“We’ve got to lead by example, frankly, we got to do the same, tone down the rhetoric and the language that we use, and I do hope the president will do the same,” Flake said.

“We saw a campaign where, on all sides it was frankly pretty ugly,” Flake said. “And we’ve got to change it.”

“We’ve got to stop ascribing the worst motives to our opponents, and debate ideas.”