to check we got one two three were at the hilton audio from the help stream test test one two three this is a live stream from the hilton new stream mis is checking the dials we're good we're good now are you already talking i can keep talking if you want probably a little closer to my mouth and she was but just one two three one two three hilton democratic headquarters november sixth two thousand five four three two one bruce while men flipped the boat champlain valley so we are back at a helton and i'm joined while men who is with flip the boat champlain valley group thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you we're very excited to be here great now tell me a little bit about flipped the boat champlain valley shore well cast your mind back a few months to january of two thousand and seventeen in the women's marches and a bunch of us went to women's marches over months earlier i went to washington d c and we suddenly realized that we had found friends we had found an emotional support that we didn't know was out there because we were also bought so we met after that in various groups around and said what can we do and we paid most attention to swing left which is a national organization and their focus has been swinging twenty three twenty four seats from red to blue to take over the house and so that has really been our focus for the last one thousand nine hundred months so there are about seventy of us on our mailing list but we work with groups out of montpelier there's a another organization called lean left they are the sister district for vermont and you know there's a lot of other groups neighbors and it's very confusing but basically we were mostly women and we got together and first we groused and then we said all right we have to do something we can't just sit here so they came up with the most brilliant idea which is writing postcards to likely voters mostly identified as democrats but that they were women who are running for office in virginia and so we started postcard ing for them we've written thousands of postcards but there's other technology out there for some of you who are not who are natives as opposed to like me had to learn the stuff  there's text banking which is a phenomenal system my colleague over there jean keller has been doing that for about a month where you get hundreds of names at one time and when you text them with your message and sometimes you get a response and sometimes you don't write so so we're here to basically represent all the women that we've worked with if people have been reading the washington post and the new york times there been a lot of articles very recently about groups like us all over the country there are hundreds of thousands of us who have been writing postcards not only to candidates some people have been writing to the administration supporting the people who are in the background like the partment justice all those people whose names you don't know who are you know trying to keep the and that's it right now from the helton hotel in burlington i think we have another interview coming up with christine hall quest so we'll bring that to you in just a few moments so i am joined by christine hall quest candidate for governor and christine this is your first time running for office in vermont there are a lot of people in this room that were very excited to see with tears in their eyes thank you for writing it's it's very moving you know i got into this race leave because i couldn't sit back any longer i had no idea i'd be standing here tonight but we have a credible campaign team i've got a credible family my daughter came from san francisco with four of her friends everybody is working hard it's with it's very precious vote looks to you like you've got an incredible crew of volunteers that are here can you right and i and i'm honored to be part of it and i was at the polls in when you ski and at six earlier today and i felt that energy definitely looks like there's a great turnout at the polls i think all across the state yes what are your thoughts on that well look great what we're what i've been told is good turnout is good for us and one of the early indicators was the number of early ballots that were returned which felt champions in both the house and the senate and the bills were signs we have expanded background checks now in the state of vermont we have laws in place to help protect people who might and so what are you hoping will happen next because bill did a lot but i'm sure there's more that could be done certainly in general yeah we are looking to the next session and beyond that we are still making some decisions about policy direction that we have every intention of continuing to move forward and help me for months safer for all vermonters and we look forward to working with the winners meso communications director for mon democratic party five four three two one so we are back at the hilton and i' joined again by christopher to meso the communications director for the vermont democratic party and christopher last time we spoke the room was a little bit different the feeling in the room has changed a bit it's still early on but it seems like there is a bit of a blue wave potentially happening can you enlighten us and let us know kind of what's going on both in vermont and then in other parts of the room i can feel that energy yeah there's a lot of energy i think christine is popping around right now as she came down a while ago and and and i think she's still in the room and so we're excited to have her here work so they have all the supporters here and we're starting to get the show on the road are there any other candidate time any other what about beth pearce when will the vermont results start coming out of the statewide results are coming in now it's really at the discretion of how quickly the town clerks are getting the numbers together and at the secretary of state's office you see at the bottom the televisions that some of them are coming in just as we speak and will there be an issue with absentee ballots in counting those or are there was a lot of early voting that happened in the state is that right sure you know there was a lot of early voting i think the secretar today nearly seventy thousand early votes were cast in the state of vermont and those are being counted right along and what about a sense of turnout numbers turn on general turnouts generally been good i think it's been emblematic of the state