At a press conference, Chuck Schumer opens with a Frankie Valli line, "Oh, what a night," then says that against all odds Democrats have won the Senate. He recalls that in 2025, when he said Democrats could win it back, people rolled their eyes. The video title says Democrats take control of the Senate and House.
The receipt
- Who
- Chuck Schumer
- Where
- Press conference the day after election night, Washington
- Original footage
- DRM News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 38 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 2 on Instagram
Read the transcript
All right, everybody. So let me begin by just plagiarizing a little bit from Frankie Valley, a great New Jersey eye. Oh, what a night. Against all odds, Democrats have won the Senate and we have five words for the American people. Relief is on the way. In 2025, when I said we could win back the Senate after we had lost the presidency and the Senate, people rolled their eyes. But we never wavered.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.