ATLANTA, GA - NOVEMBER 02: Former President Barack Obama speaks at a Drive-in Mobilization Rally to get out the vote for Georgia Senate candidates on November 2, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are locked in a ti
WASHINGTON - Former President Barack Obama is telling reluctant voters he knows their frustrations but doesn’t believe they’re reason not to vote.
He said at a drive-in rally in Atlanta on Monday, the eve of Election Day, that "government doesn’t solve every problem” and that the "long legacy in this country of hardship and prejudice and people who are powerful and rich taking advantage of folks who aren’t” can be "discouraging.”
But he said Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, would improve the country, just as Obama believes he did in eight years in office.
"We’re never going to get all the way to the promised land, but we can help lay the path for future generations to get there,” Obama said.
"That’s what public service should be about. That’s what citizenship should be about. That’s what voting is about - not making things perfect, but making things better, laying that path.”
Obama has been campaigning in several battleground states in the campaign’s closing weeks.
He was joined beneath the 1996 Olympic flame in Atlanta by Georgia Democratic Senate candidates, Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock.
