The Obamas, at the pinnacle of the Democratic Party, will address the party’s convention Tuesday and try to inject a sense of hope in the Harris campaign.
Former president Barack Obama greets supporters during a rally with Sen. Raphael G. Warnock and Stacey Abrams at in College Park, Ga., on Oct. 28, 2022.
“Michelle is in a completely different category,” said David Axelrod, who served as Obama’s chief strategist. “She never thought of herself as ‘in politics.’ She was a conscript. She is even more of a cultural figure.”The former president’s portfolio has included work through the Obama Foundation, which is now his principal focus.
Barack, 63, and Michelle, 60, are contemporaries of Harris, 59. Their video call endorsing her not long after Biden quit the race has reached a combined 117 million views, according to an official with knowledge of the relationship between Harris and the Obamas. When Obama hosted a big fundraiser for Biden in Los Angeles earlier in the summer, he spent time with 60 content creators, emphasizing the role they could play in the election.
Obama’s presidency never quite lived up to the enormous expectations of his 2008 campaign. Those in the party’s liberal wing criticized him as not being boldly progressive enough. Some were disappointed with his willingness to compromise or even seek compromise with a Republican Party that became more intractable as his presidency went along.
Holder said that since leaving the White House, Obama has seen work on behalf of the party as an essential responsibility. “He did as much as he could when trying to run the nation,” Holder said. “Now he has more time and his role has changed.” “We’ve known each other for 20 years. I’ve watched how you have excelled in every position you’ve been in,” Obama told her in the phone call in which he and Michelle Obama formally endorsed her candidacy for president last month. “Just to see all that hard work be recognized is something that we couldn’t be more thrilled about.
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