David Axelrod said his old boss, former President Obama, does not want the 2024 presidential race to be a “tag-team match.”
Axelrod stated on CNN's “Laura Coates” live that Obama usually gets involved in the fall when voters are engaged, and he chooses his moments carefully because he doesn't want the race to become a 'tag-team match.'
President Biden held a multimillion-dollar fundraiser with Obama and former President Clinton on Thursday night in New York City. All three also joined the “SmartLess” podcast hosted by actors Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett; the episode will be released at a later date, according to the White House.
“You and I are paying rapt attention to this race, now,” Axelrod told Coates. “Most Americans are not. And they’re gonna start paying attention after the conventions, in the fall. That’s when the final arguments are gonna be made that are gonna turn this race.”
Axelrod added that at that time in the fall, he thinks “that’s when you’ll see President Obama out there, just as he was in 2020, just as he was in 2022.”
Obama campaigned for his former vice president back in 2020, saying at a drive-in rally in Michigan at the time that then-President Trump hadn’t “shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself or his friends or treating the presidency as anything more than a reality show to give him the attention that he craves.”
“But unfortunately, the rest of us have to live with the consequences,” Obama continued.
