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		</div><p>President Barack Obama has mounted a vigorous defence of Hillary Clinton, her campaign&#8217;s transparency and her fitness for the presidency, and accused Republicans of fanning &#8220;anger and hate&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Obama painted a stark picture of the stakes in the face-off between Mrs Clinton and Republican rival Donald Trump, and tried to persuade Democrats that he is fully behind his former secretary of state&#8217;s bid for the White House.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hillary Clinton is steady and she is true,&#8221; Mr Obama told a group of cheering Democrats at an outdoor rally. &#8220;I need you to work as hard for Hillary as you did for me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Obama aggressively stepped into a void left by Mrs Clinton, who is taking time off from campaigning after being diagnosed with pneumonia.</p>
<p>Mr Obama is seeking to generate momentum for Mrs Clinton in a race that has become uncomfortably close for many Democratic supporters. </p>
<p>The latest poll by Quinnipiac University found her with a five percentage-point edge over Mr Trump in Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Mr Obama&#8217;s campaign appearance at an outdoor plaza in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art was his third for Mrs Clinton, including his speech at the Democratic National Convention. </p>
<p>The president, who remains broadly popular among the Democratic base, is viewed as a key asset in pushing die-hard Democrats to the polls.</p>
<p>But the president&#8217;s day job has kept him from being a fixture. Mr Obama recently returned from 10 days abroad in Asia and will attend a United Nations meeting next week, leaving him just six weeks of full-throttle campaigning for Mrs Clinton.</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s campaign, meanwhile, responded to Mr Obama&#8217;s appearance with a statement suggesting he was shirking his duties.</p>
<p>&#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t you be at work?&#8221; it read. &#8220;President Obama would rather campaign for Hillary Clinton than solve major problems facing the country.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the rally, Mr Obama made both the case for Mrs Clinton and for his own presidency.</p>
<p>He claimed successes on diplomacy, health care, winding down the war in Afghanistan and reviving economy, which showed new strength on Tuesday in a Census report documenting a jump in household incomes in 2015.</p>
<p>&#8220;Republicans don&#8217;t like to hear good news right now but it&#8217;s important to understand this is a big deal,&#8221; Mr Obama said of the new report, later joking: &#8220;Thanks, Obama.&#8221;</p>
<p>The candidate whom Mr Obama hopes will succeed him left a 9/11 ceremony after about 90 minutes on Sunday and struggled to stay on her feet while she was helped into a van.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s campaign said she had &#8220;overheated&#8221;, but later revealed that she had been diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia. The episode played into Mr Trump&#8217;s efforts in recent weeks to raise doubts about Mrs Clinton&#8217;s stamina.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s campaign was already on the defensive after she used the term &#8220;basket of deplorables&#8221; to describe half of Mr Trump&#8217;s supporters.</p>
<p>White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Mr Obama does not feel like he needs to help Mrs Clinton with damage control.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the president&#8217;s belief that she&#8217;d be an excellent president of the United States is something that you&#8217;ve heard him say many times. </p>
<p>And I can tell you there&#8217;s nothing that happened yesterday that has changed that assessment at all,&#8221; Mr Earnest said.</p>
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