{"id":2207466,"date":"2024-03-27T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-obama-top-adviser-dismisses-bidens-2016-claims-no-red-carpet-for-him\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:48:38","slug":"ex-obama-top-adviser-dismisses-bidens-2016-claims-no-red-carpet-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-obama-top-adviser-dismisses-bidens-2016-claims-no-red-carpet-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Former top adviser to Obama refutes Biden&#8217;s 2016 statements with a blunt response"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fex-obama-top-adviser-dismisses-bidens-2016-claims-no-red-carpet-for-him%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=2207466&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--><p>David Plouffe, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, refuted claims that Obama prevented Joe Biden from\u2064 running\u2063 for \u2064president in \u200c2016. Plouffe stated to the \u2063New York \u2062Times\u200d that Biden&#8217;s assertions were\u200b inaccurate.\u200c He mentioned\u2064 that the idea\u2064 that Obama blocked a\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-preemptively-resigns-from-the-screen-actors-guild\/\" title=\"President Trump preemptively resigns from the Screen Actors Guild\">red carpet<\/a>\u2064 for Biden wasn&#8217;t factual, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asian-city-councilwoman-allegedly-harassed-by-social-justice-warrior-despite-increase-in-anti-asian-violence\/\" title=\"Asian City Councilwoman Allegedly Harassed By Social Justice Warrior Despite Increase In Anti-Asian Violence\">expressing doubts<\/a> about\u2063 Biden&#8217;s chances of winning the nomination if he had run. Your summary\u200d accurately captures David Plouffe&#8217;s rebuttal to the claims that Obama hindered Joe Biden&#8217;s 2016 presidential run. Plouffe clarified in \u200bthe New York\u2063 Times that\u2062 Biden&#8217;s \u200bcomments were\u2062 unfounded, dismissing\u2063 the notion that Obama impeded Biden&#8217;s path and suggesting skepticism about Biden&#8217;s potential nomination success.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Barack Obama<\/a>\u2019s one-time adviser David Plouffe hammered the idea that his boss was the reason <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> didn\u2019t get to run for president in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/2016-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plouffe told the <em>New York Times<\/em> that Biden\u2019s claims that Obama prevented him from making a 2016 presidential run were inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis notion that there was a red carpet available that, you know, Barack Obama blocked is just not based in reality,\u201d Plouffe said. \u201cJoe Biden would have run for president for the third time, for the nomination, would not have succeeded, and would have never been president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Plouffe, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) were already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-south-carolina-politicians-endorse-trump-over-scott-or-haley\/\" title=\"More SC politicians back Trump over Scott or Haley.\">considered strong contenders<\/a> for the Democratic nomination when Biden was considering running for office.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have circulated for years that Biden was frustrated with his former boss for boxing him out running in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with special counsel Robert\u00a0Hur last October, Biden shared that he had the support of a lot of people for his presidential run, except Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not \u2014 and not a mean thing to say. He just thought that she had a better shot of winning the presidency than I did,\u201d he said, referring to Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-deletes-president-trumps-tweets-threatens-permanent-suspension\/\" title=\"Twitter deletes President Trump\u2019s tweets, threatens permanent suspension\">2020 election cycle<\/a>, Obama did not weigh in on the contest or endorse Biden until after the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>Biden couldn\u2019t extend Obama\u2019s administration into a third <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-moving-to-rejoin-united-nations-human-rights-council\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Moving to Rejoin United Nations Human Rights Council\">consecutive term<\/a>, but critics of the president have said Biden\u2019s staffing and policy decisions are essentially a continuation of what began in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shadowy picture of Obama pulling Biden\u2019s strings hasn\u2019t been helped, with recent reports that the former president has been speaking with White House chief of staff Jeff Zients about how he thinks Biden should alter his reelection approach.<\/p>\n<p>Most polls are showing a tie between presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Biden, and some are showing a Trump lead. Compared to this time in 2020, Biden was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/bidens-improving-polling-trump-shaky-rcna143968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>leading<\/a> Trump by about 6 percentage points in the <em>FiveThirtyEight<\/em> average. Polling shows Biden gaining on Trump in six battleground states with one Democratic strategist claiming that\u00a0\u201cthe Biden bump is real\u201d, the <em>Guardian <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s ex-adviser David Plouffe disputed claims that Obama blocked Joe Biden from running for president in 2016. Plouffe clarified to the New York Times that Biden&#8217;s statements were inaccurate, stating, &#8220;This notion of a red carpet not being rolled out for him is not accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2207467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP22310018344495-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP22310018344495-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207466","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\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}