Former President Barack Obama sternly chided Black men over “excuses” to not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris during a stop at a campaign field office on Thursday in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood ahead of his rally, saying he finds them sitting out or voting for former President Donald Trump “not acceptable.”
The event kicked off a blitz through battleground states as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign deploys its strongest political asset headed into the final stretch.
“I remember when I was running for the U.S. Senate there were people who didn’t think I could win that and, certainly, when I was running for president, people like, ‘what’s his name, again?’ And ‘that’s not going to happen,’” Obama said. “And that included, by the way — in our own communities there were people who were skeptical. They liked me and they really liked Michelle, but they thought, ‘well, that’s not going to happen,’ because sometimes we have a tendency to put a ceiling on ourselves.”
