Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:03 pm
President Obama may endorse Hillary Clinton as soon as this week, as the President is itching to get out on the campaign trail and take on Donald Trump.
The New York Times reported:
President Obama, after months of sitting on the sidelines of the rancorous contest to succeed him, is now ready to aggressively campaign for Hillary Clinton, starting with a formal endorsement of her candidacy as early as this week.
The White House is in active conversations with Mrs. Clinton’s campaign about how and where the president would be useful to her, according to senior aides to Mr. Obama.
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Mr. Obama is particularly enthusiastic, aides said, about taking on Mr. Trump. The Republican candidate has personally offended the president with his conduct on the campaign trail — Mr. Trump referred to a black supporter on Friday in one of his crowds as “my African-American†— and as the most visible champion of the “birther†conspiracy theories that falsely hold that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya rather than Hawaii.
Obama is ready to get back on the campaign trail and take out Donald Trump, while supporting Hillary Clinton. The President made it clear that he is itching to go after Trump. Obama never holds back when asked about Trump, and has been reasonably open with his thoughts on the Republican candidate for months.
Trump represents everything that President Obama has long opposed. The presumptive Republican nominee is running division and fear, which is the opposite of the unity and optimism that has been a guiding message of the Obama presidency. Trump is the embodiment of the bigotry that President Obama has had to overcome during his years in the White House.
When evaluating the 2016 presidential election, many in the media have not given enough weight to the impact that President Obama will have. Obama is popular with Democrats and Independents. He is extremely popular with millennial, female, Hispanic, Asian, and African-American voters, and no one in this country has a bigger platform to deliver a message against Trump than President Obama’s bully pulpit.
While Republicans can’t find capable surrogates within their own party to speak on behalf of Trump, Hillary Clinton is getting ready to deploy President Obama.
Republicans should start worrying now because Barack Obama is fired up and ready to go.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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