The other day, the always humble President Obama claimed that he would have beaten Trump if he had been allowed to run for a third term.

Which is weird because the candidate Trump soundly defeated was running on all of Obama’s policies.

I mean sure, President Obama is more likable than Hillary.

But that doesn’t mean he would have beaten Trump.

In fact,  a new poll just came out that directly contradicts Obama’s claim.

Head-to-Head: By a 45-44% margin, voters want @realDonaldTrump as president over Barack Obama, via POLITICO/MC poll https://t.co/EsRyaDh3MQ

— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) January 4, 2017

Guy Benson has more…

From Townhall:

When I posted this result on social media, lefties tripped over themselves to poke holes in the survey — but it’s within the margin of error!  But Obama’s ground game!  But… It was extremely humorous.  It’s obviously a silly poll based on an alternate reality, yet there was a heavy whiff of ‘thou doth protest too much’ desperation amid the bizarrely serious replies.  The only real point is that perhaps an Obama-Trump showdown wouldn’t have resulted in the cakewalk that liberals would prefer to envision.  Here’s one Democrat (writing before this poll was released) who isn’t convinced Obama would have beaten Trump, and asking whether his party would have even wanted to see the sitting president on the ballot again:

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It’s impossible to know whether another Obama ticket could have changed hearts and minds. And frankly, I don’t care. As a frustrated Democrat, I’m more interested in asking whether we would have wanted him to run again in the first place. Here’s why. For a moment, set aside the debate about Obama’s domestic and foreign policy record. Focus instead on his eight years as Democrat in Chief, where his singular goal was to leave the party stronger than how he found it. The result? Democrats are in a weaker position today than at any point in nearly 100 years.Republicans control 32 State Legislatures, 33 Governorships, the U.S. House, Senate, and – now – the Presidency. And it’s a trend that started happening well before the 2016 wipeout. While the President’s a good man, he is a terrible manager.

While it’s certainly true that Obama’s misplaced chest-thumping conspicuously ignores the Democratic decimation over which he has presided, let’s not forget that Obama did expend enormous energy and effort criss-crossing the country for his party’s ticket last fall.  He argued very explicitly, loudly, and repeatedly that the election was at its core a referendum on his policy legacy:

We all learned during this past election season that we can’t trust polls very much so obviously we can’t take this as gospel.

However, it flies directly in the face of the “everyone loves me” narrative that Obama is pushing.

Hillary would have been a continuation of Obama and she lost.

Why is that so difficult to understand?

In fact, you can make the argument that Obama’s legacy will be summed up in just two words.

Donald Trump.

Obama’s policies were such a disaster and he was such a bad messenger that Americans chose Donald Trump rather than more of the same.

The sooner Democrats understand that the better it will be for them.