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President Trump Rally, September 24, 2020, Jacksonville, FL
Crowd: (09:47)
USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA.
Donald Trump: (12:04)
Hello, Jacksonville. We love Jacksonville. We love Jacksonville. I’m thrilled
to be back in my home state of Florida with thousands of loyal,
hardworking American patriots. This is some crowd. I just wish the
cameras would show the crowd. They don’t want to do that. They don’t like
to do that. It’s harder for us to win because we have a fake news back
there, but somehow we just keep on doing it. Isn’t it crazy? Isn’t it crazy?
It’s interesting, when Biden comes to Florida, he’ll have 12, 13 people. You
know they do the circles and he has a hard time filling up the circles. Here,
we probably have 30,000 people or something. That’s a lot of people.
That’s a lot of people.
Donald Trump: (12:56)
Well, I want to thank you. Forty days from now, we’re going to win Florida.
We’re going to win four more years in the White House. And this is the
most important election in the history of our country, I believe that. It is
because we’re dealing with people that are crazy. They’re going to raise
your taxes. They’re going to take away your second amendment, you know
that. Your second amendment is not going anywhere with me, I can tell you
that. The Democrat party has been completely taken over by socialists,
Marxists and far left extremists. They embrace the policies of Communist
Cuba, Socialist Venezuela. They want to end the American dream for
Hispanic-Americans. We love Hispanic-Americans well.
Donald Trump: (13:55)
Did you see, they released a poll today? They said Trump’s doing really
well. What’s going on with the Hispanic? It took you so long to figure out
that I love you. How long did it take? No more of that stuff. No, the
Hispanic-Americans are great. And they did, they released a poll today and
nobody’s ever seen anything like it. The Republicans are beating the
Democrats with Hispanic-Americans. No, we’re doing great. We’re doing
great. And they never like to show those polls. Whenever you see, they
don’t show too many polls, that’s only because we’re winning. We’re
winning by a lot. We think we’re winning by a lot.
Donald Trump: (14:41)
But the only poll that counts is on November 3rd, right? That’s the only poll
that counts. So get out there, don’t let them bluff you. Whatever it is, get
out there and vote. The Republican party is the party of job, safety and
freedom and we will ensure that America never becomes a Socialist or
Communist country. I’ve added that recently. I said, “Socialist country.” I
said, “Now a Socialist or Communist country,” because these people are
crazy. Kamala, Kamala is further left than Bernie. I didn’t know that. She is
the furthest left in the U.S. Senate. She was up at 15% when she started,
you know that right, that story? She went down to 14, then she went to 12,
then she went to 11. She went to nine and eight, six, four, two, one and
then she left before Iowa, the great state of Iowa, where I made ethanol
possible for them, ethanol.
Donald Trump: (15:50)
And I gave our farmers $28 billion, thank you very much, China. We took it
out of China because they were targeting Iowa, Nebraska, a lot of our
great States, Wisconsin. We gave our farmers a lot of money. Some came
down to farmers down in Florida. They don’t know that. We’ve got a lot of
farmers in Florida. But here’s the choice facing every Florida vote, Joe
Biden will deliver a crippling shutdown. He’s actually thinking about… No,
we did that and we saved millions of lives. That’s it? We’re doing good
now. And by the way, your governor’s done a great job. Florida is down,
low down with the China virus, it’s China virus. Some people call it
coronavirus. That sounds like a beautiful place in Italy, right? No, it didn’t
come from Italy. It came from China.
Donald Trump: (16:40)
But this guy’s talking, he’ll shut it down. If the scientists say shut it down,
he’ll shut it down. No, we’re not shutting anything down. We are doing so
well. You look at our numbers. Wait until you see the third quarter. I
shouldn’t say it because back there, but wait until you see how good the
third quarter is going to be, and it comes out just before the election, so I’m
taking a risk when I say it. You won’t believe the numbers you say. I tell
you, you’re going to see numbers, nobody’s going to believe those
numbers. We’re hearing from 25 to a 35% GDP. Nobody’s ever heard of
that. Well, Iran has a 25% GDP too, but it’s a negative GDP of 25. They
just announced negative 25.
Donald Trump: (17:26)
They don’t like me too much. Be careful. Be careful. I’m delivering a safe
vaccine and we’re doing a record recovery. This recovery is a record.
They’ve never seen anything like it. And next year is going to be, I think,
the best economic year in the history of our country, unless a very sleepy
guy got in and he decided to quadruple everybody taxes. Then you can
forget it. He’s a sleepy guy. Did you see he did a lid this morning? Again,
lid, lid. You know what a lid is? A lid is when you put out word you’re not
going to be campaigning today. So he does the lid all the time. I’m working
my ass off. I’m in Texas. I’m in Ohio. I’m in North Carolina, South Carolina.
I’m in Michigan. I’m all over the place, Wisconsin.
Crowd: (18:22)
Four more years.
Donald Trump: (18:32)
Thank you, thank you. But he puts a lid on. So a lid, I didn’t know what the
hell I lid was. I’ve only been doing this for three and a half years. Right?
But a lid is you’re not going to go out today. You’re going to stay in your
apartment, or let’s put it this way, in his basement. So early in the morning,
he’s put a lid on. That means nothing for the… I guess they do that for the
press. The fake news goes home and they say how great he is as a
candidate. They go home and they say, “He’s a great candidate,” but he
put another lid, many lids. So he did a lid today, early in the morning, that
he won’t be working today. And I don’t know, I’m working so hard. Maybe
he’s right. Think of it. Supposing he never campaigns and he wins. You
know how badly I’m going to feel? I’m working hard and you’ve got to work
hard. And you know what? I said it today, we cannot have a low energy
individual as our president. We can’t.
