Democrats are trotting out former President Barack Obama to once again make an election all about the candidates’ immutable characteristics — this time calling voters sexist instead of racist.
During both of Obama’s campaigns for president, he and his Democrat allies made the campaigns largely about race — often claiming that people who refuse to vote for him are racist. This time, they’re trotting out similar arguments for Vice President Kamala Harris — claiming that men are sexist for refusing to support her.
Yesterday Obama criticizes black men who are hesitant to vote for Kamala Harris, claiming their reluctance stems from misogyny.
Obama is lying to the American public by shaming black men, as 81% of them voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The real reason many black men aren’t… pic.twitter.com/RNKLTMjnDa
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) October 11, 2024
While stopping at a local campaign office ahead of a rally in Pittsburgh, Obama called out black men — who he referred to as “brothas” in an embarrassing effort to pander — for not enthusiastically supporting Harris.
Speaking to a group of black volunteers, he claimed: “We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running.”
“Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothas,” Obama continued. “So, if you don’t mind, just for a second, I’ve got to speak to y’all and say that when you have a choice that is this clean, when on the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, went to college with you, understands the struggles, pain, and joy that comes from those experiences.”
He went on to claim that people are coming up with “all kinds of reasons and excuses” to stay home on Election Day or to support a candidate other than Harris.
“Part of it makes me think, and I’m speaking to men directly… that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” Obama claimed.
Sickening. Watch a weary, broken Obama descend into end-stage race hatred politics. Obama barks at scared young black men, demanding ‘the brothas’ support Kamala because she ‘grew up like you’ and ‘went to college with you’ and had to ‘work harder.’
Pure Racist identity politics: pic.twitter.com/zbLLSR6chh— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 11, 2024
Fox News reported that, while Obama was standing with some black men inside the campaign office, he also told them that former President Donald Trump has “consistently shown disregard, not just for the communities, but for you as a person — and you are thinking about sitting out?”
In response to Obama’s racist and sexist comments, Pennsylvania Team Trump spokesman Kush Desai told Fox News that polls must be looking terrible for Harris’ chances in Pennsylvania is the Democrats had to “fly in Barack Obama from his $12 million Martha’s Vineyard estate” to desperately beg black men to support Harris.
