Now, it’s sickening to see the new attacks in the FBI, threatening life with law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. Look, I want to say it as clear as I can, there’s no place in this…

so many elected Republicans still are very clearly under the thumb of the former president.

This is a serious moment. This is a serious election coming up. There will be another one in 2024, one hopes. But the very process of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power is threatened when one party, and a lot of one party…

MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law, they do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they're working right now, as I speak and…

I will not -- the will the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence, street claims and fraud, I will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that…

MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.

I am opposed to defunding the police. I`m also opposed to defunding the FBI.

he will make this distinction, mainstream Republicans, with that fringe, with that minority, albeit a potent one, of MAGA extreme Republicans who he will say are determined to take this country backwards.

The scenes of chaos of the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are. What we’re seeing are a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. This is not dissent. It’s disorder. It’s chaos. It borders on…

Biden's election nearly two years ago alone was not enough to drive a stake into the heart of Trumpism.

this is a president, though, who will try to express an optimistic tone, as I said, the White House saying that he really does still remain that congenital optimist who believes America`s best days are ahead of us.

For a long time, we have reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed, but it is not. We have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us.

he is going to make that contrast very clear, an important one, with now less than 10 weeks before the midterm elections.

the continued battle for the soul of the nation.

the battle for the soul of the nation and the threats to democracy that our country is facing, specifically those from MAGA extremists.

the threats facing our democracy and the importance of combating those threats today.

You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can’t be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on January 6 patriots. You can’t do it.

Politics doesn`t have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn`t have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.