Former President Barack Obama, who recovered from a disastrous debate efficiency to win re-election in 2012, publicly backed President Biden after his poor efficiency in Thursday’s debate in opposition to former President Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Obama additionally sought to allay issues amongst Democrats about retaining Mr. Biden as their presidential nominee.
“Dangerous debate nights occur,” he mentioned in a social media submit. “Belief me, I do know. However this election remains to be a alternative between somebody who has fought for peculiar people his whole life and somebody who solely cares about himself.”
Mr. Obama continued, linking to Mr. Biden’s marketing campaign web site, “Final night time didn’t change that, and it’s why a lot is at stake in November.”
Mr. Obama, who served as president for eight years with Mr. Biden as his vp, performed a big position in unifying the celebration behind Mr. Biden in the course of the Democratic presidential primaries in 2020. Now, fearing the implications ought to Mr. Biden lose to Mr. Trump in November, he has suggested Mr. Biden’s group to assist the president get re-elected.
The circumstances are considerably totally different, however Mr. Obama confronted an identical disaster of confidence in his re-election marketing campaign in 2012. Underestimating his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, Mr. Obama turned in a efficiency on the first presidential debate that was broadly panned — with only a month to go earlier than Election Day.
The episode set off a reassessment of Mr. Obama’s debate technique. He returned to confront Mr. Romney twice on a extra combative and assertive footing, settling a nervousness that had grown inside the Democratic Get together after he was caught off guard in his first outing in opposition to Mr. Romney.
Mr. Obama was not the one former president throwing his help behind Mr. Biden on Friday. In a press release, former President Invoice Clinton vouched for the president, saying on social media that Mr. Biden had given america three years of “strong management.”
