The United States former President Barack Obama 21 for the first time to have assisted his own 8 years of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden offline electioneering, location elected in the election important “battlefield” Pennsylvania.
In his speech, Obama criticized Republican presidential candidate and current President Donald Trump for his ineffective fight against the new crown epidemic, creating division and “virtue is not worthy of office”. He also called on voters to turn out in large numbers, “we can’t live like this for another four years”.
[Shelling the incumbent president]
The “no drop-off” type campaign rally was held in a park parking lot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest city, gathering nearly 280 cars. Reuters reported that this is the Biden campaign since the outbreak of the epidemic since the organization of such a rally the largest time.
Obama spoke for about 35 minutes, mostly rebuking Trump for caring only about his own selfish interests, the Associated Press reported.
A former U.S. president who served two terms, Obama remains one of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party. He slammed the Trump administration’s response to the epidemic, referring to the latter’s confirmed infection with the new coronavirus. “Donald Trump doesn’t suddenly want to protect us all, he can’t even do basic measures of self-protection.”
President Trump leaves the National Military Medical Center in Maryland to return to Washington, D.C. President Trump removes his mask as he arrives at the White House after being treated for new coronary pneumonia at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 5, local time.
In the view of Democrats, Trump has spent the past four years working to erase Obama’s political legacy. Obama said, he never thought Trump would accept its ideas, continue its policies, but for the sake of the country, he hoped Trump “can show some interest in taking the job seriously. However, Trump “only wants to be fully recognized for the economic (prosperity) he ‘inherited,’ and does not want to be blamed for the epidemic he ignored.
Obama also criticized Trump and other Republicans only want to “shamelessly” repeal his term of office launched the Affordable Care Act, but there is no alternative. Moreover, Trump has a habit of insulting “people who don’t support him”. …… will allow some people to be cruel, divisive and racially biased”.
Not only Obama, the U.S. Atlantic Monthly reported on the 19th, George W. Bush as the only living Republican former President of the United States, although usually far from politics, in May this year also had called for people to unite against the epidemic, “we are not partisan fighters, but people”; June anti-racist protests to speak out, said “empathy, common goals, bold action, peace from justice” is a better way to achieve justice, he believes that the American people will choose a better way.
Calling on African-Americans to Vote
Obama also called on voters that day to turn out in large numbers, especially African and “progressive” voters. According to AFP, a large number of voters of African descent voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, but their turnout in 2016 has declined, which to some extent “helped” Trump defeat his rival Hillary Clinton.
Obama said: “I don’t care how the polls are. There were a lot of polls last time, too, and they were all inaccurate because large numbers of people stayed home and were lazy and self-righteous. It can’t be that way this time.” He said he understood that young voters are skeptical of politics or indifferent, he confessed that he “20 years old did not quite understand,” but if we do not vote, will be in vain to lose power, because politics will only respond to the people who voted for them.
The Associated Press reported that four years ago the night before the vote, Obama in Philadelphia for Hillary last stand electioneering, but Hillary that year with a slight disadvantage in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin three states do not beat Trump, become the latter’s key factor in the election.
This year Obama is still seen as the Democratic Party “campaign’s greatest asset”. He has previously appeared several times in Biden’s online fundraiser, also authorized to send mass text messages and emails in his name, encouraging voters to vote and donate.
Biden did not go to Philadelphia on the 21st, but stayed at home in Delaware to prepare for the final face-to-face debate with Trump a day later, causing Trump to mock him for “hiding”.
The Bipartisanship…
The Associated Press said, Obama elected in Philadelphia for Biden offline electioneering “debut”, highlighting the “Rust Belt” state of Pennsylvania on the importance of this year’s election. During the Biden campaign visit is the most Pennsylvania, Trump also pay attention to Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes.
Trump 21 in Erie County, Pennsylvania, the county four years ago, “from blue to red”. Reuters and Ipsos Group’s latest poll shows that Biden’s approval rating in Pennsylvania is only 4 percentage points ahead of Trump. Trump then rushed to another “battleground” state, North Carolina. Polls show he and Biden in the state also hard to win.
The United States is the world’s most serious new crown epidemic countries, so far a cumulative total of more than 220,000 people died. Reuters noted that North Carolina, Pennsylvania and other “battlefield” states have recently seen a surge in confirmed cases of new crowns, and some polls show that most voters are disappointed in Trump’s performance against the epidemic.
According to AFP, Trump is still claiming to voters that the outbreak period in the United States is “almost over”.
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