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On another October night on Thursday, the 63-year-old ex-president was back on stage, with a vast American flag for a backdrop, trying to do for Kamala Harris what she’s so far struggled to do herself — put away the 2024 election.

The snowy haired Obama had swapped Ohio, which ceased to be a closely contested presidential state as soon as he left the White House, for this year’s potentially decisive state, Pennsylvania. That the hope and change prophet of 2008 is still his party’s most effective political orator four presidential elections later is an indictment of Democrats. But the urgency of his message in Pittsburgh told a more immediate story — his nemesis Donald Trump may be poised for an Oval Office return.

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“We don’t need four more years of arrogance and bumbling and bluster and division. America is ready to turn the page,” Obama said. “We are ready for a better story, one that helped us work together instead of turning against each other. Pennsylvania, we’re ready for President Kamala Harris.”

Sometimes, it takes a former president to provide the clarity of argument that a candidate embroiled in a bitter race can’t make themselves. That happened before – in 2012 when Bill Clinton took Obama’s woolly reelection pitch and created a rationale for voters weary of economic pain to send him back to the White House.

Obama on Thursday painted a searing picture of Trump as a malicious, ridiculous and incompetent menace, while trying to weave a rhetorical case for voters who are feeling economically insecure to vote for Harris, who is part of an incumbent administration, nonetheless.

“I am the hopey changey guy so I understand people feeling frustrated, feeling we can do better,” Obama said. “What I cannot understand is why anybody would think that Donald Trump will shake things up in a way that is good for you, Pennsylvania. I don’t understand that.”

“He’s clear-eyed about how close this race is,” a source familiar with Obama’s remarks told CNN’s Kayla Tausche. The ex-president savagely mocked Trump, asking whether his successor had ever changed a tire or a diaper and condemning his single term and “mean and ugly” border policies.

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Obama’s appearance, a full-circle moment since Harris knocked on doors for him in frigid Iowa before the 2008 caucuses, also had a far deeper, personal significance. The 44th and 45th presidents have waged a political feud for more than a decade, since Trump built the foundation of his populist movement on false claims that Obama was not US-born. Birtherism was the earliest indication of the potency of Trump’s political cocktail of racial aspersions and untruths, which has reached new heights in the 2024 election.

More broadly, the antagonism between Obama and Trump helps explain the politics of the last 15 years in the United States.

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The 44th president heralded a new, multi-racial, young and socially diverse Democratic coalition as he built a brand as a leader seeking, at least rhetorically, to surmount some of the nation’s deepest divides. Trump fashioned backlash politics in the wake of the nation’s first Black presidency, using racial appeals and a strongman’s zeal for demonizing opponents to create a political movement as enduring as Obama’s. In many ways, the coming election represents a fresh battle between these two creeds — and Obama’s legacy, including his signature Affordable Care Act, may depend on Harris winning.

Obama slams Trump over false hurricane conspiracy theories

The former president on Thursday accused Trump of violating basic American values. “Those didn’t used to be Republican and Democratic values. It used to be we’d have arguments about tax policy and foreign policy, but we didn’t have arguments about whether you should tell the truth or not,” he said.

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'When did that become okay?’: Obama calls out Trump's hurricane lies

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He slammed Trump over his false claims that the Biden administration denied hurricane aid to Republicans. “You are going t have leaders who try to help and then you have a guy who will just lie about it to score political points and this has consequences,” Obama said. “When did that become OK?”

The 44th president heralded a new, multi-racial, young and socially diverse Democratic coalition as he built a brand as a leader seeking, at least rhetorically, to surmount some of the nation’s deepest divides. Trump fashioned backlash politics in the wake of the nation’s first Black presidency, using racial appeals and a strongman’s zeal for demonizing opponents to create a political movement as enduring as Obama’s. In many ways, the coming election represents a fresh battle between these two creeds — and Obama’s legacy, including his signature Affordable Care Act, may depend on Harris winning.

The 44th president heralded a new, multi-racial, young and socially diverse Democratic coalition as he built a brand as a leader seeking, at least rhetorically, to surmount some of the nation’s deepest divides. Trump fashioned backlash politics in the wake of the nation’s first Black presidency, using racial appeals and a strongman’s zeal for demonizing opponents to create a political movement as enduring as Obama’s. In many ways, the coming election represents a fresh battle between these two creeds — and Obama’s legacy, including his signature Affordable Care Act, may depend on Harris winning.

The 44th president heralded a new, multi-racial, young and socially diverse Democratic coalition as he built a brand as a leader seeking, at least rhetorically, to surmount some of the nation’s deepest divides. Trump fashioned backlash politics in the wake of the nation’s first Black presidency, using racial appeals and a