An Black ex-President going after the reports of Black men NOT moving to support a Black Woman, who IS the Vice President, for President….
Could it be the ‘Woman thing’ holding back some Balck young voters from Harris as polling reports?
Barack Obama goes ‘There’……
The former President , like Bill Clinton, is working to get out the vote for Harris/Walz in the tight race ….
And support down ballot Democrats also…
During an unannounced stop at a campaign field office in Pittsburgh, which came just hours before he was set to appear at his first campaign rally for Harris, Obama said he wanted to “speak some truths” and address Black men specifically, making his most stark and direct remarks about their hesitancy in supporting Harris to date.
“My understanding, based on reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities, is that we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama said, adding that it “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”
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Obama questioned how voters, and Black voters specifically, could be on the fence about whether to support Harris or former president Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
“On the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experience,” Obama said, ticking off a list of Harris’s policy proposals. In Trump, he added, “you have someone who has consistently shown disregard, not just for the communities, but for you as a person,” Obama said. “And you are thinking about sitting out?”
The former president then directly addressed what he thought might be contributing to the soft support among Black men: some men’s discomfort with the idea of electing the first female president….
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Obama’s comments created a remarkable moment: The nation’s first Black president urging other Black men to rally behind potentially the first female president, who is a woman of color, amid suggestions that the voting bloc is showing a notable lack of enthusiasm for her candidacy. Harris is Black and Indian American….
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“And you’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, I’ve got a problem with that,” he said. “Because part of it makes me think— and I’m speaking to men directly— part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”…
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Obama began hitting the campaign trail on Thursday, stopping first in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, perhaps the most important to Harris’s path to victory. In all seven battleground states — which also include Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona — Trump and Harris are effectively tied, as the Harris campaign has said it expects a tightly contested presidential race that will come down to razor-thin margins….
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Obama’s efforts will also focus on supporting House and Senate Democrats, including Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, who released an ad featuring Obama earlier this week. Democrats are hoping to hold on to their razor-thin Senate majority and retake the House of Representatives…..
This seems like a risky strategy.
The headline doesn’t match what Obana actually said.
At any rate someone who wasted decades of their life building up a party that now wants them to go to hell doesn’t have a lot of room to talk when it comes to strategy.
Obama actually asked?
To paraphrase….
‘WTF”?
‘She’s a woman ….
Come On!?
The other choice is old assed white guy, who’s a crook and ain’t for us….
Get past the women are only good on their backs….’
She’s US…..
Why is it risky?
3 weeks out he and Clinton need to be shaking the trees to get as many votes as they can for Harris who NEEDS BETTER ‘margins’….