Barack Obama has taken his support for Kamala Harris to the stage of the Democratic National Convention, in the 11th-hour bid to become the country’s next president in November’s election.
After hearing from Obama’s wife Michelle, Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff, and other party veterans, as well as Republicans who had left because of Donald Trump, the crowd in Chicago erupted in deafening ovation as Obama walked onto the stage.
The Former US President called to the people of America to do their part over the next 77 days, and at last elect Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States, and Tim Walz as the next Vice President of the United States.
.@KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz believe in an America where “We the People” includes everyone. Because that’s the only way this American experiment works. And despite what our politics might suggest, I think most Americans understand that. pic.twitter.com/hGZnK7A0ys
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 21, 2024
Obama addressed the population stating that, “This will be a tight race in a divided country; a country where too many Americans are still struggling.”
“Donald Trump sees power as nothing more than a means to his own ends. We do not need four more years of bluster, bumbling and chaos. We have seen that movie before and we all know that the sequel is usually worse. America is ready for a new chapter. For a new story. We are ready for a President Kamala Harris,” Obama continued.
Obama also took to the X and posted that, “Democracy isn’t just a bunch of abstract principles and dusty laws in some book somewhere. It’s the values we live by, and the way we treat each other – including those who don’t look like us or pray like us or see the world exactly like we do.”
Obama, who spoke for more than 30 minutes, poured his enormous political influence supporting Harris as she seeks to become the first Black and South Asian woman to be elected president on November 5.
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