Former President Barack Obama says he was able to make solid "connections" with conservatives as a senator and a presidential candidate until Rush Limbaugh and Fox News destroyed the relationship. Obama's comments came Tuesday during a virtual gala with PEN America, which gave him its Voice of Influence Award, for "the power of his soaring words, the promises he has unlocked in our nation, and the enduring American values that he has embodied." "I ended up getting enormous support in these pretty conservative, rural, largely white communities when I was a senator, and that success was repeated when I ran...