pillow salesman mike lindell. >> the >> the chair will now cals meeting to order. the chair would like to call national committee woman from west virginia, to deliver the invocation. >> good morning. let us pray. dear father, god. as we have gathered here today, we recognize you are the creator of the ends of the earth, the light in our lives and with you, anything is possible. please forgive us our sins as we thank you for the abundant blessings you've bestowed in our lives and our country far beyond what we deserve. you're just and good lending your grace to our perfect souls and for this we give thanks . father god, as we move into a period of transition and growth, let us acknowledge contributions of thy servants, republican national committee members and officers, mainly lana, tommy, ron and vicki acknowledging their work and commitment as we pray for their well-being. you instruct us to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace and order in which we seek for guidance. as only you can, please grant the members of this committee humility, discernment and wisdom. today and every day so we may act in the best interest of our party and people allowing us to serve you, glorify your name and your spirit as we are reminded by your command written in psalms 33. blesses the nation and the god is the lord people chosen for his own inheritance. in your name, we pray. >> javon williams national committee from the virgin islands to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. >> morning everyone. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> awesome. >> the following members have been served on the proxy committee, and i would like those appointed members to convene on the side of the room where the counsel's office to review the submitted proxies over here. while the proxy committee meeting is meeting, the secretary will call the role. no. [calling roll] [calling roll] [calling roll] [calling roll] [calling roll] [calling roll] unbelievable. wow., . [laughter] >> since we now know the time vicki puts into learning our names, can we give her a round of applause? [applause] thank you, vicki. i'd like to call upon lewis for the report of the proxy committee. lewis: madam chair, the proxy committee met and we reviewed 28 proxies submitted to the secretary of the rnc. the proxy secretary has determine all are in order on behalf of the proxy committee concludes this report and i move the rnc except the report of the proxy committee. >> without objection, the report of the proxy committee is accepted. rule number eight a requires an meeting agenda to all members 10 days prior to a meeting. you have all been emailed a final agenda for the general session with that objection we will connect today's business. hearing no objection, it is so ordered. you have been e-mailed a copy of the rnc meeting in chicago , illinois. without objection, we can dispense with the reading of the minutes. hearing no objection, i call upon the committee to approve the rnc 2022 meeting again without objection. the minutes are approved. at this time, we have new members to ratify. i'm here to ratify national mini chairwoman from alaska and the national chair for nevada. [applause] filling vacancies in the rnc shall be ratified by the republican national committee upon their election by state republic and party. do i hear a motion to ratify the election of our new national committee members? >> moved. >> is there a second? >> second. >> it has been moved and ratified that the election of our new members all those in favor signify by saying aye. all opposed, signify by saying no. the ayes have it. i'm pleased to welcome all of you to the republican national committee. [applause] if you could stand so we can see you. you are near each other, great. welcome. it's my pleasure to welcome five new state chairman to the republican national committee. congratulations to each of you on your election and welcome you all as members of the republican national committee. if you could stand so we could welcome you. [applause] adam, you don't look like nicole, but, just kidding. each region held elections this morning. please hold applause until i have announced all the winners, the results are as follows. the following members were elected to serve as vice chairman. the mid eastern region, for illinois, for iowa, the northwestern, eastern region virginia haynes national committee one for new jersey and john five national committee for connecticut. from the southern region, national committee woman for oklahoma and john, state chairman from alabama. from the western region, cynthia henry national committee woman from alaska and caleb heimlich state chairman from washington. the following numbers were elected to serve on the executive region. from the midwestern region, kathy burton, and john hammond national committeeman from indiana. the following numbers were elected to the budget committee from the midwestern region national committee one from masada and north dakota, the northeastern region and from pennsylvania and rhode island. from the southern region, national committeeman for tennessee from the western region from idaho steve state chairman from new mexico. the following were elected -- the midwestern region election this morning to fill a vacancy on the resolutions committee and state chairman and north dakota as a male resolutions committee member of the midwestern region. and finally, the midwestern region held an election this morning to fill a vacancy on the resolutions committee, and the chairman for north dakota was elected to serve as the committee member from the midwestern region. congrats to all of you on your election. and now we can applaud. [applause] so, i am really excited to be in california and i know a lot of you ask why are we in california , because i just wanted to rub nancy pelosi's face in it one more time. ok. she is no longer the speaker of the house. we should be thrilled. [applause] i also want to thank our national committee delegation from california for being gracious hosts, and making the weather so great. we love being here. thank you. [applause] [indiscernible] [please stand by] -- member of our committee, and our treasurer, who has worked countless hours to give everything he has. he mentors the staff. thank him for his service as our director of the rnc. [applause] i want to thank the rnc staff. they work so hard. we have a great team. our legal team, political team, i especially want to thank our chief of staff of the rnc for all that he does. i personally would like