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Aug 20, 2020
News | Politic | US: Barack Obama launches blistering attack on Trump
Barack Obama launched an unprecedented attack on Donald Trump at
the Democratic convention on Wednesday night, with the former president
accusing his successor of treating the White House like a “reality show
that he can use to get attention”.
He spoke via a live video link
from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia — a venue
chosen to underscore the gravity of the choice facing voters in
November.
“This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what it takes to win,” Mr Obama said.
Former
US presidents have in the past shied away from criticising the
incumbent. But in a scathing speech, Mr Obama said Mr Trump had “no
interest in putting in the work” required of a president.
“Donald
Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t. And the consequences
of that failure are severe — 170,000 Americans dead; millions of jobs
gone.”
Mr Trump appeared to be watching Mr Obama’s speech live and
tweeted in all-caps as the former president was speaking: “Why did he
refuse to endorse slow Joe until it was all over . . . why did he try to
get him not to run?”
Mr Obama was followed by Kamala Harris, who
accepted the Democratic nomination for vice-president in an uplifting
speech pointing to the historic nature of her candidacy while also
attacking Mr Trump for the “lives and livelihoods” lost during the
pandemic.
Ms Harris became the first woman of colour to join a major party ticket when Joe Biden picked her as his running mate and she used her address to lament the impact of coronavirus on minority communities.
She
said: “[Covid] is not an equal opportunity offender. Black, Latino and
indigenous people are suffering and dying disproportionately . . . Let’s
be clear — there is no vaccine for racism.”
Mr Obama was originally scheduled to cap the night, but the
running order of the virtual convention was switched at the last minute
in a symbolic move that was taken as a passing of the torch from the
44th president to Ms Harris.
Although
Ms Harris did attack Mr Trump — accusing him of turning “our tragedies
into political weapons” — she devoted most of her speech to fleshing out
a positive vision of an America “where all are welcome, no matter what
we look like”.
Ms Harris drew on her personal story as the
daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father and credited her
appearance on the ticket “to the dedication of generations before me”.
“[I
am] committed to the values [my mother] taught me, to the word that
teaches me to walk by faith, and not by sight, and to a vision passed on
through generations of Americans — one that Joe Biden shares.”
She
also spoke of the importance of her family, including her husband “who I
met on a blind date”, their children, and her “chitthis” — the Tamil
word for aunt.
Ms Harris was preceded by several of the party’s
best-known women, including Hillary Clinton, the party’s 2016
presidential candidate and Nancy Pelosi, House speaker. Mr Biden, who
was formally nominated as the party’s presidential candidate on Tuesday, will speak on Thursday evening.
The
themes of the third night of the convention included several issues of
particular concern to the party’s progressive wing: gun control, climate
change and immigration reform.
Speaking from her home in New York, Mrs Clinton used her
stinging defeat in 2016 to urge potential Democratic voters to “vote
like our livelihoods are on the line”.
“Remember, Joe and Kamala can win 3m more votes and still lose — take it from me,” she said.
Mrs
Clinton said that voters had failed to appreciate “how dangerous” a
Trump presidency would be. “For four years, people have said to me . . .
‘I wish I could go back and do it over’. Or, worse, ‘I should have
voted’. Well, this can’t be another woulda, coulda, shoulda election.”
Mrs
Pelosi also made the case against Mr Trump. “I’ve seen first-hand
Donald Trump’s disrespect for facts, for working families, and for women
in particular — disrespect written into his policies toward our health
and our rights, not just his conduct,” she said.
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