I
thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
And also I'm going to acknowledge
my wife Julie,
because she's with me
and she's been through a tough time.
But I want to say that I want to
thank all of you as well,
because we've had a tough journey
ahead of me now.
But one of the things I said
when they called raise
that enormous doesn't look like
they're going to add up.
But one of the things I want to tell
all of you is you never stop dreaming.
I don't want any of you to stop dreaming.
I don't want any of you
to stop believing in America.
I want you to believe in America
and continue to believe in a Constitution
and believe in our elected officials.
Most of all, continue to pray for them.
Because all the prayers you've given me,
I've felt those prayers.
I want to thank all my team as well,
our team, Hershel,
because they put up with a lot
I want to thank Team Herschel,
thank all my donors as well,
because you guys without you,
I couldn't have done what I've done.
So I want to
thank all of you as well,
because there's no excuses in life.
And I'm not going to make any excuses
now because we put up
one heck of a fight.
And I think that's what
that's what we've got to do
because this is much bigger.
This is much bigger than Herschel Walker.
And I told Total one this the other day.
I said, you guys,
I've done a lot of stuff.
You talk about Heisman Trophy.
You talk about all the athletic award,
business awards I want.
But the best thing I've ever done
in my whole entire life is run
for the Senate seat right here
in Arizona.
I'm going to say, that
is I got a chance to meet
all you and hear
what you guys feel about this country.
And I got a chance to
for you guys to tell me what you do
feel about this country.
I got a chance to go into your home
and got a chance that you
invested in Herschel Walker.
And I thank you.
And I thank you so much.
And as I say, we can't blame no one
because I want you to continue
to believe in this country
and believe in our elected officials.
And most of all, stay together.
Don't let anyone separate you.
Don't let anyone tell you that we can't
because I'm here to tell you we can
now. And to you, we can.
And as I said earlier on,
this is God is good
and he's a good guy.
All the time.
He's a good guy.
So I want to say I'm never going
to stop fighting for Georgia.
I'm never going to stop fighting for you
because you're my family.
Because I always.
Oh, I'm a I'm a winner.
We're all winners.
So we're all winners.
And that's what I want to say.
We're all winners.
And I want to say God is a good God.
God bless you guys. And let me stay.
Stay together.
Continue to believe
in our elected official.
Always, always cast your vote,
no matter whatever is happening.
Cast your vote for all now.
And God we trust.
I do. In God we trust.
Continue to cast your vote.
Never, never, never give up. All right.
God bless you guys. Thank you, God.
Thank you.
Republican
Senate candidate Herschel Walker
conceding defeat
saying that
his losing Senate campaign
is the achievement
he is most proud of conceding,
which is significant for somebody
who at one point was engaged in spreading
Donald Trump's election lies.
And in fact.
Manu Raju,
while we wait
for the winner of the election, Raphael
Warnock to come out
and give his celebration speech.
We should note that
after Donald Trump lost
the state of Georgia,
Herschel Walker was among those
retweeting Donald Trump's election lies
and attacking Brian Kemp
and Secretary of State
Raffensperger
two conservative Republicans who were
resoundingly reelected last month.
Yeah.
Herschel Walker would not be here
if it were not for Donald Trump.
He was a supporter of Donald Trump
through the 2020 election campaign.
Herschel Walker lived in Texas.
He was not even in Georgia.
It wasn't because it wasn't he wasn't
he wasn't going to run until Trump
pushed him into the race and essentially
got the Republican base behind them.
Essentially led to Mitch
McConnell endorsing him.
It would've been a much different candidate,
potentially a different result
if it were not for Donald Trump.
And that is one of the things
that Republicans
are just going to have to grapple
with going forward.
How do you deal with Donald Trump's
hand-picked candidates?
Because we have seen race after race
after race this cycle.
They cost them key seats
and the Senate majority.
And I mean,
they're not to put too fine
a point on it,
but there are a number of Democrats
who were reelected or elected
who were vulnerable.
Uh, I'm from Pennsylvania, It is almost
it was almost just a truism
that if a Democrat
was in the White House,
a Republican would be elected
governor and vice versa.
And yet Democrat
Josh Shapiro is the new governor elect
because Donald Trump got involved
and there was a MAGA
candidate named Doug Mastriano
who was elected statewide,
and it was over and over.
Michigan,
Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada,
on and on.
Yeah. I mean,
I think Arizona and Nevada
are two cases of whites.
Those were two top targets.
For Republicans,
and Democrats won both of those races,
and now they've won yet
another Senate seat in the Deep South.
