-But it's fantastic to be here today.
And after, you know, more votes have been counted,
you know, it's clear that we've been successful in this mission.
Right, Gabby?
-Yeah.
-And I'm so honored that Arizona has entrusted me
to represent our state in the United States Senate
for six more years.
[cheers and applause]
And I'd like to thank my family, my friends, my campaign team,
and the tens of thousands of people
over the past few years who have made phone calls,
who have knocked on doors, who have chipped in a few bucks
and worked late nights and early mornings.
You are all the reason that we are successful.
[cheers and applause]
And I also want to thank our state's election officials,
honorable Republicans and Democrats,
who are doing the important work
of making sure that Arizonans' votes and voices are heard,
their votes are counted as quickly
and as transparently as possible.
Now, after a long election,
it can be tempting to remain focused
on the things that divide us.
But we've seen the consequences
that come when leaders refuse to accept the truth
and focus more on conspiracies of the past
than solving the challenges that we face today.
And for the past two years, as we face these challenges,
there has not been a day,
not a day has gone by where I have not remembered
that I am sitting in the Senate seat of Senator John McCain.
[cheers and applause]
Senator McCain embodied everything it was
to be a leader.
And at a time when our state and our country remain divided,
his legacy, his legacy of building bridges
and focusing on Arizona
is an example of what we all should do
and what we should look to,
especially because while we face serious challenges,
we also know that when we come together
and focus on solutions, we can make progress.
After politicians caved time and time again to Big Pharma,
we finally beat them.
And we're now lowering the cost of prescription drugs
for seniors.
[cheers and applause]
And after politicians failed to respond to mass shooting
after horrible mass shooting,
Republicans and Democrats came together
and passed a gun-safety and mental-health law.
[applause]
And after decades of politicians
saying that they'd bring manufacturing back to America,
we are finally doing it.
[cheers and applause]
Last month, last month, I spoke to an Arizonan named Tarji.
Now, Tarji is a single mom with three kids
who was out of work for more than a year.
Then she found an e-mail in her spam folder
inviting her to apply to the Quick Start program
at Estrella Mountain Community College.
She applied to this program, and she got in.
And after completing the 10-day program,
she got an interview and then a job at Intel.
Now, Tarji is a semiconductor- manufacturing technician.
Now, think about that for a second.
I mean, in just a couple of weeks,
she went from struggling to make ends meet to her spam folder
and then to the first --
[laughter]
We generally try not to look in there, but...
This is one time it worked out okay.
But then to the first step in a new career
that you can actually raise a family on --
a career, which, by the way,
does not require a 4-year degree.
Now, that's life-changing.
And by creating the jobs of the future here in Arizona
and getting folks the skills they need to work them,
we're going to make sure that Tarji's story
is just the beginning
because there is a lot more work to do.
For mothers like Tarji, who are working harder
and harder to get ahead,
for the third- and fourth-generation farmers
in Pinal County who are leaving their fields
unplanted in the middle of a drought,
for the restaurant owner in Flagstaff
or the homebuilder in Tucson
who is getting pinched by supply-chain bottlenecks,
for the Arizona women who have spent months
making it loud and clear that they will not stand...
[cheers and applause]
...they will not stand for having their fundamental right
to an abortion taken away...
[cheers and applause]
...and for the parents all across the state
who are lying awake at night trying to figure out
how they're going to afford Christmas presents next month
or college tuition next year.
The way to solve these problems isn't by pointing fingers.
It's not by dividing people.
It's by listening and finding common ground.
And as we see, in the results here in Arizona
and across the country this week,
no one party has a monopoly on good ideas
or the support of voters.
But I have seen that when we seek to represent everyone,
not just the people who voted for us,
we're capable of extraordinary things.
[cheers and applause]
And nowhere is that more true than here in Arizona,
a state that is defined by our toughness,
by our work ethic,
by the different places we all come from
in pursuit of the same dreams for our families.
Centuries ago, the Hohokam people
dug canals in the dry valley floor,
irrigating their crops to thrive in the desert.
Today, in the view of these same canals,
we're building facilities that will manufacture
the most advanced microchips ever made.
That's who we are, and that's where we're heading,
but only if we stick together.
So, to Arizonans,
my commitment to you remains the same.
I will always be honest with you.
I will always put our state ahead of politics.
And I will always work to find common ground
and deliver results that move Arizona forward.
Thank you so much.