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In closing campaign pitches, Democrats lean on their star: Obama

PHILADELPHIA — On Saturday, with just days left to campaign ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, three presidents converged on Pennsylvania in a last-ditch effort to lock down a must-win Senate race for their parties. Both parties know that the race here could determine control of the upper chamber, and both deployed their biggest stars to make their closing pitch. In Philadelphia, President ...
From left, Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, former President Barack Obama, candidate for governor for Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro, and President Joe Biden participate in a rally ahead of the midterm elections, on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022, in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA — On Saturday, with just days left to campaign ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, three presidents converged on Pennsylvania in a last-ditch effort to lock down a must-win Senate race for their parties.

Both parties know that the race here could determine control of the upper chamber, and both deployed their biggest stars to make their closing pitch. In Philadelphia, President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama rallied for the Democrats’ Senate candidate, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. Across the state in Latrobe, former President Donald Trump stumped for Fetterman’s opponent, the television personality Mehmet Oz.

Since Thursday, Biden has crisscrossed the nation to speak with voters in key states and congressional districts. In

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