New state chairman and congratulate on his election, Pete Hoekstra from the state of michigan. Welcome. Republican National Committee. I want to congratulate the many new National Committee members that have been. Today, American Samoa is the 25th state to cast votes in the republican process thank you for your hard work to send our candidate donald j. Trump to the white house and with that, join me in thanking President Trump for his work for our party and country and we recognize for the overwhelming success he has achieved 90 of republican dell gates and not only our presumptive nominee but the next president of the United States. [cheers and applause] good morning fellow republicans, how are you . Are you proud to be republicans today . Fantastic. Thank you all so much for everything you all do for our party and state level, National Level and hours and resources you put in to do everything you do because you know just as i do that this matters, this makes a difference. This is important. I think we all agree here we live in the most blessed country, would you agree. And we have this wonderful thing in this country called selfgovernment and gives us the opportunity to get involved and make change, but the first part of that phrase is the most important part of that phrase. Selfgovernment. Thats why we show up and get involved because we care, because as a member of this body, friend of ours said peron ellis policy and peron ell matters and if policy is important, that means the peron ell are important and that means the elections are important and that means what we do here is important. State level, local level, National Level, everything that we are making from Campaign Finance laws to election laws, you name it. It Still Matters and we do it right and we Work Together and makes a bigger difference. This is not a spectator sport. In South Carolina we won in four districts we hadnt won before. Deep blue territory. We got people engaged and showed them that it matters. We showed them what our party believes and we get that message across and we can win. What we have to remember, blue states, red states, etc. , nothing is permanent in politics. Nothing is permanent. There are no permanent red states. There are no permanent blue states, cities, counties, all there is the next election. Were one election away in the red state and having problems. Youre one election away in a blue state and being able to celebrate. What do we think of the people standing next to us at work or at church and getting them involved to be successful. You dont win, you cant govern. You cant govern if you dont win. Those who lost dont get a phone call asking them what the tax rates ought to be or whether or not c. R. T. Should be in the schools or d. E. I. And run down the alphabet soup we deal with today. They dont get those phone calls. We have to win. Losers dont make policy. I hate losing. Told you a year ago, i hate losing more than i hate watching the lifetime channel. I hate losing. Our job is to win. Would you agree with that . Our job is to win. Winning is about preparation. What are we doing to prepare ourselves to win . We have fundamentals we talk about all the time, our message, how we get our message across and how we help people understand our message is relevant to them, that it matters, the manpower and organization we have to put together will actually turn out the votes we need to win and raising the money to make the first two things possible. Thats it. Those are the fundamentals of our job. Sometimes its easy for us to get distracted with other things that dont have anything to do with those fundamentals. Thats our job. To ruthlessly focus on those things. Then we have to build a team to make that possible. Thats why were here today. Politics is about building a winning team. Sometimes you need new people on the team. You have to bring in new folks to get the job done. So if as i assume, the chair election makes me ineligible to serve as cochair, then i will resign my position as cochair. But ill still be here. Im not going anywhere. Ill still be here to work with each and every one of you in any way i can to help you and to make sure that we win up and down this ballot and we keep the house and win the senate and win the white house by putting donald j. Trump back in as president of the United States. Can we get excited about that . Thank you all so much, god bless you. Thank you, drew. Good morning and welcome to houston. I love this city and i hope you have all seen why weve chosen this city to host our 2028 Republican National convention. It is a little bittersweet to be with you as i step down as chair after seven years of working with you all. To elect republicans up and down the ballot. 10 years on the committee. As you know i have a tendency to get emotional sometimes. I have a bet that i wont, so its a big bet and im going to really work hard not to. But i need to start with my thank yous and i want to get that out of the way. I want to thank all of you, thanks to the entire committee, the r. N. C. , the volunteers, all of you leaders in your state. Thanks for all youve done and thank for you voting for me a record four times. I appreciate you more than you know. Youre my family. We dont always agree but we agree on the vision for our country and know were doing the right thing to protect the American People so thank you. I want to thank the many, many not many, many, the men who served as cochair during my cochair, bob from ohio and tommy hecks and drew mckissic, lets thank him again from South Carolina. I want to thank the r. N. C. Staff, and youll see them around this room. A lot of them are here for the past seven years. These are young, bright, individuals who come to d. C. And work in the field because they love our party and love