Transcripts For CSPAN Campaign 20240704

Families, to give them the tools they need to get them ready for anything. Announcer comcast supports cspan as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Announcer several gop president ial hopefuls talk on their platfos at a fundraising dinner in cedar rapids, iowa. One of the republican representatives, Ashley Hinson. They highlight a ran of topics including th opioid crisis, public security, and the state of the economy. I what is the first state in the nation for the gop caucus. It is set for january 15. Our very first president ial care candidate we hear from came from the iowa of the south shall we say. Just like iowa, florida has their business and schools open they stand up for parents and they let freedom move. Please welcome to the stage floor to governor ron desantis. Gov. Desantis hello cedar rapids. Are you ready to send joe biden back to his basement in delaware . My wife and i have kids, so when we are in the white house, none of our kids are going to be bringing cocaine in the white house, dont worry about that. In fact, before we took our first trip to iowa a couple months ago, i played them a famous movie from the 1980s which involved iowa. We happened to be at the Clayton County fair and we had a little time after that so my fiveyearold son and i were having a game of catch. He said daddy, is this heaven . [laughter] i said no, its iowa. I want to thank Ashley Hinson for her great work, i want to thank your governor for her great work, and i want to thank your Iowa Legislature for i tell you what, we are competing between florida and iowa, isnt it great to haves two states dedicated to freedom have two states dedicated to freedom . [applause] gov. Desantis this country is in decline. Economic decline, military decline, cultural decline. We, as republicans, cannot be content with just managing this decline a little bit better than the democrats. I am running for president because we must reverse the decline of america. We must [applause] gov. Desantis i am a bluecollar kid, i worked a minimum wage jobs to be able to get through school. I believe in the American Dream and i can see it slipping away. I know that we must restore. I am an iraq veteran, a former naval officer, and i am proud to have served in the greatest country in the history of the world. And yet, i see america is weak today. And we must revive american strength. As a data rate 6, 5, and threeyearold, i know how important it is to protect and preserve the rights of parents in our society, and we must do that nationwide. [applause] heres the thing. To do what we need to do to fix america requires leadership, vision, and it requires courage. The time for talk is over. We need people who produce results. And in florida, most people run for office overpromising and under delivering. We made bold promises to the people of florida and we met every single commitment we made. In fact, we overdelivered on our promises as governor. We enacted Universal School choice for every parent in this state of florida. The state of florida. We enacted and expanded segment rights. We signed the heartbeat built to protect innocent human life. Bill to protect innocent human life. We enacted bills to prevent indoctrination. We are in critical race theory. We prohibited gender ideology. And if we had to stand up to disney to make that happen, we stood up to disney and stood up for our parents. [applause] [no audio] gov. Desantis we have kneecap esg, stood up against illegal immigration and band sanctuary cities, sending our troops to the border to help texas, and even transporting illegal aliens to beautiful marthas vineyard. [applause] we stand up for the blue and we prevent the defunding of police in and floridas crime rate is at a 50 gear low as a result. We have cut taxes by 2. 7 billion. We have paid down, since i have been governor, 25 of our total outstanding debt. Can you imagine if they actually did that in washington . How much better off we would be . [applause] we have prohibited the purchasing of land in the state of florida by the Chinese Communist party. And its affiliates. [applause] and when the world went mad and during covid, when common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue, the state of florida stood as a refuge of sanity. His citadel of freedom not only for floridians but americans and even people around the world. We refused to allow our state to descend into some kind of found cheap dystopia. We chose freedom over pyeongchang. Fauci. We need those results in washington dc. We will reverse bidenomics and give the middleclass a chance in this country again. We will stop congress from splitting this spending this country into oblivion. They caused inflation with the spending and the borrowing and the debt. We need a balanced Budget Amendment to the u. S. Constitution and we need term limits for members of the u. S. Congress. [applause] gov. Desantis we will get the bureaucracy off of the backs of Small Businesses and farmers and individual entrepreneurs. We will ensure Energy Independence in this country. Oil, gas, biofuels from here in the midwest. We dont want to rely on hostile regimes and we are not going to force americans to buy electric vehicles and to make us more reliant uncommon as china. On communist china. [applause] we will be the president that finally ends the issue of the southern border once and for all. We will declare it to be a National Emergency on day one. We will put the military on the southern border. Yes, we will build the border wall, but we will lean against the mexican drug cartels because they are poisoning this country. If they try to break into our country with fentanyl, we are going to authorize deadly force. They are going to end up stone cold dead at the border. [applause] gov. Desantis we will also usher in a reckoning for the federal governments disastrous covid19 lockdown policies, mandate policies, people like fallacy fauci must be held accountable. We will bring that accountability so that this never happens in our country ever again. We will stand up for the rights of parents, we cannot allow our School Systems to be tools of leftist indoctrination any longer. Education, not indoctrination. [applause] we will work constitutionaliz reconstitutionalize the federal government, and and the weaponization of government. Youre going to get a new fbi director on day one. Youre going to get the doj cleared out. There is going to be a single standard of justice in this country again, and we are going to stop the weaponization of federal power. As a veteran, we understand that we cannot have a successful military if it is indulging in social extremity and, woke agenda, and political ideology. On day one, as commanderinchief, we rip the woke out, we would rip the social extremity should out, and we will restore our military to mission first, like it belongs. [applause] gov. Desantis 2024 is make or break for this country. Freedom is fragile. Our Founding Fathers understood this, when Benjamin Franklin walked out of the constitutional convention, he was asked. Did you give us a republic or monarchy . He said a republic, if you can keep it. Because they understand each generation is going to be called upon to step up and preserve freedom when it is under assault. And i am motivated for the site, because i want my kids and eventual grandkids to have the same opportunities that we have. I am also motivated because i understand that we owe a debt of gratitude to people throughout the generations who have sponsored fought for this country so that we can be free. I went up to washington dc and there is a particular route you can take going into reagan airport. It was flush parallel to the national mall. If you look outside the left side of the plane you saw beautiful views, up close of the lincoln memorial, the reflect people, washington monument, and perched on the hill, the beautiful u. S. Capitol building. And you felt a sense of pride as an american because those symbolize the ideas that make this country unique. But i figured out after doing that trip a few times the best moments were not outside the left side of the play. If you looked out the right side of the plane, over the potomac river, you saw a series of very small, nondescript monuments, orderly arranged over the Rolling Hills of a place called Arlington National cemetery. And it occurred to me then, and i believe now, you can have the best constitution in the world. You could have the best decoration of independence in the world. These things do not run on autopilot. They require each generation to cultivate them. And yes, it requires, from time to time, people to put on a uniform