'The fate of the republic rests on your shoulders': Obama delivers impassioned plea to America to reject Trump

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Business Insider:

President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned plea to voters in North Carolina to vote next week and reject the candidacy of Republican nominee Donald Trump.

 

"We don't win this election, potentially, if we don't win North Carolina," he said during a campaign rally for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. "I hate to put a little pressure on you, but the fate of the republic rests on your shoulders. The fate of the world is teetering."

 

In his speech to voters in the Tar Heel State, the president emphasized how crucial North Carolina's 15 electoral votes are to Clinton's path to capturing the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.

 

Obama repeatedly laid into Trump, one sentence after another, saying that he had "no respect for working people," mocking his claim that he has a "good brain," and lambasting the Republican presidential nominee's plan to bar all Muslims from entering the US.

 

"What I can tell you is we can't afford a president who suggests that America should torture people, or that we should ban entire religions from our country," Obama said.

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Has any outgoing President ever gotten involved in an election the way this one has?