“There's a statement from several members of the Senate, both Democrats and Republicans, including the Democratic leader, Charles Schumer; John McCain, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee; and Lindsey Graham, also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. They write that recent reports of Russian interference in our elections should alarm every American. They say Democrats and Republicans must work together to investigate this.” ShouldWritingTogetherLeaderRepublicanMembersElectionDemocraticDemocratIncludingStatementsReportsChairsWorking TogetherSenateCommitteesAlarmsInterferenceMccainArmed ServicesDemocratic Leaders Author:George Stephanopoulos
“At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsPresidentRealizingWatchesTrumpMessagesElectionClintonDemocratTrackBarackToneEntertainingLooking GoodShiftingPopulistBuffoons Author:Trevor Noah
“It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle out all the mainstream nominations from the field, leaving only Bernie Sanders, who was unacceptable to the Democrats' party establishment. But she also had a real lack of political skill that would enable her to win the general election.” RealPoliticalWinningPartyClearFieldsSkillsElectionClintonDemocratLeavingAlternativesCombinationMusclesInternalsEstablishmentMainstreamFlawedNominationsGeneral Elections Author:Jonathan Chait
“Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.” ThinkingShouldGuyLosesTrumpElectionDemocratHorribleEntitlementFormality Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may not remember me showing up here in 2005 when John Kerry had lost a close election, Tom Daschle, the leader of the Senate, had been beaten in an upset. Ken Salazar and I were the only two Democrats that won nationally. Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and two years later, Democrats were winning back Congress, and four years later I was President of the United States.” TryingYearsMayTwoStatesFeelingsRememberHouseWinningLostPresidentUnitedLeaderUnited StatesFourRepublicanSpeechElectionDemocratCongressUpsetTwo YearsControlledFour YearsSenateTomsBeatenBostonDiscouragedShowing UpRemember MeJohn Kerry Author:Barack Obama
“I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together.” ThinkingLooksMayTogetherLostSidesCan DoElectionDemocratFolksAdministrationAisle Author:John Lewis
“If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.” IfsWantHas BeensStillsTodayCollegeElectionDemocratRageSignificantPortionsPresidencyGet OverAnimatedAftermathElectoral CollegeRage And Anger Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, it's been devastating. And it's all Obama.” StatesLostPartyElectionDemocratSeatsLegislatureState Legislatures Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You put the republican members of congress who are up for re-election, and quite candidly, the democrats, because every democratic congressperson ought to be writing, tweeting, and you put them on notice. We are the boss of this government, not the [Donald] Trump.” WritingGovernmentOughtTrumpRepublicanMembersElectionDemocraticDemocratCongressBoss Author:Joe Madison
“The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do not have the votes to stop Donald Trump at all in a constitutional sense, have to now behave outside the Constitution in order to stop the duly elected president of the United States about whom they can produce no evidence that his election was fraudulent.” PeopleStatesOrderWinningSidesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesProduceTrumpEvidenceVoteConstitutionElectionDemocratBarackBehaveCan't Win Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If during the eight years of [Barack] Obama they won and they had converted this country into this radical, leftist, extremist culture and country, and if that was the trend, and if that's what Obama's elections meant, then how is it that the Democrat Party, which is the home of all of that, has lost 1,200 seats since Obama's second year in office?” IfsYearsCountryHomeCultureLostPartyOfficeElectionDemocratEightRadicalBarackSeatsTrendsExtremistLeftists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You have to go back to the 1920s, almost a hundred years, to find the Democrat Party as weak and out of power as it is today. How did that happen with just one election? It didn't happen in one election. The fact is the Democrats have been losing elections, except for the White House, for the last eight years in numbers that have not been reported.” YearsHas BeensFactsHappensTodayLastsHouseWhitePartyNumbersLosingHundredWeakElectionDemocratEightJust OneWhite House Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Who's driving this business that the Russians hacked the election? It's the Democrat Party. It's Hillary Clinton. It's Obama. It's all those people who just can't accept that they lost.” PeopleLostPartyAcceptingElectionClintonDemocratDrivingHacked Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.” IdeasWinningGivenBehaviorElectionPressesDemocratVery GoodDefinitionsCandidatesChicagoGreat IdeaMayorsDealingsWinning ElectionsPersonal Behavior Author:Mark Shields
