Barack Obama

Roy Cooper will be the next governor of North Carolina.That’s exactly the kind of declarative boast that would never come from the careful Cooper. Yet, as of the fourth week of October, the Democratic chief executive of the Tar Heel State has all but cemented a second four-year stay in…

| Published: Sunday, October 25, 2020, 22:46 Washington, Oct 25: US President Donald Trump is seeking a second term to help himself and his wealthy friends, Barack Obama has alleged, as he tore into his successor for not having a plan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and walking out of…

In an effort to win over the working-class voters in Pennsylvania who voted for Trump in 2016, Joe Biden assured the crowd on Saturday that he is going to protect Pennsylvania jobs, including fracking. Former President Barack Obama also held a Biden campaign event in Miami.Oct. 25, 2020Read More

11.03pm BST23:03 Evening summary It’s been a lively day on the election trail. We’re closing this blog now but will be back with all the developments in US political news, as it happens, tomorrow. Here are the main events of the day: Alaska’s Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has hopped off…

Former President Barack Obama delivered searing attacks against President Donald Trump on Wednesday at a Philadelphia drive-in rally for the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden. The former president criticized the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, noted The New York Times' bombshell reports on Trump's tax records, and accused…

In his first campaign rally appearance on behalf of Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama urged Americans to vote, saying "we can't afford another four years" of a Trump presidency.Why it matters via Axios' Hans Nichols: With less than two weeks until Election Day, Obama made his case for Biden…

Former President Barack Obama brought up President Donald Trump's dropping TV ratings during a speech supporting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.Trump has been known to use ratings a popularity gauge for himself and his targets in the media. During concurrently aired town hall meetings on different…

PHILADELPHIA: Former president Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Wednesday (Oct 21), launching a blistering attack on Donald Trump with less than two weeks to go before the Republican president's Election Day face-off with Democratic nominee Joe Biden.Speaking at a drive-in rally in Philadelphia on behalf of Biden,…

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Topline  Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday excoriated President Donald Trump as a failure in one of the most ferocious arguments yet made against Trump’s reelection, violating a longstanding norm that presidents don’t criticize their successors and underscoring the unprecedented nature of the 2020 campaign. Former US President Barack Obama…