Barack, 63, and Michelle, 60, are contemporaries of Harris, 59. Their video call endorsing her not long after Biden quit the race has reached a combined 117 million views, according to an official ...

Both Barack and Michelle Obama addressed the convention Tuesday, electrifying the United Center — which was jam-packed with Democrats — with their famously dynamic oratory skills.

The “audacity of hope” presidency has given way to the fierce lethargy of semi-retirement.

“It did remind me a lot of 2008,” said David Plouffe, who managed Obama’s campaign that year, “I’ve been around politics a long time, and you kind of know when people are all in.” Big Tent ...

He would have been a Barack Obama,” Michelle explained on her “IMO” podcast Wednesday. “I would’ve felt for him.” ...

Members of former President Barack Obama’s team are looking to make connections between the energy of his 2008 campaign and Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign. The Democratic Party ...

Barack Obama’s political ascension in 2008 culminated in a landslide victory in which he won by roughly 9.5 million votes, including a number of states such as Florida and Ohio that are ...

It was the same, but different, than 2008. | Opinion. Dion Lefler. Wed, August 21, 2024 at 11:09 AM UTC. ... The last time I saw Barack Obama speak in person was at another DNC.

Kamala Harris’s decision to support Barack Obama in a 2008 primary race dominated by Hillary Clinton was a political risk. It paid off, and the former president never forgot it.

CHICAGO — Barack Obama and Kamala Harris first met 20 years ago, when she was the district attorney in San Francisco and he was running for the Senate from Illinois. In 2008, she knocked on ...