Trump and Obama face off in midterms
ATLANTA — President Trump and former President Obama are in a full-blown proxy war centered on Tuesday’s midterm elections.
The president and his predecessor have been rallying supporters in critical states in the final days of the campaign. They have also been offering dramatically different visions of what the United States is, and what it should be.
Explosive racial issues are sharpening the tensions.
At a Pensacola, Fla., rally on Saturday evening, Trump said that Andrew Gillum, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Florida, was “not equipped” for the job. Two days previously, he had called Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams “not qualified” to be governor of her state.
Both Abrams and Gillum are black, and Trump’s comments provoked allegations that he was making racially coded attacks. Abrams said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday that Trump’s claim about her was “vapid and shallow.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/414797-the-memo-trump-and-obama-face-off-in-midterms
