In a final sprint to the finish line, former President Barack Obama delivered a fiery rebuke of the Trump administration, bringing the fight to South Florida to energize an already animated democratic base and present a different vision for the country. Democratic candidates are on the ballot in two of the most consequential races this cycle in purple Florida — a state pivotal to his party’s hopes of securing control of the Senate and making inroads at the state level, after President Donald Trump carried the state by a slim margin in the 2016 presidential election. In recent weeks, the former president has ramped up his campaign presence, stumping for a slate of candidates across the country, and Friday, he joined rising Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, Senate incumbent Bill Nelson and several statewide candidates on the trail in Miami. Miami-Dade County, a Democratic stronghold, preferred Hillary Clinton in 2016 over Donald Trump by more than 30 points. Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Getty Images Andrew Gillum, Democratic nominee for governor of Florida, former President Barack Obama and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson join hands during a campaign rally in Miami at Ice Palace Films Studios, Nov. 2, 2018. In a stark contrast to his successor, the former president’s message to voters has been one of hope as the party seeks to win back control of Congress. “ ”When words stop meaning something, when truth doesn’t matter, when people can just lie with abandon, democracy can’t work. Without calling the current president by name, Obama admonished the Trump administration’s crackdown on asylum seekers, particularly for Trump’s rhetoric on the caravan of migrants heading for the U.S. border. “Now in 2018 they’re telling you the existential threat to America is a bunch of poor refugees a thousand miles away,” Obama said at a Miami rally for Gillum and Nelson. Chris OMeara/AP Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis shakes hands with President Donald Trump, July 31, 2018, during a rally in Tampa, Fla. “They’re even taking our brave troops away from their families for a political stunt at the border. And the men and women of our military deserve better than that. So there’s just constant fear mongering to distract from the record.” “I know there are conservatives who are compassionate and must think there’s nothing compassionate about ripping immigrant children from the arms of their mothers at the border,” Obama said. The former president also criticize
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