Kamala Harris has been in charge for four years. Are you better off than you were four years ago? No, and any honest person would say the answer is no. And you know who is certainly not better off now? Michigan auto workers.
00:10:36.940Now, y'all are way too kind. I appreciate it. But look, we're going to win this election,
00:11:02.500I really do believe. We're going to win the state of Michigan. We're going to win this
00:11:04.880election. But we're going to win this election, not just to beat the Democrats, as fun as
00:11:13.340that's going to be. I'm going to really enjoy beating Kamala Harris. But we want to beat
00:11:17.420Kamala Harris because we want the American people to have a government that they deserve,
00:11:21.960a government that puts them first, a government that takes care of the American people's problems
00:11:26.560and not the problems of illegal aliens and people who don't deserve to be here.
00:11:30.520So let's just think about the contrast between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. We talked
00:11:35.920about illegal immigration earlier. Well, Kamala Harris has rolled out the red carpet to illegal
00:11:40.500aliens, has said, we're going to give Medicare and Social Security benefits. That's the message
00:11:44.920that she has sent to people who want to cross the border illegally and come to this country.
00:11:49.440You know what Donald Trump's message is to illegal aliens? You got four months,
00:11:53.140pack your bags because you're going home when Donald Trump is back in the White House.
00:11:56.620Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris's entire economic policy is to tax American citizens and to force
00:12:09.120them to buy things they don't even want to buy that are made overseas. That's terrible for American
00:12:13.660workers. That's terrible for American taxpayers. Donald Trump's plan is to cut taxes on American
00:12:20.060citizens, cut taxes on American workers, and penalize corporations that are shipping our jobs
00:12:26.260overseas. That is an America-first economic plan.
00:12:35.780Donald Trump's basic energy policy is drill, baby, drill. And it is a hell of an energy policy
00:12:44.060because, look, we have got the most bountiful natural resources anywhere in the world. So
00:12:50.220why does Kamala Harris want to put American energy workers out of business and force us to buy
00:12:56.700energy from tin-pot dictators all over the world? Let's buy it from our own people, from
00:13:01.380our own territory, and that's how you build American prosperity.
00:13:10.740And that's actually, by the way, my friends, another big difference between Donald Trump's
00:13:14.740policies and Kamala Harris's policies. You know, when they ask Donald Trump, what is your most
00:13:19.500important thing you can do to lower inflation? He actually gives a very simple but a very specific
00:13:25.420answer. Drill, baby, drill. Because energy goes in the cost of everything, right? Think about it. If
00:13:32.500the truck drivers are paying more for gas, then the groceries they deliver to the grocery store are
00:13:37.500going to get more expensive. If the truck drivers are paying more for diesel, then they deliver lumber to a
00:13:43.180job site to build a house. That means housing is going to get more expensive, too. And of course,
00:13:47.380we know, ask any manufacturer, one of their biggest costs is the cost of energy. So you lower the cost
00:13:53.140of energy, you create good jobs, you create great prosperity, and you bring down the cost of goods
00:13:58.900for everyday American citizens. It is a win-win economic policy. It is the smartest and most important
00:14:04.460thing we can do. But Kamala Harris's economic policy, you heard her say it on The View today,
00:14:14.600it's to do exactly what Joe Biden did, and it's going to lead to the exact same place. Higher inflation,
00:14:20.840fewer Americans with good jobs, and a manufacturing sector that we're shipping to China instead of
00:14:26.660building right here in the great city of Detroit. That is a lose-lose economic plan, and I think we
00:14:32.120ought to have the win-win economic plan of Donald J. Trump. So before I take questions from reporters,
00:14:44.240I want to ask a very simple thing. Absentee voting has started in Michigan. That means that you can
00:14:50.420request and return a ballot right now. And we've got to do everything. We've got to take care of every
00:14:56.120opportunity to vote that the state of Michigan is providing. Because look, I talked to a lot of
00:15:01.880people. It's one of the things you do when you run for vice president. You talk to a lot of people,
00:15:05.000and you know, 95% of the people I meet will say, I wanted to vote for Donald Trump in 2020, and I did.
00:15:11.060But then a few of them will tell me, I wanted to vote for Donald Trump, but I didn't. Because I
00:15:17.180planned to vote on election day, but then my kid got sick, and I had to go pick him up from school.