Donald Trump: (19:27)
And he’s the lowest energy individual I’ve ever seen. I’ve ever seen. So
we’ll see what happens, but he’s lidding up. Maybe he’s going to be great
at the debate. He’s been doing it for 47 years. Somebody said, “Oh, he
won’t do well at the debate.” I said, “I think you’re wrong. He’ll do fine. He’s
going to do fine.” They’ll give him a big shot or something and he’ll go out
there. He’ll have a lot of energy. He’ll have energy. He’ll be like Superman
for about 15 minutes. Biden’s plan will crush Florida. My plan will crush the
virus and we’re doing it. We’re rounding the third. We’re rounding the turn.
Under my leadership, prosperity will surge. Normal life, oh I love normal
life. We want to get back to normal life. We’ll fully resume. The Florida
tourism and hospitality industries will reach record highs. That’s what’s
going to happen, you see it. And next year will be one of the greatest
years.
Donald Trump: (20:22)
We are going to have… I’m telling you, mark it down and if I’m wrong,
you’ll say I was wrong. I’ll say, “Sorry about that.” But we’re going to have
a great year. We’re going to have a great everything. Our country is doing
great. Our military has never been stronger. We’ve taken out so many bad
ones. Hopefully it’s so strong that we’ll never have to use it. You
understand that? You’ll want to make it so strong. We’ve never had
weapons like this. No country in the world ever possessed the power, the
weaponry. What we have is so incredible. Nobody’s ever possessed it
before, not Russia, not China, not anybody. We’re the envy of the world.
Donald Trump: (21:03)
Russia, not China, not anybody, we’re the envy of the world. Hope to God,
we never have to use them. That’s all I can tell you. This election is about
jobs. By the way, speaking of jobs, it’s all made in the USA everything we
have.
Donald Trump: (21:14)
This election is also about law and order. You know, they said, “Oh, don’t
say law and order. That’s too tough a term.” They say, “Sir, say law and
order very lightly.” Then say, ” And safety and liberty and this.” I said, “No,
no, it’s about law and order.” We have to have law and order, right?
Donald Trump: (21:40)
These Democrat run states are a disaster. They’re a disaster. You look at
what’s happening all over the country and many of them, look at Portland.
How bad is that? I mean, how bad is that? I will say last night in Kentucky,
I spoke to the governor. He’s a Democrat. We had a great talk and he
pulled out his national guard, and he’s doing it good. I gave him credit. I
give him credit, but mostly they don’t want to do that. I say, “Let us send
the national guard.” I did it in, you remember? Minnesota. We’re going to
win Minnesota.
Donald Trump: (22:12)
So, I did it in Minneapolis. Minnesota, they were having a hard time. It took
a little long, a little longer than we wanted, but we got the okay to get in.
We solved that problem in about 25 minutes, I think it took. They formed a
line. That was the hard part. The easy part was just walking straight ahead.
They never flinched. They were not socially distanced. They were right
next to each other. They had $250,000 piece uniforms. They had more
stuff in their head.
Donald Trump: (22:40)
I’m trying to figure out what is it. They had computers. They had infrared
goggles. They had everything. They walk forward with their canisters of
tear gas and pepper spray. It was, remembered the CNN reporter? He
went down. He got hit on the knee with a can of, what? Yeah, that’s right,
he got hit. He said, “I’m down. I’m down.” He was down. Still bad. I felt
badly for him though. He went down, Ali Velshi. Remember, he was
standing and he was saying, “This is a friendly protest. It’s wonderful to
see the lovely people that are here.” He’s ducking and behind him, the
entire city was burning down. Do you remember that? The entire city. Why
are they doing that? What’s the purpose of it? I don’t get it. I don’t get it.
But no, he got hit on the knee with a canister of tear gas. They say it hurts,
hurts.
Crowd: (23:34)
Follow the money.
Donald Trump: (23:37)
That’s only going 52 miles an hour. A bullet goes about 2,000 miles an
hour, but they say it hurts. But they cleaned out that city in half an hour.
They had no problem. Minneapolis, that’s one of the reasons I’m going to
win. Another reason would be Ilhan Omar. That’s a reason. Omar, we’re
going to win because of Omar. That’s a beauty. That’s really, she’s great.
She’s great. She loves our country very much. She has a total disrespect
for our country, and I think she has hatred for our country, but I would say
Omar is a big reason that we’re going to win. They’re not too fond of her in
Minnesota. I’ll always fight for the right of all citizens to live in security and
peace, so we have law and order.
Donald Trump: (24:24)
Joe Biden is weak as hell. He surrendered his party to flag burners, riders
and anti- police radicals, the Democrat party’s war on police. A lot of
people say cops, I never liked the word. My father, sit down, please. Come
on, won’t be here for awhile. What the hell. [inaudible 00:24:42] We have
nothing else to do. I have nothing else to do except run a country. The
hardest part about running the country is dealing with crazy Democrats.
We’re working on stimulus for people, because it’s not their fault. It was
China’s fault that we can’t get Nancy Pelosi to approve it. She wants to
wait until after the election. I said, “People want their money now. Not
going to have any impact from that standpoint, people want their money
now.”
Donald Trump: (25:16)
The Democrat party’s war on cops is putting the lives of innocent police
officers in danger, but my father had great respect, always had great
respect for law enforcement, for the police. One time, I said, “Dad, the cops
are out there. Look at that, they look great.” He says, “Never use the word
cops. It’s police.” That’s the kind of respect he had. He thought, I don’t
want to, you know? Right. Look, I have this couple of pretty rough looking
guy. No, it’s true. So, I always find it a little hard.
Donald Trump: (25:45)
I just left an impression, this police. He thought it was slang. I don’t think
they mind. I don’t think … How many? We got a lot of them here. Does
anybody mind the term cops? Who’s here that’s a police man or woman,
policeman? Do they mind? A lot of them. A lot of them. Do they mind that
term cops? No. They just want respect and they just want to be allowed to
do their job properly as nobody can do it. You agree with that? That’s what
I say. All right. Now start calling them cops. Respect us and let us do our
job.
