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Jan. 31, 2025 22:42-23:30 - CSPAN
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Democratic National Committee Chair's Farewell Remarks
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This moment.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Shakir.
Americans are the most loyal voting bloc of the Democratic Party.
The South is our kingdom, and it is ours to win.
In similar words to Mr. Fred Hampton, you may not vote for a revolutionary DNC, but you can't stop the revolution.
And in similar words, as the great Miss Harriet Tupman, to give you all some encouragement, if you see the dogs coming, keep going.
If you see the torches in the woods, keep going.
If you see them shouting at you, thank you, Dr. Hathaway.
Keep going.
Thank you, everyone.
Thank you, everyone.
That concludes our forum.
We want to thank the candidates for their time.
My co-hosts, good night.
The Democratic National Committee meets Saturday to elect a new leader.
Ahead of the vote, outgoing DNC Chair Jamie Harrison made farewell remarks during the party's winter meeting in Maryland.
This is about 45 minutes.
I'm going to try to hold it together for these remarks.
We love you, Jamie.
I love you too, Chris.
I want to thank you all.
I want to thank the staff for pulling together that video.
And I want to thank you all for your kind words these last few days.
You know, being your chair has been the greatest professional honor that I have ever had.
And it's been the privilege of my lifetime.
For 14 years, these last 14 years, the DNC has been a major part of my life.
And I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to give back as much as I have received from each and every one of you in this incredible organization.
Even though my time as chair is coming to a close, don't think for one moment that my time as a Democrat is ending.
You are my political family.
And that means something special to me.
We are united by a bond that will last not just a lifetime, but generations.
You know, I often say this, and I say it every time, we are the oldest political party in the world.
For 197 years, the Democratic Party has existed.
For 177 years, the DNC has been an organization.
And the story of the Democratic Party has been the story of America.
All of the trials and tribulations, all of the evolution that we have seen in America, we've seen in this Democratic Party.
Each of us has a unique story, a unique version of the American story.
And for me, that was what has always made this experience so powerful.
I've gotten to know people, hear their stories, share mine.
When we see how we are all connected, we become a stronger party and a stronger country as a result.
In the video, you heard me talk about how my political journey started with Reverend Jesse Jackson and his run for president in 1988.
A man who came from where I came from, who looked like me, who had come so close to the most important and powerful job on this planet.
That was a story that I wanted to be a part of.
When he spoke at that convention that year, it was like he was speaking directly to me.
When he challenged young folks to keep on dreaming, that, my friends, gave me hope.
I grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, a town of about 15,000, 16,000 people.
It was a community in the best sense of the word.
My family didn't have much, but we were always willing to share.
There were days when there was no food in the fridge.
There were times in which the lights were turned off.
But if you stop by to say hello, my grandmother would still find a way to send you off with a plate of something wrapped in tin foil.
You know, it seems strange now, but that sense of community was driven largely by a lot of our elected officials, our local officials.
From those in the city council to the mayor, all the way up to our U.S. senators.
Our representatives, those folks who represented us, actually looked out for us.
When my mom needed a job at 18 years old, she wrote to her senators.
Or when my grandparents were looking for an affordable place to live, they talked to their state reps.
And those folks not only answered, but most importantly, they helped.
I saw the opportunities they were creating for my family and for my friends, and I saw how they were contributing to our story, and I wanted to do what they were doing.
So I started my journey in politics knocking on doors in South Carolina on behalf of the Clinton Gore campaign.
My head was still around, but I had a high top fade, so I had a whole lot more hair.
But I like to believe that my heart was in the same place.
I had confidence that Democrats would champion policies that helped my neighbors, my friends, my family, the people that I love, and that they would fight to make our world a better place.
That's why after law school, I started working for my political father, my political mentor, someone who I have learned so much about the political world, Congressman Jim Clavering.
And I officially stepped into the world of Democratic Party politics.
You know, after working on the Hill, becoming the first black executive director of the House Democratic Caucus, the first black executive director of the House Democratic Caucus, the first black state party chair of South Carolina, an associate chair of the DNC, and now I stand before you as chairman.
I've served through Republican majorities, Democratic administrations, and worked on historic campaigns.
I'm proud of everything that we have built together, my friends, and I'm confident that we are leaving the DNC in a strong position to take on the next four years in the whole Republicans' economy.
