- Obama backs Harris at Democratic Convention
- Praises Biden, criticizes Trump
- Michelle Obama endorses Harris, warns against Trump’s tactics
Former US President Barack Obama has taken the stage at the Democratic National Convention to show his support for Kamala Harris in her last-minute effort to become the country’s next president in November’s election.
Obama took the stage in Chicago to a thunderous ovation from a crowd that had already heard from Obama’s wife Michelle, Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff, and other party stalwarts, as well as Republicans who had left their party due to Donald Trump.
63-year-old Obama, the first Black American elected to the White House, swiftly demonstrated his oratorical abilities, praising President Joe Biden as a guy he was “proud to call president, but even prouder to call my friend.”
Recognizing the immense challenge Harris and her running mate Tim Walz face in winning the White House over the next 11 weeks, he urged people to “fight for an America we can believe in” and vote.
“This will be a tight race in a divided country—a country where too many Americans are still struggling,” he said.
“Donald Trump sees power as nothing more than a means to his own ends,” according to Obama. “We do not need another four years of bluster, stupidity, and mayhem. We’ve seen that movie before, and we all know that sequels are usually worse. America is prepared for a new chapter. For a new narrative, “We are prepared for a President Kamala Harris.”
Obama, who spoke for more than 30 minutes, has committed his substantial political capital behind Harris, who hopes to create history on November 5 by being the first woman, as well as the first person of Black and South Asian origin, elected president.
Obama was preceded onstage by his wife Michelle, who was greeted with wild ovations, yells, and whistles.
“Hope is making a comeback,” she remarked, launching into an exuberant endorsement of Harris and Walz.
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The former first lady spoke of the need for the country to turn the page on fear and division and warned that Trump would try to twist Harris’s reality, just as he had done “everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” referring to her and her husband.
His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who also happened to be Black,” she stated to thunderous ovations.
The Obamas served in the White House from 2009 to 2017.
“Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?” she questioned, eliciting amusement from the audience.
Trump and his vice presidential running partner, JD Vance, are also touring critical swing states this week in an effort to divert focus away from the convention in Chicago.
Republicans who have left the party, like Trump’s former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham and former Trump supporter Kyle Sweetser, also spoke at the Democratic convention on Tuesday.
