Former president Barack Obama stumped for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin on Saturday, where he took a shot at Trump’s “birtherism” tactics. Our report:
Obama traveled to Wisconsin in advance of a high stakes midterm election in a state President Joe Biden won by only 20,000 votes two years ago. Barnes is facing incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson , whom Obama lambasted for his alleged role in attempting to supply fake electors to then-vice president Mike Pence in an effort to undermine Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election results. “If that doesn’t elicit uniform outrage, what will?” Obama said.
Wisconsin Democrats who took the stage on Saturday were eager to remind the crowd of those comparisons: A local Democratic organizer noted the state had the opportunity to “elect our first Black senator,” just as it had the country’ first Black president 14 years ago. Barnes mentioned coming home from a summer job and catching then-state senator Obama’s keynote speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. “It was quite literally a speech that changed my life,” he said.
Evers’ Wheaties-esque appeal. “But,” he added, “he might be democracy’s best hope in Wisconsin. That’s one more reason he deserves your vote.”
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