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I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from the principles that men in our national governing majority first in 1980 and again in 1994, and the American people walked away from us.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

We tried two moderate Republican candidates, McCain and Romney, and we lost both times.

There are fewer and fewer Republicans.

Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

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

I lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did.

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.