Barack Obama, speaking at a Wednesday campaign rally in suburban Atlanta, offered a closing argument for Democrats in the final week of the midterm election campaign. From 3,500 to 4,000 people filled the Discovery Center of Clayton county for the late election season stop, just south of Atlanta. Obama has been casting caltrops behind him with each campaign stop, offering pointed criticism of Republican candidates and Donald Trump that has been unusual for the former president.
He continued to do so on Wednesday, again invoking the image of Trump’s gilded renovations of the White House and noting Trump’s strident reaction to his crack last week likening it to Saddam Hussein decorating a Cheesecake Factory. But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory,” Obama said. Understand that this has not been done in modern times.” The construction of a new ballroom on the site of the former East Wing of the White House featured in the comments of many speakers at Wednesday’s rally, including Ossoff.
The crowd chanted: “Lock him up!” in response. Bottoms, meanwhile, contrasted her candidacy with that of her Republican opponent Rick Jackson, tying the billionaire healthcare executive to Trump and describing them as “two out-of-touch billionaires who want to keep getting rich on the backs of taxpayers”. Invoking the legacies of US Representative John Lewis and Coretta Scott King, Bottoms characterized her candidacy as transcending politics.
Despite a broad wave of Democratic support buoying candidates across the country – and the eight- to 10-point polling lead Ossoff has on his Republican opponent, US Representative Mike Collins – Bottoms is statistically tied in polls with Jackson. If elected, Bottoms would break the state’s Republican trifecta – where the GOP has controlled both chambers of the legislature and the governor’s office – which began in 2004. Rev Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s other senator, warned of “spiritual wickedness in high places” while describing the effects of deep cuts to Medicaid and Snap nutrition support for children.
There is brokenness, because only a broken nation could manage to elect Donald Trump twice.” Trump, who was campaigning in Ohio at the same time as the Georgia rally, has also been on a national rally blitz, holding near-daily events in the final days of the midterm campaign. Trump has made two appearances in as many weeks in Georgia, both in what would otherwise seem to be congressional districts that are safe territory for Republicans.
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