President Barack Obama said Monday that what the Democratic party is going through after losing the presidential election is "healthy."
"When your team loses, everybody gets deflated and it's hard. And it's challenging," Obama said during a White House press conference. "So I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection."
Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in last week's election. The Democratic party, in particular the Democratic National Committee, is now picking up the pieces and trying to determine what went wrong.
Obama seemed to make one point that hinted at how Clinton may have lost the election.
"I believe that we have better ideas but I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them. And one of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is that given population distribution across the country, we have to compete everywhere," Obama said.
"We have to show up everywhere. We have to work at a grassroots level. Something that's been a running thread in my career."
Some said after Clinton's loss that she should have spent less time in states she didn't need to win and more time in states that were more important to claim victory — such as Michigan and Pennsylvania. Trump won Pennsylvania and is leading in Michigan, although that state has not yet been officially called.
"I think the discussions that have been taking place about how do you build more grassroots organizing, how do you build state parties and local parties and school board elections you're paying attention to and state rep races and city council races," Obama said. "That all I think will contribute to stronger outcomes in the future. And I'm optimistic that will happen."
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