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.

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.

"Let's face it, our country and our policy are in a pretty dark place right now," Obama told a roaring crowd of Spanberger supporters at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

"It's hard to know where to start," he said.

"Because every day this White House offers people a fresh batch of

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