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Obama blames an "unnecessary war" for rising prices in Ohio rally speech

Sky News' clip of the former president's midterm appeal moves past the alliterative charge in its title to fuel costs and the Strait of Hormuz.

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Why this story? One of Sky News's most watched videos since yesterday, with 56,831 views.

'Chaos, cruelty, corruption': Barack Obama attacks Donald Trump's record

Barack Obama spent part of his Ohio rally speech on something other than jokes. In the clip Sky News posted, the former president lays out an economic charge against Donald Trump, and then traces it to a war.

He was campaigning for Democratic candidates ten days before the midterm elections, with "VOTE BY NOVEMBER 3" on the podium signs. He opens with the line in Sky's title: "After two years of chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence..." He then asks the crowd to say "enough's enough."

The cost of living is his main subject. Mortgages, healthcare, utility bills, interest rates and gas have all gone up, he says, and "everything is more expensive now." He concedes that "a president doesn't have control over the entire economy," then argues this is the exception: "This administration's actions are directly responsible for rising costs."

The sharpest passage is about the conflict. Obama says Trump "decided to start an unnecessary war that nobody asked for, nobody voted for." Seven months in, he lists attacks on allies and bases, American casualties, depleted missile supplies and Iranian influence over the Strait of Hormuz pushing up oil prices. "This is the reason why the price of oil is up," he says.

Sky News says in its description that it approached the White House for comment. The speech has already been widely covered for its lines about Trump's White House decor. This clip shows the case Obama built around the war and the price of fuel. It drew about 57,000 views since yesterday, more than any other new Sky News video.

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