In Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, former President Barack Obama told supporters that the Trump administration’s own choices are behind rising costs — and he singled out what he called the worst decision of all.
Pointing to a war he described as “an unnecessary war that nobody asked for and nobody voted for,” Obama argued that the administration “directly made choices that have made your life more expensive.”
Obama was campaigning in Atlanta in the final week before the November 3 midterm elections, making the case that voter frustration over prices should be directed at the current administration’s policies.
Video: AP live feed, recorded by the Zark News desk, October 28, 2026.
Context
The war Obama described as unnecessary has hung over the whole midterm campaign. The administration’s strikes and the wider conflict have pushed up energy costs, and Democrats have argued that a war voters never approved is now showing up in their household bills. Obama’s Atlanta argument tied the two together: choices made in Washington, he said, are a direct reason life has become more expensive at home. With six days left before the November 3 vote, the cost of living, meaning rent, food, fuel and power, remains the issue both parties say will decide control of Congress.
