After Sherrill and Spanberger each took their races by 13.5 and 14.4 percentage points, respectively, Obama joined Pod Save America—whose hosts are his former administration staffers—in a victory lap. The former president called on Democrats to keep the momentum moving forward.
“Tuesday was nice, but we’ve got a lot of work to do,” Obama said. “Our job is to say that we want everybody engaged, and we want to have a conversation about how to make sure that every person in this country is treated with dignity and respect.” He called Spanberger, Sherrill, and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani “all part of a vision for the future.”
Just one year ago, Obama released a more somber statement following then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Obama, who stumped for Harris in 2024, wrote in a statement following Election Day, “This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for.”
One year on from Harris’s disappointment, Obama’s star power still burns bright. He emphasized a message of unity, saying people need to make sure “that we’re getting along not in some cliché, phony way, but in a genuine, deep way.”
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