A new Morning Consult survey found that 60 percent of Democrats think the former president has endorsed a candidate despite him staying neutral in the race.
The most sought-after endorsement among Democrats running for president, hands down, is that of Barack Obama. To the frustration of many, however, the former president has kept his own counsel through the primary, saying only that he would support whoever the party nominates.
Ten percent of respondents thought Obama had endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders, the race’s current frontrunner, who has had a sometimes uneasy relationship with the former president; according to an account in The Atlantic Obama aides feared Sanders might actually enter the primaries against the president when he sought reelection in 2012.
Story continuesBloomberg had a much cooler relationship with Obama, but you would not know that from the ads he has spent hundreds of million running across the country. In the ad “Steady Leadership,” an Obama speech from 2013 praising Bloomberg is the narration. Another ad, titled “Difference,” pairs the two as “a great president and an effective mayor” involved with “leadership that makes a difference.
“It’s jarring to see all these Bloomberg ads that suggest Obama has endorsed him, especially considering how … perfunctory his endorsement of Obama was back in 2012,” wrote Tommy Vietor, a former Obama spokesman.
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