Democratic National Convention live: Barack Obama blasts Donald Trump after wife Michelle tells US to 'do something' to help Kamala win

Barack Obama whipped the crowd into a frenzy as he warned the US the "world is watching" the tight race for Kamala Harris  and Donald Trump, after wife Michelle stunned voters with her attack on the billionaire. 

Barack and Michelle Obama have injected their star power into Kamala Harris’s campaign, declaring she had brought back the hope that fuelled the former president’s career as they launched a withering attack on Donald Trump.

 

Their electrifying speeches on the second night of the Democratic convention came as the Vice President trolled her opponent with her own packed rally at the Milwaukee stadium that hosted last month’s Republican convention.

Combined with celebrity appearances in Chicago from filmmaker Spike Lee, actors Wendell Pierce and Eva Longoria and rappers Common and Lil Jon, it amounted to a significant show of force 77 days from the election.

The former Democratic president, speaking in his hometown, said he was “feeling hope, because this convention has always been pretty good to kids with funny names who believe in a country where anything is possible”.

His wife reprised that theme to raucous cheers, saying there was “something wonderfully magical in the air” that had been “buried too deep for far too long”.

“It’s the contagious power of hope … America, hope is making a comeback,” she said.

The pair also unleashed on Mr Trump, with Mrs Obama attacking his conspiracy theories about her husband’s birthplace as she asked to a standing ovation: “Who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?”

Mr Obama accused the Republican of “whining about his problems for years”, saying that he saw power “as nothing more than a means to his ends”.

As the crowd booed, Mr Obama sternly declared: “Do not boo, vote.”

“We have seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse,” he said.

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