WASHINGTON — Pitching his jobs devise as well as his re-election, President Barack Obama attended dual insinuate $ 35,800-per-couple fundraisers Thursday, assuring donors which he will pull Congress to pass his mercantile beginning as well as expressing certainty in his capability to win a second term.

“The contingency of me being re-elected have been most aloft than a contingency of me being inaugurated in a initial place,” he joked, looking to tamp down Democratic stress over a stroke of a bad manage to buy upon his domestic prospects.