This is a real moment
for Republicans to figure out how
they are going to proceed forward.
And it goes beyond Donald Trump
at this point
because it's not just Trumpism
it's also a lot of Trump voters
who are
where Trump is and maybe even beyond
that at a certain point.
And that is what's
pushing the party so far to the right
that they're not able
to get out of these primaries
unscathed with a candidate who can,
you know,
who can really survive
in a general election.
Their primary process
is is a huge part of the problem here.
It's making them vulnerable.
It's making them unpalatable
in the suburbs.
It's making them unpalatable
to a lot of these emerging,
you know,
voters of color
who are decisive in states
like Nevada and Arizona. And Georgia.
These are big problems and
they're going to persist even beyond.
They couldn't get Jeff Duncan's vote.
Yeah, the very conservative
Christian lieutenant governor of Georgia
went to vote.
And Herschel Walker
was such a horrible candidate,
he couldn't we couldn't vote for.
Well, let's go to where
Jeff Duncan is, Anderson.
Jeff, Jake, thanks so much.
Jeff, what is the message for NASA?
What is the message
for the Democrats here
and for Republicans?
Jeff, what is the message
for Republicans?
Well, one,
I want to thank Herschel Walker
for that concession speech.
That was one of the classiest speeches
I've heard
from either Democrat or Republican.
And I appreciate it.
And things like that are going to help
make this a better country.
As we continue to move forward.
Look, it's
a wake up call for both parties, right?
There's a vacuum of leadership
of epic proportions
when I walk into a room to give a speech.
Oftentimes they raise your hand
if you think
the political system is broken
and everybody races half.
This is a wake up call for America.
But our problems are starting to mount.
Economic problems,
international problems, border problems,
you name it.
We've got challenges
and so this country needs leadership.
This is a pivot point for Republicans.
My party,
we need to pick up in a new direction.
We need to pick new leaders
that have a vision.
And I think this is an important part of
that stuff. Unfortunately, I
just because Republicans
are dumb doesn't make Democrats smart.
I do think it's important for us
to look in the mirror.
We're going to hear
from one of the great leaders.
I think we have some real leadership
going to hear from it tonight when
and when he gets his victory speech.
Reverend Warnock,
but just because Republicans
have done dumb
stuff doesn't make Democrats smart
and there is a danger
that we get too triumphalist
about what just happened.
You should have been beat by 50 points.
You should have been beat by 80 points.
The kind of campaign that he put on
and the kind of character he showed,
he shouldn't
have been supported by anybody.
And yet you couldn't
bring yourself to vote for Warnock.
And people did
bring themselves to vote for him.
So I think Democrats
have to look in the mirror.
I think we got lucky
and we earned the luck
by working hard
and putting forward great people.
So that's some earned lucky.
But I think going forward
had had the tides gone differently.
I did not have that abortion decision.
I had to not have
some of these wackadoo candies
from Donald Trump.
And we were sitting in the penalty box.
What we'd be saying,
we'd be saying some of this, Wolf,
that has gone too far.
We'd be saying,
you know,
some of our inability
to really bring people in
who are working class in a great way
is not where it needs to be.
So there are problems
and faults and flaws in our party.
I want to make sure that we've
fixed those
because 20, 24 is around the corner.
I have to say,
I disagree with you a little bit.
Talk to him.
I think that
we both of both parties
need to do an evaluation.
And Democrats
didn't get lucky in some instances.
I also think, though, that Democrats
want a fighter.
They want
it candidates
that we're going to go out and be like,
we're not going to be bullied by
Donald Trump.
We're not going to be bullied
by insurrectionists.
We're going to stand up for our democracy.
We're going to try and get
legislation passed
even if we can't
get over the 60 vote
threshold in the Senate.
And then Joe Biden did take some action.
I'm not going to lie.
Dodd was monumental in this election.
Gun violence was monumental
in this election.
But it was talking about all of it.
And I think that, you know,
when Joe Biden
told people on the campaign trail
when we were on in 2020 and said
we're going to address student loan debt
we didn't solve the whole problem
that we're going to take a
a step forward
and you actually deliver on politics.
That's what people want.
When you make a promise you keep it
and when politics wins don't.
That's why people feel like it's broken.
And I think as long if Republicans
now that they have the House
if they go down this path
with investigations and oversight,
and not delivering
for the American people,
I think we're going to be having
a similar conversation on 20 in 2024.
If Dems keep the word that
they ran on in this cycle.