Former president says ‘if I spoke the language of James Baldwin on the stump … I’m probably not gonna to get a lot of votes in Iowa’

Barack Obama has underlined his belief that Democrats should moderate campaign messaging in order to reach voters turned off by slogans including “Defund the Police”, telling a literary group: “If I spoke the language of James Baldwin as he speaks it on the campaign stump, I’m probably not gonna get a lot of votes in Iowa.”

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