National Interest: Why hasn't Obama supported Joe Biden yet?

National Interest Magazine expressed its surprise that the former US President Barack Obama has not yet announced his support for his deputy, Joe Biden, who is running a fierce competition to kidnap the Democratic presidential nomination card to be held in November.

"What is Obama waiting for?" Asked the magazine, in a report by its chief correspondent, Hunter de Princesse.

The report said that the past three days have witnessed stormy political events in the primaries to choose the Democratic candidate to contest US President Donald Trump in the presidential elections.

The magazine confirmed that the campaign of Joe Biden, the former US Vice President, was resumed last Saturday after he achieved an "easy" victory in South Carolina, thirty points ahead of his closest competitors.

Biden's victory came after many believed his campaign had died as a result of his poor performance in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Electoral festival
In the past 24 hours, two of the candidates - whom de Renses describes in his report as moderates - withdrew from the Democratic primary race, Pete Bottledge and Senator Amy Kloppchar.

Bottledge announced his support for Biden during an election festival held on Monday in Dallas, Texas, on the eve of "Big Tuesday", which will witness the vote of 14 American states to choose a Democratic candidate to compete with President Donald Trump.

The Kloppchar campaign organizers revealed that they also intend to announce their support for Biden's nomination, while the Democratic Party is stepping up to get around one candidate.

Once again, National Interest is once again questioning: Will former President Barack Obama support his old vice president? And when?

Biden has been introducing himself as the closest candidate to Obama's legacy, according to Hunter de Princesses, who quotes the former US vice president as his appeal - in his speech after his victory in South Carolina - for members of his party to join him.

Biden alone
The magazine noted that Obama hurriedly called Biden to congratulate him on his victory in the South Carolina primary, but he did not express his support for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Biden claimed that he told Obama since he announced his intention to run in the primaries not to support him outright. "I want to win it (i.e. the party card to contest the presidential elections) on my own, and I have no doubt when I am the party's candidate that he (Obama) will stand in the election campaign next to me," he said.

However, the American magazine believes that the truth may be more complicated than Joe Biden thinks. Despite the admiration of one another, the relationship between the two men behind the scenes during the Obama presidency was very tense.

When Obama chose Biden - who is twenty years older than him - to be his deputy, the reason for this was that he did not want an internal conflict to succeed him. In 2016, when Biden thought about Hillary Clinton's competition for the party card for the presidential election that Trump won, Obama was Among them secretly tried to persuade him to change it.

Sudden retreat
On the other hand, there have been reports that Obama will have to interfere in the conduct of the primaries, if it turns out that Senator Bernie Sanders - a Social Democrat, as described by National Interest - will easily win it. However, this possibility has now suddenly and dramatically decreased.

The magazine concludes that Obama hopes - by staying away from the primaries - to be able to reunite his party after the potential fierce struggle in the corridors of the National Democratic Party conference to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, next July to formally select his presidential candidate.

Whether it is the prospective candidate Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders, Obama intends to engage with all his resolve in a campaign this fall aimed at toppling President Donald Trump.