Barack Obama: “I believe that Americans want to come together again behind a common purpose.”

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

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”.

I think when we act on that basis, it doesn't always work out, but over time things do get better.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable