Obama telling allies Biden needs to reconsider campaign as path to victory slims: Report

Former President Barack Obama told allies that President Joe Biden should reevaluate the viability of his candidacy, according to a new report.

Obama reportedly told his allies in recent days that Biden's chances of reelection are greatly diminishing, and he should reevaluate his candidacy altogether in light of tanking poll numbers and dissent from Congressional Democrats, according to multiple people briefed on his thinking who spoke with the Washington Post.

However, publicly, he has maintained that the final choice is Biden's to make and that his influence over Biden's decision-making isn't decisive.

Questions of Biden's candidacy had been temporarily paused after the Saturday assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, which absorbed the news cycle. The lull ended Tuesday, however, when Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a close ally of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), publicly called on Biden to step down.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) are also reportedly privately urging Biden to step down.

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One person familiar with the matter told the outlet that Obama has been privately in talks with key power brokers, such as Pelosi, to give his input.

The report comes one month after Obama joined Biden for an LA fundraiser. The event raised eyebrows when videos of Obama escorting the president off stage went viral the next day and then came back into view when actor George Clooney cited it in his New York Times op-ed, in which he argued Biden needed to step down as the Democratic nominee. Since that fundraiser, Biden's candidacy has come into doubt following a disastrous debate with Trump. That debate has led to a groundswell of opinion from Democratic ranks, both on and off the record, that Biden has to go.