00:00:14.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:33.000President Donald Trump has just finished his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC.
00:00:40.000I have a couple thoughts about his speech that I'm going to share with you right now, and then we are going to air his speech right here, uninterrupted, no commercials, for you to hear it yourself.
00:00:52.000I think it's very important that every person listens to what he has to say.
00:01:03.000Now, this podcast is made possible by all of you.
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00:01:22.000I have 12 immediate takeaways from President Trump's speech.
00:01:26.000Number one, President Trump made it clear that, quote, I am not starting a new party.
00:01:31.000You will hear that early on in the speech, dismissing and dispelling all the rumors around President Trump trying to start the Patriot Party.
00:01:42.000Number two, you will find throughout this speech that President Trump was overall in control.
00:01:49.000In fact, I would say he was more measured than some of the speeches he gave towards the end of the election and in December and early January.
00:01:58.000Throughout this speech, it becomes more and more clear that President Trump was becoming a direct critic of Biden.
00:02:06.000I'm going to get to that more in just a second.
00:02:08.000And then President Trump jokes around that, well, we might have to win a third time, almost foreshadowing and previewing that he's going to run again in 2024.
00:02:18.000My guess, based on my private conversations with him and just based on everything that I saw with him today and how much he enjoyed it, Donald Trump is going to be in politics for the foreseeable future, maybe even the next decade.
00:02:32.000My fifth takeaway is that Donald Trump was establishing a clear, documented, and factual record of all the successes from his administration, clearing the record that, hey, it was my administration that got the vaccine done.
00:02:46.000It was my administration that handled immigration properly.
00:02:49.000It was my administration that was ending the endless wars.
00:02:53.000And the sixth takeaway, and you'll hear this, is the I Told You So.
00:02:57.000Basically saying, I tried to warn you about all of Joe Biden's corrupt business deals.
00:03:03.000I tried to warn you about Joe Biden's weakness.
00:03:07.000The I Told You So refrain was done, I thought, perfectly.
00:03:11.000I thought it was done with a little bit of humor.
00:03:15.000It was not done sarcastically, but it was done with just enough levity where the listener was able to laugh and chuckle about the dangerous direction our country is currently heading in, but with a little bit of optimism that we might be able to turn it around.
00:03:34.000The seventh takeaway was that the Democrats are now on defense.
00:03:39.000The only way that the media and the Democrats will be able to spin this will be by character assassinating Republicans and Donald Trump.
00:03:51.000They will continue to focus on the capital tragedy attack of January 6th, as that is their only response to the factual and the deliberate and the evidence-based critique that Donald Trump just offered as his first public appearance since leaving the White House.
00:04:13.000The eighth takeaway is that the media and the Democrats are now kind of very happy.
00:04:20.000They're going to be happy that they no longer have to just focus on what Joe Biden is doing, and they can now focus on Trump.
00:04:27.000They have an almost non-stop, overly inflated profit model that is wholly dependent on Donald Trump being involved in American politics.
00:04:37.000However, the more measured that Trump is, the more factual he is about the failures of the Biden administration, they're going to have to air those.
00:04:48.000The ninth takeaway was that Trump mentions throughout the speech, and you'll hear this, this idea of what is Trumpism?
00:04:56.000Essentially, President Trump, I think, did a better job in this speech than at many moments throughout his campaign of clearly explaining what I would call the MAGA doctrine, immigration that benefits the American citizens, ending the endless wars, giving representation to middle-class workers, unafraid to challenge entrenched corporate interests.
00:05:21.000The tenth takeaway was that President Trump mentioned election integrity, but he did not hyper-focus on it or hyper-fixate on it.
00:05:29.000Instead, he said, quote, this must be fixed immediately, which is the 11th takeaway, was that President Trump gave specific solutions on how to fix our elections.
00:05:39.000This is something that I talked about with him privately at Mar-a-Lago a couple days ago.
00:05:43.000I said, please be positive in how you talk about our elections.
00:05:47.000People agree that the election was tampered with and interfered with, but you must be specific in how we actually go about fixing it.
00:05:58.000And finally, the 12th takeaway was that President Trump talked about big tech censorship, about the need to challenge the tech companies in our country.
00:06:08.000And the final takeaway, I guess you could call it the 13th takeaway, lucky number 13, was that President Trump looked and sounded more optimistic, happier, and more forward-thinking than our current president.
00:06:22.000If he keeps this up, maybe with an appearance every couple weeks, and remains as a factual critic of the current administration and giving people hope that better days can be ahead with conservative policies, Republicans will take back the House in 2022 if we fix our elections.
00:06:55.000And quite honestly, the Democrats and the media are now going to be reeling because they would have loved to see Donald Trump go 40 minutes name-calling and trying to sow division in the Republican Party.
00:07:50.000So if you are in any way motivated to support our program, if this program has played a positive role in your life, please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com slash support.
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00:08:13.000Maybe you're just sitting back and relaxing.
00:08:15.000I envy the opportunity to be able to listen to this speech for the first time because it was in a lot of ways exactly what people needed to hear.
00:08:43.000To so many wonderful friends, conservatives, and fellow citizens in this room and all across our country, I stand before you today to declare that the incredible journey we begun together, we went through a journey like nobody else.
00:09:19.000Our movement of proud, hard working, and you know what this is, the hardest working people, hardworking American patriots, is just getting started.
00:09:39.000As we gather this week, we're in the middle of a historic struggle for America's future, America's culture, and America's institutions, and America's institutions, borders, and most cherished principles.
00:09:53.000Our security, our prosperity, and our very identity as Americans is at stake, like perhaps at no other time.
00:10:03.000So no matter how much the Washington establishment and the powerful special interests may want to silence us, let there be no doubt we will be victorious and America will be stronger and greater than ever before.
00:10:25.000I want to thank my great friends, Matt and Mercedes Schlapp.
00:11:22.000To each and every one of you here at CPAC, I am more grateful to you than you will ever know.
00:11:30.000We are gathered this afternoon to talk about the future of our movement, the future of our party, and the future of our beloved country.
00:11:39.000For the next four years, the brave Republicans in this room will be at the heart of the effort to oppose the radical Democrats, the fake news media, and their toxic cancel culture, something new to our ears, cancel culture.
00:11:57.000And I want you to know that I'm going to continue to fight right by your side.
00:12:03.000We will do what we've done right from the beginning, which is to win.
00:12:59.000And I want to thank everybody in this room and everybody all throughout the country, throughout the world, if you want to really know the truth.
00:13:10.000We will be united and strong like never before.
00:13:13.000We will save and strengthen America and we will fight the onslaught of radicalism, socialism, and indeed it all leads to communism once and for all.
00:13:31.000We all knew that the Biden administration was going to be bad, but none of us even imagined just how bad they would be and how far left they would go.
00:14:59.000Nobody's ever seen anything like we did, and now he wants it all to go to hell.
00:15:04.000When I left office just six weeks ago, we had created the most secure border in U.S. history.
00:15:13.000We had built almost 500 miles of great border wall that helped us with these numbers because once it's up, you know, they used to say a wall doesn't work.
00:15:34.000And little sections of it to complete, they don't want to complete it.
00:15:37.000They don't want to complete little sections in certain little areas they don't want to complete, but it's had an impact that nobody would have even believed.
00:15:46.000It's amazing considering that the Democrats' number one priority was to make sure that the wall would never ever get built, would never ever happen, would never get financed.
00:15:58.000We ended catch and release, ended asylum fraud, and brought illegal crossings to historic lows.
00:16:08.000When illegal aliens trespass across our borders, they were promptly caught, detained, and sent back home.
00:16:16.000And these were some rough customers, I want to tell you, some rough customers were entering our country.
00:16:23.000It took the new administration only a few weeks to turn this unprecedented accomplishment into a self-inflicted humanitarian and national security disaster.
