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Michelle Obama finally stands up to Trump
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Michelle Obama finally stands up to Trump

The World Series of Politics enters its final decisive game. And the Democrats are bringing their superstar closer.

The ultimate ace of their bullpen, Michelle Obama, is finally ready to take the mound, answering the prayers of concerned fans in this history-making slugfest who have been clamoring for a reliever who can throw some strikes.

According to a senior Harris campaign official, the former first lady will make her first replacement appearance with Vice President Kamala Harris next Saturday, Oct. 26, in Michigan on the first day of early voting in the crucial battleground state.

Together, she and Harris will urge Michigan voters to hurry up and cast their ballots on the same day to finally defeat Donald Trump, whose attacks on Democrats have become increasingly personal and vulgar.

Former President Barack Obama will appear alongside Harris at a rally in Georgia next Thursday, Oct. 24, the senior official said.

The Harris campaign says both Obamas will headline major campaign rallies in battleground states in the final stretch through Nov. 5. However, details, dates and venues are vague – and not unintentionally.

As Michelle Obama works behind the scenes to increase voter turnout in swing states, she is shying away from a campaign fraught with the threat of political violence following two assassination attempts against Trump. Ironically, it is Trump, the former first lady Blaming for threats her family's safety after he sparked a right-wing uproar with false claims about Barack Obama's birth certificate.

“Donald Trump put my family’s safety at risk with his loud and reckless innuendos,” she wrote in her 2018 memoir Become. “And I would never forgive him for that.”

The Obamas are crucial brand allies for the Harris campaign as polls show Trump has singled out a segment of black voters, mostly men, who would normally be firmly on the Democratic side. Harris has gone all out over the past week to woo her — and other key demographics — as the summer thrills of Kamalamania fade into fall election anxiety.

While she may have lost ground with some black voters, Harris has made gains among so-called Republican “normals,” including former Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers who view the former president as a threat to U.S. national security.

Obama, the former president, made his first rally appearance last week in Pittsburgh – the one where he got flak for urging black men to vote for Harris — and will do more in the coming days in Tucson, Las Vegas, Detroit and Madison, according to Harris' senior campaign aide. (The Harris team says Obama inspired supporters of the Pittsburgh event to sign up for 981 volunteer shifts.)

Michelle Obama is heeding her own advice, which she gave to an enthusiastic crowd at the Democratic National Convention in August. And her victory comes at a time when the race for the White House between Harris and Trump has tightened to a razor-thin margin where a few fast balls over the plate could change the game.

“When we see bad polling — and we will — we have to put the phone down and do something,” she told Democrats gathered in Chicago. “When we start to feel tired, when anxiety comes back, we have to pick ourselves up, throw water on our faces and what? Do something.

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