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Former President Barack Obama will return to the Democratic National Convention stage in his hometown of Chicago to deliver the keynote address on Tuesday, 20 years after his convention debut thrust him into the national spotlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s a tricky moment for one of the party\u2019s most popular figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He will use his speech to touch on the historic nature of Kamala Harris\u2019s candidacy \u2013 the first female of colour to lead the ticket \u2013 as a continuation of his legacy. But he must also pay tribute to his own vice-president and the man responsible for her rise \u2013 President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Obama, 63, and Ms Harris, 59, have moved in overlapping political orbits as early as his days as an Illinois state senator running for the US Senate. The two, both on the rise in their nascent political careers, met at a California fundraiser in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an early supporter, Ms Harris would later volunteer for his presidential campaign and help power his first victory in 2008. Buoyed by party enthusiasm for Ms Harris\u2019s campaign, Mr Obama – and his popular wife Michelle Obama – will try to return the favour and help propel her to the Oval Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think he can excite people about her and about the stakes [of the election] and I think that\u2019s what he intends to do today,\u201d David Plouffe, Mr Obama\u2019s 2008 campaign manager and a now Harris campaign adviser, told Axios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s a look at key moments in their two-decade relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC: Former President Barack Obama will return to the Democratic National Convention stage in his hometown of Chicago to deliver the keynote address on Tuesday, 20 years after his convention debut thrust him into the national spotlight. It\u2019s a tricky moment for one of the party\u2019s most popular figures. He will use his speech to touch on the historic nature of Kamala Harris\u2019s candidacy \u2013 the first female of colour to lead the ticket \u2013 as a continuation of his legacy. But he must also pay tribute to his own vice-president and the man responsible for her rise \u2013 President… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41565,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41563\/revisions\/41565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}