and stand up for their stand up there and perhaps give the last full measure of devotion for service of this country. The question for us is are we going to preserve that sacred fire of liberty that those men and women have fought for . Or are we going to squander it . The time for excuses is over. We must get the job done in 2024. I am asking for your support in the january caucuses, because i can pledge to you this. I will get the job done. I will not let you down. God bless you all, lets win this thing. God bless the great state of iowa. God bless these United States. Lets go on to victory, thank you, and god bless you all. [applause] all right. Ok, i have a question for you. What do you think of bidenomics . Boo, right . The next speaker knows a thing or two about the economy, and growing and flourishing a business. Governor doug burgum of north dakota has done exact that in the private sector and he is doing it for the state of north dakota. Please welcome him to the state. Stage. Gov. Burgum i want to lead with gratitude which is something that we always doing north dakota, and someday we always do in our family. I want to start with gratitude for all of you being here today. Nothing is more important in our country than people being engaged in this process. In iowa, first the nation caucus, the job that all of you have, you are like the board of directors. You are screening candidates for the most important job in the world. Enter here, youre paying attention, you are sitting, listening to everybody, youre researching, youre going online, i just want to say, its actually incredible what you all do. It matters to this country, and from all of us we just say give yourselves a hand. Thank you for being part of this incredible process. And of course, ashley and her team do amazing work, what an event that they have going on today, and incredible iowa congressional delegation, senator grassley, all of the other congressmen that you have here today, iowa is so lucky to be so well led at the congressional level and the state level. It has been my great honor to have worked with kim reynolds the last six years with the republican governors association. And now she is leaving that great organization, republican governors are getting it done all over the country. I just wanted to come out if we can, all of you, lets think ashley, her team, kim reynolds and everybody that made this possible. Way to go, i well, good job. Fantastic. Iowa, good job. Fantastic. When you serve, you serve dont serve alone. Im sure you have been in elected office but you cannot do it alone. I just want to say that i am so fortunate to be on this journey and the journey that i have been on the last six years with the first lady of north dakota. She has courageously told her story about her battle with addiction and recovery. She is here today celebrating 21 years in recovery. Given up for catherine. Thank you. Give it up for catherine. Thank you. [applause] gov. Desantis gov. Burgum two things can happen at the same time that our opposites. Its happening in every commodity that we go to across iowa, hampshire and north dakota. We call it the best of america. You go to communities like this and you can find neighbors helping neighbors, like in my hometown. People that have little, bailey funded nonprofits, that are doing great work to solve a problem. People standing up and running for school board, getting involved in city council. This is happening all over america, and we need to focus on the best of america. If you turn on cable news and social media, you never hear about the best of america, you and i all know what is happening every day. Its absolutely happening. But the other thing that can happen at the same time is that the Biden Administration not just needs a course correction, they are 180 degrees wrong on the economy, on energy, and on National Security. Those three things, 100 . [applause] and i know this because i grew up in arthur, north dakota, 300 people. It was fantastic going up there. A little agricultural committee. Everything we did growing up working on the farm, grain elevators, working at the ranch, even working as a Chimney Sweep paving pay my way through college. And my were mesa. My mom was president of the school board. My dad was a World War Ii Navy officer veteran. When pearl harbor happened, he got, like a lot of young men, he went down to the gym in castleton, 50 miles away, and signed up for the navy. He had a College Degree from north dakota state, they made him a naval officer. He had never seen the ocean. Im not sure he knew how to swim. But as fast as they could build destroyers they put him on there and he left bremerton washington and went off to the pacific. Never saw my mom until after the end of the war. There were 151 destroyers at okinawa. 129 got hit by, because hes. It is only through the grace of god that i am ashley standing here right now. That i am standing here right now. We can never forget what his generation did. In north dakota we are working hard to make sure we have the most militarily friendly state in the nation because this country does not work without people like my dad and your dad and our grandfathers. I want to give it up for our veterans. If you are a veteran stand up. Lets give them a hand. Thank you all. Thank you for your service. [applause] gov. Desantis and then, i was a freshman in high school and my dad died. That was rough. Getting on the bus to go play best of all, they pulled me off of the bus. My mom went back to work. She was a rock. Three kids, widow going back to work. If you are a working mom out here, i understand what youre going through. We will be fighting for you, too, because i saw what she had to do. And my dad gave me a little piece of ground, not enough to be farming on because in dryland, wheat farming, you need thousands of acres. 160 acres i got for my dad. I mortgaged that to start a Little Software Company Called great plains. We started with 10 kids, and we built that, 18 years later, we werent overnight success story. A few ups and downs along the way. But we were we built a 2000 person company. 1200 of them working in fargo, 400 in the rest of north america, 400 and love story the rest of the world. We had so met we create its much value for our customers and partners out of those kids in north dakota. We did that. Once when he tells me that you cannot be from a small town and russian president it jumps right on my start button because dcd is more smalltown values and they need to understand what is going on in america. In small towns. [applause] in 2016, we decided to jump in, there was a race for governor and away ran and we were down 59 points in the polls. We ran and we were down 59 points. Catherine wasnt sure she wanted to be the first lady of anything. I was like ok, the worry, were not going to win. We only have five months to the primary. And then we won the primary 6040 and then one the general by more than 40 points. We got reelected in 2020 by over 40 points, the highest margin of any race in the country. How do we do that . We know that we work for everybody. We plow the roads for the independence, the democrats and the republicans during a blizzard. We do it forever buddy. The services that we deliver its just not efficient. We took 1. 7 billion out of a 6 billion budget. Every train still ran on time. You can do that. [applause] technology is changing, every job and every company and every industry has not changed, there is a huge opportunity to take 20 of the cost of the federal government. I know how to do that. I have done it before, because the business that i was in, we always had to get better, faster, cheaper the next day. Let me start with the economy. What we have right now . We have the highest Interest Rates in 22 years. We have a debt typically out of control at the federal government. Completely out of control at the federal government. You cant find one economic thing the administration tries to tell of us that inflation is going down. That is code word for prices are increasing not as fast as they were yesterday. Thats like feel good about your 10 pay cut last year because youre only getting a 5 pay cut this year. That is bidenomics. We know that the prices for all of you are up 1730 more than two years ago and we know that incomes have not risen that fast. We are all worse off than we were two years ago and we can fix that. We can absently fix that. One way we do that is by cutting red tape. The federal government creates so much burden. I have seen it as a small engineer and a Small Business owner. I have seen it running large Global Business and now i see it every day where the federal government is trying to bigfoot the states. The states greeted the federal government, not the other way around. In the constitution, yes, the constitution, there is a limited number of things that the federal government is supposed to do and the rest is reserved for states. For the people. Some of this stuff parents can decide. We dont need state laws are federal laws. Power to the people, we can reduce the size of the federal government and get them back in the lane where they have spots ability. The economy, energy, and National Security. That includes border security. Right now, biden has completed complete dereliction of duty on the southern border. 