Ed Gillespie Quotes

On the House side, typically the party that has the White House loses the majority in the midterms - that's been the historic trend. We want to buck that trend. We want to deliver for President Trump majorities in the House and the Senate so that he can govern.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

I'm not going to opine as to whether I think a particular candidate can beat Donald Trump or not.

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

I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

We don't win or lose elections because of [party] rules.

I was incredibly - I've never been more confident of anything in my life that Hillary Clinton was going to win and Donald Trump would lose by a very large margin.

I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

In some ways, I would be absolutely fascinated if Trump gets elected.

I've had many conversations with the Clinton family. We're friends. It's hard, very tough. I think on Election Day, everybody felt pretty good. I think the Trump campaign thought they were gonna lose.

Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

I've had four presidential candidates visit me in the tents, and they all lost. I tried to get Hillary down here, but she's too smart. She won't come to the tents.

The voters of Hawaii have said loud and clear that it's not money that wins elections.

I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it.

I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.

Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.