00:00Please welcome to the stage your next U.S. Senator, Russ Ruffin.
00:35Tonight's results are a wake-up call for corporate special interests and billionaires
00:41who have been rigging the economy, for the cowards in Congress who have enabled health
00:45care cuts, tariffs, and war, and for the incompetent president who can't even be bothered to care
00:51how people are being hurt.
00:52So tonight, voters in New Hampshire and all across the country simply have had enough
00:57and are demanding a change in direction, and I am ready to fight with everything I've
01:02got to deliver the change that we need.
01:08This has been a long campaign against a backdrop of the chaos, corruption, and costs coming
01:16out of Washington.
01:17You said in a resounding voice that America needs a course correction, that Washington
01:22needs a new generation at the table to fix things.
01:27And that New Hampshire needs independent leadership to stand up and get stuff done.
01:34A few minutes ago, I just got a very gracious call from John Sununu.
01:39He wished us and our team well, and I wish the same for him and his family.
01:44And I think we all owe John Sununu a big debt of gratitude for his public service for the
01:50people of New Hampshire.
01:54So tonight, whether you're a Republican, an Independent, or a Democrat, tonight's victory
01:59is for you because this is a victory for Team New Hampshire over the broken status quo that
02:05is hurting all of us just the same.
02:10So tonight, tonight we don't celebrate a victory for any one political party.
02:14We celebrate a victory for anyone, left, right, or center, struggling with the skyrocketing
02:19costs of living from gas to groceries to housing.
02:22Anyone who's sick of the tariffs, the endless war, the tax breaks for big corporations paid
02:27for by cuts to your health care.
02:29Anyone who's fed up with the most corrupt president in our history who has failed in
02:34his way of governing.
02:35And anyone who knows that we can do so much better if we work together.
02:38So we know this was a hard-fought victory tonight.
02:42It was made even harder by the tens and tens of millions of dollars that poured into New
02:46Hampshire from Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and corporate special interests who are just fine
02:53with the way things are going right now.
02:55They threw money, attack ads, and outright lies at us every day for months.
02:59But we beat them anyway, didn't we?
03:04We're the people-powered campaign, a campaign of 200,000 individual donors and not a dime
03:11from corporate PACs.
03:13And we showed what happens when we stick together, stand up for what's right, and never lose hope
03:18even when the odds are long.
03:21Let's keep going and fighting and working for the people of this great state.
03:25Thank you all for being here tonight.
03:26I really appreciate it.
03:28Thanks for sharing.
