Greetings!

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Our nation was saved yesterday with the election of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States.  Like many people, I believed that the 2024 presidential election cycle was the most consequential of my lifetime so when the election was called early this morning, I was able to go to sleep relieved.  That said, I was also sad for Delaware.

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A HUGE thank you to every candidate that ran this election cycle. A HUGE thank you to all the volunteers that supported those candidates. A HUGE thank you to all of the GOP voters that showed up and voted in the 2024 election cycle.  So what was our final turnout percentage? Drumroll, please.  75%!  

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This is a HUGE accomplishment! This result was largely due to the DEGOPs GOTV strategy and execution as well as the efforts of each individual candidate to drive voter turnout.

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In addition to our record turnout, we had a tremendous day in the election integrity war room yesterday.  Our volunteers took calls all day and we were able to resolve some issues on the spot.  Thank you to everyone that called in reports – it turned out to be very beneficial to have a central location for reports.  Our election integrity task force will be doing a debrief and we will share that once available.

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So where do we go from here?  As the leader of the Delaware Republican Party, it is incumbent on me to take a hard look at the results of yesterday and to see why we didn’t win seats that we thought we were going to win.  Folks – it is a numbers game.  We are the THIRD party in Delaware.  You read that correctly.  Unaffiliated voters outnumber Republicans.  There are approximately 353,000 registered Democrats, 227,000 unaffiliated or “other” parties, and almost 207,000 registered Republicans.  Even though we had what I believe to be unprecedented turnout, the raw numbers of Democrats that just “always vote Democrat” are tough to overcome.  Our candidates had better policies and solutions to Delaware problems, yet they didn’t win.  The better candidates did NOT win yesterday.

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We cannot give up!  We are allowed to take a couple of days to “lick our wounds” but after that we need to regroup and start shifting registrations.  We will continue to work on our messaging and communication with a goal of attracting voters to our party.  The goal this cycle was to increase turnout – we accomplished that goal.  Now the goal has to be increasing total Republicans.  We just won the White House, the Senate and the House.  Republicanism is going to be front and center in 2025 nationally – we will capitalize on that.

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Again – THANK YOU to everyone that “showed up” in the 2024 election cycle.  We moved the needle!