Obama jumps in to campaign for Democrats

Bloomberg

Former President Barack Obama will travel to Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin at the end of October to rally voters in key battleground states to support Democrats in the Nov. 8 midterm elections that will decide the balance of power in Washington for the next two years.
Obama will be in Atlanta on Oct. 28 to campaign with candidates and urge supporters to take advantage of the final week of early in-person voting, according to an emailed statement from his office. The following day he’ll attend rallies in Detroit and Milwaukee, where access to abortion and voting rights will be among the issues used to motivate people to vote.
“Given the high stakes of this year’s midterm elections, President Obama wants to do his part to help Democrats win next month,” according to the statement.
Races in those states remain in play for Democrats. In Georgia, Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is in a dead heat with Republican challenger Herschel Walker, who had a solid showing in a debate Friday night. In Wisconsin, Republican Senator Ron Johnson led Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes by 6 percentage points in a recent Marquette University poll.
In a Twitter video clip, Obama, 61, said one thing he wants to “emphasize in this midterm is the importance of looking not just at the top of the ballot, but all the way down to the bottom.”

Biden, Harris to hit
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Philadelphia on Oct. 28 for an event with the state’s Democratic Party, less than two weeks before the crucial midterm elections.
It’s the second of two scheduled trips Biden has in the coming weeks to Pennsylvania, which is shaping up to be a key battleground for Democrats fighting to hold on to their slim congressional majorities.
On Oct. 20, the president is slated to appear with John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for the US Senate, who is locked in a tight race with Republican candidate and celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz.
The two are running for the seat held by retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey in a state that backed former President Donald Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Before it tightened, the race was seen as one of Democrats’ best chances to pick up a Senate seat. The Cook Political Report this month changed its rating for the race from “lean Democrat” to a “toss up.”
Fetterman’s campaign has faltered in recent weeks, as he recovers from a stroke he suffered in May and tries to convince voters he is healthy enough to serve in office. Republicans have also put more resources into the state to bolster Oz, who has Trump’s endorsement.