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Barack Obama, campaigning for Joe Biden swing state Florida, made the striking point that if a Democratic president acted like Donald Trump, Obama could not support that person.
Wearing a white shirt with rolled up sleeves, the 44th president told an enthusiastic crowd in Miami: “If there was a Democrat who was behaving this way, the way our current president does, I couldn’t support him.”
He went on: “If I saw a Democrat who was lying every single day – the fact checkers can’t keep up, it’s like, just over and over again – I would say that’s not the example I want, I don’t trust that person to manage the country’s affairs because it’s violating the values that we try to live by. And these are values we try to teach our kids.”
Trump has made well in excess of 20,000 false or misleading claims, according to the Washington Post. “The Trump presidency has been a factory of falsehood from the start, churning out distortions, conspiracy theories and brazen lies at an assembly-line pace,” the New York Times observed this weekend.
Obama’s presence in Florida on election eve reflects its status as one of the biggest prizes. Democrats are seeking to boost African American and Latino turnout in Miami to offset Trump’s strongholds elsewhere. But Republicans hope to appeal to Cuban-Americans by painting Biden as a bridge to the socialist left.
Obama added: “Here in south Florida you see these ads, ‘Joe palling with communists, palling with socialists’. You’d think he was having coffee with Castro every morning. Don’t fall for that. Joe Biden served as a senator from Delaware, he was my vice president. I think we’d all know if he was a secret socialist by now.”
Joe Biden is with Lady Gaga in western Pennsylvania and they have been going around the Pittsburgh area ahead of the drive-in rally the two are holding tonight at 8.30pm ET.
Biden and Gaga stopped to surprise student volunteers at the University of Pittsburgh. Let’s just take a moment to take in Gaga’s footwear:
Joe Biden joking with students at University of Pittsburgh before his joint drive-in rally with @LadyGaga: “I work for Lady Gaga.” pic.twitter.com/8G8Htxs5jw
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