If we don`t stop these kinds of efforts now. What we are going to see is more and more contested elections, contested not in the sense of healthy competition but contested in terms of who wins who loses. We are going to see a further delegitimizing of our democracy.
Obama warns about the dangers of ongoing voter suppression efforts and their impact on democracy.
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Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.
They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.
People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.
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