Known. This election marks the Largest Senate gains 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 seat. As of now, we picked up it looks like three, and could be four, and perhaps two, but we picked up a lot. Most like ly the number is thre, and you people probably know that better than i do at this point, because you looked at the more recent numbers. 55 is the largest number of republican senators in the last 100 years. In years a president s party has only
acquired eight cumulative seats averaging one per decade, and so if we picked up two, three, four, that is a big percentage of that number. So in the last 80 years, you think of that. Only eight seats. In President Obamas first Midterm Election, he lost six senate seats, include ing ing i deep blue state of massachusetts. Republicans captured at least four senate seats held by democrat incumbents and these are tremendously talented hard working people that did this the. Indiana, north dakota, florida, missouri, and we also won two open senate seats in tennessee. I want to congratulate our great champion who did such a great
job in tennessee, marsha, and in utah. And arizona is looking very good. Really very good. She has done a terrific job, and that is a tough race, and she has done a fantastic job, and in each of the open seats, the democrats are recruited strong candidates with substantial fundraising and media support. We were getting bombbarded with money on the other side. In the house, republicans dramatically outperformed the historical precedence and overcame a historic number of retirements and the most House RepublicanHouse Retirements in 88 years. 43 House Republicans retired, and now i will say this that in many cases, they were chairmen of committees, and they left because they were not chairmen and the republicans have a role for six year, and what that does is wonderful in one way and lets people come through the system,
and become chairmen and in other ways it drives people out. Because when they are the chairmen, they dont want to go to not be the chairmen and you are the chairmen and a big deal and now all of the sudden, you not doing that, and so we had them leave, and lot of them leave. And so you can flip a coin as to which system is better. The democrats do other, andle is of their folk folks have been chairmen for a long time. And in obamas first term he lost 63 seat, and by contrast, the most current count around 27 house seats or r something, and we will figure that out pretty soon. We also had a slew of historic wins in the governors races, and the governors races were incredible against very well funded and talent and skilled democrat candidates and people that worked very, very hard respectfully for those
candidates like Oprah Winfrey who i like, and i dont know if she likes me anymore, but that is okay, she used to. But she worked very hard in georgia, and very, very hard. And if you are looking at them with four governors races crucial to 2020 and the president ial race, florida, iowa, ohio, and georgia. The big ones. Florida, iowa, ohio and georgia. You cant get much more important than that. They were incredible campaigns, too. Incredible. As of right now, the 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 and very talented. By expanding the senate majority
the voters have also clearly rebuked the Senate Democrats for their handling of the Kavanaugh Hearing and that is a factor and maybe a very big factor of the way it was handled was Tremendous Energy given to the Republican Party by the way they treated then judge kavanaugh and now justice kavanaugh. And expressed the support for confirming more great pro constitution judges. Candidates who embraced our message of low taxes, low regulations, low crimes and Strong Borders and great judges excelled last night. They excelled. They really, and i mean, we have a list of people that were fantastic. I am just going to point them out. Mike bost, rodney davis, andie
barr was fantastic who i went to kentucky for the most part and 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 in kentucky, and he won. That is a tough race, and the polls were all showing that he was down and down substantially, and he won, and that is one that i did do, pete stauber of minnesota, and great guy, and he is new and ran a fantastic race. On the other hand, you had some who decided to lets stay away. Lets stay away. They did very poorly. I am not sure that i should be happy or sad, but i feel just fine about it. Carlos cuebela, mike kauffman, and too bad, mike. Mia love. I saw mia love, and she called me all of 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 Comstock is another one and i think that she could have won that race, but she did go on and not have any embrace for that, and for that i dont blame her. But she lost substantially, and substantially lost. Peter roskam did not want the embrace, and eric paulson did not want the embrace, and in new jersey, i think that he could have done well, but it did not work out too well, bob hugin, and i feel badly, because i think that is something that could have been won, and that is a race that could have been won, and john fasso and those are some people who decided for their own reason not the embrace whether it is me or what we