high turnout is it's going to be a good barometer by which to measure democratic victories right great well as we said it is early on but it looks like maybe another race has been called i don't know whether that's in vermont or elsewhere in the country a so again that was christopher demand so from be democratic party so obviously there is a lot so far for the democratic party to look forward to and to celebrate happening later on tonight and we'll be bringing you report as the evening continues back here in the studio my name's terry anderson i'm the chairs of a montana crowded party and it's great to see such a large enthusiastic crowd here tonight we're going to have a great evening it's probably going to be alone evening with a lot of results that are going to take a while the come in so settle in well have the t v s going when the bar will be serving and more have a great night as we start tonight i do want to take just a moment to thank everybody who is work so hard on this campaign whether it's the candidates staff our incredible democratic party staff the candidates who've gone out campaigning so hard everybody who's made this happen it's been an incredible year we're going to see some incredible results we've already heard some really good numbers we've picked up a seat in barry looks like we picked up a seat in cambridge things are looking good nationally the early numbers are in bly incredibly encouraging so we know that vermont is part of a movement from coast to coast tonight to stand up to the evil one gender coming out of washington d c right now they've already declared that senator sanders is one along with about seven or eight other  and you will hear from bernie at some point fairly soon i think i don't know if they declared peter well she has won yet but he's so far ahead they should just put the checkmark there anyway we're looking right now so it's an exciting night but wait it's going to take a long time before we know what happens everywhere for all the legislative races here in vermont for all of our statewide races and certainly for all the national races i do want to start us out tonight hundred seventy four and the watergate year may have a lot in common with this year when the things are done since then he's been an incredible voice for vermont for the democratic party and for the values that we hold as a country and is democrats we can we don't him to stand up for us again and again and the last supreme court nominee hearings made clear that he does that retried this is my last election having these entered some of come back again trust me if you're writing you want one of them working with you because they are fantastic are talking to fox news by we're stronger and better and we will not let him destroy our country and will send that message from vermont grieve for martyrs believe in the constitution we believe in equal rights for all all americans we believe in forty health care and education for all americans we believe in the economy that works for all americans we believe in all honesty and decency in public life we believe you don't lead by demeaning your fellow americans right first of all i want to thank our senior senator who's been serving us so well for so long patrick leahy patrick where are you and m and every time a tough decision was required patrick made the right one patrick leahy thank you for being the conscience of the senate and the conscience of vermont thank you very much and it's an exciting day but before i get to that i really want to thank all of the folks here all of the campaign staff workers all of the end turns all of the citizens who believe that every two years is tough is it is to get involved in a political campaign political campaigns in elections really matter there isn't a there's the worst thing that we can believe in politics is that it doesn't matter that's the worst thing and i'll tell you if i ever had any question about does it matter it happened a couple of months ago when i went down to the texas border i went to the texas border because what we saw at dow border was a government policy that was in your name and it was in my name your name in mining the authority of the presidency of the united states saying we are going to take children from their parents in order to have a border wall no matter what and what this election is about across this vast country of ours with all of the different people in all of the different groups and all of the different aspirations that we have and all of the different challenges we face the question is are we in it together or is it winner take all and you're on your own that is the simple question that america is deciding across this land tonight election is about very simply you know i met him i met a former marine and one of the campaign rallies that we were doing with bernie sanders and he came up to me and he said peter i'm with you all on the issues i want health care for all i want affordable college education we've got to address climate change but he said peter what this election is about this is a marine who served in iraq and afghanistan who know something about service he said this is about our democracy the guard rails of democracy are under attack we're for a free press we are for the rule of law we are for respect in people no matter their race or national origin their sexual identity it doesn't matter we are in it together in that's what this and i'll tell you something we're starting to see the election returns coming in we don't know enough but i'm getting optimistic that we are going to have a democratic house of representatives but let me say something yes we will be a break on president trump and some of his worst policies but i'll tell you what our challenge is it is to do things that need to be done for working families whether they are from vermont or oklahoma whether they voted for clinton or they voted for trump they deserve and need lower prescription drug prices they deserve and they need affordable college education they deserve they need an opportunity for their kids to learn a trade so they can be independent and self sufficient in emotionally intact that's what we need we need a policy if we win and i believe we will where we show that we are all in a take gather there is what we're up to and that's what this election is about in across this land if we get that mandate our promise to the american people is we'll be there for you will work for you oh we'll listen