http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/barack-obama-dnc-2020-s5.pngObama had hoped that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously, but he never did. Now, this administration has shown it will tear apart our democracy to win.

WASHINGTON, DC - Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned Americans that democracy is at stake in November’s election, admonishing President Trump as categorically unfit for the job and pleading with voters to back his one-time vice president.

“I am also asking you to believe in your own ability – to embrace your own responsibility as citizens – to make sure that the basic tenets of our democracy endure,” Obama said from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, where he was flanked by the text of the U.S. Constitution. “Because that’s what's at stake right now. Our democracy.”

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