our country and they get their start in our building and theyre phenomenal and we couldnt do it without them. Please join me in thanking the r. N. C. Staff. Along with all of them, i want to thank the two men who served as my chief of staff while i was chair, Richard Walters and mike freed, theyre phenomenal and appreciate you so much. Thank you. And of course you all know the chairmans office, the schedulers and women who traveled with me and worked so hard. Theyre in the states with you, i couldnt do without them. They know our family. Shannon fisher who is not here, emma connell, Taylor Rogers and emil who just got engaged, emily. We could not have been successful without our fantastic finance chairs who are also volunteers who give so much time and ive been blessed to have three finance chairs in steve wynn and todd and thank you to all of you. I also want to thank President Trump. For giving me this historic opportunity after his win in 2016 and tapping me to be only the second woman in history to lead the republican National Committee. My mom is here today, ronna romney and my stepdad, bruce. Hi, guys. Thank you for everything. Weve got a lot of family watching online and our kids arent here but i really want to give a shoutout to abigail. You saw them when they came in, they were 11 and 13 when i started this job and theyre the cutest kids still but just were in awe of all of you. You were so wonderful and they spent part of their lives, they love you. Abigail is on study abroad in london, her birthday, International Womans Day is her birthday, happy birthday, abigail, we love you. Nash is in school and could care less whats going on here but thank you. And my husband patrick who is right back there. I get emotional. Im back with you, though. Patrick is amazing, when President Trump and the team came to me to do this job seven years ago, i said no. And patrick turned to me and said, honey, we can do anything for two years. Its only seven years later. Hes the most amazing man and husband. As women and moms who work and on the road and do these things, your kids, when theyre at the baseball game youre missing, they dont care youre on air force i with the president and they notice their moms not there but pat was always there. Pat is an amazing person. I love you, honey. Happy 25th anniversary. Pats going to be seeing a lot more of me now. As this chapter ends in my life, ive had so much time to reflect on what weve accomplished in the last seven years and hope youll indulge me as i go through some of the amazing achievements weve made as a committee. When i won this gavel seven years ago, i had a vision that youve all supported to grow this party. We need to be bringing more people into the party because we know what we stand for is right. So im going to talk about some of the ways we did that. First, we grew in our communications to voters. We grew our email list from three million to 50 million subscribers. We finally launched an online small dollar fundraising platform to compete with at blue. We were trounced by the democrats over and over again for 15 years and finally we did it. On that platform weve raised 1. 5 billion and brought in 2. 5 million new donors into our party. In the last midterm the r. N. C. Had 2. 9 million contributions which were the most given in the history of the r. N. C. And organized a texting house file and didnt even exist previously because technology changed and become our highest grossing net revenue channel. We launched the grow program to help strengthen our state party. Many dont know but you do. We customize how to help you be successful in your state and its been a tremendous success. One of my favorite opportunities as chair was to go to israel to open the embassy in jerusalem under the leadership of President Trump. It was another honor to bring on the Republican Jewish Coalition as a partner in our debate last november, the first time in history either party partnered with a Jewish Organization for a president ial debate. We got into the Election Integrity space for the first time in 40 years because we couldnt, we were under Consent Decree and put attorneys on the ground and put in poll watchers to ensure fair elections. Our Communications Team who is great, they run the white houses least favorite x twitter account, x account and its called r. N. C. Research, joe biden hates it and cant stand it and they find the pictures of him on the beach in delaware and all the things he does and is holding him accountable and why hes one of the least popul facn history. Something im most proud of that you know is near and dear to my heart is investment and engaging minority voters and bringing them into our party. For too long our parties have ignored and creeded these he votes. And we stopped dropping in before the election and opened sustained invested Community Centers and minority communities and its changed our party. In 2022, we went up 17 points with asian voters, 1 points with hispanic voters and four points with black voters. Our policies work. When we take it to these communities, they vote with us and they are becoming republican. The r. N. C. Places such a vital the r. N. C. Plays such a vital role. A lot of people do tv but were the nuts and bolts and the infrastructure and the turn out the votes and were the committee everyone depends on to turn out republicans across the country. In 2022, we won the popular vote by four million votes and would have won the Electoral College had it been a president ial cycle because of this organizations turnout operation which yes, did include ballot harvesting in states like nevada and california. I like to say we build the road and all the cars drive on it. You need a good road and great cars to get to your destination. The road we make up, the infrastructure