Obama Not Fully Confident Trump Can Be Beaten by Clinton: ‘Anything Is Possible’

Obama on Trump Potentially Beating Clinton: ‘Anything Is Possible’ (The Washington Free Beacon)

President Obama remarked “anything is possible” in an interview airing Wednesday when asked whether Donald Trump could win the presidency in 2016, suggesting he was not fully confident Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton could dispatch the Republican billionaire.

In an interview on NBC’s Today previewing his primetime remarks Wednesday night at the Democratic National Committee, Obama encouraged Democrats to “stay worried.” Polls show atight race between Clinton and Trump, who are the two least popular major party nominees in the country’s history.

“Is it possible that Donald Trump wins the presidency?” host Savannah Guthrie asked.

“Anything is possible,” Obama said. “It is the nature of democracy that until those votes are cast and the American people have their say, we don’t know.”