Michelle Obama "Will Not Be Running For" The 2024 Presidential Election, Says Office (image@MichelleObama)
Michelle Obama has no intention to run for the US Presidential election. After a poll revealed that the former First Lady is the preferred by the Democrats to run for President instead of Joe Biden, her office said Obama is not running for the election, even though many supporters are looking forward to the development, as reported by NBC News.
Instead, Michelle Obama is actively supporting the reelection campaigns of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harrison. Ins statement given to NBC News, the Director of Communication of Michelle Obama’s office, Crystal Carson said that, “as former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president. Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris” re-election campaign”.
Obama’s advisor cited her conversation with Oprah Winfrey last year in a Netflix special as a reason of why Obama will never run for the election. In the show, Michelle Obama said, “politics is hard. And the people who get into it … you”ve got to want it. It”s got to be in your soul, because it is so important. It is not in my soul”.
Last month, the former First Lady voiced her deep fear regarding the upcoming Presidential election. She said it “haunts her”. She said democracy cannot be taken for granted and she worries that sometimes it is taken for granted. She said, “those are the things that keep me up”.
It is to note that, in the Rasmussen Reports polls, nearly half of the Democratic voters voiced that they would like to see someone else other than Joe Biden to run the US Presidential election.
Around 48 percent of Democrats said that they approve the party “finding another candidate to replace Joe Biden before the election in November”. 38 percent voted in disagreement. Only 33 percent of Democrats believe that there will be ballot shakeups.
About 20 percent of votes were gone in favour of Michelle Obama, among other options to replace the 81-year-old Joe Biden. Apart from Obama, other contenders were the Vice-President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton, Governor of California Gavin Newsom and Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer
