DC: Former President Barack Obama is preparing to stump for various Democrats as midterm elections near while some members of the party running for reelection are telling him to keep his distance.
Democratic Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota worry a surrogate like Obama could distract from focusing on their Republican opponents. Obama himself is keeping a wide berth from endorsing national campaigns in states President Donald Trump won in 2016.
“We’re not going to use any surrogates. Surrogates are fine but we don’t need them,” Tester told The Hill on Saturday.
Heitkamp was even more curt, saying “nope, no” to questions about the possibility of Obama visiting North Dakota. “He threatened to campaign against me once so I don’t think he’s coming out there,” she said.
Obama endorsed Richard Cordray’s campaign for governor in Ohio, for instance, but he has not yet endorsed Sen. Sherrod Brown’s reelection campaign. Brown frequently paints himself as a Trump opponent but a senator who will nonetheless work with the president on certain issues.
The senator’s Republican opponent, Rep. Jim Renacci, meanwhile is trying to depict Brown as a bitter political partisan obstructionist who is out of step for a state that supported Trump in the 2016 election.
Obama gave Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey similar treatment. The former president announced his support for two Keystone State House candidates, Madeleine Dean and Susan Wild, but left Casey off his list.
Yeah. I thought I smelled something on the soles of America’s shoes.
He misses being the center of attention.
Good, go do it Barry. {Just lugging those Greek columns around will cost them a fortune}.
That’s fine with Barky. He’s a lazy bastard who only likes to campaign for himself. And maybe a sick old hag who was supposed to keep his plates spinning.
Just relax and watch the ballgame, Barky. You don’t even have to phone it in. Your endorsement distribution team and your auto-pen have got your back.
He may have to campaign for them from a safe distance say from a country that doesn’t expedite criminals back to America!
Life must be tough for Barry, Trump’s success is a constant reminder to him just how much he sucked as president.
Send him in, it will help sink their boat.
Please! Barry! Continue on the campaign trail for Libtard DildoCrats! Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see them lose BIGLY!
It is past time to shorten Obama’s (and the left’s) slogan “Forward” to the more current “FOAD!”
Just sayin’.
A huge majority of dem pols have so blinded themselves by their desperate and violent ideological and emotional rejection of Trump and all things conservative that I’m surprise that there are any left who see barky as anything less than a godlike campaign asset.
I bet it peaked his ego that he was invited to speak over the casket and ALL those people showed up just to hear HIM speak; so he will take his show on the road so more people can hear HIM speak (probably about HIMSELF).
VDH talks a lot about how oblowme destroyed the D party by making it solely an identity politics organization devoted to and primarily serving “the black community.” He made their secondary platform the Occupy movement. That’s all it became. A party of grievance mongers who brought us BLM, Occupy, strange masks and hats — and everyone in it looks either crazy, the dregs of society, or both. How any of that has helped the black community is why blacks are waking up to the Trump alternative.
I hope oblowme stumps for all the D’s, though I don’t know how effective he can be when he has zero ability to use anything but the first person pronouns.
Obama campaigning and Clinton running again: the dream team.
oh gawd no, two more years of me me me me me from Obozo. Tell me it ain’t so.