The Obamas have entered the campaign trail fully. The former presidential couple has fully supported the candidacy of Kamala Harris On the second day of the Democratic National Convention which is being celebrated these days in Chicago. There, to the cry of “yes, she can” the former president Barack Obama He has put all his political capital at the service of the current vice president, lending her the motto that propelled him to the Presidency of the United States.

Thus, he has asked the country to open a “new chapter” to bring Harris to the White House and leave behind the darkness of the Donald Trump era, while Michelle Obama electrified an impassioned audience with attacks on the Republican candidate and a pat on the back for Harris, whom he has also presented as heiress of “hope” who made her husband president.

“A new chapter”

The former Democratic president, an adopted son of Chicago, was greeted with a thunderous ovation at the United Center stadium, which on Thursday will hear Harris formally accept the Democratic nomination. “If possible!”the audience shouted when he took the stage, the same slogan that catapulted him to the Presidency.

Obama said he was “hopeful” about the election, alluding to the slogan of “hope” and “change” of his own presidential campaign. He harshly attacked Trumpwhom he presented as a selfish and bullying billionaire, who He only sees “power as a means to achieve his ends”” and resorts to “childish nicknames” and “crazy conspiracy theories” to combat his greatest “fear”: losing to Harris in the presidential election next November.

The former president even joked that the New York tycoon has a “strange obsession with crowd size,” to which the audience burst into applause. “We don’t need four more years of bragging and chaos. We’ve seen that movie and we know that the second part is always worse. The United States is ready for a new chapter. America is ready for a better story. “We are ready for a President Kamala Harris!”he cried.

In his words, the first African-American president of the United States has put all his political capital behind Harris so that she can make history as the first woman, the first African-American woman and the first person of Indian origin to be elected president of the United States.

The bond between the two dates back 20 years, when she was a district attorney in San Francisco and he was running for the Senate in Illinois. At that time, Harris helped organize a fundraiser for his campaign at a San Francisco hotel. The two connected and, years later, as the former president recalled during his speech on Tuesday, their paths crossed again when Harris participated as a volunteer in his presidential campaign.

Michelle Obama electrifies the Convention

For her part, the former first lady, also a daughter of Chicago, was received with thunderous applause at the Convention. A welcome that Michelle Obama he thanked, saying there was something “wonderfully magical in the air,” a “familiar feeling that had been buried for too long.” “You know what I’m talking about, right? It’s the anticipation, the energy, the excitement of being on the brink of a brighter day again,” he said, before proclaiming: “USA, hope is returning!”.

Obama was thus alluding to the “hope” slogan that brought her husband to the White House and drew a parallel with Harris’s personal story, who, like Michelle Obama herself, idolized her mother and had to mourn her death. With a forceful speech against Trump, whom she did not explicitly name, she moved the thousands of attendees.

He charged against the Trump’s “limited and narrow” worldviewstating that He felt threatened by the presence of an African-American family in the White House And in this campaign he has returned to the same “ugly, misogynistic and racist lies.” Thus, he asked those in attendance to go en masse to the polls in November to make Kamala Harris president.