Former U.S. president Barack Obama says the biggest challenge for president-elect Joe Biden will be to bridge the gulf that exists in the country and bring together a vastly polarized populace. Obama served as the 44th president of the United States from 2008 until Trump's upset victory in 2016. Obama meets with then president-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 10, 2016. Obama said the new president, Joe Biden, must find a way to heal the divide between those who kicked Trump out of office in the recent election and those who still support him. 4:43Advice from the sidelinesFour years after he left office, Obama said he misses the camaraderie, the team work and "mental exercise of figuring out hard policy problems" — but not the pomp of the presidency.
Source: CBC News November 22, 2020 22:00 UTC