by Josh Christenson at New York Post
Obama and Biden have only spoken once since the president’s debate debacle on June 27 — but the former stressed during that conversation that his old running mate’s chances of beating Donald Trump were “greatly diminished,” the Washington Post reported.
The 44th president also stressed that while Biden’s legacy was important to him, only his former vice president could make the call on whether to stay in the race.
“Our campaign is not working through any scenarios where President Biden is not at the top of the ticket. He is and will be the Democratic nominee,” said Quentin Fulks, principal deputy campaign manager for the Biden-Harris campaign.
“The president has said it several times: He’s staying in this race,” he told reporters at a counter-programming press conference in Milwaukee amid the Republican National Convention. “I talk to the president every single day in some form. … He is usually fact-checking me on a statistic that I got wrong.”
Reps for Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment…