Transcripts For CSPAN Campaign 20240703

Network, cspan now are free mobile video app or anytime online. We are your unfiltered view of politics. 2024 republican president ial candidate ramaswamy talked about woke culture in New Hampshire where he was a keynote speaker at the coolidge keynote dinner, during the event he tas about Human Trafficking and drug smuggling. He also took pictures with attendees who purchased vip tickets. P. Tickets. Vivek hey, guys. Good to see you. Checking people in . We are. Get rained on . Vivek a little bit. Its ok, show it. Its ok, though. We were hit first. We were at the northern border today. It was raining. Pretty far up there. Im from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Vivek similar to cincinnati where i am. So good seeing you guys. Good to be here, guys. Glad you made it. Vivek thank you. I appreciate it. Hopefully its a successful fundraiser. Youre working for the county . Im the treasurer of Cheshire County. Vivek good. Good. How much are you raising . Our target is 57. Vivek good. How much are people paying to come. 60 and then different ticket options. Vivek 60 is the minimum for people to be here. I appreciate it. Thanks so much. [indiscernible] vivek thank you, guys. How are you . Good to see you guys. Good to be here, guys. How are you doing, brother . Good to see you guys. Welcome. Good to be here. Ladies, you bring the bus . The bus is refueling. The refuel stop. Had to go to two gas stations. Vivek how are you . Nice to meet you. Do you remember me . Vivek i do. Were like brother has. How are you doing . Im good. Vivek meet your expectations . Does it meet yours . Vivek its soldout . Had to bring in a couple more chairs. Hopefully get some good exposure s counting on you with a message to revive this country. Thats what we need. Weve been enthusiastic, our county so far. Vivek you have a lot of good volunteers . A pretty heavy g. O. P. Involvement . Oh, yeah, theyre very strong. Vivek maybe a halfhour speech and take some questions . Sure. A lot of times candidates dont do that. Basically theyre eating now and after everybody gets down ill stand up with a couple opening statements. Ill give you more time to speak. After we have the v. I. P. s. Vivek if you could be brief that would be amazing but ill stick for pictures and whatever, whatever you need. Ill do whatever is required. Anything to get out of driving to columbia tonight. Thought we would be flying but weather gets in the way. We came down from pittsburgh, actually, the northern border. Thats a long drive, how long did it take . Vivek three hours. [indiscernible] vivek were glad to be here. Youre doing good work. I try. Its an uphill battle. Vivek thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Wonderful to see you. Were newcomers to the county. Vivek oh, where . Oregon. Vivek were newcomers together. I feel like im starting to live here at times myself. It must feel that way. Vivek its a good place to be. I was up deep north. Youre from oregon, youd enjoy the mountains up there. We drove. Weve driven all up and down the coast. Im glad you guys are here now. Good to be here. Thanks for the warm welcome. [indiscernible] vivek good to see you. I look forward to voting for you. Vivek i love that spirit. Well need it. [indiscernible] vivek good to see you. Whats your name . You live around here . [indiscernible] from columbia. Vivek good to meet you guys. Good to see you. Oh, my gosh. You remember me. Vivek good to see you. You remember my son . Vivek yeah, i do remember you. [indiscernible] vivek here we are. Hes bringing back the hat. Vivek i love that. Inside the closet. Its a cool thing to do. What year are you . Junior. Vivek thanks for being here. New hampshire is a more useful place to vote. You can determine residence in the primary. Yeah. [indiscernible] you know, were 59, 60, but check this guy out. I know him because of you. Vivek good to see you guys. [indiscernible] vivek how are you all . Were good. Nice to meet you. Vivek elizabeth . They left the a out. People misspell my name all the time, too. Good to meet you. Thank you. How are you . Vivek nice to meet you. [indiscernible] vivek ran for governor and heard his demands and does what needs to be done for us. Great people. Thank you for what you did at m. M. C. Vivek i appreciate you saying that. I took a trip there. Youre our first choice. Vivek they dont all agree with me but thats ok. We need a best example. I appreciate it. Thank you. Talk to wayne. Good man. Vivek yeah. Doing gods work. Hes the one person that fixes everything. Each of us have to take on a different frontier so i appreciate that. Thank you, guys. John mccain was in this very room before he won his primaries. Vivek thats good to know. Glad to know were doing it well. Obviously meeting you all is the best part of this primary. No screens between us, a conversation. Were here visiting and you happened to be the one in town. We went to concord. Heard you speak on the New Hampshire primary. Very important. Vivek a guy like me couldnt do it if it werent for that. Right. [indiscernible] vivek how are you doing . Good to see you, my man. [indiscernible] vivek glad youre here. Ray edwards. Vivek raymond. Thank you. I appreciate it. Sounds like you have an actual platform. Talk about consistency, youre not ever changing. Vivek id rather lose than win by [indiscernible] 8yearold twins. [indiscernible] youre right, she has a right to know. Vivek in New Hampshire was disappointed but well have to fix that. Those who win the New Hampshire primary end up being president. Vivek thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Thank you. We had protesters at New England College but it was civil. Most of young people, i would say, are hungry for purpose and meaning. As long as were willing to show up and engage, i like to do it. [indiscernible] its very important to prioritize. Vivek thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you, guys. I like your name. Good to see you, man. My wife heidi. Vivek thank you. Good to see you. The house party. Vivek that was yours . I saw you there. Thank you. That was a great event, guys. Thank you for that. You had an Energetic Group in the back. Where did you get that yard with things in the back of it. It was beautiful. Thanks for letting me do that interview. I think it was useful. It was awesome. You put him right in the place. Vivek did you recognize the room . Oh, yes, i couldnt wait. This young lady would love a picture. With me . Vivek shes taking one of us . Thank you for doing that. I appreciate that. It means a lot. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Everyone, i hope youre enjoying the food. Youre a little close. I want to welcome everybody and thank you all for coming tonight and supporting Cheshire County public committee. Vivek thank you. Feel the thunder vivek lets give our Party Chairman a hand for putting this together. Thanks for the warm introduction. I appreciate that. They definitely wanted to test me on this with the date moving. We came not from berlin but came from pittsburgh. We visited the northern border today. That was an educational experience, actually. Im curious, how many people in New Hampshire, raise your hand if youve been to the northern border here. Good. A good number of you. Beautiful. It is a good place to live. We think about post white house, where were going to go and change it up a bit. Im falling in love with New Hampshire. Northern New Hampshire looks pretty darn good. But it was eye opening today to see the customs and Border Patrol over here with the fence and barbed wire and Everything Else and it says do not enter is the sign. Do not go further, stop here. Literally underneath that sign it says hiking trail over here. Im not making this up. So we went on the hiking trail, we go up the mountain, were in canada and then we come here basically in canada, cant tell what is canada, but you come back in. If you want to go all the way around it gets you down to a little creek at the bottom about a mile and a half away and walking on the campaign bus and going over a bridge over that creek and i know that creek is what you have to cross if youre coming in the rest of New Hampshire, and so i said, you know what, lets try this. So we got out and actually walked across the creek and it only got the water up to your knees but anyway, thats what had me coming in a little bit late. We had an understanding of how porous that northern border is, its not just the southern border. You have to escape to where the pocket is going. Its not even about the border crisis. I think that will be our theme tonight. We all as a Republican Party skate to where the puck is and criticize the radical rep, everything the group on offer, but we need to focus on the southern border today or the north border tomorrow, it will be our dependence on china tomorrow. We have to understand that who we are and what we stand for, and agenda of our own. Im going to give a bit of a different speech night largely because youve already heard me twice, i cant get the same one. But in all seriousness, i want to go a layer deeper. My parents, casino this country just so you know, came to this country with no money, eating similar to what is on your table tonight. And in a single generation we have gone to living the full arc of the American Dream. My wife was here is here putting our kids to sleep right now. We have followed our faith in god. I founded multiple successful multibillion dollar companies, that is the American Dream. I am genuinely worried that American Dream is not going to exist for our two sons and their generation unless we do something about it. In order for us to really get this right, this is where i am going to trust you guys tonight with a longer and more complicated story than i usually tell, we have to see the threats we face with clear eyes. I believe that we are in the middle of a kind of war. In the United States today, actually. Its not a war between blackandwhite is the media would have you believe. Its not a war between man and woman or gay and straight or even democrat and republican, not really. Its a war between those of us who believe in the ideals of the american revolution, who believe all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among these, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, who believe that you get ahead in this country not on the cover of your skin for the content of your character, who believe that you have the right to speak your mind as long as i get to in return, who believe that american exceptionalism and that our children can achieve anything they want through their hard work and commitment and dedication in that american creed. Even though we are an imperfect nation, we are still founded on the pursuit of a more perfect union. The pursuit of liberty, equality and justice for all. That is most of us in this country. [applause] mr. Ramaswamy who are on one side of this war. On the others we have those who believe that your identity is based on your race, gender and sexuality. That if you are black youre inherently disadvantaged or if youre white youre inherently privileged, no matter your economic background or upbringing. Your genetics determine who you are and what you can achieve in life. Who believe in the importance of Group Quarters over meritocracy, who believe that we must abandon our modern way of life and Carbon Emissions as we ship those emissions to places like china, who believe that even though we might use our military to secure symbiosis border, we cannot use it to secure our own southern or northern border in this country. Who believe that we apologize for our modern way of life. Those are the two sides. I think it is important to see this. I am seeing this with full clarity. There is no no ground in that divide. Either you believe in american exceptionalism or you believe in apologizing. If the you believe in meritocracy or you believe in Group Quarters. There is no having both of them. That is the choice. This is our time and moment, as reagan said, our moment today, our moment of choosing. The good news i have for yall is that i have traveled this country, i have been to a majority of states in this union. And i can tell you with conviction that most of us, easily more than 80 in this country are on the same side of this, believing in the ideals of our country. And many people younger than me, who never learned to those ideals in the first place, were going to bring them along. That is the good news. But the bad news is that the other side, that french minority, is still winning this war. Fringe minority, is still winning this war. The question now is why. Its a complicated story. They dont tell it on the campaign trail, semper fi it and dumb it down, thats what i get from the Political Consultants. Im not going to listen to them tonight. Going to get to the truth. Im going to get to where this began in the full of 2007, when i got my first job out of college at a Financial Firm in new york city on the people of the 2008 financial crisis. That was very interesting. A good expanse to learn from as a young person. What happened was that a bunch of banks took a bunker bunch of risks that they should not have taken and we our taxpayer money, this is not a republican or democrat story, its far deeper than that. A Republican Administration used our taxpayer money to bail out those big banks. And in response, there was backlash from the left, occupy wall street, if youre going to play that crony capitalist game then we are going to occupy wall street and take money from wealthy corporate fat cats and reduce free distributed to poor people. Agree or not, thats what the old left had to say. Around that time, right around that same time, at the birth of this new fringe strand of the left, the real problem in this company is not given country is not economic injustice or poverty, its Racial Injustice. And misogyny and bigotry and Climate Change. Think about this. If youre wall street, occupy wall street is the stuff a tough pill to swallow. But this new book stuff is pretty easy. You applaud diversity and conclusion, you put minorities on your board, you moves about the impact of Climate Change after you fly in a private jet to cabo. They did not do it for free. Thats the key part. They effectively expected the new left to look the other way when it came to their own Corporate Power staying intact as long as they put occupy wall street up for adoption. That was an arranged marriage not like mine, mine worked out, this was not an arranged marriage out of love. More like mutual prostitution, actually. And in the net result of that act was the birth of this new woke Industrial Complex which was a merger of state power and Corporate Power which together could do neither could do on its own. And it works so well for wall street that around the same time it was happening in Silicon Valley. The old version of breakup big tech used to come from the left. Those in Silicon Valley said wait a second, we can use our monopoly power to censor hate speech or misinformation as you define it and we wont do it for free. We expect the new left to look the other way when it comes to leaving our monopoly power intact. That trade worked masterfully to both sides. It starts to explain more and more, if youre willing to listen lift the curtain a little bit. Cocacola used to get hit by the left for its impact on diabetes and obesity in the black trinity. Now theyre going to spout off about new voting laws in georgia that make us sound like a super pac rather than a soft remanufacture. We want to train our employees on how to be less white. We want the new left to look the other way when we continue to sell cocacola to those black kids they dashed festa care so much about. Now you see it everywhere. Look at what happened in the last couple of years with k12 education, locking down our schools. Failing to teach children in the inner cities across our country for two years how to read and write and do math in the schools that they shut down, even as wealthier private schools magically remained opened and everybody stayed healthy. What did they start saying last year . Math is racist. Im not making that up, two plus two equals one, that is not racist. What is inequitable is failing to teach those children how to do that for two years because of a job perk to a bunch of teachers unions that wanted the schools lockdown. They blue woke smoke to deflect accountability for their own failure, hurting the people that they purport to help. I graduated in 07, ima melinda. You go through that, get your degree, youre going to get ahead with calls, the American Dream paid off. Some people have not paid off the debt, but they learned victimhood narrative and ways to explain your suffering so that you hate the country instead of acknowledging who screwed you over. Its the truth. Once you see, you cannot unseal. Its pervasive, its everywhere in american life. Our military. People wonder where that came from. 3 trillion spent from iraq to have afghanistan. Thousands of innocent american lives sacrificed to what end . The taliban is still in charge in afghanistan. We still have an antiamerican regime in charge in iraq which is vulnerable to iranian incursion antiseek see what is happening with hamas, has this been good for us . No it has not. In some ways, it will take a member of my generation, from the 08 crisis to our failing military to the way we treat teach our young kids, it will take someone from a different generation to see what is going on. Mark milley, he doesnt want to talk about that. He will talk about white rage and systemic racism, deflecting accountability from the left, the left was the one that was against the iraq war and the afghanistan war. I was against it then. Its not a partisan principle today. That gets back to that mystery story, how is this french antiamerican minority winning this war in our country when a majority of us love this country and will stand for our National Ideals . It is the swamp. In every sphere of our life, not just the swamp and government, the swamp does not just live in government, it is from Corporate America to wall street to Silicon Valley to k12 education, through College Education to our own darn military which has propped up this woke agenda as a deflection mechanism, woke smoke, to cover up their own failures. That is the first reason why this fringe minority is managing to win the war, because the managerial class in charge of every one of our institutions found a use for the antiamericanism. Somebody else showed up on the scene and saw what was happening and said you know what, we have a chance to turn this arranged marriage, this bilateral affair into a three party affair. That is the communist party of china. Im going to ask you to follow this. They understand this game far more deeply than we do. We need to understand it. Xi jinping, when he is pressed, by other nations about the weaker human rights or your human rights crisis. When there are millions of minorities enslaved and forced into sterilization and indoctrination and worse. What is the first thing he says, according to his translator . Listen carefully, what does he say. Black lives matter shows that the United States is no better. This is not an accident. His top diplomat came a year or two ago, based off of tony blinken, the puppet of the secretary of state that we have, and stares him down and lectures him for 15 minutes about how china wants to see the u. S. Do better on human rights and that china wants to see the u. S. Stop slaughtering, his word, slaughtering black americans. This would be laughable if not for the fact that our own companies and universities and educational institutions and even our own military land implicit credibility to those claims. Disney, what do they do. We can film in georgia if they pass an antiabortion lot. We can do business in florida if they pass a good parental rights piece. But they go a couple years ago to film milan, in china, ground zero of the greatest human rights atrocities committed by a major nation since the third reich of germany. They dont say a people about it until the end of the movie, you can see it where we say we think the local authorities for allowing us to film here. Lebron james cannot stand with hong kong but we are talking about Racial Injustice here about nike, spouting out