00:16:35.000By recklessly eliminating our border, security measures, controls, all of the things that we put into place, Joe Biden has triggered a massive flood of illegal immigration into our country, the likes of which we have never seen before.
00:16:52.000They're coming up by the tens of thousands.
00:16:55.000They're all coming to take advantage of the things that he said that's luring everybody to come to America.
00:17:06.000We can't afford the problems of the world as much as we'd love to.
00:17:11.000We'd love to help, but we can't do that.
00:17:13.000So they're all coming because of promises and foolish words.
00:17:18.000Perhaps worst of all, Joe Biden's decision to cancel border security has single-handedly launched a youth migrant crisis that is enriching child smugglers, vicious criminal cartels, and some of the most evil people on the planet.
00:18:36.000We not only didn't release them, we had them brought back to their country.
00:18:39.000Illegal immigrants are now being apprehended and released along the entire southern border, just the opposite of what it was two months ago.
00:18:50.000They weren't coming because they couldn't get in.
00:18:52.000Once they think they can get in, they're coming, and they are coming at levels that you haven't even seen yet.
00:18:58.000By the hundreds of thousands, by the millions, they'll be coming.
00:19:01.000The Biden administration is now actively expediting the admission of illegal migrants, enabling them to lodge frivolous asylum claims and admitting them by the thousands and thousands and thousands a day crowded together in unsanitary conditions despite the ongoing economic and public health crisis, COVID-19, or, as I call it, the China virus.
00:19:36.000That was a new one that came out two weeks ago.
00:19:40.000First Fauci said, you don't need masks, no masks, no good, no one earth.
00:19:45.000Then all of a sudden he wants me, now he wants double masks.
00:19:48.000No social distancing, no nothing, no nothing.
00:19:54.000They're together, and it's sad actually, and it's sad for them, and it's sad for our country.
00:20:00.000What the Biden administration is doing to push young migrants into the hands of human traffickers and coyotes is dangerous, immoral, and indefensible.
00:20:12.000Biden has failed in his number one duty as chief executive, enforcing America's laws.
00:20:23.000This alone should be reason enough for Democrats to suffer withering losses in the midterms and to lose the White House decisively four years from now.
00:21:05.000Actually, as you know, they just lost the White House, but it's one of those things.
00:21:58.000Wait till the contractors get to them and they say, no, it costs us much more money not to finish the small section than if we finished it.
00:22:24.000And restricting our law enforcement professionals, and they are great professionals, you have many of them represented here today, from conducting almost any immigration enforcement of any kind.
00:22:37.000The Biden policy of releasing criminals into the U.S. interior is making America into a sanctuary nation where criminals, illegal immigrants, including gang members and sex offenders, are set free into American communities.
00:22:54.000And remember with the caravans, these countries, not only the three of them, but many, many countries all over the world, they're not giving us their best and their finest because they're intelligent.
00:23:07.000They're not giving us their best and their finest.
00:23:12.000I said that a long time ago when I made the first remarks when I came down the escalator with our great future First Lady who says hello, who loves you as much as I love you.
00:23:31.000But I said that a long time ago, and we turned out to be 100% correct.
00:23:36.000Biden's radical immigration policies aren't just illegal.
00:23:41.000They're immoral, they're heartless, and they are a betrayal of our nation's core values.
00:23:46.000It's a terrible thing that's happening.
00:23:50.000The Republican Party must hold Joe Biden and the Democrats accountable.
00:23:56.000They ripped up the diplomatic agreements we negotiated with Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to shut down illegal immigration.
00:24:11.000When I came into office, those countries were refusing to take back illegal alien gang members, including MS-13, the most vicious, probably of them all.
00:24:22.000No matter where you go in the world, MS-13, they do things that even the worst don't think about.
00:24:28.000So I asked, how much do we pay these countries?
00:26:00.000And then we ultimately got along very well with those countries, those three countries, and many countries throughout the world because they respected us again.
