four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing on an upward down vote from Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn't fill an open seat on the Supreme Court, before a new president was…

Our democracy is a precious thing, and it's up to all of us to protect it.

As William Faulkner once wrote, the past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past.

Joe has never lost his sense of why we do this. Memories of his family, the people of Delaware that he represented, his focus is going to be, how's that going to help those people who sent him there?

The data shows that we are still enjoying historically low rates of violent crime. What we can't do is cherry-pick data or use anecdotal evidence to drive policy or to feed political agendas.

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

So I'm also asking you to believe in your own ability to embrace your own responsibility as citizens to make sure that the basic tenants of our democracy endure because that's what's at stake right now. Our democracy.

They know they can't win you over with their policies so they're hoping to make it as hard as possible for you to vote and to convince you that your vote does not matter.

That's how a democracy withers until it's no democracy at all. And we cannot let that happen. Do not let them take away your power. Do not let them take away your democracy. This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if…

This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down, if that's what it takes for them to win.

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…

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…