Former first lady Obama delivers condemnation

MICHELLE Obama delivered a passionate condemnation of President Donald Trump during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, declaring him “in over his head” and warning that the nation’s mounting crises would only get worse if he is reelected over Joe Biden.

“Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country,” she said. “He cannot meet this moment.

“He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us.”

The former first lady was the headliner at the first presidential nominating convention of the coronavirus era. There was no central meeting place or cheering throng during the all-virtual affair.

But it was an opportunity for Democrats, and some Republicans, to rally behind Biden, the party’s presidential nominee.

Bernie Sanders, the progressive Vermont senator who was Biden’s last standing rival during the primary, encouraged his supporters to vote for the former vice president in November, arguing the nation cannot survive another four years of Trump.

He notably backed Biden’s plan for tackling health care, one of their most substantive differences in the past. Sanders backs a Medicare for All plan while Biden has called for expanding the current “Obamacare” law.

But it was Michelle Obama who delivered an electrifying moment.

She issued a stark warning to a country already navigating health and economic crises along with a reckoning on racism. “If you think things possibly can’t get worse, trust me, they can and they will if we don’t make a change in this election,” she said as she issued a call to action for the coalition of young and diverse voters who twice sent her family to the White House.