Ex-president praised Harris as ‘champion’ of people and took a dig at Trump’s ‘weird obsession with crowd sizes’
Amid chants of “Yes, she can!”, Barack Obama returned to the scene of past triumphs on Tuesday to pass the mantle of political history to
Obama was speaking 20 years after he first exploded on to the political stage at the Democratic convention in Boston. That summer, Harris helped host a fundraiser for Obama’s run for the US Senate in Illinois. Four years later, she backed him against Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary, a campaign in which he coined the phrase “Yes, we can!”
“Because we have the chance to elect someone who’s spent her whole life trying to give people the same chances America gave her. Someone who sees you and hears you and will get up every single day and fight for you: the next President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris.” “This is a 78-year-old billionaire who hasn’t stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago,” he said. “It’s been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually gotten worse now that he’s afraid of losing to Kamala.
Notably, Obama did not dwell on a topic that was central to Biden’s candidacy: the notion that Trump poses an existential threat to democracy.But he did draw a vivid contrast between Trump and Harris, describing her as “ready for the job” and “a person who has spent her life fighting on behalf of people who need a voice and a champion.
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