Obama Steps Into the Ring to Deliver a Knockout Blow to Trump

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Published Jul. 11 2025 10:42AM EDT


The Democratic Party is getting a much-needed boost in the fight against President Donald Trump and the GOP, as former President Barack Obama returns to the fundraising fold. Obama will be the high-profile guest at a fundraiser in Red Bank, New Jersey, on Friday, alongside Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin, Axios reported.

The event is hosted by outgoing New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife, Tammy, and will also feature an appearance from Rep. Mikie Sherrill, who is set to face off against Republican Jack Ciattarelli in the state’s gubernatorial election this November. The intervention from Obama, a still-beloved and influential figure, will provide the Democratic Party a much-needed shot in the arm as it continues licking its wounds from the crushing 2024 election results.

The upcoming gubernatorial and state legislative elections in New Jersey are widely seen as a test of how well the party might perform in the 2026 midterms, where Democrats hope to reclaim control of the House and face the steeper challenge of winning back the Senate.

Backlash to Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” spending bill—which could strip millions of Americans of their health care coverage—has been cited as a potential pressure point for Democrats to exploit as they try to win back voters.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/barack-obama-steps-into-the-ring-to-deliver-a-knockout-blow-to-donald-trump/

[CTyankee]

1. My love and affection for Barack and Michelle has only grown since his retirement from the presidency.

My son wants Michelle to run for president (or maybe he's given that up. I'll ask).

[mopinko]

4. he shd give it up. there's no way.

and she’d b crazy to do it. no one in their right mind wd put themselves through the shit storm she’d face.

[CTyankee]

8. My son is a pretty tough guy; he's a prosecutor in the Brooklyn DA's office. He just admires them both so much.

I raised him to have certain ideals in politics. He says he remembers the times I'd be out marching against the Vietnam War. But I was right to do so and history has borne me out on that.

[FakeNoose]

13. I'm sorry to say this, but American voters will not elect a Black woman

... no matter how qualified she may be. Michelle Obama knows this, and so do the rest of us.

[CTyankee]

16. Oh, I believe it and so does my son. We just had that "one, brief shining moment."

I was so certain she would win. On election night we watched in horror as state by state we lost our chance at having a black woman POTUS.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. "wounds from the crushing"??? "win back voters"???

emotional wounds maybe. It was a close election that could have gone either way.

We have to motivate our own voters as much as win any back. We are tarred with our deepest left ideas and the media and opposition uses that to scare voters away.

[DemocracyWorks]

3. There was no knock out to Trump

Either this article is doing clickbait or the writer is delusional. The midterms are going to be close in 2026, we are battling for inches. It gives me no pleasure in saying this but we need to be realistic with the voters we are dealing with. Trump approval is 46 average where it should be way lower than that.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. Pure clickbait.

[SheilaAnn]

5. Heard a rumor that Bruce may show, He and Pres. Obama keep in touch and Bruce has spent a lot or time in Red Bank.

[Autumn]

6. Knockout blow? A fundraiser? Ridiculous. nt

[dlilafae]

7. I'd say not fighting back

effectively and concisely - would be the sins of the democrats. Our party would not be licking wounds over a stolen election. They should have been fighting it, but feared it would disenfranchise voting. ~ Flawed thinking...

[CTyankee]

9. I hate to say this but only if the people who voted for Trump suffer and understand it's HIS fault will anything change.

as the saying goes "you can't fool ALL of the people ALL of the time."

[FirstLight]

10. THIS!!

There's going to have to be a reckoning of sorts. Unfortunately, ALL of us are gonna feel the pain of this Administration (read: clownshow) before something shofts on the collective mentality. The oligarchs and crooks haven't made it bad enough for them to even begin to question yet

[CTyankee]

12. And the media, like MSNBC, has got to stop with the "bothsideism." What do they think they are accomplishing?

They are just pissing off the good people watching and furthering the LIES of Trumpies. The media is actually harming people and it has to stop.

[groundloop]

15. "Knockout Blow"...... This kind of hype gets old.

Why can't these online rags give us the news without resorting to such stupid hyperbole?

[SCantiGOP]

17. Exactly right

If it was a “knockout blow” then I guess we won’t be hearing about trump anymore.
I really get tired of the hype and clickbait BS in so many of these posts.

[BWdem4life]

18. Got that right.

Let's see an actual knockout blow. I'll keep waiting...