Obama giving Trump the Biden age treatment in battleground blitz
By
Christian Datoc
October 19, 2024 11:07 am
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Former President Barack Obama is attacking Donald Trump’s age and questioning his mental competence — exactly the criticisms Republicans aimed at President Joe Biden until Democrats forced him out of the race.
Obama is continuing a whirlwind battleground campaign tour this weekend and next week, as Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain deadlocked ahead of Election Day.
Obama held a rally in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday following a similar event in Pittsburgh earlier in October. He’ll next take his campaign blitz to Las Vegas on Saturday before heading to Detroit and Madison, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. He also plans to headline a joint rally with Harris in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, their first rally together of the 2024 cycle.
Former first lady Michelle Obama will also stump alongside Harris the following weekend, marking her first appearance on the campaign trail since delivering a fiery speech at the Democratic National Convention in August.
Harris campaign aides have previously told the Washington Examiner that the former president will do “whatever it takes” to ensure Harris’s victory in November, and they view his campaigning as a serious boon to the vice president.
Obama’s campaign slate is heavily influenced by fears of a second Trump presidency, which he began voicing privately in July following Biden‘s debate with Trump, the Washington Post reported.
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