During the 2022 midterms, we showed up and we showed out, retaining the Senate majority and electing incredible Democratic leaders all over the state, people like Governor Westmore.
And that was possible because of the foundation that we laid, and we did it together.
Now I remember back in 2006, again, I was the ED for the House Dem caucus, when the DCCC chair and the DSCC chair were screaming at the DNC chair, Howard Dean, at the time about writing the goddamn check.
You all remember that.
It was a $5 million check, and they were asking the DNC to write that check in order to support their efforts.
Now, Howard Dean was focused on the 50-state strategy.
But folks, I'm happy to say that yes, we did the 50-state strategy on steroids because there has never been a DNC that has contributed more money and more resources to supporting the state parties, all 50 states and our territories and our Democrats abroad than this DNC.
But in addition to making that historic investment in our state parties, we wrote a big damn check.
We actually wrote $52 million to support the DCCC and the DSEC over these four years.
And nobody had to scream at me to do it.
We broke down silos and our organizations worked together in a way that they have never worked together before.
And now we have lifted the floor in terms of how we move forward as a party.
We also invested historic money on the ground just in the cycle, $264 million on the ground over the last two years.
We created the Red State Fund, the first of its kind, to make sure that we could send extra resources to our states that are currently under Republican control.
Over the last four years, we've nearly quadrupled our partnership with diverse vendors.
We made strategic campaign grants in all of our 57 state parties.
And we made historic investments to create a data infrastructure that is built to last.
You know, I'm proud of everything that we have accomplished together over the past four years.
But I'm also prepared to look into the future.
And as a party, we can't afford to run from the truth.
If we want to make real lasting progress for our loved ones, we must make changes.
You know, in reflecting a lot lately, I think I probably would have been a better chair without the White House than with the White House.
And I'm just going to be honest with you all.
It was an honor of my life to work with our president and our vice president, and I'm going to thank them, a special thanks for them later.
But I can tell you, it is a very different DNC when you have the White House and when you don't have the White House.
The culture changes.
What you are able to do changes.
And this is the thing that I will say.
You know, there are words that are written on this paper, but I'm going to express words that are etched on my heart right now.
Never again can this DNC, and not to say that this was something unique to this time and this period, because it's always been this way.
Carol will tell you this when Don was the chair of the DNC.
It has always been that the DNC is a rubber stamp for the campaign or just an extension of the White House.
But I want to say this to you all today: this is an opportunity for you to change the culture of how we have this party.
We are the Democratic Party, not just the White House Party.
We are the democratic party and my friends heard the pain that you all have been expressing over these last few days and weeks in these elections that you want to do more.
that you want a seat at the table.
Lord knows I wanted one too.
And it's hard to express this because I couldn't give you what I didn't always have myself.
You have the opportunity right now, members of the DNC, to change the culture of how we conduct ourselves moving forward.
And I hope, I hope and pray that you will take this opportunity to do just that.
That the DNC deserves a seat at the table when deciding major issues and how we move forward as a party.
Now I can go into details with you all another time because we could stay here all night.
But it is incumbent upon us if we want to continue to win elections up and down the ballot that the DNC and its members have to be heard, have to have a seat at the table, have to be in that process, cannot just be relegated to the sidelines.
We bring a wealth of experiences.
We bring all of the diversity of bear.
It is our finger that is on the pulse of where people are in this country.
And it's important that we are able to bring all those things to bear in terms of making decisions on how this party moves forward.
So that's number one.
Number two, one of the things I wanted to do early on in my first year was to do a brand study for the DNC because I first had knew that we had problems with our Democratic brand in parts of the country and in parts of our community.
When I ran for the United States Senate in South Carolina, yes, we had tons of money.
But folks, I can tell you this.
Santa Claus could have run on, and the election could have been on Christmas Day.
But if he had a D behind his name in some parts of our state, he would lose and lose badly.
Not because anybody ever heard of what he said or what he did, but because of the D and what it represented in the minds of those folks.
And it was misinformation and disinformation, not because it was wedded in the truth, but because people for years have been pouring all of this negativity into the perception of who we are as a party.
That has to fundamentally change.
And it is not a bunch of money that changes that.
I told you all when I ran for the DNC back in 2016 that the Democratic Party can't just be a political organization.
It has to be a community organization.
It has to be embedded in the communities, working with people 365 days a year.
