Tom Perez Quotes

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

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

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

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

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

All presidential elections will ultimately be a fight for the middle.

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

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.

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

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.

I still say save your money, don't waste your money or time running against Donald Trump in 2020 because you're not going to beat him.

As a Democrat following the 2012 presidential election closely, I was happy to see that South Carolina voted overwhelmingly for Newt Gingrich, a candidate almost too easy for President Barack Obama to beat in the fall. I was not, however, surprised at the state's gaffe.

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

There is a reality to the primary process, and you don't win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them by winning Iowa, by winning New Hampshire, by winning South Carolina, winning Florida.

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

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