and we'll act and we will be judged by what we do not by what we say so thank you each and every one of you who at this time of enormous anxiety in our country have decided that you've got the will you've got the heart to hang in and fight and contribute for a better folks i'm josh messy i'm the executive director the vermont democratic party welcome to the party everyone having a great god thank everyone for the work you're doing we're going to have some more races coming in soon the other part of the trifecta of the federal delegation will be down before too long so please join yourselves have some drinks enjoy the results coming in and we'll call you folks up again soon as soon as we get similar results and thank you everyone a senator patrick leahy five four three two one how low again i am joined by senator patrick leahy and we are at the burlington temperament democratic party headquarters and senator leahy in your speech earlier tonight you talked about leadership and the women's movement in particular could you talk a little bit more about that  why i am here with senator jimmy lie and who is running for what purpose best oh well this is my will be my tenth term should i be lucky enough to be a elected so right it is been exciting and it energizes all of us we've i've worked extremely hard in the senate for my district for chipping county and and then for the election so it's great to see all the voters and i is confirmation in some ways or lack thereof of what's happening at the federal level and i think we're seeing i think people have been very upset with what the president's been doing and i think affirmation of ber watching back to you in the studio for lieutenant governor hasn't yet been caught but we are going to get to that how you're feeling and how things are going tonight a general i'm feeling good i'm frankly looking at the country as well a turnout is up ever which is a great thing for democracy regardless of whoever wins we just need more people to vote and clearly people came out this time and in vermont the numbers were up everywhere the polls i was out today were swamped with people some record numbers even better than presidential in some districts override everyone we've got another whatever trifecta the federal delegation coming to the stage right now like to introduce our very own senator bernie sanders thank you all very much we don't know what the overall election results for the united states will be to the i bought what we do know is that this is a pivotal moment in american history and we know that we have republican leadership in the house and the senate who have turned their backs on working families in this country have tried to throw thirty two million people off the health care that they have have given a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top one percent and then trump came forward with a budget that would have made massive cuts to medicaid medicare and the social security disability fun but maureen point than even these terrible policies is that we have a president of the united states based on the color of our skin based on where we come from based on our religion based on our agenda based on our sexual identity i would job is to tell this president that we will not tolerate policies which all races and sexes and homophobic that all over this country the american people led by the state of vermont are going to stand up and fight buck so i just want to thank my family jamen all of the kids behind me and i want to thank all of you and mostly the people of vermont being a united states senator julia shannon grillo in five four three two one welcome back to the burlington hilton i'm jo of what they felt passionate about those on the ballot and we did get a lot of people who were talking about how this election meant a lot to them on more of a national level than local but also we did see a lot of support for th add on it renovates that's pretty exciting at the high school student i imagine you've got some opinions on that i mean i've seen the plans i just wrote an article about it for the reps or i see the plans personally i'm jealous that you get i would be able to go to that school but i know a lot of the students in the school do see the need and we you know the people who are in the school right now are going to be affected by it but nobody wants the future generations of  students to have to live through four different buildings because one ramp is raining in the whole of case well you certainly know how how the current school is and it optimistic i think when you talk to people they were riled and they were excited and there was a huge huge voter turnout i was in ward six first this morning and they said they had a line out the door right when the polls opened and they had never seen that before and it was the same thing with four and five and i believe i heard that there were lines when the polls were closing too so they had to keep them open which usually doesn't happen especially in midterm election so that seemed like a pretty good sign for everyone and people were in good spirits a great there stephanie a lot of optimism in this room so we're going to let you get back to the party and thanks so much for checking in with us thank you guys take care back here in the secretary of state jim condos in five four three two one we're back at the hilton and i'm joined by secretary of state jim condo's who is running for another term somewhere around fifty five percent which would might be a record for the midterms it just if you look at early vote ballots in two thousand and fourteen the last midterm we had thirty three thousand four hundred this year we're up factors one is one of course is the national discourse that's going on but i think also you have some high highly contested races at the local level at the county level and even at the state level and i know the other thing that you care deeply about is voter integrity of the elections and and security of election so i want to talk a bit about that sure so we've had a good day to say that when i can say nothing happened that's a good day so we're really very pleased obviously what has occurred around the country did not occur here there have been instances where there was some voter suppression going on we feel pretty confident that the voter engagement has been strong and that we've protected the right to vote and we protected the security of that vote i'm great thank you so much for