Barack Obama has joined the ranks of over 18 million Americans who have already cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential election. At a rally held for Kamala Harris in Madison, Wisconsin, the former president was met with applause when he revealed: “I voted yesterday.”

Encouraging the crowd to follow his example, Obama shared that he completed his mail-in ballot in Chicago, his home city. “Then I decided to walk, which I don’t get to do often, and Secret Service got a bit anxious, but I told them, ‘No, let’s walk to a mailbox.’”

During the pandemic of 2020, mail-in voting was used more heavily by Democrats compared to Republicans, although historically, this voting option hasn’t consistently favored any particular political party. On Tuesday, Obama humorously remarked that members of Generation Z might need some guidance in recognizing the mail-in voting process. “My younger staff was like, ‘What’s that blue thing?’” he joked. “And I said, ‘That’s a mailbox.’”

{Matzav.com}