Faced with elections that promise to be close, political leaders can no longer stand the blows. With three days to go before the midterm elections, President Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama on Saturday urged to “vote” to protect “democracy”, pointing directly at their Republican opponent Donald Trump.
During a marathon day of competitive meetings in Pennsylvania, a crucial state for the November 8 midterm elections, White House occupants 46 (Biden) and 44 (Obama) clashed at a distance with 45 (Trump), before of an election. which will lay the groundwork for the 2024 presidential election.
“Democracy is literally on the ballot. This is a defining moment for the nation and we must all speak with one voice,” Joe Biden said, under blue and red lighting, a huge American flag and cheers from a room in Philadelphia. birthplace of the American Constitution in the late 18th century.
“I love you too, but you have to vote!”
All the spotlight is on Pennsylvania, a former bastion of steelmaking, where Republican billionaire surgeon Mehmet Oz, a Donald Trump-esque TV star, takes on the bald-headed colossus and former small-town Democratic mayor, John Fetterman, for the most disputed seat. in the Senate
Barack Obama, who is full of nostalgia, was first in Pittsburgh, an industrial city in Pennsylvania, where he asked “Cousin Pookie” and “Uncle Joe”, the affectionate nickname of the demobilized voters, sunk in their sofas, to get up and “Go Vote!” Tuesday for the Democrats.
“I love you!” Then someone in the crowd launched. “I love you too, but you have to vote!” The politician responded with obvious oratory skills and charisma. He acknowledged that “the entire country has gone through difficult times in recent years,” especially with a “historic pandemic.”
But the father of health insurance “Obamacare” attacked Republicans, who want to “break up Social Security, Medicare and give the rich and big business more tax breaks.”
Joining his former Vice President Biden in Philadelphia, Barack Obama also called, in a hoarse voice, to protect “democracy on the ballot (because) the stakes are high.”
“It’s very important that the Democrats stay” in power, added Jennifer Hahn, a 57-year-old psychologist who stood in line hundreds of yards in gorgeous fall sunshine for the Biden-Obama-Fetterman meeting.
Source: BFM TV