about slavery to under 50 years ago without doing a thing to reduce their own reliant reliance on slave labor some to black children who cannot afford books for school. Black rock applying admission caps to chevron and exxon that they would not dare apply to petro china, theyll say close the door on your way out. It comes down to money, actually. China built the great wall. The great chinese wall that says you cannot enter the Chinese Market if you criticized the ccp or apply animations cap to a chinese company. If you do the same things in the United States, they will roll out the red carpet. Women mistake, this is not a republican or democrat story. It is a bipartisan mistake dating back to the 1990s. Where we thought we could export big macs and happy meals and somehow that widespread democracy to places like china. We thought that we could use our money, our investment, to get them to be more like us. What they realized is one step better than that. They thought they could use access to their money to get us to be more like them. Its one step worse than that. They realized they could use our money to get us to be more like them. And it has worked massively. What does that do, that erodes our greatest geopolitical asset of all. That is not our own nuclear arsenal. That is our moral standing on the global stage by equating chinese nihilism with american idealism. I told her, maybe now you understand why, this is not a story that Political Consultants encouraged me to take on the campaign trail. Dumb it down, i cant done that down. Im sorry. This is a complicated story for how we got to where we are. The two reasons why the other side is winning the war is that the managerial class of this country and the ccp abroad has used that antiamerican spirit in a fringe minority in the United States to propped that up to advance their own goals, and it is working. The question for how we move forward tonight is how what the heck do we do about it . You cannot win a war unless you know that you are in one. And it takes a commander in understands that deeply. Not so but who is going to come in here and spout partisan slogans they are used to reading for teleprompters. Im not saying any individual, im talking about this country, that is what is going to take in the next commanderinchief, somebody who understands the why. I take my inspiration from the likes of Ronald Reagan he was my hero. Why is he my hero, not because of his policies, i love his policies. But he was somebody who did not recite something he memorized 40 years ago as a slogan. He understood what he needed to do in his era. In his era, congress was a major problem. Government regulations. Cut taxes. Lift off the regular tory state, unleash an era of prosperity whose fruits we continue to enjoy to this day. That is why he is my hero. But my favorite republican of all time is not Ronald Reagan. Its abraham lincoln. Actually. Who, in the middle of his war, 160 years ago exactly, famously said that the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. And i say today that the dogmas of 1980 are inadequate to address the unique challenges that we face today. The real threats are not in congress, they are on the Administrative State. Its not the ussr, it does not exist, its the ccp, who we depend on. The threats are different, and we need new solutions for our new moment and it will take a new generation to lead us there. That is what were going to talk about. Where we go from here, with a new generation of leadership to actually get us there. The first dirty little secret, and the federal government, is that the people who we elect to run the government are no longer the ones who actually run the government. That means that we need to get in there, take that Fourth Branch of government, that administrative shadow government and three letter agencies and finally shut it down. This is how you get in there and actually drain the swamp. For me, this is more than a talking point, how do we do it. If i cant be your next president for more than eight years, which i think is a good thing, by the way. Neither should those federal bureaucrats who are reporting into me either. Eight year term limits for the bureaucracy instead of Civil Service protections. That is how you drain the swamp. And and the corruption. And no lobbying for 10 years until after you leave as well. When there are Government Agencies that should not or no longer exist, from the fbi to the atf to the cdc to the Nuclear Regulatory commission to the u. S. Department of education , we are not going to put figureheads on top and say figure it out. We have to be willing to get in there and actually shot them down. That is how you revive the integrity of a Constitutional Republic. 75 headcount reduction amongst the federal bureaucrats in washington dc. Rescind a majority of the unconstitutional recollections that failed the supreme courts test in the last year with West Virginia versus epa. Put people back to work instead of using taxpayer money to pay them more to stay at home. Lets draw, frack, burn coal, embrace Nuclear Energy. This is how you revive the lifeblood of this country, by getting the Administrative State out of the way. These are not black ideas are wet ideas are republican or democrat ideas. These are fundamentally american ideas that we fought a revolution to secure. When we declared independence from a foreign power abroad that we dependent on in this country for our modern way of life. Where does that leave us today . The declaration of independence of our century is our declaration of independence from communist china. We cannot depend on our enemies for the shoes on her feet to the phones in our pockets. We are in a codependent relationship. Those do not end well. The only question is who ends at first. The sooner we ended, the better for us, the longer we wait, the better for them. Now. We have to get specific, beyond slogans. I am grateful and have been saying this for the last couple of years, and i mean it, gratitude is what i feel when i see others in the Republican Party beginning to embrace this message with seriousness. We have a scratch beneath the surface. The first step to declaring independence from china is to declare independence from the claimant culture. Here at home. That is actually one of the constraints that china is using. To put us in a straitjacket. I can prove that to you. I meet a lot of good, young, earnest people. I was in New England College yesterday, felt like a long time ago. There was a protester outside, we invited him in. Young People Struggle with being a bit, but until they understand and open their eyes and see what is actually going on, the reason i said that the Climate Change and get agenda is a farce, a hoax, is because it has nothing to do with the climate. And everything