The absence of Bill Clinton from Barack Obama’s campaign has been a problem for months. The public support and help from the last democratic president in indisputably a very powerful tool when trying to become the next one. So when the two most powerful men in the Democratic Party stood side by side at a huge joint rally in the crucial swing state of Florida, it seems like they have finally buried the hatchet. The aim was to show togetherness and a combined aim in the last few days of campaigning.

So the late night event in Kissimmee, Florida, seems to have brought an end to the rift that emerged during the bitter primary battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton, when the former president was accused of making racially charged remarks about his wife’s opponent. Bill Clinton introduced the man who ended his wife’s dream of becoming the first woman president of America, saying ‘the presidential campaign is the greatest job interview in the world. And on Tuesday, you get to make the hire.’

Members of the audience said afterward that they had been lifted by this sight of a united Democratic front, and that they were happy this was to continue. The next stop in this new joint Democratic venture is Minnesota where a new joint rally is expecting to pull in a huge crowd as the Obama campaign is coming to the end of its days.