this is our chance to stand up for those people who won't be engaged in politics. this is our chance to stand up for those people who are throwing their hands up and saying, man, life is just too hard. so for all of those, help me do this tonight. let's do this. let's keep our spirits high. it's going to be up, it's going to be down. hopefully, if this really goes well, we'll be here at midnight going, hey, we won. this will be great. but for all of those people who can't get involved or couldn't have the time for the mother who is spending the last two or three days at the food pantry this month because of the high inflation that came out of washington, d.c. for her, for the military, for the police, this is our chance to stand tall and say, come november, come november, we're going to have your back. thank you very, very much for all of you for what you've done.

we'll be back later tonight with a better upgrade on numbers. thank you. stay fired up. we can and we'll win this race. god bless. [cheers] >> i'm only looking at some of the pop-up numbers -- >> andy kim has been coded to represent new jersey. he defeated curtis pasha. he is the first korean american in the u.s. senate. >> i can't tell you how incredible this is. i'm having a hard time processing this moment right now. there have been only a few moments in my life where i felt the weight of the moment as i do right now. the gravity generated by the magnitude in our country. this isn't about me. it is about this moment in america.

and what we each individually tried to do to meet that moment. i look at this room and i see so many people from different moments in my life. you are here in this room because in one way or another you have touched my life. you have helped me in ways i may never be able to fully express. whether i met you an elementary school or on the campaign trail, i want to start by saying thank you. [applause] [cheers] i want to start with my congressional team. for the last six years, we have served the third congressional district and i hope we have made

the people of the third district proud with the work we have done. we have a team of incredible public servants. everyone is working together. many of them here and i have to say how proud i am of that. to my campaign team who carried out our message of change going forward. i know many of you took risks to join this campaign. people doubted your choice to join the campaign. you worked long hours and struggled and stressed about the challenges we confronted. i hope you take pride in this moment. whoever says young people don't care about politics haven't met the young people that were the engine. [cheers]

look at we have accomplished. [cheers] a year ago -- six years ago, you believed in what we could accomplish. that we chose that politics is not just some inclusive club. we built something that identified the grassroots. i hope the experience has brought you to understanding the efforts of our policy and you have a deeper understanding of what it means to be a citizen of this great country. the opposite of democracy is

apathy. i hope this moment is every bit as meaningful for you as it is for me. i want to say thank you to my family. my parents and my sister are here. they gave me the grounding and the purpose that powers me every day. to my wife -- [cheers] [applause] look what we've accomplished. but what we've done. for them, right? yup. i'm so proud of our family, we have been able to do. our whole family. to my boys.

[cheers] i'm proud of the two of you. this has been tough. i know there have been moments i was not there the way i wish i was. i hope you are proud of me. i hope when you learn about this moment in america that you understand why i did what i did. why i fight for you. [cheers] i chose this hotel for a reason. 37 years ago, when i was five years old, my family and i left out of this motel for several weeks when we first moved to new jersey. our first night in the state was right here this hotel.

my dad had just excepted a job, his very first job ever at a lab in camden to do cancer research. some of the strongest memories i have ever had in my life were here. i remember staying here. our ever there was a restaurant here. i can't remember but our member feeling that the people of new jersey live good here. [indiscernible] i have to say i wanted to be here tonight. in this hotel. along with paying tribute to my parents, my family, to the state for giving us the dream. for giving me the tools. [cheers]

it wasn't easy. we had no family to lean on here. no friends to help us get started. i wanted to return here tonight to get perspective. for my parents, this hotel wasn't a port in a port step to achieving the american dream and ultimate giving back. my parents taught me to love america. i review this country. -- revere this country. i revere all of america. when i worked at the white house , i had these leather shoes i would wear whenever i went into the oval office. i wanted to treat that room better. i wanted to remind myself i'm a part of something bigger than

all of us. it is because of my reverence, it pains me to my core to see the struggles are going through. [indiscernible] people tell me they did not trust the politics was working for them. they did not think the big challenges we face in our family [indiscernible] wt for them. nob knowing what happened in our race, i recognize now we are at a moment of profound anxiety about what comes next for our country. in the coming minutes, hours, days will be excruciating. regardless of what happens next, we need to recognize we have

faced significant challenges regardless of the outcome. the divisions we face [indiscernible] they will not be fixed by any single election. we live in a time of great inequality in our nations history. housing complexes. mothers showed me the black mold on the walls where kids live. she told me about her pleas for help that did not go answered. i remember a young men who felt so pessimistic about his life he said to me he didn't think he could ever afford to buy a home in the state because of the high cost and the high student learned he is facing -- student loan burden he is facing. our nation is on an unsustainable trajectory. let there be no doubt this is a new era of politics rising.