to thank shannon for all that she does. she's with me all the time. we couldn't do it without her, we love you. [applause] and then finally, can we please thank member services, mariana and her team? they are exceptional. [applause] so my kids aren't here today. one is in finals, the other in college. i wish they were here, but i have my husband here today. he is amazing. he is not often at meetings, so please join me in giving a big thanks to my husband. [applause] finally, i want to thank all of you, the 168. you guys are incredible. i said this earlier this week when i talked to each of you and i get to know you, you are volunteers. you love your party. you love your state. you give so much to shape our future. but you are so unique, firemen, police, lawyers, a sheep farmer come amazing talent, broadcasters, amazing, but this is not about me. this is about we. this is a better country and what we're doing together so i applaud you and i thank you for everything you have given. give 168 a big round of applause. [applause] so i got to go to a lot of her states this year and spent a lot of time on the road with you and got to see you in campaign with you. you give countless hours. you deal with the biased media of the challenges of raising money and doing things because you care and love our country so much, but i want to break down a little bit of the hard work produce this last election. we won the popular vote by 4 million votes. if this was a presidential year , we would have one once the electoral college with 297 votes. that is a good sign heading into 2024. the rnc, we don't get to pick the candidates. the voters do. they are the right people to pick that. we don't get to call the plays and say what the campaigns run on, but we provide resources and build a critical infrastructure to help candidate win. this cycle we protected every republican governor. we sent new republican senators from states like ohio and north california and missouri. florida is now a red state. four years ago was a recount, iowa is a red state, ohio is a red state and north carolina had a red wave election. we flipped the supreme court in both ohio and north carolina and for the first time 70 years we won every statewide office in iowa. we engaged 1 million volunteers, made over 100 million voter contacts, we built 38 minority community centers and group our party as a result. we broke fundraising records and transferred a record amount of money to all 56 states and territories parties. we tackled election integrity head-on in engaged in over cases 100 of litigation. put 80,000 poll watchers and poll workers on the ground in key states, and build a new election integrity software for reporting. we are working overtime to learn lessons from the midterms, what went right and what went wrong. but let's be clear, we did fire nancy pelosi. kevin mccarthy -- [applause] kevin mccarthy, different californian, is now speaker of the house and we are already holding joe biden accountable. the issues this country was facing on november 7 did not disappear on november 8. we still have a massive border crisis. 233,000 illegal immigrants and 630 million lethal doses of sentinel crossing the border. i just went to the border. they are still dealing with so many problems. the horrors they are seeing, and the fact they can't go to anybody because if you speak out, you get fired. joe biden has turned his pack on so many people the border, and the rest of this country, raging inflation. december was the worst jobs report all line of terrible jobs reports. we still have a failed president who refuses to take responsibility for the failures that he is creating and the suffering he's creating for the american people that we are fighting for every day. nothing we do is more important than making sure joe biden is a one-term president. [applause] but in order to do that, we have to be unified, we have to be unified in that effort. i'm reminded of a bible verse that abraham lincoln famously used from the gospel of matthew. every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. we have got to work together. we are going to continue building our historic election integrity program. we are going to continue unprecedented legal battles against the left including our lawsuit against google. we are going to double down on bringing new voters into our party, and expand on the 38 community centers that saw a positive shift in minority voters coming to our party. our community centers worked. minority voters shifted toward the gop. asian voters shifted 17 points. black voters shifted four points. hispanic voters shifted ten -- 10 points. in fact, we cut the democrats advantage to hispanic voters in half. in 20, they had a d+ advantage, and then a d+ 20 advantage. that is progress. i've traveled everywhere across the country. in one of the great joys i had was getting to meet our great candidates and meeting families and getting to know them. i just want to talk about a couple. one from arizona, he has a son, of mexican immigrants whose father drove a bus and what worked multiple jobs to get the -- give his kids a chance at the american dream. he brought his father to one of our rnc hispanic community centers, the one we built in tucson, and when they reached the door, his dad said, do you remember? this is the exact parking lot i used to wash cars in on the weekends to make extra money for our family? and that this is where your offices that's going to make my son a congressman. that's our story. she is amazing. she served 10 years flying helicopters in the navy. came home and said i've got to serve more and do more, she decided to become a nurse and live near a military base in virginia, and she decided i need to stand up for veterans in my state and ran for congress. she worked out of our veterans office in virginia and now is a member of congress who flipped a seat in a key district this past election. let's leave the meeting ready to go forward as one movement and deliver for the american people. we already have this underway. we've flipped to governorships in louisiana and kentucky, and kept a governors mansion in mississippi, but above all, we will nominate the next president and vice president of the united states. and we will do so without the biased commission on presidential debate. [cheers and applause] i want to close from a final quote from a citizen of michigan, and i think it is fitting for us today. coming together since the beginning, staying together is progress, but working together is success. we have to come together