spending some time with us tonight here in the studio wonderful beautiful high school we might be inviting people from all the states to be able to come in move in feel we have a population that he's let go in and i think this is an example that you know where thinking is coming together and we now that wasn't the only investment in infrastructure that pearlington residents were being asked to vote on what about the waste water infrastructure and the bond to help fund there are some talks and we think that it will be coming then but again like what i said earlier i think seventy millions and then thirty millions is you know or not that's look think about that to me winning m i am grateful for your support for another term as your attorney general and let me first think my wife jess macleod my son jack and emmett who have been with me the whole way we couldn't do it without you thank you guys let me think a great campaign manager somebody from the southern part of the state from bennington county natalie silver take my family i know my mother state representative joey dunham is here tonight we want to take her as well and i want to thank everybody in the attorney general's office for their hard work over these past two years carrying out a new agenda working to help reminders to give voice to those that don't have a voice to be creative to solve problems and  stand up and protect every single vermonter in this state regardless of who you are where you're from what you look like who you love or who you worship we protect civil rights in the state of a lot that's what we're going to do the t we're going to stand up and protect everybody whether it's the civil rights or whether it's women's fundamental rights or whether it's our environment because pollution doesn't know any state borders when this when washington d c will step back the state of will promote will step up and protect all of us the i've always said that the best form of public safety is a good job and we've worked very hard these past two zero reaching out to the backbone of our community and that's our small businesses in order to grow our economy we have to redefine what a safe environment community looks like for everybody it starts with access to health care early childhood education the good public schools with rob mental health treatment affordable housing and access to affordable higher education that is the foundation of a safe and vibrant community for everyone in this state where we leave no one behind where we believe in the dignity of every person  give everybody the opportunity for success in vermont that is very modern values that is very much strong and that's what we're going to continue to do as attorney general and know this no matter what happens in washington d c we believe in justice in this state we believe in dignity we believe in respect and we believe in the human rights of all people regardless regardless of the hateful rhetoric that comes from our nation's capitol we believe as the poet wrote so many years ago that when justice can entire land somebody has made voting easy in vermont somebody we're all very proud of secretary of state jim condo's ladies their hard work of getting out the vote and of course i want to thank my partner any who's over here who has been so supportive of me in my run for secretary of state this election was about one  thing it's a four letter word vote and i want to say that it's it's great to see that the turnout here in vermont has been so strong when this country was first founded in the seventeen hundreds only white male land owners were allowed to vote since that time we've had ten to twelve changes to our constitution ten to twelve changes to our state our statutes all in the interest of increasing and access to the under attack but not here in vermont we in the legislature we built my office and the legislature have worked together to make from up one of the most accessible voting areas in the country we have seventeen year olds who can vote in primaries if they turn eighteen by the general election we have same day voter registration which is on and on course today we have an automatic voter registration we have online voter registration and we have forty five days of no excuse early voting just to give you some numbers in the two thousand and fourteen midterm we had thirty three thousand early votes cast this election we've had sixty nine thousand early votes cast me more than  very often i have said that the true voter fraud that occurs in this country is the denying of any eligible american the right to cast the ballot that's the true voter fraud but make no mistake if allowed the other side will that negatively impact young adults minorities low income in our seniors anecdotally today our voter turnout was extremely good we we believe that the numbers may turn out to be around fifty five percent which might set a record for a midterm election it's important that we remember that this is our country our state and it's our democracy your vote is your voice thank you mer marrow weinberger and five four three two one so i am joined by mary morrow weinberger who is going to tell us a little bit more about a couple of i guess i'm precedented fine in burlington there was a bond for those issues and anything else you want to create well yes there are two very significant bond votes on question number one was about up to seventy million dollar investment in a renovated and largely new high school out of the ice school with a crew that's been working hard to secure a yes vote there and there unofficial results were that about seventy percent of the city had voted in favor of the investment which  is a real it is a historic vote we have not had really any substantial investment in high school about fifty five years so this is really exciting opportunity for for our high school students generations of boys and i since high school students likely that that pass or the big strong outcome as well that you maybe not quite as significant as the high school vote but it is you know for the last seventy five years burlington has been really doing better and better at protecting lake cham we up until making fifty three we didn't do anything to protect the lake from sewage since then we've had a number of rounds of major investments we've got a wastewater treatment plant the main plant in the one nine hundred fifty s in the one nine hundred ninety s we started treating storm water which is very significant