the same old same old is done. [cheers] [chanting "andy, andy"] we will show the country there's a better way to do this. it not only this people up, they give people hope, that delivers for everyone. it could mean the politics that changes the trajectory of our nation and build a brighter future. i would like to [indiscernible] in a little over a year, we will be so limiting our 250th anniversary as a nation, as a democracy. let us use that a story milestone as a moment. let us change the trajectory we find ourselves on.

in the same way i reflect on my family starting at this hotel, let's reflect on the principles of our nation and put forward a renewed vision. let us use the 250th anniversary to be a reminder of the greatness of america. the greatness of america is now we take from this country but what we get back. [cheers] what we passed down to my two boys, the hope i give for the same opportunities and certainties my parents gave us when we first came to this hotel nearly 40 years ago. that we should use the 250th anniversary to make investments in our country and democracy, like supercharging civics education. [indiscernible] rebuilding the architecture of

communities that have decayed in our nation. the goal of breathing new life into the meaning of patriotism. the challenges and reminders of today that election day is far from the finish line. what we build is not just a campaign. we build a movement. a movement to fix broken politics. [indiscernible] -- does not diminish with the vote ending. it helps our nation heal by reminding us we have more in common than what separates us. it is the center of our citizenship, giving everyone a chance to get back and be part of something bigger. it can lift up the knowledge of our citizenry. we are informed to make decisions and reminds people is something we should be proud of, inspired and not diminish. [cheers]

patriotic means looking out for one another, not tearing each other down or attacking our democratic institutions. i face this moment with humility as i prepare to take on this job that only 2000 and eric into the history of this country have ever had the honor of holding. a possibly 600 million people have been called americans. of the 120 years i can add a chapter that has not been written before. [cheers] i will not be perfect. i will stumble. i will struggle at times.

i assure you i will give this everything i got. i will try and serve through honor and integrity. i promise you i will not lose myself along the way. i will be guided by the sense of service that has guided me all these years. i will work to change the job. [cheers] [indiscernible] i will represent everyone in the state. whether you voted for me or not. i hope to bring meaning to the ferries -- phrase public service. the way i see it, i am dedicating the rest of my service to this nation to answer one single question. how do we heal this country? i do this for my boys.

they deserve more than i could ever create. we do this for your kids and your grandkids. what is the point of our time on this planet if we take more than we give? i thank you not just for being with me on this journey but for being with me on the journey ahead. what started in living rooms [indiscernible] [cheers] [indiscernible] [cheers] [indiscernible] my voice, your voice to the highest levels of our great democracy. i have to say how incredible the

experience is. are you proud of what we built? [cheers] do you believe in the future we can build? [cheers] are you ready [indiscernible] [cheers] i thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible honor. i am your next united states -- [cheers] [chanting "andy"] >> tim sheehy, the 2024 republican, to represent montana and the u.s. senate spoke to supporters on election night from the city of bozeman.

he defeated three turman, democratic senator jon tester. at the time of his remarks, the rays had yet to be officially called. -- race had yet to be officially called. ♪ >> all right. i have some news. when this great state was founded in 1889, we had two republican u.s. senators. we have not had two republican

u.s. senators for 114 years. but that street just got broken tonight and i want to introduce you to the junior senator from montana, tim sheehy. [cheers] >> thank you. >> all right. thanks everybody. thanks for sticking around so late. i know it's been a long night, but some of you have been here since the beginning when we announced last year and everybody said tim who, and now you're still here today. so thank you for everybody for coming out. thanks for everything.

god bless america. exactly. first off, i want to be very honest and say i want to thank senator tester for his many decades of service to the state and country. i disagree with him on policy, may but it's a tough job and i want to thank him for his years of service. [applause] i have to thank my wife carmen . as you guys probably know she was -- we met when we were teenagers and decided pretty soon thereafter we were going to spend the rest of our lives together, but then we didn't see each other very often. and as you probably know, we were then married via the mail. i'm a male order husband because she was deployed in afghanistan and i was somewhere else and we decided to get married. so we notarized a couple of forms and mailed in the courthouse and the rest is history. but she stuck with me through all kinds of crazy stuff, plane crashes, wars, two wars, multiple deployments and we're still here and now we're on to our next adventure.