00:26:08.000They couldn't believe what they were getting away with.
00:26:12.000But now Joe Biden has wrecked this great deal, wrecked it.
00:26:17.000And they're already doing what they were doing before, and they're taking the money.
00:26:22.000And that's just a small portion of what's going on.
00:26:26.000To top it all off, the Biden people are pushing a bill that would grant mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens while massively expanding chain migration.
00:26:36.000That's where you come in and everybody comes in, your grandmother, your father, your mother, your brother, your cousins.
00:28:03.000But the press refused to ask the questions.
00:28:09.000And when I asked the questions on television, on the debate, Chris Wallace in this case and others refused to let him answer.
00:28:20.000They refused to let him answer the questions.
00:28:23.000Maybe we could have found something or if the media did its job, which they don't.
00:28:27.000Their callous indifference to working family is equally clear when it comes to the critical matter of getting America's children back to school.
00:28:40.000And they must get back and get back right now.
00:28:56.000The Biden administration is actually bragging about the classroom education they are providing to migrant children on the border, while at the same time, millions of American children are having their futures destroyed by Joe Biden's anti-science school closures.
00:29:15.000We're educating students on the border, but our own people, the children of our citizens, citizens themselves, are not getting the education that they deserve.
00:29:29.000There's no reason whatsoever why the vast majority of young Americans should not be back in school immediately.
00:29:41.000The only reason that most parents do not have that choice is because Joe Biden sold out America's children to the teachers' unions.
00:31:45.000When I left office, and we're very proud of this because this was something that they said could not be done, The FDA said it, everybody said it.
00:31:55.000Any article you read said it couldn't be done.
00:31:59.000I handed the new administration what everyone is now calling a modern-day medical miracle.
00:32:05.000Some say it's the greatest thing to happen in hundreds of years, hundreds of years.
00:32:12.000Two vaccines produced in record time with numerous others on the way, including the Johnson ⁇ Johnson vaccine that was approved just yesterday.
00:32:27.000And therapeutic relief also, if you're sick, if you're sick, we have things now that are incredible, what has taken place over the last year under our administration.
00:32:38.000It would have taken any other president at least five years, and we got it done in nine months.
00:32:51.000Can you imagine if you had to go through what all of the countries of the world who are now getting the vaccine or soon will be getting it from various companies.
00:33:01.000But can you imagine if all of those countries had to go through what they've been going through over the last year, you'd lose hundreds of millions of people.
00:33:12.000I pushed the FDA like they have never been pushed before.
00:33:25.000But once we got it done, I said, I now love you very much.
00:33:30.000What the Trump administration has done with vaccines has in many respects perhaps saved large portions of the world, not only our country, but large portions of the world.
00:33:45.000Not only did we push the FDA far beyond what the bureaucrats wanted to do, we also put up billions and billions of dollars, 10 billion, to produce the vaccines before we knew they were going to work.
00:33:59.000It was called a calculated bet or a calculated risk.
00:34:03.000We took a risk because if we didn't do that, you still wouldn't have the vaccines.
00:34:08.000You wouldn't have them for a long time.
00:34:42.000In fact, the director of National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, he's Fauci's boss, actually.
00:34:51.000I think he's a Democrat, too, by the way, recently said that our Operation Warp Speed was absolutely breathtaking and that the Trump administration deserves full credit, which we do.
00:35:10.000And as conservatives and Republicans, never forget that we did it.
00:35:17.000Never let them take the credit because they don't deserve the credit.
00:35:21.000They just followed now, they're following our plan, but this has been something that they really call, they call it an absolute miracle.
00:35:31.000Joe Biden is only implementing the plan that we put in place, and if we had an honest media, which we don't, they would say it loud and clear.
00:35:42.000By the time I left that magnificent house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, almost 20 million Americans had already been vaccinated.
00:35:52.0001.5 million doses were administered on my final day alone.
00:36:47.000We had the military, what they've done, our generals and all of the people, what they've done is incredible.
