Patrick Murphy Quotes

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

I hear you're losing Ohio, but we're doing fine in Pennsylvania.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

You're losing in Ohio, but, don't worry, we're winning in Pennsylvania.

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

I'm from Florida and we have huge primary contests there.

Pennsylvania is one of the most important states in the country when it comes to the election of the president of the United States.

Many people think that Puerto Rico would be a Democratic state just by virtue of the inclination of the Latino population in the United States, but the reality is that I see Puerto Rico as a battleground state.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

I ran in the reddest state of the United States of America. I turned almost 35 percent of the people that voted for Donald Trump back to voting for a Democrat.

If elected, I will win.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.