President Michelle Obama! She found being First Lady an 'ordeal' - but could she now be tempted by the top job and replace Biden? Some claim that was Barack's plan all along

Embattled and progressively bitter, Joe Biden angrily lashed retired connected Monday erstwhile he was asked – yet again – if he'd considering stepping down arsenic nan presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

'Who other do you deliberation could measurement successful present and do this?' he spat during a phone-in question and reply pinch MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

'Run against me!' he said, daring Democrat rivals. 'Challenge maine astatine nan convention.'

The President should beryllium observant what he wishes for.

According to caller polling, location is one Democrat who could successfully situation him – and comfortably hit Donald Trump successful November… if only she would.

A Reuters study released past week showed that 55 percent of registered voters clasp a favorable sentiment of erstwhile First Lady Michelle Obama. Only 38 percent opportunity nan aforesaid of Biden.

Michelle was besides nan only Democrat successful nan canvass who commanded capable nationalist support to perchance conclusion nan erstwhile president successful an election.

In fact, she blew Trump retired nan h2o successful a head-to-head matchup (50 percent to 39 percent).

Vice President Kamala Harris and different imaginable Biden substitutes –including eager California Governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer – were either tied aliases lagged down Trump.

Meanwhile, aft past month's disastrous CNN debate, Biden's electoral prospects person slumped, pinch polls successful nan New York Times and nan Wall Street Journal showing Trump pulling up to a six-point nationalist lead.

All together, these numbers now person galore Democrats saying that 'Michelle 2024' is their only hope. And nan erstwhile First Lady – intentionally aliases not – has fixed her fans immoderate logic to judge she mightiness really propulsion her chapeau into nan ring.

'I americium terrified astir what could perchance happen, because our leaders matter,' she said successful January, railing against nan threat of a 2nd Trump term. 'Who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects america successful ways that sometimes I deliberation group return for granted.'

Michelle has agelong been outspoken successful her disdain for The Donald.

In a 2016 reside successful New Hampshire – aft nan merchandise of nan infamous Access Hollywood portion that captured Trump suggesting women let able men to 'grab them by nan p****' – our past out-going First Lady expressed her revulsion.

'This wasn't conscionable locker-room banter,' she said. 'This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly astir sexually predatory behavior, and really bragging astir kissing and groping women, utilizing connection truthful obscene that galore of america were worried astir our children proceeding it erstwhile we move connected nan TV.'

Now, almost a decade later, and arsenic doubts astir President Biden's fittingness for agency equine by nan day, Michelle whitethorn find that nan only measurement to extremity her nightmare coming existent is by moving for president herself.

And it could hap – astatine slightest theoretically.

Obama biographers – who spent hours interviewing those adjacent to nan family – still insist location is 'absolutely nothing' that would person her to prosecute nan presidency.

Her clip successful nan White House was specified an 'ordeal' thing would seduce her to spell back, Peter Slevin, writer of 'Michelle Obama: A Life', told DailyMail.com.

'It was 8 years of an ordeal. And she asks: "Why would I do that again and effort to beryllium successful charge?",' he said.

'She doesn't want to put herself done it for 1 thing, and she feels arsenic though she's done her clip successful nan nationalist eye.'

It's easy to spot why Michelle has been put off.

In her 8 years arsenic First Lady, she endured years of racist and sexist individual attacks.

In February 2011, talk power big Rush Limbaugh went connected a bizarre rant astir her body, saying: 'Our First Lady does not task nan image of women that you mightiness spot connected nan screen of nan Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.'

Months later, successful December, erstwhile Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner was forced to apologize aft he was overheard loudly discussing Michelle's 'large posterior' astatine Reagan National Airport.

Even much distressing than nan individual attacks were nan conspiracy theories.

'People would say, "Well, she's not moreover really a woman. She's a man",' Slevin said, 'They bizarrely and grotesquely questioned her sexuality.'

And while nan attacks continued, Michelle had to grapple pinch nan abrupt and profound nonaccomplishment of privateness and autonomy that immoderate first family faces.

In particular, she struggled to raise her 2 young daughters Malia and Sasha pinch a grade of normalcy.

'She has ne'er successful her full life had immoderate liking successful elective office, and she was consistently, profoundly uncomfortable pinch Barack wanting to beryllium a leader correct from nan early 1990s onward,' statesmanlike biographer David Garrow told DailyMail.com. 'She could not hold for them to get retired of nan White House.'

But, now faced pinch nan Democrats' top fearfulness – a alleged 'dictator' Trump successful nan White House, and a sedate threat to populist – could Barack seduce his woman that she is nan party's only hope?

Garrow doesn't deliberation so.

'Barack knows measurement amended than to moreover ideate trying that,' he said.

Michelle has spoken openly astir having to 'call 12 people' to moreover spell connected a locomotion – and really she hated nan penetration of her privacy.

'We can't do nan mean things of life, you know, for illustration spell to a movie theater,' she said earlier this year. 'I joked successful Covid erstwhile group asked "when we were each successful quarantine really did it feel?" and I was for illustration well, it was benignant of easy for america because we've lived successful quarantine for like, you know, a decade!'

Balancing her beardown governmental beliefs pinch her desire for a backstage life must undoubtedly create a analyzable soul conflict for Michelle, particularly arsenic nan Obamas near nan White House, but not authorities aliases Washington DC.

The couple purchased a property successful nan upscale Kalorama vicinity successful nan nation's superior aft Trump's 2020 predetermination – and President Obama is simply a sporadic beingness astatine nan Biden White House.

In May, he was a astonishment impermanent astatine a 500-person authorities meal held successful grant of a Presidential delegation from Kenya.

Some person moreover suggested that Barack is nan 1 still calling nan shots wrong nan Oval Office, pinch critics making chaotic claims that he is puppeteering nan President.

A Los Angeles fundraiser successful June hardly helped nan rumor mill – arsenic Obama was filmed ushering Biden disconnected shape aft nan 81-year-old commander-in-chief appeared to frost and look retired complete nan crowd.

'Obama has plentifulness to woody with. I telephone him Biden's boss,' Trump said astatine a New Hampshire past year.

Even Obama has joked astir nan possibility, telling late-night comedian Stephen Colbert successful 2020 that he'd thought astir secretly serving retired a 'third term'.

'If I could make an statement wherever I had a stand-in, a beforehand man aliases beforehand woman, and they had an earpiece successful and I was conscionable successful my basement successful my sweats looking done nan stuff, and past I could benignant of present nan lines, but personification other was doing each nan talking and ceremony, I'd beryllium good pinch that,' he said.

For her part, Michelle appears to person a somewhat frostier narration pinch nan existent First Family than her husband. 

She was reportedly outraged by Bidens' curen of her adjacent friend Kathleen Buhle, who suffered done a contentious divorcement from Biden's boy Hunter successful 2017.

Sources besides claimed that Michelle was disturbed by Hunter striking up an matter pinch his precocious relative Beau's widow, Hallie.

Michelle reportedly called nan fraternal overlap 'weird s***', according to Axios.

She now runs her non-partisan 'When We All Vote' initiative, campaigning to summation elector turn-out successful underrepresented communities.

The Obamas whitethorn look perfectly placed to expanse backmost into authorities and lead nan Democrats to victory, but location are intelligibly important hurdles.

In the coming weeks and days, if Biden does determine to extremity his 2024 run, leaving Democrats desperately searching for personification to spot disconnected Trump, there's small uncertainty they'll travel knocking connected Michelle's door.

The mobility is: Will she reply their call?