Former President Barack Obama mocked his successor, former President Donald Trump, during a visit to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Saturday to rally for Mandela Barnes, the Democrats’ Senate candidate in the state.
Obama took aim at Trump and other Republicans for “birther” attacks levied against Obama while he was a presidential candidate and still in the White House. Barnes would be Wisconsin’s first-ever black senator should he defeat incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in November, and Obama specifically called out ads from Johnson and Republicans that called Barnes “dangerous and different.”
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“I know that there are some folks, probably maybe not in this auditorium, but elsewhere in Wisconsin — who think,” the former president told the crowd at one point, “just because Mandela’s named Mandela, just because he’s a Democrat with a funny name, he must not be like you, he must not share your values.”
“I mean, we’ve seen this,” he continued. “It sounds pretty familiar, doesn’t it?”
Obama proceeded to joke about “the good old days” before Trump was president, when he questioned Obama’s U.S. citizenship.
Obama: I know that there are some folks who think, and I know his answer running this way, but just because Mandela’s name is Mandela — just because he is a Democrat with a funny name, he must not be like you. Mandela get ready to dig up that birth certificate pic.twitter.com/a9UWxrlA9q
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“Remember when that was the craziest thing he was saying?” he added of Trump. “Now, it doesn’t even make the Top 10 list of crazy.”
Obama also spent time in Atlanta over the weekend campaigning for Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor.
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The RealClearPolitics polling average shows Johnson leading Barnes by just over 3 percentage points with a little more than one week before Election Day on Nov. 8.
