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  • and will continue to fight for his re election until all the votes legally cast are counted.

  • This election has seen record voter turnout that America has not seen in a century, and American people must be assured that it is both fair and transparent.

  • Now.

  • President Trump monumental help has expanded the House Republican coalition from Miami to Minnesota to California from every single pundit, even from the Cook report.

  • Thio upping the number of losses they said the Republicans would have up to 20 just this week.

  • Or, if you listen to Speaker Pelosi or Cheri Bustos, who runs the d triple c R, the majority leader, Steny Hoyer.

  • They all said it was double digits, standing even up to 2 15 this week alone that they would win.

  • They were all wrong.

  • Sherry boost roses still barely holding on to her own seat.

  • So here the fax there are Conference could, incredibly, be proud off.

  • As of right now, we have seven GOP pickups.

  • We also have 11 outstanding races that I feel very confident that will continue to grow and win will likely have an additional 14 to 19 Republican women.

  • This will break the record for the most Republican women coming in at any one time will double.

  • The number will set a record for the most women ever in the Republican Party.

  • We'll likely be adding 6 to 9 minorities to our conference from Florida to New Mexico to Texas to Oklahoma to California.

  • I'm also proud of our candidates and our members, and I especially want to thank our NRCC chair Tom Emmer.

  • Not only did he win all those special elections that he played in throughout the year, remember before we went into the election last night.

  • By the time of being sworn in last, we had more Republicans and fewer Democrats, and we just continued to add to it.

  • Now, I've heard for months from the pollsters in the media about how Republicans were going to lose more seats and clean to shrinking coalitions.

  • We expanded this party that reflects America that looks like America and thanks.

  • I think the rejection that we saw last night from the Democrats was that America does not want to be a socialist nation.

  • I think the other rejection that we saw, we watched the Democrats promise if they would be given the power to have the majority that they would act different, that they would solve problems and they wasted their majority.

  • So we look forward to continuing to work for the American public.

  • Our commitment to America that we will renew, rebuild and restore this nation is what our commitment is and will be.

  • I don't know what the end of the day, what will happen in the Democratic Conference.

  • I don't know what the end of the day I know.

  • The vote on the floor is difficult for speaker.

  • I know there was a number of people who did not vote for her last time.

  • And as our numbers continue to grow, I think at the end of the day, no matter where we end up, it will be able to have a very big say or even run the floor when it comes to policy.

  • With that, let me open up for questions.

  • Yes, ma'am.

  • Have you spoken to president?

  • How is he feeling, Doctor?

  • The President president feels good.

  • Um, I think when you look at a lot of these one thing I will say last night, I have no statistical data of others.

  • I think a lot of the network's probably called Arizona too soon.

  • When I'm looking at what the data is coming back, I would put Arizona back in the column of undecided Right now, I think he looks very good in Pennsylvania.

  • Michigan, I think you weaken watch is gonna come very close.

  • But I think the president has an opportunity, uh, toe win that.

  • I think at the end of the day, the president will be elected for four more years.

  • Yes, First.

  • Toby, the president said This is a fraud on the American public.

  • This is an embarrassment to our country.

  • The president should be sowing doubt about the integrity of our elections.

  • Your questions never change.

  • No.

  • I know your questions never changed.

  • Okay.

  • Now I'll give you my answer.

  • Your questions never changed.

  • I think that what the president wants to see is that every legal vote gets counted.

  • And that's what we're walking through right now.

  • So stop counting a lot of races.

  • House races.

  • They're still counting votes.

  • Do you agree with the president to They stopped counting votes, even ones that were cast before the deadline.

  • Again, your questions never changed.

  • So let me go through what the President said.

  • And what the president meant in the question.

  • What the president wants toe make sure is that every legal vote is counted that people vote up until Election Day, not the days after his others would have.

  • That's what the president refers to.

  • I don't think people should be able to vote today, and I think every other American would feel that exact same way.

  • That's exactly what the president was expressing.

  • I know you want to try to express something different to it.

  • I know you'll be upset if the president wins re election again.

  • But the American people have a voice.

  • I know the pollsters were wrong, just like they were wrong four years ago.

  • This is what a Republican of democracy is about.

  • We wanna make sure it's legal, it's fair and that every legal vote is counted, and that's what we're working toward.

  • But I don't think people should vote after the election, though that happened.

  • Yes, ma'am.

  • Yes, ma'am, Will you accept the election results once they're certified from the remaining states that we don't?

  • Yes.

  • Yes, ma'am, that he is confident that the Republicans are going to take over the house.

  • Are you happy.

  • Well, I'm very confident.

  • We continue to grow our majority much different than what every pundit had said that we would lose on an average of 15 to 20 seats.

  • We know that's not true.

  • We know that we continue to go already seven seats with another 11 that we're winning right now, so we'll see our majority continue to grow.

  • We'll see where this all ends up.

  • But we thank the American public for their participation.

  • We thank them for participating in this campaign, and now it's the time to govern.

  • We finish out making sure every legal vote is counted and that the that the campaign is fair.

  • The election will be shown by all Americans, thank you very much, and God bless.

and will continue to fight for his re election until all the votes legally cast are counted.

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