Barack Obama doubled down on concerns about Donald Trump’s age and competency at a rally alongside Gov. Tim Walz in Wisconsin on Tuesday, one of the former president’s latest campaign stops as he’s hit the campaign trail on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The high-profile surrogate was making a case that his party has been making more broadly now that they have Harris, 60, running against Trump, 78. It’s a much easier lift for them than earlier this cycle when President Joe Biden was the candidate facing questions about mental acuity.
“You’d be worried if grandpa was acting like this, right? You’d call up your brother. You’d call up your cousins. You’d say, ‘Have you noticed?’ But this is coming from somebody who wants unchecked power,” Obama said. “Wisconsin, we do not need to see what an older, loonier Donald Trump looks like with no guardrails.”