Former President Barack Obama Endorses Joe Biden for President!
Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday publicly endorsed Joe Biden’s White House bid after waiting to see who would emerge from a crowded field of candidates during the Democratic Party’s primaries.
“I believe Joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now,” Obama said in a video posted on Twitter.
“Right now we need Americans of good will to unite in a great awakening against a politics that too often has been characterized by corruption, carelessness, self-dealing, disinformation, ignorance and just plain meanness.”
The 77-year-old Biden has all but sewed up the nomination after a string of victories beginning with the South Carolina vote in late February. He’ll face off against President Donald Trump in the general election on Nov. 3.
Obama, 58, had declined to endorse his former vice president early in the process, preferring to let a record number of candidates duke it out for the Democratic nomination.
Biden has repeatedly insisted he did not ask the former president for an endorsement, saying he wanted to win the nomination by appealing to voters directly. Biden was Obama’s vice president from January 2009 to January 2017.
Biden, for his part, was said to have been stung in 2016 by Obama’s early endorsement of Hillary Clinton, who went on to lose to Trump despite carrying the national popular vote. Biden considered running in that cycle, but the death of his older son from brain cancer and Obama’s reluctance to support him led him to sit the election out.
The Obama endorsement comes a day after Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed Biden following the end of his own bid for the White House. The Vermont independent appeared to be on the cusp of running away with the Democratic nomination early on before Biden started an unprecedented comeback with a convincing win in South Carolina.
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