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Kyle Kuzma snaps at Barack Obama’s ‘religious identity pitch’ in Michigan

Kyle Kuzma attacked one of former US President Barack Obama’s recent speeches in Michigan, calling him out for indulging in identity politics. The new NBA season has begun but that doesn’t mean Kyle Kuzma is no longer paying attention to what is going on in the country.

Kyle Kuzma snaps at Barack Obama’s ‘religious identity pitch’ in Michigan

In the NBA's new season, Milwaukee Bucks player Kyle Kuzma expressed his displeasure with former US President Barack Obama's recent speech in Michigan, where Obama attempted to appeal to religious identities. Kuzma, who is originally from Flint, Michigan, a key battleground state for the upcoming midterm elections, criticized Obama's appeal as a "desperate psyop" that he found unbearable to watch.

Obama had referenced Elissa Slotkin, a senior senator from Michigan, who was campaigning alongside Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson. Kuzma was particularly upset that Obama's message focused on a Muslim man and a Jewish woman representing Michigan, despite the fact that the state's Muslim and Jewish populations are both only around 1 percent.

He argued that Michiganders are more concerned with economic issues, such as the high poverty rate among black residents in the state.

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