Obama in 2020? Former First Lady Is Holding a Voter Rally in Las Vegas

Michelle Obama, the former first lady, will speak at a voter registration rally in Las Vegas this coming Sunday.

She is a co-chair of When We All Vote, which is the sponsor of the event at Chaparral High School. The event will last for approximately two hours, according to PBS.

But it’s not only Las Vegas where she’ll appear. She’s also slated to appear in Miami for the same purpose.

The group When We All Vote focuses on encouraging voter registration and engagement and has a number of celebrity co-chairs. Those individuals include Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Janelle Monáe, Chris Paul, Faith Hill, and Tim McGraw.

At the event, Obama is expected to speak about the importance of voting and elections to both volunteers and all those who are newly registered to vote.

While the group When We All Vote is a nonpartisan organization, the announcement that she will be speaking at the venue comes shortly after her husband recently had a similar message for students in Illinois.

The former president declared at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign earlier this month that due to the presence of President Donald Trump in the White House, this was the most important election in his lifetime. Therefore, they should go vote.

Obama had noted at the beginning of the speech that most former presidents do not criticize their successors and had a tradition of staying out of public life.

This includes George Washington, who attempted to retire to Mount Vernon after the Revolutionary War — but was pulled back into public life for a time before he was finally able to resign after his presidency.

Obama said that he believes the current state of the country is too dire for silence and for retirement to be a prudent course of action for him.

Former Vice President Joe Biden mentioned in a speech last week that the two — he and Obama — had had an agreement that they would not speak against President Trump for at least a year after he took office.

That was an agreement that Biden said he decided to break after Trump’s comments on the events in Charlottesville, Virginia.

However, Obama said that he believes the current state of the country is too dire for silence and for retirement to be a prudent course of action for him.

It’s expected that both Obama and Biden will continue to be active in campaigns for the midterm elections in November — and there are even rumors that Biden may try to run for president against Trump in 2020.