after this meeting and focus on what we have ahead of us. you know, i know, some days it is hard to wake up and joe biden's america, it is, you wake up and worry about the future of our country. so why wake up every day thinking a few things, how blessed i am to be an american, how grateful i am to live in the greatest nation on earth, how privileged i am to be in the fight to protect the nation and the freedoms that we love so much. and if i'm having a really bad day, i think to myself, nancy pelosi no longer is speaker of the house. [laughter] and that puts a big smile on my face, but we have more work to do. in 2024, we are going to keep the house but fire chuck schumer and fire joe biden and we are going to take back the senate and take back the white house and we are going to do it together. [applause] let's go forward. and let's win in thank you so 2024. much, god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause] it is my pleasure to introduce cochairman for the purpose of giving his final report. >> good morning. thank you rana, for your leadership, partnership and friendship. i want to think ron kaufman, vicki, and kyle drummer, you have been amazing to work with. thank you very much. and doyle web served during my first two years as general counsel, thank you for your leadership. to the entire rnc team i appreciate all the work you've given to help republicans up and down the ballot. we have a lot of memories together and am going to always treasure them. in a huge shadow team cochair , you are amazing to work with, your skills and your intelligence, we punch above our weight class. and pierce, defense incredible to work with, the sky is the limit in terms of potential for this woman, she was able to work on so many different things at once and got them done faster than you could ever imagine. cole avery is about to work for congressman matt -- max miller, and cole, i called him and warned him about investments -- endless rants about democrats and lsu athletics and satterfield was in here today, she's incredible as well, she got a gift with people and can deal with presidents, vice presidents, governors, senators, congressmen, ceos and she's going to be joining in world-class private equity firm, really happy for her and her future. and i would like to thank my old team my first term, amanda smith and allie beth callan who is filled with the rnc i want to thank the thousands and thousands of grassroots volunteers who are not here today. they are an inspiration to me and i know an inspiration to every single one of us in this room. we've got to always remember this, these patriots make it happen for republicans across this country. last but certainly not least, thanks to you, the 168 for all you do in your states and your territories. you are all leaders and your selfless and your commitment to our republic. your sacrifices have not gone unnoticed and republicans all over appreciate the impact you've made and will continue to make. i have so many great memories for so many of you. i gave my acceptance speech in albuquerque about four years ago today january 2019. i realized i had to get my game together. i have no idea what i was getting into when i arrived at that resort and met richard porter on the treadmill and he asked me, are you ready? i said yes, i think so but man i think about how far we've come together, it's been amazing. [laughter] we had coped with covid craziness together. i remember when my team went to north carolina, with chairman whatley, and we had to do in -- do a radio interview at the radio station within station's parking lot because we didn't have our vaccine passes with us, they would not do us -- they would not let us do it in the building. we cannot let them do that to us ever again. by getting to know you, has been a pleasure. all of you share something unique and special with me, foreign's, -- four instance. i learned that our esteemed chairman from alabama, once held the world record for walking on legos barefoot. 5.2 miles. [laughter] you ought to win that record before the presidential race hit -- heats up. i encourage you to take the time to get to know each other. i'm a better man today because of the influence you've all had on my life. i'm proud of the work our team accomplished during my two terms. we flew hundreds of thousands of miles, performed thousands of hours of grassroots and fundraising activities for all 50 states and territories . conducted hundreds of media his -- hits sharing our republican message. i enjoyed every single minute of it. i will be here today with only fond memories and a commitment to you that i will always remain your partner in our effort to advance conservative ideals and republican leadership. members of the 168 iq, i love our nation. the future of this nation is at stake. our country is divided. democrats and their partners and legacy media, big tech and even wall street are on the march to fundamentally transform our country into a socialist hellhole under the thumb of washington d. c. we cannot ever let this happen. [applause] we have open borders, dangerous cities, green new deal and the list goes on and on and on and don't forget, internationally we are leading from behind again. so thank god, we won back the house and speaker kevin mccarthy. [applause] republican leadership will turn the ship around and shape the future for 2024 presidential nominees agenda if we remain united, the republican house will stop the madness, and transform a lawless nation. the american people deserve a government that works for them and is accountable to them. as i've said before, we are not servants of the smoke, washington d. c. works for us. my hope is for a republican party united behind our conservative ideals which stand in stark contrast to the loony left. healthy debate is a good thing and a critical part of our democracy. but the minute we leave here today we should commit to working together to achieve our shared goals. the future of our nation depends on this. so today is not goodbye, it's the end of a story and a long book that is the rnc. the party of lincoln will endure for generations to come. may it always be a beacon for life, liberty, freedom and justice for all. and as lincoln himself once said, my dream is a place in a time where america will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. it's been my honor serving all of you, state parties grassroots volunteers. it has made my life full. now i get to go back to my family is in the back. [applause] annabelle, gigi, thank you i love you. thank