Barack Obama To Hold His First In-Person Event For Joe Biden

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Barack Obama To Hold His First In-Person Event For Joe Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is returning to Philadelphia on Wednesday for his first in-person 2020 campaign event for Joe Biden. In 2016, the man known as one of the Democratic Party’s strongest orators delivered Hillary Clinton’s closing argument in the same place — at a rally for thousands the night before Election Day on […]

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