Glenn Thrush and Elaina Plott, NYT

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How Trump campaign is drawing Obama out of retirement

Former president sees social awakening as opportunity to elevate polls

Former President Obama speaks in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 13, 2018. More than three years after his exit, the 44th president of the U.S. is back on a political battlefield he longed to leave, drawn into the fight by an enemy, President Donald Trump, who is hellbent on erasing him, and by a friend, former Vice President Joseph Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who is equally intent on embracing him.

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