stand for, but what we stand for meant a lot to most people. And we have had tremendous support and tremendous support on the republican par the ti among the biggest support in the h history of the party. I have actually heard at 93 , it is a record, but i wont say that, because who knows. But we have a had tremendous support. America is booming like never before. Doing fantastic. And we have larry kudlow here, and he says that the numbers are as good as he has ever seen in numbers at a any time for our country, and he is a young man, and so he as not seen that many numbers. Where is larry . You are a young man, right, larry, and 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 and regards to majority leader mitch
mcconnell. We really worked very well together. And we e have been working really well together, and we have actually a great relationship, and people just dont understand that, which is fine. And also, to perhaps looks like i would think the 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 what she has accomplish and hopefully we can all Work Together next year to continue delivering for the american people. And including on economic growth, infrastructure and trade and lowering the cost of Prescription Drugs, and these are some of the things that the democrats do want to work on and i really believe that we with will be able to do that. I believe that we will have a lot of reason to do it. And i will say, just as a matter of business, i was with some very successful people last night, and we we were watching
the returns, and so if the are republicans won, and say we held on by two or one or three, it would have been very hard having that many republicans to ever even get support among the republicans, because there is always one or two or three people that for good reason or bad reason or for grandstanding, and we have that, too, and you have seen that. You have seen that. Plenty of grandstanding but for certain reasons with that many people, you will have a kocoupl of people who wont do that and so that going to put us at a bad position. And in other words, had we kept and i am saying this for a very b basic reason, and it is common sense, it puts us in a tough position, we win by one or two or three, and youll have one or two or three or four or five even come over to say, look, we wont go along with this, and we want this, this, this, and all of the sudden, we wouldnt even be able to get it in many cases out of 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 in a infrastructure and plan for health care or a plan or whatever they are looking at and we will negotiate. As you nknow it is very hard in the senate, because we need essentially ten votes from the democrats, and we dont get the vote, because the democrats really do stick together well. I dont agree with them on a lot of policy, but i agree with them sticking together, and they stick together great. So we go into the senate and we dont have the ten votes, and what happens . It does not get passed and even if it is out of the house, it is not going to be passed. So under the new concept of what we are doing, i say, come on, let me see what you have, and they want to do things, and i keep hearing about investigations fatigue like from the time of almost from the time
i announced that i would run. They have been giving us this the investigation fatigue. It has been a long time. They got 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 to end up in back and forth and back and forth and two years is going to go up, and we wont have done a thing. I really think that, and i really respected with what nancy said last night about bipartisanship and getting together and uniting. She used the word uniting and the bipartisanship statement which is so important, because that is what we should be doing. So we can look at us, and we can look at us and they can look at them, and it will be back and forth and probably very good for me politically, and i can see it extremely good politically, because i think that i am better at that game than they are actually, but we will find out. And we will find out or we can Work Together. And you cannot do them simultaneously, and somebody said you can do them both, and no, if they are doing that, we are not doing the other so you understand. So we wont be doing that. And so what happens now is that we send it to the senate and we will have 100 democratic support and some republican s support, and if it is good, we will have republicans who will help with the Approval Process and they will really help with the Approval Process, and so it is really could be a beautiful bipartisan type the of situation. If we won by one or two or three or four or five and the closer
it is, the worse it is. This way, they come to me, and negotiate and maybe we will make a deal and maybe we wont, and that is possible, but we have a lot of things in common on infrastructure and we want to do something on health care and they do, and so there are a lot of great things that we can do together, and we will send it up, and get the democrats and thep republicans or some of the republicans and ill make sure that we send something up that the republicans can support, and they are going to want to send something up that the democrats can support. So our great country is boom in like never before, and we are thriving on every single level both in terms of the economic and the military strength, in terms of development and in terms of gdp where we are doing unbelievably. I will tell you that the trade deals are coming along fantastically, and the usmca and south korea is finished. Usmca has gotten rave reviews and we wont lose companies