two thousand and nine we started a storm water utility that kept things get even better this thirty million dollar investment think goes along with those other big steps that you know in some make us far better than we used to be at protecting lake  you know has been in the same way that it's been fifty five years since we really made a major investment in high school and we've been making investments more recently than that but it is it is still very significant day for burlington's water stewardship  then one in two thousand and twelve fourteen and sixteen oh well it's looking good we'll wait and see what the official results are but i'm very hopeful at this point and i'm looking forward with the you know with the help of the voters looking forward to another opportunity some of the things you know for me as structure you know we have to pay attention to the bottom line and i do and i think that we do a good job with taxpayers dollars with good stewards of those dollars at the same time we have to recognize that their bottom line belongs to every single vermonter and make sure that we do right by every single citizen in the various issues one of them you mentioned clean water for years ago the legislature asked me to do a report on that and to look at financing and funding opportunities we completed that report and we get it to vermont way we had twenty three stakeholder meetings with a thousand people involved and really put together the data and we came up with a two year quite passed quickly and they did not raise taxes and then took a look at revenue and financing opportunities including the use of existing revenues for the next three years to twenty i'm just a point that we didn't get further on that last year my goal this year is to make sure we have a plan in place that protects that asset two point five billion dollars of tourism is dependent on our natural resources including our clean waters we need to see it as an asset to invest in for our future economy it's also an issue in terms of safety thinking water in our way of life so economy safety way of life we need to invest in that asset well you because we didn't pay down our our obligations from one nine hundred ninety to two thousand and seven since and we've been working on where one late one third of the way through a thirty year plan we need to continue the discipline on that and work together to find solution have stepped up to the plate to put more money and to change the the push up the age of retirement in the teacher plan to change the way we do health care all in those changes will save the taxpayers in two thousand and ten to two thousand and thirty eight when we  unfunded liability one point three billion dollars that's real dollars for taxpayers and we preserve retirement security at the same time we need to move forward and continue that work their good work to make sure that we stay disciplined and we change retirement security  or any other office this is it for me this is what i've been doing government finance of forty years i love it and i was with the help of vermont voters i hope to continue this a long time i'm right that seems like a great place to end and good luck to the rest of tonight thank you very much thank you have a care and thank you we're going to continue with our coverage here from burlington health and i think we just have a few more minutes or several i don't know minutes left to go before we wrap up soon come on up folks in the back folks in the back come on up we're going to have a couple of speakers here i think you're going to want to hear hello everybody i'm going to be very brief i am here to introduce a person who put herself out on the line traveled every county of the state over and over again spoke t people at the county fair spokespeople in living rooms spoke to people at rallies and didn't just speak to people but also listen to people christine hall quist did amazing job in her bid for governor of the state of vermont thank you so much for all of your support it's been an amazing campaign i've shed a lot of tears of joy for the people that have approached us over the past several days it's been quite amazing and i'm very proud of the campaign that we have run  i called scott to congratulate him on his win fill you know he's i feel it's very good to be very committed to the to the future of vermont i'm proud of the how we work with each and as i've said all along in this race you know i'm standing on the shoulders of thousands of vermonters before me who fought for what is right and what is just and we will continue to fight for what is right what i'm going to tell you one of them one of the more beautiful stories that i saw on the campaign you know on the primary night i was up an island pond and this big burly man came runnin across the parking lot and i thought oh i'm in trouble but he ran up and  says oh my god i thought i thought you were going to leave without me saying hello he says i am so proud of you and he i'm so you know happy with the work you're done i just wanted to shake your hand so vermonters all over we are a welcoming and inclusive state and i love vermont owned this campaign was truly a labor of love it was a real demonstration of the love we all have for each other and let's make sure we continue this and one of the headwinds that we're facing today well let's continue to show the rest of america what what good democracy looks like and i've certainly want to thank my family for their tremendous support i want to think pat my spouse jillian came here with a bunch of friends from san francisco worked hard my son derek  proud of my family who's helped out this is not the end this is the beginning and we all will continue to strive to make a better vermont and nothing is impossible when you're on the side of justice oh thank you so much amazing fighter for working vermonters she's out there defending pensions she's out there defending a responsible state budget she's out there fighting for clean water day in and day out she does the job of balancing the numbers keeping our credit standing where it should be despite phil scott separatist undermine it we are incredibly proud of her leadership both here in vermont and nationally as president of the national association of state thank you very much i always have to lower these i'm sure to the most of the other folks to come up here i want to say thank you very much for all the voters and all the help and all the volunteers