{"id":229029,"date":"2022-10-17T01:07:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T01:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=229029"},"modified":"2022-10-17T01:20:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T01:20:28","slug":"barack-obama-to-campaign-in-michigan-and-georgia-in-final-weeks-of-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/barack-obama-to-campaign-in-michigan-and-georgia-in-final-weeks-of-midterm-elections","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama to campaign in Michigan and Georgia in final weeks of midterm elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) &#8212; Former President Barack Obama will travel to Atlanta and Detroit for campaign events in the final weeks of the midterm elections . The Democratic Party of Georgia said in a statement Saturday that Obama will campaign with Democratic candidates on October 28. It was unclear which Democrats the former President would stump with in Georgia, which is home to high-profile races for governor and US Senate. Obama will then join Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist, among other down-ballot Democrats, at a get-out-the-vote rally on October 29, Whitmer&#8217;s team said in a statement. Michigan and Georgia also have competitive US House races and critical down-ballot contests, some of which feature GOP nominees who have spread false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The Wisconsin Democratic Party announced on Friday that Obama would campaign with Democratic nominees in Milwaukee, also on October 29. In an interview with &#8220;Pod Save America&#8221; that aired Friday night,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;(CNN) &#8212; Former President&#160;Barack Obama&#160;will travel to Atlanta and Detroit for campaign events in the final weeks of the&#160;midterm elections. The Democratic Party of&#160;Georgia&#160;said in a statement Saturday that Obama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[88,42,85],"class_list":["post-229029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}