Obama confident he could have won the White House again AFP 5 hours ago Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama says he could have been reelected for a third term and that the nation still largely embraces his political vision despite last month's election of Donald Trump to succeed him.
The US leader's remarks were made in an interview posted on the podcast "The Axe Files," produced by CNN and the University of Chicago.
Obama, who winds up his second and final term in office in just over three weeks, said he believes the American public still supports his progressive vision, despite having voted for Trump -- his political opposite.
"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 tells his interviewer, former senior adviser David Axelrod, in the most recent of several exit interviews he has been conducting.
He was philosophical and a little rueful about Democrats' loss of the presidential election, when Hillary Clinton was defeated by Trump in a shock outcome almost no one predicted.