Barack Obama has been staying on the sidelines.
"President Obama is uniquely positioned to help unify the party once we have a candidate," the source said."If he were to try to put his thumb on the scale now, it would limit his capacity to do so when his voice is most needed: The general election."
The ad, aired by the Committee to Defend the President super PAC, recycles an attack used in a Georgia congressional race in 2017. It includes audio of Obama reading from his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," about Democrats who only court black voters at election time. But in the book, Obama is paraphrasing the words of someone else.Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill described the ad as"despicable" in a statement.
Obama's legacy has never been far from center stage as the candidates have debated what kind of party will emerge in response to Trump's presidency, and what kind of candidate is best positioned to beat him. Sanders has sought to steer the party left, such as by upending Obama's signature health care law and replacing it with a Medicare-for-All, government-run insurance system.
Biden, sporting his trademark aviator sunglasses at a rural South Carolina health center Thursday, repeatedly named Obama in his remarks. He said he worked with Obama on health care policy, including to secure money for clinics in underserved areas.
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