107,000 and right now, biden is completely complete dereliction of duty on the southern border this last year, 110,000 Overdose Deaths in our country. 107,000 the year before. Thats a statistic. Thats hard to get your head around. But understand what that means. That 300 americans a day are dying. 70 of those are fentanyl poisonings, not an accidental overdose poisonings thats coming from china. Were taking mass casualties because of our open border. We absolutely are. North dakota like other states has been sending troops down there. Weve got two different deployments going down. Im going down tomorrow to see the group thats been there for nine months. And another group that just got there. And i will tell you take whatever number that biden gives you on crossings and triple it because theyre not reporting the full number thats happening down there. So we will, the biden took him two years to get down to the border. Ill be down there in two weeks after im president , we will get that. We will get that problem solved. And in closing out on the energy, the one thing you need to know is the, were going to start selling energy to our friends and allies on day one stop buying it from our adversaries. The biden Energy Policy, i think was created by china. Why do i say that . Because they want to take liquid fuels. Theres an attack on biofuels, ethanol, oil and gas in this country. Just this week, they buried a news lead thats essentially a war on pickups because theyre saying they want to phase out internal combustion machines by 2032 including including pickups. I dont know how thats going to work in the world that were living in up here. But they want to do that because they want to go all and they go all ev and have everything electric. And they want to subsidize 500,000 charging stations and they want to subsidize the cars. The batteries all come from china and china is produced 85 of the rare earth minerals. And so we literally would be trading future to china. We cant do that. And so i will tell you Energy Policy, economics, National Security, theyre all interrelated. I understand all three of these. Well get them fixed, well get this country on the right track. Were going to be campaigning throughout iowa all the way through the fall to january. Were going to be there. We hope that youre with us there in january. Thank you so much. Lets get some small town common sense back in washington dc. Thank you very much. [applause] ok. We have 162 days until the Iowa Caucuses until january 15. So mark your calendar is 162 days. All right, our next speaker, i was pleased to meet at the faith and Freedom Dinner earlier this year and my son max actually had the opportunity to have a pretty good discussion with this man about economics and the future of our country. And i think i can say fairly that max was a fan. He is fighting to keep the American Dream alive for the next generation. So please welcome Perry Johnson to the stage. [applause] mr. Johnson well, good afternoon. Its almost evening, but i am Perry Johnson and i am running for president of the United States. But i will let you know that i am probably too conservative for this group, and you can string me up when i leave, but i am prolife pro Second Amendment , antiwoke, antichina, and even though many people dont agree with me, i think its ridiculous that were sending 113 billion over to the ukraine when were going broke here. [applause] when i am elected president , there are several things that i would do immediately. Number one, i will start finishing the wall. Lets face it, it is costing us 150. 7 billion a year because of Illegal Immigrants. And we have more Illegal Immigrants in this country for the first time in history than legal immigrants. And i say that is ridiculous. Not only does it cost us so much money we are poisoning our kids, poisoning our culture and killing our kids with the fentanyl. I say we stop it. [applause] number two, never again will we allow a minor to ruin their lives by having transition therapy. It will never happen again. And number three, and i know many dont like this. I am going to shut down the department of education. [applause] i want everyone to realize that literally only eight cents out of every dollar is going to grades k through 12. And that is a sin. I say we just get rid of all, but 10 people get rid of 4000, 4390 people and ship that money directly to the parents and let them send them to the schools. Schools of their choice. Now, the fourth thing is that i am going to shut down the fbi. Were dismantling it. The reason i say that is that we have too much corruption thats been going on for literally 45 to 50 years. I say we end it. The department of justice that has to be dismantled because we have corruption there too. And i say, lets end the corruption. But as many of you may know, i called on starting impeachment proceedings for joe biden. [applause] now we do have hunter biden and he made 1. 4 million on his paintings. He started painting, i guess at the age of 50 lets face it. He is the next picasso. [laughter] we know that roughly 10 million went to the biden family with this myriad of corporations and they have all these corporations strung together stealing that money, bribing. Who knows what it is . But i say, lets investigate it. This is nuts. [applause] now, the reason i called on pardoning trump on march 21st and was the first candidate to do so is that, i think that its unfair that we start picking on our candidates and letting the democrats decide who should be running. This is not right and im running against him and im telling you this, im telling you right now. This is not right. Now, you cant ever vote for anyone without knowing something about them. So im gonna tell you a little about myself. I was born in a small town, dalton, illinois had a wonderful childhood. My dad was a pilot in world war ii. My mom was a nurse in the army wax and they met at a new years eve party, the biggest break of my life. And they love this country. You know, when i went to college, my parents didnt have the money but i worked in the steel mill. I got through and then in grad school, well, i was getting eviction notices on pretty much a regular basis. I did do something in order to survive. I used to go to vegas and i would play blackjack, but they finally kicked me out and i couldnt play blackjack anymore because im a card counter. My background is mathematics and i started a situation where i hit a major break because i got a job in the Auto Industry with borg warner. This was in the 19 eighties when 1980s when the Auto Industry was in trouble. The japanese had come in with tremendous quality and they were killing us. But i thought i knew how to solve the problem. And what i did was to introduce statistical process control. And i introduced statistical methods. And the japanese had come in with tremendous quality because we had this huge operation at the end of the line where people would inspect the product. And if it wasnt any good, they would throw it out and rework it. And i knew that was never going to work. So i started in the beginning of the operation and we ironed out the variation in four or five years. We had the best quality in the world. And then i said to myself, why not a standard for quality . And i wrote a book, iso 9000, the quality standard. It took off like hot cakes and they translated it into japanese spanish, even hungarian. , and now Perry Johnson registrar and Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation do business in 61 countries around the world. And i live the American Dream. Now i have the most perfect life in the world. I have the most wonderful wife in the world. In fact, shes right here. Shes going to critique my speech. I have three wonderful sons and my oldest son is here. He started Michigan State this year, and i have spent my entire life bringing quality and efficiency to companies and now i want to bring it to the federal government. And im going to ask you, do you think the federal government has quality and efficiency. Now they never