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CLEVELAND – Former President Barack Obama on Thursday decried "demagogues that promise simple solutions to complicated problems" – an implicit but clear reprimand to his successor, President Donald Trump, who, Obama says, routinely violates political and political standards. threatens fundamental democratic institutions.
At a major protest on behalf of Richard Cordray, Ohio's Democratic nominee for governorship, Obama urged supporters to vote in the November 6 mid-term elections. "You must vote, that is why I am here". in a song of "Vote, vote, vote".
Obama never mentioned Trump directly, other than a passing reference to "the person at the White House". But the message was undeniable.
"None of this is normal," Obama said.
Obama said during his presidency, he "was confident that the American people wanted to hear the truth" – a Trump master stroke, whose penchant for hyperbolic and factual affirmations has been a persistent feature of his personality.
Earlier Thursday, Trump rebuffed with no evidence on the idea that 3,000 people had died in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria last year, suggesting that the Democrats had doubled the number to make it bad.
Obama's critics against Republicans in Congress were more direct, saying that rather than providing control and a balance on Trump's behavior, "you see Republicans bend over backwards to become a shield."
It was the third campaign incursion for Obama in less than a week. Last Friday, during a speech at the University of Illinois, Obama announced that he would retire in the political sphere before the mid-term elections of November 6. things "coming out of the White House.
The next day he traveled to Southern California to campaign for the Democrat House challengers in Orange County.
Cordray was a former Obama supporter and was in turn appointed first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Board. He is running against Republican Mike DeWine, Ohio Attorney General and former US Senator, who Obama has criticized for his opposition to the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Republican Governor John Kasich is retired.
DeWine participated on Thursday in a campaign with Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the president.
Obama won the Ohio – for years the most crucial state of the country – in 2008 and during his reelection in 2012. But the state has gone from 8 points to Trump in 2016 against the Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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