00:00Democrats have won the Senate and we have five words for the American people.
00:06Relief is on the way. In 2025 when I said we could win back the Senate after we
00:14had lost the presidency and the Senate, people rolled their eyes. But we never
00:22wavered and now we have won the Senate. What changed? What caused that change?
00:29First and foremost, our coalition moved as one body, House and Senate, to define
00:37the issues that Americans cared most about. We talked to Americans. We said what
00:41is on your minds? And of course, number one, cost. The high cost of living. How
00:52difficult it was to raise a family and do the things you wanted to make sure that
00:58you'd have a good life and your kids would have a good life. And second, they
01:02talked about Trump's corruption. We know he was the most corrupt president ever by a
01:09lot and people hated it. And so, I'll hear more about that later, but number one, the
01:17American people knew we were on their side on the issues. The second thing we did
01:23was we recruited great candidates who knew how to tailor their message to the
01:28states. Every one of the candidates that we recruited, whenever I talked to them, the
01:35number one thing that motivated them was patriotism. Each one of them could have
01:41gotten a different job, probably paid more, taken less time, but they believed in their
01:49states and they believed in their country. And as they campaigned, the American
01:54people saw that, that these were good people who really cared. And we have an
02:00amazing crop of new senators and that is great. So what we have now seen, and this
02:10is really important, is a generational remake of the Senate map that is going to
02:16change America, not only now, but on into the future. When you have Democratic
02:23senators who are intent on working their states and showing people of their state
02:28what Democrats are really about, whether it's Iowa, whether it's South Carolina,
02:36whether it's Texas, it's going to make a huge difference. This, again, is a
02:41generational remake of the Senate map that has huge consequences for history. Well, in
02:52terms of the majority, and maybe it's now 54, it could go up to 55, it could go up to
03:0156, but with this
03:06majority, Americans have given we Democrats the opportunity to prove ourselves worthy of their
03:13trust. And that's the most important job, even much more important than winning the
03:19election, is doing things, is saying not only have we listened to you, and we are
03:23listening, but we're going to do things to make your lives better. Many of the folks who voted for us
03:29yesterday, of course, are still skeptical. That's okay. These voters did not give us
03:35the majority so we can do whatever we want. They entrusted us with the majority to do
03:41what they, the American people, want. Republicans received that opportunity two years ago and
03:48completely squandered it. The GOP misread Americans' demand for change as a mandate to do
03:56Trump's self-serving bidding. And Trump spent half his time talking about things that were irrelevant
04:03to their lives, annoying. The reflecting pool, the new wall. But most of the time, he did things that
04:17hurt them. It raised their health care costs, it raised their electricity bills, it raised their fuel,
04:24their gasoline, and diesel costs. Republican eyes were so glued to Trump's truth social feed
04:32that they missed the truth, staring them dead in the face. Americans hate the direction our country
04:41is going in right now. So now, Republicans, we're going to have to choose whether to keep listening
04:48to the nonsense that's coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or start acting in the interests of the
04:56American people. If they continue to embrace Trump, they're going to be following him right over the
05:04cliff, as this election has shown. And it'll get even worse for them. What is our assignment? First,
05:11Americans want Washington to bring down the cost of living. The anguish that American families feel
05:18as they ask themselves, do I pay for gas to drive to work or groceries to feed the kids? Do
05:24I pay for
05:24health care to keep my family healthy or electricity to keep my family warm this winter? Second, Americans
05:31want us to clean up corruption in government. They know that Trump is the most corrupt president in
05:37American history. No American should have to make trade-offs at the supermarket while Trump is making
05:44insider trades on the stock market. Americans are calling for accountability, not accommodation.
05:52And third, they want us to check on Trump's chaos at home and abroad. We've seen too many Americans die
05:59on our streets and in uniform overseas because of Trump's erratic judgment. The American people don't
06:05know what the heck we're fighting for in Iran. He's never made it clear. He changes his mind day to
06:12day and minute to minute. This war must end. It must end. And make no mistake, whenever Trump defies the
06:22will of the American people or the law, we will launch investigations, take him to court and entangle him
06:28in legislative razor wire. The days of Trump's supplicant Senate are over. I'll have more to say in the
06:37coming days about how Democrats pulled off this victory, how our majority plans to deliver for the
06:43American people. But if there's one hopeful, I'd like to conclude on this note. If there's one hopeful,
06:51optimistic takeaway, we should remember that from this election, our democracy runs deep, very deep.
07:01Our founders created this amazing document, the Constitution. They envisioned co-equal branches
07:08of government. What they said was ambition was made to counteract ambition. But when ambition turns to
07:15blind loyalty, there's only one last firewall. They thought the legislature would check a king-like
07:25president. This legislature, this Senate has failed. And so there was one last firewall. In our system of
07:33checks and balances, where power derives from the consent to the government, elections have always been
07:40the strongest lever Americans have to counter a wannabe king.
