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U.S. election: Barack Obama to campaign with Kamala Harris [Video]

WASHINGTON –

Former U.S. president Barack Obama is planning to hit key swing states to boost Vice-President Kamala Harris’s campaign for the White House, starting next Thursday in Pittsburgh.

The Harris campaign says Obama will travel around the country over the final 27 days ahead of the election. The former president and Harris have a friendship that goes back 20 years, from when they first met while he was running for Senate.

Obama — along with other key Democrats — was a part of the behind-the-scenes push to persuade President Joe Biden to step away from the 2024 race — and his presence on the campaign trail will be a contrast to the relatively few stops made by Biden since he made way for Harris.

In Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention in August, he said Harris …

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