00:36:54.000But remember, you know, we took care of a lot of people, including, I guess, on December 21st, we took care of Joe Biden because he got his shot.
00:37:18.000Last year, I predicted to you that the extremist corruption and incompetence of the Biden administration would be literally unprecedented in American history.
00:37:30.000Unfortunately, he has proven me 100% right.
00:37:36.000Already, as president, Biden has urged Congress to pass legislation shredding your Second Amendment.
00:37:45.000Your Second Amendment is in far bigger trouble than you know.
00:37:49.000And for four years, I fought like hell to save your Second Amendment, and we saved it 100%.
00:37:59.000He signed an order to conduct politically correct far-left indoctrination trainings in every department of the federal government, including the U.S. military, after I had terminated these horrible things that were being preached to our military.
00:38:21.000Within his first few hours, Biden eliminated our national security travel bans on nations plagued by terrorism.
00:38:28.000His first priority was to open our borders to unvetted travelers from Libya, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, and many other countries where strict vetting cannot occur, countries that have tremendous problems, countries with tremendous terrorism problems.
00:39:07.000It went all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:39:10.000We got it approved, and he terminates it.
00:39:12.000In addition, he's already increased refugee admissions by nearly 10 times, but in effect it'll soon be hundreds of times as millions of people flow up through our soon-to-be-open borders.
00:39:26.000And by the way, the Border Patrol and ISIS are some of the great heroes of our country.
00:39:36.000Your family still cannot go out to eat at local restaurants, but Joe Biden is bringing in thousands upon thousands of refugees from all over the world, people that nobody knows anything about.
00:41:15.000At the same time, the new administration unilaterally withdrew our crippling sanctions on Iran, foolishly giving away all of America's leverage before negotiations have even begun.
00:42:16.000He took them off for nothing, for nothing.
00:42:18.000Now you watch how tough they negotiate.
00:42:20.000In another horrendous surrender, he agreed to get back into the World Health Organization for approximately $500 million a year, which is what we were paying.
00:42:36.000When I withdrew from the WHO, and you know the whole story with that, they called it badly.
00:44:16.000Just like the Iran and the World Health Organization, Joe Biden put the United States back into the very unfair and very costly Paris Climate Accord without negotiating a better deal.
00:45:20.000If you wanted to go back in, which frankly, we have the cleanest air, the cleanest water, and everything else that we've ever had, so I don't know why we have to.
00:45:30.000And what good does it do when we're clean, but China's not, and Russia's not, and India's not.
00:45:59.000And in one of his first official acts, which was incredible because again, he talked about energy.
00:46:05.000He never said he was going to do this.
00:46:06.000He canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, destroying not the 8,000 or the 9,000 or the 11,000 jobs that you hear, but 42,000 great-paying jobs on just about day one, right?
00:46:25.000He never talked about that during a debate because he wouldn't have gotten away with it.
00:46:28.000Well, he would have because they cheated so much, it probably wouldn't have been.
00:46:34.000No, but that was not a topic of conversation, remember?
00:47:39.000The blackouts we saw in California last summer and all the time, and the windmill calamity that we're witnessing in Texas, great state of Texas.
00:48:55.000Under the radical Democrat policies, the price of gasoline has already surged 30% since the election and will go to $5, $6, $7, and even higher.
00:49:08.000So enjoy that when you go to the pump and they'll say, that'll be about $200 to fill up your van.
00:49:15.000You'll go to the, remember they used to go to the little small vans?
00:49:18.000They got away from the big ones that everybody wanted.
00:49:24.000Probably a good investment as long as these guys have their say because, you know, it's a shame what's happening.
00:49:30.000Energy prices are going to go through the roof.
00:49:32.000And that includes your electric bills.
00:49:33.000That includes any bill having to do with energy, our biggest cost.
00:49:37.000We will now be relying on Russia and the Middle East for oil.
00:49:41.000And they talk about Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:49:43.000What's better than what this guy's done for Russia?
