Obama, Murphy Define Leadership at 2017 Campaign Rally in Newark

NEWARK, NJ - Everyone in New Jersey knows that all roads and all trains ultimately lead to Newark, the state's largest city.

With the Garden State, and all of America, at a crossroads, former U.S. President Barack Obama came to downtown Newark this week to back Phil Murphy's bid to become New Jersey's governor less than three weeks before the Nov. 7 election.

Woven into the 44th President's words was one constant thread: what leadership really means for Newark, New Jersey, and the nation.

"The world counts on America having its act together. The world is looking to us as an example. The world asks what are values and ideals are, and are we living up to our creed. Just as the world is looking at us, [on Election Day] the world is going to be looking at New Jersey," said Obama to more than 1,000 people inside a packed ballroom in the Robert Treat Hotel in downtown Newark on Thursday, the crowd chanting 'four more years' in a mass act of wishful thinking.

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