Obama: Democracy 'at stake right now'Before Harris' nomination — in what are perhaps the most scathing public remarks by a former president about his successor — Obama gave a no-holds-barred speech in which he said President Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy."I am also asking you ...
to make sure that the basic tenets of our democracy endure," Obama said. "Because that's what is at stake right now. Our democracy."Obama repeated his criticisms of Trump in the starkest terms yet.