‘America is ready for a better story’: Barack Obama lauds Kamala Harris in rousing speech
by David Smith in Chicago from US news | The Guardian on (#6Q4DV)
Ex-president praised Harris as champion' of people and took a dig at Trump's weird obsession with crowd sizes'
Amid chants of Yes, she can!", Barack Obama returned to the scene of past triumphs on Tuesday to pass the mantle of political history to Kamala Harris - and eviscerate her opponent Donald Trump.
The former US president delivered the closing speech on night two of the Democratic national convention in his home city of Chicago. Obama prompted raucous cheers as he delivered a withering critique of Trump, who succeeded him in the White House in 2017.
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