{"id":20708,"date":"2024-11-07T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20708"},"modified":"2024-11-07T08:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:47:45","slug":"obama-shocked-and-disappointed-by-harriss-defeat-calls-for-unity-amidst-deep-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20708","title":{"rendered":"Obama \u2018Shocked and Disappointed\u2019 by Harris\u2019s Defeat, Calls for Unity Amidst Deep Divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Former President Barack Obama congratulated Republican Donald Trump on his presidential victory, acknowledging the unexpected outcome. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWe want to congratulate President Trump and Senator Vance on their victory,\u201d Obama said in a joint statement with his wife, Michelle. \u201cThis is not the result we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on numerous issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The Obamas emphasized the importance of democracy, which requires accepting peaceful transitions of power, even when one\u2019s perspective doesn\u2019t prevail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Throughout the final days of the campaign, Obama was a strong advocate for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, highlighting her commitment to the people while criticizing Trump\u2019s privileged background and financial setbacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Reflecting on recent national struggles, including the pandemic, inflation, and economic uncertainty, Obama noted these challenges have impacted democratic leaders worldwide and showed that \u201cAmerica is not immune.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cProgress calls for us to extend good faith and grace even to those with whom we disagree deeply,\u201d Obama wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s how we\u2019ve come this far, and it\u2019s how we\u2019ll continue to build a fairer, more just, equal, and free country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama congratulated Republican Donald Trump on his presidential victory, acknowledging the unexpected outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4250,9433,9434,9392,3513,9432,3723],"class_list":["post-20708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-defeat","tag-disappointed","tag-divisions","tag-harris","tag-obama","tag-shocked","tag-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20709,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions\/20709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}