Obama: Democrats to push back against Trump's 'lawlessness and recklessness'

Former President Barack Obama touted Democratic candidates for governor in two states at campaign rallies on Saturday, urging voters in next week's election to reject what he called the “lawlessness and recklessness” of President Donald Trump's administration.



Obama, the two-term president still highly popular among Democrats, laid out a biting indictment of the Trump administration at rallies for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger and New Jersey candidate Mikie Sherrill.



"Let's face it, our country and our policy are in a pretty dark place right now," Obama told a roaring crowd of Spanberger supporters at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.



"It's hard to know where to start." he said, "because every day this White House offers people a fresh batch of lawlessness and recklessness and mean-spiritedness and just plain craziness.”



Obama blasted what he called Trump's "shambolic" tariff policy and deployment of National Guard troops to U.S. cities. He criticized Republicans in Congress for failing to check Trump "even when they know he's out of line."



He said he was surprised at how quickly business leaders, law firms and universities opted to "bend the knee" to appease Trump.