President Obama has revealed that he would have beaten US president-elect,Donald Trump if he had contested again.
He said this in an interview with the former adviser and longtime friend David Axelrod,a CNN
analyst for his“The Axe Files”podcast,on Monday 26th December 2016.
He said that Americans still subscribed to his vision of progressive change, asserting that he could have succeeded in this year’s election if he was eligible to run.
Neither Trump nor Democratic Hillary Clinton won a majority of the vote in the 2016 contest. While Clinton beat Trump in the popular vote by almost 2.9 million ballots, Trump won more electoral votes and consequently, the presidency.
In the 50-minute session, Obama repeated his suggestion that Democrats had ignored entire segments of the voting population, leading to Trump’s win. He implied that Clinton’s campaign had not made a vocal enough argument directed toward Americans who had not felt the benefits of the economic recovery.
“If you think you’re winning, then you have a tendency, just like in sports, maybe to play it safer”.
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