anymore to other countries, and we wont do that because they have a tremendous economic incentive and meaning that it is prohibitive for them to do that. So it is not going to be like nafta which is one of the worst deals that i have ever seen, and al though, we have made some other pretty bad ones, too, and now is the time for both parties to join together, put partisanship aside and keep the American Economic miracle going strong. It is a miracle. We are doing so well. And i have said it at a lot of the rallies and some of you have heard it so much that you dont want to hear it again, but when people come to my office, president s and Prime Ministers and they all congratulate me, and almost the first thing on what we have done economically. Because it is amazing. The Steel Industry is back, and the aluminum industry is starting the do well, and these are industries s thes that were. Our miners are working again. We must all Work Together to
protect the military. I have to do that. To support the Law Enforcement and secure our borders and advance really great policies including the environmental policy, and we want Crystal Clean water. We want beautiful perfect air. Air and water has to be perfect. At the same time, we dont want to put ourselves at a disadvantage to other countries who are very competitive with us and who dont abide by the rules at a all. We dont want to hurt our jobs. We dont want to hurt our factories, and we dont Want Companies leaving. We want to be totally competitive and we are. Right now, we have just about the cleanest air and the cleanest water that we have ever had and we insist on it. And so the environmental is important to me, and with they will take a few questions if youd like. Whoa i didnt know what happened. All right. Go ahead, john. That is a lot of hands shooting up so quickly. There is a lot the talk to about. There is a lot the talk about. And mr. President , you talked at length about the bipartisanship, and the presumed speaker of the house of the house nancy pelosi talked about it last night, and that is encouraging for american people, but do you really believe that given what the relationship is like between this white house and the Democratic Party that it will happen . I think that ta thehere is a chance that it will happen. And do you to compromise on issues that could hurt you in 2020 and do you expect when the democrats take control of the committees that you will be blitzed with issues from the subpoenas of the Cell Phone Use and then and if you do have that happen, then we will do the same thing and government comes to a halt, because we will be coming one policy, the majority in the
hou house, and 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 work on for the vets. We have gotten choice approve and lot of things approved, but they have other element s ths te want. And there are many things that we can get along on without a lot of trouble that we agree very much with them, and they agree with us. I would like to see bipartisanship. Id like to see unity, and i think that we have a good chance of and maybe not on everything, but we have a good chance of seeing that. Go ahead. One question on the lame duck, sir, and one on the cabinet. You toyed with the idea during the shutdown of the midterms in order to secure border policy,
and is this the last best chance to secure that . Look, i speak to the democrats all of the time. And they agree that a wall is necessary. A wall is necessary, and as you know, we have started, but we should build it at one time, and not in chunks. But you need more money. And one wall and not pieces all over ax and now we have the military and other elements of a wall that are pretty nasty to be honest, honest, but it is hard to get through it. No, i would like to see the wall, but many of the people that we are dealing with in 2006, they have approved the wall essentially. It was a Strong Border fence, but it is the same thing, and they all approved it and i have statements from every one of them and i have them saying we need the wall. They sound like me, and we do need it, because we have people coming in, and i am not talking about just the caravans, but we have people coming through the border that you cannot physically put that many people, and it is a 2,000mile stretch and you cant put that many
people along that stretch to guard it. And even if you did, tremendous fighting would ensue. And so we need the wall, and Many Democrats know that we need the wall, and we are just going to have to see what happens, and we will be fighting for it. They have done everything in their power to make sure, and i got the military 700 billion and 716 billion and the wall is the tiny fraction of that, but the whole agenda has been to try not the give me anything for the wall. I really believe politically they are hurting themselves and i actually believe that is politically a good thing for me, but i want to get the wall up. And no Shutdown Scenario for the lame duck i cant commit to that, but it is possible. And can you give us clarity of your thinking now after the midterms about the deputy the Attorney General and the do they have long term security. I would rather answer that at a different time. We are looking at a lot of
things, including the cabinet. I am very happy with most of the cabin cabinet. We are looking at different people for different position, and it is common after the midterms. I did not want to do anything before the midterms, but i will tell you that for the most part, i am extremely happy w