“The Democrats are not seeking reelection on anything good. And everything bad that's happening is the result of Democrats having won elections and implementing their beliefs. It's not fate. It's not by accident. It's not coincidence. It's not the result of cosmic forces working against us. It is because specifically of policies, legislation, ideas, whatever you want to call it, implemented, put into action by this administration.” WantIdeasActionBeliefForceResultsFatePolicyHappeningsElectionDemocratSeekingAccidentsAdministrationCosmicCoincidenceLegislationImplementingReelection Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats have lost a thousand electoral seats in America in midterm elections, 2010, 2014. The people of this country are clearly willing to vote against Democrats. They are clearly willing to vote for Republicans. But when you get to the presidential election, it better be somebody that's not just part of the establishment. That's the message, and that's what they're not getting.” PeopleCountryAmericaLostWillingRepublicanThousandMessagesVoteElectionDemocratPresidentialSeatsEstablishmentPresidential ElectionMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrat Party has had a friendly, supportive relationship with every communist regime on this planet in my lifetime. And now all of a sudden their buddies, the Soviets, i.e., Putin and the Russians, have abandoned them and are now sabotaging them for the purpose of election.” PurposePartyPlanetsElectionLifetimeDemocratFriendlyCommunistAbandonedRegimesSupportiveBuddyPutin Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Russians didn't hack the DNC servers. The Russians didn't interfere in the election [2016]. And if you get a Democrat in the know to sit down and honestly tell you off the record, they'll admit it.” IfsKnowsRecordsDown AndElectionDemocratHonestlyInterfereHacksServer Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.” DifferentCountryRepublicanElectionDemocratAlignmentForeign Countries Author:Barack Obama
“In my view, it is not a question of Trump having won the election, it's a question of Democrats having lost the election. Democrats need a strong progressive agenda which says to the working class of this country, we are going the stand and fight for you, we're going to raise the minimum wage, pay equity for women, we're going to rebuild the infrastructure, and we're going to guarantee health care to all people as a right. We're going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free.” PeopleCountryCareFightingStrongCollegeElectionDemocratHealth CareProgressiveWorking ClassEquity Author:Bernie Sanders
“Mitt Romney is talking about the fact that Republicans and Democrats alike have to find common ground to address very real challenges we face as a country. It's a message that's uplifting, it's optimistic. It's about how America can be great again. I think that's the right closing message and I think frankly it's what we need to do as a country after this election regardless of what happens.” ThinkingRealCountryChallengesCommonRepublicanElectionDemocratOptimisticUplifting Author:Rob Portman
“The Democrats have to know in their hearts... I think this is one of the reasons that they're constantly enraged. They have to know that their policies do not work. They do not deliver as promised. They do not create jobs. They do not make people wealthier. They do not grow economies. They do not make sure everybody has health care. Everything they promise, none of it actually happens, and the more of what they implement happens, the worse it gets for everybody. There's a reason they're losing elections.” PeopleThinkingHeartReasonCareEconomyPolicyPromiseLosingElectionDemocratHealth Care Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Democrats losing elections. Donald Trump did win this. It's not illegitimate. And when the day comes that they realize and sober up that he's not going to be hounded out of office, that he's not gonna wake up one day and say to Mike Pence, "Here. Take the keys. I've had it." Then what are they gonna do? Because they're shooting every barrel they've got now. And they will probably continue. The think least we can make people hate him.” PeopleThinkingHateWinningRealizingOne DayOfficeLosingWake UpElectionDemocratSober Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I know perception is reality in politics and I know how it looks, but the reality is Democrats lost the election and what they thought it was gonna be, a landslide with the best candidate they could have ever nominated, Hillary Clinton, look at the rejection. The rejection is real. They're creating a Fantasy Island world in which none of this happened. And that's where they're choosing to live. That's not healthy, folks.” WorldRealRealityFantasyHealthyPerceptionElectionClintonDemocratRejection Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats are losing power in every election. And I think that's part of the panic. They want us to believe that the behavior and panic is rooted in an absolute outraged offense over this president that we have, this is just unacceptable and some maniac like Trump is so out of the ordinary, out of the norm, has to be stopped. I don't think that's what it is. I mean, it's part of it. But I think there's a