PITTSBURGH — Two weeks ago, former President Barack Obama came here to rally support for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s campaign as her numbers began to wane in Pennsylvania.

Before he took the stage, Obama chided black men at a Pittsburgh campaign field office because of internal polling numbers that showed the energy in the black community was not where it should be. At least not for Harris.

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