to do with letting china catch up to the United States in the name of global equity. I can prove that to you. Think about it. Why are the same people who are opposed to Carbon Emissions in the United States perfectly fine with shifting those same Carbon Emissions to places like china . Last time i checked, it was Global Warming that we were supposed to address. If you want to go one way deeper, if you ascribe to this bizarre cult, the sixth commandment says that methane leakage is 80 times worse for Global Warming than carbon dioxide. Methane is worse in china that it is in the United States. But doesnt that make any sense. Take about this. Why are the same people who are opposed to Carbon Emissions also opposed to Nuclear Energy . The best known form of Carbon Free Energy production known to mankind. I will tell you why. Ive been studying this for the last two years. Its because Nuclear Energy might be too good at actually solving the alleged problem. Because then what do you do . If you ask resolve the problem . And guess which country has there is one country that has an agenda for come the latest generation of nuclear reactors, of course its china. Because we have a hostile regime in the United States, and a Regulatory Commission that wont allow new Nuclear Power plants. I stand by what i said that we have to abandon the hoax of the claimant called in this country because it is all about letting china advance. Thats just the beginning. The phones in our pockets, the lights shining in my face, the refrigerator that kept the water cold, powered by semiconductors from a tiny nation off the southeast coast of china, taiwan, which makes those leading edge semiconductors. We depend on them for our modern way of life. We have to declare independence because when china invades taiwan and we are given and we are giving them more incentive, and they will have a gun to our heads. I refuse to have the ccps arnett. Semiconductor independence. They should not be a democrat or a publican issue. Its a fundamentally american declaration of independence. Thats what Thomas Jefferson would have signed if he were alive today. Pharmaceutical independence. I want you to stay with me on this one. I met with parents, including in New Hampshire, and in other places. Who have lost their kids to the fentanyl epidemic. But it was not just an overdose. We call it an overdose, not quite. A 17yearold kid took a percocet he bought on snapchat, which was, unknown to him, laced with fentanyl. Died on the spot thereafter. That comes from, of all places, wuhan, china. To the mexican drug cartels, who are using that to pump fentanyl across the southern border in a onesided opium war. Youre telling me that this same country that places are illegal pharmaceutical supply chain with fentanyl, the same country that unleashed hell on the world with a manmade, lab created virus, that cause the death of hundreds of thousands of americans, that is the country that provides the ingredients in 95 of our overthecounter pharmaceuticals , ibuprofen and your medicine cabinet, what are they going to do when we are in a conflict scenario . Exactly what you think. Even worse than that. We depend on them for our entire Defense Industrial base in this country country. 35 fighter jets in the United States, and a bunch of other military equipment, requiring parts that come from china. The electric vehicle called, we depend on batteries from them, why do they love electric vehicle advancement, why do they love our military, lockheed and raytheon continue to grow and contracts they provide they are provided, raytheon is on record saying that we cannot make u. S. Military equipment if its not for china. Think with me. Why are we stockpiling military equipment if not to protect ourselves against a potential adversary in a conflict . If we are in that conflict, they will be providing parts to the jets that have a reason to fight back. That is the declaration of independence our moment. You think about the two threats here domestically. Managerial class, Administrative States in china. Declare independence from each of them. That is how we win this war. Its not complicated. Its a complex, but its hard in that it is not easy. What does that mean. How will we get it done. The first ingredient is that you have to eat you have to know youre in a war to win one. But the second thing, and this is important, this is why we are here. In the next few months. This is why New Hampshire is the first in the nation primary. We have to pick the right generals, the right commanderinchief who is going to win that war and actually lead us toit has to be a commann chief who recognizes that we are in a war in the first place. That leaves only a small handful of candidates in this race. I think further, a lot of good people in this race but good people tainted by a bad and corrupt system. It has to be somebody who cannot be bought off. It is going to take somebody who has not yet been wounded in that war. Somebody of a different generation who has fresh legs who can reach the next generation and bring the americans who never learned the ideals with us to revive the missing National Pride in our country. That is going to be the missing ingredient to our success in winning victory in this war. 60 of Young Americans say they would sooner give up their right to vote than to give up their access to tiktok. Im not making that up. 25 recruitment deficit in the u. S. Military last year. The problem with my generation. I will tell you what is going on. Im a 38yearold born in 1985. I think it is true of all of us. We are hungry for a cause. We are starved for purpose and meaning and identity. At a time in our National History when the things that used to fill that void, faith in god, belief in country, hard work. Belief in self. These things have disappeared. And that leaves a black hole in our hearts and when you have a black hole that runs that deep, i think that his friends poison fills the void. It almost does not matter what the poison is. Wokeism, transgenderism, fentanyl, suicide. These are symptoms of the deeper void of purpose and meaning. We hunger to be part of something bigger than ourselves yet we cannot answer what it means to be an american. What does it mean to be an american today . It means we believe in the ideals of the american revolution. 