Donald Trump: (26:24)
Earlier this month, two sheriff’s deputies were ambushed at close range in
Los Angeles, California. I called them both and they’re okay, but they were
hit. They were hit bad. Last night, as you know, two police officers were
shot in Louisville, Kentucky. Every year, dozens of courageous police
officers lay down their lives for people that they never met, people that they
don’t know, people they never saw in most cases, right? They laid down
their lives for people they never met. They’re incredible. Law enforcement,
let’s give them a hand, please.
Crowd: (27:21)
Red and blue! Red and blue! Red and blue! Red and blue! Red and blue!
Red and blue!
Donald Trump: (27:21)
Thank you very much. That’s good. I tell them all the time, we have
endorsements from all of them, but I tell them all the time, you have no
idea how much you’re loved. They don’t hear it because they watch the
fake news at night, and you don’t get the truth. So, that’s a lot of people
back there. That’s a lot of fakers back. Look at all those red lights. The red
light means you’re on live. The problem with being on live, you make a little
bit of a mistake and they say, “This was a horrible evening.”
Crowd: (28:02)
Hear our voice! Hear our voice! Hear our voice! Hear our voice! Hear our
voice! Hear our voice! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Donald Trump: (28:12)
All right. Thank you. That’s enough. That’s enough of it. No, it’s very
dishonest. It’s a shame. Really does hurt our country. It’s so fake. They
don’t show the protesters. They don’t show it. When you think that like
cities are burning down and storefronts are being exploded, people are
being killed, they would have you believe there’s nothing happening. It’s
the most incredible thing. I don’t even understand why. No matter what
your philosophy is, no matter where you stand, why wouldn’t you want to
show the facts, show what’s happening? Then we fix it.
Donald Trump: (28:41)
The Republican cities don’t have trouble. The Republican states, they don’t
have trouble. You go to different states, they don’t know … They find it,
some of these governors, friends of mine, and I have friends on both sides,
but Republican governors, red states, they look like, how is a thing like this
possible? Because they have law and order. They have law and order for
this. That’s what it is.
Donald Trump: (29:04)
For the entire summer, Joe Biden was silent as his far left supporters
assaulted police officers, harassed innocent Americans and set fire to
buildings. There were rioters. There were looters. They were anarchists.
He called them peaceful protesters. He said they’re peaceful protesters.
Joe, they’re not peaceful. Now, maybe he may believe it. I mean, honestly,
they may say they’re peaceful. Okay, I’ll say they’re peace. I think he
believes it. I actually do. It’s the other ones that you have to worry about,
because they call the shots, not him. He’s called for the ridiculous cutting
of police funding, abolishing cash bail, if you can believe that and the
closing of our prisons. They want to close up prisons. That’s a good idea.
He even described law enforcement as the enemy. He said law
enforcement is the enemy. Now, I assume, I’ll ask the fake news. Has he
taken it back? I assume, because he’s taken everything back. He’s taken
anti-fracking back. He’s taken pretty much everything back, but remember,
it’s the first thing they say that’s what they stick with. Biden’s anti-police
crusade must stop. As president, I will always stand with the heroes of law
enforcement, that’s why we’re here.
Donald Trump: (30:29)
I was honored to receive the endorsement of 48 sheriffs right here in
Florida three weeks ago, and all over the country, law enforcement from
Texas, Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New
York’s finest endorsed me. They’ve never endorsed a presidential
candidate. The National Troopers Coalition. Chicago, how about that?
Chicago police, they endorsed me, Chicago. All the major law enforcement
organizations all across our country.
Crowd: (31:07)
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Donald Trump: (31:41)
They go back home to mommy. Mommy, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. You know the
incredible thing about that? I didn’t hear anything except our crowd. No,
they have no voice. They’re screaming at the top of their lungs, but their
lungs are very small, and I didn’t hear, all of a sudden, you hear wah like
this right here. That’s true. People, if you wouldn’t recognize them, we
wouldn’t even know they’re here. Now tomorrow, the headline is, so you
have one young protester, the headline will be tomorrow, Trump’s rally
broken up by protests. One very young girl, she’s a girl …. girl, she looks
like she’s like about … years old. How the hell has that happened? 200
generals and … leaders, also hundreds of … spouses … given their
complete and total endorsement … to uphold our land and to uphold our
…. as written on Saturday … announcing my nominee to the … States
Supreme Court.
Donald Trump: (33:22)
It’s true. It’s going to be a big deal. We’re doing it at the White House, the
Rose garden of the White House unless it’s raining. In which case, we’ll
still do it there. That’s okay. It’s beautiful, the White House. So beautiful.
We love the White House, right outside the Oval Office. They don’t want us
to do it. The Democrats say, “You shouldn’t do it.” Why? We have a lot of
time. Let me ask you the one simple question. If it was them, instead of us,
do you think they do it? I think so. No, this will be a very talented person. It
will be a woman. I’m sorry, man. It will be a woman. All right. Ready?
Donald Trump: (34:09)
Who wouldn’t rather see a man? Oh, that’s trouble. Try it again. Who would
rather see a man? That’s not good. Who would rather see a woman? I
think it would be, really, I think it would take tremendous courage. I don’t
care how great the man is. Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to tell you that
Jim Fitzgerald, and then you would see a lot of very unhappy faces. Right?
My opponent refuses to release his lists of potential justices because they
will be handpicked by extremists like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez. Sometimes known as AOC plus three, right? AOC. One of the
three I think is Omar, right? But they’ll pick her first.
