Barack Obama returns to campaign trail for Kamala Harris, Democrats: 5 takeaways

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Senate slipping away from DemsMoments before Obama took the stage, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro told the audience "politics is a team sport," before mentioning Sen. Bob Casey, D-Penn., who introduced Obama and is engaged in one of many closely watched Senate races this year.
55% : Polls this week from Quinnipiac University found Harris ahead over Trump 49%-46% in Pennsylvania, but Trump leading in Michigan 50%-47% and in Wisconsin 48%-46%.
55% : After commenting on how much the country has been through over the past four years, including a global pandemic, Obama expressed bewilderment that Trump gets support from anyone.
42% : Although Harris holds a sizable lead over Trump with Black voters across gender lines, polling has shown the GOP nominee has made small inroads, particularly with young Black male voters.
32% : But he also joked that no one can imagine Trump changing a tire or a diaper when contrasting that with Harris' plans to help middle-class and working Americans tackle the cost of living in housing, child care and groceries.
32% : "'Truth or not': Obama frames election around 'freedom' and 'values'Obama framed the 2024 election as a race about two different ideas of "freedom" and competing "values.""For Donald Trump and his cronies, freedom means that the powerful can do whatever they please," Obama said, accusing Trump of wanting to fire workers for trying to organize and "control what women can and can't do with their bodies.
28% : For both Harris and Trump, losing Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes - the most of any swing state - would severely hamper their paths to the needed 270 electoral votes to win the election.
27% : Harris still leads in all three states in the FiveThirtyEight average of polls - but by less than 1 percentage point in each, a closer margin than Harris' polling leads a few weeks ago following her Sept. 10 debate with Trump.
26% : "Obama: Trump again, really?
23% : "Obama used much of his speech Thursday to tear into Trump, whether for selling Bibles and other products while campaigning; trying to overturn the 2020 election after he lost; or appointing Supreme Court justices who knocked down abortion rights.

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