Addressing an election rally in Kissimmee in Florida, Obama praised his former secretary of state for embracing America's diversity as a strength, recognising that progress requires compromise, and promoting dignity, courtesy, and respect for all Americans.
Obama went on to criticise Trump as "uniquely unqualified to be president" and "temperamentally unfit to be commander- in-chief", citing his disrespectful and hateful rhetoric towards minorities, women, and people with disabilities as an "irreconcilable lack of character".
All the progress that the US has made goes out the window if Clinton does not win this election. "We win this election if we win Florida. If we win Florida, it's a wrap. We win Florida, it's over," he said.
Obama added that Trump lies with "impunity" and went on to cite an incident that occurred in Fayetteville last week.
"I was in Fayetteville. Some of you may have seen this. And it was a packed hall. And a Trump supporter stood up with a sign. He was an elderly gentleman, had a military uniform on. I couldn't really hear what he was saying.
"Just a few hours later, Trump gets up on stage in front of his crowd. This is just a few hours later. And he said, 'Do you see how President Obama yelled at a Trump supporter in his audience?' Just made it up, didn't just make it up but said the exact opposite of what had happened with impunity," Obama said.
"But that says something about how unacceptable behaviour has become normal. And that's why he is uniquely unqualified to hold this job. And the good news is all of you are uniquely qualified to make sure he doesn't get the job. Florida, you've just got to vote," he said.
In Clinton, he asserted, there is somebody "worthy of your vote because she is smart, and she is steady, and she is tested, probably the most qualified person ever to run for this office, our next president, Hillary Clinton. Hillary. This is somebody who has dedicated her life to making this country better".
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