{"id":110383,"date":"2024-10-04T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110383"},"modified":"2024-10-04T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:04:12","slug":"obama-to-rally-support-for-harris-across-key-battleground-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110383","title":{"rendered":"Obama to rally support for Harris across key battleground states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0yftl000u65ox05hq9ae8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/27\/politics\/obama-ndrc-speech\/index.html\">Barack Obama<\/a> plans to commence a 27-day campaign sprint for Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/29\/politics\/kamala-harris-tim-walz-cnntv\/index.html\">Kamala Harris<\/a> next week in Pennsylvania, an adviser to the\u00a0Democratic presidential nominee\u2019s\u00a0campaign\u00a0said, hoping his star power among Democrats can help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/03\/politics\/harris-rural-red-county-strategy\/index.html\">propel her to the office he once held<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9k00093b5wo58lnot3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Openly concerned about Democratic complacency and acutely aware of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-harris-wisconsin-10-03-24#cm1tqzrn4000j3b6mtgqua9df\">razor-thin margins in polls<\/a>, Obama \u2014 who, along with his wife,\u00a0Michelle,\u00a0is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/26\/politics\/barack-michelle-obama-kamala-harris-endorsement\/index.html\">party\u2019s most popular figures<\/a> \u2014 is seeking to help Harris in any way he can, aides have said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9k000a3b5wrglqi5n2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Thursday rally in Pittsburgh will be the first in a string of events Obama\u00a0plans to hold\u00a0across\u00a0electoral battlegrounds in the weeks ahead of Election Day, according to a senior Harris campaign official.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9k000b3b5wgstqo6bh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Aside from rallies, an Obama aide said\u00a0the former president\u00a0intends to help Democrats by recording candidate-specific advertisements and lending his name to email solicitations for campaign cash, including for down<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>ballot races. He headlined a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-harris-presidential-election-09-22-24#h_3fa708b572a79cd1fc8ce4e9d3ee3388\">$4 million fundraiser<\/a> for Harris in Los Angeles last month.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9k000c3b5wq78suuj9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The\u00a02024\u00a0election, in Obama\u2019s view, is an \u201call hands on deck\u201d moment, aides have said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9k000d3b5w0szjp6k9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI wish I could give you a four-\u00a0or five-point plan as to how we\u2019re going to win this election. Truthfully, the plan is we\u2019re going to push through it,\u201d he said during the California fundraising event, according to excerpts from his office.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9k000e3b5w4mgpyo4i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The event was Obama\u2019s first solo fundraising appearance for Harris since she secured the Democratic nomination over the summer, and\u00a0it<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>brought the total amount he\u2019s raised through events and fundraising content for Democrats to more than $76 million, his office said\u00a0at the time.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9k000f3b5wxoc6krzy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            There is little question Obama would have offered his campaign talents to President Joe Biden if he\u2019d remained in the race. Still, Obama was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/11\/politics\/obama-pelosi-biden-democrats-2024\/index.html\">among the party elders<\/a> whose quiet maneuvering over the summer helped Biden, his former vice president, realize that Democrats were headed to almost certain defeat if he stayed on the ticket.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9k000g3b5w9ixa7u4r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And in his August\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/20\/politics\/obama-dnc-speech\/index.html\">speech at the Democratic National\u00a0Convention<\/a>, Obama cast Harris as an inheritor of the political movement he began in 2008, saying she could \u201cchart a new way forward to meet the challenges of today.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9k000h3b5wmda1dtaj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He also warned the path to the White House would be steep\u00a0and require an all-out effort by supporters of Harris.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000i3b5witpjex2n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt\u2019s up to all of us to fight for the America we believe in. And make no mistake: It will be a fight,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000l3b5w9mb14094@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Obama and Harris have been acquainted for\u00a020\u00a0years. The energy fueling her candidacy and thunderous crowds chanting her name have drawn comparisons to Obama\u2019s history-making 2008 run.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000m3b5w4b81pvgx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Aides to the former president say his first memory of meeting Harris came during a California fundraising event for his 2004 Senate race.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000n3b5wk6jbqx8f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Four years later, as Obama was mounting a long-shot bid for the White House, Harris bucked many in her party to endorse him over\u00a0then-Sen.\u00a0Hillary Clinton, who had the early support of much of the Democratic establishment and many Black leaders.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000o3b5w517hf51w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris flew to Springfield, Illinois, to watch him announce his candidacy. A\u00a0photo from that February day in 2007 shows a windswept Harris \u2013 then the district attorney in San Francisco \u2013 not onstage or in a VIP room, but among the crowd, waiting for Obama to walk past and shake her hand.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000p3b5w96rl4crr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the lead-up to the 2008 Iowa caucuses, she packed her black down jacket and boots and trekked to Des Moines right after Christmas to join the ranks of Obama\u2019s army of volunteers.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000q3b5wpbz56j32@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cNo job was too small for any of us,\u201d Harris\u00a0would later recall, \u201cand we spent hours in freezing temperatures knocking on doors.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000r3b5wb66apbrl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Obama returned the favor in 2010, not by knocking on doors but endorsing\u00a0Harris\u2019\u00a0bid for California attorney general. At a Los Angeles rally that helped boost her campaign, he described Harris as \u201ca dear, dear friend of mine, so I want everybody to do right by her.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000s3b5w3boepqhh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Fourteen years later, Obama again hopes the country will do right by his friend \u2014 and also prevent\u00a0Donald\u00a0Trump from returning to the White House.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000t3b5wi5fxcurn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A Harris victory, Obama told donors last month, \u201cwon\u2019t solve all the crazy that\u2019s out there.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1u0zc9l000u3b5wykpiisg4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cBut each time we win, it\u2019s solidifying this new future. It is ushering in these new possibilities. Eventually, that will become the new normal and the new reality,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/04\/politics\/barack-obama-kamala-harris-campaign-events\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Former President Barack Obama plans to commence a 27-day campaign sprint for Vice President Kamala Harris next week in Pennsylvania, an adviser to the\u00a0Democratic presidential nominee\u2019s\u00a0campaign\u00a0said, hoping his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110383\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}