Ricardo Rossello Quotes

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

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.

Presidents are not elected in these crowded halls, with cheering thousands. They are elected by the fireside in November.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

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

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.

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

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

A [Presidential] candidate, confident of winning or sure of losing a bare majority of a state’s popular vote has no reason to expend resources there.

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

They said a Republican could never win Michigan. I knew better, you knew better, and Donald Trump knew better. We all know - never underestimate Michigan.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

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

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

And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California.

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

President James Buchanan's margin of victory in the election was fifty thousand dollars.

In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and then won reelection: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and the most recent example, Bill Clinton.

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

The only way to win the White House, in my view, is to become a nominee of either the Republican or the Democrat Party, and simply running to be a spoiler would not give the American people, I think, the chance to express their own views about Mr. Trump or about Secretary Clinton.

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

Trump won 44.4 percent of votes in Virginia in 2016. At press time, Ed Gillespie had won 45 percent of the vote in 2017.