Former First Lady Michelle Obama is terrified of what might happen in the 2024 presidential election, she said in an interview released Monday.
“What’s going to happen for us in this next election?” Obama asked. “I am terrified about what could possibly happen because our leaders matter.”
Obama, speaking to the Jay Shetty Podcast, does not name Donald Trump when asked what keeps her up at night, but she raises serious concerns about whom the nation will choose to hold its highest office in her reply.
“Who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted," she said.
“We cannot take this Democracy for granted, and sometimes I worry that we do.”
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Obama classed her fears with those you “don’t have control over” such as ongoing international wars, climate change, the future of Artificial Intelligence and whether or not Americans will go out and vote.
“You wonder, ‘where are people at?”' Obama said. “Where are our hearts?”
