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Full article title: Obama: I Will Consider It An Insult To My Legacy If You Do Not Vote; Want to Give Me A Good Send Off? Go Vote President Obama made a strong sell for a candidate to succeed his legacy at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner Saturday night. The president invoked slavery and the Jim Crow era and preached that if they wanted to give him a good send off then register people to vote because his legacy is at stake. Although he did not name Hillary Clinton, the president said he would consider it a personal insult from...

Obama steps in as Clinton recovers By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House ProducerUpdated 10:56 AM ET, Tue September 13, 2016 Philadelphia (CNN)A cavalry of top White House Democrats -- President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden -- are arguing Hillary Clinton's case this week as the Democratic nominee herself is convalescing from pneumonia and absent from the trail. Nightcap: Hillary Clinton talks to CNN's Anderson Cooper about her health | Sign up In Philadelphia Tuesday, the President makes his first solo campaign appearance of the year, hoping to convince his diverse array of backers that...

With Hillary Clinton sidelined by pneumonia, U.S. President Barack Obama took up the Democrats' fight against Donald Trump on Tuesday, trying to quash the Republican presidential candidate's bid to appeal to working-class voters.Obama, whose 50 percent job approval rating could help improve the climate for the Democratic ticket in the Nov. 8 election, rallied party faithful against Trump, a 70-year-old New York real estate developer, at an outdoor event in Philadelphia."This is a guy who spent 70 years on this earth showing no concern for working people. He spent most of his life trying to stay far away from working...

Barack's Back — and why Clinton needs him more than ever For the first time since the Democratic convention seven weeks ago, President Barack Obama is back stumping for Hillary Clinton. And she needs him more than ever — and we're not just talking about Clinton's absence from the campaign trail as she recovers from pneumonia. According to our most recent batch of NBC/WSJ/Marist state polls, Clinton is underperforming among key parts of the Obama coalition: Latinos and young voters. In our NBC/WSJ/Marist Nevada poll, for instance, Clinton leads Trump by a 65%-30% margin (+35) among Latinos, who made up...