Michelle Obama Says 2024 Election Worries Keep Her Up At Night
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"I am terrified about what could possibly happen," the former first lady confessed.
Michelle Obama revealed in an interview Monday that among the things that keep her up at night are her fears about the 2024 election.
“What’s going to happen in this next election? I am terrified about what could possibly happen, because our leaders matter ― who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit,” the former first lady said on Jay Shetty’s podcast “On Purpose” when he asked what keeps her up at night.
“It affects us in ways that sometimes I think people take for granted,” Michelle Obama said. “You know, the fact that people think the government... doesn’t really even do anything. And I’m like, oh, my God, does government do everything for us? And we cannot take this democracy for granted. And sometimes I worry that we do. Those are the things that keep me up.”
Obama’s remarks on the popular mental health podcast come a week before the Iowa caucuses ― the kickoff to the 2024 primary election season. Polls show former President Donald Trump is very likely to win the Republican nomination despite being indicted in four cases that total 91 felony charges related to his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results, his mishandling of classified documents since leaving office in 2021 and hush money payments made to an adult film star shortly before the 2016 election.
Other things that Obama said keep her up at night are war, artificial intelligence, the pace at which we’re addressing environmental threats, the education system, why so many Americans don’t vote and the time people spend on their phones.
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