Lee Zeldin Quotes

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

Middle class voters are the mega-prize in American politics.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my friends, I commit to all Americans, that we will have a party that you can be proud of. We will elect Democrats up and down the ballot.

Election losses are always an inkblot test for partisans. If a candidate's defeat has no clear and obvious cause, if the data points are all over the map, it is easy for those on the sidelines to claim, 'Candidate X would have won if only he or she had been more like... me.'

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

Competition for votes sends parties in a two-party system toward the center.

We have over 13 million people who supported my candidacy. And I have no doubt that there are some of those people who will not vote for Hillary Clinton.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help.

After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in fact, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a depressed Republican base.

If Republicans vote in big numbers, we win a statewide election. It's just that simple.

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?