Joe Biden feuds with Obama aide over 2024 odds
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Joe Biden appears to be engaged in a bitter feud with one of Barack Obama’s former strategists as Democrats continue to fret openly about the incumbent president’s chances in 2024. Bad blood between the president and David Axelrod, a senior CNN commentator and former campaign strategist behind Mr Obama’s two successful White House bids, spilled into public view this week after Politico Magazine reported that the president had taken to referring to Mr Axelrod as a “pr***” behind closed doors. I’m glad that I said it, and I’ll live with the fact that the president is unhappy with me.” The incumbent president has been challenged in the 2024 Democratic Party primary by Rep Dean Phillips, a centre-left congressman from Minnesota who has cited concerns with the president’s age and a widely-held desire among Americans for a shakeup of the Washington old guard as reasons for his presidential bid. In March, it was reported by Insider that 2020 candidate and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren had provoked the wrath of the vice president’s office after responding meekly to a question from a local public radio reporter regarding whether Kamala Harris, the VP, should remain Mr Biden’s running mate for 2024.