00:15:21.980Or I had a really late day at work, and I didn't expect it. And so by the time I got out of work,
00:15:26.840you know, working those overtime hours, the polls were already closed. I got to be honest with you,
00:15:32.480I don't like the fact that we've gone from election day to election season in this country. But it is
00:15:38.000what it is. And if the Democrats are going to take advantage of every avenue to vote, then Republicans,
00:15:43.400we've got to do it too. So get out there, make your voice heard, and get out there and vote.
00:15:53.260There's a website I want you to take down. I'm going to ask you to do two things here.
00:15:57.380Number one, take down this website, swampthevoteusa.com. Swampthevoteusa.com.
00:16:02.900On that website, you can check your registration. You can check your polling location. You can make
00:16:07.560sure your registration is up to date. That is a very good resource for you to use.
00:16:12.000The other thing I want you to do is I want you to take out your phone and take a photo
00:16:16.260right now. You can take it of you and your friends at this event. You can take it of me up here on the
00:16:21.220podium. This is making the Secret Service very nervous, by the way. So please move slowly, my
00:16:26.160friends. But here's the thing. We're never going to have the power of the dishonest national media
00:16:33.100behind us, but we do have people power. We can talk about why we're voting for Donald Trump,
00:16:38.880and we can do it in our capacity as citizens of this country. So I'm sure you all have some social
00:16:44.920media, or maybe you just text. Whatever you do, email, text, put it on x.com, put it on Facebook,
00:16:51.500put it on Instagram. Just say why you're voting for Donald Trump for president. Because if every
00:16:57.580single person does that, and a hundred people see what you put out there, then that means
00:17:02.020thousands upon thousands of people are going to hear the truth about Donald J. Trump,
00:17:06.920and not the dishonesty from the media. That is the biggest and best thing that we can do.
00:17:17.220So before we hit the road, we'll take some questions from reporters. I want to thank you
00:17:22.840all for being here. Thanks for having me. I'll leave you with some final thoughts, but it's such
00:17:27.340an honor to be here and to get this welcome in the Motor City. God bless you all. Thank you so much.
00:17:32.360All right. All right. So let me take a few questions from reporters. I'll answer them, and then we'll have to hit the road.
00:17:53.320But we got a microphone I sure we're passing around over there. Yep. Go ahead. Great. This is Clara Hendrickson.
00:18:01.320I'm with the Detroit Free Press. We're in the city of Detroit today where we learned in a recent Jack Smith filing
00:18:08.320that the Trump campaign aide in 2020 allegedly urged supporters to riot at the ballot counting center.
00:18:17.320So I want to make sure that the Senator can hear my question, which is would you discourage the campaign for engage from engaging in that behavior and from Trump supporters and engaging in that behavior?
00:18:33.320So let me let me let me answer that question a few different ways. So first of all, first of all, of course, we discourage rioting. We do not riot. Nobody in this room and nobody in this movement is going to riot.
00:18:58.320Second of all, your question is about a Trump campaign staffer, and I'll tell you that if you get a thousand people together and the Trump campaign probably has a lot more than a thousand campaign staffers, you're going to find somebody who's willing to say anything, especially in a leaked, a leaked message or private communication.
00:19:24.320The idea that the Trump campaign either in 2020 or 2024 is encouraging people to riot is disgraceful. Of course, we're not doing that. And by the way.
00:19:31.320And by the way, these fine people are law abiding citizens who work and pay their taxes. They're not going to riot no matter what anybody says to them.
00:19:49.320And here's here's here's here's the final point. I think it's interesting that the media is so focused on a random message from a random staffer in 2020.
00:20:07.320If you want to talk about rioting, let's talk about the summer riots of 2020 that killed 20 people that the media seems uninterested in.
00:20:15.320Next question. Hello, my name is Sasha Calver. I'm a reporter with the Michigan Daily. So the University of Michigan all campuses has historically had some of the largest student voter turnout in the U.S.
00:20:37.320Why should students in Michigan cast their vote for the Trump fans ticket? And additionally, how will your administration support students specifically concerning gun violence where you've rejected calls for tougher gun laws and bans on bump songs?
00:20:55.320Essentially, why should students concerned about their safety on campus vote for you?
00:21:00.320Yeah, so the first the first. Let's let's be honest here. I don't know. I don't know if a Ohio State graduate is the best messenger to University of Michigan students. So I hope.
