Obama and Trump wage one last battle for even more urgent stakes

Barack Obama spent Saturday rallying Democrats in Ohio and Michigan, while Donald Trump held a midterm event in Georgia, where Obama is due next week. In Detroit, at a rally for Abdul El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson, Obama urged voters to declare "enough is enough" after a decade of chaos. Obama also tied Trump's smears of El-Sayed to the drive to question Obama's citizenship, according to CNN.

Trump, weighed down by weak approval ratings and anger over the Iran war and living costs, described America as being in a golden age, then early Sunday called Obama a grossly incompetent president on Truth Social. CNN frames the two as champions of rival coalitions: Obama's diverse, urban, college-educated supporters versus Trump's rural, non-college, working-class base, wary of globalism.

Democrats face the question of why a former president out of office nearly a decade remains their top spokesman, even as newer figures like Senator Jon Ossoff and Texas candidate James Talarico emerge. With Trump term-limited, open 2028 tickets could end the Obama-Trump era. Obama joked he may have been at it too long.

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