Barack and Michelle Obama endorsed Kamala Harris for president, providing another huge boost to the now-presumptive Democratic nominee.

The former president and first lady threw their weight behind the presumptive Democratic nominee

Barack and Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination for president, sharing the news in a joint phone call.

A video released by the campaign suggests the former president and first lady called Harris on Thursday while the vice president was in Houston, where she addressed the American Federation of Teachers and received a briefing on recovery efforts following Hurricane Beryl.

“We called to say, Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” Barack Obama is heard telling Harris in a 55-second video of the call.

“This is going to be historic,” Michelle Obama tells Harris.

  • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
    66·
    3 months ago

    I already saw a photoshopped picture of her hugging Epstein. It was her hugging her husband with Epstein’s head

    Took 1 google search to debunk. But morons on FB shared it anyway.

    • chingadera@lemmy.world
      36·
      3 months ago

      We should combat this by Photoshopping her head on Trump’s body with already well establish photos of trump/Epstein

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 months ago

      I hope there will be an investigation on how much foreign influence there is in this election. So much of the fake news and trash social media posts are Putin’s playbook. The attack on Ukraine isn’t the only war he’s trying to fight

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        3 months ago

        My brother is ostensibly a liberal Democrat but he somehow believes that Ukraine is run by literal Nazis and that Putin (a “good guy”) was in the right to invade it. It’s literally just Russian propaganda but he accepts it as objective truth - he gets all of his political “information” from TikTok and podcasts. He also believes that all bad acts in the world are committed by the CIA and that Putin was installed by the CIA (which of course paradoxically means he’s a bad person), although he admitted he has no sources for that one.

        It’s amazing how social media really allows the bullshit pipeline to be carefully tailored to each individual’s tastes, as opposed to the one-size-fits-all bullshit pipeline that traditional mass media was limited to.

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Good luck, when the UK ran an investigation into russian influence on our elections they just never made the results public despite repeated promises too.

    • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      Ironic when you think about how many of Epstein’s friends were leaders of nations and well known academics.

    • ipkpjersi
      1·
      3 months ago

      Pretty weird considering we know a certain presidential candidate who was actually friends with him lol