Obama Offers No Endorsement But Advises 2020 Dem Candidates on How to Beat Trump

After months of meetings with Democratic candidates, the former US President is still holding back on giving his direct support to any of the candidates until the party nominee is determined; however, he still gives advice as to how to beat Donald Trump in 2020.

Barack Obama has already met with more than a dozen declared and prospective candidates for the Democratic primaries, from Bernie Sanders to Mike Bloomberg, yet no candidate has received his direct lobbying, according to the New York Times. Even former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. does not expect to obtain Obama’s backing if he decides to run, according to Biden’s allies.

The ex-President, however, reportedly continues to shape the candidates’ strategy by giving them advice on how to counter current President Trump in the upcoming primaries. During these informal conversations, usually held at his office in Washington, Obama has offered a combination of supportive advice and warnings, cautioning that running for president is a more punishing process than they could ever imagine, according to seven people who are aware of the topics discussed at the meetings.

According to these sources, Obama has urged candidates to push back against Trump’s suggestion that substantial economic improvement has occurred during his presidency and suggested that they try and deliver a competing message that can resonate even in Republican-leaning areas, among rural voters and communities that tend to distrust Democrats.

“President Obama counsels candidates to always show up and make their case even in areas or in front of audiences they may not necessarily win; express views and positions that reflect their genuine beliefs, and share a positive vision for the country true to their own personal story,” said Eric Schultz, Obama’s senior adviser.

He has also encouraged candidates not to get too personal in the primary, fearing that attacks between Democrats over their program disagreements would help Trump in the general election.

This is not the first time Obama has tried to influence future elections or has given advice to potential candidates. Earlier during the midterm elections, Obama reportedly was counselling Democrats to focus on everyday issues, rather than the Russia investigation.

Don’t chase shiny objects, don’t hyperventilate over the flash of any tweet. Think about what’s going to stick in the long term, he told Democrats, cited by Politico.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201902201072573847-obama-advice-democrats-how-beat-trump/

Poland calls for Israel to apologize for ‘racist’ comments

Poland has demanded that Israel officially apologize for provocative remarks made by the occupying regime’s foreign minister against the Poles in a row that prompted the European country to withdraw from a summit in Israel.

Acting Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in an interview with Channel 13 over the weekend that “Poles suckle anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk,” repeating an old quote from Yitzak Shamir, a former Israeli prime minister and Holocaust survivor.

Katz also alleged on Sunday, the same day he was appointed as the regime’s interim foreign minister, that “there were many Poles who collaborated with the Nazis.”

The comments infuriated Warsaw, prompting its senior officials on Tuesday to demand that Israeli authorities formally make an apology over the allegations.

Israeli authorities must “reject this declaration… and apologize,” said Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Szymon Szynkowski, adding that “this is not something that can be left without a response.”

Separately on Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s chief of staff, Marek Suski, said if no apology was forthcoming, “relations will really take a frosty turn.”

A day earlier, Morawiecki lad lambasted the comments as “racist and unacceptable,” adding that Katz was “trying to insult the Poles by distorting history.”

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/02/19/588994/Poland-Israel-Katz

WTH…? Ex-Sessions Spox is Joining CNN as Political Editor, Helping Coordinate 2020 Coverage

Sarah Isgur, who served as the DOJ spokeswoman under Attorney General Jeff Sessions is now joining fake news CNN as a political editor where she will help coordinate coverage for the 2020 presidential election cycle.

At CNN, Isgur will not play a role in covering the Department of Justice, according to a CNN official, who also said she will occasionally appear on air analyzing politics, CNN reported.

Sarah Isgur never liked Donald Trump and actually defended Crooked Hillary on Twitter during the 2016 election.

“Saying you will criminally prosecute your political opponent when you win is a scary and dangerous threat,” Sarah Isgur tweeted in October of 2016.

WTH…? Ex-Sessions Spox is Joining CNN as Political Editor, Helping Coordinate 2020 Coverage

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Former DOJ spox Sarah Isgur, Former AG Jeff Sessions

Sarah Isgur, who served as the DOJ spokeswoman under Attorney General Jeff Sessions is now joining fake news CNN as a political editor where she will help coordinate coverage for the 2020 presidential election cycle.

At CNN, Isgur will not play a role in covering the Department of Justice, according to a CNN official, who also said she will occasionally appear on air analyzing politics, CNN reported.

Sarah Isgur never liked Donald Trump and actually defended Crooked Hillary on Twitter during the 2016 election.

“Saying you will criminally prosecute your political opponent when you win is a scary and dangerous threat,” Sarah Isgur tweeted in October of 2016.

The President was not happy when Sarah Isgur joined the Trump administration in 2017 — Another ‘Jeff Sessions beauty.’

Was Sarah Isgur leaking to CNN the whole time she was the leading spokeswoman for the DOJ?

Is CNN rewarding her with a job as political editor for leaking to them while she was working for Jeff Sessions?

Donald Trump Jr. retweeted Arthur Schwartz, a political operative who called for an investigation into Sarah Isgur for potentially being a leaker.

Jeff Sessions was a horrible attorney general — he allowed the Justice Department to be hijacked by Deep State criminal coup plotters when he recused himself.

Sessions recused himself from all things ‘Russia’ and ‘Hillary’ day one on the job which allowed for his Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint dirty cop Robert Mueller as special counsel.

Because of Jeff Sessions serving as attorney general, we lost his Alabama Senate seat to liberal Doug Jones, ushered in a rogue special counsel who is jailing Trump’s associates on process crimes and preventing the real criminals in the Deep State from facing justice.

Now his former spokeswoman is going to work for fake news CNN — Jeff Sessions, the gift that keeps on giving.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/wth-ex-sessions-spox-is-joining-cnn-as-political-editor-helping-coordinate-2020-coverage/