00:21:19.320And in fact, thank you, sir. You know, maybe we should just get we should get a clip of me saying something nice about Kamala Harris out to University of Michigan because then maybe it all vote for Donald J.
00:21:33.320Trump if you just told him I was a Buckeye. Like, I you know, I'm always a little nervous about injecting myself into the OSU Michigan rivalry here.
00:21:42.320But I think that we all all kidding aside. Look, we all care about the country. And that's why I think every person in this room is going to help me make Donald J.
00:21:50.320Trump the next president United States. And it's in that spirit that I want to answer this question.
00:21:55.320If I'm if I'm a young person in Michigan here. Here's one thing that Donald Trump and I want to do. First of all, we want to make it easier for you to build a life and to have a good career and to have a good job in your home, not to ship all the good jobs over to seas.
00:22:11.320But to build a great middle class economy right here in the United States of America. I think that's something that matters to a lot of Michigan students.
00:22:18.320I think the second thing that matters to Michigan students is I don't want young people in this country to be permanently indebted because we built an economy that turns American citizens into paupers in their own country.
00:22:33.320I want them to be able to own a home, build some wealth for themselves and start a family right here in the state of Michigan and do it.
00:22:40.320And do it because we've got smarter economic policies that allow them to thrive. Michigan students, people who are I mean, meaning at the University of Michigan and all across the state, because I know there's a lot of great universities in the state of Michigan.
00:22:58.320We are turning an entire generation of American young people into folks who don't have enough money to own anything. That is a terribly destructive direction for this country to go in.
00:23:07.320Donald Trump and I want you to be able to own a slice of your own country and we're going to pursue economic policies that make that possible. That's what we're going to fight for every single day. And on.
00:23:17.320And on the question about gun violence, what I've said is that 90% upwards of 90% of the gun crime that's committed in this country is committed using an illegally obtained firearm.
00:23:35.320So my point is. Making it unlawful to own that gun has not stopped 90% of these gun crimes. So what we've got to do is take some common sense security measures and I think the best way to reduce gun crime in the United States of America. I don't think this I think this is a statistical fact is to lock up people who are committing violence against their fellow citizens.
00:24:06.320And I, you know, I'm gonna butcher the statistics so I don't want to give them exactly. But if you look whether it's in Detroit or New York City, any of our major cities and you look at the violence problem, it is always a very
00:24:29.300very, very small number of people who commit the gross majority of violent crimes. So why don't we get back in this country, whether you're, you're whatever your racial background is, whatever, whether you're rich or poor, get back to locking up that small number of violent criminals.
00:24:44.300It'll make everybody safer, everybody more secure, and it'll actually give people public safety. And I think that's the biggest way we can reduce violent crime in this country. Thank you. Next question.
00:24:56.300Senator Vance, Ken Coleman from MichiganAdvance.com. Detroit is 77% African American. The state is 14% African American. Why should African American Michiganders vote for the Trump Vance ticket?
00:25:12.300Well, you know, we've got a great number of black Americans in this crowd right now. They could probably answer that question better than I could. But
00:25:24.300But without calling everybody up here, because I'm a politician, I don't like to share the microphone with anybody as much as I like them. What I think they would agree with is number one,
00:25:53.300Donald Trump wants to bring back public safety and an economy that brings prosperity for everybody. Good wages for good jobs. That's the Trump promise. And I think that's a great promise to black families in Michigan and to everybody else. Here, here's something else. I mean, there is this idea in the media, and I don't know where it came from, that somehow black Americans don't believe in public safety in this country. Well, we know whether you're Democrat, Republican or independent, black Americans don't believe in public safety in this country.
00:26:20.300They want to empower our law enforcement officers to do their job. Of course, do it respectfully and make sure we've got good relationships between police and community. But we can have a good relationship between police and the communities they serve while we lock up the violent criminals and keep everybody safe in the process. I think that's very possible.
00:26:44.300And look, I mean, the story of black Americans, especially in the city of Detroit, is actually very similar to the story of Appalachian white Americans who came from West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee. We moved to places like Detroit, black and white together because there were good jobs for people who were willing to work hard and play by the rules. And it wasn't always perfect, but for a generation in this country, people, black and white,
00:27:13.300people, black and white, worked together, raised their families, built things in this country and created prosperity for the entire country. That was the story, by the way, in the steel mill that my grandfather worked in for almost 40 years. You had black folks and white folks living together, working together, and again, it wasn't always perfect, but it worked. You know why it worked? Because we had good jobs for people who were willing to work hard and play by the rules.
