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Obama Responds to Criticism Over "Snappy Slogans" Remark: "Everyone Has Different Roles to Play"

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Barack Obama responded to criticism of his remark that political candidates risk losing support when they turn to "snappy slogans" like "defund the police" during an appearance on The Daily Show with host Trevor Noah on Tuesday night.

The former president qualified that he made the comment, uttered during an appearance on the Snapchat show Good Luck America in early December, amid a book tour where he repeatedly praised 2020's social activism: "Nothing made me more optimistic in the past year than the activism in the wake of George Floyd's murder," he told Noah on Tuesday, saying that activists had "shifted the conversation in ways that I would not even imagine a couple of years ago." He added that, unlike some Democrats, he didn't believe.

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