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Barack Obama to hit campaign trail for Kamala Harris




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              Nidia Cavazos


October 4, 2024 / 5:01 AM EDT
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Former President Barack Obama will soon begin campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris. He is set to embark on a blitz across the battleground states, with several events in the last month before Election Day. The former president will kick off his campaign efforts next Thursday, Oct. 10, in the Pittsburgh area. It's unclear if Harris will appear with him. Obama has been a staunch supporter of Harris since she joined the top of the Democratic ticket, officially endorsing her just days after President Biden exited the race. Obama vowed to do anything he could to help Harris defeat former President Donald Trump. "Kamala Harris won't be focused on her problems, she'll be focused on yours," Obama said in an address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August. "A president, she won't just cater to her own supporters and punish those who refuse to kiss the ring or bend the knee. She'll work on behalf of every American. That's who Kamala is."Harris and Obama have yet to appear together this cycle, and while it is not yet known if they will before Election Day, their relationship stems back to when the former president was seeking a Senate seat in Illinois. Harris also campaigned for Obama during his 2008 presidential run.


Obama's first campaign event will take place in one of the most contested battleground states. In 2020, President Biden won the Keystone state by less than 81,000 votes, flipping a state that Trump won in 2020. Harris herself has visited Pennsylvania more than 13 times in 2024, and seven times since launching her presidential bid. Surrogates like her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, have also campaigned in Pennsylvania. The latest CBS News polling shows the presidential race remains a tight contest, with Harris up four points nationally over Trump, 52% to 48% among likely voters, and with a slight edge of 51% to 49% in the battleground states. 


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This is great. As a person who thinks Trump it the worst thing ever for America I am actually afraid that Trump might win in 2024. Other than Reddit I feel like most other social media sites I visit are really pushing for a MAGA win. 

X/Twitter is of course 100% pushing MAGA agendas. With people like Musk manipulating the algorithm and posting multiple anti Harris tweets daily I can't help but feel like Musk is very much influencing some of the people who don't follow politics and may be on the fence about their choice for 2024. 

I also noticed a lot of popular twitch streamers are pushing MAGA agendas. Even though Asmongold doesn't outright say he's a Trump supporter. I feel like he constantly takes jabs at the democratic party. Yesterday I saw his reaction video for a video about Puff Daddy. He talked about how bad of a person was. Someone in his chat compared him to Epstein which makes sense because Epstein was accused of doing a lot of similar things that Diddy is being accused of. But Asmongold brushed off the Epstein comment saying we don't know enough about Epstein to say he's as bad as Diddy. He then went on to say that the only person he sees as close to as bad as Diddy is Hunter Biden. 

YouTube is also pushing a bunch of pro-maga content towards me. I follow channels like TYT, Meidastouch, Luke Beasley, David Pakman 

but youtube has been recommending videos that are very anti-Harris, pro MAGA. 

One channel recommended to me was a channel called "Living a Life of Abundance" it was titled "The Diddy situation just got worse." About half way through the video the narrative goes to a conspiracy theory that the government is going after Diddy now to try and get the black community to Ignore any questions they have about Harris being incompetent and then at the end of the video pushing another conspiracy theory that Obama is tied to the Diddy sex scandal and also accusing Obama of doing stuff with Epstein also. Yet not mentioning that this unnamed person (who must be Obama) could also just as easily be Trump because Trump has partied with Diddy and with Epstein. 

I am a gamer who also watches videos about gaming, tech, craft hobbies and mostly left leaning politics. If I am being recommended these pro Trump video's then who else is being recommended them.

I see a lot of gamers who are upset with the industry right now and they see gaming as being attacked by feminists. These same gamers are then being pushed towards "anti-woke" content which seems to align quite a bit with pro-Trump content. 

This scares me because they are being fed all sorts of lies demonizing Harris and the Democrats. 

How many voters will this sway?