00:49:46.000I had oil where they were actually paying you to take it, okay?
00:49:49.000You know, that was a little, remember they were going to give you 37 a barrel, but you had to take it away.
00:49:54.000You had free oil almost for a period of time.
00:49:56.000And one way I was proud of it, but we also had to save the energy industry, and it worked out well.
00:50:01.000And I dealt with Russia and Saudi Arabia, and they cut back on production, and we got it back up.
00:50:07.000But now it's going the opposite, because now they're taking this incredible energy independence away from the people of our country, and you're going to see costs go like you have never seen them go before.
00:50:17.000It's a very sad and very stupid thing that they're doing.
00:50:21.000The Biden policies are a massive win for other oil-producing countries and a massive loss for the United States and our great citizens.
00:50:30.000Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy women's sports.
00:50:40.000A lot of new records are being broken in women's sports.
00:50:44.000Hate to say that, ladies, but got a lot of new records.
00:52:47.000As you can see, the early weeks of the Biden administration have nothing less than, they've been a catastrophe for American workers and for American families.
00:52:57.000The task of our mission, and for us, it's our movement.
00:53:03.000As I said, a movement like has never been seen, I think we can probably say, never been seen anywhere in the world.
00:53:10.000I mean, nobody's ever seen a movement like this.
00:53:13.000I'd grow up and I'd watch somebody who came in second in New Hampshire, first in Iowa, and that was the end, and they became famous for the rest of their lives.
00:53:29.000The task for our movement and our party is to stand up to this destructive agenda with confidence and with resolve.
00:53:37.000The future of the Republican Party is as a party that defends the social, economic, and cultural interests and values of working American families of every race, color, and creed.
00:53:50.000That's why the party is growing so rapidly and is becoming a different party.
00:54:26.000Now it's a party that's incredible, the people, the spirit.
00:54:30.000And there are, as you probably heard a little while ago, I mean, there's more spirit now than there's ever been, including even before the election.
00:54:37.000More spirit now than we've ever seen because people are seeing how bad it can be.
00:54:42.000And again, I want to thank Rush and Catherine because what he did to get the word out has been incredible.
00:54:49.000Some people are irreplaceable, as Sean Hannity would say, and he said, Rush is irreplaceable.
00:54:56.000But his spirit lives on, and that's something that we need and we love.
00:55:00.000Republicans believe that the needs of every citizen must come first.
00:55:13.000Over the past four years, my administration delivered for Americans of all backgrounds like never before, like never before.
00:55:21.000We built the strongest economy in the history of the world, raised wages, and achieved the lowest African American, Hispanic American, Asian American unemployment rates ever, ever, ever recorded.
00:55:36.000It was so great for everybody of all backgrounds that even after the China virus, we are leading the world.
00:55:49.000Our economic comeback has been incredible.
00:55:52.000That's because the financial and economic foundation we built was so strong that unlike other countries who are having a hard time, we didn't break.
00:56:01.000We came roaring back and now our stock market and your 401ks are again at record levels, higher than ever before, actually.
00:56:12.000Many people have asked, what is Trumpism?
00:56:40.000Now we have the U.S. MCA, Mexico, Canada.
00:56:44.000It's incredible what it's done for our farmers who are doing fantastically.
00:56:48.000Did you see grain prices and grain sales are at an all-time high, wheat all-time high, so many elements of farms and farmers, and they love me, and remember, it's going to be very close in Iowa.
00:57:02.000We won in a landslide, Iowa, because our farmers know and they put up with it, and we did a lot of work with the tariffs and all these things that we had to do to get it, and now the farmers are doing great, but they're setting records.
00:57:15.000It means low taxes and eliminating job-killing regulations, Trumpism.
00:57:21.000It means strong borders, but people coming into our country based on a system of merit, so they come in and they can help us as opposed to coming here and not being good for us, including criminals, of which there are many.
