Barack Obama: “We also don't want a church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes.”

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”.

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.