much larger panic that is taking over the Democrat Party. And it's gonna implode on 'em.” ThinkingBelieveMeanPresidentPartyBehaviorLosingElectionDemocratOffenseNormWant UOutraged Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think, first and foremost, showing up, making sure that Democrats focus not just on elections, not just on presidential elections, but we begin the process of rebuilding the infrastructure of the party at the grassroots. We begin going out to all those rural counties and begin having a conversation with rural voters and making sure that we hear their concerns, hear their complaints, and also educate them about what we are doing, making sure that we focus on state legislative races, not just congressional, Senate, governor, and presidential races.” ThinkingPartyFocusConcernElectionDemocratPresidentialEducateCountyPresidential Election Author:Tom Vilsack
“The Democrat Party and the media - primarily, the media - has created a genuine insane asylum that is the Democrat Party base. The Democrat Party base believes that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians. The Democrat Party base believes that the Russians stole election from Hillary. They believe it because that's what they've been told solidly for nine months. They believe it. They have been driven insane.” BelievePartyElectionDemocratDrivenInsaneInsane Asylum Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You're probably bored now hearing me cite how many seats the Democrats lost nationwide, national, state, local, in those three elections, In the 2010 midterms, the 2014 midterms, and in 2016. It's over 1500 seats.” ElectionDemocratBoredCiting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The polling data in 1980 had Jimmy Carter nine points, winning by nine points, four or five days out. I will never forget that election night. In 1980 it was so bad for the Democrats - they got skunked so bad - Jimmy Carter conceded before 10 p.m. Eastern time.” NightWinningForgetElectionDemocratNever ForgetEasternJimmyConceded Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this.” ThinkingDifferentRepublicanElectionDemocratVariousEducatedPresidentialJunglePresidential Election Author:Frank Bruni
“The Democrats are still not being honest with themselves about what happened to them. You know, a lot of people voted for Donald Trump knowing full well what the baggage was. They didn't care. The Trump election was, in fact, about issues. It was dead-set on issues, and this is what the media refuses to understand. They know it; they just don't want to believe it, and they don't want to acknowledge it. They think that it was an election about Hillary Clinton being a rotten candidate.” PeopleThinkingBelieveCareHonestElectionClintonDemocratBeing HonestAcknowledge Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Drive-Bys assign all meanings to local elections based on what they want to be able to report after the Democrat wins. But the Democrats are not winning elections.” WinningElectionDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats are losing. And look, folks, I don't mean to beat a dead horse here. I'm not doing anything other than pointing out what's actually factually happening. I'm not drawing any inferences from it. The Democrats are actually losing as themselves. They are losing elections if they are honest about what they want to do. It doesn't surprise me at all that Jon Ossoff would be running around.” MeanRunningHonestLosingHorseElectionSurpriseDemocratPointingSurprise Me Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If there is an exoneration of Donald Trump and collusion with the Russians to affect the outcome of the election, you think that's gonna make the Democrats go away? Do you think that's gonna make the deep state shut down? Is that gonna stop people in the intelligence community trying to overthrow an elected president? Because that is what is going on here.” PeopleThinkingTryingPresidentCommunityElectionDemocratGoing Away Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What many of the Senate Democrats are taking as the lesson of this election was that Hillary Clinton is too moderate and they need to go more Elizabeth Warren, more Bernie Sanders, more extreme and on the fringes.” ElectionClintonDemocratFringe Author:Ted Cruz
“It's the Democrat Party that is destroying the integrity of the American electoral system. It's not Vladimir Putin. It's not Dmitry Medvedev. It's the Democrat Party, which has sought to destroy the integrity of the American electoral system, all because they're a bunch of spoilsports who lost the election.” PartyIntegrityElectionDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When there is this giant narrative, when there is a singular story out there like there is right now about the Russians hacking the election so that Donald Trump would win - when the media is pumping it and the Democrats are quoting the media and the media's quoting the Democrats and it's just like a giant blanket thrown all over the country - don't believe the story. It's made up! It is a script. I call the daily soap opera.” BelieveCountryWinningElectionDemocratBlanketQuoting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire James Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.” ElectionDemocratExcuseGood TimesJust Do It Author:Donald Trump
“Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.” MenEasySucceedElectionDemocratWork OutComplicatedIronySincerelyPledgeHard Things Author:Vladimir Putin
“Every political race I've started, I've entered as an underdog and a long shot. This is certainly no exception. But I happen to be the best person for this job. Democrats need someone who can win. And there are two strategies for winning: You can energize the base, which is the strategy the party has used in the last couple of elections...unfortunately without success.Or you can energize and expand the base and bring the campaign to states where we've not had much success particularly in the heartland.” HeartLongPoliticalWinningPartyCoupleElectionStrategyDemocratBeing The BestExceptionUnderdog Author:Tom Vilsack
“Democrats are just as divided as Republicans these days. Embarrassed by their election losses, they are fighting over everything from their diagnosis of why Trump beat them in 2016 to how much to stake themselves on an oust-him-at-all-costs strategy now. Their internal battles may not be as sexy as the unprecedented hostile takeover of the GOP by an outsider president not beholden to it - yet they are just as consequential.” FightingPresidentLossRepublicanBattleElectionStrategyDemocratSexyOutsidersEmbarrassedGop Author:Susan Glasser
“I think a core principle of the Democratic Party has to be a defense of equal rights for every American. At the same time, when you look at the election, and not just the 2016 election, but the elections to come, Democrats have to do better than we did in 2016 in communities, in rural communities where people feel like they've been in a slow burn recession or depression for years, not just months.” PeopleThinkingCommunityPartyEqualElectionDemocraticDemocratEqual RightsDemocratic Party Author:Neera Tanden
“I'm optimistic about our future as a party. It's about winning. The Democratic Party, if I had to do one word: winning. We need to win elections, because one thing I've learned is that when Democrats win good things happen to a lot of folks, and when we don't do so hot, we see a lot of chaos and carnage.” WinningPartyHotElectionGood ThingsDemocraticDemocratChaosThings HappenOptimisticOur FutureDemocratic PartyCarnage Author:Thomas Perez
“Chuck Schumer and Nancy's Pelosi party lost. Chuck and Nancy's party haven't won an election that counts other than Barack Obama's presidency in 2008 and 2012. Every other election the Democrats have been running with national House/Senate racers, they're losing.” RunningHousePartyLosingElectionDemocratBarackChuck Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think the most important thing is the American people have lost trust and confidence in the people they have sent up to Congress as elected leaders. And I think that it is so important to reconnect to the people. And I think that the last election showed people weren't running back to the Republican Party. They did show that they weren't happy with the policies coming out of the Democrat Party. But they are trying to find individuals that will go up and be their voice, that will resemble them, that will take their cares and concerns to Washington, D.C.” PeopleThinkingTryingImportantCareRunningIndividualPartyLeaderPolicyRepublicanConcernElectionDemocratRepublican PartyRunning Back Author:Allen West
“The Democrats are between a rock and a hard place on it. They hate the Second Amendment. They want to get rid of it, but if they come out and say that they will lose the election, so they have to lie, as Hillary Clinton did. "I'm for the Second Amendment. I've been upstate in New York and I've seen those weird things these guys use when they hunt, and I'm not opposed to that, but the Heller decision and toddlers and Washington and I protected children and I think it's horrible."” ThinkingChildrenLyingGuyHateDecisionElectionClintonDemocratHorribleSecond AmendmentToddler Author:Rush Limbaugh
“They believe the less votes the better. Republicans like to suppress votes because they believe they do better in small turnouts. Characteristically, Democrats would rather lose an election with a huge turnout than win one with a small turnout because we think that the values of democracy have to be placed above the interests of the party. The reason that Republicans are such failures at governing is because they place the interests of their party ahead of the interests of the country.” ThinkingBelieveCountryReasonValuesWinningInterestPartyDemocracyRepublicanVoteElectionDemocrat Author:Howard Dean
“Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.” WantDoeWinningMediaBattleElectionDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.” ThinkingWayWinningIssuesRepublicanLosingElectionDemocratBest WayControversialControversial Issues Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The American people are sick and tired of this ‘lesser evil’ garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they’re in office...” PeopleYearsEvilRepublicanOfficeSickElectionTiredDemocratFedsGarbageLesser EvilElection Years Author:Roseanne Barr