Good afternoon. What a beautiful crowd. I love you guys. Youre awesome. So today i have the distinct pleasure of introducing one of my senators from the state of georgia, senator david perdue grew up working on his family farm. He worked his way through georgia tech. How many of you are out there working your way through college . Lets hear from you. Yeah. And i would say hes working in washington, d. C. , for all of us now but that is not strong enough. But hes a fighter and hes fighting for us in washington, d. C. He is fighting to defend this country and he is going to talk to us about something that you know and he knows and history has proven and that is the cost of socialism. So please welcome our senator from georgia, senator david erdue. Cheers and applause] mr. Perdue thank you, thank you. I bring tidings from the president. He called me the other day. He was so pumped up. He bet me i couldnt talk longer than an hour and a half. So sit back, guys. [laughter] were going to have a little fun this afternoon. It is truly an honor in all seriousness, for me to be here today. I want to thank ralph reid and the whole team at faith and freedom for all the good work that faith and freedom does in my home state of georgia and indeed around the country. I think we have a few georgians here again, dont we . Cheers and applause] folks, unfortunately what i have to talk about today is very serious. We should all agree today that were in an ideological war for the future of our way of life here in america. [applause] its just that simple. Democrats want to convert america to a socialist state. Winston churchill once said that the problem with capitalism is its the imperfect distribution of prosperity. The problem with socialism, its the perfect distribution of isery. However this socialism talk didnt just start with Bernie Sanders or elizabeth warren. Over the past 100 years america has been on a slow slide towards socialism. In that time weve had four political supermajorities, all democrat. The republicans have never had a supermajority since the senate began to be elected in 1913. Those supermajorities gave uses the new deal, the great society, obamacare and doddfrank. Im just a business guy but most f the responsibility of this current financial catastrophe is at the feet of those supermajorities. The irony is these big, sweeping federal programs have failed the very people that the democrats claim to champion. The working poor and the working men and women of america. Let me give you a couple of xamples. The poverty rate today is the same as it was in 1965 when the great societys war on poverty was initiated. Same. Exact same. In 1975, before the department f education was created, our 14yearolds were number one in the world in math, science and reading. Yet today, decades later, after spending trillions of dollars from this topdown plan, were 38th in math, 24th in science and indeed 24th in reading. We can do better than that. [applause] obamacare has collapsed under ts own weight. And has completely failed. The Medicare Trust fund goes to zero in seven years. The Social Security trust fund goes to zero in 16 years. Guys, i can do this all day but my wife says, this time, david, just shut up. You can bring any Cocktail Party to its knees talking like this. Its true. But im not done yet. Fannie mae is bankrupt. Freddie mac is bankrupt. The Postal Service is bankrupt. The Postal Service is bankrupt. The v. A. Has been a disaster and an embarrassment for years. Lets be clear, though, today. The democrats have had the opportunity after opportunity to prove that what they believe in, he socialist way of life, this topdown control, will work. And they failed every single time. You cant name one of these federal programs over the last 100 years thats been a whopping success. But i got good news for you today. Great news, as a matter of fact. Thanks to you and many like you around the world, donald j. Trump is president of the United States of america today. [cheers and applause] he has a vision. He didnt come from the bubble here in washington. Es an outsider like i am. This guys focused on getting results, guys. After eight years of the lowest Economic Growth in u. S. History under barack obama, President Trump said, the job, one, was to grow the economy. I was honored to be in a small group in the white house two weeks after President Trump was inaugurated to determine the agenda for the first two years. We agreed to focus on regulation, energy, taxes and doddfrank. And guess what. The president went to work and ade it happen, guys. In the first two years, you know we talk about the shining object of the democrats all the ime. In the first two years, under President Trumps leadership, right away we reversed over 2,000 regulations. We unleashed Americas Energy potential. And became the Worlds Largest provider of natural gas and oil in the world. [applause] we passed a historic tax bill hat made us more competitive with the rest of the world and actually freed up a couple of trillion dollars of capital to come back into the United States. From unrepatriated u. S. Profits overseas. How smart do you have to be to do that . We repealed the most onerous parts of doddfrank and freed up ver 2 trillion on the Balance Sheets of our Smallest Community banks and regional banks around the country. Under doddfrank we had lost 17,000 banks since president obama put that law into effect. As a result, were now xperiencing the greatest economic turnaround in u. S. History. The economy has grown at twice the rate it did under barack obama. We created over five million new jobs. [applause] the one im proud of is that wages are moving again after a decade. E had the highest middle class income in u. S. History. Right now today the lowest unemployment in 50 years, the lowest africanamerican, asian and hispanic unemployment ever measured. Have you ever been told that by this National Media . No, youre not told that. President trump is an outsider. The most important thing is to keep his promises to him. He has a list of things that he promised he would do. This guy is doing hes meeting his promises and doing exactly what he said he would o. President trump is fighting for a level Playing Field with all of our trading partners, including the peoples republic of china. [applause] President Trumps good at a lot of things. One thing hes really good at is making things very clear. Hes made it very clear that america comes first. But America First does not mean america alone. He is rebuilding all of our llied relationships. Hes getting our nato allies to pay their fair share for their own defense. The First Time Since world war ii. [cheers and applause] he repealed the most damaging part of the obamacare and thats individual mandate. E repealed that. [applause] guys, im proud of this. N 1991 congress had a law on he books that required a president to do this, but it took four or five president s, it took President Trump to get elected, he came in and realized there was a law and guess what he did, he moved the United States embassy