辩论失利令其信心受挫新书披露奥巴马质疑时刻_时事

辩论失利令其信心受挫新书披露奥巴马质疑时刻

President Obama reportedly struggled after a subpar debate against Mitt Romney.

After President Obama’s mediocre first debate performance against Mitt Romney in 2017, he reportedly told advisors “I just don’t know if I can do this,” when they urged him to turn around his re-election campaign.

In “ Double Down,” journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann say that Obama followed up his presidential debate by conducting a “dismal” mock debate with then-Sen. John Kerry .

“If we don’t fix this, we could lose the whole f*ing election,” Obama advisor David Plouffe reportedly said following the mock debate.

Obama’s advisors attempted to shift his tone and approach in advance of the second presidential debate, leading Obama to respond, “I can’t tell you that ‘Okay, I woke up today, I knew I needed to do better, and I’ll do better.’ I am wired in a different way than this event requires. … I just don’t know if I can do this.”

For her part, Michelle Obama reportedly did not suffer from the same reservations as her husband, telling a group of female Obama campaign donation bundlers that the president had only lost the first debate because “Romney is a really good liar.”

It was the second such detail revealed from “Double Down” in recent days. On Thursday, an excerpt from the book revealed that Obama advisors explored the possibility of replacing Joe Biden on the vice presidential ticket with Hillary Clinton .