Bob Beckel, a longtime Democratic campaign manager, said that the problems surrounding Obamacare would make him think twice about asking the president to stump for a potential candidate.
“If I were still in the business — and I did over 100 campaigns — I’d say to my candidate, ‘Look, I wouldn’t want to necessarily have Obama to come in and campaign with you,’” he said on Fox News on Tuesday. Beckel added that the one upside to the president’s presence would be the money he would bring in through fundraising.
Beckel praised Democrats “cohesiveness in the face of all this” and would advise candidates to ride it out since they can’t really disassociate themselves from the health-care debacle. “‘You voted for this thing — you’re not going to be able to somehow run and hide from it,’” he said.
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