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Former President Barack Obama campaigns for Joe Biden at FIU’s main campus in Miami

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Former President Barack Obama campaigned for Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Monday night at Florida International University’s main campus in Miami-Dade County.

Video of Obama’s appearance at FIU can be seen below:

Barack Obama FIU 11/2/20

WATCH LIVE: Former president Barack Obama campaigns for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at drive-in rally on the campus of Miami's Florida International University https://bit.ly/3jOTs43

Posted by WPLG Local 10 on Monday, November 2, 2020

Earlier in the day, the former president held a rally in Atlanta and Biden himself was campaigning in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Ohio holds 18 electoral votes and Pennsylvania holds 20, and both are state that President Donald Trump won in 2016.

South Florida is a big area that both candidates are gunning for and Florida is also one of the key battleground states that Trump won during the 2016 election.

On Monday, Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris talked up Biden’s labor credentials during a stop in northeastern Pennsylvania.

If she and Biden win the White House, she said, “we will probably have the most pro-labor administration we’ve seen in a long time.”

Harris made her remarks in Luzerne County, her first of three stops in battleground Pennsylvania on Monday. The region was once a major hub of anthracite coal mining, and the county backed Trump in 2016 after previously supporting Obama.

Harris is pitching Biden’s plan to expand skills training and suggesting there’s no false choice between tackling climate change and saving jobs. Harris said a Biden administration will work to make the country the world’s top maker of electric vehicles.

She was direct about Pennsylvania’s importance. She says, “Pennsylvania’s gonna determine the outcome of this election.”


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