Later today, former President Barack Obama will formally endorse former Vice PresidentJoe Biden in the 2020 election, according to NBC News.
Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee last week after Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the 2020 race.
As we reported yesterday, Sanders also endorsed Biden on Monday, saying in a livestreamed video with Biden, “We’ve got to make Trump a one-term president, and we need you in the White House.”
Obama didn’t endorse any Democratic candidate when the primary field was more crowded. However, several aides told Politico that he worked behind the scenes to “nudge things in Biden’s direction when the Biden team was organizing former candidates to coalesce around Biden.”
Trump tried to take advantage of that silence last seek as Biden was sewing up the nomination.
“I don’t know why President Obama hasn’t supported Joe Biden a long time ago,’ Trump said from White House podium Wednesday, several hours after Sanders announced he was suspending his campaign. “There’s something he feels is wrong,” Trump claimed.
Well, there goes that talking point.