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Barack Obama to rally for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan ahead of key US Senate race – US politics live
‘Change is in the air’: Obama praises El-Sayed and attacks Trump at Michigan rally – as it happened
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the 2026 midterms for the day. Here are the latest developments: Barack Obama campaigned for Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit today. “Change is in the air,” the former president said of the 2026 midterms, in a speech that laid aim at the T…
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Reporting from Manchester, New Hampshire With 10 days until the midterms election, New Hampshire has caused some eleventh-hour consternation for Democrats when it comes to the competitive Senate race. Chris Pappas, the four-term Democratic congressman who is vying for the open seat, took to the sta…
Barack Obama concluded his remarks at Abdul El-Sayed’s rally in Detroit, saying: “Michigan, you and I have proved before that it’s hard to stop change when it’s time has come. So I’m asking you to do it again in 10 days.”
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“These are unsettling times,” Barack Obama said in his address at Abdul El-Sayed’s rally in Detroit, urging voters to elect “serious” candidates who share their values. The former president noted that the economy is changing fast, artificial intelligence is set to change the world and the United St…
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Barack Obama encouraged voters to elect Democratic governors and members of Congress in November’s midterms to check the Trump administration. “This election is our last, best chance to at least reign in some of the foolishness of this administration,” Obama said.
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Obama says Trump 'excels at grifting'
Barack Obama criticized Donald Trump for profiting off the presidency during his address in Detroit. “We have never seen a president straight-up excel at grifting on your dime like this,” Obama said. “We have lost count of all the deals he and his family have done.”
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“He should be on HGTV,” Obama said of Donald Trump’s many renovations in Washington, including the White House ballroom and Rose Garden. “He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”
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“Don’t boo, vote,” Barack Obama repeated throughout his speech in Michigan, responding when rally goers booed at Obama’s description of current policies being pursued by the Trump administration.
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Barack Obama criticized Donald Trump from levying tariffs and starting trade wars with “that well known evil empire, Canada.” “These are the people who gave us Martin Short and Maple syrup. They are the nicest people," Obama said.
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Obama: Pete Hegseth and other officials are 'not serious people'
Barack Obama called Pete Hegseth and other Trump administration officials “not serious people.” Obama said the secretary of defense was more concerned about “the jawline and testosterone levels of our troops” and “livestreaming executions” than ending the war in Iran. “How much time do you think th…
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Barack Obama criticized “the current occupant of the White House”' and his 2024 campaign promises “to keep costs down” during his appearance in Detroit. “I don’t have to tell you how tough things are out there, you’re living it,” Obama said, echoing the Democratic Party’s affordability message that…
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Barack Obama criticized the last “ten years of chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence, tomfoolery, nonsense, the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times at least” during his address in Detroit.
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'Change is in the air': Obama calls El-Sayed campaign 'feels just a little bit different'
Speaking about the nearly 20 years he’s been in national politics, Barack Obama joked that he’s been campaigning for too long – but said because of the experience “I can tell you when an election comes along that feels just a little bit different.” “An election where people are so ready for somethi…
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Barack Obama rallies for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
Barack Obama has taken the stage at Abdul El-Sayed’s rally in Detroit. “Detroit, it’s good to be back in Detroit,” he said as he took the podium.
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Abdul El-Sayed said that growing up with “an eleven letter first name” he never thought he could run for office, until he saw a man named “Barack Hussein Obama” become president.
Abdul El-Sayed said his experience spending summers in Egypt and returning to the United States as a child shaped his love for the country, denouncing claims that he was too critical of the United States. “I love America. I’m so grateful I get to raise my two daughters here in America. I just love…
Abdul El-Sayed led rally goers in a chant of “it just shouldn’t be this hard” at his rally in Detroit. “Shouldn’t be this hard to afford a second bag of groceries”, to fill up your tank, to pay your rent or your mortgage, to see a doctor, or to “pay your taxes and know that that money’s going to be…
Abdul El-Sayed takes stage before Obama in Detroit
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Michigan, has begun speaking in Detroit.
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Michigan gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson denounced Donald Trump’s false claim that he won the 2020 election, and described her efforts as secretary of state that year in her address to voters in Detroit. “In 2028, the path to the presidency, to the future of our nation, runs right through Mi…
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Rally goers in Michigan are now waiting for Abdul El-Sayed and Barack Obama to arrive at the venue in Detroit, where state candidates including senator Elissa Slotkin and US House candidate Christina Hines have already spoken. Jocelyn Benson, the current secretary of state who’s running to be the s…
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With just 10 days until the US midterm elections, early voting data is rolling in nationwide. As my colleagues Shrai Popat and Lucy Campbell reported yesterday, that data shows: 1. Turnout is surging in key battleground states As of Friday afternoon, more than 23 million Americans had already voted…
Trump votes in midterm elections from West Palm Beach, Florida
Donald Trump voted in West Palm Beach, Florida today, telling reporters at the polls that he voted straight Republican on his ballot. Trump has historically mailed-in his ballot rather than voting in-person. Speaking from the polling site, Trump defended an ad from Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vive…
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The man who recently attempted to ambush the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed with a question about his supposed allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood – which El-Sayed parlayed into a viral clip for his campaign – is the son of a political operator who recently received $250,000 for “canva…
The El-Sayed rally in Michigan is under way with members of the state’s Democratic party speaking in advance of Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed and former president Barack Obama. Speaking after House of Representatives candidate Christina Hines, current senator Elissa Slotkin said, “When Barack Obama…
Trump continues his midterms campaign blitz in Georgia
While Barack Obama and Abdul El-Sayed have Democrats’ attention locked on Michigan today, Donald Trump is slated to speak today in Georgia. The president is expected to announce that the car company Audi will build a new plant there, which is expected to produce 200,000 SUVs annually, Reuters repor…
My colleague Joseph Gedeon is attending the rally for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan today, where he says thousands are in attendance. Joseph will bring us the latest lines directly from the rally.
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Analysis: El-Sayed confronts critics head-on as attacks ramp up
As a candidate positioned at the center of what researchers say are the worst Islamophobic attacks seen since the aftermath of 9/11, many would expect Abdul El-Sayed to simply defend himself and move on. Instead, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan has repeatedly demanded those who q…
Barack Obama made his first appearance of the 2026 midterms campaign season today at an earlier event in Cleveland. There, the former president stumped for the Democratic Senate nominee, Sherrod Brown, and gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. In Cleveland, Obama sharply criticized Donald Trump, and a…
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Abdul El-Sayed, a doctor and former Wayne county health director, ran on Medicare for All and a refusal to take corporate Pac money, and was backed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He made opposition to US military aid to Israel and criticism of its conduct in Gaza central to his cam…
Hundreds of people wait to see Obama at El-Sayed rally
Hundreds of Michiganders have gathered outside Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan, where former president Barack Obama will stump for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a rally slated to begin in about an hour.
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