“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.
Written by Osiri Ndukwe
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