from israel in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem. [cheers and applause] he said he would drain the swamp. Remember that . That he would drain the swamp. Guess what. As i stand here today, 4,300 people have been removed from the v. A. For not doing their jobs, guys. [cheers and applause] ,300 people. And were not done there. We have another bill that would allow all the other agencies to do the same thing. Imagine that. You have to have an act of congress to fire people. [laughter] im just a business guy, but if you ran the rest of the world the way washingtons run right now, we wouldnt be where we are today. The thing that is most generationally impacting, though, that will impact our country for the next several generations, our kids and our ids kids, is that under President Trump, weve confirmed 123 federal judges, including 80 District Court judges, 41 Circuit Court of appeal justices, and two Supreme Court justices, including neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh. Cheers and applause] i came to washington to try to help change the direction of the country but we needed somebody like President Trump to break some eggs up here and actually get it done, guys. Cheers and applause] these are definitely promises made and promises kept. Now the president s focused on immigration, trade and infrastructure. Let me tell you. Hes not taking a victory lap. On all his accomplishments, hes now looking forward, hes driving ahead. He calls me early in the morning, he calls late at night. I spend time with him at the white house. Sometimes hes exhausting, guys. [laughter] but he works. He works. And he cares about people in america. Isnt it great to have somebody in the white house who is focused on getting results . Cheers and applause] and heres what im most proud of. I really am. He will never articulate it this way. We have a little different style of communicating, you might have noticed, right . But he believes this in his heart. Hes proving that what we believe in actually works. Think about it. The democrats have had 100 years. They failed every time. Now weve done this and in two years, best economic turnaround in u. S. History. Were proving that what we believe in actually works. Hes returning to the principles that made America Great in the first place. And made this economic miracle the greatest in humankind history. Economic opportunity for everybody. Fiscal responsibility. Limited government. And individual liberty. Something that we cannot take for granted. But let me tell you this. He gets beat up every day. Look at the national news. You see it, i see it. The democrats are on a mission. This is obstructionism on a historic level. If you dont believe, that look at last nights debate. Ive never seen 20 people or 10 people more out of touch with reality in my life. [laughter] [applause] but we have to wake up to this. I never thought in my lifetime id be standing here having to defend capitalism. But i have to tell you this. Our way of life is in jeopardy. I never thought id be sitting here talking about capitalism versus socialism. I didnt ask for this fight. But like you, im up for it. This is our time. If we dont do it, who will . If we dont do it now, when will we do it . [applause] radical democrats are telling the world, you know, i believe in george pattin. I read your book, you know. Read your book. They believe socialism is better than capitalism. Theyre not going to say the word socialism but everything theyre talking about is indeed that. They believe in a Single Party System. They believe in open borders. They want effectively to legalize infanticide. Would you have ever imagined wed be having a party condone hat . They want to abolish i. C. E. , they want Illegal Immigrants and felons to have the right to vote. They want to give an annual wage to anyone who is either unable or unwilling to work. Really . They want to increase taxes, obviously. They want socialized edicine. Thats failed everywhere in the world, including Bernie Sanders own home state, guys. It failed. They want the green new eal. He modern monetary theory. These arent minor change, folks. These are radical proposals that would bring socialism to the United States in two years. Thats why todays new Democratic Socialist Party wants to perpetrate on america. Why . Because they cant talk about their results, they cant talk about their big programs. They have to talk about a new way. Weve got a good way. Its been proven over 230 years, if youll Pay Attention to it. But if the democrats were in the white house, take the majority in the senate and keep the house, theyll take our country down a destructive road to socialism and a oneparty political system. You have to listen to what theyre actually saying. Theyre saying they would end the filibuster rule in the nited States Senate and that would allow them to actually do some of these things. They want to add seats to the Supreme Court. You can imagine what theyd do with that. They want to make puerto rico and d. C. A state. Imagine what the electoral would look like at that point. And they want to abolish the lectoral college anyway. This is what theyre saying. Democrats will do all this so they can cram their socialist agenda down the throats of the american people. Folks, whats at stake here is our freedom. [applause] they want a Single Party System in america just like russia did in 1917, germany in 1933, cuba in 1959 and venezuela later in the 20th century. How did that all work out . Really. Each of these attempts for state control and power have failed and led to failed states every single time. You and i just cannot let this radical left take our country down that road to socialism. The only thing standing in their way right now is you and me. I am so grateful that you come to things like this because thats how we stand up to these uys. This is bigger than me, though. Its bigger than you. Its even bigger than president of the United States. This is about the future of our country. And the future of our children and our childrens children. [applause] remember this. He price of socialism is freedom. The price of socialism is freedom. The price of socialism is freedom. You have to make sure that we tell our kids and our kids kids and everybody that we know, the price of socialism is freedom. Listen to what Ronald Reagan said. Ronald reagan even reminded us, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We dont pass it down in the blood stream. It has to be passed, its got to be fought for, protected and passed on so they can do the ame thing. Or one day in our sunset years well be telling our children and our childrens children what it was once like in america when women and men were free. Folks, that cant happen. You and i have to ensure that socialism never comes to america. God bless you. Thank you for being here. God bless america. Thank you. Cheers and applause] and now remarks from senators rand paul and marco rubio in florida in washington, d. C. This is 30 minutes. Hey there, everybody. You can all grab your seats real quick