Flashback: Obama said low turnout would ‘insult’ his legacy

Published November 9, 2016 2:03pm ET



Donald Trump won the White House Tuesday just hours after President Obama warned that failing to turn out for Hillary Clinton would be an insult to his own legacy.

Less than 12 hours before voters headed to the polls Tuesday, Obama made no bones about just how strongly he was hitching his legacy to her campaign. During a campaign stop in Michigan, the president cast voters’ decision this election as stark choice to “continue this journey of progress, or whether it all goes out the window.”

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