Michelle Obama criticizes Trump without saying his name in the closing message

In her closing speech in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Obama indirectly described Trump as a “bold” and “bombastic” “con man,” claiming “once you wink at hate and make it normal to call someone a bimbo or a low IQ or human scum,” “you have no control over how fast or how far that fire of hatred will spread.”

“Real change, real progress is hard to achieve and takes generations,” Obama said. “But the wrong outcome (next week) could undo so much of that progress.”

“You see, one day it will come for people you’ve never met, maybe they’re immigrants or black people. Then it comes for a neighbor, a friend, a relative who is Puerto Rican, Jewish or Palestinian. But then it comes for you.”

Obama argued that the election is about “reclaiming the mantle of who belongs in this country,” but added that it “doesn’t belong to any one group.”

“We are inundated with voices and forces that tell us a different story about who we are,” she said. “We have had this sound in our ears for more than ten years, but for me at least it is still not normal. It’s still unstable. … It’s dangerous. It’s a shame.”

Norristown is located in the Democratic stronghold of Montgomery County, which is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. If Harris wants to win next Tuesday, she must do better in Philadelphia and surrounding counties to counter Trump’s dominance in the commonwealth’s rural areas.

Despite her distaste for politics, Obama returned to the national spotlight this summer as she and her husband, the former president, returned to the spotlight Barack ObamaHarris endorsed before then encouraging Democrats to “do something” during her speech at the party national convention in Chicago. She has been selective about her campaign appearances and gave her first speech for Harris in another battleground state last weekend. Michigan.

There in Kalamazoo, dubbed the “Kamala Zoo” by Democrats, Obama advocated for Harris and against Trump, who she claims has endangered her family with his racist criticism of her husband.

Criticism of Trump economic policy to his pandemic response and trying to undermine the 2020 election, which is Obama’s most severe condemnation access to abortion And healthcare for womenwider.

Obama also used a Democratic strategy to remind women that they do not have to vote for the same candidate as their husbands.

“If you are a woman living in a household with men who don’t listen to you or value your opinion, remember that your voice is a private matter,” she said. “Regardless of your partner’s political views, you get to choose, you get to use your judgment and cast your vote for yourself and the women in your life.”

Obama took a different approach this week, reinforcing her husband’s message that Trump’s bravado is not masculinity. On Saturday, the former first lady dismissed Trump in Pennsylvania as a “little guy trying to make himself feel good.”

An hour away in battleground Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, another Philadelphia county, but one that flipped from Trump to Trump in 2016 Joe Biden in 2020, Republican women are scrutinizing the strategy.

Wendy Kleintop, 68, downplayed the number of women who publicly said they are voting for Trump but privately support Harris.

“It makes you laugh, what they do,” a small business owner in Walnutport horticulture told the newspaper Washington Examiner. “I think there are some women who are going to vote for Trump, or their husbands are going to vote for her. There are a lot of women in our area who are all Republicans.”

Kleintop’s cousin, Doris Eckhart, 68, agreed, claiming that as she waved Trump flags on the side of the road at passing cars, she was surprised at the number of positive gestures she receives from men, compared to the rude gestures of older women.

“It’s amazing how many cars go through and the guys are like that (thumbs up), and the women are like that (thumbs down) or they’re sticking their fingers out,” the Palmerton retiree told the newspaper. Washington Examiner.

Obama was introduced on Saturday by Alicia Keys, who also refused to pronounce Trump’s name and underlined the importance of women’s suffrage.

“A woman’s right to vote has not come easy,” Keys said. “That is inspiring for me. Sometimes we feel like it doesn’t mean anything. … You matter. Your voice matters. Your voice is important. And if you don’t use your gift, your voice, the voice that our ancestors fought so hard for, they will take that from us too.”

Government Josh Shapiro (D-PA), a runner-up to become Harris’ running mate, spoke before Obama and Keys, leading with his modified slogan: “We’re getting s*** done!”

“For all the kids there: earmuffs, okay?” Shapiro said. “As we reach the final three days of this presidential campaign, it seems certain to me that it will come down to these two things. Who is going to do things for you? Who is on your side? And who is going to stand up to protect your freedom?”

Shapiro, a popular governor who Harris embraced in her campaign speeches and literature after becoming Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as her vice presidential candidate, specifically criticized Trump for his comments about Puerto Rico be a “floating island of trash” created during his meeting last weekend New York City‘s Madison Square Garden.

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“When I hear Donald Trump belittle our fellow Americans, attack people for the way they worship, attack people for the way they look, or watch as one of his surrogates attacks our fellow Pennsylvanians like 500,000 Puerto Ricans, I not that.” I don’t like it that much,” he said.

Barack Obama, who has been crisscrossing the country since the beginning of last month, will campaign one last time in Wisconsin on Sunday, the last day of early voting in the Badger State.