Twenty times they said that I wouldn't last three weeks, then it wouldn't last three months as speaker. I think we're almost two and a half years in now. They said we couldn't do the big beautiful bill. They said we wouldn't win the midterms in 2024. I got headlines from some of your outlets the night before the election in 2024 saying we're going to lose the majority. (22:11–22:13)
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