wanted me and i want you to notice they have done everything to try to get me out of the debate. But i now have 43,000 donations. [applause] and by the way, im an efficiency expert. So when you check, except for trump anthony santos, trump and desantis i believe youll , find that i spent less money for those donations than anyone because i got them by talking to people in person. And these are in person donations for the most part and mail donations. And im going to wait, im going to have 50,000. I just need to make sure they include me in the polls, the polling system, the rnc, you know, lets face it. Its a nutty organization and i want to make sure that theyre not corrupt too. So i want them to include all candidates. I know theyre going to include me in the polling now because i have 40,000, but i want them to include all these candidates. What do you say we do that . What [applause] now, my plan, i wrote a book on the plan on what to do. And my plan is very simple. Two cents to save america every year the government spends every penny in their budget. They go out of their way to make sure they are broke every year. And i say we do just the opposite. We freeze that budget and we cut two cents out of every dollar of discretionary spending. And you know what, well suddenly start balancing the budget. Right now, we are almost 33 trillion in debt. Thats 130 of Gross Domestic Product in each one of your families. Each one of your families is spending 610 a month just on the interest of our debt. 610. Now, ive invented a lot of things in this race that have never happened before. Anyone here that wants to go to the big and rich concert in iowa, you are invited. All my donors are going to go to big and rich in iowa on the 12th , and its free to you. [applause] im going to tell you something that i love this country and i love it more than life itself. I want you to realize what a spectacularly amazing country we really have. You know, we had people down founded this country because they believed in freedom and isnt freedom what we really want . Lets say yes to freedom, yes to freedom. [applause] and they came over because they wanted religious freedom. And then they had this idea, the idea that they would have a country unlike any country in the history of the world, a country by the people, for the people. A country that had three basic principles, inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And with that freedom and that idea, we founded something that became a miracle. And that experiment has shown that we became the most upwardly mobile society in the history of all humanity. We became a phenomenal country, a country where the world looks at us and says, wow, because by golly, we have done the impossible. And i want you to think about the history of this country, when we had the carnegies we , have the fords, we have the melons and we even have the elon musk. And i tell you right now when the world looks at us, they say, wow, we are amazing and let us be the greatest country the world has ever known. And lets keep it that way. What do you say . [applause] God Bless America and god bless the United States of america in every way. Lets let iowa continue to be number one. Lets do it. Let us do it. Now, now no, no, no. I almost fell off, great. It is your life. Ok, so that some energy right . Yeah, all right. Does everybody need to stand up and do like a 7 Inning Stretch or something . Lets all stand up. Ok, just for a minute. Lets everybody clap our hands up here. Are we excited for our next speaker . Yes. Ok. So our next speaker here today is not afraid to shake things up and speak the truth. I dont know about you, but i think the swamp could use a good shake up, dont you . Absolutely. Please welcome our next speaker. Vivek ramaswamy. [applause] mr. Ramaswamy good to be back. And this time im back with my lovely wife, apoorva and our two sons who are backstage. Welcome them here as well. Its good to be here as a family. Its a family adventure. Ill tell you my story. My parents came to this country s 40 years ago with no money. Ive gone on to found multi billion dollar companies. I did it while marrying my lovely wife, apurva, raising our two sons following our faith in god. That is the American Dream. That is the dream that defines this country. But i am worried that that American Dream will not exist for my two sons and their generation. We are now in the middle of a National Identity crisis, and im speaking to you as a member of my generation. When i say this, i am 37 years old. I was born in 1985. Im the youngest person ever to run for us president as a republican. Thank you. I appreciate that. And ill tell you whats going on with us young people. You wonder whats going on . Heres what it is. We are hungry for a cause. We are so starved for purpose and meaning and identity at a time in our National History when the things that used to fill that hunger, faith, patriotism, hard work, family, these things have disappeared. And that leaves a black hole, a moral vacuum in its wake. And when you have a black hole that runs that deep, that is when the poison fills the void, woke is him transgenderism, climate, covid, globalism, depression, anxiety, fentanyl , suicide. These are symptoms of a deeper void of purpose and meaning in our country. And as odd as that might sound, this is actually our opportunity as conservatives to now level up and say that for a long time, we have been running from something. But now is our moment to start running to something to fill that void with our vision of what it means to be an american today. That is our job. That is what rests ahead. The left will say race, gender, sexuality, climate. I want us talking more about the value of the individual, the family, the nation and yes god, d. Individual, family, nation, god that beats race, gender, sexuality and climate. I want us talking about what it means to be a citizen of this country. What does it mean to be an american . It means we believe in the ideals of the american revolution, ideals like meritocracy and the pursuit of excellence, that you get ahead in this country, not on the color of your skin, but on the content of your character and your contributions. That is why we will end affirmative action in america. It has been a cancer on our national soul. We are done with it. What does it mean to be an american . It means we believe in the rule of law. And i say this as the kid of legal immigrants that means your first act of entering this country cannot break the law. We will use the us military to close that swiss cheese of a southern border. That is what it means to stand for the rule of law in this country. [applause] thank you. What does it mean to be an american . It means we believe in a radical dream that our Founding Fathers had. A radical dream that i have as a citizen that the people who we elect to run the government ought to be the ones who actually run the government, not the deep state that actually runs the show today. So ive said that, look, if i cant be your us president for more than eight years and collect a paycheck from the taxpayer for more than eight years, which i think is a good thing, then neither should any of those federal bureaucrats either. Replace the Civil Service protections with term limits for the bureaucracy. Thats how we revive a Constitutional Republic when. When there are Government Agencies that should not exist that have become so corrupted that they have lost their original purpose from the fbi to the atf to the irs, to the cdc, to the Us Department of education, we will not just reform those agencies. No, we will get in there and we will shut them down. [applause] that is how we revive our Constitutional Republic in the United States of america. Youre hearing from a lot of my friends today, and i really dont view the other people running as competitors. They are my colleagues, they are our colleagues. I will depend on them to each play their role in this national revival. I dont want to bash them. These are our friends just like im going to depend on each of you. We each have to play our part. There is a choice we face , however, and its going to be the choice we face next year. Even in our own primary, there are good people who will tell you we have to work within the institutions we have incremental reform is our hope. Well, heres the choice we face. Do you want incremental reform, or do you want revolution . I stand on the side of the american revolution. Those 1776 ideals that set this country into motion, that radical dream that we the people create a government that is accountable to us. Not the other way around. We sort out our differences through free speech and open debate