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. That is why we will end affirmative action. We are done with it. What does it mean to be an american . It means we believe in the rule of law. I say this as the kid of legal immigrants. That is why your first act of entering the country cannot break the law. We will our own military not just on our southern border but on our northern border too. That is what it means to be an american. It means we believe the people created a government accountable to us. We settle our differences in a Constitutional Republic were every citizens voice counts equally. Not on the back of blackrocks office. Not in the back of government letter organizations. Most of us in this room are united around these ideals. It is not just those of us in this room. I think most of you leave that your neighbors even here in keene and your classmates and your colleagues and the parents of your kids classmates also share these ideals. I think we believe that but we are not sure anymore because we dont feel free to talk about it in the open. That is how we fix this. That is what this campaign is about. You want to know how well we are doing as a country . The best measure of americas health. Nothing number of green pieces of paper in our bank accounts. It is not the number of ballots we cast every november. That is the final act of the end of a process. It is the percentage of people who feel free to say what we actually think in public. Right now we are doing poorly. We are going to do better in this country but it is going to be because all of us start to speak that truth in the open. That is what this campaign is about. Speak the truth not just when it is easy but when it is hard. Speak the truth with a spine. With respect but without apology. That is what we are doing tonight. God is real. Reverse racism is racism. An open border is not a border. Parents determine the education of their children. The Nuclear Family is the greatest form of governance to mankind. Capitalism lifts us up from poverty. There are three branches of government. Not four. The u. S. Constitution is the strongest and greatest guarantor of freedom in human history. Let is the truth. We fight for the truth. We stand up for the truth. That is what won us the american revolution. That is what won us two world wars and the cold war. That is what gives hope to the free world. If we can revive that dream over Group Identity and victimhood and grievance, then nobody in the world, not a nation, not a corporation, not a virus is going to defeat us. But is what american exceptionalism is about and that is what we together will revive to save our great nation. God bless you. God bless your families. God bless our United States of america. Thank you. [applause] he suggested i take some questions. We will see if we have time for three questions or so. Driving to laconia tonight after this. The view is better in the daytime. A couple questions and then we will wrap up. Anybody have a question . Yes. Radical islamists are still a problem. How would you handle that as president with what is going on in israel, our closest ally . Vivek i agree with you. The dirty little secret is we are indirectly funding hamas. That is the dirty truth here. I recoil at the idea our taxpayer dollars are going to fund not only foreign actors who dont advance American Interests what are fundamentally hostile to American Interest and those of our allies. The 6 billion ransom payment was a product of weakness to iran. Iran in the deal says they are only going to use it for humanitarian purposes as the money is not fungible. If you put in this budget it opens up more money to give to hamas that is now committing a human rights atrocity. This is barbaric going after innocent civilians including children. It is wrong. The problem is when america is weak at home, that is what sends a signal to everybody else abroad whether does the illegal invaders at our own southern border or northern border and those of our adversaries and in places like iran or china which is the worst adversary of the mall and it will take a president with a spine not just to say we will go towards because we feel like it but we will stand forever treaty allies. We will stand for this country. We will stand for our national values. Most importantly our national security. When you have a president with a spine the other side knows they cannot act up in the way they are now. It is pathetic and that will end on my watch. Here to the young man. Im just wondering well taking on the Administrative State have you plan on leveraging your power as the executive to build up the future of Nuclear Power . Vivek great question. You reminded me of a good plan i did not hit in my speech. Most of what i am telling you i can get done as the leader of the executive branch of the government. I will tell you other things i want to do. I when i 12 flat tax across the board for all americans. Ordinary income, capital gain, corporate estate. Flat. Two page tax code return. I want to do that the reason i dont spend my time talking about that with you all i have a great vision for reforming and delivering efficiency of health care in this country. We need congress. I cannot look you in the eye and tell you in good conscience exactly what i am going to do because it depends on congress. To come along im not going to make you that promise. The things were talking about here reforming the ministry did state that much i know i can get done. But he works for you and you cannot fire them. That means they dont work for you. It means you work for them because you are responsible for what they do without authority to change it. How are you addressing our National Debt . Zerobased budgeting. Start with zero as the baseline. Then ask what is necessary instead of starting with last years budget. As it relates to Nuclear Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory commission, the nrc is fundamentally hostile to building a new Nuclear Power plant in the United States. To give you guys some facts, i dont like slogan, before the nrc it used to take five years to build a new Nuclear Power plant in the u. S. It was about that pace today in places like japan. France is five to eight years. After the Nuclear Regulatory commission came into existence the average time now is 25 to 40 years. Why is it that long . A new Nuclear Power plant has not been built since the nrc came into existence. They are hostile to the existence of it. The justification they give you is safety. Here is the irony. The Nuclear Power plant that are operating in this country are jen to that predated the Nuclear Regulatory commission. China is the only country with a gen 4. Same with my plan to shut down the fbi. That scares a lot of people. If you get practical about the how. The fbi is a source of great corruption. The same agency that threatened Martin Luther king jr. With suicide over improperly collected tapes no calls parents who show up at School Board Meetings domestic terrorists. One way to rid the corruption as to shut the institution down. It is the J Edgar Hoover building of the fbi. This is practical. When only address corruption. We improve effectiveness. The clear plan we offer, 35,000 employees of the fbi. 25,000 are back office of the J Edgar Hoover building. We have more job openings then we have people looking for work. I believe in economy and solving problems. 