Donald Trump: (35:16)
So, if Biden does that, if he puts an extremist in to that position, he loses
everything that’s like normal. If he does the other way, he loses the left.
So, he doesn’t want to give a left. I’d love to have him put up a list. I’d like
to see what that, I could see what that list would be. I could already tell you
the people on that list. It would not be good. It would not be pretty. You
would not be happy. That would be the end. If given power, Biden and his
supporters would pack the court. They’re talking about pack into court,
because we have one race. We have one. I’ll tell you what. So this will be
my third and we’re in great shape. You see what’s going on with the
Republican party, how unified the Republican party is? Right. Now we’re
unified. It’s a beautiful thing to say. Thank you, Mitt. Thank you. Appreciate
it. Even Mitt’s on board. Even Mitt’s on board.
Donald Trump: (36:15)
No, it’s a good thing to see having a unified part. Of course, when they did
the impeachment hoax, we had 197 to nothing in the house and 52 and a
half to a half. That was Mitt, but that’s okay. I’m no longer angry at Mitt,
because he’s being very nice on the Supreme Court. He’s doing the right
thing. I just want him to do the right thing, but they want to pack the court.
You know what that means? They want to put on a lot of justices. These
are things that are just horrible. I guess we could do that too. Right? We
could do that too. But remember, it was Harry Reid that made this all
possible. They’re angry at us. Listen, Chuck, Crying Chuck, you know who
Crying Chuck is? Chuck.
Donald Trump: (36:56)
Every time you complain, remember it was Harry Reid, your person in
charge. He had your job before. It was Harry Reid who made this all
possible. Thank you very much, Harry. I hope you’re enjoying your
evening. No, they blame us. Harry Reid gave us the power, nuclear … very
much, but he wants to pack the Supreme Court with radicals who will
terminate the second amendment, confiscate your firearms, eliminate the
right to self defense, strike under God from the pledge of allegiance and all
other places, tear down crosses from public spaces and force taxpayers to
fund extreme late term abortion.
Donald Trump: (37:51)
These far left … violent criminals, shield foreign terrorist, impose sanctuary
cities and declare the death penalty totally unconstitution. Hey, it will be
totally unconstitutional. They wanted to declare it unconstitutional for even
the most depraved mass murderers. And it’s a tough thing. It’s a tough
thing. They came to my office today and the death penalty for clemency. I
said, “What was the crime?” The crime was so horrible that I won’t tell you
what it was, but it’s been going on for 21 years or so. The crime was so
horrible that this person committed, that I said, “Look, I just can’t talk about
it.” It was so horrible. That’s usually the case, usually the case like the
Boston bomber.
Donald Trump: (38:47)
By the way, they want to give votes to prisoners, people in prison. They
want to give votes. So we immediately said, remember Bernie? Crazy
Bernie. Bernie is, I’ll tell you one thing about him. He’s the greatest loser
I’ve ever seen. No, true. No, I mean that in a respectful way, because what
they did to him with Hillary was bad, but this time was even worse.
Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren would have left the campaign one day
before super Tuesday, Bernie with her ideology basically, because she’s a
radical left and she was really fresh to him, but she was really fresh. How
bad was Elizabeth Warren to Joe Biden? There’s only one person that was
worse.
Donald Trump: (39:33)
Who was worse? Kamala. I said he’ll never, this shows you my great
instinct, my great knowledge of politics. I said, “He will never pick Kamala
because no human being has been treated worse than anybody than
Kamala.” Remember, she called him a racist. She called him xenophobic.
She called him all sorts of things. She called him things that were so bad, I
can say them. I can’t say them, but she called him a lot of things. I said,
“Well, she’s out.” Then he picks her. She picks her. You always pick
people going up, not going down in the polls. If I were get to pick, and by
the way, how good is Mike Pence? Is he great? Okay.
Donald Trump: (40:14)
He’s a rock. He’s a solid guy and he’s a great guy and a great vice
president. He worked so hard. He’s all over the place. He’s in Michigan.
He’s everywhere. Where you go today, Mike? I went to Michigan, North
Carolina, South Carolina. I went to Wisconsin and the guy, I’ll tell you what,
he’s an incredible guy and he’s a great guy. He loves the people of this
country. He loves our country. You cannot do better than Mike Pence. You
know that.
Donald Trump: (40:50)
If you want to save America, you must get out and vote. In just three and a
half years, we’ve secured our borders, rebuilt the awesome power of the
US military, obliterated ISIS caliphate 100%, fixed our disastrous trade
deals and they were a disaster. I read some of them. I said, “Who agrees
to this stuff?” Stupid people agree to it, and brought jobs back home to
America. We brought them back. You had the greatest year you’ve ever
had last year, the greatest year you’ve ever had. Under 16 years of
presidents, Obama and Bush, household income rose only $2,945. Okay.
That’s over a course of 16 years, close to 3,000, right? In three years and
including energy because look at the saving. How are you doing at the gas
pump? Not so bad, right? Did you ever see that? You ever think that was
going to happen? In three years, so that was less than 3,000 over 16, in-
Donald Trump: (42:03)
So that was less than 3,000 over 16. In three years, you went up $10,000,
including energy. We lifted 6.6 million people out of poverty, the largest
poverty reduction in the first three years of any president in the history of
our country. We built the greatest economy in the history of the world. Not
only here, anywhere. We were beating everybody.
Donald Trump: (42:28)
For years, I heard that China in 2019, was going to overtake us, right? That
didn’t happen. Then they released the plague, but that didn’t happen. And
it still’s not happening with the plague, because they got hit hard
themselves. I wonder if they understood that they were going to get hit too.
But the plague came here, they could have stopped it. They could have
stopped it from going all over the world. 188 countries all over the world,
including Europe and the United States.
Donald Trump: (42:55)
We’ve added a record 10.6 million jobs in the last four months, including
3.3 million jobs for Hispanic Americans. That’s a record.