in the Public Square where every persons voice and vote counts equally. Not in the back of palace halls in old world europe, not in the back of a palace hall in black rocks corner office. Today, we the people have a voice in our republic, and we depend and we require a government that finally tells us the truth. Again, trust is a twoway relationship. [applause] the reason the people do not trust the government is that the government does not trust the people. They think we cant handle the truth about covid19 that we cant handle the truth about where the virus came from. That we cant handle the truth about Vaccine Mandates or lockdowns or about a hunter Biden Corruption story or about the nashville shooter manifesto or about january 6th. Our government believes that we, the people, cant handle the truth. It is our job as the citizens of this country to speak back and say we, the people, we can handle the truth. We, the people, we demand to hear the truth. That is what begins in november of 2024. You see, for me, november 2024 that is not the finish line of a campaign. It is the start line of a national revival. That is where this begins where i dont think about my inauguration speech. I think about my Farewell Speech in january of 2033 when my older son, hell be in junior high school, ok . And all joking aside, that means something to me. We are creating a country for him. I used to say it at the start of this campaign. The country that i grew up in, i dont say it that way anymore. A country greater than the one that i grew up in. That is what i believe is possible. When i leave that office in january 2033, i want to tell you just a few things that we did. One is that we shut down that deep state. So once again, we have three branches of government, not four. I want to tell you that we declared independence from our enemy, communist china, who we no longer depend on for our modern way of life. [applause] i want to tell you that our economy is growing at the fastest rate in the developed world because we embrace capitalism instead of apologizing for it. I want to tell you that most importantly, my two sons and their generation, they are once again proud to be citizens of this nation. And the way were going to revive that National Pride is by standing up once again in this country for the truth. That is what we are doing in this campaign. We stand up and we speak the truth. We speak the truth in the face of hardship. We speak the truth, not when it is easy, but when it is hard, hardship is something that happens to you. Victimhood is a choice. We dont choose to be victims. We choose to be victorious. We are victorious when we speak the truth. So that is what were going to do today. Let us stand up and speak that truth. God is real. [applause] there are two genders. Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity. Reverse racism is racism. An open border is not a border. Parents determine the education of their children. The Nuclear Family is the bestknown form of governance to mankind. [applause] capitalism is the best system known to man to lift people up from poverty. There are three branches of government, not four. And our Us Constitution is the strong guarantor of freedom in human history. That is the truth. We stand up for the truth. We fight for the truth. That is what won us the american revolution. That is what will win us the revolution of 2024. Thank you all, iowa. Its good to be back. God bless you. [applause] god bless your families, and may god bless our great nation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Ok, we have three more fabulous speakers tonight. Our next speaker i think is going to keep you fired up. And i think most of you know i was obviously born and raised in central iowa. I decided to go out to Southern California to get my College Degree and i can tell you being a conservative on a College Campus in los angeles, it makes you pretty hardy. I can tell you that, but i had some back up every single day. I got to listen to the larry elder show on the radio. Right . So its my pleasure now to introduce you to a man who has lived the American Dream. He can tell that story. He has lived it and its a pleasure to have him join us on the stage. Please welcome larry elder. Mr. Elder oh, my goodness. Say hello to the black face of White Supremacy before i get started. I want to say a few things about my home state of california. As you know, i ran for governor. I just heard that governor gavin newsom has agreed to debate ron desantis. Wouldnt it have been nice if somebody had pressured him to debate me during the recall election when it mattered . [applause] i got a book coming out the first week of september. Its called as goes california, my mission to rescue the golden state and save the nation. My goals are modest. And in the book, i propose a twostep plan to save california. Step number one, keep the illegal aliens. Step number two, deport the democrats. [laughter] [applause] i had an epiphany when i was campaigning. Ive always been opposed to term limits, but now im in favor of term limits for voters. Once you vote democrat two or three times in a row, you lose your right to vote. What do you think . [laughter] not too surprisingly, i havent gotten a lot of traction with that one. Im running because there are some issues that our side does not talk enough about this lie. This lie that the democrats have been pushing and pushing and pushing that america remains systemically racist. Its not just pushing nonsense like reparations, which is the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves. Its not only pushing stuff like racebased preferences which is causing a mismatch of college students. So the ones that are supposedly benefiting end up dropping out at a higher rate and also shafting another Minority Group known as asian americans. Its also pushing stuff like diversity, equity inclusion, which is the opposite of what mlk wanted. He wanted a colorblind society, not a color coordinated society, but worse, worse is getting people killed. Its called the ferguson effect or the george floyd effect. And that is a phenomenon of cops all over america pulling back from doing their normal proactive policing. In the last several years in cities all around the country, there were thousands of people who have been victimized by Violent Crime and who are dead, who otherwise would not have suffered if the police had been doing their normal proactive policing. [applause] and these call them excess casualties are primarily black and brown people that people on the left purport to care about. It is getting people killed. Then there is this 10,000 pound elephant in the room that our side does not talk enough about if at all. And that is the number one social problem facing this country far and away is the epidemic of fatherlessness, far and away. [applause] 40 of American Kids enter the world today without a father in the home married to the mother, up threefold from 1965. In 1965 25 of black kids entered the World Without a father in the home, married to the mother. Now, that number is a little bit under 70 . Now, 25 of white kids into the World Without a father in the home, married to the mother and the stats are clear. Even barack obama once quoted them, a kid raised without a father is five times more likely to be poor and commit crime. Nine times more likely to drop out of school and 20 times more likely to end up in jail. What happened in the midsixties when democrat Lyndon Johnson launched the so called war on poverty. Weve incentivized women to marry the government and weve incentivized men to abandon their financial and moral responsibility. They dont talk about it because they caused it. Our side doesnt talk about it because if you are white, youre called systemically racist. And if youre black, youre called the black face of White Supremacy. And this is not to denigrate the hard job that single moms and sometimes grandparents have done. But it is certainly much, much harder to do. These kids need mentors. They need a male figure in their lives. I was just in johnston, iowa. I was talking to the police chief and i said, you guys have a gang problem. He said, yeah, we do not like chicago, we have a problem. I said, whats the commonality . He said these kids do not have a male father figure in their life. It can be a father it can be a grandfather. It can be a coach, it can be a pastor. Its got to be somebody. These kids have nothing. My generation, the baby boom generation is retiring or will soon retire. Many of us are vigorous. Theyve raised children, theyve raised grandchildren. They have time on their hands. They need to get involved. They need to be mentors, they