Barack Obama

Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job, because he can't. And the consequences of that failure are severe.

Do not let them take your democracy away.

I want you to listen to me, because I'm warning you, because I know it from inside the job, that there's a danger here.

For close to four years now, he has shown no interest in putting in the work, no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves. Donald Trump hasn't grown into the…

Vote like your life counts on it, right? Vote like your health and your well-being matters or depends on it. Vote like you've never voted before. Vote for all of us. Vote for our democracy.

This president and those in power, those who benefit from keeping things the way they are, they are counting on your cynicism. They know they can't win you over with their policies, so they're hoping to make it as hard as possible for you…

There are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting, even undermining the Postal Service in the run-up to an election.

This pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing. A lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge.

Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job, because he can't. And the consequences of that failure are severe.

I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously. But he never did. He's shown no interest in putting in the work, no interest in treating the presidency has anything but one more…

We're supposed to stand up to bullies, not follow them.

I am also asking you, to believe in your own ability, to embrace your own responsibility as citizens, I want to throw that to make sure that the basic tenets of our democracy endure.

I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously, but he never did.

Joe Biden won't just make a good vice president, he will make a great vice president.

You are not going to out-controversy this president.

But even as we sit here, there are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting.

There's nobody that I trust more to be able to heal this country and get it back on track than my dear friend, Joe Biden.

Now, what we've seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a president who is explicit in trying to discourage people from voting, right? I think the Republicans view has been, it's all fair game as long as it helps us…

Kamala is somebody I've known for years. She is smart, she is tough. She is somebody who I think will be able to share the stage with Mike Pence or whoever -- anybody else and dissect some of the terrible decisions that have been made over…

How do we protect the integrity of the election process? How do we make sure that people's votes are counted?

One thing that those of us who are interested in helping democracy, not just the campaign, can do if we're relatively young and healthy and less at risk of serious damage if we contract the disease, is to volunteer as a poll worker.

The Republican Party for quite some time has actively tried to discourage people's votes from counting in all kinds of ways, whether it's voter ID laws or, you know, blatant gerrymandering, making it difficult for people in certain…

What we've seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a President who is explicit in trying to discourage people from voting.

What we've never seen before is a President say, 'I'm going to try to actively kneecap the Postal Service to encourage voting. And I will be explicit about the reason I'm doing it.'

One of the things that is going to be of concern is just getting poll workers. Everybody who's voted in person knows that, historically, that's been disproportionately seniors, people who volunteer their time. I think a lot of older poll…