Michelle Obama says 'I'm frustrated, too' as she rallies young Miami voters
Careful not to punch too directly at the man who succeeded her husband in the Oval Office, former first lady Michelle Obama came to Coral Gables Friday on a get-out-the-vote mission in a state that understands the value of a single ballot like no other in the nation.
“Elections can be decided by just a few votes per precinct. Sometimes, they’re decided by just a handful of votes altogether. In Florida you all know something about this,” Obama, speaking in a state where 537 votes decided the 2000 presidency, said from a podium at the University of Miami Watsco center. “Nobody can say that their vote doesn’t matter. If they’re saying that, they just don’t understand the numbers.”
Wearing ripped jeans and a gray VOTE T-shirt, Obama spoke about being “frustrated” at “the pettiness, the meanness that too often dominates the political discourse.” She came to Miami with When We All Vote, a nonpartisan get-out-the-vote organization that led star-studded rallies on both coasts this week.
Obama, the co-chair of the organization, described a self-defeating cycle of political apathy, in which frustrated voters who sit out elections only become more frustrated with politics that increasingly don’t reflect their values. And, following speeches by singer Kelly Rowland and comedian Keegan-Michael Key, she did it in a way that might resonate with Generation Z.
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