Obama criticizes Republican candidates, particularly Trump

“It’s hard. And a lot of people count on us getting it right”, said Obama.

Oddly enough, Trump sparingly tries his hand at grasping the Black GOP vote, and when he does, President Obama is nearly always somewhere in the equation.

Cruz and super PACs opposing Trump’s candidacy have blanketed the SC airwaves knocking the NY billionaire, using Trump’s past support for abortion, some gun control measures and his praise of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to question Trump’s conservative credo.

Trump wasn’t the only Republican who took a shot from the President.

He went on: “It’s not promotion, it’s not marketing”.

Trump also responded to Obama during an event Tuesday evening in Beaufort, South Carolina, calling an attack from Obama “a great compliment”. The presidency isn’t “a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day”.

“It’s gone up, and it’s gotten worse since he’s been president”, Trump added to more applause and cheers.

“I mean, there are so many problems”.

“During primaries, people vent and they express themselves”, Obama said, alluding to Trump’s brash, take-no-prisoners style.

“I continue to believe that Mr Trump will not be president”.

While that number may not seem like much in comparison to the white unemployment rate of 4.3 percent, it’s crucial to understand that whites are the majority race. “It requires being able to work with leaders around the world in a way that reflects the importance of the office, and gives people confidence that you know the facts, and you know their names, and you know where they are on a map, and you know something about their history”.

In another challenge to his political rivals, Obama again insisted he would nominate a successor to late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, and said Republicans were duty-bound not to hold up the process. “I don’t know, I haven’t studied their positions that closely”.

Trump also suggested he would win over a surprising number of Democrats in a general election.

“Ultimately, I will probably have an opinion on it, based on both – (having) been a candidate of hope and change and a President who’s got some nicks and cuts and bruises from – you know, getting stuff done over the last seven years”. It was just this past January that he said the same thing.