For the last eighteen months, I’ve traveled across this state.

I’ve listened to your stories. I’ve met your families. I’ve heard about the things that keep you up at night, and the things that give you hope.

So many of you have welcomed Laura, Teddy, CeCe and me into your communities and treated us as your own.

I want you to know how much that has meant to us.

Some of you may have heard me tell this story at a town hall, but about a year ago I was reading my daughter CeCe a bedtime story. I’d already been campaigning for a while, and I’d been away from home a lot, and as I was reading her this story she started crying, and she said, “Dad, don’t do this. Don’t run for governor. Why do you have to do this?” And in that moment I felt my heart break a little, because I knew there was more to this than just a little girl missing her dad. At six years old, she could already see how ugly and divisive and mean our politics have become. Think about that, folks. At six years old, she already sees what the rest of us see: that our politics are broken.

I looked at her, and in that moment words were laid on my heart, I believe by providence, and I said,

“Because when you have a chance to change the world, you take it.”

You take it.

And for the last eighteen months, that’s what this campaign has been about. Changing the world. Believing in something better. And look, it hasn’t been easy. We’ve been up against a lot. We’ve been up against the special interests and their unlimited pocketbooks. We’ve been lied about. But we kept going, because the belief never faded.

Believing in better isn’t just a campaign slogan. I really mean that. I believe that we can do better for so many people here in the state of Florida. I believe that we can have better housing, better healthcare, better education, but more importantly, I believe that we can be better to one another. I know that’s true, because I’ve seen it every day on the trail.

This campaign has asked a lot of my family. I know it has asked a lot of the people who have given their time to be part of it, too.

We’ve been through a lot together.

And I want to thank you.

Whatever happens in these final days, I’ll remember the people who opened their doors, shared their stories, and made my family feel at home.

Because when I think about these eighteen months, those are the moments I come back to.

The people.

The conversations.

The kindness.

The extraordinary generosity of people who didn’t owe us anything, but gave us everything anyway.

Today We Change The World.

For nearly two years, so many of you have been working to build a new coalition in American politics - believing that everyone deserves a fair shot.
For others, you're looking at the opportunity to vote today as your way of making your voice heard, of choosing a new direction.

There’s a lot of pent up democracy in this state right now, and today we let it out.

This is it folks, this is our moment. This is the best chance we've had in a generation for real change.

History is watching.

One day our kids and our grandkids will ask when our nation was broken, when we were more divided than ever before, when our country was slipping away, what did you do?

Today we answer.

We make our voices heard.
We vote for change.
We vote for hope.
We vote for our neighbors, our friends, our families.

We vote.

Thank you all for being a part of this moment in history.

Now let’s go change the world.