Barack Obama campaigning for Joe Biden on October 21, 2020 in Philadelphia.
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There are the “swing states”, and then there are the “super swing states”, which alone or almost play the role of kingmakers: Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
And if Barack Obama chose to campaign in Philadelphia for Joe Biden on Wednesday night, it is no coincidence.
A victory in Pennsylvania would almost guarantee the Democratic candidate of winning the election.
And a success of Donald Trump would undoubtedly allow him to repeat his surprise of 2016. And the Democrats look with concern at the curve of the polls in the “Keystone State” where the lead of Joe Biden went in 10 days from 7 to 5 points .
This is exactly the same number as the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016 at 13 election days.
Barack Obama also called on Democrats not to be complacent and to mobilize en masse to allow Joe Biden to win against Donald Trump on November 3.
"I'm not interested in the polls," he said from Philadelphia, recalling that they were favorable in 2016 to Hillary Clinton before her surprise defeat.
Obama: "I get that this POTUS wants full credit for the economy that he inherited, and 0 blame for the pandemic he ignored. But the job doesn't work that way. Tweeting at the TV doesn't fix things. Making stuff up doesn't make people's lives better. You've got to have a plan. "
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“A lot of people stayed at home, were lazy and complacent,” he said.
" Not this time !
Not in this election!
", He hammered. In a scathing indictment against his successor, Barack Obama denounced a president who was unable to take his post" seriously ".
"Tweeting while watching television does not solve the problems", he blurted out, during a meeting in "drive in" mode in front of supporters in their car, pandemic obliges.
If Barack Obama made his comeback in full light after months of virtual campaigning, Joe Biden had, for the third consecutive day, nothing on his public program.
Donald Trump continued to crisscross the United States, on the eve of the last highly anticipated debate between the two candidates.
A stark contrast, and rare, so close to the deadline.
"Incompetence and disinformation"
With more than 221,000 deaths from Covid-19, the United States has the heaviest death toll in the world for a single country.
"The pandemic would have been difficult for any president", admitted Barack Obama.
"But the level of incompetence and misinformation, the number of people who might not have died if we had only done the obvious things ..." he blurted out, asserting that Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris would be able to "manage this pandemic more effectively."
"Former presidents do not usually get involved in politics too much," David Axelrod, former adviser to Barack Obama, told CNN of the meeting.
"I think it was his intention, but Trump was a game changer."
More than 40 million Americans have already voted by mail or in person, some 30% of the total turnout in 2016, according to the independent organization Elections Project.
Donald Trump had won by only a short head in 2016 in Pennsylvania, a potentially crucial state for victory, where he went again on Tuesday night.
Debate Thursday evening
"All that (Biden) does is stay at home," the Republican billionaire had quipped on stage in Erie.
He took a “five-day” break, he exaggerated in front of hilarious supporters.
The tempestuous president, 74, recently recovered from Covid-19, will be in Gastonia, North Carolina, another key state on Wednesday evening.
After a trip to North Carolina, too, Sunday, Joe Biden, 77, returned to his stronghold of Wilmington, Delaware.
He greeted the photographers Monday on his way to an interview, but has since stayed away from reporters except to give interviews to local media in key states.
The Democratic candidate will meet Donald Trump on Thursday evening for their last televised duel, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Their first debate, at the end of September, had turned into a fight.
And nothing indicates that the tone will be less aggressive this time.
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