It would be a shame if the people of Maryland couldn't hear John Edwards and John Kerry debate here in the state of Maryland.

While we are all Democrats, there are very real differences among us.

Let me tell you the last thing we need in the south, is somebody like you coming down and telling us what we need to do. That's the last thing in the world we need in the south.

This is a moral issue and it's about what's right and wrong.

I have enormous respect for him. I think he has been a real force and a positive force in this campaign.

I'll go anywhere in America we need to go to debate these issues.

... to stand up for protecting our jobs, making sure we have a trade policy that works for everybody.

I was against NAFTA and some of the trade agreements that he was for. And I think that cost us millions of jobs.

I need you to leave this place and continue to work, as all of us will, until the polls close today.

We've had enormous energy and excitement around this campaign over the last several days.

There is a difference. There is a choice for Wisconsin voters on this issue. I mean, I'm against NAFTA, I was against NAFTA. Governor Dean and Senator Kerry were for it.

I think most presidential primary voters are making their own independent decisions.

Now that he's out of the race, I think a lot of voters will be attracted to me, because they know I'm the one person left in this race who has won a tough race in the south.

This is a guy that can beat George Bush every place in America, in the north, in the west, in the Midwest and talking like this in the south.

This is a man who campaigned for the last week, indeed for the last two weeks, saying, I'm a southerner. I can win here in the south.

This is not George Bush's backyard. This is my backyard.

That's who's leaving the White House come November.

The bottom line is this is a very fluid race. It looks like it's narrowed down to two or maybe three candidates.