At the core of Trump’s campaign was a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to scrap Obama’s executive actions on immigration and climate change. On immigration, Trump vowed to overturn Obama’s executive actions to grant work permits to millions of undocumented immigrants, including more than 700,000 younger immigrants already benefiting from the program. [Complete transcript: President Obama’s remarks on Trump’s election]Throughout his presidency, Obama was forced to pass legislation on party-line votes or to rely on executive actions after efforts to compromise with congressional Republicans failed. Obama’s top aides have spoken repeatedly of the need for a third term of Democratic control to cement the president’s policies. On issues such as same-sex marriage, climate change and trade, they argued, he helped bring the country to a more progressive place and rejected the notion that Trump’s election was a repudiation of those policies.

Source: Washington Post November 09, 2016 18:35 UTC