00:27:43.280The destruction of the manufacturing economy in the state of Michigan has been disastrous for black Americans, and it's been disastrous for a lot of middle-class white Americans, too. We can make things in this country again. We can build things in the United States of America again. And when we do, it's going to bring prosperity to black and white alike.
00:28:14.280Next question. Is it on? Good afternoon, Senator Vance. My name is John Enott from Avanti Moda Magazine, and I'm a member of the local independent media here in Detroit, so hopefully I'll get a little safer reception.
00:28:26.280I'm a native Detroiter, and I think Michiganders are really worried about a lot of things during this election cycle, and I think a couple that I hear all the time is they're very nervous about their First Amendment and their Second Amendment rights.
00:28:44.280So the question is, what will the Trump administration do to guarantee the people of Michigan that their rights will be protected, and what's your view on those amendments?
00:28:54.280And then also, to what extent should social media companies, if any, be able to moderate and control what people say online if it's illegal?
00:29:03.280Yeah. So let me try to answer that question as completely as I can. Number one, I love the First and Second Amendments. There's a reason they're number one and number two is because they're the most important.
00:29:18.280But, you know, you go back to the question the gentleman asked earlier about black Americans and particularly what black Michiganders have to gain from a Trump presidency.
00:29:27.280And if you look at the censorship and the vaccine mandates, the idea that you should be fired from your job for speaking your mind, that fell oftentimes hardest on black Americans as much as anybody else, because it was often black Americans who are going on and saying, well, wait a second.
00:29:45.280You know, why? And again, this is everybody, but it was happening a lot in the black community. Why are we forced to take this shot in order to earn a living and provide bread for our children?
00:29:55.280Why are we being silenced by some of the biggest corporations in the United States of America? I think that affects everybody. But your answer about your question about technology companies, the biggest threat to the First Amendment in the United States of America is big technology companies who are trying to silence Americans for speaking their mind.
00:30:14.280And the Trump campaign and the Trump presidency, we've got no use for it.
00:30:21.280And you asked about the Second Amendment. Look, I believe we believe in the Second Amendment. We believe that people ought to be able to keep their families and their children safe. And it's it's it's that simple.
00:30:31.280And I think there is a big difference between the Kamala Harris campaign. Kamala Harris has explicitly endorsed gun confiscation.
00:30:38.280Donald Trump has explicitly endorsed the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. I'd rather be on that side.
00:30:50.280Hi, this is Jordan here with MLive and Ann Arbor News.
00:30:56.280You've talked a lot about like EVs and that kind of stuff today.
00:31:01.280What would you say to voters who maybe agree with a lot of your policies but are concerned about climate change and environmental impact of the automotive industry?
00:31:12.280So here here's what I'd say, Sarah, and I and I appreciate the question.
00:31:16.280So first of all, the most important thing that we can do to ensure clean air and clean water is to build more and make more stuff in the United States of America.
00:31:26.280That is the biggest thing. Look, I would be lying to you if I told you that carbon emissions was my number one issue. OK, it's not.
00:31:38.280But if your number one issue is carbon emissions, look at the two countries that have emitted the most carbon in the last 20, 30 years.
00:31:45.280It's China and it's India. Make more stuff in the United States of America.
00:31:50.280That's how you make sure we have clean air and clean water. And Kamala Harris' policies have done the opposite.
00:31:56.280The other thing I'd say to folks who are worried about the environment is, look, I'm worried about the environment, too.
00:32:06.280But here's what I really worry about. I worry about our food supply.
00:32:11.280Like what has gone wrong with our food supply that we have got an obesity epidemic in this country unlike we've ever seen in the history of the world?
00:32:18.280That really worries me. What are we putting? You know, we have all of these weird childhood diseases that we did not have three, five, 30, you know, three decades ago, five decades ago.
00:32:30.280Does that suggest that we're putting too much weird stuff in our water or too much weird stuff in our food supply?
00:32:36.280You know, one of the people that I'm really proud has endorsed this campaign is Bobby Kennedy Jr.
00:32:47.280And I say that as somebody who was raised by blue collar Democrats, right?
00:33:00.280The people who would have been Democrats in the 60s and 70s in this town, those folks have been abandoned by Kamala Harris' Democratic Party.
