Bob Harvie delivers speech during 2026 Midterm Election night

This is a major victory, not for me. This is a major, major victory for all of us. And we have seen the results across the country, and they're still coming in. We know that this is now a point in history where America has turned. Those of you from this county know that 250 years ago, America turned not far from where we stand right now. We are turning it again. We are turning it away from the negative, from the ugly, from the heartless, from the ignorant, from those who would take us backward and who would divide us and make us fight each other. And instead, we are turning toward the America that we have always wanted to be and have been at brief times in our past. A time when we are with each other, helping each other, hands to each other, pulling each other up. There is so much more work to do. The last 18 months of this campaign have been about building a future and building back the American dream that so many of us were raised to believe in and so many in this country have yet to achieve. We have taken a major step to doing that tonight here in this district. And, yes, and we should always think about who we thank at this moment. Start with thanking yourselves, okay? Thank yourselves. Round of applause for you. No matter what you did, no matter what you've done for this campaign, even just voting, but postcards, door knocking, phone calls, social media, everything you have done, putting out signs, moving them when they moved ours and putting them on yours, you can now take credit for all the things we're going to do to start rebuilding ourselves as a society, as a country. You can take credit for doing that. That's you who did it. That's you who did it. Okay. So, but I do want to thank, especially, there's too many people to thank individually, you know who you are, the people who've been in the office doing the postcards and doing everything that had to be done to make this victory happen. I do want to thank, obviously, the people, my campaign staff, Dan McCormick, who's somewhere hiding. And they're hiding back here. But we've got so many people. And as I'm starting to eat, I'm afraid I'm going to miss them. So I see Anna. We have Keely. We have Kendra. We've got Matt and Linto. We've got Zoe somewhere. I don't know where she is. But Stephen, I see Stephen. Who am I missing? I know I'm missing somebody. Grace Solstice. Thank you, Solstice. Our social media. I do want to make sure that I'm thanking the people who, of course, you know, I'm standing next to our party chair, Steve Sinisero, who's done an amazing work, but this race, this race was won, obviously, tonight, thanks to all of you, but this party has built itself up, and so we do have to thank people like John Cardisco, who did build this party up into what it was today, and there are some people, and it's tough to see, but I know there are people here who were in this party decades ago. When there was a real struggle just to get people to run, just to get people to run. And we've lost people we know over the years who worked their hearts out for this party and did not live to see this day. And so we have to keep those in our minds too. And we've had standard bearers. We've had the people that have held that flag high when no one else was really there. And no one has really done that more than Diane Marseille. Thank you. And I would be remiss if I did not thank a lot of the people. I mean, I can't name everybody, but we definitely have to, you know, thank the den mother of the Democratic Party in Bucks County, Helene Ratner. Where's Helene Ratner? Where's she? Helene Ratner. And obviously, I have to thank those who are closest to me. I used to tell people the past few months when people said, you know, those signs, those signs make me so mad. And they used to say, and I was being serious. I wasn't being funny. Think about how my mother feels, okay? And so for my mom. And certainly, you know, what Brian Fitzpatrick never thinks about when he's putting up signs attacking somebody is that sometimes that person has children. And so for Emma and Brendan and Rob, thank you so much for everything you've put up there. And to Colleen, thank you for everything you've done to help me through this time. It's 18 months. My father passed away 20 years ago. He was looking forward to voting for Patrick Murphy but passed away beforehand. I'm And so I think about him, I thought about him all day today. starting And everything he taught me. But I also want to acknowledge all the people who ran for this seat before. Who have helped build this party up. to So to Patrick Murphy. speak To Kathy Bavar. To Kevin Strauss. To Steve Sinisero. To Scott Wallace. now. Christina Finello. Ashley Ehasz. All of them chipped and chipped and chipped and chipped away. So we have done a great thing. I could not have done it without you. It's just my name. But I appreciate the trust you put in me to help rebuild this country. But I'm going to keep leaning on you as we should all lean on each other. And we need to lift each other up. We need to keep pushing forward. We know there's a lot of work to do to help each other out, help our neighbors, help our friends, and help rebuild this country. And so let's get to work to do that now. Thank you.