the media likes to talk about the energy the left has. i don t think they have energy. they are trying to destroy themselves, and its negative energy. really, it s just like a negative energy when you see what they want to do. i think we have more energy than we ve ever had. i said at the other day, i think the republicans have much more energy than the democrats. maybe i m wrong, but i really believe that. [applause] and they like to talk about 2018. well, number one, in 2018 i didn t run. i wasn t running, i was helping people. almost every one else, won. the governor of georgia, the governor of florida, ron desantis, he s great. oklahoma. i mean, so many different places. every place we had such tremendous and remember, they were going to take over the senate and the house. there are so many people in the house, but the ones like in kentucky, the ones that we helped, the ones that i went to,
page. i know people are pouring through the mueller report looking for something to talk about again tomorrow and next week and the month after that. as a curious citizen, you weren t interested to read it? i didn t read the bill clinton report, either. i didn t follow any of that news. you weren t in congress at the time. i was on the board of directors, the united states of america, as a voter. the role i play in congress i promise you is not to try to bring down a sitting president. the role i play in congress is to try to work with my speaker so i can send a bill to the president s desk. i have 18 months left on the job. i didn t run to make a point, i ran to make a difference. if i can t get nancy pelosi to get a bill through the house. i can t make a difference for anybody. despite the talking heads in this town, most members of congress did not come to skewer somebody, they came to make a
if you can t carry you didn t carry it two weeks ago michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania, you are not going to get re-elected. i didn t run. i wasn t running. my name wasn t on the ballot. he told people so many times, go and vote like i m on the ballot. i m not there but i m there. go and vote. go and vote. just because he says it, doesn t make it true. not now, not then, not ever. here is what we do know. two out of three voters had trump on their mind. most had bad thoughts. as a result, the democrats picked some seats up. they put some bricks down in the blue wall, as they call it, across the midwest, especially with the governor wins. why? because governors help lay the base for electoral outcomes. those state legislatures are the ones that draw up districts. that s where the organizing is done, especially in the center of the country.
if you can t carry and you certainly didn t carry it two weeks ago, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin, you are not going to get re-elected. i didn t run. i wasn t running. my name wasn t on the ballot. he told people so many times, go and vote like i m on the ballot. i m not there but i m there. go and vote. go and vote. just because he says it, doesn t make it true. not now, not then, not ever. here is what we do know. two out of three voters had trump on their mind and most had bad thoughts. as a result, the democrats picked some seats up. they put some bricks down in the blue wall, as they call it, across the midwest, especially with those governor wins. why? because governors help lay the base for electoral outcomes. those state legislatures are the ones that draw up districts. that s where the organizing is done, especially in the center of the country. republicans have dominated governor offices and
we ve seen all of southern california and the suburbs change and slip away from the republicans but the trump era has seemed to accelerate that change. going back to 2016, when he became the first republican to lose orange county, since republicans left it to fdr. so he did not have a strong base there even to start with. and 2018, the cataclysmic wave crested. it s one thing to lose it yourself when you re on the ballot. it s another thing to drag down the rest of the ticket, which seems to be what happened, despite the president s claim that he wasn t on the ballot. get out and vote. i want you to vote. pretend i m on the ballot. i didn t run. i wasn t running. my name wasn t on the ballot. there are many people who think i don t like congress, that like me a lot. i get it all the time. sir, we ll never vote unless you re on the ballot. i get it all the time. people are saying, sir, i will never vote unless you re on the