need to get involved either with money or with their time. They need to be mentors every every one of these kids i , liken it to Alcoholics Anonymous where if youre a recovering alcoholic, you have a sponsor, somebody you can call on when you feel a moment of need of counseling, of weakness. All these kids need to have some male figure in their life that they can call on. And as a president , ill be using the bully pulpit to recommend that we do this and the money that is being spent [applause] thank you. And the money that is being spent on social programs at the federal level is being misspent. The programs are inefficient. That money taxpayers should be able to direct it to organizations in their own communities. Most notably, churches, nonprofits that are doing this kind of mentoring where theyll get far, far more successful results. [applause] then there is this disaster known as k through 12 urban education. You guys have choice here in iowa. There are 13 public high schools in baltimore just to choose one city, 13 public high schools in baltimore, all located in the inner city where 0 of the kids can do math at grade level. I kid you not. Another half a dozen or only 1 can. Thats half of all the public high schools in the city of baltimore where either 0 or only 1 of the kids can do math at grade level. Chicago, 53 government schools, thats the term i prefer government school. 0 of the kids can do math at grade level. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party opposes School Choice which studies have shown improved test scores, improved graduation rates. Meanwhile, there are elites whether barack obama gavin newsom, joe biden, they have their own kids in private school. It is an absolute outrage. The money should follow the child rather than the other way around. My father was born in athens, georgia. My mom was born in huntsville, alabama. Were talking about jim crow south. My father never met his biological father. My last name, elder was the name of some man who was in his life the longest. My dad came home at the age of 13. The elder was long gone. He began quarreling with his moms then boyfriend. She sides with the boyfriend and throws my father out of the house, never to return. 13yearold black boy, eighth grade drop out at the beginning of the great depression. My dad picked up trash. Ultimately, he got a job as a Pullman Porter came out to this place called california and he was stunned. You could walk into the front door of a restaurant and get served. My dad always had packages of crackers in tin cans of tuna because you never knew in the south if youd be able to get a meal. So i made a mental note. Maybe someday ill relocate to california pearl harbor. My dad joined the marines. He was a Montford Point marine. They were the first black marines. My dad was a Staff Sergeant in charge of cooking for the colored soldiers. War is over. He goes back to chattanooga, tennessee where he met and married my mom to get him a job as a cook. And he was told we dont hire told my mom this is nonsense. Im going to l a where i was before the war. Get me a job as a cook. He walks around and hes told you dont have any references. My dad said i need references to make ham and eggs . They treated in the same way in la as they did in chattanooga. My dad went to the unemployment office. Took the first thing that he had. My dad worked at nabisco brand bread for over 10 years, cleaning toilets. Took a second full time job at another bread company, cleaning toilets, cooked for a family on the weekend because he wanted my mom to be a stay at home. Stay at home mom. He went to night school to get his ged. When he finished that, went to night school to learn how operate a small restaurant. At the age of 47 my dad had saved his nickels and dimes starts a small restaurant near downtown, runs it until his mideighties. When my dad retired, he owned the restaurant, the property next door, plus the home thats still in our family. Not too shabby for an eighth grade drop out from athens, georgia who can tell you a Little Something about systemic racism. It is a lie that the democrats do to drive that 90 black vote. They dont want black people thinking about schools or crime or jobs. They want black people to be thinking about social justice or equity, whatever that means. I mentioned my dad was a World War Two marine vet. My older brother kirk, my late older brother kirk was in the navy, served in the sixth fleet during the vietnam era war. My little brother dennis actually went to vietnam. Im the only one in my family who didnt serve. My mom even worked for the War Department as a clerk. Ive never felt good about that. This is my opportunity to give back to my country and give back to a country thats been so good to me and to my family. And that is why im doing this. Im urging you all, please i , need 40,000 individual donors to qualify for that first debate on the 23rd of this month, you can donate as little as 1. Just go to my website larryelder. Com. Thats larryelder. Com. And when i get up there on that debate stage and i talk about the epidemic of fatherlessness, the lie that systemically that america is systemically racist, the need for School Choice, the need for an amendment to the constitution to fix spending to a certain percentage of the gdp. Otherwise the government is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. We just had our Credit Rating downgraded. We are borrowing 5 billion a day to run this country and we need to do something about all these issues. So once i get up there and i talk about these issues, hold my beer game on. , god bless you and may god may god continue to bless the United States of america. Thank you so much. Hoora ok, are we still ready to ok are we still ready to fire , joe biden . Yes, we are. Ok, our next speaker hails from the great state of arkansas. Everyone, please join me in welcoming Governor Asa Hutchinson to the stage as he shares his vision to help us fire joe biden in 2024 governor. Governor . Mr. Hutchinson you all are terrific. It is great to be back in iowa. This is my 14th trip here and every one of them are getting an incredibly nice response from iowa. Notice, i said nice and i want to thank congresswoman ashley henson. What a great job shes doing, putting this on together. Thank you. And i also wanted to recognize governor kim reynolds and the legislators that are here today. You all have done an incredible job of getting the heartbeat bill passed through the iowa general assembly. Im a prolife governor. I signed over 30 prolife bills while i was governor of arkansas and i will be a prolife president of the United States. Now i said, im getting a great response here. And i just want you to know, i know that this is an uphill battle because theres one candidate in the race thats got like 50 of the vote. So i recognize theres an uphill road. In fact, i went in, of course, i come from a small state. I didnt have a national profile. I did my work eight years as governor, but i went into a restaurant here in iowa and shaking hands, and i came across this lady and i said, hey, im Asa Hutchinson and im running for president United States and she responded with great sarcasm. Sure. And im running for Vice President of the United States. States. And so i understand whats ahead and what were fighting for. Im not a selffunded candidate. You know, i look at my life, i radio station. My mom and dad had a high school education. We grew up at the farm and let me tell you growing up on the farm, you learn some amazing values in life. You learn about the sense of community. You learn about faith in god because farmers know youre not in control. You learned about helping your neighbors. You learned about hard work and responsibility. I learned about cleaning out chicken houses. I learned about breaking the ice when the cattle needed to have water. And growing up in that environment and through education, having the opportunity to go to college Bob Jones University to go to law school. This has been an amazing opportunity that ive had in life. And you look at why im running for president United States. And ill tell you very simply because of bidens failed policies. [applause] he has failed us on our border security. Hes failed us on our Energy Policy where hes produced less versus more. He tried to go all green rather than all in with energy supply. Whenever you look at his spending, he has wasted the federal government in spending programs that gave us high inflation and gave us high Interest Rates. And as a farmer, you know, that means a higher cost for your machinery. It means the fertilizer cost is going up and your revenue is staying the same. And so this economy is