Obama rallies with Walz in Wisconsin: 'America is ready to turn the page'
Source: Washington Post
October 22, 2024 at 5:16 p.m. EDT
MADISON, Wis. — Barack Obama appeared at a rally Tuesday with Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, marking the former president’s first event with a member of his party’s ticket since Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign in July. Both Obama and Walz, the governor of Minnesota, implored a crowd of thousands in Wisconsin’s capital on the first day of early voting in the battleground state to cast their ballots early.
“If you haven’t voted yet, I won’t be offended if you just walk out right now! Go vote. Go do it,” Obama told the audience at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Wisconsin is considered a must-win swing state for either party’s likeliest respective paths to electoral victory.
In 2016, former president Donald Trump unexpectedly won Wisconsin — for years considered part of the Democrats’ Midwestern “blue wall” — by less than a percentage point. In 2020, Joe Biden narrowly defeated Trump in Wisconsin by a similar margin, with fewer than 21,000 votes separating the two. By contrast, Obama won Wisconsin in 2008 by nearly 14 percentage points and again in 2012 by about seven percentage points.
Both Obama and Walz attacked Trump for his personal insults and bizarre behavior on the campaign trail, as well as for a staged photo op Trump conducted over the weekend at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. “There’s something not just nuts but cruel about a billionaire using people’s livelihood as a political prop. His agenda lets big corporations not pay people for overtime and diminishes those very workers that he was cosplaying as,” Walz said. He added: “That restaurant wasn’t even open. It was a stunt. Fake orders for fake customers.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/22/obama-rallies-with-walz-wisconsin-america-is-ready-turn-page/
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