Obama hits campaign trail for Harris in key swing state of Pennsylvania

Donald Trump was attacked by former US President Barack Obama as a divisive figure who didn’t care about Americans at a campaign rally for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania’s heartland.

Obama said in a speech on Thursday evening in Pittsburgh that the United States “needs four more years” of ex-President Trump as president.

“We don’t need four more years of division and arrogance,” he declares. The former Democratic president asserted that “America is ready to turn the page.”

We’re prepared for a different kind of story that encourages cooperation rather than conflict. Pennsylvania, we’re ready for a President Kamala Harris”.

Given that the election campaign is in full swing less than a month before the November 5 election, Obama made his first appearance on the Harris campaign trail.

Recent polls show Harris locked in a neck-and-neck fight with Trump to win the White House, with the outcome likely to come down to how the candidates fare in key swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and North Carolina.

According to a poll released earlier on Thursday by The Hill and Emerson College, Trump had a razor-thin edge over Harris in Pennsylvania.

According to the report, the state’s former Republican president received 49% of support from the state, compared to 48% for the vice president.

Prior to the election in November, Harris has been conducting a media blitz to try to bolster support and reach out to important demographics of the American electorate, including young voters.

Democrats are hoping that Obama, who remains one of the party’s most popular figures, will provide the Harris campaign with a boost.

On Thursday, Obama praised Harris as a “leader who has spent her life fighting for people who need a voice” and who “has served with distinction in every office she has held.”

At the University of Pittsburgh event, Kamala remarked, “Kamala is as prepared for the job as any presidential nominee has ever been.”

Trump has also been campaigning in Pennsylvania recently, going back over the weekend to Butler, where he was shot in the ear in July during an assassination attempt.

He said he came back to Butler to demonstrate that his supporters were standing “stronger, prouder, united, more determined and nearer to victory than ever before”.

On Thursday, the Republican was in Michigan, a second swing state that might have a significant impact on the outcome.

Trump promised to re-establish manufacturing jobs in the state and other regions of the nation while speaking in Detroit, the home of the US automotive industry.

“It’s my goal to get our country on an auto-making path, where, at some point in the near future, it will be bigger and more important than it ever was”, he said.

But Trump also insulted the city, which has faced years of socioeconomic hardship, during his speech.