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\nBarack Obama and Abdul El-Sayed during a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan<\/p>\n
Former US president Barack Obama delivered scathing criticisms of his successor, Donald Trump, at rallies in Ohio and Michigan to support Democratic candidates ahead of the 3 November midterm elections.<\/p>\n
Democrats are attempting to wrest back control of one or both chambers of the US Congress, which are currently controlled by Mr Trump’s Republican party.<\/p>\n
The former president retains considerable popularity among the Democratic base, which he is keen to leverage to support his Democratic Party’s candidates.<\/p>\n
In both states, the 65-year-old former president blamed the Trump administration for the rising cost of living, a top voter concern amid soaring fuel prices.<\/p>\n
“The current president chose to make a series of bad decisions,” Mr Obama said in Ohio, where he rallied in support of former Democratic senator Sherrod Brown.<\/p>\n
“Most importantly, he decided to start an unnecessary war that nobody asked for.<\/p>\n
“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,'” Mr Obama declared in Cleveland.<\/p>\n
“We are voting for change right here in Ohio.”<\/p>\n
Later, in Michigan, Mr Obama campaigned for Abdul El-Sayed, from the party’s left wing, who is in a close race with Republican Mike Rogers for the US Senate.<\/p>\n
“Imagine the power duo of Abdul and Elissa,” Mr Obama said, referring to the incumbent Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin, who is not up for election this year.<\/p>\n
“You got a Muslim man, you got a Jewish woman fighting for you in the United States Senate. That’s something, Michigan, you can be proud of.”<\/p>\n
\nBarack Obama and Abdul El-Sayed during a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan<\/p>\n
Mr Obama also urged voters to cast their ballots as soon as possible since early voting is already open in both states.<\/p>\n
“Don’t procrastinate, don’t equivocate,” he said.<\/p>\n
In Ohio, Mr Brown will attempt a comeback against incumbent Republican Senator Jon Husted, while the race for governor will be contested between Democrat Amy Acton and Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate in 2024.<\/p>\n
Polls for Ohio give Democrats a slight lead in both those races, but the results are expected to be close.<\/p>\n
Mr Obama also took digs at Mr Trump’s renovation projects across the US capital, including his botched renovation of the National Mall’s Reflecting Pool, his construction of a massive White House Ballroom and the guilded decorations he has adorned the Oval Office with during his second tenure.<\/p>\n
“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory,” Mr Obama said, referring to popular but indulgent American restaurant chain.<\/p>\n
Nationally, polls also suggest that Democrats could regain control of the House of Representatives but face a much more competitive contest for the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former US president Barack Obama delivered scathing criticisms of his successor, Donald Trump, at rallies in Ohio and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-664799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}