During Wednesday night’s debate, a number of candidates piled on former Vice President Joe Biden over an array of Obama-era policies. Everything from the administration’s deportations, trade deals, and even its signature legislation, Obamacare, came under attack as the candidates went after the current front-runner.
The morning after the debate, former Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN the candidates attacking Obama are going about this all wrong.
“Everybody has got to be kidding me here,” the former Chicago mayor told the outlet. “You have a perfect set up. President Trump is suing to undue [Obamacare]. We won an election on it. I don’t get this.”
CNN also reported that President Obama himself “has privately expressed exasperation at some policy proposals and promises that he believes are unrealistic. And he and people around him question the wisdom in assailing the record of a popular ex-president rather than the unpopular-by-comparison current one.” – READ MORE