The former first couple called on voters to embrace Kamala Harris in urgent messages to the Democratic National Convention that were by turns hopeful and ominous.
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00:00Former U.S. President Barack Obama told 50,000 attendees at the Democratic Convention in
00:07Chicago to not be complacent about politics and to vote for party candidate Kamala Harris.
00:13Obama used his time at the lectern to also warn of the dangers of re-electing former
00:18U.S. President and Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
00:22We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos.
00:29We have seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse.
00:35America is ready for a new chapter.
00:41America is ready for a better story.
00:45We are ready for a President Kamala Harris.
00:50Obama, the first black President in U.S. history, also praised his running mate President Joe
00:56Biden for stepping down from the race.
00:58If elected into office at the November ballot, Harris would be the first female President
01:03to sit in the White House.