Alex Burns: There’s No Indication Obama or Michelle Have Any Intention to Endorse Any 2020 Dems Candidates

BURNS: "Look, I think it was very clear in 2016 that Barack Obama’s sympathies were with Hillary Clinton. But it’s sort of an echo of the role that he's playing right now that he privately coached Hillary Clinton, privately coached Joe Biden on his decision, helped talk him through the decision not to run. Joe Biden later broke that he felt that Obama was trying to dissuade him from running in 2015. But he did not actually endorse Hillary Clinton until the end of primary voting, much to the disappointment of Hillary Clinton and her advisers. He is laying out his view of the race in private. He is encouraging Democrats to go to red parts of the country, to go after Republican-leaning voters who might be suspicious of them. He is sort of suggesting that there is room for a more moderate candidate to emerge in this primary, so probably not Bernie Sanders. But there is no indication that he or Michelle Obama has any intention to endorse."