Mr. Obama is “a popular figure, certainly in the Democratic Party, there is excitement around him, and then that also comes with quite a bit of fundraising power as well. But he’s also the past,” a Republican strategist, Matthew Bartlett, tells the Sun. “This is a candidate that was first elected almost two decades ago.”

Former U.S. President Barack Obama will kick off a wave of campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, next week with an event in Pittsburgh to rally voters in critical swing states.

U.S. Secret Service agents remove Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump from the stage with blood on his face during a campaign