Michelle Obama drops her own delightful shimmy for Hillary Clinton

The shimmy returns.
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Sasha Lekach
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It was the shimmy seen around the world.

Back in September, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton gave a playful shake of her shoulders during the first debate and the internet went nuts.

Only a month later at Thursday's campaign rally in North Carolina, first lady Michelle Obama had her own shimmy moment.

During Clinton's Obama introduction, complete with a "Carpool Karaoke" shout-out, Obama showed some of her own dance moves with a seated shimmy-shake from behind Clinton at the podium.

Clinton complimented the Obamas dance skills, FLOTUS's vegetable garden ("I can promise you if I win I will take good care of it, Michelle.") and her Democratic National Convention speech.

These ladies know dance moves get the votes.

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Sasha Lekach

Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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