Former US president lays out what’s at stake and why Harris-Walz should lead the country.

Former United States President Barack Obama has taken to the stage of the Democratic National Convention in a show of support for Kamala Harris in her 11th-hour bid to become the country’s next president in November’s election.

Obama walked onto the stage in Chicago to deafening applause from a crowd that had just heard from Obama’s wife Michelle, Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff and other veterans of the party, as well as Republicans who had abandoned their party because of Donald Trump.

The first Black American ever elected to the White House, 63-year-old Obama quickly showed his skills as an orator, paying tribute to President Joe Biden as a man he was “proud to call president, but even prouder to call my friend”.

Acknowledging the scale of the fight facing Harris and her running mate Tim Walz to win the White House over the next 11 weeks, he urged people to “fight for an America we can believe in” and get out the vote.

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