President Obama thinks that the Republican party has moved so far to the right that their last nominee, John McCain, could not be nominated today.

Speaking to supporters in New York on Thursday night, President Obama said, “In 2008, I was running against a general election candidate who believed in banning torture, believed in doing something about climate change — somebody who, frankly, could never get a nomination in the Republican Party this time out, would be considered too liberal, right?”