we put together activates volunteers who knock doors and make phone calls and get every single republican to cast their vote for our candidate. At the end of the day, were not the ones driving on the road. The candidates and the campaign decide where they go and not every candidate in 2022 made it to their destination. I want to talk about this only because its pivotal as we head into 2024 to understand what candidates should have done in 2022 to win. First, we cannot put our head in the sand and ignore abortion and the Dobbs Decision. Many of our candidates chose to ignore this issue and not talk about it. And the r. N. C. Was a leading issue urging candidates to talk about this issue head on. Go figure. Im a suburban mom and might have some opinions on this issue. I authored a memo in the summer of 2022 highlighting how we win on this issue when voters are faced with the decision between a republican that supports exceptions and reasonable limitations when a baby feels pain and a democrat who supports no exceptions, no limits, not even when a baby feels pain. Too many candidates and specifically their consultants scoffed at this advice and ended up paying the price on election day. In 2022, candidates mattered. Candidates always matter. But the candidates who won were able to articulate a message on abortion and also attract and win swing and independent voters. Well have to replicate that if were going to win in 2024. Our winning candidates realize we cant win by just speaking to an echo chamber of republicans. We dont win if we only talk to each other. We have to go out and engage independent and swing voters and sell them on our vision for this country. Additionally over the last seven years, we have elected the most republican women to congress in history. And as only the second woman to ever chair the r. N. C. In our entire 168year history, thats a feat im incredibly proud of. We also in 2018 bucked the odds and picked up senate seats. In 2020 we picked up 15 house seats. In 2021, in a purple state joe biden just won we elected millions and elected glenn lumpkin. And my mousse proud moment was in 2022 when we won back the house and finally fired nancy pelosi. And we accomplished all this while going through a russia hoax investigation, two impeachments, a once in a lifetime Global Pandemic and a Dobbs Decision that flipped the script on a 2022 election. They say campaigns are like a marathon but i view 2024 more like a relay race. The work of everyone in our headquarters and in the field have put me in a position to hand the baton off to a new chair with a lead. The state of our party is strong. Over the last year, the r. N. C. Has been building the road for our eventual eventual nominee, donald j. Trump. Weve made our own division for the first time in history and today we are engaged in 78 lawsuits in 23 states. This is critical to protecting our elections and we spent a lot of money on it and think its the right thing for the r. N. C. To be doing. I just did a podcast with josh helm, the head of our Election Integrity division where we went over the few of our losses. In arizona they put together a manual to undermine Election Integrity and to allow noncitizens to vote. That is why we sued. Finally, we launched the bank your vote initiative. You all heard me talk about this a lot. Please indulge me when i talk about it one more time. We need voters to bank their vote and vote early. We cannot continue letting democrats run up the score in critical states and we just wait to vote on election day. You all know im a huge football fan, right. We all know michigan won the National Championship this year. Yes. Go blue. You cannot win a Football Game if you only start scoring in the fourth quarter. We all know this. If republicans succeed in getting republicans to vote early and ballot harvests were legal, donald trump will win in november. It really is that simple. We launched a website for all 56 states and territories in 16 different languages to inform voters where to vote, how to vote, how do you get your ballot, how do you request a absentee ballot, how do you track your ballot, where is the polling station . Its krill catcalled bankyourvote. Com. We cant make it successful alone. It will take every one of you and take candidates up and down the ballot supporting this and its going to take our nominee working with the r. N. C. To educate the voter why they need to bank their vote early. Weve hired Election Integrity and political state directors in 15 battleground states, including important house and Senate States like arizona, new york, and montana. Our Political Team has invested in opening minority Community Centers in states like North Carolina, texas, california, and new york and our teams in the field have already contacted 3. 5 million voters across the country. We just posted our best fundraising of the cycle in january when we raised 12 million and followed it up with february raising nearly 11 million. Our january and february reporting will be the best two months of fundraising the r. N. C. Has ever had when we did not occupy the white house. Im going to repeat that again. Our january and february fundraising are going to be the best two months of fundraising the r. N. C. Has ever had. When we didnt have the white house ever and we didnt have a nominee yet. So why do we feel good about the position were in and we know joe biden is floundering in the polls and we know hes incredibly unpopular and i feel good where we are right now. Im going to say were not done. We have a lot of work to do. And this same day, this same point in 2020, we still hadnt even had a pandemic yet. That hadnt even happened. And think how that changed the trajectory of that election. We know the democrats are going to have a ton of money. Theyre going t