Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned Democrats against thinking they’ve already won the 2020 election.
“We can’t be complacent or smug or sense that somehow it’s so obvious that this president hasn’t done a good job because, look, he won once,” Obama said of President Donald Trump during a virtual fundraiser for and with presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
“This is serious business,” Obama continued during the online event, which raised a reported $11 million for his former vice president’s campaign.
Obama, who endorsed Biden via the video below in April, said there’s a “great awakening” among young people who are “fed up with the shambolic, disorganized, mean-spirited approach” to governance.
“Unlike our current president, we recognize that we have a public health crisis going on,” said Obama, an apparent reference to Trump’s decision to press on with hosting rallies against the advice of public health experts and as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases starts to rise again in multiple all HuffPost superfans!
