New book details Obama's strained relationship with Democratic party: 'Obama destroyed that s---'

Former President Barack Obama sought to region himself from the Democratic Party aft leaving it successful shambles pursuing his departure from the White House, according to a caller book. 

The book, "Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House," published by William Morrow and Company, claims that Obama was ne'er a Democratic Party loyalist. Instead, the authors allege, Obama curried favour from a radical of "Black professionals" for his campaigns, dissimilar erstwhile President Bill Clinton and erstwhile Secretary of State and statesmanlike campaigner Hillary Clinton, and erstwhile President Joe Biden. 

Additionally, Obama’s instauration of Organizing for Action — a nonprofit that launched successful 2012 pursuing Obama’s re-election to beforehand his legislative priorities — fractured the Democratic Party, according to the book, authored by governmental journalists Jonathan Allen of NBC News and Amie Parnes of The Hill.  

"Though Organizing for Action ne'er realized his vision, it competed with the enactment for powerfulness and money," the publication said. "He near the Democratic Party acold weaker than helium recovered it. Or, arsenic 1 Black enactment operative enactment it, ‘Obama destroyed that s---.’" 

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Former President Barack Obama arrives to talk adjacent to erstwhile archetypal woman Michelle Obama during the Democratic National Convention astatine the United Center successful Chicago successful 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The publication besides elaborate however the Clintons, on with Biden and erstwhile Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile and a fewer different enactment operatives, sought to "rebuild the enactment infrastructure" pursuing Obama’s 2016 departure from the White House. This meant preventing far-left Democrats from seizing power of the enactment and ensuring enactment loyalists ran the show, according to the book. 

"By helping instal enactment loyalists astatine the nationalist and authorities committees implicit the people of years, these constitution Democrats kept progressive outsiders astatine bay. ‘You cognize who did that?’ said 1 Black Biden state acquainted with the maneuvering. ‘Bill and Hillary motherf---ing Clinton,’" the publication related. 

"Fight," released Tuesday, besides revealed however Obama remained hesitant to backmost erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris successful the 2024 predetermination to regenerate Biden, amid concerns astir his intelligence fitness. The publication claimed that Obama didn’t judge Harris had the capableness to bushed now-President Donald Trump successful the November 2024 race, frustrating Harris. 

The publication stated that Obama didn't judge that Harris could bushed Trump successful the 2024 election.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images | Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg)

Ultimately, Obama endorsed Harris 5 days aft Biden announced helium would not tally for bureau again successful the 2024 contention — a hold that offended Harris and required immoderate "mending" betwixt the 2 Democrats, a root adjacent to Obama said, Allen and Parnes wrote. 

A spokesperson for Obama's property bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital. 

Even so, Obama's wife, erstwhile archetypal woman Michelle Obama, appeared astatine the Democratic National Convention successful August 2024 aft Harris clinched the party's nomination. 

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Former archetypal woman Michelle Obama, left, and Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris are seen astatine a run rally successful October 2024.  (Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press)

"Kamala Harris is much than acceptable for this moment," Michelle Obama said astatine the convention. "She is 1 of the astir qualified radical ever to question the bureau of the presidency and she is 1 of the astir dignified — a tribute to her mother, to my mother, and astir apt to your mother, too, the embodiment of the stories we archer ourselves astir this country." 

Meanwhile, Democrat strategists foretell that Barack Obama’s power implicit the Democratic Party is waning, and immoderate person suggested helium is retired of interaction with the entreaty of Trump. 

For example, governmental commentator and writer Ben Burgess wrote an op-ed aft Obama delivered a code astatine the Obama Democracy Forum that portion of the "problem" is Obama doesn’t recognize wherefore Trump won the 2024 predetermination and that the American nationalist should halt listening to the erstwhile president. 

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"​​Obama’s diagnostic rhetorical virtues were connected afloat display," Burgess wrote successful December 2024 for MSNBC, pursuing Obama’s speech. "He was a law instrumentality prof earlier helium was a politician, and helium inactive sounds similar one. At the aforesaid time, helium was a once-in-a-generation endowment arsenic a governmental communicator. He knows however to convey a analyzable acceptable of ideas successful a digestible and appealing way." 

"But determination was a monolithic gaping spread astatine the halfway of his speech," the op-ed stated. "He inactive doesn’t recognize wherefore his 8 years successful powerfulness culminated successful the emergence of Trump." 

"Fight" details however Trump secured the White House for a 2nd word and the fallout of his triumph for the Democratic Party. It is based connected interviews Allen and Parnes conducted with much than 150 governmental insiders, according to the book's description. 

Fox News’ Hanna Panreck and Emma Colton contributed to this report.