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Post Politics President Obama says he could have beaten Trump — Trump says ‘NO WAY!’
Washington Post ^ | Dec. 26, 2016 | Michael Kranish

Posted on 12/26/2016 5:54:40 PM PST by Innovative

President Obama said in an interview released Monday that he could have beaten Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “if I had run again.” In his most pointed critique yet, Obama said Hillary Clinton's campaign acted too cautiously out of a mistaken belief that victory was all but certain.

“If you think you're winning, then you have a tendency, just like in sports, maybe to play it safer,” Obama said in the interview with former adviser and longtime friend David Axelrod, a CNN analyst, for his “The Axe Files” podcast. The president said Clinton “understandably . . . looked and said, well, given my opponent and the things he's saying and what he's doing, we should focus on that.”

Trump took exception to this critique, tweeting out later in the day that “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.”

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KEYWORDS: 7; congress; governors; obama; obamalost; trump; trumpvictory
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I am more willing to believe Trump.
1 posted on 12/26/2016 5:54:40 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative
“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.”

Ha haaaaa!!!

I LOVE this guy!

2 posted on 12/26/2016 5:58:05 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Innovative

Playground fight with the LSM “girls” tattling the play by play....


3 posted on 12/26/2016 5:58:10 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Innovative

What a classless assclown Obama is. Eight years as president and he’s still insecure.


4 posted on 12/26/2016 5:59:39 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Innovative

I say they should settle it in the ring . . . a cage . . . no holds barred. Bama could even have Reggie help.


5 posted on 12/26/2016 6:00:54 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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Next the left will say that we need to redo the whole election, just do it over again, but let Obama run instead of Hillary. It’s only fair.


6 posted on 12/26/2016 6:01:11 PM PST by KyCats
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To: Innovative

How gracious obama is.


7 posted on 12/26/2016 6:01:16 PM PST by Salvey
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Boobamba's one deluded dude.

(HAT TIP DEROY MURDOCK NYPOST 12/26/16)

EXCERPT-----As President Obama concludes his reign of error, his party is smaller, weaker and ricketier than it has been since at least the 1940s. Behold the tremendous power that Democrats have frittered away — from January 2009 through the aftermath of Election Day — thanks to Obama and his ideas:

•Democrats surrendered the White House to political neophyte Donald J. Trump.

•US Senate seats slipped from 55 to 46, down 16 percent.

•US House seats fell from 256 to 194, down 24 percent.

•Democrats ran the Senate and House in 2009. Next year, they will control neither.

•Governorships slid from 28 to 16, down 43 percent.

•State legislatures (both chambers) plunged from 27 to 14, down 48 percent.

•Trifectas (states with Democrat governors and both legislative chambers) cratered from 17 to 6, down 65 percent.

SOURCE http://nypost.com/2016/12/25/obamas-legacy-is-a-devastated-democratic-party/

8 posted on 12/26/2016 6:02:40 PM PST by Liz (W W W W W W w w w w w)
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To: Innovative

This is a great example of the MSM looking for a story where none exist. Searching for click bait for the next 24 hours


9 posted on 12/26/2016 6:02:42 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Innovative

Speaking of being beaten, I better not ever catch Barack Obama alone in a dark alley.


10 posted on 12/26/2016 6:06:55 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Innovative

I could have been a supermodel.


11 posted on 12/26/2016 6:07:36 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: Innovative
Obama's masquera is running down his cheeks.
12 posted on 12/26/2016 6:08:55 PM PST by Eddie01 (Comment Removed by Moderator)
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"... a CNN analyst, for his “The Axe Files”...

LOL! The Axe Files. Let's axe Obama a question ...

13 posted on 12/26/2016 6:22:32 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Liz

They went all in with Bammy Boy and went down in flames. Bwahahaha


14 posted on 12/26/2016 6:26:41 PM PST by PLOM...NOT! (With guns, we are citizens. Without them, we are subjects.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Ok, full disclosure. I am right at Obama’s age. We have a 70 year old coming in as President. I sure hope there are some adults in Obama’s age group and on down, so we never have to hear anything like this again. But, we know what most of the younger generations are like. It is pathetic, Obama can’t even be cordial and mannerly for 25 lousy days until he is out of power. I sure hope this is being magnified in the eyes of those not supporting and those who are still on the fence concerning Trump.


15 posted on 12/26/2016 6:29:13 PM PST by taterjay
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To: Innovative

Let’s see the college transcripts, Barry...


16 posted on 12/26/2016 6:29:19 PM PST by 4Liberty (DEMOCRATS- Exporting Jobs, Importing Votes.)
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To: Innovative

Don’t get trap into the bo stupid words.


17 posted on 12/26/2016 6:34:41 PM PST by Libertynotfree (Over spending, Over taxes, and Over regulation)
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To: Innovative

No one knows because its an entirely hypothetical situation. However, no one ever hit Obama the way Trump would have hit Obama if he campaigned against him. He would have called him out on EVERYTHING, especially what a liar he is, how secretive he’s been, what a HUUUUGE failure his foreign policies and his major domestic programs have been, how he failed to protect us from repeated attacks on American soil and, maybe worst of all, what he has done to American workers with his illegal invasion program.


18 posted on 12/26/2016 6:39:48 PM PST by JewishRighter
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“Next the left will say that we need to redo the whole election, just do it over again, but let Obama run instead of Hillary. It’s only fair.”

NC Gov Bev Purdue in 2011 wanted to SUSPEND the 2012 election so her god could do MORE against America.


19 posted on 12/26/2016 6:41:25 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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“Let’s see the college transcripts, Barry...”

Barry’s FIRST order of business was to hide those.


20 posted on 12/26/2016 6:42:08 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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