Because when you work with folks, and most importantly, when you help people, it's hard as hell to then define them as the demon.
It's hard to define them as the opposition.
I've seen it firsthand.
I've told you all the story.
When we are able to provide constituent service, one of the things I wanted to do was Democrats care.
You all have always heard me talk about Democrats care.
It is when you go into communities and you help people.
One of the things that we tried to do in my Senate campaign was to take our volunteers and I made dinners at the Ronald McDonald house.
We took our campaign and we partnered with the Boys and Girls Club and we did a school supply strive because I remember as one of those kids where my mom could not afford to buy me a backpack when I couldn't have a new trapper keeper when I didn't always have the new shoes and the nice new clothes and how hard she struggled.
Well, those things didn't just disappear when I grew up.
People are still living that way right now.
We as Democrats don't need to be in power in order to help people.
We have that power right now.
And what we have to do is to go into communities, communities that have not seen us in a long time, and show up and say, I'm not asking for anything.
All I want to do is help.
And when we do that, my friends, we transform the brand of the Democratic Party.
We become more than a political organization.
We become a part of the community.
And we have to get back to that.
The other thing I want to say as I start to close out, and I want to, I really do want to think, I am so grateful for some of the things and the innovations that this talented team at the DNC has really created.
And I'm really, really grateful for each and every one of them.
From the social media team to the ops team, the HR, just all of them.
They've all done such a masterful job.
We have to figure out and innovate ourselves in terms of the media space as well.
One of the things I wanted to do was to create a DNC channel on YouTube where we did and created our own shows where we brought in an AOC and we brought in a Jamie Raskin and we brought in a Jasmine Crockett and actually have them produce shows.
I don't know if you've been to the DNC headquarters lately, but we have renovated the studios in the basement and they're absolutely beautiful.
It feels like you're in somebody's living room.
Really nice living room.
Now in the South, you know, usually in the living room, there's still plastic on the sofas.
You know, you can't sit on them good sofas and mess them up.
But we don't have plastic on the sofas.
But it's a really nice, I mean, state-of-the-art space.
We can create our own channel.
We shouldn't just rely on, well, we hope MSNBC or CNN will cover the things that we're talking about.
We can do that in-house.
We try to do that.
We tried to launch a podcast in the law.
But one of the things that you will find in this work is that sometimes cultural change is hard change, particularly for a party as old as ours.
That people are used to doing things the way that they are used to doing it, and then you can't always innovate.
Well, you now have the opportunity to innovate.
There's nobody that you have to report to other than yourselves.
So you can do the things that you want to do to change the party and move forward.
We have to address the media gap that we have right now.
There's so much misinformation and disinformation going out there.
And so we can't just rely on other people to tell our stories.
We have to tell our own stories.
And we have to build up that capacity in order to do so.
So I hope the next chair will do that.
And I hope the next chair will do something that I wanted to do in our midterms, which is have a midterm convention.
You all have, we've had them in the past.
Use that as an opportunity to showcase the new talent that is in this party, to showcase the candidates that will be running for the Senate and gubernatorial races and all of these things.
We are already halfway there now in terms of the $20 million that we need for the convention.
And we demonstrated in this last one we will have more than enough money for the 2028 convention.
So utilize that now to convene our party to get together and to energize and mobilize as we move forward.
And just know I will be with you all every step of the way as we do that.
I do want to close with this.
Again, I'm skipping around all in this thing.
I appreciate the writers on our staff because they put their heart and souls in this thing, and I just butcher them every time because I just come up and say whatever the hell I want to.
I want to say thank you.
I want to say thank you.
And I have special thank yous, too.
Where's Clay and Josh?
I want to say a few thank yous to some folks, and then I may leave you with my closing message.
First, thank you to someone who is just such a hero to me.
Someone who volunteers her time and her services.
Someone who is my homegirl from the great state of South Carolina.
I don't know if you all recognize the treasure that we have in Helen McFadden, who is our Parliamentary, and I know she's hatin' this right now.
But if you are ever in trouble, you better call Helen because she will find a way to get you out of it.
And particularly if you're ever in parliamentary trouble, there is nobody in this country that is better than Helen McFadden.
And I really hope, DNC members, you know, and I'm talking to some of you because afterwards I won't be a member, but I really hope that we can get some resolutions to really stabilize this role of parliamentarian for the DNC.