00:33:07.280But Bobby Kennedy has this slogan that is so true and has a lot of there's a lot of real depth built into it. Make America healthy again. We I mean, you look at our young people.
00:33:25.280We have skyrocketing rates of of mental health problems in the in the United States of America.
00:33:30.280We use five times as much antidepressants as some of our peer countries in the world. Why are Americans five times as depressed as some of these other countries?
00:33:41.280I think it suggests that we've got to do a better job at real environmental protection, not the fake Kamala Harris environmental protection, which apparently the only thing it means is ship all of our jobs to China.
00:33:52.280Let's make Americans healthy again. Let's make our water cleaner and our air cleaner. And that's something Donald Trump and I believe in.
00:33:58.280Okay. Thank you, Senator historian with CBS News. You said in an interview with Newsmax yesterday that that FEMA was disaster relief was being used to fund migrant to focus on migrants.
00:34:22.280It rather Donald Trump also said untrue social that most if not all of the money that FEMA spent is on migrants.
00:34:30.280FEMA officials say that's just not true. What evidence do you guys have?
00:34:35.280Yeah. So here's here's here's here's the evidence. By the way, I want to make an observation about about these these these reporters. And I appreciate the question is, you know, when when people say that they feel endangered by a crowd voicing their opinion,
00:34:51.280Well, look, my friends, the First Amendment goes in both directions. And so you haven't made this criticism to be clear. But but I read some article. It was in some I forget who published it, but they were like, well, journalists don't feel safe. And at some of our events. Look, not a single person here is going to harm you. They're just going to speak their mind and they have every right to do it. So God bless you guys. The First Amendment. We believe in it in this country.
00:35:19.280But but sir, my point is about the focus of our current administration. And if you use resources, but most importantly, if you put people on the task of dealing, let's say, with the massive influx of illegal immigration, then they're going to be distracted from doing their core job of keeping Americans safe in response to disaster. Each of us. This is true of me. It's true of everybody in the world. We only got so much
00:35:49.260time to focus and there's only so much time in the day. And if you take FEMA and you turn it into an agency that resettles illegal immigrants, that's going to take their focus away from keeping people safe after a hurricane. That's basic human reality. And I think there's no way around it.
00:36:05.860Now, now what the fact checkers say, and we'll sort of, you know, we'll try to be as fair to the other side as possible, my friends. What the fact checkers will say is, well, there's a bucket of money that goes to illegal immigrants.
00:36:18.100And that's a different bucket of money that goes to disaster relief. Well, I'm sure the Biden administration has never moved money from one bucket to the other.
00:36:28.400In three and a half years, in three and a half years, we know that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are more than willing to move money from one bucket to another. If it suits their purpose, they ought to be moving money to the bucket that supports American citizens.
00:36:43.000In the wake of these terrible storms. That's what I would like them to do.
00:36:50.720But the final point I want to make about this is just bureaucratic focus. Look, I've seen a lot of wild stuff out there on the Internet. The problem with what I've seen from the Biden administration is that they're not focused on getting resources to people that need it.
00:37:04.220When Kamala Harris is out at a fundraiser in San Francisco, meanwhile, North Carolina is drowning. North Carolinians have every right to say, where the hell is our vice president? And why isn't she focused on us? That focus has got to change.
00:37:18.680The 82nd Airborne. And this is in 2010. You're never going to hear me praise Barack Obama. You rarely hear me praise Barack Obama. But in 2010, there was a terrible earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A ton of people lost their lives. A ton of people had their livelihoods destroyed.
00:37:37.720The 82nd Airborne was in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, under Barack Obama, 48 hours later. North Carolina is an hour away from the 82nd Airborne's headquarters. Why did it take a week to get the 82nd Airborne on the ground helping American citizens? It's disgraceful.
00:38:00.940Hello, Senator. Andrea Shalal with Reuters. I have two questions for you. One is, but both of them are local. So one of them is that Senator Sanders was at a rally on Saturday, and he talked about-
00:38:23.940Well, so he brought up the comments that you've made where he said you've declined to honor the commitment, or to say if the Trump administration would honor the commitment to invest $500 million in the GM plant and to convert the Cadillac plant to EVs. I wonder if you can just clear that up for us.
00:38:44.940And then the other question has to do with the very large population of Arab and Muslim Americans here in the area. And I'm wondering whether you're going to meet with them. I know that several mayors, for instance, the mayor of Hamtramck, have endorsed your campaign.
