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PHILADELPHIA (NEXSTAR/AP) Former President Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his response to racial unrest and his fundamental unfitness for the job in his first in-person campaign pitch Wednesday for Joe Biden, his former vice president.

With less than two weeks until Election Day, Obama delivered a sweeping condemnation of Trump while urging voters not to sit out the Nov. 3 election. He cast Trump as uninterested in leading America through the unprecedented challenges the country is facing.

He hasnt shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends, Obama said at a drive-in rally of about 300 cars. This is not a reality show. This is reality, and the rest of us have had to live with the consequences of him proving himself incapable of taking the job seriously.

Obama took specific aim at reporting Tuesday that President Trump has kept a secret Chinese bank account, saying Fox News would have labeled him Beijing Barry if he had been caught doing the same thing.

Obamas visit to Philadelphia underscores the significance of Pennsylvania, the swing state that Biden himself has visited the most this campaign season. Trump has prioritized the state as well, and his aides acknowledge that his path to victory would narrow considerably without the states 20 electoral votes. The president on Wednesday was in Erie, one of a handful of Pennsylvania counties that Obama won twice before it flipped to Trump.

Specifically targeting voters who might be disillusioned, Obama offered a defense of the nations decency and personal validation that Biden and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, can live up to it.

America is a good and decent place, but weve just seen so much nonsense and noise that sometimes its hard to remember, he said. Im asking you to remember what this country can be. Im asking you to believe in Joes ability and Kamalas ability to lead this country out of these dark times and help us build it back better.

During his speech and at an earlier roundtable with Black men, Biden talked up the Democrats plans to confront the coronavirus while dealing with the countrys social and economic tensions, including disparities deeply rooted in racism.

I am so confident in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris surrounding themselves with people who are serious, who know what theyre doing, who are representative of all people not just some people and us being able to then dig ourselves out of this hole, Obama said.

Four years ago, Obama delivered Hillary Clintons closing argument in Philadelphia at a rally for thousands the night before Election Day on Independence Mall. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic upending campaigning, far fewer voters saw the former president in person. But he used the spotlight he had to remind voters of 2016, when Trump upset Clinton narrowly in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to forge an Electoral College majority despite losing the popular vote nationally.

We cant be complacent, Obama warned. I dont care about the polls. There were a whole bunch of polls last time. Didnt work out because a whole bunch of folks stayed at home and got lazy and complacent. Not this time. Not this election.

The roundtable was a personalized version of the same message, with the nations first Black president urging Black men especially not to give into apathy. The host city, Philadelphia, is among the Democratic bastions in key battleground states where Black turnout four years ago fell off from Obamas 2012 reelection in large enough numbers to tip the election in Trumps favor.

Obama, 59, said he understood young voters skepticism and disinterest, recalling his own attitude decades ago. Ill confess, when I was 20 years old, I wasnt all that woke, he said at the roundtable, adding that young Black men are not involved because theyre young and theyre distracted.

But he said not voting gives away power.

The answer for young people when I talk to them is not that voting makes everything perfect, Obama said. Its that it makes things better because politicians respond to and reflect the citizens who cast votes.

One of the biggest tricks thats perpetrated on the American people is this idea that the government is separate from you, Obama said. The governments us. Of, by and for the people. It wasnt always for all of us, but the way its designed, it works based on whos at the table.

Despite the smaller scale, Democrats say that as one of the men who knows Biden best, both as his former partner in the White House and personally, Obama remains one of the partys greatest assets in the final stretch of the campaign.

Obama has already been helpful to the Biden campaign, adapting to the shift to virtual events by focusing much of his work on getting younger Americans to vote. Hes appeared on Twitch, the video game streaming platform, pushed a voter registration message on Snapchat and recorded a video for the Shade Room, a Black-owned Instagram page and media company with 21 million followers.

Obama has appeared on two podcasts run by some of his former aides and has lent his name to texts and emails encouraging supporters to register to vote and donate money to the campaign. Obama has also been a big money draw for the campaign he appeared at two virtual fundraisers with Harris this month and a handful prior to that. A grassroots virtual fundraiser Obama headlined with Biden in June brought in $7.6 million.

Obama has also been active for down-ballot Democrats, raising money for House Democrats and appearing in ads for some of the partys top candidates, like Sara Gideon, running for the Senate in Maine, and for vulnerable incumbents, like Michigan Sen. Gary Peters. And he filmed a series of digital videos for the Democratic National Committee emphasizing the need for voters to make plans for casting their ballot.

