Name: LIVE: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks after his re-election
Uploaded: 2020-11-13T18:42:56.000Z
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It's brand new Senator Rick Scott from Florida who will take over the NRSC.

I'm going to call on each of my members for a couple of words, and we'll take a couple of questions and then we'll see you again after lunch.

And congratulations to you and to all of our members of our leadership team.

And we got some great new members were excited to get to work.

Thio take on the challenges that face the American people.

It's a And I think the election made it very clear that people across this country reject the agenda that was put forward by the Democrats.

If you look at the, um, defund the police movement, the green New Deal movement, all those things it was pretty clear that voters across this country said we don't want nothing to do with that, Which is why I believe we had winds in the house and why people we expect in the and are going to support a divided government by giving us the majority in United States Senate.

So we have Ah, terrific team to work with and we've got our leadership elections done today and this team is ready.

Thio Goto work on behalf of the American people.

I appreciate the opportunity to continue as chairman of the Republican Conference for the next two years.

We have four new members who are part of the conference discussions today in our great editions.

And I'm especially happy to have Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming joining me.

She is the first woman elected to the United States Senate from Wyoming in our 130 years a za state way.

Our candidates are very tough people and they know how toe run tough races, and I expect victories there.

We did learn some lessons from this election that there was a rejection of this very liberal approach by the Democrats.

Far to the left, they rejected the defund.

The police rejected expanding the size of the Supreme Court beyond the nine they've rejected, of forcing us to stop producing American Energy Republicans.

We're going to keep talking about the things that we believe people at home believe is important to them, which is getting back to work, getting our kids safely back to school and getting this coronavirus disease behind us.

And that is what the Republican Conference is going to continue to talk about.

I was pleased to be elected policy chairman again.

What we saw in this last campaign was that candidates really matter.

I think that's one of the reasons that virtually every predictor of what was gonna happen in the elections was wrong.

You know, the president wasn't defeated by huge numbers.

In fact, he may not have been defeated it all way gained seats in the House.

We are going to hold the majority in the Senate.

Hispanic Americans voted for Republicans in ways that they have not ever done before.

Uh, African American women, young African American men below, say, 35 high percentages of them be way beyond expectations.

Voted for our candidates voted for the president.

E think if you're a Republican in the Senate today, if you're Republican, the Congress today there are incredible opportunities out there as we look at what voters said what voters said they didn't want, but also what voters clearly said they do want.

They don't want the regulators to regulate us out of business.

We want every regulation we need and not a single regulation we don't need.

Uh, they'd like to see what happened in the first three years of the Trump administration continue to happen.

That's a message that we all need to pay close attention to high employment numbers, low unemployment numbers among every group in America.

And voters defied every predictor when they came to the polling place and said, This is what we want to Seymour.

First, I'm I'm very thankful to have made it through another election season and onto my second term in the United States Senate.

So to the people of Iowa, I'm very honored to be able to serve you again for six more years.

Um, for this leadership team and for my Republican conference, I want to say thank you so much for once again electing me as vice chair of the Republican Conference.

It is such a tremendous opportunity for me to be able to take the stories that I get and you hear me talk about it all the time.

But I'm so proud of the 99 county tour that I do every single year that Chuck Grassley has done for 40 years to be able to gather those stories from Iowans and take their their opportunities and their challenges and their voices and lay it out with the members of this leadership team to make sure that they are represented here, uh, to the best of my ability in the United States Senate, um, one.

Also you'll recognize as the only female member of the leadership team.

It is a great honor to be able to project, ah, conservative woman's voice on the national stage and recognizing that this may have been the GOP year for our women and again just adding an additional voice for them as we continue to move through this next term.

But again, just so grateful what first again people of Iowa and then to the members of my conference for re electing me, putting their trust and confidence in May for this position as vice chair.

I know the job is to make sure we have a Republican majority in the Senate.

First, we've got to go win in Georgia and we're gonna win in Georgia.

We all heard what the Democrats are gonna do.

Chuck Schumer said if he can take Georgia, he can change America.

We know what the Democrat changes are, uh, Medicare for all, which is gonna take away private health insurance for 150 million Americans.

The green new deal, which is gonna ruin our economy, is it's $100 million expenditure.

Uh, the socialism reduced funding for the police.

All these things are gonna change America that we all grew up in that we all want to keep.

We've got great candidates for the 22 cycle.

We're going to recruit others, and we're gonna continue to have a Republican majority after the Georgia races on at the end of 22.

We're gonna have another stakeout after lunch.

I've got to go open the Senate, but I will take a couple of quick ones.

Well, what it says about America is that until the Electoral College votes.

Anyone who's running for office can exhaust concerns about counting in any court of appropriate jurisdiction.

Finally, who was certified in each of these states and the Electoral College will determine the winner.

And that person will be sworn in on January 20th.

This is Yeah, I don't think anything that's occurred so far interrupts unordinary process of moving through the various steps that I indicated and allowing.

If there is a new administration, it too, work through the transition.

All of these steps will be taken at the appropriate time.

All of these steps will be taking it at the appropriate time.

I'm going to go over and open the Senate.

We have another stakeout after lunch and I'll be happy.