Obama’s reemergence on the campaign trail for Harris comes as he recognizes his own legacy is at stake
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America and the world have a lot riding on who wins in November. So does Barack Obama.
America and the world have a lot riding on who wins in November. So does Barack Obama. And that’s part of what is powering what people familiar with Obama’s plans told CNN will be the most active closing weeks of an election the former president’s had since his own last campaign. More rallies are coming every week. This past Wednesday alone, he recorded 21 videos for the Harris campaign. More ads for Democratic Senate candidates are already in the can. Content with influencers will keep popping online. He’ll even be doing a few interviews of his own. This is on top of a range of meetings and phone calls Obama has held over the last year with Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and other top Democrats, first reported by CNN, as advisers, friends and political allies say the former president has become increasingly alarmed by Donald Trump’s continued hold on the country and its politics. Obama no longer thinks he can get to the people locked in with Trump. He’s just hoping to help find enough votes in enough states to counter them. If the vice president wins, Obama will feel vindicated, and in many ways, will be released to more of the post-presidency he’d been hoping for since right before he called to congratulate Trump on election night 2016 — the first time (and ultimately one of the few times) the two spoke.
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