Oprah Winfrey says she is confident that President Barack Obama will win another four-year term in this year's U.S. election.
The talk show host was addressing a crowd at the Jaipur Literary Festival in Northern India. Speaking about the US president, Winfrey (57) praised the work done by Obama and said that his next four years would be even more successful with many people getting back to work.
Winfrey backed Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign in her first-ever political endorsement.
Winfrey also said her visit to India has been her greatest ever life experience.
The TV superstar and one of the world’s most influential women, was on her first visit to India and proving a major hit with the masses at the annual Jaipur Literature Festival yesterday.
"I came here with an open mind, and it has been expanded,” she said. “It's the greatest life experience I have ever had.”
"You feel like you're in the centre of something bigger and greater than yourself."
Winfrey lived up to her billing as the headline draw at the festival which boasted literary giants such as Tom Stoppard, Michael Ondaatje and Richard Dawkins. Hundreds of visitors pressed against the barricades at the back of the main stage area as Winfrey began speaking and security guards struggled to shut the main entrance gates as angry admirers tried to push their way inside.
"It's like being in a video game. I don't know which way to look," Winfrey told crowds on her arrival in Mumbai. "It's a bit chaotic, but there's an underlying calm, a flow, that you all seem to understand. India is a paradox."
"I will take with me a sense of calmness, and a genuine respect... people don't talk religion here, they live it," Winfrey said.
Earlier writer Salman Rushdie had cancelled his planned appearance at the festival due to reported assassination threats.
