Speculation is rife on social media that Michelle Obama will be brought in to replace Joe Biden, after it was reported that a Michigan non-profit is using her image on voter-registration mailings.
Leading Report posted an image of one of these documents, with an image of Michelle Obama on the envelope, to the left of the recipient’s address.
Image: Leading Report
According to the return address, which is clearly visible on the envelope, the mailing was sent by the Voter Participation Center (VPC). The organization describes itself, on its website, as a “non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 2003 to help members of the New American Majority register and vote.” It claims to have “helped more than 6 million people register and cast ballots.”
VPC targets women, minorities and millennials with its mailing campaigns and phone calls. The group’s ties to the Clinton family have been a source of some controversy for it in the past, since it claims to be non-partisan.
Twitter users were claiming the mailings came directly from the state of Michigan, but this is clearly not the case.
At this stage, it appears that Biden has the support of the Obamas to remain as president.
On Friday, while the mainstream media was rounding on Biden for his dismal performance in Thursday night’s debate, former president Barack Obama issued a call for solidarity on Twitter, the day after.
“Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself,” Obama wrote on Twitter.
“Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November.”
Axios have made it clear that the deciding vote for whether Biden throws in the towel rests, ultimately, with a “Biden oligarchy” that includes his wife, sister and close White House advisors, and not the party.
“The only way President Biden steps aside, despite his debate debacle, is if the same small group of lifelong loyalists who enabled his run suddenly — and shockingly — decides it’s time for him to call it quits.”
“This decades-long kitchen cabinet operates as an extended family, council of elders and governing oligarchy. These allies alone hold sway over decisions big and small in Biden’s life and presidency.”
In making this admission, Axios has confirmed that Trump’s “deranged conspiracy theory” that Biden is a mere puppet, a man who is not in control of his own destiny or the nation’s, is in fact true.
