Barack Obama has often described the presidency as a relay race: “You take the baton from someone, you run your leg as hard and as well as you can, and then you hand it off to someone else.” On Tuesday night, Obama stepped on stage in front of thousands of delegates at the 2024 Democratic National Convention to anoint a party leader he hopes will carry that baton next: Kamala Harris. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Returning to the city where he made his startling political ascent, Obama roused the Chicago crowd with the soaring rhetoric that catapulted him on the national stage 20 years ago.

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  • DNC 2024 live updates: Former President Barack Obama gives keynote speech, urges Dems 'get to work' on supporting Kamala Harris
    Former President Barack Obama closed out the second night of the DNC with his rallying speech. "Let's get to work," he told the crowd, to roaring applause. Obama invoked the 2004 Democratic National ...
    09/9/2024 - 7:39 am | View Link
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    A spokesperson for the outlet referred USA TODAY to its fact-check of the convention's fourth night, which included four claims from Harris.
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    Twenty years ago, a young Illinois state senator took to the Democratic National Convention stage in Boston and delivered a speech that would help catapult him to the top of the presidential ticket ...
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