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Barack Obama: “The voting public had gotten so polarized.”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Former President Obama Praises Resistance to Trump

Published | Video Starts at 48:45

But that would be the storyline and the press would kind of buy into it. The reason it did not work was what I was referring to earlier. The voting public had gotten so polarized. The cable news networks had gotten so polarized that Republicans. It did not matter what my relationship was with people. The way was the way I was being projected and portrayed. (48:45–48:49)

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