not working for us in iowa. And i understand that i look at i understand that. I look at his failed policy and the way he came out of afghanistan, i look at the fact that he has weakened us on the national on the international stage. So i am running for president because i want a progrowth Energy Policy in the country. I want to be able to support our values of life. I want to make sure that we control federal spending. These are important to us. But another area that President Biden has failed us is that he has diminished respect for the rule of law in our country. And the fact is that there is less trust about our criminal Justice System today than there was yesterday before his administration. And i it means something to me because the rule of law has meant something all through my life. I was a young United States attorney appointed by president reagan, the youngest in the nation and i had to confront a terrorist group in the hills of northern arkansas. They were armed, it was an armed encampment. They had committed murders and violent acts. We had swat teams from five different states. They refused to surrender. The fbi asked me to help negotiate their surrender. I assisted in that they surrendered after three days, i prosecuted them in court on racketeering charges. I understand the rule of law and the importance of it. I appreciate those in Law Enforcement and how theyve served our country. You fast forward when i go to the congress of the United States, i was asked to be an impeachment manager against president bill clinton. And i took on that responsibility when i first said, no, i dont want to do that because he was the president for my home state. And i said i cant get reelected if i do that. And then i thought about my oath to the constitution of the United States of america. And i said i will take that responsibility. I prosecuted him for obstruction of justice because i believed in the rule of law. President bush asked me to head up the dea because i believe in the rule of law in our Justice System. And i worked with president vicente fox in mexico to go after the cartels successfully at that time. And i understood the challenge of methamphetamine in our communities. And then 9 11 attack occurred in our country. And i was asked again to go over and set up the largest government reorganization since the pentagon was created. And i knew that we need to enforce the law and use the law to protect our country from terrorist activities. Ive met challenges in our country. As governor, we had protests all across the country after the george floyd murder. And whenever we had those protests, many of them turned violent. In little rock, arkansas, there was no exception. I saw violence in the street , buildings being burned, the capital being threatened. And i said enough is enough. And so i took the state police , and i took the National Guard and i said were going to enforce the law. And whenever we did that, we arrested seven people that night, and guess what happened . The violence stopped. [applause] there are some simple principles in life when you look at border security, enforce the law. Whenever you look at violence in our cities today, enforce the law. And i bring that perspective and the only candidate that has been both a governor, a United States attorney, a head of the dea that experience on National Security issues. And what im leading to is that we need to have a progrowth Energy Policy in this country. We need to have improved border security. We need to make sure were respected abroad, but we also need to elevate the rule of law in this country. And the Republican Party supports Law Enforcement, supports the rule of law. And yes, there are challenges in it that we have to correct. And so i have proposed a reform of federal Law Enforcement. I announced to the National Press club in which we would pull the jurisdiction of the fbi away from drugs and give it to the dea. We would shrink their responsibilities, hold them accountable. We would make sure it was transparent and congress had oversight of the fbi. We would bring them within the department of justice so theyre not operating their own. And yes, i would get a new attorney general that would enforce the rule of law in a way thats fair for our country. [applause] these are my reform proposals. And so i just wanted to , emphasize today from my heart that we are a party that believes in our Justice System, but we want it to work fairly and we want it to work rightly for the people of our country. And i will do the reform that is needed to accomplish that. Finally, i look at america and i have great hope for our country. Im an optimist about this beautiful land that we have. And if you want hope and optimism about america, let me tell you where you should go. Iowa. When you look at iowa, you love america, you understand sacrifice, you understand the common good, you understand helping your neighbor. And i remember iowa businesses that sent resources to new york city after 9 11 because you had what they needed. You pray, you have faith in god. And let me tell you, you give us hope for america. [applause] im running for president because i can bring change. I have the experience that is needed to address the challenges that we face. And i know that america has its greatest days ahead. Now, this last week, believe it or not because im so young, i know you dont believe this, but my wife and i susan and i celebrated our 50th anniversary on august 4. And i felt bad because i was not with her. And she said, asa dont come home until you get 40,000 donors and you can get on the debate stage. So go to asa2024. Com. Give us a dollar, get on the debate stage and ill get to go home to my bride. Thank you all and god bless you. [applause] all right, are we ready for our final speaker of the day . You guys have stuck with us. By the way, we have set a new record for attendance this year. We have 800 iowans freedom loving patriots in the room tonight, 800. Thank you so much. [applause] ok, our final speaker tonight has been a governor. Shes been an ambassador. She has taken on world dictators. She has taken on the liberal media, and she does it with style wearing heels to kick a little but. So our final speaker tonight ambassador nikki haley. Ms. Haley such a great looking crowd. Its great to be back here in iowa. I will tell you i left South Carolina and it was hot and everybody is saying, oh, youre coming to the iowa state fair. You know, its going to be hot. And im always like, you know, im from South Carolina, right . But we dont sweat there. We glisten. [laughter] so im not going to go into too much about me. I think you guys know i was born and raised in rural South Carolina, went to a public university. Clemson university. Go tigers. Graduated with a degree in accounting. Im not a lawyer. I am an accountant, and went on and served two terms as governor of South Carolina, took a doubledigit unemployment state turned it into an economic powerhouse. And then i went to the united nations, and i took the kick me sign off of our backs and we were respected again at the un. [applause] and one of the things that happened at the un when we moved the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, the world condemned us. And i was proud to issue the us veto. But i was so angry, i went back to my staff and i said, i want you to put a book together. I want you to list all 193 countries. I want the second column to be how many times they voted with the us and against the us. And i want the third column to be how much foreign aid we give them. I took that book and i gave it to president trump. He lost his mind. Hes flipping pages, hes yelling out countries. And i said, look, im not saying you give foreign aid based on a percentage vote at the un. But that should be one of the things we look at. Quit trying to buy friends, quit paying off enemies. America gave 50 billion in foreign aid last year. You know who they gave it to . Pakistan that harbored terrorists that tried to kill our soldiers. Iraq that has iranian influence. Belarus whos Holding Hands with , russia as they invade ukraine. Communist cuba, who we named a state sponsor of terrorism and whos putting up a spy center off our coast. And the one that makes me sick to my stomach, we gave money to china. How weak do we look . When i am president , we will no longer give money to countries that hate america. Thats a promise. [applause] iowa is an important state, not because of the caucuses. Thats an important thing. But for our National Security, Food Security is National Security. [applause] Energy Independence is National Security. You supply us with our food. You supply us with ethanol. But now i