Obama: I would have won this thing

By Kelly Cohen

Published December 26, 2016 2:41pm ET

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Obama: I would have won this thing — The president suggests that were he the 2016 candidate, he would have "articulated" a winning message. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

President Obama says he believes he would have won the 2016 presidential election had he been a candidate.

“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” Obama told former adviser David Axelrod in an interview for the “The Axe Files” podcast that aired Monday.

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