Something that would have helped solve the problem, Obama added, was the bipartisan border bill Trump ordered Republican senators to tank earlier this year in order to avoid handing President Joe Biden a win. “We do not need a president who will make problems worse just to make his politics better,” Obama said.

TUCSON – Barack Obama cast his White House successor as an out-of-touch elitist who promotes the wrong kind of masculinity, during a Friday stop in battleground Arizona, as he appealed directly to the young men whom Kamala Harris needs to win over to become the first woman elected president next month.