Love you guys too.
So when I set out on this journey...
It wasn't what I wanted to do.
I mean, all of you've heard me say
this a thousand times.
I didn't want to do this,
but I knew it was important,
and I knew I had to put my all in.
And I just want to thank God.
He's been with me every step
of this.
Every time I worried,
every time anxiety crept in,
He lifted me up, and I got through
this, and I'm grateful to
my Lord and Savior for
the opportunity to carry a cross.
And I need to think,
Sandy,
you know, in past races,
when the kids were littler,
I turned her into a single mom
during those races.
Stop crying, Og.
I can't. I got to get through this.
I turned into a sing mom in those
previous races because she had to do
her chores, my chores,
the kids' chores,
because they don't do their chores.
This time I turned you into a
political widow.
You know, the kids are older, and
they're 20s now.
I was just gone.
The last 16 months, I've been gone.
Last weekend, for my brother
and sister-in-law, who lived in the
house next door, to finally
see me for a while, they had to come
on a campaign trail with me.
Um, I had an
amazing team, you
know, from Benjamin in the beginning
to Patrick
and Jacob and Colin and
Brittany and Ethan.
Kirsten, everybody, amazing,
amazing team helping me.
Kelly, the bus driver.
Hail to the bus driver.
Yeah, he's a veteran.
And thank to all of you.
You guys didn't leave anything on
the field. I didn't, but neither did
you.
Love you too, man. Thank you.
Um.
We did it. You did all the work.
You put all your heart into it, and
I can't thank you enough for
everything you did to try
to make this a success, but just
didn't work.
And, yeah,
I've called Judge Crawford
and conceded.
You gotta accept the results.
Just don't.
All right, I'm not up here
making any joke.
This is the numbers aren't
going to turn around.
They're too bad, and
we're not going to pull this off.
So thank you, guys,
from the bottom of my heart.
God bless you.
God bless the state of Wisconsin.
God bless America.
We will rise again.
We'll get up to fight another day.
But this wasn't our day.
Thank you guys. God bless you.
And thank you to all my
music friends for coming out
tonight.
We had a lot longer show planned,
but I don't know what we're gonna
do. I'm gonna talk with the band and
see what they wanna do, but we'll
see.
Awesome, thank you guys, love you.
I like the guys that
went up and helped me be able to
sell them, and that was
off okay at that point.