you get yourself a handful of volunteers treasurer i always talk about the bottom line and that's you know i'm the treasurer i talk about bottom lines ok that's what i'm supposed to do but their bottom line is enforce what fuel that bottom line is for every single  do that in a number of different ways we work on a local investments we work on programs to help individuals with disabilities the work of financial literacy we work in a so many different ways but as my partners our partners across the state to make a difference i want to say thank you very now for me it's just an incredible partnership that's how we get things done in vermont we worked together when we did the clean water study we had twenty three stakeholder meetings a thousand people were involved that's a vermont way to get things done we've got a great partner in  much democratic party thank you vermont voters and thank you dawn turner for running a positive and respectful race we are very lucky here in vermont we are very lucky here in vermont and i shouldn't say lucky it is with intention that in vermont civility and respect across different perspectives and different issues is held while we watch negativity take over all across th country we had races here in vermont that were positive and respectful and i thank my opponent for that this race was about the issues and their minor spoke very clearly that we want to raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour vermonter said we want to clean up the waterways of vermont we don't want to keep on that down the road her mother said renewable energy matters because climate change is real it's not a hoax and we have to address it now we cannot continue to use fossil fuels the way that we have been for monsanto message that affordability is about putting more money in people's pockets raising the minimum wage by fifty or sixty cents an hour puts over a thousand dollars a year in their pockets not a whole lot better for homeowners nanny twenty or thirty dollar tax break speaker who's already been the speaker is going to be speaker again and is going to lead a new house of representatives with tremendous victories across the state i first knew in college we then farms together in south hero over twenty years ago it is an incredible pleasure an honor for me to introduce our returning speaker leader of the house committee johnson tonight is a really good night to be a democrat and the lady fellows where are the lady fello tonight tonight voters across vermont are sending a really clear message that we need a state that works for everyone these are a handful of the people who have made all of this happen across the state we through some very generous support we had a series of leahy fellows across the state working hard field organizing supporting candidates and having conversations with a minor thank you so much we have a fantastic vermont house democrats campaign director  him and the next person i'll mention we fielded the largest slate of candidates than we've ever seen and we are seeing the results tonight and that hard work of developing those candidates encouraging those candidates raising funds to support those candidates and getting so many of them across the finish line so much of that gratitude a rock star majority leader and with all of this work we are we have very good news about growing that majority of this year we see all these wins but we also know that there's a lot of work to do yet christine hall quist has my and our deep and eternal gratitude kristi christine ran a fantastic campaign she put her heart and soul out on the campaign trail and she really used her space to to really bring a lot of awareness about working families about rural economic development and about the inequality of opportunities around the states and for that we are very grateful and look forward to continuing that work as we move forward in the next section so in the next session so thank you two years ago many of us were here in this room together when we saw the political climate in vermont shifted drastically for the last two years we've had a president who creates toxic divisions who disrespects women who disrespect people with disability people of color victims of sexual assault harassment our veterans and the list goes on and on and on he believes he's above the constitution which is the foundation of our nation he systematically dismantled public confidence in our free press and he eggs the deep divisions and systemic racism that tear our country apart and tonight vermonters fought back together with all of your help we sent a message that hate has no business here that vermont is not for sale and that we need a vermont economy that works for all of us not just a you all know that vermont is the best place to live raise raise a family work grow a business and we have to do everything we can to make sure that that vermont dream is excessive full to everyone from a good strong start in early childhood to a retirement of safety and security and dignity and we've got a lot of work to do in the next session to make sure that happens in the last session you all know the record number of vetoes that happened that it helps to keep people away from that vermont dream tonight from montreux said that's not what we want you need to listen we need to make sure to include everyone and raise all  so i want to give just give my personal thanks to every candidate that ran every candidate that changed the story in their community every candidate who helps people understand why we need to build a stronger healthier future in vermont and this team up here is just a part of the team that you're going to see working together with you to make a vermont that does work for everyone and i look forward to seeing that through with all of you and serving vermont together over the next two years thank you very much we've got the room to a lab then you can probably push it a few minutes after that but as the old song goes you don't have to go home but you can stay here you know it's been a great night i want to thank everybody who ran everybody who volunteered everybody who is part of making this happen tonight the fight for two thousand and twenty starts tomorrow morning we've got to win back the governorship in two thousand and twenty we got to win the presidency back in two thousand and twenty and the around democratic party is going to be working day in and day out to make that happen i want to personally say