15,000 are agents on the front lines. We are doing good work but constrained at the fbi. Move them to the u. S. Marshals which have been better at taking on child trafficking. Move them to the u. S. Treasury which has been better taking on financial crimes. It is not an either or as they will paint it with the Nuclear Regulatory commission. The problem is these agencies are neither doing their job nor are they shutting themselves down. It is the worst of all worlds. That takes someone coming from the outside. It is not going to take a super pac puppet who has grown up within that system bought and paid for by special interests in both parties. That is not going to happen. It has to take somebody coming from the outside but also an outsider who knows the laws of the country. What they told trump was you could not do it. They stopped him. They said you cannot fire people because of these Civil Service protections. Read the law. Those only apply to individual employee firings. They do not apply to mass layoffs and mass layoffs are absolutely what i am bringing to the d. C. Bureaucracy. New generation to lead us forward. Thank you. Last question over here. Last one and then we will wrap. Youve been referred to as the younger better looking donald trump. How would you distinguish yourself as an outsider . He was an outsider because the Republican Party let him hang out and did not support him. Vivek i will say a few things about this. I said this on the debate stage and i will stand by it. I think he was an excellent president. I judge based on results. I dont know if that is going to help me win this election when he is this far ahead but i will speak the truth every step of the way. I respect his legacy. As president i will respect his legacy more than any other candidate will out of the monday morning quarterback 10 of things as human beings we are all going to do things wrong. Im not going to nitpick at the 10 of things i would do differently. I will honor his legacy more than any other candidate because it is the right thing to do but we will move this nation forward in part because i do have something he does not. I am a member of a different generation. We are going to have to reach and move the next generation if we are going to revive this country. That is a real difference. There is a reason why our country was born the way it was. I think we live in a 1776 moment right now. That is a special time to be alive. Imagine being alive in the spring of 1776. Get to start from scratch on what a nation is built on. We are in one of those moments today. Thomas jefferson was 30 years old when he wrote the declaration of independence. Unbelievable. I am an old man by comparison. Funny story about Thomas Jefferson. He invented the swivel chair while he was fighting the declaration of independence. We dont do that in this country anymore. Benjamin franklin cosigner of the declaration invented the bifocal spectacles, the franklin stove, a remedy they dont do that in that era. That is the spirit we are going to need to revive. I think it is going to take somebody whos best days are still ahead in life. I dont take that for granted but at 308i hope they are. Somebody whos best days are still ahead in life to see a country whose best days are still ahead of itself. I think that is a real difference when we think about how we lead this nation forward. I appreciate that question. We are getting the time to choose is coming upon us quickly. Here is what i will say in closing. Maybe just to pick up on that theme i believe these final reflections with you all. Maybe that generation is the one that teaches us we are a nation in decline. That we are at the end of the ancient roman empire. All we have left is to fight over the scraps of a shrinking pie. I dont think we have to be that nation in decline. I dont think we have to be ancient rome. I think as a nation, we are all really just a little young. Actually. Going through our own version of adolescence. Figuring out who we are going to be when we grow up. And when you view it that way, it makes sense again. When you go through your adolescence, you go through that identity crisis, you lose your way a little bit. You lose your selfconfidence and do some things you regret. Most of us did. I did. We are stronger for it when we get to our adulthood on the other side. So no, i dont think we have to be that nation in decline. I think we are still a nation in our ascent. Maybe the early stages of our ascent. Maybe we are not even at base camp. On our way to that shining city on a hill. So that country where we can tell our kids in good conscience the United States of america is still the nation on gods green earth no matter who you are or where your parents came from or what your skin color is or how long your last name is in some of our cases, that you get ahead in this country with your own hard work, your own commitment, your own dedication. You know what . You are free to speak your mind at every step of the way. That is the American Dream. That is what we are running to and with your help and i really mean that, with your help, that is what we are going to revive to save our great country. A guy like me could not do this if New Hampshire did not go first to know champs not go first. No chance. It would all be decided between 32nd tv ads where we are all reading from the same tv ads. I cannot packed what we talked about and said that ad and it would be whoever spends the most money. That is the way we do elections in this country. You all do the first primary for a reason. I am counting on you. My goal is to have everybody in this state know who we are. I say we because it is our family and what we stand for. It is after knowing all of that you want to go for somebody else we are deeply at peace with that but we are not getting through via a tv or social media. That is why we are here. We are counting on you to make the right choice for our country because we dont have a lot of time left. I will tell you this. If you all do you believe that our best days can still be ahead of us, if you all believe in the vision for this country that we have talked about tonight, that i will ask you are teams in the back, not a group of voters i see but a group of teammates in reviving the country. If you all sign up with us, join with us, make the phone call, spread the message about what this country was founded on. Make it about our country. If you will do your part, i will promise you me and my family will do ours. Our. Nations best days will still be ahead of us. God bless our country. Thank you. [applause] thank you. I go back a long way. Vivek we wanted to make it but we wanted