On the campaign trail for the first time for Vice President Kamala Harris, Barack Obama repeatedly slammed former President Trump in arguably the most crucial battleground state in the 2024 election.
On the campaign trail for the first time for Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Barack Obama repeatedly took aim at former President Trump on Thursday at a large rally in arguably the most important battleground state in the 2024 election.
Pointing to the margin-of-error race between Harris and Trump with less than four weeks to go until Election Day and early voting already underway across much of the country, Obama acknowledged that “this election’s going to be tight, because there are a lot of Americans who are still struggling out there.”
“What I cannot understand is how anyone would think that Donald Trump will shake things up in a way that’s good for you Pennsylvania”, the former president emphasized, to cheers from the crowd.
Obama, referring to polls that indicate many Americans think the economy was better during Trump’s four years in the White House than under the current administration, claimed that “the reason some people think” times were better was “because it was my economy. We had 75 straight months of job growth that I handed over to him. It wasn’t something that he did.”
“Just in case everybody has a hazy memory… he didn’t do nothing except those big tax cuts”, which Obama argued only benefited wealthy Americans and big businesses.
Obama, who remains extremely popular with Democrats eight years after leaving the White House, argued that “there is absolutely no evidence that this man thinks about anybody but himself.”
And he reiterated that “Donald Trump is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.
