And candidates we campaigned with during the last week nine one last night this Vigorous Campaign stop the blue wave that they talked about i dont know if there ever was such a thing but could have been if we didnt do the campaigning probably that could have been. And the history really well see what a good job we did in the final couple of weeks in terms of getting some tremendous people over the finish line they really are tremendous people but many of them were not known but they will be known. This election marks the Largest Senate gains for a president s party in a first Midterm Election since at least president kennedys in One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Two there are been only four Midterm Elections since One Thousand Thirty Four in which a president s party has gained even a single senate seat as of now we picked up it looks like three
could be four perhaps it could be two but we picked up a lot. And most likely the number will be three people probably know that better than i do at this point because youve looked at the most recent numbers fifty five is the largest number of republican senators in the last one hundred years. In the last eighty years a sitting president s party has only gained a kimmel of total of eight senate seats averaging one project kate so if we picked up two three or four. Thats a big percentage of that number so in the last eighty years you think of the only eight seats. In president obamas first Midterm Election he lost six senate seats including and the deep blue state of massachusetts
republicans captured at least four senate seats held by democrat incumbents and these are tremendously talented hard working people that did this Indiana North Dakota florida. Missouri we also won two open senate seats in tennessee i want to congratulate our great champion who did such a great job in Tennessee Marsha and in utah. And arizona is looking very good a really very good hes done a terrific job there was a tough race and shes done a fantastic. And each of these open seats democrats recruited very strong candidates with substantial fundraising and Media Support we were getting bombarded
with money on the other side. In the House Republicans dramatically out performed historical precedents and overcame a historic number of retirements the most House Republican retirements in eighty eight years. Forty three House Republicans retired now i will say this that in many cases they were chairman of committees and they left because they werent chairman because the republicans have a rule for six years and what that does is wonderful in one way it lets people come through the system and become chairman in another way it drives people up because when their chairman they dont want to go and not be a chairman youre the chairman of a committee and youre a big deal and all of a sudden youre not doing that anymore so they leave we had a lot of them leave. I guess you can flip a coin as to which system is better the democrats to the other some of their folks have been in those committees for
a long time is chairman in Two Thousand And Ten president obamas first midterm he lost sixty three seats by contrast as of the most current account looks like around twenty seven house seats or something and well figure that out pretty soon we also had a slew of historic wins in the governors races the governors races were incredible against very well funded talented and skilled democrat candidates and people that worked very very hard respectfully for those candidates like Oprah Winfrey who are like. I dont know if she likes me anymore but thats ok she used to but she worked very hard in georgia very very or and if you look at them for governors races crucial to twenty twenty and the president ial race florida iowa ohio and georgia the big ones
florida iowa ohio and georgia cant get much more important than them. They were incredible they were actually incredible campaigns to incredible. As of right now republicans will control the majority of governorships across the country including three great women who work very hard the governors of Alabama South dakota and iowa they work very very hard very talented by expand our Senate Majority the voters have also clearly rebuked. The Senate Democrats for their handling of the Kavanaugh Hearings that was a factor i think may be a very big factor the way that was handled i think was Tremendous Energy was given to the Republican Party by the way they treated then judge cavanagh justice cabinet. And expressed their support for confirming more great pro
constitution judges candidates who embraced our message of low taxes low regulations low crime strong borders and great judges excelled last night they excelled they they really i mean we have a a list of people that were fantastic and im just going to put them out mike bost rodney davis. Andy barr was fantastic i went to kentucky for the most part i didnt campaign for the house but i did actually make a special trip for andy barr because he was in a very tough race in kentucky and he won it was a very tough race the polls were all showing that he was down and down substantially and he won and that what i did to pete stopper of minnesota great guy
hes new and ran a fantastic race on the other hand you had some that decided to lets stay away lets stay away they did very poorly. Im not sure that i should be happy or sad but i feel just fine about it. Carlos bella. Mike coffman too bad mike. Miller. I still mia love she called me all the time to help her with a Hostage Situation being held hostage in venezuela. But mia love gave me no love. And she lost to bed sorry about that mia and Barbara Comstock was another one i mean i think she could have won that race which she did want to have any embrace for that i dont
