Former first lady Michelle Obama warned Saturday in Michigan about the consequences of Trump's return, and challenged voters to support Kamala Harris as the first female president of the United States.
"In every way, she has demonstrated that she is ready," Michelle Obama said.
"The real question is, are we as a country ready for this moment?" she asked.
This was Michelle Obama's first appearance on the campaign trail for November's presidential election since she spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago over the summer, and said she feared for the country and struggled to understand why the race remained so close.
"I stayed up at night wondering, 'What the hell is going on?'" she said, as quoted by the Associated Press, warning that Trump's eventual return to the White House would harm women's health and reproductive freedom.
"All my hopes for Kamala are also accompanied by real fear, fear for our country, fear for our children, fear of what awaits us if we forget what is at stake in this election," Michelle stressed, quoted by Agence France-Presse.
Michelle Obama made a strong defense of reproductive rights and warned that women's lives had to be taken seriously: "Kamala Harris will fight to restore our reproductive freedoms and defend our health," she added, quoted by Efe.
The former first lady also sent a message to men saying that, in her opinion, voting for Trump or a third-party candidate "would bring collateral damage" to their wives, sisters and daughters.
And she listed the failures of the Trump administration by describing the response to the Covid-19 pandemic as weak, discrediting scientists and spreading false information, and recalling the attack on the US Capitol in January.
Also on Saturday, Kamala Harris visited a doctor’s office in Portage to talk to health care providers and medical students about the impact of abortion restrictions.
“We are facing a health crisis in America that is affecting people of all backgrounds and genders,” Harris said.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden visited a union hall in Pittsburgh to promote Harris’s support for organized labor, telling voters to “follow your gut” and “do what’s right.”
“I’ll just say straight out, he’s a failure as a man,” Biden said of Trump, arguing that women deserve more opportunities than they’ve received in the past.
“They can do anything any man can do, including being president of the United States of America,” he said.
More than 38 million Americans, out of the 244 million eligible to vote, have already cast their ballots through early voting.
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