{"id":2173882,"date":"2024-02-12T07:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-replacing-biden-with-michelle-obama-a-ginned-up-conspiracy-theory\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T07:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:13:34","slug":"democrats-replacing-biden-with-michelle-obama-a-ginned-up-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-replacing-biden-with-michelle-obama-a-ginned-up-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats dismissing the idea of replacing Biden with Michelle Obama as a baseless conspiracy theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fdemocrats-replacing-biden-with-michelle-obama-a-ginned-up-conspiracy-theory%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=2173882&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--><h2>You\u2019ve heard the rumors.<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>For months, conservative commentators have openly speculated that President Joe \u200cBiden\u2018s underwater polling\u200c will bring Democrats to dump the incumbent president and nominate someone \u2062else at the Democratic National Committee in August.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pundits casually tossed around names like Govs. Gavin Newsom\u200b (D-CA) and J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), but in the days after special counsel Robert Hur detailed what he described as Biden\u2019s failing \u200cmemory\u2062 and mental faculties, one person in particular has\u200c emerged as\u2062 the internet\u2019s clear choice to take over for Biden in \u2063the White House: former first lady Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Only multiple Democratic strategists tell the Washington \u200dExaminer\u2064 that there\u2019s \u201cno way in hell\u201d \u2064that happens.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019m sure there are some people in the party who wish Mrs. Obama would\u2063 run for the presidency, but she\u2019s made \u2063it\u200b very clear\u2064 that she has no designs on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-county-sheriff-vows-to-reclaim-and-regulate-public-space-at-venice-beach-blasts-gutless-politicians-over-homeless-encampments\/\" title=\"L.A. County Sheriff Vows To \u2018Reclaim And Regulate Public Space\u2019 At Venice Beach, Blasts \u2018Gutless Politicians\u2019 Over Homeless Encampments\">seeking higher office<\/a> \u200dherself,\u201d \u200done strategist familiar with Biden\u2019s campaign strategy stated.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThis is \u2064just some ginned-up conspiracy dreamed \u2063up by grifters to spoon-feed to MAGA extremists,\u201d a second strategist added. \u201cThere\u2019s just one problem. We \u2062live in reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Obamas left the White House seven\u200c years \u2063ago, \u200band the former first lady remains one of the most popular\u200d figures within the Democratic Party, not to \u200dmention one of the most famous people on the planet. However, while Obama, a trained lawyer,\u200d has\u200d maintained \u2062that Biden has done a strong job as president, \u200cshe stopped short of fully \u200dendorsing\u2064 his\u2062 reelection bid in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Democratic strategists tell the Washington Examiner that there\u2019s \u201cno way in hell\u201d former first lady Michelle Obama\u200c replaces President\u2063 Joe \u200dBiden as Democrats\u2019 2024 presidential nominee. And Obama herself said on a podcast in January\u200b that she\u2019s \u201cterrified\u201d about the potential outcomes\u2062 of the \u2063coming election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur leaders matter. Who we select, \u200cwho speaks for us, who holds that\u2064 bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted,\u201d she told On Purpose host Jay Shetty. \u201cThe fact that people think that government \u2014 \u2018Eh, does it really even do anything?\u2019 \u2014 and I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my God, does government do \u200beverything for \u2064us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted,\u2019 and I worry sometimes that we do. Those are the things that keep me up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, \u2062the former first lady has steadfastly rejected the idea of launching her own campaign for the White House, or any other public office for \u200bthat matter.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, she specifically\u2062 discussed the\u200b emotional toll her\u200c husband\u2019s two terms placed on their two daughters, claiming \u200bthat she \u201cwouldn\u2019t ask \u2063my children to do this again because when \u2062you run for \u2062higher office, it\u2019s not just you. It\u2019s your whole family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why I don\u2019t want to run for president \u2014\u2064 and I can\u2019t speak for Oprah [Winfrey] \u2014 but my sense is \u200dthat, first of all, you have to want the job,\u201d she added during a speech at the \u206239th annual Simmons Leadership\u200d Conference in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never had the passion for politics,\u201d\u200c Obama\u2064 continued. \u201cI just happened to be married to somebody\u2062 who has the \u200bpassion for \u2064politics, and he drug me kicking\u200d and screaming into the \u200carena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservative talking heads both in and out of government, ranging \u200bfrom the fringe talk show host Alex Jones to former 2024 Republican\u200b presidential\u200c candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, have all claimed since Thursday that Hur\u2019s report will expedite an effort \u200dto \u2064circle the party\u2019s wagons around Obama\u2062 in August \u2062despite declarations from Biden\u2019s campaign surrogates that the president remains their\u200b \u201cguy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said for over a \u200dyear many times that Joe Biden would\u2064 not be on the ticket \u200dand Michelle Obama would be\u2063 the likely nominee. It\u2019s clear the Democrat deep state run by Barack \u2062Obama knew they had to\u200d take him down\u2062 to give them a chance in November,\u201d Patrick wrote on Twitter on Friday morning. \u201cHe\u2063 doesn\u2019t have\u200d a memory and Kamala doesn\u2019t have a brain. Now they\u2064 have a real problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u200b have to \u200ddo \u2064the math, skate to where the puck is going, not fall for the deflection,\u201d Ramaswamy said in a Fox News interview Thursday night. \u201cI do think what they\u2019re planning for\u2062 is to sideline Biden as \u2064the nominee and trot in a different puppet instead. That\u2019s the most \u200dsignificant