claim: "john wasn't this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.
author: barack obama
evidence_1: oct 11, 2017 ... “john wasn't this raging populist four years ago” when he ran for president. 67. “ right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be  prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. that has to change.” 68. if  african-americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, ...
evidence_2: jul 14, 2011 ... but that wasn't always the case. perry spent his first six years in politics as a  democrat, in a somewhat forgotten history that is sure to be revived and  scrutinized by republican opponents if he decides to run for president. a raging  liberal he was not. elected to represent a slice of rural west texas in the state ...
evidence_3: by jon meacham. as interviews go, it wasn't exactly a model of clarity. in may  2016, on assignment for time, i called on the putative republican presidential  nominee at trump tower to talk about presidential literacy—the core knowledge,  including a sense of the history of the office itself, that our greatest presidents  have ...
evidence_4: mar 4, 2013 ... jackson lost the 1824 race in a runoff election in the house; he won the 1828  presidential campaign in one of the dirtiest, meanest campaigns in ... what  happened next doesn't seem to be disputed: the white house wasn't prepared  for the crowd as it pressed in through the front door and sought out ...
evidence_5: jul 28, 2016 ... if you tried to describe wednesday night to someone living nine years ago, in  august of 2007, it's hard to emphasize how strange it'd sound. .... in his position  — when al gore, george h.w. bush, and hubert humphrey were in his position  — they typically ran for president, and won their party's nomination.