'Their enthusiasm I think is what really drove this election,' the former president told 'The Daily Show' host.
“The reason we did better than expected can be attributed to not me or anything I did… we recruited some excellent candidates,” he told Noah, shouting out people like Wes Moore, Josh Shapiro, John Fetterman and Mark Kelly. “They are committed, passionate, down to earth, they connect with people,” he continued. “And so I come in mainly to shine a spotlight on them.”
“The second thing that happened in this midterm, and we’ve seen it now for three elections, so I’m starting to feel pretty hopeful that this is a habit, young people are voting,” he said. “It has been many times remarked how I got thumped during midterms during my presidency, and part of it was that voting rates were really low.”
“I think that lesson was learned,” Obama said. “[Donald] Trump comes in, and suddenly 2018, 2020 and now this one, you’ve seen young people come in, and they’re typically voting at a rate of 70 to 30, 60 to 40 Democrat to Republican, and that makes a huge difference. Their enthusiasm I think is what really drove this election.”
“What is important is, that because of some really concerted efforts in a lot of important states, some of the most egregious, prominent and potentially dangerous election deniers, they got thumped,” he said. “They got beat.”
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