Pennsylvania, United States.- Former US President Barack Obama made an impassioned speech against Donald Trump and in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris this Thursday during a rally on a Pittsburgh university campus aimed in part at encouraging young people to run in the November 5 elections.
Obama has been a vocal supporter of Harris since she rose to the top of the Democratic ticket after President Joe Biden bowed out in July following a poor debate performance against Trump.
Obama, whose term in the White House ended in 2017, remains popular among his party’s rank and file. The rally he headlined at the University of Pittsburgh, held while Harris was campaigning in Nevada and Arizona, is the first of several events he plans to hold in battleground states in the coming weeks. “I understand why people want to change things,” Obama told a crowd of supporters.
“I understand that people feel frustrated, that they feel like ‘we can do better.’ What I can’t understand is why anyone would think that Donald Trump is going to shake things up in a way that is good for you, Pennsylvania.”
Obama, who argued that Trump only cares about his own ego and money, stressed that Harris grew up middle class and believes in American values. “Kamala is as prepared for the job as any presidential candidate has ever been,” he said. Obama is not the only former President that the Harris campaign intends to deploy. Bill Clinton, like Obama, a two-time Democratic president and former Arkansas governor, will make stops in Georgia on Sunday and Monday before traveling to North Carolina for a bus tour later in the week in an effort to reach voters. rural voters. Young people are a critical part of the coalition that Harris’ campaign hopes will propel her to victory. But voter turnout among young people in 34 states is down compared to four years ago, according to data updated in September from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. The number of people ages 18 to 29 registered to vote in Pennsylvania in September was 15 percent lower than on Election Day 2020, the center’s data showed.
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