WATCH: Obama blasts Trump for lack of real solutions as he stumps for Ossoff and Bottoms in Georgia

By: Will Weissert, Associated Press · Josh Boak, Associated Press · Bill Barrow, Associated Press

28 October 2026 at 22:22

Georgia Democrats rallied with former President Barack Obama Wednesday night, at the same time President Donald Trump was in Ohio attempting to energize his base, as both parties began crystallizing their closing messages ahead of next week's midterm elections.

The bottomless depths of Donald Trump’s midterm rally bigotry

World news | The Guardian

By: David Smith in Washington

28 October 2026 at 20:11

Both Obama and Trump are on the campaign trail, but only one of them appears to be descending into madness

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Barack Obama versus Donald Trump. It is the presidential election that never happened but has come to define an era of US politics.

Obama is back on the campaign trail for the midterms, still electrifying crowds, earning shouts of “We love you!” and skewering his successor. “What’s up with the gold?” he asked a crowd in Detroit. “I mean, he’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.” This has, predictably, set off a mini culture war involving questions of elitism and the tastefulness of chain restaurants.