On Friday, former President Barack Obama traveled to Pennsylvania to campaign for midterm Democrat candidates, reports Fox News.
An Overview of Obama’s Speech
The former president rallied for Democrats Tom Wolf and Bob Casey; throughout his speech, Obama shared his thoughts about the importance of voting in November:
“On November 6, you have a chance to restore some sanity to our politics.”
The former commander-in-chief moreover criticized the conduct of current congressional Republicans:
“They’re no check on the White House. They’re bending over backwards to shield folks from scrutiny and accountability. So look, I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. You know this.”
Obama then bemoaned the “current course of this country” before slamming President Trump:
“You don’t have to be a Democrat or a Republican to say that it’s not good to pressure the attorney general or the FBI to use the criminal justice system to punish political enemies. That’s what they do in some dictatorships. That’s not what we do here in the United States of America. You don’t have to be a Democrat or a Republican to say we don’t threaten newspapers or TV stations if they publish stories we don’t like.”
