President Barack Obama offered a boost to Hillary Clinton’s argument that an experienced candidate is needed to succeed him at the White House, while also rebutting comparisons between his 2008 campaign and Bernie Sanders.<br />A week before the Iowa caucuses launch the nominating process, Clinton is working to link her campaign more closely to the president and garner more support from his backers.<br />"The one thing everybody understands is that this job right here, you don’t have the luxury of just focusing on one thing,” Obama said in an interview with Politico.<br />Obama, who remains very popular within his own Democratic Party, has said he will not endorse a candidate in the primary but has admitted he is watching closely to see who will succeed him.<br />His kind words for Clinton could offer a powerful talking point for his former secretary of state.
