Candace Owens Quotes

How can you challenge an incumbent and not be divisive?

I have one focus and that focus is getting Donald Trump reelected.

The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

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

Turn the rascals out.

Divide the floaters [undecided voters] into blocks of five and put a trusted man with necessary funds in charge of these five and make him responsible that none get away and that all vote our ticket.

You should be strenuous in seeing as many people as possible every day of every possible class and order, for from the mere numbers of these you can make a guess of the amount of support you will get on the balloting

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.

We need to show the voters left behind by Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that our party represents them and that we're beholden only to them. We've got to give them a reason to go to the polls.

I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.

It's about going to where your voters are.

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'

TV ads are great for broadcasting, but voter turnout is about narrow-casting. And not all messengers are created equal.

Republicans need to stop complaining about blacks voting over 90% for Democrats. If they're not willing to compete in those neighborhoods, they will keep losing those voters.

We need candidates who are able to reach out to young voters, women voters.