At the time, Reid called out the powerful, 60,000-member Nevada Culinary Union to send their members to caucus sites to vote for Clinton and bullied casino owners to give Clinton-supporting workers time off with pay to attend caucuses on the Las Vegas Strip.“Bernie Sanders was seriously thinking about challenging our first African-American president in a primary,” a narrator in the ad, targeted at South Carolina’s large contingent of African-American voters, says.Reid refused to confirm or deny the Atlantic’s story in interviews last week. Obama, who wouldn’t even endorse Biden until everyone else was out of the primaries (and even then waited a long time! They did a terrible job! “Not another commercial,” one friend says as the game pauses and a commercial — edited to be a campaign ad for Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee — airs. “Leahy, alarmed, warned Jim Messina, Obama’s presidential reelection-campaign manager. Former Vice President Joe Biden is finally opening up a front against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with an ad, airing in South Carolina, accusing the Vermont socialist of trying to launch a primary campaign against then-president Barack Obama, who was running for re-election. A debate will take place in South Carolina on Tuesday night.But while the Clinton story was common knowledge, Reid’s longtime position as a Sanders foil was not. Now just days away from a primary he was supposed to win handily, Biden is running just four points ahead of Sanders. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020 Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic presidential nominee, had an update about his search for a vice presidential partner: He said he would choose Michelle Obama as his running mate "in a …
I wouldn’t be President. He said only that “there was never a serious or established primary challenge to Obama,” likely suggesting that his and Leahy’s efforts to calm Sanders worked.The result was exactly as Reid anticipated: hundreds of workers turned out for Clinton, leaving Sanders struggling to explain his primary campaign to Democrats who were set on Clinton receiving the nod. Reid asked Sanders, according to multiple people who remember the conversations. “Bernie Sanders was seriously thinking about challenging our first African-American president in […] “Call up Harry Reid, he will deny that.”The ad seems to be resonating based on social media reaction, but Biden needs all the help he can get in South Carolina. You need to stop.”Sanders denied the exchange during an interview Monday night, claiming that naysayers could “ask Harry Reid” if they needed proof that Sanders hadn’t tried to challenge Obama.“Sanders privately discussed a potential primary challenge to Obama with several people, including Patrick Leahy, his fellow Vermont senator,” the outlet reported. Obama’s campaign team was ‘absolutely panicked’ by Leahy’s report, Messina told me, since ‘every president who has gotten a real primary has lost a general [election].'”Former Vice President Joe Biden is finally opening up a front against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with an ad, airing in South Carolina, accusing the Vermont socialist of trying to launch a primary campaign against then-president Barack Obama, who was running for re-election.The Atlantic meant to demonstrate the power of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-VT), who was a key figure in the Nevada caucuses, and was likely behind efforts to stop Sanders’s rise cold in Nevada.Reid was charged with heading off Sanders’ rise once before — in 2016, when Sanders was giving Hillary Clinton a run for her money in early primary states, winning the popular vote in the Iowa caucuses, and beating Clinton handily in New Hampshire. Once Biden became Barack Obama's running mate, he made a speech in Florida that supported commercial space, criticized the Republican candidate Sen. … But in place of Haysbert, the nearly 30-second video is edited to show Obama’s head superimposed over the actor’s face. “No, not true at all,” Sanders said. Captions flash up on screen during the ad attacking Mr Biden's record on race. But the hairdresser cited by Mr Obama was talking about the Illinois city's first black mayor, not Mr Biden.