blame her. But she. She lost substantially. Peter roskam. Didnt want to embrace eric paulson didnt want to embrace and a new jersey i think he could have done well but Didnt Work Out too good bob you can feel badly because i think that something that could have been one thats arisen could have been one john fast so those are some of the people that you know decided for their own reason not to embrace. Whether its me or what we stand for but what we stand for it meant a lot to most people and weve had tremendous support and tremendous support in the Republican Party among the biggest support in the history of the party and ive actually heard that ninety three percent its a record but i wont say that because who knows but weve had tremendous support. America is booming like never before doing fantastic we have larry kudlow here and he said the numbers are as good as hes ever seen numbers at any time for our country but hes a young man so yes and see that many numbers whereas larry. Youre a young man right larry and you havent been doing this too long but theres good as youve ever seen and we may have if you have a question for larry well do that but i want to send my warmest appreciation regards to Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell we really worked very well together we have been working very well together we actually have a great relationship people just dont understand which is fine and also to. Perhaps looks like i would think speaker nancy pelosi. And i give her
a lot of credit she works very hard and shes worked long and hard i give her a great deal of credit for what shes done and what shes accomplished hopefully we can all Work Together next year to continue delivering for the American People including on Economic Growth infrastructure trade lowering the cost of Prescription Drugs these are some of the things that the democrats do want to work on and i really believe will be able to do that i think were going to have a lot lot of a lot of reason and i will say just as a matter of business there is are some very successful people as we were watching the returns. So if the republicans won and lets say we held on by two or one with three it would have been very hard out of that many republicans to ever even get support among republicans because theyll always be one or two or three people that for good reason or for bad reason or for grandstanding we have that too weve seen that. Weve seen that grandstanding but for certain reasons that many people
youre always going to have a couple that wont do it so that puts us at a very bad position of the words had we kept and this is no im saying this for a very basic ways its common sense it puts us in a very tough position we win by one or two or three and youll have one or two or three or four or five even come over and say you know look were not going to go along with this we want this this this and all of a sudden we cant of it we wouldnt be able to get it in many cases out of the republicans hands before we set it on to the senate and now we have a much easier path. Because the democrats will come to us with a plan for infrastructure a plan for health care a plan for whatever they are looking at. And well negotiate that as you know its been very hard in the senate because we need essentially ten votes from democrats
and we dont get those votes because the democrats to really stick together well i dont agree with them on a lot of policy but i agree with them on sticking together they stick together so now we go into the senate we dont have the ten votes and what happens it doesnt get passed even if it gets out of the house it doesnt get passed so under the new concept of what were doing i say come on let me see which. They want to do things you know i keep hearing about. Investigations fatigue like from the time almost from the time i announced i was going to run theyve been giving us this investigation for take a long time they got nothing zero you know why because there is nothing but they can play that game but we can play it better because we have a thing called the United States senate and a lot of very questionable things were done between leaks of classified information
and many other elements that should not have taken place and all youre going to do is end up in back and forth and back and forth and two years is going to go up and we wont have done a thing i really think and i really respected what. Nancy said last night about bipartisanship and getting together and uniting she used the word uniting and she is the the Bipartisanship Statement which is so important because thats what we should be doing so we can look at us they can look at dusts that we can look at them and theyll go back and forth and itll probably be very good for me politically i could see it being extremely good politically i think im better at that game than they are actually. But well find out i mean you know well find out or we can Work Together you cant do him simultaneously by the way just in case somebody so you can do about no you cant because if theyre doing that were not
doing the other just say you understand. So we wont be doing that but now what happens is we send it to the senate and well get one hundred percent democrat support and well get some republican support and if its good i really believe we have republicans that will help with the Approval Process and they were really helped with the Approval Process so it really could be a beautiful bipartisan type of situation if we won by one or two or three or four or five that wouldnt happen and the closer it is the worse it is this way theyll come to me when they go shave maybe well make a deal maybe we wont thats possible but we have a lot of things in common on infrastructure we want to do something on health care they want to do something on health care there are a lot of great things that we can do together and now well send it up and we will really get well get the democrats and well get the republicans or some of the republicans and ill make sure that we send something up that the republicans can