Donald Trump: (43:10)
When the plague arrived from China. We launched the largest national
mobilization since World War Two. We pioneered life saving therapies,
reducing the fatality rate 85% since April, you see what’s happened.
Europe has almost a 50% greater excess mortality rate than the United
States. And now you see they’re being hit very hard. The fake news was
saying, “Well, I don’t know if you’ve done as well as Europe.” I said, “We
did better than Europe.” And now Europe is exploding again, unfortunately,
I don’t want that to happen, but they don’t want to talk about that because
that’s not good for their narrative.
Donald Trump: (43:47)
Our early and aggressive action saved many millions of lives through
Operation Warp Speed, we developed and distribute a vaccine. We will
have a vaccine so soon you won’t even believe it. Although they’re trying to
do a little bit of a political hit today, just a little bit, you notice that? Let’s
delay the vaccine just a little bit. But we have three great companies and
then others also. Johnson & Johnson, right? Pfizer, Moderna, great
companies, all of them, great companies. And they’re right there. They’re
way advanced, way advanced, they’re in the final steps.
Donald Trump: (44:24)
I took historic action to get critical relief for American workers. Through our
paycheck protection program, we save 3.2 million Florida jobs.
Donald Trump: (44:38)
We’re launching a historic effort to bring our medical supply chains back
home, where they belong. In 1996, Joe Biden voted to obliterate Puerto
Rico’s thriving pharmaceutical industry. I am reversing that and we’re going
back so that Puerto Rico can get its pharmaceutical industry back, and
they’re going to have it back soon. That was Joe Biden that did that. And
then they’ll vote because automatic, they vote for a Democrat. What’s the
purpose? He’s the one that did it. He’s the one. Look what he did, how
devastated, look at what he did to our African-American community. And
people don’t want to talk about it. But what he did was devastating.
Devastating. He’s not good for anyone, let’s face it.
Donald Trump: (45:26)
Last week, I also announced an additional $13 billion that goes to disaster
relief for Puerto Rico. They got hit hard. I hope they remember that. That
was given by Trump, not by the Democrats. Our hearts are also with the
communities in the Panhandle. I love the Panhandle. Ron will tell you. I’ll
tell you. You’re a great governor and he’s doing a great job. He called up,
he said the Panhandle’s hit, sir. They love you in the Pan-, I think I’m at
about 99. 9% in the Panhandle. But we took care of the Panhandle, you
remember Hurricane Sally? That was not good, but we took care of it. Ron
came into my office, he’d say, “Sir, we need more money.” I said, “How
much?” He gave me a number you don’t even want to believe. I said, “You
got it, Ron. Don’t come back, Ron.” He comes back about three days later,
“Sir, we need more money.” But that’s I guess, a good governor. That’s
what a good governor does, right? That’s what a good governor does. I
approved a major disaster declaration for the State of Florida last night.
And we will be with you every step of the way, every step, we’re there so
fast. We sometimes, other presidents took long time to approve them. I
approve them before the storms hit shore, because we know what’s going
to happen. We took care of Florida.
Donald Trump: (46:53)
On November 3rd, Florida will decide whether we end the pandemic and
return to record prosperity, or whether we allow Joe Biden to kill the
recovery, delay the vaccine, impose a $4 trillion tax hike, ban American
energy, which he wants to do, destroy the suburbs. He’s going to destroy
the suburbs. Give free healthcare to illegal aliens, which means millions
and millions of people are going to pour into our country and indoctrinate
your children with poisonous anti-American lies in their class, in their
school room.
Donald Trump: (47:29)
To combat the toxic left wing propaganda in our schools, I announced
something last week that was very popular. That we’re launching a new
pro-American lesson plan for students called 1776 Commission. We’ll
teach our children the truth about America, that we are the most
exceptional nation on the face of the Earth. And you haven’t seen anything
yet. You see what we’re doing. I’ve also issued an executive order to
prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in the federal government.
Donald Trump: (48:24)
That hateful Marxist doctrine paints America as a wicked nation, seeks to
divide everyone by race, rewrites American history, and teaches people to
be ashamed of themselves and be ashamed of their country. That’s not
happening anymore. We fired so many of these wise guys. We had one
getting $350,000 a year teaching our military this stuff. And he said, “What
happened?” We said, “You’re fired. Get out.” Many people.
Donald Trump: (48:59)
No, it’s become a cancer. It’s like a cancer, but many, many people gone.
They’re all gone. And if they’re not, let us know and we’ll let them go. But
we have to unite together as one proud American family. That’s what we
are. We’re joined tonight by some incredible warriors, some incredible
people. One of them that I’m most proud of is a man that came to this state
and what a job he’s done. Your great governor, Ron DeSantis. He’s doing
a great job. Ron is doing a great job. Ron, how are we doing on the
election? How are we doing on November 3rd, Ron? He says, good. We
better do good. He won a great primary, then he beat a man that they said
had a good future. I’m not thinking his future is looking to good. How’s his
future. I don’t think it’s to good right now. Ron was great, tough and strong,
and he didn’t choke under pressure. That’s for sure. But much more
important than Ron is the First Lady of Florida, Casey DeSantis.
Donald Trump: (50:23)
The Mayor of Jacksonville, a really good guy. I got him to really, he wanted
to do it so bad. We wanted to have our Republican National Convention
right here in Jacksonville. But the timing was a little bit bad. We got hit a
little bit with COVID, as they say, we got hit a little bit with the China virus,
but I’ll tell you what, Lenny Curry was absolutely fantastic. Your mayor,
Lenny Curry.
Donald Trump: (50:57)
All right. You ready? Some of the greatest, toughest warriors you’ll ever
meet. During the impeachment hoax, they said, this is the biggest pile of
crap you’ve ever seen. I’m the only guy in history that got impeached for an
absolutely perfect conversation. It was perfect. We sent it around.
Everyone said, “What’s wrong with this? We sent it to the Justice
Department, please check this. Thank goodness we had people that were
taking it down, right? Exact notes, great patriots. They took it down, two of
them, and it was perfect. We sent it to the Justice Department. Please
examine this conversation. We’d like to know what you think. They called
back, they said, “Okay, listen, what exactly are you looking for here?”
These guys are used to looking at killings and drug dealers and they’re
saying, “Explain to us, what are you looking for? We don’t see it.” This was
the greatest hoax.
Donald Trump: (51:58)
And today, by the way, you see what happened. They caught him. They’ve
got him cold. They got him cold. We’ll talk about it in a sec. They caught
him. They now find out that Trump was a hundred percent truthful. It was a
hoax. They got him cold, it was just announced. Dan Scavino just said, “It’s
the biggest, it’s the hottest thing on the internet.” They got him cold. We’ll
talk about it in a second. But these are warriors. When I needed warriors, I
had Representative Matt Gaetz. Where is he?
Donald Trump: (52:38)
Matt, what a great guy. What a guy. Big future. Thank you, Matt. What a
warrior. Thank you. He’s very shy on television, right? I noticed. He’s great.
Thank you, Matt. Ted Yoho. Ted, where’s Ted? Great job.
Donald Trump: (53:07)
Now, a man that is in charge of all spying. He was so good that Matt and
Ron and Ted and Mike Waltz, and a lot of people came to see me. Mike,
another great one. Thank you, Mike. Is John Rutherford here? Good job,
John. Thank you for the help. Thank you, John. But Mike Waltz has been
so great and candidate for Congress, Kat Cammack. Kat. So Kat was in
the Oval Office yesterday, right? And I said, “How you doing?” “Sir, I’m up
42.” I said, “42 what?” 42 points. That was a big Trump district, right?
You’re not in any real trouble. That’s for sure. She’s got it. That was a
great win you had, she’ll be with us a long time, a long time. I really
appreciate it.
Donald Trump: (54:26)
And we also have some others that are running for different offices in the
Republican Party. And we love the Republican Party. They have been
incredible. They have been incredible. We also have some of our really
unbelievable, undercover operatives. And if you don’t mind, I won’t
introduce them. All right? I don’t think we’re going to introduce them. I want
to so badly. I want to have them stand up and bring them up here. I want to
hug him and kiss him, which I’m not allowed to do because of social
distancing. But somehow they’ve may lose some effectiveness if I
introduce them. So they’re in the crowd. I saw two of them and I won’t
bother, but they are great, great champions of our country.
Donald Trump: (55:18)
And also here is a woman who was so, I mean, she was tough. She was in
charge of a great state, Michigan. As you kept asking me, “Come back,
you’re going to win.” Everyone said Republicans hadn’t won Michigan in
many decades. And I felt I should because I was bringing back and I was
doing so much for the business and jobs and bringing people back and
recommending and telling them, you’re losing your business to Mexico,
Canada. And they gave me, 12 years ago, they gave me the man of the
year in Michigan. And I made this crazy speech that I said, “You’re losing
all your jobs to Mexico.” And all of a sudden I’m running for office and a
woman who handled it was unbelievable. She’d say to me, “Sir, would you
please come and make a speech?” I said, “Who are you?” “My name is
Ronna McDaniel. I’m in charge of Michigan.” Where’s Ronna?
Donald Trump: (56:12)
She said, “My name is Ronna McDaniel. I’m a charge of Michigan.” I said,
“I hear we don’t have a chance.” We should win Michigan. But I hear,
“You’re going to win it if you come here.” So I went and made a speech.
Then I went and made another speech. Then she’d call again and again, I
couldn’t take it. And then I said, “Look, I’ll do one more.” She wanted me to
do one more. She said, “I’m telling you, you’re going to win. Do one more.”
This is two weeks left. And I said, “All right, this is it, though, this is it.” I’ve
devoted a lot of time to Michigan. And everyone says you can’t win. By the
way, just got a poll, we’re three points up in Michigan.
Donald Trump: (56:50)
She said, “Sir,” then she used to call me Mr. Trump, I wasn’t president yet.
She said, “Sir, please, just this one time, this is it, three weeks out.” I said,
“All right, this is it. Can’t do anymore. I’ve got to go to a lot of states. That’s
it.” “This is it, sir, I promise.” So I did it. Then the night before the election,
she said, “Sir, you’re going to win Michigan, but you got to make one more
stop.” I said, “You got to be-”
Donald Trump: (57:15)
And I made it on election day. I arrived at 1215 in the now morning. That
was now election day, right? I started speaking at one o’clock in the
morning on election day. My wife said, “Are you crazy?” We had 32,000
people. And the reason I went, she wanted us there. But we found out that
crooked Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, and Mrs. Obama and Bill
Clinton were traveling to Michigan unexpectedly because as Bill Clinton
told them three months ago, “You’re going to have trouble with Trump and
Michigan.” They don’t want to listen to him. they said, ‘Oh, well,” because
he’s a natural politician. And he said, “You’re going to have trouble in
Wisconsin too, and be careful of Minnesota.” This was Clinton. Remember
they were laughing, they thought he was very funny. But they knew they
were in trouble. So they flew there. They had 500 people. I went there. I
start speaking at one in the morning with 32,000 people in Grand Rapids,
Grand Rapids.
