Obama to campaign for Sherrill, Spanberger on Saturday in home stretch of governor elections

CNN ^ | November 1, 2025 | Eric Bradner

[MinorityRepublican]

Former President Barack Obama is hitting the campaign trail in Virginia and New Jersey on Saturday, speaking at rallies for the Democratic candidates in the states’ gubernatorial races ahead of Tuesday’s elections.

Obama is set to stump for former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat facing Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in Virginia’s governor race, in Norfolk early Saturday afternoon. In the evening, he will be in Newark with Rep. Mikie Sherrill, who is taking on GOP former state lawmaker Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey’s gubernatorial contest.

Nine years after leaving office, Obama remains the Democratic Party’s most powerful surrogate — a reality underscored by his high-profile appearances on the final weekend of two of 2025’s most important contests. Obama has also stepped up his warnings about what he says is the damage being wrought to the country by President Donald Trump.

He’s the closer after a number of ambitious Democrats have also hit the trail for the two candidates. The list of Democratic governors to campaign with Spanberger and Sherrill includes Kentucky’s Andy Beshear, Maryland’s Wes Moore, Illinois’ JB Pritzker, Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, in a Thursday appearance with Sherrill, touted their efforts to secure funding for the Gateway Tunnel, a rail project between New Jersey and New York City, and lambasted Trump’s decision to terminate that project.

[Dan in Wichita]

I hope Obama criticizes “the brothers” like he did last year.

[FlingWingFlyer]

A lot of Americans are really stupid. Still falling for the Kenyan boy’s BS.

[TigerClaws]

Exactly.

Kiss of death from the multimillionaire “community activist” on the DL.

[FlingWingFlyer]

O’Bammer is the new Spamberger Kid.

[mikey_hates_everything]

They’re scared but doing the right thing to get their stupid followers in line.

[ripnbang]

Either an attempt to campaign in a safe area to revitalize an otherwise damaged brand, or the polls are showing a very tight race and Dems are hoping he can drag them over the finish line.

[TimSkalaBim]

People *love* to be lectured to by Obama!

[Libloather]

Didn’t Hussein campaign for Horizontal?

[Alberta's Child]

I am willing to bet that every internal Democratic poll in both NJ and VA is telling them that black voters — especially men — have no interest in these two wretched white harridans.

[Tired of Taxes]

In my district, every Democrat on the ballot (including Sherrill) is white. The Republicans are a mixture.

But Obama, who lectured black men about Harris last year, suddenly doesn’t care about race.

[MinorityRepublican]

[PGalt]

Barry Soetoro- D evil

[laplata]

Barry Soetoro- D evil

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He’s as Evil as they come.

[blitz128]

Worked well last time, may we he can insult black men again🤞🤡

[Bernard]

Does he still have those Greek-style pillars as stage props for his shtick, or has he reinvented himself like Madonna?

[Bob434]

Lol, his campainging for biden worked out so well

[TheThirdRuffian]

Obama’s favorite Bible verse is Genesis 19:5

[Bob434]

Yep,and noone shkwed up to the rally except for a few horn honkers who blasted their horn everytime he said sumthin. It was pathetic. They blamed the low turnout on covid 9f course

[spokeshave]

They’re scared but doing the right thing to get their stupid followers in line

Einstein said that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is a sign of insanity.