00:39:01.940But just yesterday, President Trump, former President Trump, said that he had been to Gaza. Later, a campaign staffer said that he had been to Israel, and Gaza is in Israel, which is not true.
00:39:23.940I wonder if you could just say a few words about Gaza and also why you think Arab Americans and Muslims would would do better by voting for your campaign. Thanks.
00:39:35.940Well, because let me answer the first question first. So neither me nor President Trump has ever said that we want to take any money that's going to Michigan auto workers out of the state of Michigan.
00:39:48.940We certainly want to invest in Michigan auto workers as much as possible. What we've said is that Kamala Harris is offering table scraps, $500 million when you have an EV mandate that's going to cost 117,000 auto worker jobs.
00:40:03.940I think that Michigan auto workers deserve more than the table scraps of Kamala Harris's Green News scam. That's what we're talking about. And again, you know, you talk to automakers, you talk to the manufacturers.
00:40:16.940They'll tell you that electric vehicles are sitting on the lots for 90 days, for 120 days. Meanwhile, the gas powered cars are sitting on the lots for 15 days or 20 days. If you force Americans to buy electric vehicles they don't want that are made in China, you are going to throw this entire state into poverty. And Donald Trump and I will not stand for it. We're going to fight for these people. We're going to fight for their jobs. We're going to fight for their prosperity.
00:40:41.940Now the second question about Arab Americans. I mean, look, we're thrilled to have the mayor's support. And I'm not meeting to your question. I'm not meeting any Arab American or Muslim American leaders on this particular trip, though we certainly will in future trips to Michigan. You all are going to get sick of me. I'm going to be in Michigan like, you know, 30 times the next 28 days.
00:41:03.940And to be clear for the fact checkers, when I said I would be in Michigan 30 times, that was a slight exaggeration. That was something.
00:41:13.940That was exaggeration used to effect. It'll probably be like six or seven times over the next 27 days. But look, I think the reason why, and this is one of these issues where obviously Arab Americans often have different views than Jewish Americans on what's going on in Israel, what's going on in Palestine.
00:41:33.940But I think both Jewish Americans and Arab Americans recognize that what's in the best interest of Israel and Palestine is peace. And Donald J. Trump was the president of peace. And I really think that's it.
00:41:49.940You know, I saw Kamala Harris said the other day that the biggest threat to the United States of America is Iran. And look, I think Iran's a big threat, but Iran is nothing compared to China. China is the biggest threat confronting this country.
00:42:04.940But I think, I think, I think, man, it revealed that Kamala Harris seems to be totally fine with starting or escalating a conflict in every continent all over the world. Donald Trump believes peace through strength, stop the killing, get Americans out of harm's way and focus on building a peaceful globe.
00:42:26.940That is how you help Palestinians. That's how you help Israelis. But most importantly, it's how you help American citizens is peace.
00:42:37.940We'll do we'll do a couple more than we'll have to hit the road, sir. James Dixon, New York Post. When I was a kid, Detroit was the king of manufacturing, right?
00:42:46.940In that time, China and Mexico, their rise has come on Detroit's decline. How do you make Detroit build again? What can you do from the White House?
00:42:55.940So two big things. First of all, it goes back to President Trump's. I think it's most simple, but also his most specific public policy drill, baby drill.
00:43:06.940We what the big advantage, the big advantage we have over China, over Russia, over any manufacturer is that we could have effectively free energy right here in the United States of America, unleash American energy workers and will manufacture much more.
00:43:21.940But here's something. And this is something that is a real, real problem for Kamala Harris. She attacks Donald Trump when Donald Trump says that he wants to impose tariffs to protect the jobs of American workers.
00:43:34.940Well, think about this. Let's say, for example, that you're what you want to manufacture in China and the wage in China, because sometimes they're employing literal slaves in China, actual slave laborers is three dollars a day.
00:43:48.940So you can make a product in China paying somebody three dollars a day, using a literal slave, and then you bring that product into the United States of America. That is the destruction of American manufacturing, because Americans won't.
00:44:01.940Americans won't. And most importantly, Americans should not be expected to compete with Chinese slave laborers. They deserve to have a good life in their own country.
00:44:14.940And the only way to protect them from those Chinese companies using slave laborers is to say, if you want to come back into the United States, you're going to pay a big fat tariff before you do it.
