Former President Barack Obama:

I'm here today because this is one of those pivotal moments when every one of us, as citizens of the United States, need to determine just who it is that we are, just what it is that we stand for.

And, as a fellow citizen — not as an ex-president, but as a fellow citizen — I'm here to deliver a simple message, and that is that you need to vote, because our democracy depends on it.

But over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.

They're undermining our alliances, cozying up to Russia. What happened to the Republican Party? Its central organizing principle in foreign policy was the fight against communism. And now they're cozying up to the former head of the KGB.

And, by the way, the claim that everything will turn out OK because there are people inside the White House who secretly aren't following the president's orders…

(LAUGHTER)

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