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Trump Delivers Remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat, Jan. 6, 2026

January 6, 2026 · The White House · 1:24:56

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What happened

President Donald Trump addressed House Republicans at their member retreat in Washington on January 6, 2026, framing the year ahead around the midterm elections. “Together we had 12 months of unprecedented success in 2025 and now we’re going to make history and break records with the epic midterm victory we’re going to pull off,” he said — while puzzling, as he put it, over the pattern he intends to beat: “They say when you win the presidency, you lose the midterm… I wish you could explain to me what the hell is going on with the mind of the public because we have the right policy.”

The President opened with a tribute to Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California, who had died the day before — “a great, great member,” the leader of the Western Caucus and “a fierce champion on California water issues,” as the President described him — and offered condolences to his wife Jill and his family. He praised the House majority as the most successful in decades, achieved, as he noted, without a big majority but as a unified one, and pointed to the Venezuela operation two days earlier as a very good day for the country.

Why it matters

The retreat address is the President’s first full political speech of the midterm year: the win-the-midterm-against-history argument he will carry through 2026, delivered to the members whose seats decide it, filed on the Elections & Governance hub alongside the campaign-year record.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the midterm-victory commitment, stated by the President to the House majority at the start of the cycle, is the tracked political claim of this address. Noted for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Delivers Remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat,” Washington, DC, January 6, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All characterizations as stated by the President at the event.