00:59:45.000If you look at Venezuela, you look at some of these countries, that's why some of our biggest supporters are from South America, Latin America, because they've seen what goes on with all of this canceled culture and you can't speak and let's cut them off and let's not give them words.
01:00:02.000The mission of our movement and of the Republican Party must be to create a future of good jobs, strong families, safe communities, a vibrant culture, and a great nation for all Americans, and that's what we're creating.
01:00:24.000Their party is based upon unvarnished disdain for America, its past, and its people.
01:02:24.000But I said, did anybody ever say that to Ronald Reagan or to any of our great, and to the best of all of these political professionals' knowledge and pollsters, nobody's ever heard that yet before, man.
01:04:23.000We believe in standing up to China, shutting down outsourcing, bringing back our factories and supply chains, and ensuring that America, not China, dominates the future of the world.
01:04:52.000And during negotiations, they would say, look, the one thing, we don't want any more of these tariffs, these tariffs, those tariffs, we took in so much money.
01:04:59.000And what happened is they became competitive.
01:05:02.000So what happened with people, they wouldn't go to China.
01:05:05.000They'd build a lot of it back in our country.
01:07:47.000We must pass comprehensive election reforms, and we must do it now.
01:07:52.000The Democrats used the China virus as an excuse to change all of the election rules without the approval of their state legislatures, making it therefore illegal.
01:08:05.000It had a massive impact on the election.
01:08:09.000Again, you have to go to the legislatures to get these approvals.
01:08:14.000This alone would have easily changed the outcome of the election at levels that you wouldn't have even believed.
01:08:21.000Even with COVID, even with all of the things, the numbers are staggering.
01:08:26.000We can never let this or other abuses of the 2020 election be repeated or happen again.
01:09:00.000This issue is being studied and examined, but the reality is you cannot have a situation where ballots are indiscriminately pouring in from all over the country.
01:12:20.000And if Republicans don't get this and the other things I'm going to say, then you should, like the Supreme Court, be ashamed of yourselves.
01:12:28.000One day, one day, and the only people that should be allowed to vote by mail are people that can be proven to be either very sick or out of the country or military where they can't do it.
01:12:42.000One day, they have millions and millions of ballots sitting around all over the place for long periods of time.
01:12:50.000Gee, I wonder what happens with those ballots.
01:15:58.000In the history of our country, and it has taken place for years in Pennsylvania and Detroit and various other places, but there's tremendous, never like this, because they use COVID as a way of cheating.
01:16:10.000That's what happened, and everybody knows it.
01:16:13.000Hundreds of thousands and millions of ballots.
01:16:15.000They used it as a way of getting what they've wanted for many years, and the Republicans have to do something about it.
01:16:33.000Even if you consider nothing else, it is undeniable that election rules were illegally changed at the last minute in almost every swing state with the procedures rewritten by local politicians, you're not allowed to do that, and local judges.
01:16:49.000They want more time, they want this, they want that, all done by local politicians or local judges, as opposed to state legislatures as required by the Constitution of the United States.
01:17:03.000And these are numbers that are massive.
01:18:10.000If Republicans can be censored for speaking the truth and calling out corruption, we will not have democracy and we will have only left-wing tyranny.
01:19:24.000The time has come to break up big tech monopolies and restore fair competition.
01:19:40.000Republicans, conservatives must open up our platforms and repeal Section 230 liability protection.
01:19:52.000And if the federal government refuses to act, then every state in the Union where we have the votes, which is a lot of them, big tech giants like Twitter, Google, and Facebook, should be punished with major sanctions whenever they silence conservative voices.
01:20:18.000And Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and in Texas and in other states are doing this.
01:20:28.000If they do what they're doing, Florida and that legislation will pass.
01:20:34.000And Texas and others will have tremendous power to do what's right and what's fair.
01:20:43.000Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress are racing to pass a fragrantly, flagrantly unconstitutional attack on the First Amendment and the integrity of our elections known as HR1.
01:20:59.000Their bill would drastically restrict political speech, empower the federal government to shut down dissent, and turn the Federal Election Commission into a partisan political weapon.
