CNN: Obama's exit interview: Hope and change can still win elections
Arguing that Americans still subscribe to his vision of progressive change, President Barack Obama asserted in an interview recently he could have succeeded in this year's election if he was eligible to run.
"I am confident in this vision because I'm confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it," Obama told his former senior adviser David Axelrod in an interview for the "The Axe Files" podcast, produced by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
"I know that in conversations that I've had with people around the country, even some people who disagreed with me, they would say the vision, the direction that you point towards is the right one," Obama said in the interview, which aired Monday.
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Update #1: Obama: 'I could've mobilized a majority' if I had run again (The Hill)
Update #2: Obama cried at send-off, says he could have been re-elected (New York Post)
WNU Editor: He did campaign strongly on his record in this election .... and he did tell the voters that a vote for Hillary Clinton would be a vote for him. That is why I am sceptical on his claim that he would have won. Having said that .... he is definitely a better campaigner than Hillary Clinton, and he would have certainly mobilised the black vote far more effectively than Hillary Clinton did. It would have been a closer race .... and it would have definitely been a different campaign .... starting with Donald Trump being far more critical of President Obama than Senator McCain or Governor Mitt Romney ever were when they ran against him .... but as to winning .... again .... I am not sure.
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