so, thank you. i love you. [cheers] my parents who i literally wouldn't be here. i wouldn't exist if it wasn't for them. so i have to thank them that they've taken on like many of you have here who are friends and business partners and family, they've taken on so much responsibility at 72-years-old. now they have to be quasi parents of four young kids again as we've been running around the state trying to save this country. so thank you mom and dad for all your effort you put forward. my best friend and mentor, my brother matt. i can't see him out there. he's here somewhere. i know he's actually here. i wouldn't be anything without him. he's been since i was a little kid. he used to beat me up, but then i became a navy seal and he thought better of that. so he doesn't do that anymore. but i wouldn't be anywhere without matt and of course, campaign team. i mean, i can't list all of you. i'm sorry. i know who you are, you know who you are. this has been a brutal campaign. there's no question about it.

18 months. the lies that have been told about me, about my family, about you guys. i've had campaign staffers specifically singled out and it's been a rough time for everybody. the businesses and charities i'm involved in have even been targeted. so all of you who have been part of this campaign, i know you've endured a lot. my friends, family and partners with bridge aerospace. you've been maligned terribly out there, but you've continued to do your job. you've put your head down, fought fires and protected our communities despite all of that. so all of you on the campaign team and everyone else who has helped us out, thank you very much for your dedication to this country. thank you. [applause] and everybody who voted for me. thank you. [cheers] i have since i was 18-years-old, i've served this country. i signed on the dotted line like many of you here did. and i was proud to serve my country overseas. came home, served my country fighting fires. to those who did not vote for me, i will also serve you just like i did in the military. i took an oath to serve all americans and i'll take an oath

here to serve all montanans. so i will earn your vote in the future. if you didn't vote for me, i will work to earn your support in future elections because we have to save this country and to save it we've got to come together and figure out how to heal this country. we have to disagree better and we've got to actually move forward and stop argue about everything. we've got to make some progress. [cheers] to our miners, to our loggers, to our truck drivers, our diesel mechanics, our electricians, our plumbers, our carpenters, to the people who work with your hands, our ranchers and farmers who make this economy run, you are the people that we have to make this economy work for. we've got to make sure that the folks who go to work every day , work with their hands, pay for their own education and put food on the table for their families, we've got to make sure this economy works for them again. that's going to be our top priority. bring inflation down, get your wages back up and make sure that if you work with your hands, you can make a good living in this country and provide for your family.

[cheers] and a key part of that is our resource economy. we've got to bring back our resource economy and that hits home hugely here in montana. we've got to unleash our energy, unleash our minerals, our coal mines. we were down at stillwater mine recently. we have to unleash our coal. we've got to make sure our coal miners don't have to worry every single year that they're going to go out of business. they're going to lose their jobs. our timber industry, copper, oil and gas, we need to unleash american resources. we do it better, safer and greener here in america than anywhere else in the world. so let's do it here with montana jobs. and to our veterans, our police officers, our first responders, our military members, our firefighters out there, you have a sacred duty. we're so grateful that every day you put on a uniform and you decide to put your life on the line to protect the rest of us. it's about time we stand behind you unequivocally. we've got to rebuild our military. we've got to make sure our military is ready to fight our next war and prioritize combat lethality for our men and women in uniform.

we owe them a lethal military and we're going to give it to them. montana, our native brothers and sisters, it's about time we turn the page on relations here. we make sure we get our tribal communities back on their feet economically. we give them sovereignty and agency so that they can succeed, grow businesses on the reservation and have the economic freedom to grow the communities, have prosperity and have a successful organic economy on every tribal community in the state. [cheers] and finally, you've heard me say it a million times. i'll say it again. common sense. it's about time we bring common sense back to this country in . in montana we've run a , grassroots campaign. as you all know, we couldn't outspend our opponents on the air. we couldn't beat them in the media. so we traveled the state . grassroots. we burned a lot of shoe leather, burned a lot of diesel. we visited every single county, most of them multiple times. what we heard is montanas want common sense back.

they want a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good. criminals are bad. boys are boys, girls are girls. [cheers] now, most of you here know the real tim sheehy. unfortunately, most of montana knows shady sheehy at this point. so over the next few months, hopefully they'll get to know the real tim sheehy and they'll learn that i've dedicated my life to this country, as is my wife, as is our family. this role will be no different. we are going to dedicate our time and our energies to make sure we get this country back on the right track and we make montana and america work for all americans. thank you so much for your support. god bless. [cheers] [applause] ♪