to still support it. Thank you. Help us spread the word in New Hampshire. I live in utah. Vivek that means a lot to me. Great speech. Vivek thank you. We appreciate that. That means a lot. I watch you on youtube and everything. Vivek i admire you and your wife. God bless your family. That means a lot. Thank you guys. Good luck. Great speech. Under no circumstances can putin be allowed to win ukraine. Vivek im the only person who has offered a deal that allows ukraine to come out with its sovereignty in tact. Luhansk and donetsk have not been represented in the Ukrainian Parliament since 2014. They dont see themselves as part of ukraine. Putin tells them they dont see them as part of ukraine. Vivek putin is an evil dictator. I am worried we are driving them further into chinas hands. If we can prevent that you and i are on the same team. Hypersonic missiles china does not have. A good discussion. I appreciate that. Thank you for being a voice for us. Thank vivek you for everything you guys are doing today. We are going to do it together. Thank you. That means a lot. We will do our part. I will spread the word. Vivek thank you. Is he going to be there tomorrow . I am excited to see him. We will be there too. Thanks, guys. Good to meet you. We will be back. Good to see you guys. Thank you so much. Vivek i like that hat. I like it too. A little tiny restaurant. Me and my wife and my two kids. I taught my family good value and hard work. I feel so proud. Vivek that makes me happy. We share the same creed. I said if anyone will understand the American Dream, it is that man. Vivek that means a lot. We are going to come back. What is your name again . Jimmy. Vivek spread the word here first. We are going to come back. Good seeing you guys. Thank you for coming out. I have seen you on youtube. Vivek which youtube programmed you watch . Good to see you. You are doing a good job, men. Vivek you live in hampshire . I live in new york. Traveling for work. Vivek good to see you. [indiscernible] thank you. I appreciate you. I appreciate that. Well focus on the nexgen estimation the next destination and we will keep an open mind. I dont have any idea. I dont like i will have an answer that question for a long time. It means a lot. I will be dead by then. Vivek dont you dare. Thank you. I appreciate that. We figured this is the midpoint here. Vivek it is just a handful anyway. Is this everybody . Vivek i dont know actually. We did this as a favor to the party. The photo line, right . Yes. Ok. What am i signing . Tshirts. Vivek good. Can you help line them up . You guys once a picture you guys want a picture . We are going to get started here. Vivek printing them right over thank you. Talk to the table and we will let them know. Thank you, guys. We will do it right after we are done. Good to see you. Good to see you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Are we in the right spot . Good to see you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. When we come to mass, we will reach out to you guys. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Good to see you. This is my roommate. I was just wondering. How would you advocate for more health care . Give the money back to the people. Squeezing a lot of people who can buy through the private market. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. With your help. Amazing. Thank you so much. We are counting on you. Ok. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Do you live around here . I am from jersey. Ok. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I am voting for you. Thank you. Thank you. That is the best Campaign Campaign guy right there. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. You are going to take care of Michael Bloomberg . Of course. I hope so. We are trying to deal with the video here. Thank you. I dont even have that yet. You have the paperback. Thank you so much. Thank you. This will go on my desk. Thank you. Thank you so much. It would work. Make it happen. Thank you. Thank you guys. I dont think it matters. Thank you. Thank you. He will give some remarks so you are more than welcome to stay. Sign up with us, guys. We are so grateful. The 2024 gop president ial contender. The white house says the 6 million unfrozen iranian assets i think that response from the white house is a job. Money is fungible. Even if you got 6 billion and that is reserved for purposes that you are otherwise allocating your own dollars, you can still use those dollars for other uses. I think the American People are smarter than to fall for that. I think it is shameful that u. S. Taxpayers are paying ransom money to iran. Do you have a response to how biden has responded today . And i think you should say what should be obvious. Israel has a right to its own sovereignty that should not be breached. I would let him know that he has it. Are you planning to skip to the third . I think the second debate was totally useless. I dont think it served the voters well. How are we going to be able to inform voters and communicate with voters . I am certainly qualified and looking forward to the next productive debate that we have among the candidates in the gop that serve voters. I hope that they do a better job in making sure we are informing the voters. I think it is very disappointing what they did when fox called me to spar with chris christie. I think we disagree with that man. We have deep disagreements on a lot of things but ive fail to understand how the voters are better served went the Republican Party squashes that kind of thing. Implying a double standard when certain establishment favored candidates have an open debate. I think that is wrong. Many in the establishment dont want to see me in this race. The request of today impact israel . I have been badly mischaracterized by other candidates in this race. People say it in a ridiculous thing to say . The one nation that is our true friend and ally actually told us that. It is based on his building stronger than it ever has been and we have a shared Vital National objective to make sure that iran never becomes new clearly equipped. What we need to do is stand verbally in our support of israel. I think israel had both the moral high ground and responsibility and the need to defend itself. I am think about how we best serve the voters through advancing more open debate in our party. Not suppressing it. I am keeping a very open mind about all this. I did not buy a house here. Thank you. Thank you. When i leave the biden white house, i was thinking about where we might live. New hampshire is nice. It was rumored that youre going to move to New Hampshire. I will tell you that New Hampshire would be wonderful. I will still be a young person post white house. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Appreciate it