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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Sep 5, 2018, 12:02 PM Sep 2018

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 he’ll call Donald Trump’s dangerous authoritarian politics. And he’ll start by emphasizing the battle for the House.

The Friday speech will be at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, after which he’ll 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

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Obama to launch midterm campaigning this weekend (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2018 OP

Good! mobeau69 Sep 2018 #1

Get Obama to Kansas,we have a REAL chance here for once Bengus81 Sep 2018 #2

he could do a ton of good barbtries Sep 2018 #3

Didn't realize we had that chance... Maxheader Sep 2018 #7

Paul Davis.....James Thompson......Laura Kelly for Governor Bengus81 Sep 2018 #9

Unleash the Obamas! BumRushDaShow Sep 2018 #4

That will make the Orange One crazy Bayard Sep 2018 #5

Just how low can the low life go? Maxheader Sep 2018 #8

Starting with "prime Democratic targets this fall: California and Ohio." Hortensis Sep 2018 #6

Mahalo! Cha Sep 2018 #10

TY Obama bluestarone Sep 2018 #11

mobeau69

(11,147 posts)

1. Good!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 12:05 PM

Sep 2018

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)

2. Get Obama to Kansas,we have a REAL chance here for once

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 12:06 PM

Sep 2018

to pick up maybe 2-3 House seats in a State that rarely votes in the majority for Dems.

barbtries

(28,805 posts)

3. he could do a ton of good

Reply to Bengus81 (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 12:12 PM

Sep 2018

here in NC.

Maxheader

(4,373 posts)

7. Didn't realize we had that chance...

Reply to Bengus81 (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 05:33 PM

Sep 2018

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)

9. Paul Davis.....James Thompson......Laura Kelly for Governor

Reply to Maxheader (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 05:52 PM

Sep 2018

&feature=youtu.be

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article217788210.html

BumRushDaShow

(129,165 posts)

4. Unleash the Obamas!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 01:18 PM

Sep 2018

Bayard

(22,108 posts)

5. That will make the Orange One crazy

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:09 PM

Sep 2018

Excuse me--crazier still.

Maxheader

(4,373 posts)

8. Just how low can the low life go?

Reply to Bayard (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 05:38 PM

Sep 2018

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)

6. Starting with "prime Democratic targets this fall: California and Ohio."

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 05:28 PM

Sep 2018

NYT: Having largely avoided campaign activities since leaving office, Mr. Obama’s first public event of the midterm election will take place in Orange County, a traditionally conservative-leaning part of California where Republicans are at risk of losing several House seats.

And Mr. Obama is expected to be joined by Democratic candidates from all seven of California’s 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 president’s 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&region=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

(297,359 posts)

10. Mahalo!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 09:20 PM

Sep 2018

bluestarone

(16,988 posts)

11. TY Obama

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 09:28 PM

Sep 2018

We need everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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