Trump, Obama trade barbs at dueling primetime rallies days before midterm elections

President Trump and former President Barack Obama took swipes at each other Wednesday night at competing rallies less than a week before the midterm elections.Trump, who was stumping for Sen.Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in the Buckeye State, went after the former president over his handling of Iran and accused him of letting the White House fall into disrepair as commander-in-chief.   “The bricks were falling.

The stone was broken.The monuments were coming off.

The beautiful windows were cracked,” Trump said of the state of the executive mansion when he took office last January.“It looked terrible.

And I fixed it very inexpensively.I paid for it myself.” Trump argued Obama “doesn’t understand cleanliness” or that “having asphalt going through a main entrance is not the right thing.”“We’d like to have granite with marble.

We’d like to have it look nice,” the president said. Trump noted he “took heat” from Obama over his White House renovations. “He said, ‘Why is he spending so much time fixing up the White House? Why is he doing that?’ You know why? Because the White House is the number one symbol of our country, and we can’t have a White House with broken windows, with broken stone that hasn’t been taken in 30 years,” the president argued. Trump is in the final stretch of a whirlwind tour of predominantly red states with tight midterm races, hoping his rallies will help Republicans maintain control of the House and Senate.  Obama has likewise been on the stump since last week, campaigning for Democrats in Michigan, Ohio and Georgia. “I always worry when he campaigns against me,” Trump said sarcastically. “He got involved with Hillary Clinton … and he lost.He then got involved with Kamala [Harris] and he lost,” the president continued. Trump said his reaction upon learning Obama will be rallying for Democrats ahead of the midterms was “that’s good.” The pres...