{"id":33333,"date":"2024-10-11T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33333"},"modified":"2024-10-31T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T03:23:39","slug":"5-times-obama-jabbed-at-trump-during-his-1st-rally-for-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33333","title":{"rendered":"5 times Obama jabbed at Trump during his 1st rally for Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Former President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/04\/obama-campaign-harris-election-battleground-states\"><u>Barack Obama<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday delivered some of his most pointed remarks yet against GOP presidential nominee Donald&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/donald-trump\"><u>Trump<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;during the Democrat&#8217;s first rally for Vice President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/kamala-harris-us-election-2024\"><u>Kamala Harris<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Why it matters:&nbsp;<\/strong>Obama acknowledged as he made an impassioned case for Harris in the key&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/08\/28\/battleground-states-map-2024\"><u>battleground state of Pennsylvania<\/u><\/a>, where polls&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/president-general\/2024\/pennsylvania\/\"><u>indicate<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;the presidential race&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/09\/09\/2024-election-polls-tossup\"><u>toss-up<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;margins could be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/philadelphia\/2024\/09\/17\/election-mail-in-ballots-trump-pennsylvania\"><u>closer than in 2020<\/u><\/a>, &#8220;this election&#8217;s going to be tight.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5 takeaways<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>1. On Trump&#8217;s&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/10\/biden-trump-hurricane-misinformation\"><strong><u><strong>hurricane aid comments<\/strong><\/u><\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Donald Trump, at a rally, just started making up stories about the Biden administration withholding aid to Republican areas and siphoning off aid to give to undocumented immigrants,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Everybody knew it wasn&#8217;t true. Even local Republicans said it was not true.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The idea &#8220;of intentionally trying to deceive people in their most desperate and vulnerable moments &#8230; when did that become OK? Why would we go along with that?&#8221; Obama said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2. Harris&#8217; policies touted over Trump&#8217;s &#8220;concepts of a plan&#8221;:&nbsp;<\/strong>Obama said Harris has &#8220;concrete plans&#8221; on housing and taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;With Kamala, you&#8217;ve got actual plans. Trump&#8230; concepts of a plan,&#8221; said Obama \u2014 a dig at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/09\/12\/trump-health-care-plan-obamacare-replacement\"><u>the Republican&#8217;s comments<\/u><\/a>\u00a0during his debate with Harris that he had &#8220;concepts of a plan&#8221; on health care after calling his predecessor&#8217;s signature law, the Affordable Care Act, &#8220;lousy.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;If you challenge Trump to elaborate and enumerate his &#8216;concepts,&#8217; he will fall back on one answer,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t matter what the issue is, housing, health care, education, paying the bills \u2014 their only answer is to blame immigrants.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>3. Appeal to male voters:&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, gentlemen. I&#8217;ve noticed this especially with some men who seem to think Trump&#8217;s behavior, the bullying, and the putting people down is a sign of strength. I am here to tell you that is not what real strength is,&#8221;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>said Obama of gender polls showing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/09\/02\/gender-gap-voters-harris-trump-2024-election\"><u>Trump slightly ahead of Harris<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;among men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Real strength is about helping people who need it and standing up for those who can&#8217;t always stand up for themselves. That is what we should want for our daughters and for our sons.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>4. On the economy:&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;This election&#8217;s going to be tight, because there are a lot of Americans who are still struggling out there,&#8221; said Obama, citing the impact of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/health\/coronavirus\"><u>COVID<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;What I cannot understand is how anyone would think that Donald Trump will shake things up in a way that&#8217;s good for you, Pennsylvania,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You think Donald Trump ever changed a diaper?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Obama called Trump a 78-year-old billionaire who rants &#8220;about crazy conspiracy theory&#8221; and who makes &#8220;constant attempts to sell you stuff,&#8221; including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/03\/26\/trump-selling-bible-god-bless-the-usa\"><u>Bibles<\/u><\/a>, adding: &#8220;He wants you to buy the Word of God, Donald Trump edition. He&#8217;s got<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>his name right there, next to Matthew and Luke.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>5. On the economy under Trump:&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;The reason some people think, &#8216;I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good \u2014 yeah, it was pretty good because it was&nbsp;my&nbsp;economy!&#8221; Obama said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We had 75 straight months of job growth that I handed over to him,&#8221; he added. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t do nothing! Except those big tax cuts. His other big economic plan now is to slap tariffs on everything, from food to TVs.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The other side:&nbsp;<\/strong>Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/obama-stumping-harris-key-battleground-charges-trump-will-makes-problems-worse\"><u>told<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Fox News: &#8220;If anyone cared about what Obama says, Hillary Clinton would&#8217;ve been president.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Representatives for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Axios&#8217; request for comment in the evening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/11\/obama-trump-harris-pennsylvania-rally-election\">axios<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President&nbsp;Barack Obama&nbsp;on Thursday delivered some of his most pointed remarks yet against GOP presidential nominee Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;during the Democrat&#8217;s first rally for Vice President&nbsp;Kamala Harris. Why it matters:&nbsp;Obama acknowledged as he made an impassioned case for Harris in the key&nbsp;battleground state of Pennsylvania, where polls&nbsp;indicate&nbsp;the presidential race&nbsp;toss-up&nbsp;margins could be&nbsp;closer than in 2020, &#8220;this election&#8217;s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4146,2302,2270,2505,1230],"class_list":["post-33333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-criticism","tag-harris","tag-obama","tag-rally","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33335,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33333\/revisions\/33335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}