With Sanders on the ropes, Obama confidants say the former president wants to create the conditions whereby voters can choose unity—and Trump, says davidaxelrod, will help with that choice
. And lingering resentments over the Democratic Party’s involvement in Hillary’s victory makes Obama’s situation even more delicate—so delicate that some Obama confidants seem reluctant to even utter Sanders’s name.“He believes that in order for Democrats to have confidence in the process that voters will have needed to have their say and as that unfolds,” said the person familiar with the president’s thinking. “He doesn’t really think it would serve the party well to interfere.
Of course, extrapolating predictions based on 2016 primary results amounts to little more than reading tea leaves. And had polling been any indication headed into Super Tuesday, Biden shouldn’t have walked away in the lead. “The caveat is a caveat that I keep reminding myself of and everybody else, which is if there is nothing else that the last decade of politics should have taught us, it is humility.
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