This election marks the Largest Senate games for a president s party in a first Midterm Election since at least president kennedys in 1962. There have been only four Midterm Elections since 1934 in which a president s party has gained even a single senate sea seat. As of now, we picked up it looks like three. It could be four. Perhaps it could be two. But we picked up a lot. And most likely the number will be three. You people probably know that better than i do at this point. Because you have looked at the more recent numbers. 55 is the largest number of republican senators in the last 100 years. In the last 80 years, a sitting president s party has only gained a cumulative total of
eight senate seats. Averaging one per decade. So we have picked up two, three, four, that is a big percentage of that number. So in the last 80 years, you think, only eight seats. In President Obamas first Midterm Election, he lost six senate seats including in the deep blue state of massachusett massachusetts. Republicans captured at least four senate seats held by democrat incumbents, and these are tremendously talented, hardworking people that did this. Indiana, north dakota, florida, missouri. We also won two open senate seats in tennessee, and i want to congratulate our great champion who did such a great job in tennessee. And in utah. And arizona is looking very good. Really very good. She has done a terrific job, that was a big race and she has done a terrific job. In the open seats democrats recruited strong candidates with substantial fundraising and media support. We were getting bombarded with money on the other side. In the house, republicans dramatically outperformed historical precedents and overcome a historic number of retirements. The most House Republican tyrants in 88 years. 43 House Republicans retired. Now, i will say this, in many cases they were chairman of committees. And they left because they were not chairman, because the republicans have a role for six years. And what they do is wonderful in one way, and lets people come through the system and become
chairman in another way it drives people out. Because when they are determined, they do not want to go and not be a chairman. You are the chairman of a committee and you are a big deal. And then all of a sudden you are not doing that anymore. So they leave. We had a lot of them leave. I guess it can flip a coin as to which system is better. The democrats do the other pair to some of those folks have been on the committees for a long time as chairman. In 2010, President Obamas first midterm he lost 63 seats. By contrast as of the most current count, it looks like around 27 house seats or something. And we will figure that out pretty soon. We also had a slew of historic wins in the governor s races. The governors races were incredible. Against wellfunded and talented and skilled democrat candidates, and people that worked very, very hard, respectfully for those candidates like oprah, who
i like. I dont know she likes me anymore, but thats okay. She used two. But she worked very hard in georgia, very, very hard. And if you look at them, the four governors races, crucial to 2020 in the president ial race. Florida, iowa, ohio, and georgia, the big ones. Florida, iowa, ohio, and georgia. It cannot get much more important than that. They were incredible. They were actually incredible campaigns too. Incredible. As of right now, republicans will control the majority of governorships across the country. Including three great women who worked very hard. The governors of alabama, south dakota, and iowa. They worked very, very hard. They are very talented. By expanding the senate majority, the voters have also
clearly rebuked the Senate Democrats for their handling of the kavanaugh hearings, i think that that was a factor. May be a big factor. Tremendous energy was given to the Republican Party for way that they treated then judge cavanaugh, now Justice Kavanaug kavanaugh. And expressing their support for confirming great proconstitution judges. Candidates who embraced our message of low taxes, low regulations, no crime low crime, strong borders, and great judges excelled last night. They excelled. They really, i mean, we have a list of people that were fantastic. And im just going to point them out. Mike bossed, rodney davis, andy
barr was fantastic. I went to kentucky, for the most part i did not campaign for the house, but i did make a special trip for andy barr, because he was in a very tough race. And he won. That was a very tough race, the polls were all showing that he was down, down substantially, and he won. Could stop her and of a minnesota. Great guy, he is new. And ran a fantastic race. You have some that said lets stay away, lets stay away. They did very poorly. Im not sure that i should be happy or sad. But i feel just fine about it. Carlos curbelo, mike kaufman. Too bad, mike. Mia love. I saw mia love, she would call me all the time to help her with a hostage situation, being held
hostage in venezuela. But mia love gave me no love. And she lost. Too bad. Sorry about that, mia. And Barbara Concept was another one. I think that she couldve won that race, but she did not want to have an embrace. For that, i do not blame her. But she lost substantially lost. Peter roskam did not want the embrace. Erik paulsen did not want the embrace. And in new jersey, i think that he could have done well, but did not work out too good. Bob you can come i feel badly, that is something that couldve been one. John fatso, those are some of the people that decided for their own reason not to embrace whether it is me or what we stand for, but what we stand for
