Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appeared on 770 WABC’s “The Cats Roundtable” Sunday with host John Catsimatidis and dropped a bombshell: the Obamas are actually running Kamala Harris’ campaign behind the scenes.
And they were running the White House before that, he alleges:
If you’re watching the campaign now, some of Obama’s [key people such as] David Plouffe and others are now working on the campaign.
You’re getting the Obamas shifting from running the White House to now running this campaign.
The 44th president’s former staff has their fingerprints all over the place, McCarthy says:
Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, helped handle the vetting process for Harris’ selection of a running mate for vice president.
Harris also hired Plouffe — Obama’s campaign manager in 2008 and later one of his top White House advisers — as a senior campaign aide. The political operative Plouffe has advised TikTok and Uber, too.
In addition, Harris has tapped Stephanie Cutter, who worked as deputy campaign manager for Obama’s 2012 re-election, as her campaign’s senior adviser for strategy messaging.
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Barack Obama is secretly running Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, according to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. pic.twitter.com/HDrG1AKXRj
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 11, 2024
But wait, there’s more, as those old infomercials used to say:
The firm of Obama ad-maker Jim Margolis also is supposed to join team Harris, according to Politico. He had worked on Harris’ 2020 campaign.
Harris hired veteran Democratic adviser Jennifer Palmieri as senior adviser to Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, too.
Palmieri served as director of communications for the White House under Obama and held the same post for former Secretary of State and ex-New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 White House bid.
Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, campaign chairwoman for the 2024 Kamala Harris presidential campaign, also worked on Obama and Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
It sure sounds like they’re building “Team Obama” over there. If Harris does somehow pull out a win in November, expect Barack to call in his chits and demand that she run things according to his plan.
It’s like he never left:
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Of course, sources are denying that Barack and Michelle are actually in change:
But a former top adviser to the ex-president scoffed at claims that Obama is directing Harris’ campaign.
It is not unusual for veteran Democratic campaign strategists to work for successive candidates running for the White House.
“President Obama will get involved if Harris asks him to,” the source said.
If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Obama will get involved at a time and place of his choosing.
McCarthy, who was ousted from his speaker post in October of ’23 and subsequently resigned from Congress, also laid into Kamala Harris’ record:
“This is by far … the most liberal ticket in the history of American politics. … We do not want to put San Francisco and Minnesota across this country…”
“She gave the deciding vote that brought us inflation,” he said. “We’ve watched these families struggle at the grocery store, at the gas station. There’s nothing left for them. They are working so hard just to try to make ends meet.”
Somehow Harris thinks we’d believe that she’s the president we need to tackle inflation, even though she helped bring it to us in the first place.
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If Kamala Harris does become the next president, some will say it will actually be Barack’s fourth term. If what McCarthy says is true, they could be right.
