CNN’s David Axelrod mocked a tweet from former Vice President Joe Biden to former President Obama celebrating “Best Friends Day,” with the former Obama-Biden campaign chief strategist asking if it was joke.
“This is a joke, right?” Axelrod, who hosts “The Axe Files” on CNN, asked in a tweet on Sunday to his 1.1 million followers after Biden, a 2020 presidential candidate, wished Obama “happy #BestFriendsDay” on Saturday. Biden’s post included a photo of the bracelets he shared to celebrate his Obama’s 55th birthday in Aug. 2016.
Other pundits also jumped in to rib Biden on the friendship tweet.
This can’t be real https://t.co/p5QvVOA1If
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) <ahref=”https: twitter.com=”” jbarro=”” status=”” 1137554019629621254?ref_src=”twsrc%5Etfw””>June 9, 2019
{mosads}Obama has pledged not to give any candidate, including his former vice president, his endorsement during the 2020 Democratic primary.
Biden is currently the front-runner among the 24 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination, but has seen his lead shrink recently.
A Saturday Des Moines Register–CNN poll, for example, has Biden at 24 percent support, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at 16 percent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) at 15 percent and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) at 14 percent.