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Supporters of Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed voiced support for guaranteed income at a Detroit rally featuring former President Barack Obama.

It's crunch time for candidates across the country with Election Day just over a week away. On Monday, President Trump campaigned in ruby-red Mississippi, a state he won by almost 23 points two years ago. Over the weekend, the battleground state of Michigan saw a political heavyweight bout between Trump and former President Obama. Liz Landers reports.

We keep being told that Democrats are in incredible, tremendous shape for the midterms, and that they’re going to hammer the Republicans. So why is Barack Obama in Michigan? Why do Democrats have to call in their 65-year-old LeBron James to try to win just one more time? Barack Obama is the guy you call ...

Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito analyzed the public figures that the Senate candidates in Michigan are deploying to appeal to black voters: Barack Obama and Nicki Minaj. “Everything in Michigan is all about Detroit, and it’s all about the black vote,” Zito said Monday on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. Republican nominee Mike Rogers and Democratic […]

The former and current presidents campaigned for their respective party's candidates in the critical Michigan Senate race.

President Trump and former President Barack Obama held dueling rallies in Michigan in the final days before the midterm election. Nancy Cordes has more.

Recent CBS News polling ahead of the midterms shows Democrats have a slight edge to take the majority in the House of Representatives. This comes as President Trump and former President Barack Obama rally in battleground states. CBS News' Nikole Killion reports, and Ravi Gupta, a former Obama administration official, breaks down the latest.

Former President Barack Obama launched one of his most blistering attacks yet on President Donald Trump over the weekend, accusing his successor of unprecedented corruption, incompetence and cruelty during campaign appearances in Ohio and Michigan.

Barack Obama appeared alongside Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to praise his “big guns” in a last-ditch push to voters ahead of elections in one of the most contentious midterm races in recent years. The former president, joined by El-Sayed and gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson at Cass Technical High School for a get-out-the-vote rally, ...

In the Michigan senate race, muddleheaded party leaders cannot see past the next election, writes Peter Savodnik. Will the voters? On Saturday, Barack Obama turned up at a high school gymnasium in Detroit to tell Michiganders to vote for Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. That was, as far as the nation’s 44th president could make out, common sense. If you believe in healthcare for all, good jobs, and hope and change—all the things Democrats supposedly believe in—well, El-Sayed was your only choice. Referring to “those at the top” opposing the would-be senator (a strange way of putting things for a former president with a 29-acre waterfront estate on Martha’s Vineyard), Obama said: “They will use division, and they may even use your name or your faith to somehow suggest that you are dangerous and less than trustworthy and less patriotic and less American than they are.”

Trump and Obama took competing messages to Michigan voters as one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races nears Election Day.

President Trump and former President Obama both took to Michigan this weekend to rally supporters in the key battleground state ahead of midterms. NBC News’ Shaquille Brewster reports from Michigan.

Kyle Kuzma fired back at Barack Obama's rally pitch for Abdul El-Sayed, saying Michiganders care about poverty and cost of living, not religion.

President Trump ripped former President Barack Obama in an early morning social media post accusing him of gross incompetence and providing Iran billions of dollars and a path to developing a nuclear weapon.

President Donald Trump will rally Republicans in eastern Michigan on Sunday, a day after former President Barack Obama campaigned for Democrats in the state, underscoring its importance in next week's midterm elections.Michigan has one of the nation's most competitive US...

Former President Barack Obama rallied for Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit on Saturday as the bitterly fought contest could come down to the city’s substantial Black vote.

DETROIT — Former President Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail Saturday evening with a message as much about the kind of Democrat Abdul el Sayed represents as about the Republican he is trying to defeat. Obama, campaigning for el Sayed in Detroit just 10 days before Election Day, acknowledged the Democratic Michigan Senate candidate […]

Former President Barack Obama was hitting multiple campaign stops in Ohio and Michigan this weekend to speak out against the Trump administration, with midterms less than two weeks away. Nikole Killion has more.

Former president speaks to crowd of thousands in support of Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate and Democratic ticket Barack Obama told a Detroit crowd on Saturday that Abdul El-Sayed was “fighting for change, real change, that will get money out of politics and put money in your pocket”, as he threw his weight behind the Democratic Senate candidate and the rest of the ticket on the first day of early voting in Michigan. Obama said in front of thousands of onlookers at Cass technical high school in Detroit that El-Sayed would “finish the job we started with the Affordable Care Act and guarantee quality, affordable healthcare to every single American”. Continue reading...

The former Democratic president is showing major support in Detroit for the progressive Michigan candidate in final days before US midterm elections Sign up for Breaking News US email My colleague Joseph Gedeon is attending the rally for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan today, where he says thousands are in attendance. Joseph will bring us the latest lines directly from the rally. As a candidate positioned at the center of what researchers say are the worst Islamophobic attacks seen since the aftermath of 9/11, many would expect Abdul El-Sayed to simply defend himself and move on. Continue reading...

Former President Barack Obama is campaigning with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed in Detroit at 5 p.m. Saturday as statewide early voting begins. El Sayed has struggled to win over black voters in his race against his opponent Mike Rogers (R-MI). The Senate hopeful is looking to Obama in shoring up support for […]

Abdul El-Sayed rallies with Barack Obama in Michigan, but undecided Black voters in Detroit say the endorsement hasn't swayed their decision.

Michigan's marquee Senate race is getting the full presidential treatment this weekend, with President Trump and former President Barack Obama campaigning on opposite sides of a contest that could help determine control of the upper chamber.

Obama, Trump, and others will campaign in the marquee battleground state this weekend.