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He hasnt shown any interest in doing the work: Obama denounces Trump on campaign trail - WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland

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"Hey, everybody, one of the most inspiring things about this year has been to see so many young Americans fired up, organizing, marching and fighting for change," Obama said in a video posted to his Twitter account.

"Your generation can be the one that creates a new normal in America. One that's fairer, where the system treats everybody equally and gives everybody opportunity," he continued.

The message aimed at young voters comes the night before Obama is set to hit the campaign trail for Biden in the final stretch of the election, starting with a speech in Philadelphia on Wednesday evening.

The former president will not aggressively barnstorm swing states, but rather intends to visit a handful of critical battlegrounds where voting is underway.

The events will be socially distanced -- similar to the tactics adopted by the Biden campaign during the coronavirus pandemic -- but are designed to garner local media coverage in key areas. President Donald Trump's campaign has dispatched far more surrogates ahead of the election -- along with the President's rallies -- and the Obama visits are designed to help Biden draw more attention in places where voting is happening.

Obama's return to the campaign trail could energize Democratic voters in the final weeks before the election, as the former president remains among the Democratic Party's most popular figures.

The Biden campaign believes Obama can help in three particular areas, officials say: Black men, Latinos and young voters.

Turning to Biden in his video message Tuesday, Obama said he knows his onetime partner "better than almost anybody."

"I trust him to be a great president. He's different. He's on the right side of the issues," he said.

"He'll get the job done. And Joe and Kamala will want you to keep pushing them to get the job done."

CNN's Arlette Saenz and Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report.

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The president has been publicly musing about Obama's event ever since it was revealed the ex-president would be hitting campaign trail for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. During a Friday night rally in Georgia, Trump recalled the moment aides told him Obama would be rallying for Biden, much as he did for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

They said, Sir, we have bad news, Trump said recently. Whats the bad news? Obamas going to start campaigning for Sleepy Joe. I said, Is that good or bad? Why is it bad? Because he campaigned harder for Hillary than she did. He was very ineffective as a campaigner. So I think thats good news.

Tuesday night, while Trump avoided an Obama mention, he didnt spare his other enemies during the chilly outdoor rally at the Erie airport. Thousands of supporters bundled up in coats and hats about half wearing masks chanted four more years! as Trump walked onto the stage with Air Force One behind him.

Once Trump took to the podium, he swiftly blasted Bidens son, Hunter, accusing him of earning millions of dollars in China and Ukraine while his father was vice president vague allegations that have not been substantiated with concrete evidence. And when Trumps microphone abruptly cut out, the president quipped that the brief outage was likely caused by "crooked Hillary."

Its no surprise Trump and Obama are both appearing in Pennsylvania. The northeast state has become critical in the race to claim the White House on Nov. 3. In 2016, Trump became the first Republican to win the state since 1988 when turnout was higher than expected. But recent polls show Biden, who spent part of his childhood in the state, could win it back.

If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing, Trump told the crowd Tuesday before mocking Biden for leaving the state and trying to claim Pennsylvania as his own.

It's not his home state. He left you when he was nine, right? I'm not blaming him for that, Trump said. But you know he likes to go, Oh yeah, yeah it's my home state. It's not his home state. I actually went to college in Pennsylvania.

In 2016, some white working class residents who had grown frustrated with the Democratic Party were drawn to Trump by the way he talked about bringing back jobs to the state. But Trumps promises have not necessarily materialized. While the state added manufacturing jobs in 2017 and early 2018, it has been shedding them since October 2018. And with the pandemic-driven economic decline, the state has 600,000 fewer jobs overall than when Trump took office.

Still, Trump aides and allies say they feel confident the president can win the state a second time, even during the coronavirus pandemic, by touting economic policies like tax cuts and trade deals. On Tuesday night, Trump hit those points. He unveiled a video package on a massive screen behind him meant to make the case that Biden would eliminate fracking a method for extracting oil and gas used in Pennsylvania even though Biden has explicitly said he would not take such a step.

Since 2016, Donald Trump has not changed one bit, said former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.). He is the same person that he was in 2016 when he won Pennsylvania. But the Democrat party has changed since then. Their far shift to the left does not resonate with the Kennedy Democrats that are here in Pennsylvania.

In his wide-ranging speech, Trump touched on a variety of accomplishments and didnt shy away from talking about the coronavirus outbreak, telling the crowd that the country was rounding the corner of the pandemic with a vaccine on its way and that Pennsylvania had been shut down long enough.

You know what we want? Normal life, he said.

