Former President Barack Obama advocated an open primary after former Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Joe Biden dropped out of school because he believed Harris could win and therefore advocated an open primary, journalist and author Jonathan Allen said Tuesday.
“President Obama definitely doesn’t think Joe Biden should go on,” Allen told MSNBC. “And he doesn’t want Kamala Harris to be a replacement for Biden. He doesn’t think she’s the best choice for Democrats, and he’s been working behind the scenes for a long time trying to try mini propaganda or open practice, or an open convention, or a small publicity that leads to a public practice without the ability to win the election.”
Allen, senior political journalist at NBC News and Amie Parnes, senior political correspondent at Hills, join MSNBC to discuss their new Book collection It will be released this month with the title “Fight: In the Crazy Battle in the White House.”
“It turns out that she didn’t win, but he’s really fighting her.”

Jonathan Allen details how his report finds that former President Obama doesn’t want Vice President Kamala Harris to run in Joe Biden’s residence after Joe Biden dropped out of school. (Screen shot/MSNBC)
Allen also said Obama was reluctant to support Harris when he spoke with the vice president the day Biden dropped out of school.
Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama end up supporting Harris, but they Supported after five days The president announced that he was withdrawing and endorsing Harris himself.
“After a moment, he called the MP [James] The day Joe Biden handed the baton to Kamala Harris, from Clyburn, South Carolina, who Obama called Clyburn at 5:30 p.m. that day. Clayburn thought to myself that this guy would try to include me in the open meeting, and I better recognize Harris quickly, so it was a brief conversation. ” Allen said.
Obama and Harris’ offices did not immediately return a request for comment.
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Then-President Joe Biden talked about his administration on December 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
This book In the excerpt published on the Hill, it is also detailed how Biden repeatedly urged Harris not to publicly break his administration’s policies.
“But the day of Biden’s debate called for unusual expressions of loyalty to the extent he demanded and reminded him that he could no longer defend his record and that he wanted Harris to protect his legacy,” wrote authors Allen and Allen and Parnes. “Whether she wins the election or loses it, she will only hurt him by publicly staying away from him, especially in a debate that millions of Americans will watch. In a way, she wants to exercise her path, and Biden has no interest in giving her room.”
According to the excerpt, Biden told Harris that during a call before the debate, Harris said: “No sunlight, kids.”
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Harris has been criticized throughout the campaign because she didn’t break into more issues with the president after she was at the top of the Democratic vote. Once, she told “View” that she couldn’t think of anything she would have The way to do it is different from Biden In his first semester.