meant a lot to a lot of people. And we have had tremendous support and tremendous support in the Republican Party among the biggest support of the history of the party. Ive actually heard and 93 it is the record. But it will not say that. Because who knows. But we have had tremendous support. America is booming like never before. Doing fantastic. We have larry kudlow here, he said that the numbers are as good as he has ever seen, numbers at any time for our country. But he has a young man, so he has not seen that many numbers. Where is larry . You are a young man, right, larry, you have not been doing this too long. But they are as good as you have ever seen. And we may have, if you have a question for larry, we will do that. But i want to send my warmest appreciation in regards to majority leader mitch
mcconnell. We really worked very well together. We have been working very well together. We have a great relationship. People just do not understand. Which is fine. And also to perhaps, looks like i would think, speaker nancy pelosi. And i give her a lot of credit. She works very hard. And she has worked long and hard. I give her a great deal of credit for what she has done and accomplished. Hopefully we can all Work Together next year to continue delivering for the american people. Including on economic growth, infrastructure, trade, lowering the cost of Prescription Drugs. These are some of the things that the democrats do want to work on. And i really believe that we will be able to do that. We are going to have a lot of reason to do it. And i will say, just as a matter of business. I was very successful with the people last night. So if the republicans won, lets say that we held on by two, one, or three, it wouldve been hard to have that many republicans to even get support among republicans. Because there will always be one, two, three people there for good reason or bad raising or for grandstanding, we have that too. You have seen that. Plenty of grandstanding. But for certain reasons that many people, you are always going to have a couple that will not do it. So that puts us in a very bad position. In other words, had we kept, and this is new. I am saying this for a very basic reason. It puts us in a very tough position. We win by two, three, and he will have one, two, three, four, or five say that we will not go along with this. We want this, this, this period and all and all of a sudden, we would not be able to get in and in many cases in the republicans hands before we sent it on to the senate. And now we have a much easier path. Because the democrats will come to us with a plan for infrastructure. A plan for health care. A plan for what ever they are looking at. And we will negotiate. And as you know, it has been very hard in the senate, because we essentially do not get the votes from democrats. Because they do stick together well. I do not agree with them on a lot of policy. But i agree that they stick together. They stick together good. So we going to the senate, we do not have the ten votes. And what happens . It does not get past. Even if it gets out of the house, it does not pass. So under the new concept of what we are doing, i say come on. Let me see what you have. They want to do things. I keep hearing about investigations. Fatigue, like from the time almost from the time that i announced i was going to run. They have been giving us this investigation fatigue. It has been a long time. They have nothing. Zero. You know why . Because there is nothing. But they can play that game, but we can play it better. Because we have a thing called the United States senate. And a lot of very questionable things were done between leaks of Classified Information and many other elements that should not have taken place. And all you are going to do is end up in back and forth and back and forth. And two years will go up, and we will not have done a thing. I really think and i really respect what nancy said last night about bipartisanship and getting together and uniting. She used the word uniting, and she used the bipartisanship statement, which is so important. That is what we should be doing. So we can look at us, they can
look at us. We can look at them. And it will go back and forth. And it will probably be very good for me politically. I can see it being extremely good politically. I think that i am better at that game then they are, actually. But we will find out. We will find out. Or we can Work Together. You cannot do it simultaneously, by the way. Oh, you can do them both . No, you cant. Because if they are doing that, we are not doing the other. Just so you understand. We will not be doing that. But now it happens as we send it to the senate, and we will get 100 democrat support. And we will get some republican support. And if it is good, i really believe that if we have republicans that will help with the approval process. And they will really help with the approval process. So it really could be a beautiful bipartisan type of situation. If we won by one, two, three, four, five. That would not happen. And the closer it is, the worse that it is. This way they will come to me,
we will negotiate. Maybe we will make a deal, maybe we wont. That is possible. But we have a lot of things in common on infrastructure. We want to do something on health care, they want to do something on health care. There are a lot of great things that we can do together. It will send it up and we will really get the democrats and the republicans, or some of the republicans. And i will make sure that we send something up that the republicans can support. And they are going to make sure that they want to send something up that the democrats can support. So our great country is blooming like never before and we are thriving on every single level. In terms of economic and political strength. In terms of development, in terms of the gdp, we are doing unbelievable. I can tell you that the trade deals are coming along fantastically. The usmca, and south korea is finished. Usmca, it has gotten rave reviews. Not going to lose companies
