00:00I'd actually like to ask Senator Joel Brand-Guyangelo in White House,
00:03are you supportive of Senator Schubert in this vote later in a few weeks?
00:08Yes.
00:10Look, I used to be a longtime Cub fan, and I luckily got over that.
00:18When the manager takes you to the World Series, you give them another contract.
00:22And this has been a really good election cycle for us.
00:27But Chuck and I have had our differences.
00:29I am in his office a lot more.
00:31I think that he wants me to be in his office.
00:32And sometimes I'm called to the office more than I want to be called to the office.
00:35But at the end of the day, these are historic numbers.
00:37It's time for us to unify.
00:39We're going to work together as a caucus to put a plan together about how to move forward
00:42for what the country wants us to do.
00:45And I think we have the person that's going to lead us there.
00:49Can I let them answer?
00:51Yeah.
00:52So let's be clear.
00:54We won for a lot of reasons.
00:55President Trump created the most toxic agenda you could imagine by sending us to war in
01:00Iran, by having chaotic tariffs that raise the price of everything.
01:03But what made a difference for this election is that the Democratic caucus went into these
01:09elections 100% unified.
01:10We spent a year and a half talking about cost, corruption, and chaos.
01:14That was all Leader Schumer's decision making and effort to keep our caucus united.
01:19We talked from one, what do we call it, one song sheet the whole time.
01:25There was enormous unanimity.
01:27You saw this caucus go out and campaign for these candidates in red and purple America.
01:31You saw this caucus raise enormous amounts of resources so these candidates could at least
01:35try to communicate head to head.
01:37And Senator Schumer, on top of all that, raised another $600 million, which is an extraordinary
01:44amount of money because we were so outspent by the Republican Party, because they had Elon
01:49Musk dumping in his billions, and they had more super PACs than you could ever imagine.
01:53So what I can tell you is this caucus is grateful for the hard work of Senator Schumer.
01:58No one has put in the time and effort that anyone has put into this cycle than he did.
02:02And on top of that, he worked early, right in the beginning of the cycle, to find the
02:06best candidates we can find.
02:07And what made a difference is when these very strong candidates got out there and raised
02:12the resources, created the grassroots advocacy, they allowed us to put more seats on the map.
02:18Because we had candidates like Sherrod Brown, because we had candidates like Roy Cooper, who
02:23could take these deeply red states and start turning them blue early, because John Ossoff
02:28was out front kicking ass from day one, raising over $100 million, taking Georgia off the map,
02:34that then allowed another 10 races to become a part of this play that Senator Schumer made sure
02:42there were resources early.
02:43Senator Schumer and I did a fundraiser a year ago for our Mississippi candidate, for Scott
02:49Cologne.
02:50He made sure there were resources in that state over a year ago to actually register 100,000
02:56new voters.
02:57That takes vision.
02:58It takes clarity of thought.
02:59It takes strategic leadership.
03:02And that is what Senator Schumer has done.
03:04And that is why you will see, despite all the grumblings, enormous gratitude for the hard
03:09work he has done to get us to this position.
03:12We are about to win nine Senate seats.
03:15That has never happened in my political history.
03:18Nine.
03:19This wave is bigger than the last blue wave, which was in 2006.
03:23In 2006, we won.
03:25That's me.
03:26It's when I won my two to one Republican House district.
03:29He was ahead of DSCC that cycle.
03:32Chuck Schumer.
03:33But it's bigger than that wave because that wave was six Senate seats and 30 House seats.
03:39You are going to see nine Senate seats and you're going to see plus 30 House seats.
03:43That wave doesn't get created by magic.
03:46It gets created by hard work and putting the pieces together over two years.
03:51And what Senator Schumer was able to do was galvanize this caucus to all work hard to get
03:56this done.
03:57And yes, this country voted for change.
03:59That's why they voted for so many new candidates up and down the ticket.
04:03Most of our candidates are under the age of 45, which is shocking.
04:06But it takes strategy and planning to move us to the place where we can put these players
04:11on the field and actually win.
04:13And that takes experience.
04:14Sheldon, I was yes.
04:16I was yes early.
04:18Okay.
04:19What?
04:19Have you had any conversation with Chris Van Hollen today when he said that he did not
04:25show the war on the leadership?
04:27Chris Van Hollen and I are friends.
04:29We talk frequently.
04:30And we're united.
04:31United in lowering costs.
04:33And united in ending this damn war.
04:39Thank you all.
04:42Kirsten has given you plenty to write about.
04:45I did.
04:45I gave you a whole book.
04:47A whole book.
04:48A whole book.
04:48A whole book.
