One afternoon, I was sitting on the Marine One flight back to the White House after a campaign swing to Florida. It was just a few days before the election. We got an email from Obama’s political director with the last requests for Obama’s time from the Clinton campaign: The day before the election, could he go to Michigan and Pennsylvania? “Michigan?” Obama said, eyes wide. It was a state he’d won by 10 points in 2012. “That’s not good.”
