歐巴馬說,他可能以微小的差距輸掉了某些縣市,因為他是順道拜訪那些地方,而他在其他縣市出奇制勝,原因在於他在那裡花費了大量時間。 勉勵同仁
這是自希拉蕊大選落敗後歐巴馬首次公開答記者問。他坦承,自己的團隊失敗了,每個人都會感覺很受挫,「這很艱難,很具挑戰性……但我認為這也未嘗不是一件好事,能夠讓民主黨自我反思一下。」
「如何深耕基層,如何讓選民了解你們堅持的理念,這是一個國家政黨面臨的挑戰。」歐巴馬稱,在民主黨內部展開了關於基層工作和構建自下而上政黨的對話,「未來將會產出更加強有力的結果,我樂觀地相信,這將會發生」。
歐巴馬勉勵民主黨同仁不要因大選落敗而「完全氣餒」,應當記住「世事變化迅速」,「但世事不會自然而然地發生改變,改變發生是因為有人在背後為之努力。」 出國「滅火」
歐巴馬認為,希拉蕊落敗還有一個原因,那就是她沒能像特朗普一樣激發支持者的熱情。
歐巴馬回憶起上周在白宮的「新舊總統」會面,他說他告訴這位新當選總統他被其激發選民激情的能力所折服。「我想從這個方面來說,他能夠跟支持者建立起一種緊密的聯繫。這種力量非常強大。」
14日晚,歐巴馬乘機出訪,對希臘、德國和秘魯進行為期7天的訪問。分析人士指出,歐巴馬此行既是為了在卸任前完成其政策日程,同時也意在安撫美國的盟友,讓他們相信新當選總統特朗普不大可能撕毀具有約束力的國際協定。 Obama"s pointed rebuke to Clinton for election loss as he tells how HE won by going to "every fish fry" Hit Clinton for taking it easy as Donald Trump barnstormed the nation The president was taking questions for the first time since his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, lost to Donald Trump
Said he was victorious in Iowa - a swing state that"s mostly white - "not because of the demographics" Said it was because he spent 87 days going to "every small town and fair and fish fry and VFW hall" To Democrats who are "discouraged" by last Tuesday"s election, Obama reminded them, "things change pretty rapidly." He cast Trump as "uniquely unqualified" to lead the country on the campaign trail; now says the country must unite behind him
President Barack Obama delivered a veiled rebuke to Hillary Clinton today for spending the summer and much of the fall taking it easy as Donald Trump barnstormed the nation.
The two-time winner Electoral College winner said he was victorious in Iowa, a mostly white state, "not because the demographics dictated" it, but because he spent 87 days going to "every small town and fair and fish fry and VFW hall."
Some counties he may have lost by fewer votes because he dropped in, the president said. Others he may have won unexpectedly because he spent so much time there.
"And the challenge for a national party is how do you dig in there and create those kinds of structures so that people have a sense of what it is that you stand for."
That"s "increasingly difficult to do" through a national press strategy, he said.
Conversations in the party about grassroots efforts and building a bottom up party will "contribute to stronger outcomes in the future," he assessed. "And I"m optimistic that will happen."
Democrats who are "feeling completely discouraged" by last Tuesday"s election, Obama said, should remember that "things change pretty rapidly."
"But they don"t change inevitably. They change because you work for it," he said.
Clinton spent considerable time in Iowa as she prepared to competed in the Democratic caucuses there against Bernie Sanders.
She visited Des Moines three times and Cedar Rapids once in the general election. She also made a stop in "Quad Cities" area, though her rally was technically in Illinois.
Clinton"s campaign wrote off the swing state that Obama won in 2008 and 2012 and spent her time trying to win over North Carolina, a state he lost in 2012, and Pennsylvania instead.
Not only did she lose all three of those states, Clinton held one or no rallies a day while Trump conquered the country and lost most of the Midwest, never even visiting Wisconsin which turned red as a result.
"We have to compete everywhere. We have to show up everywhere. We have to work at a grassroots level," Obama said today.