National Republicans boast about their presence in Pennsylvania since 2016, contacting more than 11.5 million voters, holding 4,300 training sessions and holding 5,400 MAGA meet-ups with 50,000 attendees. In the last four years, Republicans have registered more than 200,000 more voters, closing the registration gap with Democrats to 700,000, the lowest margin in two decades.

Yet Democrats recently scored a win in the state on voting rules after the Supreme Court decided not to block a Pennsylvania court ruling allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted even if they arrive up to three days later. Mail-in votes are expected to favor Democrats in the state.

And Biden has also traveled to every media market in Pennsylvania, including areas that Trump won by more than 30 points, according to a Biden campaign official.

Our strategy hinges on turning out our base voters in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, while also building on Democratic gains with key voters like women and seniors, while also shrinking the margins and winning back voters in places Trump won in 2016, the official said.

President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at North Coast Air aeronautical services at Erie International Airport on Oct. 20, 2020 in Erie, Pa. | Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Separately, Bidens wife, Jill Biden, has visited the Philadelphia suburbs twice in the last month. And Bidens running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, visited Philadelphia last month. The campaign has also focused on reaching labor union members, hiring a labor outreach director to try to reach the 700,000 Pennsylvania union members with literature drops and phone banks, the official said.

Yet with Biden laying low in the run-up to his debate Thursday with Trump, the campaign trail in Pennsylvania is essentially Trump vs. Obama.

Trump likes to say Obama didn't want to endorse Biden because Obama knows hes mentally shot." But while he largely stayed out of the Democratic presidential primary, Obama has vocally endorsed Biden during the general election, urging voters to support Biden because "our democracy" is at stake.

"He made me a better president," Obama said during his speech at the Democratic National Convention. "He's got the character and the experience to make us a better country."

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, said Obama will be a crucial surrogate for Biden. Obama, Casey said, can explain how he worked with Biden to restore the economy following the 2008 recession, and show how that work will apply to resurrecting the post-pandemic economy.

No one can validate Joe Bidens experience and his ability to do the job better than Barack Obama can, Casey said in an interview Tuesday.

With Obamas emergence, Trump has stepped up the attacks on his predecessor.

Trump has criticized Obama for joining a nuclear agreement with Iran; for allowing immigrants to cross the southern border illegally; and for entering what he calls unfair trade deals. Hes also made more personal comments accusing Obama of undeservedly winning a Nobel Peace Prize. (Trump has long mused that he should win the award.)

And Trump often cites a Gallup poll from this month showing 56 percent of Americans saying they are better off today than they were four years ago, when Obama and Biden were in charge of the country.

Last month, a crowd at Trump's rally in Nevada even chanted "lock him up" after the president baselessly accused Obama of "spying" on the 2016 Trump campaign a riff on the 2016 Trump rally chant aimed at Clinton.

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So far, former President Barack Obama has mostly stayed away from the presidential campaign this year. Alyssa Pointer/AP hide caption

So far, former President Barack Obama has mostly stayed away from the presidential campaign this year.

Former President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail for his former vice president, Joe Biden, in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.

Obama's first announced stop will be next Wednesday in Philadelphia. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and the fact the Biden campaign has prioritized safety and avoided large gatherings, assures the scene will look much different from the last time Obama held a presidential campaign rally in the city. On the final day before the 2016 election, he and Michelle Obama campaigned alongside Bill and Hillary Clinton in front of thousands of supporters packed onto Independence Mall.

While the Biden campaign has not yet announced the details of Obama's speech, odds are it will look much more like a more recent Philadelphia appearance: Obama's searing anti-Trump speech, delivered from an empty room at the Museum of the American Revolution during the Democratic National Convention.

Obama has stayed away from the presidential campaign for large stretches this year. He was finishing up his presidential memoir, which will be released next month, and also was giving Biden and other Democrats space to make their own arguments about the 2020 election.

Still, Obama has made headlines when he has engaged in the race. His convention speech marked an unprecedented move for a former president: a blistering warning about President Trump, not only as a failure as commander in chief, but also as a threat to democracy itself.

"Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't," Obama said in August. "And the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 Americans dead. Millions of jobs gone while those at the top take in more than ever. Our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before."

Obama also attacked efforts to undermine voting rights and the credibility of the upcoming election when he delivered Congressman John Lewis' eulogy at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in July. He has recorded videos with Biden and raised nearly $8 million in a joint virtual fundraiser with his onetime running mate earlier this year.

During that June fundraiser, Obama repeated a message he has delivered to younger Democrats over and over again this year in online videos, graduation speeches and other mediums: He urged them to do everything they can to organize and participate in the election. "Man, this is serious business," Obama said at the time. "Whatever you've done so far is not enough."

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