Because either it needs to be a role as an officer of the DNC or it needs to be a paid staff member of the DNC.
Because Helen is a jewel and she deserves so much more in terms of what we can.
And so, Helen, I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for these four years of keeping me out of the fire and making sure that we navigate and we did the work of the DNC.
So on behalf of the DNC, Helen, for your service and dedication to the DNC and the values of the Democratic Party, I present a token of appreciation to you.
And I've been so, so honored to have folks that have become my dear friends.
I don't know, I guess Kim.
The officers of the DNC.
We have a lot of officers, and then I have my folks I call my working officers.
The ones who are actually, anytime I call and say, I need your help on this, I'm doing the bus tour, they're like, count me in, I'm there with you.
And these folks on this platform have been there with me every step of the way.
And I'm so grateful for them and their friendships.
They have been the folks, you know, sometimes you need to vent and you don't have very many people that you can vent to.
Well, these folks have been the folks that I've vented to over these years and have supported me every step of the way.
So I have a little token of appreciation.
I call them the little DNC medals that I want to present to my dear friends and the officers of the DNC and to just thank them for their friendship and their leadership over these four years.
First, to our money man, my brother, Chris Porter.
Next, to the woman who makes sure our FEC filings always are straight.
She's the best.
Keep us out of jail.
Keep us out of jail.
Virginia McGregor, our treasurer.
To our secretary, who became a media star at the convention.
The one and only Secretary Jason Ray and to my dear friend, the mayor from Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms.
And I have medals for our other vice chairs as well.
And then there are some staff that, and I'm going to talk a little more about staff in a second, but there's one particular, there are two particular staffs.
Oh, oh, in addition, sorry, there is a note here for each one of our officers from President Joe Biden.
Thanking you all.
And the President signed it himself.
Thank you all for your work and your dedication over these four years.
So thank you all again.
And the staff at the DNC have just been tremendous.
They have done such tremendous work and I'm so grateful for them.
One of our staff members that I wanted to give a special shout out to is not here, but you, those of you who have been to the DNC and you walked into that building, the first face that you see is Natalie Chump.
Miss Natalie.
And ever since I walked into that building as a young snotty-nose state party chair, Ms. Natalie has always had my back.
Loyalty in politics is something that is rare to find.
But I can tell you there has never been anybody as loyal to me as Ms. Natalie has been.
And she has always had my back.
And so she's not here right now, but she will also receive one of these medals.
But I do want to also call up another person who I've known when I was a snotty nose staffer in Jim Claiburn's office as Mr. Clyburn was involved with things going on in DNC.
But she really is an institution for this organization, particularly in the political space, particularly as it relates to our state parties.
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Folks, Maureen Gard is someone who.
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who loves this organization with everything that she has.
When I think of the Democratic Party, I think of Maureen.
And she's always been there.
She's always said, Mr. Chairman, I'm here for you.
And Maureen, I just wanted to give you a token of appreciation for your friendship and leadership.
Thank you, Maureen.
And of course, I could not do this work without my team.
And I want to thank the leadership of the DNC.
I want to thank Sam Cornell.
Sam, I got one for you.
Monica and Roger, thank you for your leadership over these last three years, four years.
I really, really appreciate everything that you guys have done.
And I also want to thank my team.
So, Clay, Ashley, and Josh.
Josh, there's something in the back.
So let me just quickly say this, because I don't want to hold you guys.
I know we got off screen, right?
We've got to go.
So Ashley and Josh were a part, became a part of my family on my campaign for the United States Senate.
Ashley was my deputy finance director on the campaign.
She helped me raise money, particularly in the state of South Carolina.
And she was just a force of nature.
She did so much, but she always did it with a smile.
And so when I thought about coming to the DNC and the staff that I wanted to bring, Ashley was one of the people that I knew I needed to have with me.
And for the four years she has served in the chair's office.
One, she started off in keeping my schedule together and then she took over the day-to-day operations of the chair's office.
She is such a tremendous person.
She is so good and she always has my back.
And Ashley, I am so grateful for you and so thankful and just want to give you a token of my appreciation.
Josh also worked with me on the campaign, was one of the first people that we hired on the campaign because he was my bodyguard.
He's the person on the campaign that spent the most time with me because he drove me from place to place.
So I would sit in the car in the passenger side and I'd be reading my comic books or doing something and Josh would be right there.
