Barack Obama: “I'm confident he will help us do that, and I look forward to working closely with him in the months and years ahead.”

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

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”.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable