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Over the past few months, rumors have spread that Democrats are planning to run former First Lady Michelle Obama in Joe Biden's place in this year's presidential election due to her puzzlingly high popularity among the American people. Now, Obama has finally broken her silence to address these rumors and reveal whether she is considering running for president.
Obama breaks his silence
The Daily Mail reported that Obama, 60, spoke publicly to deny that she was planning to run for president.
“As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed many times over the years, she will not run for president,” Crystal Carson, Obama's communications director, told NBC News.
“Mrs. added that Obama supports the re-election campaign of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Democrats want Obama to run
This came after a recent Rasmussen Reports poll showed that 48% of Democratic voters surveyed said they approved of “the party finding another candidate to replace Joe Biden before the election in November,” while 38% disapproved. However, 33% of Democrats predicted that such an adjustment was unlikely to happen at the ballot box.
As for who will replace Biden, Obama came out on top with a 20% approval rating, ranking first on a list of other potential candidates that included Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and California Governor Gavin Newsom. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. “None of the above” and “Not sure” were also options included in the survey.
Harris came in second place after Obama with 15% saying they would choose her, and Clinton came in third with 12% of support. Newsom, who some have claimed is running a “shadow campaign” for the presidency if Biden decides to withdraw, came in fourth place with 11% of Democrats surveyed choosing him, while Whitmer came in fifth with support from only 9%.
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Obama is “terrified” of the presidential elections
Last January, Obama revealed her concerns about this year's presidential election.
“What will happen in this next election? I'm terrified of what could happen, because our leaders matter.'” “Who we choose, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, affects us in ways that I sometimes think people take for granted.”
“The fact that people think the government — is it really doing anything? She continued: “And I say: Oh my God, is the government doing everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.” “And I worry sometimes that we do. These are the things that keep me awake.”
Last year, Obama spoke frankly about why she didn't plan to run for president.
“Politics is hard,” she told Oprah Winfrey in a Netflix special. “And the people who get into this… you have to want it. It has to be in your soul, because it's so important. It's not in my soul.”
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Obama is angry with Jill Biden
In a separate 2022 interview, Obama said she “hated” questions about whether or not she would run for president. However, other reports claimed that Obama was upset when Jill Biden excluded her from running as her husband's running mate during the 2020 election campaign.
When Jill was asked if Obama was an option to be Joe Biden's running mate, she replied: “You know, I would love for Michelle to agree to it. But I – you know, I think she's had trouble with politics. I don't know. She's very good at everything she does. It would be That – that would be great.
Two sources said Obama was angry about that answer, and that she wanted Jill to have a different answer that wouldn't completely slam the door if she was asked that question again.
It is a mystery to many of us why Obama remains as popular as she is. Thank God she has no plans to run for president, and we can only hope she doesn't reconsider that at any point in the future.
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