President-elect Donald Trump spoke to NBC News in his first interview with the press since becoming president-elect and said his re-election was due in part to his immigration policy.
"We obviously have to make the border strong and powerful and, and we have to — at the same time, we want people to come into our country," Trump said. "And you know, I’m not somebody that says, 'No, you can’t come in.' We want people to come in."
The former president said he considered his election a mandate to "bring common sense" to the country.
In the phone interview, Trump said he attracted a more diverse coalition of voters this election.
"I started to see realignment could happen because the Democrats are not in line with the thinking of the country," he said. "You can’t have defund the police, these kind of things. They don’t want to give up and they don’t work, and the people understand that."
He also said he has not spoken to Russia's President Putin but: "I think we’ll speak."
