The former president was speaking in Richmond, Saturday, where he had moved to support the Democratic candidate at the governor’s position, before a particularly tight election.
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The former US President Barack Obama accused, Saturday, October 23, Republicans to threaten democracy before a particularly tight local election, seen as a national test on Joe Biden’s popularity at the time the tenant of the White House Snowly negotiates a massive plan of investments with the congress.
m. Obama had moved to Richmond, in the state conservator of the state, to support the Democrat Terry McAuliffe, 64, candidate for governor of Virginia and who is on elbow-to-elbow with the Republican Pro-Trump Glenn Youngkin, 54, at the beginning of the vote on November 2nd.
In front of a few hundred enthusiastic activists, gathered at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Mr. Obama said that Mr. Yugkin would remove teaching positions, which he would reduce access to abortion and that It would support the affirmations of the former President Donald Trump, who claims that the presidential election was stolen.
“To my knowledge, the main message of Terry’s opponent is that it’s a guy like everyone because it wears a polar wool. And he accuses schools to wash the brain of our children, said Obama. He also said that he wanted to have the voting machines checked used in the last ballot. (…) And we are supposed to believe that he will defend our democracy? “
m. Biden won Virginia with 10 points ahead in 2020 and the Republicans have not won election in this state since 2009, but the advance of Mr. McAuliffe in the surveys melted over the weeks, and she now reaches the margin of error. Mr. Obama, who remains the most popular democrat in the United States Five years after leaving the White House, wanted to galvanize African-American voters, a key electorate in this southern state, particularly in the Richmond area where the One of the most important symbols of the country slavery of the country, the Statue of General Confederate Robert Lee, was unbulletoned only last month.
Biden expected in Virginia next week
Recognizing understand why we can be “tired” of politics, he argued that “if John Lewis [figure of the fight for civil rights dead in 2020] was not tired, we do not have the right to be tired “.
Before Mr. Obama, the first Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and one of the rising stars of the Democratic Party, Stacey Abrams, moved to Virginia to campaign for Mr. McAuliffe. The US President himself is expected next week.
A McAuliffe victory would give momentum to the massive investment program that the left-wing of the Democratic Party seeks to congress. Failure could encourage more caution The moderate party wing that is still reluctant to approve about $ 3,000 billion in expenses.
m. Youngkin focused on schools, campaigning against the mandatory mask hated by the electors of Donald Trump. So far, he has carefully avoided supporting the affirmations of the former president who claims that the election was stolen. Mr. Trump did not go to Virginia. He had virtually joined on October 13 to a pro-Youngkin campaign meeting in particular his former advisor Steve Bannon.