Barack Obama: “We didn’t run in that campaign last year, in 2008, to occupy this office. We ran to do something with it.”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

I'm going to go to Michigan to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed.

If I had a blame pie for why politics is so polarised and why we're seeing a rise of populism in many places, it's because of that information that is going into our brains every day.

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.