One day, two states, three presidents, four rallies. The agenda of campaign events this Saturday Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton It was the best example of Democratic push down the stretch towards the legislative elections that the United States celebrates this Tuesday to deploy the heavy political artillery in a last effort to mobilize the voters and, perhaps, scratch some undecided vote. And in this effort, no figure is considered more vital and useful for training than former President Obama, on whom hopes are placed to try to contain what, according to the polls, could be a republican wave that extends beyond the anticipated control of the lower house.
The bet on Obama is, in many ways, natural. As strategists have explained, the former president, 61, He has not abused the foreground that he could have occupied after leaving the White House. keeps your speaking power. And although it is estimated that his voice has lost some weight among the youth and the racial coalition that propelled him to the presidency, it turns out attractive for many middle aged voters less concerned about his political actions and decisions while in office. he has borrowed your voice and your image for advertisements of 25 candidates.
The former president has also achieved with the message at his rallies overcome what many Democrats consider to have been a flaw in the party’s strategy. Obama has been giving effective counter strikes to conservative attacks on issues like inflation or crime. And he has done so without abandoning messages about abortion or the threat Republican extremists are posing to the integrity of the democratic system, one of the issues he is pouring his work into. Obama has recently been holding private meetings with progressive leaders such as Chilean President Gabriel Boric and is planning for the end of November a summit in New York with other emerging political figures and activists to discuss threats to democracy.
More popular than Biden
Obama continues to enjoy a top popularity to which he now has who was his vice president. And while the low Biden approval ratings explain in part that until this Saturday the president has stayed away from campaign events in disputed states that will be decisive on Tuesday as Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, and WisconsinObama has visited them all.
Only this Saturday the two had planned a joint appearance in Pennsylvania to support both gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro, the poll favorite, and senator hopeful, John Fetterman, in a much closer fight and with whom Obama also had another act in the morning. And that single meeting of Obama and Biden, as well as the presence of donald trump in the state to support Fetterman’s rival, Mehmed Oz, It demonstrates the importance of the fight for that seat for control of the Upper House, the only one at stake in a state that Biden won in 2020 and where a Republican senator is retiring.
other figures
Obama is the heavyweight but not the only one that the Democrats are throwing in to push through this final push. Two days after they did Hillary Clinton and the vice president kamala harristhis Saturday I arrived in New York bill clinton to support the Governor Kathy Hochul whose race in the progressive state against Republican Lee Zeldin has turned much more uphill than expected.
Bernie Sanderstill a fundamental force for mobilizing progressives and working-class voters, has been at their 81 years doing a tour of almost 20 rallies in eight states which closes this Sunday also in Pennsylvania. There are also campaign events for the first lady, Jill Biden, and figures such as Senator Elizabeth Warren. And Fetterman’s career got a boost from outside politics when he was endorsed by the influential Oprah Winfreythe woman who precisely launched Dr. Oz to television fame.
Trump personal interests
For Trump the acts of this final stretch of the campaign have a strong personal component. Except for the visit to Pennsylvania this Saturday, the former president also has avoided like Biden making appearances alongside candidates in key and disputed states. And his penultimate public appearance before one on Monday in Ohio will be Sunday with Sen. Marco Rubio, who has a comfortable lead over his Democratic rival in Florida. It is a state that has been moving away from its hinge status and is leaning more and more on the Republican side. But it is also the state where the one who could present the biggest competition for Trump in a potential fight for the 2024 Republican presidential candidacy is: Governor Ron DeSantis, who will offer a rally facing the former president.
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