And my kids just adored Josh.
Many times they would rather just talk to Josh than to talk to me.
And so Josh did not come with us directly into the DNC, but I called him up last year.
And you know, God does things for a reason.
One of my staffers, Chaimer, who you all knew, decided to leave and I knew that I needed to bring somebody else in.
And the one thing that Clyburn always taught me is that you surround yourself with people that you trust.
People that you are loyal to, who you know will be loyal to you.
And I couldn't think of another person to fill that role other than Josh.
So the very first thing that Josh did, his first assignment, was President Biden's visit to Charleston.
And President Biden flew down to Air Force One and Josh says to me, I've never seen Air Force One before.
And we're staring at Charleston Air Force Base.
And one of the very last things that Josh and I just did was President Biden's last visit to Charleston and on Air Force One.
But this guy is as pure as the Drivenstone.
He embodies all that is good in people and politics.
And so, Josh, I am so grateful for you and so thankful for your friends.
Now, you all know about Clay.
I'll take a bullet for him because I know he will take one from me.
There has never been anybody in politics ever, probably in my life, that I have trusted as more as I trust this man.
I know many times arrows fly that I don't even know about.
Daggers sheathed that I have no clue about because Clay always has my six, as he says.
He always has my back.
He is our brother.
And we have a competition about who is actually going to say the speech, the eulogy at the other's funeral.
He always says, you're going to say mine.
I would say, no, I got a few more years on you, brother.
I'm going to say yours.
You know the reverse shit.
Sorry.
He's going to say mine.
I love Clay with everything that I have.
I love his family.
His family is my family because we are family.
And Clay, I could not have gone through these four years.
I could not have gone through this without your love and your support.
And I want you to know that anywhere you go, I'm going with you, brother.
Yeah, I love you.
No, I'm not running again.
You know, Clay had a secret thing for me and him.
We're going to talk about me running again.
No, I'm not doing that.
I do want to thank President Biden and Vice President Harris.
You know, sometimes when you're in it, you can't see the forest from the trees.
Sometimes we can't see how really special the people we have in our lives are.
And I want to thank these two special people that were in our lives that were leading this nation.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Comrade Harris.
I'm going to start with the VP.
The Vice President and my main man, Doug M. Hoff, I can't tell you how special they were to me, how special they are to me.
They always had my back and I always had their backs.
And most folks can't appreciate how hard it can be to be a black person in a leadership role in this country.
I know people like you, oh, there he is again talking about, well, folks, I'm black.
Hell deal with it.
It is my experience.
It is my lived experience.
So I'm going to share with you all my lived experience.
I don't think people can appreciate how hard it is to be a black person in leadership in this country.
And I definitely don't think people understand how it's 10 times more difficult to be a black woman in leadership in this country.
The cloak, bigotry, and the misogyny, even from folks who claim to be allies.
I never told you all this.
I took a trip to London to do some fundraising.
And I sat down with a group of donors.
And in this discussion, this is early on in the Biden administration.
One of the donors said, well, let's talk about the elephant in the room, the vice president.
I think Joe Biden needs to choose somebody else to be vice president.
And I sat there, gripping the table.
And for a few minutes, I let him go on.
Tell him all of these reasons.
And then I said this.
I said, sir, in all due respect, in all due respect, you're not worthy to even tie her shoes.
I said, this vice president, let me list the things that she has done.
And then I want to know whether or not you had the same type of criticism for Dick Cheney, who shot a man when he was vice president.
For Dan Quayle, who couldn't even spell potato.
And I listed all the things.
And afterwards, I told Doug and I have a signal back and forth that we do.
Because the part of the bond and the friendship that we have is that the love of our wives.
You're not going to speak ill about my wife and walk away from it.
He was the same way.
Many times I had said, Doug, you know, calm down.
He said, you know, somebody write something.
I said, it'll be okay.
I got it.
You don't have to do it.
But the VP, what she did in those 107 days, 109 days, I have never, I've seen a lot of candidates.
I have seen a lot of candidates.
I have never seen somebody work as hard to do as much as she did in that period to run the race that she ran.
We should be thanking her every single day for all of the hard work and the effort that she put in to fight for our democracy.
She did so much for this nation.
And I am always in her gratitude.
I always will show my appreciation for all that she has done.
And then to our president, Joe Biden.
I want you all to think about Joe Biden.
