Michelle Obama returns to political spotlight for final sprint of 2024 campaign

Michelle Obama is bringing backmost her governmental prima powerfulness to buoy support for Vice President Kamala Harris successful nan last sprint of nan 2024 election.

In her first run quality pinch Harris, nan erstwhile first woman added a caller statement successful nan conflict reproductive wellness care, issuing a stark but passionate informing aimed astatine men successful which she urged them not to fto women go "collateral harm to your age."

"I americium asking y'all, from nan halfway of my being, to return our lives seriously," she said astatine a rally successful Kalamazoo, Michigan, connected Saturday night.

Obama repeated that nonstop connection successful an op-ed published by nan New York Times connected Monday, and she is owed backmost connected nan way connected Tuesday to header a rally successful battleground Georgia pinch her ain nonprofit When We All Vote aimed astatine engaging young voters.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama speaks during a rally pinch Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris astatine nan Wings Event Center successful Kalamazoo, Mich., Oct. 26, 2024.

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Obama has made clear her dislike of partisan politics, but came retired to set nan shape for Harris' historical nomination astatine nan Democratic National Convention this summer.

After an extended opinionated ovation reflective of nan immense fame she wields not only wrong nan statement but astir nan country, nan erstwhile first woman lifted up Vice President Harris while tearing isolated Donald Trump.

The comments marked a departure from her once-famous governmental motto: "When they spell low, we spell high."

That taxable continued successful Michigan complete nan weekend, arsenic Obama formed Harris arsenic "someone pinch nan spot of bosom to guideline our state to a amended day" and Trump arsenic personification unfit for nan White House.

"In immoderate different occupation aliases arena, Trump's criminal way grounds and amoral characteristic would beryllium embarrassing, shameful and disqualifying," she said.

She past laid retired what she saw arsenic a double modular successful this race.

"I dream you'll forgive maine if I'm a small disappointment that immoderate of america are choosing to disregard Donald Trump's gross incompetence while asking Kamala to dazzle america astatine each turn," she said. "I dream that you'll forgive maine if I'm a small angry that we are indifferent to his erratic behavior, his evident intelligence decline, his history arsenic a convicted felon, a known slum lord, a predator recovered liable for intersexual abuse."

"All of this," Obama continued, "while we prime isolated Kamala's answers from interviews that he doesn't moreover person nan courageousness to do."

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and erstwhile first woman Michelle Obama get to speak astatine a run rally astatine nan Wings Event Center, Oct. 26, 2024, successful Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Vice President Harris was asked connected Monday astir Obama's comments and if she felt she needed to meet a higher modular than Trump.

"My domiciled and responsibility, moving for president of nan United States is to make my lawsuit to nan American group and to gain their support, and that is why I'm spending clip walking nan state to perceive to folks and to talk pinch them astir my plans," Harris responded.

A caller ABC News/Ipsos poll recovered Harris regained a flimsy lead nationally successful nan polls complete Trump, 51-47%. But nan 2 stay neck-and-neck successful nan battleground states that will apt find nan victor of nan election.

Polls besides show a stark gender divide, arsenic Trump leads pinch antheral voters and Harris pinch an advantage pinch women. Black voters and younger voters, too, are considered cardinal voting blocs this cycle.

Obama's entreaty to men successful her reside this past play comes aft her husband, erstwhile President Barack Obama, a cardinal Harris surrogate, expressed his ain frustration pinch Black men who he said didn't want to ballot for Harris because she's a woman.

The erstwhile first lady, successful a somewhat different pitch, urged men to deliberation astir what effect their votes could person connected nan women successful their lives.

"Please do not put our lives successful nan hands of politicians, mostly men, who person nary hint aliases do not attraction astir what we arsenic women are going through, who don't afloat grasp nan broad-reaching wellness implications that their misguided policies will person connected our wellness outcomes," she said successful Michigan.

Her attraction connected Tuesday will beryllium connected turning retired first-time voters and students, according to When We All Vote, nan non-partisan civics group founded by Obama that's been moving to registry voters. The rally she will header comes conscionable earlier early voting ends successful Georgia.

ABC News' Fritz Farrow, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim and Will McDuffie contributed to this report.