Post-Election Remarks - Nov. 6, 2024

Well, thank you guys. You guys win the best supporters award. Thank you for being here! It is officially after midnight in 12:35 and I know it’s been a long night. So, it’s amazing—I cannot believe there are this many people that have stayed this long. Yay! Thank you, guys, from the bottom of my heart. Just thanks for being here. I know it’s been a long night, and I know you’ve had a couple different people come up and speak and I know we’ve been anxiously awaiting and watching all the results, very slowly this year, come in. If you think back two years ago, we were one of the first races that were called, and we all celebrated, we came out, we made a great speech, we went back upstairs, we watched the rest of the country.

This year’s a little bit different. And we are still—the results are not out, officially, yet. Again, it’s after 12:30. I really appreciate that you’ve been here all night, but I don’t want you to have to stay ‘til the wee hours of the morning. And we will stay, we’ve been reassured that the early votes will be hopefully dropped in this evening, but probably not the absentee votes. We are not in a position where we can officially say that we have won the election, however, we feel very confident, and things are very much looking our way. We’ve been ahead 8-10 points the entire evening.

And you all have been with us this entire campaign season. You know how hard we’ve worked, you know the race that we won, and for those of you who were with us last night at our great rally with Speaker Mike Johnson, and the governor, and the lieutenant governor—who is still here, thank you to the lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears. Thank you. And Jason Miyares. We had a great event, and we’ve run a great race, and I feel very confident in what the results will be.

We’re just going to put a brief pause so everyone can go home and relax and get a good night’s sleep. We will continue to watch, and we will definitely be revisiting this entire issue in the morning, bright and early. But there’s a lot of close races that are out there this cycle, so we’re watching very closely what’s happening in the U.S. House of Representatives, and several key races, including this one. So we want to make sure we get it right. But again, we feel very confident. I think we’re in a very good position. We’re just not going to say anything officially, but I think you all are feeling as confident as we are and excited about the election results.

With that, I just—one last time—wanted to say thank you. For those of you who have stayed until the very, very end with us, thank you for being here. I know it’s again been a long night, and hopefully you’ve had some fun. Just a big thank you to my family who’s here. My husband, who’s here. Steve is with us. My kids. I got three out of four kids here, so big thank you to the three out of four, and I know that the fourth is in Texas watching. And my parents, from Florida, my brother and sister who are here, our out-of-town friends, and each and every one of you, who today—has either—you guys have worked polls, you have made phone calls, you have knocked doors, you’ve put signs out.

I mean the work that has gone into this race has been absolutely amazing. It has been one of the, if not the, best-run campaigns in the entire country, I would say. And the country has been watching. Round of applause! So thank you all. I know that you guys are our best supporters and we’re excited to celebrate with you officially, at a later date and hopefully tomorrow morning. But please go home and get some rest and continue—right before you close your eyes, please turn on your television to watch and see if those early votes have dropped in. But I know that we did a great job of getting people out there to early vote this season, so we feel very good, we feel very confident, we’re excited to celebrate officially with you hopefully sometime tomorrow. But go out, thank you so much for being here, you guys are the best. Have a great rest of your night. God bless all of you and God bless our great country, the United States of America, thank you.