Donald Trump: (58:20)
In Grand Rapids. And I said, it’s like this. I said, “We’re not going to lose
this state.” You can’t lose. When you have a crowd, you can’t lose. You
can look at a crowd, I can look at this crowd. I can say, “Look at it.” As far
as the eye can see, as far as the eye can see. I’d leave here, I said, “We’re
not losing Florida.” I can tell you that, you could tell, you can feel it. You
can feel it. You have an instinct. We’re joined as well by a group of
incredible supporters who have recently walked away from the Democrat
Party. They walked away from the Democrats. They just registered as
Republicans. Thank you. Thank you. And they’re going to be voting for us.
It’s just a whole big group of people. And I thank you. And you’re all over
the place. Thank you, thank you. They know. It’s called, they’re smart and
they have common sense.
Donald Trump: (59:16)
We’ve spent the last four years reversing the terrible damage Joe Biden
inflicted over the last 47 years. Together, we’ve taken on a corrupt and
broken system that’s been throwing everything at us from the very
beginning. And remember this and I say it all the time. I’ve done more in 47
months than Joe Biden’s done in 47 years. But today a trove of text
messages was released from the FBI agents involved in the Russia witch
hunt. You had to see this. This is what I was talking about before. The
headline from the Federalist reads, Trump was right, explosive new FBI
texts detail internal furor over handling of the crossfire hurricane
investigation. That was the name. We caught him. We had him before this,
but this is like, remember the insurance policy, darling, darling. Oh, I love
you so much, darling. She’s going to win, isn’t she? Yes. 100 million to
one. That’s not good odds for me. They might not have been great, but
they were a lot better than that. 100 million to one, Lisa, I love you so
much. But if for some reason she doesn’t win, we have an insurance
policy, that’s what we’ve been living through, their insurance policy. You
can’t be any more obvious than that.
Donald Trump: (01:01:08)
These people are scum. They were trying to do a coup, who would think?
And we caught them. Before that, we caught them spying on our nation
and they’ve gotten caught. Let’s see what happens with them now. But this
was a big day. This was a big day. Never forget they are coming after me
because I am fighting for you, there’s a lot of truth to that.
Donald Trump: (01:01:38)
For decades, our politicians spent trillions of dollars rebuilding foreign
nations, fighting foreign wars, and defending foreign borders. But now we
are finally protecting our nation, rebuilding our cities, and we are bringing
our jobs, our factories, and our troops back home to the USA. Joe Biden
championed every globalist betrayal of America for 47 years. He was a
cheerleader for NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever made, emptied out your
factories. And he was a cheerleader for China’s entry into the World Trade
Organization. I took the toughest ever action to stand up to China’s
rampant theft of American jobs. And I proudly signed a historic executive
order, making it official government policy to buy American and hire
American.
Donald Trump: (01:02:40)
By the way, you ever seen this guy? He’s using my slogan. He’s using my
slogans. I saw him the other day. It’s like, buy American. I said, “I’ve been
saying that for five years,” right? He’s using my, he has no clue, I’m telling
you. You got to come up with your own slogans.
Donald Trump: (01:03:03)
… I’m telling you. You’ve got to come up with your own slogans, Joe. We
invested $2.5 trillion in the U.S. military and launched the first new branch
of U.S. Armed Forces in nearly 75 years after the Air Force, the Space
Force. Right here. We passed VA choice and VA accountability. Nobody
thought that could happen. We have a 91% approval rating of the VA. 91%
approval rating, highest in history, highest ever. Do you ever see, I don’t
want to say this to them because they’ll find the vets, is there an unhappy
vet some place? 91% approval. Remember, we used to always watch
every night, you’d see things on the news about how badly the vets are
treated. Now we have a 91% approval rating. My guys are doing a great
job. And today, I can announce that the VA is approving a new $46 million
lease for a brand new Veterans Healthcare Clinic in North Jacksonville.
Donald Trump: (01:04:13)
We killed the founder and leader of ISIS, Al-Baghdadi. We took out the
world’s number one terrorist. All over the world, number one. The mass
murder of American troops and many others, Qasem Soleimani is dead.
Took him out. He deserved to be taken out. We withdrew from the last
administration’s disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal. $150 billion, do you know
what he got for it? Nothing. 1.8 billion in cash. He got nothing, nothing. I
kept my promise, recognized the true capital of Israel and opened the
American Embassy in Jerusalem. I also recognized Israeli sovereignty over
the Golan Heights, and instead of endless war, we are forging peace in the
Middle East. You saw what is happening there. In fact, I was nominated for
two Nobel Peace Prizes last week. You know the story. You know the
story.
Donald Trump: (01:05:29)
And I told our great First Lady, I said, “First Lady, I was nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize. I’m going to come home early. I’m going to watch it on
NBC News,” which is one of the biggest scam jobs I’ve ever seen. NBC
probably worse than CNN, NBC. “But we’re going to watch it. We’re going
to watch the evening news. So we’ll watch the second place NBC.” You
know it is. It’s second place. They spent all this money on PR and then I hit
them hard. But they are bad. I said, “First Lady, wait till you see it. Nobel
Peace Prize. This will definitely be the biggest thing.” All right, ladies and
gentlemen, NBC News, they start off with you. They said you got some
heavy rain. They started off with something else, something else,
something else, something else. Now the show’s almost over. I said, “First
Lady, they’re not mentioning the Nobel Peace prize. This is very
embarrassing.” But then it was okay because two days later, I got
nominated again. That was for Israel. I got nominated again.
Donald Trump: (01:06:36)
Remember when Obama got it, they said, “Ladies and gentlemen, Barack
Hussein Obama has just been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.” So
what happened? I said, “First Lady, I just got nominated again. This time
for Kosovo-Serbia. They’re not killing each other anymore. I stopped it. It’s
totally different.” The first was Israel, Bahrain, UAE. This one was close to
a totally different one. I don’t know if that’s ever happened before. I said,
“First Lady, let’s give it another shot.” We watched the news, never even
mentioned it. When Barack Obama got his Nobel Prize immediately after
he got elected, they asked him, “Why did you get it?” He had no clue.
