“President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me. “He should say that but I say NO WAY!
The war of words between outgoing U.S. President
Barack Obama and incoming President Donald Trump continued with Trump
rejecting Obama’s claim that he could have defeated him in the Nov. 8
presidential election if he had run against him.
Trump, in a reply to the outgoing President’s claim, took to his twitter handle and wrote in capital letters: “NO WAY!”, according to Vanguard.
The president-elect also listed some policies under
Obama’s administration, which he thought constituted baggage to the
outgoing President, and would have made it difficult for Obama to be
re-elected had the U.S. Constitution allowed him to contest for the
third term.
“President Obama said that he thinks he would
have won against me. “He should say that but I say NO WAY! – jobs
leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc,” Trump fired back at the outgoing president from whom he would take over on January 20, 2017.
Vanguard
reported that Obama had 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, aired on Monday
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.
“I
am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run
again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilised a majority of the
American people to rally behind it”, said Obama.
He added that part of his post-presidential strategy
would be developing young Democratic leaders, including organisers,
journalists and politicians, who could galvanise voters behind a
progressive agenda.
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