This old Irish white guy from Delaware and Scranton.
Scranton then Delaware.
This guy who was the able lieutenant to the first black president never stabbed him in the back.
And then when he got the opportunity to be the most powerful person on the face of the planet to pick his number two, he picked a woman of black and Asian descent to be his vice president.
And then when he got the opportunity to appoint somebody to the most powerful court on the face of the planet, he picked a black woman to do that.
And then when he decided we needed to change the order in which we do and select our presidential nominees in our party, he elevated black and brown voices to have a seat at the table to do that.
And then he is the only president of either party to ask a black person to serve as chair of the DNC.
Sometimes we cannot see the forest from the trees.
This man appointed almost 27% of his appointments to the federal bench were black folks.
And the majority were people of color.
So this is a Joe Biden appreciation moment right now.
Because I appreciate the president because he saw us and he fought for us and he made sure that we had a seat at the table.
And I will always be in debt.
I will always have gratitude to the president.
And this is my last closing.
If you all could pull up a picture for me.
I could not do this work but for my kids, but for my wife, Marie William & Charles.
The President's last visit, his last speech was in Charleston.
A year ago, as I told you, the president flew down to Charleston, January, flew down on Air Force One, and I told Charles that, and then I just flew with the president to Dallas.
And I told Charles that I was flying with the president.
And the president said to me, Well, will the president let me get on his plane?
And I said, Charles, I don't know.
I don't think you'll get a chance to get on the plane this time.
And so Charles never forgot that.
And so all the time when I was going someplace, he said, Well, you're going to be with the president.
Is he going to have his plane?
I said, yeah.
He said, well, can I go on his plane?
I said, I don't know, Charles.
He said, well, that's not nice.
And so when I told Charles and William we were going to see the president one last time in Charleston, he said, well, is the president flying on his plane?
I said, yeah.
Well, can I see his plane?
Well, Charles, I don't know if you'd be able to, he said, hmm.
So we get to Charleston and we walk into the International African American Museum.
And we get in there.
First lady's eating barbecue, you know, all of the families there, all the political staff.
And then the president walks out.
And he sees Charles and William and he comes up to them, as you see in this picture, to chat with them.
And William shakes his hand and says, it's good to see you, Mr. President.
And then Charles shakes his hand, and the president is talking to Charles now.
And the president, and Charles says to the president, Mr. President, do you have your plane here?
And the president didn't hear him initially.
And he said, what'd you say?
And I said, Mr. President, Charles has been really focused on your plane.
And he's asking if you have his plane here.
And the president said, yeah.
And then he turns around to one of the staffers and said, now, how far are we from the plane?
I said, about 20 minutes, sir.
He says, I want to bring him over to the plane.
But then the president says, I also want you to meet my grandson, Hunter.
Oh, no, Bo.
Bo is his grandson, his Hunter's son, Bo.
And that's a picture of Charles and Bo shaking hands.
And in that moment, I'm sitting there thinking about this.
My grandfather, fourth grade education.
My grandmother Pitcott.
And here, their great-grandson is shaking the hand of the grandson of the most powerful person on the face of this planet.
My friends, that picture, of all the pictures, is the picture that gives me hope.
This is who we are.
This is what we fight for.
Charles and William ride in the motor cable.
And it is Bo and the President that give them a tour of the inside of Air Force One.
And Charles, for the last few days, has been asking me, Daddy, does the President of Columbia have a plane?
No, Charles.
Does the President of the DNC have a plane?
No, Charles.
I said, the President of the United States has a plane.
Well, maybe I need to be the president of the United States.
I want to thank you all.
I want to thank you for giving me an opportunity.
I want to thank you for trusting me with the keys to this party.
I want to thank you for your friendship.
I want to thank you for your prayers.
But what I want you all to know from the bottom of my heart that I love this party.
And the reason why I love this party is because I love the people who make up this party.
And that is each and every one of you.
I want to thank my family because I could not do this but for Marie, William, Charles, and my extended family.
Thank you for trusting this round-headed boy from Orangeburg, South Carolina, with the keys to the most powerful and the most important political party on the face of this planet.
Thank you all.
With that, friends, we are going to adjourn until we have our meeting tomorrow.
So, with that, we have a motion.
Second.
All those in favor?
I love you all.
So, adjourn until tomorrow morning.
Thank you all.
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