Former President Barack Obama said the election results, in which each candidates received more than 70 million votes, show the nation remains bitterly split.
Obama has done a series of interviews timed to the release of the first volume of his memoir, «A Promised Land,» which will be available November 17. The book chronicles the 44th President’s childhood and political rise, before diving into his historic 2008 campaign and first four years in the White House. Obama, the country’s first Black president, also confronts the racist politics of President Donald Trump, suggesting his 2008 election opened a wave of bitter and divisive turmoil that fueled Republicans’ obstructionism and ultimately changed the party. Obama on Sunday defended his active campaigning for President-elect Joe Biden, his former vice president, saying circumstances warranted his public criticism of his successor — something that former presidents usually don’t do.
