As President Biden’s poll numbers get weaker and weaker, the Democratic Party at some point wil♔l likely turn to Michelle Obama.
Here’s how it works: If a candidate quits or dies after having secured a majority of delegate🌺s, the 200-member Democratic National Committee ch💖ooses the nominee.
The earned delegates become irrelevant.
Many Repꦿublicans reflexively recite the mantra that Michelle Obama is enjoying her life, isn’t political — and won’t likely to step in.
Let’s not kid anyone: Michelle Obama is very political.
And always has been.
She’s the daughter ofไ a Chicago Democratic Party precinct captain, Fraser R🍌obinson.
She’s written about making the 🗹rounds with her father from age four, visiting homes in her area to ge💯t out the black vote for the white liberal Chicago Democratic Party machine.
In high school, Michelle was elected to the stu🌠dent council as class treasurer.
And she befriended Santita Jackson, the✃ daughter of Jesse Jackson, and has said, “I grew up in♏ that man’s house.”
Yes, Michelle spent much time at Jes❀se Jackson’s house while he was preparing to run for president. “I’ve seen iꦰt all,” Michelle said of the experience.
At Princetꦆon University, Michelle was electe🌟d to the board of the Third World Center, a radical black activist fraternity.
Michelle and Barack Obama had a mutual professor at Harvard, though in different years, named Charles Ogle꧂tree.
When Barack was elected president, that between Barack and Michelle, hﷺe would have thought Michelle more likely to run for president than Barack.
Michelle says she fell in love with Barack after being impressed withꩲ a political speech he made in a church.
In Chicago, she 🦩befriended another very political person, the former head of the Weather Underground domestic-terroriꦰst group Bernardine Dohrn.
Michelle worked with her for two years at the Sidley Austin law firm and had dinners🐎 at her home with Bill Ayers for years, right up until the time Barack ran for US Senate in𒐪 2004.
Dohrn was Michelle’s first guest speaker at Public Allies, the community organizing gro꧃up𝓰 she ran. Yes, like Barack, Michelle was also a community organizer for three years.
A🦩fter working in a law firm for two years, Michelle went to work for Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley, becoming assistant planning commissioner.
On the 2008 campaign tra൲il, Michelle ꦬspoke to huge adoring crowds in stadiums across the country, trumpeting word for word the anti-American rhetoric she’d learned from Dohrn.
The media largely ignored t🃏he nastiness until Michelle proclaimed, upon Barack winning a primary, “For the first time in my life, I’m proud of my country.”
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This brought Michelle a media backlash.
The next day, she hired a🍨 speechwriter and declared, “I hate politics. I jus✱t want to be the mom in chief.”
Her claim earned Michelle an immediate respite and reshaped her public persona from a highly political ant🦩i-American radical into a mom who hates politics.
To a degree, Michelle was being truthful: Many polit🃏icians hate politics; it’s grueli🌊ng and annoying.
But they put up with it because they love power.
A Michelle Obama candidacy would solve two majo🥂r problems for Democrats.
First, she can bring back the black voters who have been steadily hemorrhaging to Dona🌊ld Trump.
Second, the very unpopular Kamala Harris wo💦uld be leapfrogged with𝕴out any repercussions from the minority community.
Seeing Joe Biden’s advanced age, immense unpopularity and terrible polls, Democratic leaders s♚uch as Barack Obama and Daꦚvid Axelrod are coming to fear he’ll lose in November.
In the wings, meanwhile, waits the very political Michelle Obama🌸.
And if you doubt it, take a look at the she tweeted Jan𓂃. 7, 2021, a day aft෴er Capitol riot, airing her gripes about Donald Trump, the rioters, the media and others.
“I hurt for our country,” she declared.
But “even in the darkness, there are glimmers of hope.”
Michelle’s deserves to be read in full.
If nothing else, that alone should prove Michelle Obama is a very political woman — and has her sights o🃏n the White House in 2024.
Andrew Stein (D) served as New York City Council president, 1986-94. Author Joel Gilbert, a Los Angeles-based film producer, wrote the book and film, “.”