Assertion --- A clear example of an assertion. He begins this short sentence with "But the fact is" signalling that what he will say next is factual. He then states that "...we face them (the seven tests to America´s democracy he has stated previously) all at once..." Here, he is subjectively trying to convince his listeners that every single citizen has faced all those trials at once, which may or may not be factual, but he is indeed convincing in his assertion.

Source author: Christian Peter Clay Mendoza cclay@sre.gob.mx