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Georgia midterm elections: Why this is a key US battleground
Obama and Trump campaign in key battleground state ahead of next week's midterm elections.
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Trump and Obama trade barbs in closing week of US midterm election
Neither man is on the ballot but Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama took prominent roles on the campaign trail on Wednesday, with less than a week to go before congressional races that could shift the balance of power in Washington. Thirty-five of the 100 Senate seats and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives are being contested next Tuesday. Nonpartisan analysts generally favor Democrats' chances of capturing a majority in the House, with the contest for the Senate seen as very close.
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USA: Barack Obama slams Donald Trump in final midterm push
Just five days before the US midterm elections, former president Barack Obama came to Georgia in a show of support to Senator Jon Ossoff in tthe midterm elections. Obama commented on the reaction of Trump's administration to a joke he had made the day before. "He was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory comments", Obama said. "They mobilized a whole-of-government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke." As the election is getting closer, polls point to a possible Democratic majority in the House.
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Obama and Trump spar at rallies in Georgia and Ohio: Key takeaways
Obama and Trump traded barbs over the Iran war, tariffs and the White House ballroom ahead of the US midterm elections.
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Obama, campaign in Georgia: "Trump is not offended if you call him corrupt, but it is for a joke about a restaurant"
The two presidents are back in line with the Democrat's comment in which he compared the decoration of the Oval Office with that of "a Cheesecake Factory opened by Saddam Hussein"
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Obama mocks Trump team’s Cheesecake Factory response
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Democrats lead national polls as Trump and Obama campaign in key states six days before the US midterm elections.
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The Golden Cake Joke: A Obama's Trump Decor in the White House Broke into Campaign
The expressive says his successor has renewed the official residence as if "Saddam Hussein had opened" a restaurant of the popular Cheesecake Factory chain and the MAGA world comes out to counter-attack
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Trump v Obama - which president has the star power to get out the vote?
The BBC's Sarah Smith followed the current and former presidents as both parties hope their biggest names can drive midterm turnout.
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Bessent dines at Cheesecake Factory, slams Obama over Trump joke
Cheesecake Factory has emerged as a campaign talking point before next week's election, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dining there Monday.
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US midterms: Obama blasts Trump's 'chaos and cruelty' while campaigning for Democrats
Ten days out from the elections that will determine control of the closely divided Congress, Barack Obama took to the campaign trail to accuse the Republican president of corruption, deride his strategy for Iran and skewer the gilded aesthetic he has applied to White House renovations. FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson tells us more.
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Midterms: Obama campaigns for Democrats, slams Trump
Barack Obama hit the campaign trail in Ohio to rally support for Democrats ahead of the US midterms, criticising Donald Trump over the war with Iran.
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Obama hits campaign trail for democrats
With less than two weeks to go before the US midterm elections, former President Barack Obama has hit the campaign trail, rallying support for Democratic candidates in the key states of Michigan and Ohio. He criticised the Trump administration, blaming the White House for rising living costs, a major concern for voters. Democrats are hoping to regain control of Congress, with polls showing several closely contested races. Ophelie Jacobson has more.
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Obama’s Ohio, Michigan speeches: Key takeaways on Trump, Iran war, midterms
The former US president warns of rising costs, corruption and threats to democratic values ahead of the November 3 vote.
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Obama attacks Trump as he campaigns for Democrats ahead of midterm elections
Obama said the election was "the last best chance to at least rein in some of the foolishness of this administration".
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Obama joins El-Sayed in Michigan rally cry before key midterms
Former US President Barack Obama joined Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a Detroit rally ahead of midterms.
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Obama slams Trump’s ‘cruelty and corruption’ as he rallies Democrats
Former US president says Trump 'chose to make a series of bad decisions', highlighting the US-Israel war on Iran.
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Obama blasts federal probe of Ilhan Omar as 'so appalling'
Obama says federal agents' search of the Democrat's home was an effort to intimidate a Trump critic.
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Obama says drift towards extremism 'not inevitable'
More than 12,000 people filled a major venue in the city to hear the former US president's take on the challenges the world is facing. .
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Thomas Chatterton Williams on how Covid-19, George Floyd protests affected US social justice
An acclaimed American author has spoken to FRANCE 24 about his theories on how American society's opinion and ideas of social justice have changed since the presidency of Barack Obama. Thomas Chatterton Williams says the left became disillusioned during Obama's second term, and in later years amid the George Floyd protests and Covid-19 pandemic the discourse shifted – initially for the left, but this also impacted the right. The ripples of those times are still resonating today. His latest book is entitled "Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse".