Obama says he could have won White House again

US President Barack Obama says he could have won the White House again, and that he still believes in the message of hope and change he campaigned on in 2008.

“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I — 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 said in an interview posted on the podcast “The Axe Files” on Monday, produced by CNN and the University of Chicago.

“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,” he added.

In the November 8 presidential election, Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, who was backed by almost the entire mainstream American media, suffered a crushing defeat by Donald Trump, despite the fact that the Republican nominee’s campaign had been hit with many…

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