want to talk to you. Weve got lots of issues from debt to crime to a lawless border, lack of transparency in education. Weve got that. You know all the answers with that, we can go through that. But what i want to talk to you today about is National Security because right now if you look at what were facing, weve got National Threats from all around. You can look at it. Youve got iran building a bomb, youve got north korea testing ballistic missiles. Youve got china on the march, right . Youve got russia invading ukraine, but make no mistake. None of that would have happened had we not had that debacle in afghanistan. [applause] my husband is a combat veteran. He deployed to afghanistan. The idea that he and his military brothers and sisters had to watch the us leave Bagram Air Force base in the middle of the night without telling our allies who stood shoulder to shoulder with us for decades because we asked them to be there. Think about what that told our friends. More importantly, think about what that told our enemies. But now i want you to think about the biggest National Security threat that we face, and that is china. And not enough people are talking about it. China has been planning war with the United States for years. Thats not over dramatizing. This is the biggest threat weve had since pearl harbor. Dont take my word for it. Lets look at what theyve done. Look at the infiltration they have done in america. They have bought 400,000 acres of us soil most recently Near Grand Forks Air Force base where our most sensitive Drone Technology is. They are giving millions of dollars to our universities so that they can steal research and spread chinese propaganda. They have sent enough fentanyl last year that would kill every single american. 75,000 Americans Last year. Weve had more people die of fentanyl than the iraq, afghanistan and vietnam wars combined. Dont think for a second, china doesnt know what theyre doing. Then you look at the fact that they have their chinese Front Companies lobbying our members of congress on behalf of the communist chinese party. We now know that they have malware embedded in our systems, our network systems, our infrastructure systems, our communication systems, our power grid. And were trying to find out where the code is. But if they had that code, that means they could disable us, especially when its near our military installations or when its just the general public. Then you go and you look at the fact they steal 600 billion worth of intellectual property from us every year. We open a new chinese investigation on spying every 12 hours in this country, every 12 hours. And then you look at what theyre doing with their military. Theyve built up their military. They have the Largest Naval fleet in the world. They have 350 ships. Theyll have 400 ships in two years. We wont even have 350 ships in two decades. Their military is 2 million strong. Ours is 1. 4 and our recruitment is 25 down. They are building up hypersonic missiles. Weve barely gotten started. Theyre doing artificial intelligence, theyre doing cyber, theyre doing space. They are now the biggest developer of neuro strike weapons, neuro strike weapons, disrupt brain activity so that they can use it against military commanders, or they can use it against groups of the population. Think about all of those things , and what are we doing . Totally distracted. Were talking about a bunch of other things that dont even matter because you know what . All of these issues are big issues. But if we dont have National Security none of it matters. What should we be doing . We need to take china head on. The way you do that is you say china will no longer buy any american soil whatsoever. [applause] and we dont stop there. We take back the us soil. U. S. Soil that they have already purchased. Thats a problem for our farmers and you know, they bought the number one pork producer in the country. Thats right here in iowa. Right . Thats food insecurity. Then well go to our universities. We say you either take chinese money or you take american money. But the days of taking both are over. We will get that chinese infiltration out of our universities. [applause] we wont just stop the Chinese Communist party. We will stop all foreign lobbying period against to any of our members of congress. We will get that out and we will make sure that china knows we will stop all normal trade relations with china if they dont stop telling americans. Killing americans. [applause] theres a list of cyber technologies that we dont want china to have because it builds up their military and it threatens america. The Biden Administration approved 70 of those requests last year. We will turn that list into a black list and we will stop sending any technologies to china that could hurt america. And we will build up our military. A Strong Military doesnt start wars. A Strong Military prevents wars. We will make sure theyre strong. Well pull down the bureaucracy, well pull down the red tape. We will stop favoritism with defense projects, and we will make sure our military are strong and ready and protected. [applause] several weeks back, i dropped my husband off for another year long deployment. I dropped them off at 4 00 a. M. And i watched him and 230 soldiers pick up their two duffel bags of belongings to load a bus to go to a country. They had never been all in the name of defending and protecting america. Theyre willing to sacrifice their lives and their families because they still believe in this amazing experiment that is america. [applause] so if theyre willing to fight for us, there, shouldnt we be willing to fight for america here . We have a country to save and in that means we have got to stop all the distractions. We have to leave the negativity behind. We have to look at his new problems with big solutions. We need to understand that we have to focus on everything from debt to crime to our National Security. If we do this, if we go back to our national purpose, we can get back to a place of strength. Right now, you look at our biggest enemy and what is happening . You are inviting them to the dinner table. You are inviting them into our home. You are inviting them to compete with us. That is not what you do with an enemy. You stop an enemy out. We can do that. But we have to stop all this craziness like gender pronouns in the military. Someone asked me why i was running and i said because my parents came to 50 years ago to an american that was strong and proud and full of opportunity. I want them to know that country again. I am doing this for my brother michael and his military brothers and sisters. They need to know that their sacrifice mean something, that we do love our country. I am doing this for my daughter because she just got married and i saw how hard it was for her and her husband to buy a home. I am doing this for my son because i have watched how he has been nervous to write papers about things he does not believe in because that is going way he will get an a. That is wrong. That is not us, that is not america. For the first time in our country, 78 percent of americans dont think they will live as good as a life as we did. We cant be ok with that. I am not ok with that. But what i will tell you is if you will join me, not only will we take back our National Security and be strong again, we will get our economy back in shape and understand the value of a dollar, we will value every person and know that Government Works for the people and not the other way around. We will make sure that america is strong and proud and back on track. Join us at nikki haley. Com. God bless you all. Thank you so much. Thank you. Are we fired up to fire joe biden enjoying 24 . I want to invite my family back up again because this is why we do this. Our families, our friends, our neighbors, we are fighting for iowa values, as heartland values and fighting for american values. I would say a quick thank you. You see the people wearing the red. Those are our wonderful volunteers. They made this event happen. I want to say thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help our campaign. Thank you so much. We will see you all for the Iowa Caucuses. Iowa takes president s. Thank you so much. Cspans campaign between 24 coverage is your front row seat to the president ial election. Watch our coverage with announcements, meeting grades, speeches, to make up your own mind. Campaign 2024, on the cspan networks. Cspan now, or anytime online at. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Tonight, a look at ongoing political shifts in the middle east, from this years Aspen Security Forum in colorado. 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