Former President Barack Obama attacks Trump, calls on Americans to vote in midterm elections
WASHINGTON — Previewing his midterm campaign message, former President Barack Obama on Friday launched a direct attack on President Donald Trump and Republicans, and called on Americans to "restore some semblance of sanity to our politics" by voting.
He told students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that they are coming of age during a time when the powerful and privileged are pushing back on America's ideals.
"It did not start with Donald Trump," Obama said. "He is a symptom, not the cause. He’s just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years."
Obama made a case against voter apathy by unloading on the current state of the Republican Party, saying among other things that they are abdicating their responsibilities by doing nothing "when the president does something crazy."
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