Video taking off 25x its usual first day

Trump tells Stephen A. Smith he'd beat Obama "easily"

A hypothetical third-term election leads Smith to press the president on his description of himself as someone who brings people together.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 266,427 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (10,513).

OBAMA VS. TRUMP IN A 3RD TERM ELECTION! WHO WINS? | STEPHEN A. SMITH

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Could Donald Trump beat Barack Obama if both could run again? Stephen A. Smith puts that hypothetical to the president, then follows his confident answer into a different question: what makes Trump a unifier?

The interview Short drew roughly a quarter of a million views in its first day, far beyond Smith's usual Shorts audience. It is an excerpt from his White House conversation with Trump, rather than a discussion of an actual election contest. The Constitution's 22nd Amendment bars anyone from being elected president more than twice.

Trump begins by comparing his vote totals with Obama's. When Smith asks directly whether he means he would win, Trump answers: "Yeah, I think I'd beat him easily, yeah."

Smith doesn't leave it there. After Trump calls Obama overrated and describes him as a divider, the host asks: "And what would you classify yourself as being?"

"As a person that brings people together," Trump replies. Asked how, he answers: "Through success."

The exchange comes from "One-on-One With President Donald Trump," recorded in the White House Roosevelt Room after the midterm elections. That full interview has passed a million views and also had an unusually strong first day for Smith's longer uploads. Its subjects extend well beyond the imagined Obama contest, taking in Republican electoral losses, Iran, tariffs and household prices.

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