Michelle Obama is reluctant to campaign for Joe Biden because of the Biden family’s treatment of Hunter Biden’s first wife, Katherine Buhler.
Axios reported that Michelle Obama, who had been close to Katherine Bueller years ago, did not appreciate the way the Biden family treated her during Hunter’s divorce.
Axios reports:
Former first lady Michelle Obama has privately expressed frustration that the Biden family essentially exiled her close friend Katherine Bueller following her messy divorce from Hunter Biden, two people familiar with the matter told Axios.
Why it’s important: family Sources say tensions and the former first lady’s disdain for partisan politics are part of the reason one of the Democratic Party’s most popular voices has not campaigned for President Joe Biden’s re-election, even though former President Obama has been a willing surrogate. people.
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Michelle Obama was also initially reluctant to campaign for Biden after he emerged as the Democratic nominee in 2020, people familiar with the matter told Axios.
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Biden’s team said the relationships between the families are strong, noting that public displays of friendship continue today. But sources told Axios that relationship changed in 2015.
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At the time, then-Vice President Biden was considering running for president; President Obama discourages this.
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That same year, Biden’s son Beau died of cancer, triggering years of turmoil within the family, including Hunter Biden and Buhler’s 2017 divorce.
