Obama recalls Trump’s 2020 election chaos while campaigning for Harris in Michigan
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Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday evening recalled the chaos and violence former President Donald Trump stoked in Detroit in the wake of the 2020 election as he made his case for Michigan voters to mobilize in support of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday evening recalled the chaos and violence former President Donald Trump stoked in Detroit in the wake of the 2020 election as he made his case for Michigan voters to mobilize in support of Vice President Kamala Harris. “One of the most disturbing things about this election, about Trump’s rise in politics, is how so many of us, even good people that we know seem somehow suddenly willing to set aside values that we were taught,” he remarked to the crowded convention hall. Speaking from Huntington Place, the same convention center where mail ballots were counted in 2020 as Trump and his supporters sought to cast doubt on the state’s election results, Obama recalled that, “because Donald Trump was willing to spread lies about voter fraud in Michigan, protesters came down, banged on the windows, shouting, ‘Let us in, stop the count.’ Poll workers inside being intimidated.” He pointed to a filing from special counsel Jack Smith that was unsealed earlier this month that detailed a Trump campaign aide telling someone to “make them riot” when told of the flaring tensions at the Detroit Counting Center. As Obama described the filing, some people in the crowd began to boo and jeer, to which Obama sternly responded, “Do not boo.” Though it was a repetition of his familiar line “don’t boo, vote,” the interaction was more pronounced, as the crowd briefly booed louder, even as the former president firmly pushed back. The Detroit stop was Obama’s fifth rally for Harris – and the fifth battleground state – during his biggest blitz of campaigning since he left office. He and Harris are set to make their first joint appearance on the campaign trail Thursday in Georgia.
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