Former U.S. President Barack Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to express his support for Kamala Harris in her last-minute push to become the nation’s next president in the upcoming November election.
Obama received a thunderous welcome from the crowd in Chicago, which had just heard from his wife, Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, and other prominent Democrats, as well as Republicans who had distanced themselves from Donald Trump.
As the first Black American elected to the White House, 63-year-old Barack Obama quickly demonstrated his oratory prowess, praising President Joe Biden as a leader he is “proud to call president, but even prouder to call my friend.”
Recognizing the tough battle ahead for Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, to secure the White House in the next 11 weeks, Obama urged Americans to “fight for an America we can believe in” and to make sure they vote.
“This will be a tight race in a divided country; a country where too many Americans are still struggling,” he cautioned.
Obama continued, “Donald Trump views power as nothing more than a tool for his own gain. We do not need four more years of bluster, bumbling, and chaos. We’ve seen that movie before, and the sequel is usually worse. America is ready for a new chapter, for a new story. We are ready for President Kamala Harris.”
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