Hello everyone, and a special thanks to Jaime Harrison for doing an incredible job as our chairman. Thank you all for stepping up to lead our party at such a critical time. You know, we are all bound together by one of the most consequential campaigns and consequential first 8 months of a presidency in the history of this country. Beating back COVID-19, and now, working towards historic investments in our infrastructure, and in our people, that's going to create millions of jobs and transform our nation to be able to out-compete anyone in the world. We are in a race for the 21st century, and the rest of the world is not waiting around. We have to move fast, and we are. There is so much more we have to do. We need to protect the sacred right to vote. It's under assault, you know, in ways I haven't seen in my entire career. It is about who gets to vote, and here is the kicker: whether that vote counts, and whether the system that does both with integrity and independence is available to us. But what Republicans want to say is a political party gets to say if a vote counts. It's outrageous. We're going to fight like the devil to make sure that doesn't happen. You know, and there's work on immigration, courts, gun safety, building on the Affordable Care Act, protecting a woman's right to choose, and so much more. The work ahead is not going to be easy. But I want to make clear: I am grateful to what each and every one of you are doing to get it done. You know, my message is simple: we need to stay together and, bound by the values that we hold as a party. Here's the deal: we won 2020 as a unified party, and we look to 2022 -- as we do that -- we need to stay unified. The question the American people are going to be asking is whether we are helping them and their families in a real way. Do we understand what they are really going through? Can we deliver for them? As Democrats, we have to show that we do understand, we are delivering for them, and we are keeping our promises. We just have to keep making our case. Just -- the Republican party today offers nothing but fear, lies, and broken promises. We have to keep cutting through the Republican fog -- that government is the problem, and show that we the people are always the solution. Look, and we're going to win races up and down the ticket. We have to, like electing Terry McAuliffe again as governor of Virginia, and re-electing Phil Murphy as governor of New Jersey. If we deliver today across the board, 50 years from now, people are gonna look back and say this was the period, this was the moment, America won the 21st century., and once again, we are bound together by one of the most consequential periods in the nation's history, because we stayed true to who we are as Democrats, and who we are as Americans. So let's get it done. Let's keep the faith. Thank you, and may God bless you all, and may God protect our troops.