Nobody knew. Nobody knew. And it was a big story. Breaking news. “We
have breaking news.” They didn’t have breaking news when I got it, but
that’s why we understand the press. We understand them very well.
They’re fake.
Donald Trump: (01:07:31)
The last administration made a pathetic one-sided deal with a Castro
dictatorship that betrayed the Cuban people and enriched the communist
regime. My opponent stands with socialists and communists. I stand with
the proud people of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela in their righteous struggle
for freedom. And you’re going to win that very soon. You’re going to win
that very soon. The last administration also negotiated the terrible Obama-
Biden-Santos deal with Colombian drug cartels. They surrendered the
narco terrorists. They surrendered to them and they caused illicit drug
production to soar. Under my administration, we worked with our
Colombian partners to launch a historic rival operation against the drug
traffickers. And since April, we have seized or disrupted 227 metric tons of
poisonous narcotics. Nobody has ever done anything like it.
Donald Trump: (01:08:40)
Joe Biden opposed the mission to take out Osama bin Laden. He opposed
killing Soleimani. He voted for the Iraq War. He backed the disastrous Iran
Nuclear Deal. And he cheered for the rise of China as a positive
development for our country. I don’t think so. That was a disaster. Now
Biden is put forward the most dangerous and extreme platform of any
major party nominee in history. The band news is he doesn’t even know
what the hell it is. The Biden plan would destroy social security and destroy
protections for pre-existing conditions. It will drain your Medicare by giving
free healthcare to illegal immigrants that will come over to this country by
the millions when they see this. End virtually all immigration enforcement
and oppose totally open borders. He would terminate our travel bans on
jihadist regions. Remember, I got that approved. They kept saying, “Oh, he
lost. He lost. He lost.” And then I won in the Supreme Court. We have a
travel ban. Guess what?
Donald Trump: (01:09:45)
And increase refugee admissions by over 700%, opening the flood gates to
radical Islamic terrorism. He wants to ban school choice and ban charter
schools, which are absolutely imperative for our children. In a second term,
I will provide school choice to every parent in America. A vote for
Republicans is a vote for safe communities, great jobs, and a limitless
future for all Americans. And in conclusion, over the next four years, we
will make America into the manufacturing superpower of the world and we
will end our reliance on China once and for all. We will make our medical
supplies right here in the United States. We will hire more police, increase
penalties for assault on law enforcement and we will ban deadly sanctuary
cities. We will defend the dignity of work and the sanctity of life. We will
uphold religious liberty, free speech, and the right to keep and bear arms.
Second Amendment.
Donald Trump: (01:11:04)
We will strike down terrorists who threaten our citizens and we will keep
out of America, of our great country, we will stay away from those
ridiculous, endless, foreign wars. They never end. Endless foreign wars.
They’re all coming home. They’re all coming home. We will maintain
America’s unrivaled military might and we will ensure peace through
strength. And nobody has strength like we have strength. Peace through
strength. We will end surprise medical billing, require price transparency,
and further reduce health insurance premiums and the cost of prescription
drugs. They’re going to becoming down by 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%
favored. Favored Nations. Favorite Nations Clause, we’ll be paying as low
as anybody in the world. It’s called Favored Nations. Nobody had the guts
to do it. And they are spending a lot of money on ads against me right now,
that Big Pharma. They are spending a lot of money. We will strongly
protect Medicare and social security, and we will always protect patients
with pre-existing conditions.
Donald Trump: (01:12:22)
America will land the first woman on the moon and the United States will
be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars.
Speaker 1: (01:12:51)
We love you! We love you! We love you! We love you! We love you! We
love you! We love you! We love you! We love you! We love you! We love
you!
Donald Trump: (01:12:52)
Thank you. That’s really nice.
Speaker 1: (01:12:55)
We love you! We love you!
Donald Trump: (01:12:56)
I had such a nice life before doing this. But no administration has ever
done in the first three and a half years, not even close, what we’ve done,
and that’s very gratifying, I want to tell you that. And thank you very much.
We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic
education to our schools. We will teach our children to love our country,
honor our history, and always respect our great American flag.
Speaker 1: (01:13:33)
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Donald Trump: (01:13:49)
And we will live by the timeless words of our national motto, “In God we
trust.” For years, you had a President who apologized for America. Now
you have a President who is standing up for America and standing up for
the great people of Florida. So get your friends, get your family, get your
neighbors, get your coworkers and get out and vote. We have to win this
election. Most important election we’ve ever had. Early voting has already
begun. Don’t wait, vote. It’s safe. Go out and vote. I hear we’re doing very
well, by the way. That’s what the word is. We’ll see. We’ll see. But I hear
we’re doing very well. From Tampa to Tallahassee, from Orlando to Miami,
from Pensacola to right here in Jacksonville, we stand on the shoulders of
Florida patriots who gave their blood, sweat, and tears for this beloved
nation. We inherit the legacy of American heroes who crossed the oceans,
blazed the trails, settled the continent, tamed the wilderness, dug out the
Panama Canal, laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, won
two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and from here, in this
beautiful, beautiful state, this sun drenched state of Florida, we launched
American astronauts to the moon, we made America into the single
greatest nation in the history of the world, and the best is yet to come. You
watch. Proud citizens like you helped build this country and together we
are taking back our country. We are returning the power to you, the
American people. With your health, your devotion, your drive, we are going
to keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting, and we are going to
keep on winning, winning, winning. We are one movement, one people,
one family, and one glorious nation under God. And together with the
incredible people of Florida, we will make America wealthy again, we will
make America strong again, we will make America proud again, we will
make America safe again, and we will make America great again.
Donald Trump: (01:16:49)
Thank you, Florida. Thank you, Florida.
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