biden-event-as-midterm-elections-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-returns-to-white-house-for-biden-event-as-midterm-elections-loom\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Returns To White House For Biden Event As Midterm Elections Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-returns-to-white-house-for-biden-event-as-midterm-elections-loom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since the morning of former President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Obama returned for an event celebrating the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which he first signed into law back in 2010. Tuesday\u2019s event saw President Joe Biden sign an executive order aimed at strengthening the ACA so that health care can be more affordable and accessible to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon saw many light-hearted quips between Obama and Biden, with the former beginning his remarks by jokingly referring to the current president as \u201cVice President Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like the good old days,\u201d Biden said at one point, after Obama noted that \u201cit is good to be back in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Biden has been in office for over one year, Tuesday marked the first time he invited Obama to return to the White House. The Biden-Obama event coincides with the upcoming midterm elections \u2014 something many <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2022\/03\/29\/new-polls-confirm-democratic-problems-for-november\/\">predict<\/a> could be bad news for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>With Biden\u2019s approval ratings remaining low as the midterm elections near, bringing Obama to the White House may be a strategic move, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/05\/politics\/obama-visiting-white-house-biden\/index.html\">noted<\/a>. Though the ACA prompted major losses for Democrats in 2010 and 2014, its perception has since softened, data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/interactive\/kff-health-tracking-poll-the-publics-views-on-the-aca\/#?response=Favorable--Unfavorable&#038;aRange=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a>\u00a0indicates.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden and Obama publicly reaffirmed their reputation as being \u201cbest friends,\u201d their relationship hasn\u2019t been without drama.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BestFriendsDay?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BestFriendsDay<\/a> to my friend, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BarackObama<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JTd1t7NtyL\">pic.twitter.com\/JTd1t7NtyL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1137521124793823232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2020, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/01\/17\/joe-biden-new-york-times-google\/\">criticized<\/a> Obama for not being critical enough of tech companies, noting that \u201cthere are places where he and I have disagreed.\u201d The former president, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/28\/barack-obama-migrant-crisis-heartbreaking-open-borders-haitians\/\">commented<\/a> on the border crisis still unfolding under Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/obama-haitian-migrants-plight-heartbreaking-biden-system-broken\/story?id=80267478\">during<\/a> an ABC News interview in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs big-hearted as he is, nobody understands that better than Joe Biden,\u201d Obama said after suggesting the the country is now at a crossroads on whether real change will be enacted. \u201cAnd the question is now: Are we gonna get serious about dealing with this problem in a systemic way, as opposed to these one-offs where we\u2019re constantly reacting to emergencies? And I think that that\u2019s something that every American should wanna put an end to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama continued on to admit that the crisis \u201cis a painful reminder that we don\u2019t have this right yet and we\u2019ve got more work to do.\u201d He added the idea of \u201copen borders is \u2026 unsustainable\u201d and called the issue of immigration \u201ctough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/04\/14\/obama-biden-progressive-left-wing-platform-2020\/\">ultimately<\/a> endorsed Biden for president in April 2020 after abstaining from doing so for months.<\/p>\n<p>Still, White House press secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/22\/joe-biden-barack-obama-white-house\/\">says<\/a> the two remain closely in touch, noting in March 2021 that Biden and his policy teams are in \u201cregular touch\u201d with Obama \u201ca range of issues.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/04\/14\/obama-biden-progressive-left-wing-platform-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Obama Says Biden Has Most Left-Wing Platform Of Any Major Nominee In History)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_FF9B4F83-D096-F0D7-AB7E-FAEBA69EC0A9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">\u201cThey are real friends, not just Washington friends,\u201d Psaki added Monday. \u201cI\u2019m sure they will talk about events in the world as well as their families and personal lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since the morning of former President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.Obama returned for an event celebrating the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}