Is that the best he’s got?
Desperate Democrats deployed former President Barack Obama to Georgia on Friday to try to energize the base to get out and vote for Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock. He focused on attacking Republican candidate for Senate Herschel Walker.
Democrats are looking at a strong red wave coming ashore on November 8 and their grip on power in Congress will be over. Nancy Pelosi will be out as speaker of the house and Mitch McConnell will likely be Senate Majority Leader, shoving aside Chuck Schumer from that powerful position. Early voting is underway in Georgia and as of Friday night, a record 1,392,849 have cast their ballots.
A Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) said on CNN that Obama is useful for Democrats to use to encourage people to get out and vote because he lends credibility and Democrats believe he tells the truth. That’s ironic, right, since Obama was fact-checked while he was in office and regularly was found to be lying. He was awarded the Lie of the Year for his whoppers about Obamacare in 2013. Nonetheless, he’s really the biggest name in Democrat politics and is still the most popular among Democrats even though he’s been out of office for six years. The Democrats’ bench is shallow – what other big gun do they have to send out on the campaign trail to get out the vote? Biden is as unpopular in Georgia as he is across America.
Obama drew a crowd of about 7,000 people packed into an arena just steps away from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. That’s a crowd Joe Biden can only dream about. Obama was appearing with both Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock. He encouraged the people to vote all the way down the ballot, not just for the top races. Obama focused on criticizing Herschel Walker because, well, what else was he to do? Stacey Abrams is about to be a two-time loser in her challenge against Republican incumbent Governor Brian Kemp.
