I 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
for 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 across.
And I need to thank Sandy,
you know, in cast races, when the kids were littler,
I turned her into a single mom during those races.
Stop crying, Aug. I can't. I got to get through this.
I turned her into a single 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 her into a political widow.
You know, the kids are older, and they're 20s now,
and 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,
they finally see me for a while.
They had to come on the campaign trail with me.
I had an amazing team, you know,
from Benjamin in the beginning to Patrick and Jacob
Colin, Brittany, and Ethan, Nate,
person, everybody.
Amazing, amazing team helping me.
Kelly, the bus driver.
Yeah, 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.
But neither did you.
I love you too, man. Thank you.
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.
No.
No, no, no.
You got to accept the results.
Just don't...
Yeah, right.
I'm not up here making any joke.
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 going to do.
We'll talk with the band and see what they want to do, but we'll see.
Awesome. Thank you guys. Love you.
Thank you.