President Barack Obama will step back into the political fray Friday, delivering a speech that will preview his 2018 midterm election message and provide his most pointed rebuke to date of President Donald Trump.
One theme of Obama's speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be how the history of the United States has always been progress and "backlash to progress," and the former President will argue the country is currently in one of those backlash moments.
"We're in one of those moments of backlash. And we didn't get here overnight," an Obama aide said.
"People in power want us to believe that the rest of us are powerless to solve our problems through democracy. And when people stop showing up, like in 2010 and 2014 where fewer people voted, a vacuum forms, and a politics of fear and resentment fills that void."
Obama and Trump have not talked since the inauguration, a source tells CNN.
The speech comes ahead of Obama's first campaign events of the midterms: a rally for a handful of Democratic congressional candidates in California on Saturday and an event for Richard Cordray, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, next Thursday.
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