Keith Ellison Slams Obama as Responsible for 2016 Dem Failures

‘Barack Obama could have been a better party leader’

MODERATOR: "Speaking of presidential politics, was President Obama responsible for some of the failures of 2016, and if so, how?"
ELLISON: "Yeah, he was. Look, I'm a great fan of President Obama. I totally voted for many things that he supported: Dodd-Frank, Affordable Care Act, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, I can keep going, wonderful achievements. But Barack Obama could have been a better party leader. And I think that the fact that he wasn't put his legacy in jeopardy. I mean, legacy is not a building that he's going to construct in Chicago housing his presidential papers. His legacy is the work that he has done, which I believe is tremendous. But given that we do not we lost a lot of state house seats, governorships, secretaries of states. His true legacy is in danger and I think that he can't say that he wasn't part of those losses. I mean, who else?"     

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