Gray hair, shirt without a jacket, sporty appearance, sharp and rhythmic words: Barack Obama, just like him, entered the campaign on Thursday, October 10 in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). The gym was packed and excited. Contrary to expectations, Kamala Harris was not present. That same afternoon he was campaigning in Las Vegas (Nevada) and then in Phoenix (Arizona). But the political lineage between these two democratic figures was vindicated. “Yes, she can”said the gym screen, in an optimistic echo of Barack Obama’s conquest of power in 2008.
Twenty-eight days before the elections, while early voting has already begun in Pennsylvania as in other states, the former president estimated that Kamala Harris was “More prepared for the job than any presidential candidate.” Barack Obama, above all, relentlessly attacked his successor in the White House. “Donald Trump wants us to believe that our country is hopelessly divided between us and them, between ‘real Americans’ who support him and foreigners who don’t. Because he believes that keeping people divided and angry increases his chances of being elected. (…) We don’t need four more years of arrogance, nonsense, boasting and division. The United States is ready to turn the page. We are ready for a better story. »
Barack Obama did not really calibrate his intervention for the local public, even though the two campaign teams are doing it by hand, almost street by street, in this hotly contested state. He focused his speech on the values at stake in the elections, mocking Donald Trump, portrayed as a man concerned exclusively with his own interest and a lover of endless speeches. “It’s like Fidel Castro, it goes on and on, constant attempts to sell you things. Who does this? He sells you gold sneakers and $100,000 watches and, most recently, a Trump Bible. He wants you to buy the word of God at Trump Publishing!Serious. He has his name next to Matthew and Luke. »
Satisfaction
The audience, made up of convinced people, purred with satisfaction at this evocation, which will undoubtedly not move a single voice. Barack Obama also acknowledged the impact of inflation on low-income households and the shocks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. “There was a feeling that the aspirations of workers were relegated to the background to those of the rich and powerful”he noted, highlighting the tax cuts promised by Donald Trump to the richest. But the main part of his comments was about the contrast between the personalities and their righteousness.
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