Following President Biden's latest woes during press conferences and TV interviews and surrounded by questions regarding his "mental capacity" to lead the country for a second term, NBC News asked former First Lady and popular speaker, Michelle Obama, if she would be interested in taking a stab at the presidency.
"As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president,” Crystal Carson, director of communications for the former first lady’s office, retorted to the rumors. Michelle is, however, expected to campaign in support of Biden and VP Kamala Harris's re-election.
The Daily Caller said that Kevin Munoz, a Biden campaign spokesperson, recalled that the Obamas were “enormously helpful” in electing Biden in 2020. The former FLOTUS told Oprah Winfrey that she would not be running for office anytime soon. "Politics is hard. And the people who get into it… you’ve got to want it. It’s got to be in your soul, because it’s so important. It’s not in my soul," she told Winfrey in a Netflix special.
According to The Daily Caller, the report comes as Republicans and even some Democrats are casting doubt on another Biden presidency. Biden, who celebrated his 81st birthday on November 20, has declined to take a mental health test despite calls on the President to do so by a wide majority of the public.
In a report from last month, NBC News questioned his mental status. "Special counsel Robert Hur’s portrait of a man who couldn’t remember when he served as Barack Obama’s vice president, or the year when his beloved son Beau died, dealt a blow to Biden’s argument that he is still sharp and fit enough to serve another four-year term," it wrote.