President Obama, in an interview with his former advisor David Axelrod on his podcast, said that he is “confident” that if he had run, he could have “mobilized a majority of the American people” to win the presidency again.

Obama also addressed the potential reasons for why Clinton lost the election to Axelrod. “I think that Hillary Clinton performed wonderfully under really tough circumstances,” Obama said, adding that there was a “double standard” set for the first female candidate in her relationship to voters and to the press. But, he cautioned, she may have been over-confident in voters’ distaste for Trump being a clinching factor for her to win the election. Obama suggested that Clinton may have needed to take more risks, despite the pressures she was under and the unfair scrutiny she faced, in order to rally a majority of Americans behind her to win.

“If you think you're winning, then you have a tendency, just like in sports, maybe to play it safer.”

Obama also criticized the Democratic party for failing to appeal “emotionally” to marginalized voters in the same way Republicans have, though he stressed that the idea that Democrats had “abandoned” these voters from a policy perspective is “nonsense.”

“The Affordable Care Act benefits a huge number of Trump voters. There are a lot of folks in places like West Virginia or Kentucky who didn't vote for Hillary, didn't vote for me, but are being helped by this.”

The President went on to say that, in the wake of the “cultural shift” that allowed Trump to be elected, that he might have been able to galvanize the populations who felt left behind by the Clinton campaign. “The majority does buy into the notion of a one America that is tolerant and diverse and open and -- and full of energy and dynamism,” said Obama. “I'm confident that if I -- if I had run again and articulated [that notion], I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it.”

The 22nd Amendment prohibits a president from being elected to office more than twice. It was passed after FDR was elected to a third term during World War II, the only president to have done so.

Trump was none-too-pleased with Obama’s remarks, tweeting “No way!” to the notion.

Trump’s favorability is currently hovering around 43%, while Obama’s at the time of his election was a cool 68%.

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