takeaway from\u2064 tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones claimed on his Thursday night broadcast that media outlets like the New York Times and Wall Street\u2063 Journal are \u201cpressuring Biden to step down so that Michelle Obama can be inserted coming up at the Democratic National Convention this \u2063summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And even before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-fbi-official-violated-policy-accepted-dinners-and-black-tie-event-invitations-from-media\/\" title=\"Senior FBI Official Violated Policy, Accepted Dinners And Black-Tie Event Invitations From Media\">special counsel report<\/a> was made public, New York Post gossip \u200dcolumnist Cindy Adams brought\u200d the Obama conspiracy back to the public discourse by asserting in a January\u200b column that,\u2063 according to anonymous sources, the Obamas have \u200bbeen\u2064 polling\u200c Democratic\u2063 donors about a potential last-minute bid from Obama and\u200d putting\u2062 the wheels in motion to have Biden drop out of the race \u200bover\u200d the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Hypothetically, at this \u2063point in the \u2064race, \u200cDemocrats could only\u2063 supplant Biden as the party\u2019s nominee at a brokered convention in August, as the overwhelming majority of filing deadlines for primary contests have already expired.<\/p>\n<p>Current party rules dictate that a \u200cnominee earn a majority (1,968) of\u2063 the \u2062pledged\u2063 delegates acquired through state primaries and caucuses, or the convention will move to a\u2063 second ballot vote. \u2062In this second vote,\u2064 and any subsequent votes, an additional 739 auto delegates, previously known \u2063as superdelegates, will be allowed to vote on their choice of nominee. Any nominee must then win a majority (2,258) \u200dof all 4,672 delegate\u200c votes \u200bon those \u2064secondary ballots.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE \u200bWASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>However, the 91 pledged delegate\u2064 votes Biden earned with landslide victories in South Carolina and Nevada, plus any additional\u2064 pledged delegates he accrues between now \u200dand a hypothetical \u2063suspension of his campaign, would become unpledged at \u2064the convention and could vote for whomever they so choose\u2064 on the party\u2019s first nominating \u2062ballot, Josh\u200d Putnam, a political consultant at FHQ Strategies\u2063 previously told the \u200cWashington \u2062Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut\u2064 it all hinges on when Biden is no longer in the race,\u201d Putnam said. \u201cBasically, how much of primary season happens without the incumbent in the contest?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What\u200c evidence has been provided by Democratic strategists to dismiss the claims of a plot to replace Biden with Michelle Obama?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Nd CNN are in on\u200c the plot to replace Biden with Michelle Obama. He suggested that Hur\u2019s report was strategically timed to pave the \u2064way for Obama\u2019s entrance \u2064into the \u200brace.<\/p>\n<p>However, these claims have been dismissed by Democratic strategists and representatives. They argue that Michelle \u200cObama has repeatedly\u2064 stated her lack of \u2062interest in running for office and\u200c has no intention of replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee in 2024. They view\u200b these rumors as nothing more \u200cthan conspiracy theories \u200dconcocted by grifters and extremist factions.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b Obama name still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-regulator-to-lift-boeing-737-max-grounding-in-january\/\" title=\"European regulator to lift Boeing 737 MAX grounding in January\">carries significant weight<\/a> within the Democratic \u2062Party, and Michelle Obama remains a highly popular figure. However, she has \u200dbeen careful not to fully endorse Biden\u2019s reelection bid. In a podcast interview earlier this year, she expressed \u200cher concerns about\u200c the upcoming \u2062election and emphasized the importance of selecting\u200b effective leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Obama\u2019s resistance\u200c to \u2062entering the political \u2062arena herself is well-documented. She has emphasized the toll that her \u200chusband&#8217;s presidency took on their \u200bfamily, particularly their daughters. She has stated that she \u2062lacks the passion\u200b for politics and was brought into \u200cthe arena\u2063 by\u200b her husband.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these clear statements, conservative commentators and figures continue to push the narrative that Biden will be replaced by \u2063Michelle Obama. They argue that Hur\u2019s report on Biden\u2019s mental\u200b faculties \u2063is a\u2063 strategic move to pave the way for Obama\u2019s entrance\u200c into\u200c the race.\u200b However, these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-expect-to-get-classified-briefings-on-ufos\/\" title=\"Lawmakers anticipate receiving classified briefings about UFOs.\">claims lack substantial evidence<\/a> and are dismissed by Democratic \u2062strategists.<\/p>\n<p>It is essential to separate fact from speculation, especially when it comes to matters as significant as presidential elections. While rumors\u2063 and\u200d conspiracy\u200d theories may circulate, it is crucial\u200c to rely on credible sources and the statements of the individuals \u200cinvolved. In\u200c this case, Michelle Obama has consistently expressed her lack of interest in running for office, and Democratic strategists confirm that there is no reality to the rumors of her \u2063replacing Biden in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-ask-him-even-trump-doesnt-know-if-desantis-is-running-in-24\/\" title=\"\u2018I Don\u2019t Ask Him\u2019: Even Trump Doesn\u2019t Know If DeSantis Is Running In \u201924\">2024 presidential election approaches<\/a>, it is crucial to engage \u200bin\u200b informed and responsible discourse. Baseless rumors and conspiracy theories only serve to further divide the\u2062 American public and undermine the democratic \u200dprocess. It \u2062is important to\u2063 focus on the \u2064candidates and \u200dtheir policies rather than engaging in speculative gossip. The American people deserve a fair and transparent election, free from unfounded rumors and misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative commentators have long speculated about President Biden&#8217;s declining popularity leading Democrats to replace him at the Democratic National Committee in August. Names like Gavin Newsom and J.B. 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