Obama called on frantic Democrats for help

Getting close to important midterm legislative elections In the US, a Democratic president is campaigning aggressively…except he’s not Joe Biden. By November 8th, the date of this election with big stakes, we will see Barack Obama everywhere, on the ground and in campaign segments, rather than the current tenant of the White House.

However, on Friday, the two men spoke at the same time, in two corners of the United States: Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, and Barack Obama in Georgia, two crucial states in the Democratic Party’s campaign.

Both rejected, essentially, the same rhetoric: it is a matter of saving American democracy by blocking the Republicans, Donald Trump’s party.

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But the former Democratic president, playing with his sense of self-expression and his art in “Outlines,” stole the show from the one who was his deputy, who did not have the ease of public speaking. “If they win, it’s impossible to say what might happen‘, he said of conservative Barack Obama lively and in shirt sleeves, visibly amused by the enthusiasm of his Atlanta crowd.I want you to get off the couch and go vote! Leave your phone, leave TikTok alone, go vote!“.

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Saturday continued in Michigan, in Detroit, and the former president was able to show this actor. “Sir, that is exactly what I am trying to point out. We have a framework here in our democracy. That’s me talking, you’ll have the opportunity to talk later. You wouldn’t do that in your workplace.‘, fired, challenged by a protester.

The former president – from 2009 to 2017 – moved away from the political arena, devoting himself to other activities: producing documentaries, publications, charitable work … But he made a very noticeable comeback there, presiding over meetings: after Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin on Saturday, he will be in Nevada on Tuesday, then in Pennsylvania.

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Polls, to be taken with a pinch of salt, currently predict that the Democratic Party will retain precarious control of the Senate, but lose control of the House of Representatives to the Republican opposition.

However, the recent surge in the polls of conservative right-wing candidates, including the most ferocious pony of former Republican President Donald Trump, has raised fears in the White House of more severe losses than expected in the House of Representatives. Even tilting the Senate, which would put both houses of Congress under Republican control.

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Barack Obama is, in a way, well placed to sound the alarm: His party suffered from what he himself described as “unfrozen” during the 2010 legislative elections, marking his first half term. “There is an inherent danger of being in the White House and being in the bubble‘, he had commented at the time on these elections which, for 160 years, had almost always been the punishing party of the ruling party.

Joe Biden, who regularly prides himself on being president close toMiddle classFar from Washington’s microcosm, yet it gives the impression from the start of the campaign to stay in shelter inbubble“In question. He travels regularly and raises money for the Democratic Party, but the 79-year-old president, who is unpopular, has not yet ventured into some hotly contested states like Arizona. His last campaign meeting will take place the day before the election on known ground. , in the very democratic state of Maryland.