Obama, Fearing Biden Loss to Trump, Is on the Phone to Strategize

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The former president and the current one are now on the same page about Joseph R. Biden Jr.โ€™s political future. It was not always that way.

As the election approaches, President Biden is making regular calls to former President Barack Obama to catch up on the race or to talk about family. But Mr. Obama is making calls of his own to Jeffrey D. Zients, the White House chief of staff, and to top aides at the Biden campaign to strategize and relay advice.

This level of engagement illustrates Mr. Obamaโ€™s support for Mr. Biden, but also what one of his senior aides characterized as Mr. Obamaโ€™s grave concern that Mr. Biden could lose to former President Donald J. Trump. The aide, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said that Mr. Obama has โ€œalwaysโ€ been worried about a Biden loss. And so, the aide added, he is prepared to โ€œeke it outโ€ alongside his former vice president in an election that could come down to slim margins in a handful of states.

Perhaps for the first time, the two are on the same page about Mr. Bidenโ€™s future. In a sign of things to come, they are to appear together, with former President Bill Clinton, at a major fund-raiser for the Biden campaign at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Thursday.

It was not always this way.

In 2015, as Mr. Biden was grieving the loss of his eldest son, Beau, and contemplating running for the presidency, it was Mr. Obama who gently suggested that it was not his time. In a memoir, โ€œPromise Me, Dad,โ€ Mr. Biden wrote that Mr. Obama told him that if he โ€œcould appoint anyone to be president for the next eight years,โ€ it would have been Mr. Biden. The vice president wrote that โ€œthe mere possibility of a presidential campaign, which Beau wanted, gave us purpose and hope โ€” a way to defy the fates.โ€

Byย Katie Rogers

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