ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, the best congressman in the United States, Congressman John McGuire.

(cheering) JOHN McGUIRE: All right, all right.

You guys ready for some news?

(Yeah!)

Well, first of all, all the glory goes to God.

(Amen.)

You know my philosophy, even as a Navy Seal and in politics and even in business, has always been, if you can put God first put your differences aside, treat people with respect and work as a team, sometimes in the military, sometimes in special operations outnumbered behind enemy lines sometimes, not always, you can turn impossible into possible.

And in politics, sometimes you can turn a “No” into a “Yes.” And, anyway, before we make the big announcement, I want to thank a bunch of people.

First of all, I want to thank God.

And second of all, my family.

My wife, Tracy, is my best friend.

(Applause) And we have five incredible children.

And I couldn't be more proud.

And my oldest boy was this big when I met him.

And now he's a big man in the Navy and he's married, and he wants kids.

And our middle daughter just got engaged.

How cool is that?

Also my brother, Rusty McGuire, is here.

Step up here for a second.

(Cheering and applause) Now, Rusty is a Commonwealth Attorney in Louisa County, and he's a Brigadier General.

And he's been a great mentor and a friend.

And thank you, brother, for being here.

It means so much to me.

Big help.

(Applause) Also, I've got my consultant, Sean Brown over here in the back.

Let's give him a round of applause.

(Applause) Ive got Ramona Christian, who is my political director, has done an incredible job.

Let's give her a round of applause.

(Applause) We've got a whole bunch of staff here, but Id be here all night.

Id love to to give you all their names and all their details.

My chief of staff, Chris Hall.

(Applause) Ive got a district director here, Matt Hall, somewhere.

I dont know where hes hiding.

He gave us a little bit of a scare this year, but I'm glad you're all right.

And, anyway, just so many amazing people.

Sheriff, I really appreciate you being here from Campbell County.

We wouldnt have a country without our men and women in law enforcement.

And I see we have some veterans here.

If you're a veteran, will you raise your hand let see where you are.

Let's give our veterans a round of applause.

Well, nothing great has ever been done alone.

And they threw $4.5 million of BS about me on TV.

But despite that, by the grace of God and an endorsement for the good things that we've done for the people in the district, I'm here to tell everybody we won this race.

(Yeah.)

(Applause) Now, theres a whole lot of other races and things going around the country.

I've just been focused on this right now.

Id like to go home and dissect and see what happened in the rest of the country.

But what I was elected to do is represent the people of the 5th Congressional District.

And again, they have elected me to continue to represent and doing good things for this incredible district.

It's the gateway to the Bill of Rights.

Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Madison, James Monroe, Jack Jouett and so many other American heroes came from this district.

And people all over the district and even around the country say, “You're the hardest working politician I've ever met.” And I don't know how they get that.

I pray I can live up to that.

But what I say to them is, “If you thought you were losing your country, how hard would you work?” And so I love our country.

And, whether you guys keep me around two years or four years or whatever it is, I promise you no one will work harder.

And, you know, when I was in the General Assembly, I passed bills every year where every Democrat and Republican voted “Yes.” My last year in the state Senate, I had two bills that every Republican said, “You're not going to pass those two bills.” We passed both of them with every Democrat and Republican.

Now, as your congressman, you probably saw the Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act.

Your last six congressmen over 25 years never got that bill through a subcommittee.

But by putting God first, putting our differences aside, treat people with respect and working as a team we got through the subcommittee.

We got through the full committee, we got through the House.

And recently it passed a full Senate committee with every Democrat and the Republicans.

(Applause) By the way, we have been working hard.

I'm on my fourth pickup truck.

My last one I bought with zero miles, and I sold it about a year and a half ago with 245,000 miles.

And this new one, the fourth one, is at 95,000 miles.

I've been to 413 different churches.

I've been to every tractor pull, every rodeo.

And I can't tell you how many hundreds of businesses I've been to where they said they've never met a congressman.

So, we've got some work to do.

If you voted for me, I love you.

If you didn't vote for me, I love you.

And I'm going to fight hard to represent everyone who did vote for me today.

And if you didnt vote for me today, I'm going to fight hard to earn your trust.

It's just a bummer in politics that they could say anything on TV and get away with it.

$4.5 million worth of BS and by the grace of God, we still won.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, God bless you.

What do you got?

Oh, we got a cake or something.

(John, John.)

Oh, hey, by the way, one more thing.

I want to talk to you guys about my mentor, my best friend is my dad.

Some of you guys may know he passed away a few days ago, and I just feel like he's beside me every step of the way on this campaign.

And I got to tell you, he had a tough beginning.

He had a battle with addiction.

And my sister and I were abandoned, and I've been foster homes.

You may know this.

We were separated after the first foster home, and I think nine different well, I know, nine different elementary schools.

And my grandfather, grandmother rescued me and my sister and raised us together, brought us back together and raised us ‘til my dad got sober.

And my dad passed away.

But the week that President Trump got reelected, I call it a week of redemption.

Because we have a God of second chances.

And that week my dad celebrated 41 years sobriety.

And my younger brother, he got promoted to Brigadier General in the Army.

And then that same week, I got elected to Congress.

And we went up to my dad and we said, “If you hadn't fought so hard to be sober, he wouldn't be a Brigadier General, and I wouldnt be a Congressman.” And so, please pray for our family.

We've got the viewing tomorrow, the funeral on Thursday.

And how many people just heard that song where they said, “Let's send John Maguire?” Did y'all hear that?

You know, somebody made that on the campaign team, and I wasn't quite so sure we were going to even release that song, but we played it for my dad and he's like hes really struggling to I think he really wanted to be here tonight.

And he was struggling and he would we played it for him one time and he would ask us “Hey, will you play that song?” And sometimes we thought he was really out of it, and we play that song and hed light up with a big smile on his face.

And so every time I hear it, it reminds me of my dad.

And, you know, I was I've been pretty strong, you know, because we got to win a campaign and that just happened.

And I was in Danville, Virginia talking to a crowd of people, and some woman walks up, plays that on her phone.

I just lost it.

But anyway, please pray for my family.

My dad would give you the shirt off his back.

One last story.

When I got out of the Navy, I'm driving down Broad Street with an F-150 pickup truck, and the tire blew out.

And it destroyed the wheel and the rim and I limp over to Billy Crumpton Tire.

And I'm in the waiting area, and they're putting a new wheel and tire on my truck.

And I went to go pay, and Billy Crumpton said, “Your money's no good here.” And I said, “Well, what do you mean?” He goes, “Are you John McGuire's boy?” And I said, “Yes, sir.” And he said, “Your father has helped me out of more jams, you're not paying for that wheel and tire.” And I hope someday somebody says that about me.

My dad will give you the shirt off his back.

He's got the biggest heart.

So Dad, thank you.

We won.

And it's an honor to continue serving our great nation.

Thank you guys.

Have a good night.