Transcript for Obama blasts Republicans for failing to reign in Trump

But over the past few decades the politics of division of resentment. And paranoia. Unfortunately found a home. In the Republican Party this congress has. Championed the unwinding of campaign finance laws to Butte billionaires outside influence over politics. Systematically attack voting rights to make it harder for young people and minorities and the poor to vote. Out tax cuts without regard depths. Slash Pacific network ever taught cast doesn't vote to take away. Health insurance from ordinary Americans. Embraced wild conspiracy theories. Right. Those surrounding the Gaza. Or my birth certificate. Rejected science. Rejected backs. On climate. Embraced. Arriving absolutism. From a willingness to default on America's debt by not paying our bills. To a refusal to even meet. Much less consider. A qualified nominee for the Supreme Court because it happened be nominated by a democratic president. None of this is conservative. Me. Tonight. I channeling Abraham Lincoln now but that's not what he had in mind I think. When he helped form the Republican Party. It's not conservative. It sure isn't normal. It's a vision that says the protection of our power. And those who actress is all that matters even when it hurts the country exposed. Supposedly fiscal conservatism suddenly deficits do not. Just two years ago. When it up with that was lower. I sat. I can't afford to help working families or seniors on Medicare because the deficit was an existential crisis. What changed.

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