In her closing speech in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Obama indirectly described Trump as a “fraudster” “debauched” and “bombastic,” claiming that “once you wink at the hate and make it normal to call someone a bimbo or a low IQ, or human filth’, ‘you can’t control how fast and how far that fire of hatred will spread’.

“Real change, real progress is hard to come by and takes generations,” Obama said. “But the wrong result (next week) can throw so much of that progress away.”

“You see one day, it’s coming for people you’ve never met, maybe they’re immigrants or people of color. Then it comes for a neighbor, a friend, a family member who is Puerto Rican, Jewish, or Palestinian. But then it comes for you.”

Obama said the election was about “reclaiming the mantle of those who belong in this nation,” but added that he “doesn’t belong to any group.”

“We’ve been inundated with voices and forces that tell us a different story about who we are,” she said. “We’ve had this ringing in our ears for over a decade, but at least for me, all of you, it’s still not normal. It is still unstable. … Is it dangerous. It’s shameful.”

Norristown is in the Democratic stronghold of Montgomery County, which is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. For Harris to win next Tuesday, she must overperform in Philadelphia and its counties to counter Trump’s dominance in rural parts of the commonwealth.

Despite her antipathy for politics, Obama returned to the national spotlight this summer when she and her husband, former President Barack ObamaHarris argued before encouraging Democrats to “do something” during her party speech. national convention in Chicago. She has been selective about her appearances on the campaign trail, delivering her inaugural address to Harris last weekend in another battleground state, Michigan.

There, in Kalamazoo, dubbed the “Kamala-zoo” by Democrats, Obama argued for Harris and against Trump, who she accuses of putting her family at risk through racial criticism of her husband.

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Obama also leaned into a Democratic strategy of reminding women that they don’t have to vote for the same candidate as their husbands.

“If you’re a woman living in a household of men who don’t listen to you and don’t value your opinion, remember that your vote is a private matter,” she said. “Regardless of your partner’s political views, you can choose, use your judgment and vote for yourself and the women in your life.”

Obama took a different approach this week, amplifying her husband’s message that Trump’s bravado is not masculinity. In Pennsylvania on Saturday, the former first lady dismissed Trump as “a little man trying to make himself feel good.”

An hour away in battleground Pennsylvania, Lehigh County, another Philadelphia county, but one that went from Trump in 2016 to Joe Biden in 2020, Republican women examine strategy.

Wendy Kleintop, 68, downplayed the number of women who publicly say they are voting for Trump but privately support Harris.

“You have to laugh at it, what they do,” said the Walnutport small business owner. Washington Examiner. “I think there are some women who will vote for Trump or their husband will vote for her. There are a lot of women in our area who are all Republicans.”

Kleintop’s cousin Doris Eckhart, 68, agreed, saying she was surprised when she waved Trump flags on the side of the road at passing cars at the number of positive gestures she received from men, compared to the rude gestures of older women.

“It’s amazing how many cars I drive by and the guys are like (thumbs up) and the women are either (thumbs down) or thumbs out,” retired Palmerton told Washington Examiner.

Obama was introduced on Saturday by Alicia Keys, who similarly refused to say Trump’s name and emphasized the importance of women’s suffrage.

“A woman’s right to vote was not easy,” Keys said. “That inspires me. Sometimes we feel it doesn’t mean something. … You matter. Your vote matters. Your voice matters. And if you don’t use your gift, your vote, the vote that our forefathers fought so hard for, they’ll take that away from us, too.”

Govt. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), the runner-up to become Harris’ running mate, spoke before Obama and Keys, chanting his modified catchphrase, “We’re giving shit!”

“For all the kids out there, earplugs, okay?” Shapiro said. “As we get into the final three days of this campaign for president, it certainly seems to me that it comes down to those two things. Who will do the work for you? Who’s on your side? And who will stand up to protect your freedom?”

Shapiro, a grassroots governor whom Harris embraces in her campaign speeches and literature after being elected governor. Tim Walz (D-MN) as a vice presidential nominee, specifically criticized Trump for comments about Puerto Rico being a “floating island of garbage” made during his rally last weekend at New York CityHis Madison Square Garden.

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“When I hear Donald Trump bashing our fellow Americans, attacking people because of the way they worship, attacking people because of the way they look, or standing by when one of his surrogates attacks our fellow Pennsylvanians, how would be 500,000 Puerto Ricans, no I don’t like it very much,” he said.

Barack Obama, who has been touring the country since the beginning of last month, is scheduled to campaign for the last time in Wisconsin on Sunday, the last day of early voting in the Badger State.