NewzFormer US president Barack Obama delivered a scathing critique of his successor, Donald Trump, at a rally in Ohio on Saturday to support Democratic candidates ahead of the November 3 midterm elections. “After two years of chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence, the likes of which we have not seen in the modern era, you get a chance to say, ‘Enough is enough,’” Obama declared in Cleveland. “We are voting for change right here in Ohio.” The 65-year-old Democrat blamed the Trump...
Former President Barack Obama has stepped into one of America's ugliest midterm fights as he works to rally Democratic voters in battleground Ohio Former President Barack Obama on Saturday seized on what he described as cruelty and indecency coming from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, stepping into one of the nation's ugliest midterm fights as he worked to rally Democratic voters in battleground Ohio.Obama took specific aim at Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who has doubled down on an advertising campaign featuring the estranged mother of Democratic rival Dr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance have also defended the ad, even as Republican leaders across Ohio, including Gov.
Mike DeWine, have called for its removal.“In recent days, we’ve seen there is no line he will not cross, no low he will not sink to,” Obama said of Ramaswamy, noting that Acton has “spoken movingly about her painful childhood and all she’s experienced: abuse, neglect and homelessness.”“There’s a decency we should expect out of our public officials,” Obama continued. “And I don’t know what’s happened where the standards of behavior are so low that somebody could run an ad like that.”Obama, 65, remains the Democratic Party’s best motivator nearly a decade after leaving the White House. He was set to campaign in Michigan later Saturday night, lending the Democratic Party his star power in midwestern battlegrounds that will help determine the balance of power in American politics next week.Obama shared the stage with Acton and former three-term Ohio Sen.
Sherrod Brown, who is looking to unseat Republican Sen. Jon Husted.Although Ohio has become more reliably Republican, it's been a hotly contested battleground this year. Trump and Vance have both visited the state in recent weeks to drum up support for Husted and Ramaswamy.
And the controversy over Ramaswamy's ad has ratcheted up the already high temperature.Ramaswamy has defended his decision to press ahead with the ad as fair game. Trump aggressively defended the ad, which has emerged as a national flashpoint in the midterms' final days, as he voted in West Palm Beach on Saturday.“This is a disgrace," Trump said. “The mother said that Amy Acton is a liar and she’s no good.
I don’t think you can get a better reference on that.” He added that if his own mother had said anything bad about him, it would be front and center.The Ramaswamy campaign video features Acton’s birth mother, Donna Arthur, calling her “a liar” and i… “The current president chose to make a series of bad decisions,” Obama said. “Most importantly, he decided to start an unnecessary war that nobody asked for.” Obama also urged voters to cast their ballots as soon as possible since early voting is already open in this northern industrial state.
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