WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama has not set foot in South Carolina recently, but he has become a flash point among the Democratic presidential candidates as they compete for black voters in Saturday's primary there and in the bigger, diverse Super Tuesday contests next week.In statements and a campaign
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has not set foot in South Carolina recently, but he has become a flash point among the Democratic presidential candidates as they compete for black voters in Saturday’s primary there and in the bigger, diverse Super Tuesday contests next week.
Obama hasn’t tried to referee how the current candidates are using his name, image or record, and he has studiously avoided playing favorites. He does have opinions about the race, several of his allies say, but has made it clear that he sees his main role as unifying the party after a nominee is selected and helping ease tensions among warring supporters.
It is not just Democrats citing Obama. A pro-Trump super PAC aired a deceptive TV ad earlier this week manipulating a 1995 Obama audiobook to make it appear that Obama was accusing Biden of betraying black voters. On Wednesday, Obama’s lawyer sent a cease-and-desist letter to the group’s executive director after Biden’s campaign alerted him to the problem.
“He wanted a primary. He said we should primary Barack Obama, someone should, and, in fact, the president was weak and our administration was in fact not up to it,” Biden said during Tuesday’s contentious Democratic debate in Charleston, South Carolina, shortly after cutting an online ad calling out Sanders for his actions eight years ago.
Sanders has repeatedly said that he views Obama as a historic “icon” with whom he had policy disagreements and has insisted he never planned to challenge him. Obama, in turn, has expressed admiration for Sanders’ tenacity and small-donor fundraising operation and his political acumen, but he has also acknowledged the magnitude of the challenge of getting other Democrats to fall into line quickly behind Sanders if he wins, a person in his orbit said.
Bloomberg’s campaign manager, Kevin Sheekey, has reached out to members of Obama’s team, especially Jarrett, to explain the former mayor’s change of heart on the city’s much-criticized stop-and-frisk policing strategy and his use of nondisclosure agreements at his media company, she said.
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