anymore to other countries. They are not going to do that because they have a tremendous economic incentive. It is prohibitive for them to do that. So they are not going to have it happen like nafta, which is one of the worst deals i have ever seen. But we have to mention pretty bad ones too. Now it is time for members of both parties to join together, put partisanship a side, and keep the American Economic miracle going strong. It is a miracle. We are doing so well, and i have set it at a lot of rallies. Some of you have heard it so much, you do not want to hear it again. But when people come to my office, president s, Prime Ministers, they all congratulate me. Almost the first thing on what we have done economically. Because it is really amazing. And our Steel Industry is back. Our Aluminum Industry is starting to do really well. These are industries that were dead. The miners are working again. We must all Work Together to
protect our military. We have to do that. We have to support our law enforcement, secure our borders, and advance really great to policy, including environmental policy. We went Crystal Clean water. We want to beautiful perfect ai air. Air and water has to be perfect. At the same time, we do not want to put ourselves at a disadvantage to other countries who are very competitive with us. And who do not abide by the rules at all. We do not want to hurt our jobs. We do not want to hurt our factories. We do not one company is leaving. We want to be totally competitive. And we are. And right now we have just about the cleanest air. The cleanest water that we have ever had. And it is always going to be that way. We insist on it. So environmental is very important to me. And with that, i will take a few questions if you like. Whoa. I did not know what happened go ahead. That was a lot of hands shooting
up so quickly. There is a lot to talk about. Mr. President , you talked in length about bipartisanship, the presumed Speaker Of The House nancy pelosi talked about it last night. Im sure that that is encouraging for the american people. But do you really believe given what the relationship has been like between this white house and the Democratic Party that that will happen . President trump i think that there is a good chance. I think that there is a very good chance. If i can just finish, will you have to compromise on certain issues where it could hurt you in 2020 . And do you expect that when the democrats take over the chairmanship of all of these important committees that you will get hit with a blizzard of subpoenas on everything from the russia investigation to your cell phone use, to your taxes . President trump then if that happens, we are going to do the same thing. And governments comes to a halt. And i would blame them. Because they now are going to be coming up with policy. They are the majority of the
house. I expect that they will come up with some fantastic ideas that i can support on the environment. On so many different things. Including Prescription Drug prices, which we have made a big dent in already. Including some of the things that we are working on for the vets who have gotten choice approve. We have gotten a lot of things approved. But they have some other elements that we want to. If there are many things we can get along on. It can be without the trouble that we agree with them and they agree with us. I would like to see bipartisanship. I would like to see unity. And i think that we have a very good chance, maybe not on everything. But we have a very good chance of seeing that. Go ahead. One question on your cabinet. You toyed during a shutdown before the midterms in order to secure border wall funding. Are you prepared to go at a Shutdown Strategy during the lame duck, since this might be
the last best chance to secure that . President trump not necessarily, i speak to democrats all the time. A wall as necessary. We have started, but we should build it at one time and not adjuncts. But you want much more money. President trump we have the money to build a wall. Not pieces. We have the military. And now we have other elements of a wall that are pretty nasty, to be honest with you. But it is nevertheless pretty hard to get through. But i would like to see the wall. Many of the people that will be dealing with you all and 2006, they agreed with the same thing. And they all approved it. If statements from every one of them. Seeing that we need the wall. They sound like me. But we do need it. Because we have people coming. Im not just talking about the caravans. We have people coming through the border that you physically cannot put that many people, it is a 2,000mile stretch. You cannot put that many people along that stretch to guard it. And even if you did, tremendous fighting would ensue. So, we need the wall. Many democrats know we need the wall. And we are going to have to see what happens. I will be fighting for it. They have done everything in their power to make sure, i got the military 700,000,000,000. 716 billion. The wall is a tiny fraction of the cost of that. But their whole agenda has been to try not to giving me anything for though wall. I really believe politically that they are hurting themselves. I actually think politically that is a good thing for me, but i want to get the wall up. So no Shutdown Scenario . President trump i cannot commit to that, but it is possible. Can you give us clarity on your thinking after the midterms about your Attorney General and her Deputy Attorney general, do they have long timers job security . President trump i will answer that had a little bit of a different time, we are looking at a lot of things including cabinet. Im very happy with most of my
cabinet. We are looking at different people for different positions. You know, it is very common after the midterms. I do not want to do anything before the midterms. But it will tell you that for the most part i am extremely happy with my cabinet. I think that mike pompeo has fit in so beautifully. He has done an incredible job. What about your Interior Secretary . President trump we are looking at that. And i want to study whatever is being said. Is he in jeopardy . President trump he is doing a fantastic job. But we will look at that, and probably have an idea about that