Barrack Obama: ‘The Result Was Not What We Hoped For’
Former President Barack Obama has extended congratulations to Donald Trump and Senator J.D. Vance on their 2024 election victory.
In the presidential election held on November 5, former President Donald Trump made a historic comeback to the White House, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris by nearly five million votes, with an electoral vote count of 295 against Harris’s 226.
“Now the results are in, and we want to congratulate President Trump and Senator Vance on their victory,” Obama said in his first statement after the election.
Barrack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were heavily involved in the election, campaigning for Harris while making clear their disagreements with the Republican candidate, Donald Trump. He, however, acknowledged that “living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won’t always win out and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.”
For Harris, who became the Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden exited the race, Obama said he “could not be prouder of Vice President Harris and her running mate, Governor Tim Walz.”
Obama, who served as U.S. president for two terms, from 2008 to 2016, linked America’s choice to vote the Democratic Party out of power to price hikes and economic instability caused by the impacts of the global pandemic in 2020.
“Those conditions,” he claimed, “created headwinds for democratic incumbents around the world, and last night showed that America is not immune.”
“The good news is that these problems are solvable – but only if we listen to each other, and only if we abide by the core constitutional principles and democratic norms that made this country great.”
With Trump set to be sworn in on January 20, 2025, Obama said that “progress requires us to extend good faith and grace – even to people with whom we deeply disagree.”
“That’s how we’ve come this far, and it’s how we’ll keep building a country that is more fair and more just, more equal and more free,” he added.
