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2 days ago · Barack Obama - 44th President, Political Career, Legacy: In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois Senate, where, most notably, he helped pass legislation that tightened campaign finance regulations, expanded health care to poor families, and reformed criminal justice and welfare laws.
3 days ago · Although he indicated at his final press conference that he did not intend to be actively involved in politics, he outlined several developments that could reverse that decision, including “systematic discrimination being ratified in some fashion,” the creation of obstacles to voting, and efforts to silence the press or dissent. Recent News.
4 days ago · Many of the marquee names in Democratic politics began quickly lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, but one towering presence in the party held back: Barack Obama.
3 days ago · Throughout his presidential campaign he had argued that the focus of U.S. military efforts should be in Afghanistan rather than Iraq, and, with the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the military requested that Obama deploy an additional 40,000 troops there.
1 day ago · Further information: Barack Obama 2008 presidential primary campaign. On June 3, 2008, after the Montana and South Dakota primaries, he secured enough delegates to clinch the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States. [4] His opponent in the general election, Republican John McCain, passed the delegate threshold to ...
6 days ago · The former president is also mindful of lingering tension in Biden's political circle over some in Obama's senior staff urging Biden when he was vice president to sit out the 2016 presidential race.
2 days ago · Kamala Harris tried to rebuild Barack Obama’s coalition in 2020 and failed. She could have better luck in 2024 as a big change of pace from Joe Biden, winning back many young, Black, and Latino ...
