Former President Barack Obama encouraged President Trump to put the nation first and yield the political race to Joe Biden during a “hour” interview that aired Sunday night.
“My recommendation to President Trump is, if you want at this late stage in the game to be recognized as someone who put nation first, it’s the ideal opportunity for you to do something very similar,” Obama said.
Obama gave a civics lesson in clarifying his present guidance for Trump.
“All things considered, a president is a public servant. They are transitory inhabitants of the workplace, by plan,” he said. “Furthermore, when your time is up then you must put the nation first and think past your own inner self, and your own advantages, and your own failure.”
Obama told CBS correspondent Scott Pelley that he feels Trump should have conceded to President-elect Joe Biden within the first two days after the election.
“When you look at the numbers objectively, Joe Biden will have won handily,” Obama said. “There is no scenario in which any of those states would turn the other way, and certainly not enough to reverse the outcome of the election.”
Without Georgia, Biden leads Trump in electoral votes by a count of 290 to 232, according to results from the Associated Press.
Other networks have already called Georgia for Biden, giving the former vice president 306 electoral votes.
