Former US President Barack Obama has revealed what the election results in which Donald Trump got 72 million votes, means to him.
Even though the US presidential race has been called for Joe Biden by several media houses, Trump has refused to concede, making Biden's transition even harder.
Both candidates got over 70million votes, and to Obama, the first and only Black president of the US, says it shows just how deeply divided the country is.
"What it says is that we are still deeply divided. The power of that alternative worldview that's presented in the media that those voters consume -- it carries a lot of weight," Obama told CBS News' Gayle King in an interview that aired on CBS .
Asked by King if that worries him, the former President responded, "Yes. It's very hard for our democracy to function if we are operating on just completely different sets of facts."
Obama has done a series of interviews before he releases the first volume of his memoir, "A Promised Land," which will be available November 17. Obama, in the CBS interview 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 don't do.
"It is not my preference to be out there," he told King.
"I think we were in a circumstance in this election in which certain norms, certain institutional values that are so extraordinarily important, had been breached.
"That it was important for me, as somebody who had served in that office, to simply let people know, 'This is not normal.'"
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