Speeches

Monica De La Cruz
categories: Speeches, Victory Speech
Congressional Victory Speech - Nov. 18, 2022
November 18, 2022
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you so much. Praise God. We have won tonight. It is such an honor for me to stand before you tonight. If there was ever any doubt, let it be known tonight from the land of Juan Seguín, Selena, and our World Series champions, the Houston Astros, that the American Dream is alive. El Sueño Americano is alive and well in South Texas! And I am honored to be the first Latina in history to represent our community in the people’s […]
Jennifer Kiggans
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Post-Election Remarks - Nov. 6, 2024
November 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 […]
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Post-Election Remarks - Nov. 6, 2024
November 6, 2024
Thank you so much for being here. We don’t know the outcome of the election yet, but we do know that someone like me, a mom who works in the trades, would never have gotten to Congress without all of you. I am so profoundly grateful to all of you. And to be within very close reach of a second term, I could not have done this without your support and your incredible hard work. Everyone who is here today and a lot of people who aren’t: thank you, thank […]
categories: Speeches, Victory Speech
Senate Victory Speech - Nov. 7, 2024
November 7, 2024
Hello, everybody, good morning. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you to the people of Wisconsin for putting their trust in me to continue to be their fighter in Washington, D.C. The way we won this race is the way I’ve always approached this job. And that is we did everything, everywhere, all at once. I travelled to red, blue, purple, rural, suburban, urban parts of our state. I listened to people. I really listened to people. And then deliver for them. And in turn, […]
Maria Cantwell
categories: Speeches, Victory Speech
Senate Victory Speech - Nov. 6, 2024
November 6, 2024
Thank you. Thank you, Washington voters. Thank you all so much. It is a great honor to represent the state of Washington in the United States Senate. And it is a great honor to take the values of people in this state, to get things done, to work across the aisle, to protect a woman’s right to choose, to protect our environment, to grow economic opportunity, to lower cost and increase wages, and I guarantee you this campaign was about growing the middle class in the United States of America, […]
Marsha Blackburn
categories: Speeches, Victory Speech
Senate Victory Speech - Nov. 5, 2024
November 5, 2024
Thank you. Thank you all. I am absolutely thrilled—talk about a packed room, we’ve got a packed room, don’t we tonight. We do have some things to celebrate. And I am so thrilled that the governor and Maria are here with us. We just really, our family treasures their friendship and we’re just absolutely so delighted that they are here. We are just so honored and grateful and truly so humbled with the support so many Tennesseans, and the fact that people showed up and voted and that we do […]
Gloria Johnson
categories: Concession Speech, Speeches
Senate Concession Speech - Nov. 5, 2024
November 5, 2024
Names may be spelled incorrectly. Hi everybody. Thank you so, so much. I appreciate you all being here. I mean, my heart is so full because I know how hard so many in this state worked. We still have a lot of work to do, there’s no question about that. We wanted to see a different outcome, but one thing that I can say, as far as me and my team go, we know that we worked as hard this campaign as we possibly could, and I had the best […]
Deb Fischer
categories: Speeches, Victory Speech
Senate Victory Speech - Nov. 6, 2024
November 6, 2024
We are so excited. All these guys out here, you know what that means. Are we excited? (cheers). Love it, love it. Thank you, Nebraska. You know, so much about politics and campaigning comes down to the numbers, and I’m going to talk about some of the more important numbers in this race for just a moment. 600,000. That’s the number of phone calls that our volunteers made in the last year. 100,000. That’s the number of doors that Team Fischer walked and knocked this campaign season. Well over 100,000. […]
Amy Klobuchar
categories: Speeches, Victory Speech
Senate Victory Speech - Nov. 6, 2024
November 6, 2024
I first want to thank my incredible husband, John, and our daughter Abigail, who’ve been with me through all of this. I want to thank John for going on that entire get out the vote tour, for standing and giving speeches, while his wife’s face was blown up on the side of the bus, that was pretty good. I want to thank our great campaign staff, including Kieran, Jake, Annie, Ben, Justin, Bridget, Jane, and the whole team. I want to thank—(applause)—I want to thank my hardworking Senate office in […]
Post-Election Remarks – Nov. 6, 2024
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Post-Election Remarks - Nov. 6, 2024
November 6, 2024
Good afternoon, thanks for being here. It’s been a long night and day. I want start with a quick update on the Senate race. We obviously had a very, very late night here. There are still ballots being processed, but as things stand right now, we are very confident that when the votes are counted, we will be the senator-elect for the state of Michigan. We currently have a 19,000 vote lead, approximately, with very few ballots left to be counted, and we hope to have official results by the […]