Barack Obama: “I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened over the spectacle that we saw yesterday.”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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

People need to “rediscover what’s the story we tell about how we’re going to live together, and see each other, and recognise each other, and disagree, and yet, still care for each other”.

Please join me in supporting Sherrod Brown. He’ll always fight for Ohio.