01:21:10.000In addition, it virtually eliminates voter ID requirements nationwide, effectively ends all registration deadlines.
01:21:19.000Requires states to give ballots to felons, automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote, and puts unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats in charge of drawing congressional districts.
01:21:50.000We cannot have leaders who show more passion for condemning their fellow Americans than they have ever shown for standing up to Democrats, the media, and the radicals who want to turn America into a socialist country.
01:22:15.000Instead of attacking me and, more importantly, the voters of our movement, top establishment Republicans in Washington should be spending their energy in opposing Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and the Democrats.
01:22:31.000I've said to some of them, I said, you know, during the Obama years and now during Biden, if you spent the same energy on attacking them, you'd actually be successful as you do on attacking me in many cases.
01:22:46.000The Democrats don't have grandstanders like Mitt Romney, Little Ben Sass, Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey,
01:23:02.000and in the House, Tom Rice, South Carolina, Adam Kinzinger, Dan Newhouse, Anthony Gonzalez, that's another beauty, Fred Upton, Jamie Herrera Butler, Peter Meyer, John Catko, David Valladeau, and of course, the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, Liz Cheney.
01:23:37.000The good news is in her state, she's been censured, and in her state, her poll numbers have dropped faster than any human being I've ever seen.
01:23:47.000So hopefully they'll get rid of her with the next election.
01:24:13.000Fortunately, for the Republican Party, the Democrats have horrible policies like open borders, sanctuary cities, defunding the police, and the ridiculous, totally ridiculous, Green New Deal.
01:24:27.000So they stick together, they're smart, they're vicious, they got everything going, but their policies are no good.
01:24:34.000So hence, we have, congratulations, the Republican Party.
01:24:47.000After this, they may not stick with those policies.
01:24:56.000But if Republicans do not stick together, the rhinos that we're surrounded with will destroy the Republican Party and the American worker and will destroy our country itself.
01:25:10.000The rhinos, you know, Republican in name only.
01:29:05.000And now we have to use Republicans to take care of the election frauds and all of the other things that are happening that shouldn't be allowed to happen in our country.
01:33:21.000And then what happened is one in particular told me from a great swing state, said, you know, I thought I was going to lose my position, lose my race.
01:33:29.000And I went out with my wife the night before the election and I saw all these Trump signs and the American flags and the spirits on the streets.
01:33:37.000I said, you know, darling, I think we're going to win.
01:33:39.000He said, but you were far, far, far more popular than me.
01:34:16.000And in November, 18 of 19 Bellwether counties, you heard about the Bellwether counties?
01:34:22.00018 of 19 Bellwether counties that have correctly predicted every presidential election for decades, many decades, voted for Trump, not for Biden.
01:34:37.000And it was a shocker to those people that go for the stats.
01:34:59.000I've never done this, but it's time that we have to put forces together because these people with their big tech and their fake news media right back there, okay?
01:35:08.000And you know, when you talk about election, they turn off.
01:35:11.000When you talk about, they probably have them going because they also care about ratings.
01:35:15.000But when they talk about election, they turn off the cameras.
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01:36:19.000And when we do, history will show that this was the moment when we could have given up, when we could have despaired, but instead we chose to keep on pushing forward.
01:36:31.000The greater the challenge and tougher the task, the more determined we must be to pull through to triumph.
01:36:45.000With the talent and dedication of everyone here today, and you have tremendous, not only dedication, tremendous talent in this room, I know many of you, that is exactly what we will do.
01:37:00.000We will summon the spirit of generations of American patriots before us, like those heroes who crossed the Delaware, conquered the Rockies, stormed the beaches, won the battles, and tamed the unknown frontiers.
01:38:15.000Standing before you today, I am supremely confident that for our movement, for our party, and for our country, our brightest days are just ahead.
01:38:28.000And that together we will make America prouder, freer, stronger, and greater than it ever has been before.
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