about character. and character will end up showing when you actually are in office. reporter: now, at no point during obama s speech did he mention his successor, former president donald trump, but mcauliffe, the democratic candidate here, certainly did. repeatedly hitting trump and tying him to glenn youngkin. at one point saying that yo youngkin, his opponent is just donald trump in khakis. this event was not necessarily about persuasion. many of the people here had already voted or intend to vote for mcauliffe on the november 2nd election. this is more about turnout. this is a city that obama won overwhelmingly in 2008 and 2012, and that is why he is here, urging voters, some of whom are very tired with politics, something he himself admitted he was tired as well, urging them to come out and vote, because this election, as he said, is just too important. dan merica, cnn, richmond. but on his end, youngkin is largely trying not to nationalize the race. as eva mccann reports, his