Barack Obama is firing up voters for Democratic gubernatorial candidates. Photo: AP PHOTO

Former US president Barack Obama has touted Democratic candidates for governor in two states at campaign rallies, urging voters in next week's election to reject what he called the "lawlessness and recklessness" of President Donald Trump's administration.

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Obama, the two-term president still highly popular among Democrats, laid out a biting indictment of the Trump administration at rallies on Saturday for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger and New Jersey candidate Mikie Sherrill

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