Obama to launch midterm campaigning this weekend
Source: Politico
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE 09/05/2018 08:52 AM EDT
Barack Obama will launch his midterm campaigning this weekend, following a speech on Friday meant to lay out the case against what hell call Donald Trumps dangerous authoritarian politics. And hell start by emphasizing the battle for the House.
The Friday speech will be at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, after which hell fly to Irvine, California, for an event on Saturday highlighting all seven Democrats running in districts currently held by Republicans, but carried by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. All seven are part of Democrats path to taking the majority in the House.
Obama will then be in Cleveland next Thursday to campaign for Richard Cordray, his former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Obama urged Cordray, who was previously the Ohio attorney general, into the race for governor, and has been eager to see him win. Also on the schedule already, according to his office: an event in Pennsylvania, and a fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee in New York City.
Since leaving office, Obama has been caught between Democrats desperate to see him take a more active role and whose favorable feelings toward him have skyrocketed while also worried about providing an easy foil for both Trump and other Republicans around the country to rally against.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/05/obama-midterm-campaigning-807169
mobeau69
(11,149 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)to pick up maybe 2-3 House seats in a State that rarely votes in the majority for Dems.
barbtries
(28,808 posts)here in NC.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,261 posts)Bayard
(22,120 posts)Excuse me--crazier still.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Its twitters are as bizarre as ever..Liberals need to
antagonize the hell out cheetoz, who is already
ticked off at the a.g...for doing his job...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And Mr. Obama is expected to be joined by Democratic candidates from all seven of Californias Republican-held districts that Hillary Clinton carried in 2016.
Mr. Obama intends to campaign next Thursday in Cleveland for Richard Cordray, a former bank regulator in his administration who is the Democratic nominee for Ohio governor. Republicans have held total control of the state government since the 2010 election, and Mr. Obama helped encourage Mr. Cordray, also a former state attorney general, to seek the governorship.
The former presidents return to public politicking comes at a momentous point in the 2018 election season, furnishing Democrats again with one of their most formidable and popular campaigners in the closing months. While Mr. Obama has addressed several fund-raising events and issued a list of endorsements, he has otherwise confined his public appearances this year to loftier venues than the campaign trail.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/us/politics/obama-midterms.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=sectionfront
Expected now that we're in the GE, but very nice to hear!
COUNTDOWN TO MIDTERMS: 61 days
Cha
(297,446 posts)bluestarone
(17,004 posts)We need everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1