00:00And thank you Colorado. Thank you Colorado. We love you. We love you. We love you.
00:11Thank you. I love you and I love all of Colorado. We couldn't fit in this room,
00:17but we got almost all of Colorado into this room. I called Phil a short time ago and I
00:26congratulated him on his victory and committed to remain a partner in the
00:31work ahead for our great state. Please give him a round of applause for the
00:37extraordinary race that he ran. You know that tonight are not the results that we
00:47wanted. Roger Lowe, thank you for everything. I'm not gonna be able to do
00:54that for everybody here, but Roger Lowe, thank you for everything. Thank you.
01:00Tonight the results are not what we wanted. We came up short and while that is
01:06disappointing and I'd be lying if I said it wasn't, I do not regret for a second the
01:12campaign that we, we ran or the cause that we fought for.
01:24Some, sometimes the harder path is the right path, even where it doesn't lead
01:31where you had hoped. I want to thank my campaign team led by Nelly Moran.
01:43Where are you?
01:48For the incredible work and for being there with me shoulder to shoulder the entire
01:55way. To the Senate team, thank you for your extraordinary commitment.
02:00For serving the people of Colorado every single day. I think that if I have to judge
02:09it by the result, Phil might have been right that your work was too good for us
02:14to overcome. So thank you very much for doing it. Phil also mentioned that I had
02:20managed in the end to make his mom happy and my mom happy by losing this rate.
02:27And I want, I want to thank the hundreds of volunteers who gave their time, their energy
02:34and their belief to this campaign. Thank you to the supporters who knocked on doors, who
02:40made calls, who hosted events, who had fascinating conversations with friends and
02:47neighbors and never stopped believing and have never stopped believing that
02:51Colorado's future could be brighter than the present. And thank you to the voters
02:57who put your trust and belief in our campaign. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
03:15And most important, thank you to Susan and to
03:25you. Thank you. Thank you to our girls, Caroline, Helena, and Ann. Susan has been my partner
03:50in every sense of the word. And our daughters have been a constant reminder of why this work matters
03:57in the first place. Stating the obvious, I love you. Thank you. There is not a day that goes by
04:09that I didn't recognize how much of a family undertaking this work is. I know all of us,
04:17this entire family, have treasured our time together on this campaign, just as we have in every campaign
04:25that we've had here in Colorado. I want to talk to you very briefly tonight about the work ahead.
04:32But first, I want to acknowledge a devastating and clarifying demonstration of commitment to public service,
04:41a reminder to all of us in public life and as citizens of this democracy that our duty transcends
04:49politics, party, and self-interest. We lost three courageous wildland firefighters on Saturday
04:58as they fought the blaze west of Fruta. Their names are Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson, and Sydney Watson.
05:08I'd ask for a moment of silence as we honor their sacrifice. Thank you. And now it is time
05:32to come together, Colorado. We have had our disagreements. That's obvious to anybody who's been
05:39watching this race. And no doubt we will have healthy disagreements in the future. But we agree
05:48on what the problems are. We agree on what our goals must be. And we all know that the future
05:55of Colorado
05:55depends on what we build from this time forward. Across Colorado, families are working harder than ever.
06:04But the cost to keep a roof over their heads keeps rising faster than their paychecks.
06:10The cost of health care, which in any civilized country should be theirs by right, is breaking their
06:17family budgets. At the same time, our state is facing a budget crisis of its own. And a generation of
06:26young
06:26people that I met with day after day after day on this campaign and as their senator, a generation of
06:35young
06:35people wonders whether they'll ever be able to afford to live in this state that they love. All across America,
06:44a
06:44fundamental promise has been broken. The promise that if you work hard and do your part, you can build a
06:51good
06:51life. And Colorado is no exception. Even here, doing everything right isn't enough anymore. You get an
07:00education. You build a career. You contribute to your community. And still, you can't get ahead. Right now, young
07:08people and too many others across our state are asking one very simple question. Is there a place
07:16for me here in Colorado? My answer will always be yes. And we should, that should be our answer.
07:32Of course, of course, Donald Trump has made matters so much worse. He is trying to convince Americans to hate
07:43each other just to serve his own selfish purposes. Donald Trump, as I've said during the course of the campaign,
07:52is the
07:52worst president in American history. But this is not the worst moment in American history. And as others have
08:01done in even tougher times than the ones that we're facing today, some of whom are still alive and in
08:09our
08:09midst like Anna Jo Haynes, who's standing right here with Happy Haynes. As others in tougher times have done, it
08:24now falls on us to champion what we also value most, our democratic freedoms and the basic compact of
08:35American opportunity. Our cause is to make Colorado the best place in America to
08:41build a life. A place where the American dream is within reach for more people here than anywhere else in
08:49the
08:49nation. Building the Colorado we all want, all of us, won't happen because of one election. It will happen because
08:59people across the state decide that our future is worth building together. That is a fight I will
09:07continue in my service to the state of Colorado. And I ask tonight all of my supporters all over this
09:14state, and I'll say as Ken Salazar did mention on the way in how proud I am to have won
09:20so much of rural
09:21Colorado.
09:31Jonathan Hauss, thank you for everything. That's a fight I will continue to wage in my service to the
09:39state of Colorado. And tonight I ask all my supporters to do everything you can to make sure Phil is
09:46successful, not just as a candidate, but as Colorado's next governor. Thank you all for being here tonight.
09:54Thank you Colorado. We love you. We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you.
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