Barack Obama: “Each year at this time we honor and think about the fathers who've been a part of our lives - the examples they've set…”

This race is going to be close. It could determine which party controls the Senate and whether Ohioans can count on the people in Washington to be fighting for you.

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”.

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

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