00:44:24.940That is an important part of our pro manufacturing policy. And anybody, anybody who tells you you can bring back American manufacturing without penalizing companies that are using slave laborers, they are lying to you.
00:44:38.940Let's get real. Let's penalize the people using slave laborers. Let's reward the folks using American workers to build great products.
00:44:48.940Thank you, Senator. I wanted to ask you about Bob Woodward's new reporting, specifically about Trump and Putin's calls. Have you had conversations with the former president about his relationship with Putin and what those calls entailed?
00:45:06.940I honestly didn't know that Bob Woodward was still alive until you just asked me that question. That's
00:45:17.940what I what what what little I know about Bob Woodward is that he is I'm going to use I'm going to use a word here. He is a hack.
00:45:27.940The guy's a hack. So have I have I talked to Donald Trump about his calls with Vladimir Putin? No, I've never had that conversation with Donald Trump in my life.
00:45:37.940But if Donald Trump, even if it's true, look, is there something wrong with speaking to world leaders?
00:45:43.940No, no. Is there anything wrong with engaging in diplomacy?
00:45:48.940What Kamala Harris's approach has been to hide in a basement, hide from the American people and hide from world leaders.
00:45:56.940And you know what? That's gotten us. We're on the verge of World War Three.
00:46:00.940It's a disgrace and it's a complete failure of a foreign policy.
00:46:04.940What one of my favorite my favorite Donald Trump moments of his first presidency?
00:46:14.940You all may remember this, but do you know Kim Jong Un?
00:46:17.940He's he's you know, he's he's the leader of North Korea.
00:46:22.940And let's be honest, Kim Jong Un hasn't skipped many meals.
00:46:25.940OK, so Donald Trump goes to Kim Jong Un and all you know, he meets with him and all the photographers come in.
00:46:31.940And and and President Trump looks at the photographers and he says, all right, everybody, make us look good, make us look very thin.
00:46:38.940And and Kim Jong Un shoots up like this. You know, he's kind of kind of offended a little bit.
00:46:42.940But what what it showed is Donald Trump's I'm not, you know, I see a lot of you laughing, but I'm not just trying to make fun of Kim Jong Un.
00:46:50.940The point is you have to go and talk to people.
00:46:54.940You have to be willing to engage in diplomacy, engage in conversations.
00:46:58.940That's how you keep the world from falling into disarray and war.
00:47:01.940And Donald Trump was better at it than anybody over the last 50 years.
00:47:05.940Well, we'll do we'll do we'll do one more. We'll do one more here.
00:50:53.940You know, I will meet people who tell me that they're struggling to buy groceries under Kamala Harris's economy.
00:51:02.940But then they'll spend 30 seconds telling me about their life.
00:51:06.940And then they'll spend three minutes telling me that they're praying for my family and asking me how I'm doing.
00:51:11.940And what that teaches me, what that teaches me is that we have a generosity of spirit in the United States of America that though we have bad leadership,
00:51:21.940it is never going to destroy what makes this country great in the first place.
00:51:30.940But what I do really worry is that this country is never going to be able to live to its full potential with the broken leadership of Kamala Harris.
00:51:41.940Groceries are never going to be affordable if we have the broken leadership of Kamala Harris.
00:51:46.940We're not going to have peace in the world if we have the broken leadership of Kamala Harris.
00:51:53.940So over the next 27 days, what I'd ask you all to do is to do everything that you can to give the American people a president who is fit to lead and fit to serve this great country.
00:52:05.940Elect Donald J. Trump. Let's go get it done.
00:53:05.940And I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong, rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump.
00:53:15.940For Kamala Harris to try to say that my sole focus on the people of Florida is somehow selfish is delusional.
00:54:04.940You recently visited the southern border and embraced President Biden's recent crackdown on asylum seekers.
00:54:12.940Why didn't your administration take those steps in 2021?
00:54:15.940The first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken immigration system, knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we need Congress to act.
00:54:57.940J.D. Vance there leading a whirlwind, not only speech, but presser.
00:55:03.940I really like, by the way, the way that J.D. combines his speeches with press conferences.
00:55:10.940So you get this you get this kind of situation where, you know, the reporters are able to come up and ask questions, but he's surrounded by his supporters.
00:55:19.940So it's basically like they have to come onto his turf to be able to do this.
00:55:25.940And, you know, I just I think it's wonderful.