Video app and online at cspan. Org. Scan the q. R. Code and learn more of the authors of the books featured. Cspan campaign 2024 coverage is your front row seat to the president ial election. Watch as we follow candidates on the campaign trail with meet and greet, speeches and more as you make up your own mind. Campaign 2024 on the cspan network, cspan now, a free mobile video app or any time online at cspan. Org. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Several republican president ial hopefuls spoke at a fundraiser iowa city, iowa hosd by mare yet miller meeks and they discussed topics of border security, Government Spending and Energy Policy and is about 1 20. [applause] sit down, please. Ok. Everybody but our veterans sit down. Thank you all for serving. My heart is with you. And you are one of the reasons i did not vote to shut down the government because you deserve to be paid and you deserve to be honored. Well, it is great to be with you. As you all know, nothing is happening in washington, d. C. No. In all seriousness, its been a very difficult couple weeks in washington, d. C. , and im sure you all have heard things just like ive heard things and my familys heard things. Well, let me just put a little fact check on some of those things. If i was a democrat, i would have run as a democrat 10 years ago and been in congress for a decade. I mean, after all, we are here in the peoples republic of iowa city, johnson county. Im not a democrat, im a proud republican. Why do i want to get Appropriations Bills across . Is it because i want to cut spending . No. Its because every one of those Appropriations Bills has republican priorities and republican policies. And if anybody if anybody thinks im going to give up and im going to lay back, as has been said, theyve got another thing coming. When i campaigned, i told you my life story. And i told you that i would never quit fighting for you and that i would never give up. They put across an ag bill with an 8 cut and i was ok with that. They took it off the floor and then put it back on a month later with another 14. 5 selfexecuting cut that would have been cuts to crop insurance, cuts to disease surveillance, cuts to foreign disease surveillance, aveion flu, african swine fever, things that hurt iowa. D vote against i. Why . Because im never going to quit fighting for iowa and im never going to quit fighting for this country. Country. Im never going to stop fighting in this country. If you think youre going to intimidate me if i can borrow from bobby, suck it up, butter cup. With that, im going to be proud to continue to vote for conservative republican policies and procedures because thats how we get this country back on track. Thats how we secure a border. Thats how we get energy independence. Thats how we get a parents bill of rights. Thats how we stop boys from participating in girls sports. [cheers and applause] the governor couldnt be here tonight but she wanted me to Say Something to you. She wanted me to tell you that im awesome. Actually she wanted me to tell you that shes sick. I am awesome. We have the greatest government in the country, hands down. We have some governors to talk to us, but theyre in iowa so we have the greatest governor in the country. I want to thank people that are here, dignitaries that are here, some of them youve already met. Thank you so much, bobby kaufman, for being here, emceeing our event, i know you had so change things to do this. Thank you to Republican Party chair jeff kaufman. We love him even when he loses his voice trying to get us motivated. Sheriff phil green wald, clinton county. Clinton county g. O. P. Chair tim striley. Iowa county chair matt eshelman. County chair theresa baumgarten garten. Our represented elections, representative bobby could haveman, representative momson, representative heather hora, representative brad sherman, representative mike bondren, representative hans wills, representative mark cisneros. Senator kerry kelker. Senator driis control. Senator scott webster. Senator tim goodwin. Thank you all for being here. We also have as you know, attorney general brenda burg and former congressman greg gansky. Thank you all for being here. Im going to also take a moment, i want to thank my incredible staff. As you can imagine, our phones have been ringing nonstop both here in iowa and in d. C. We never turned off our fens. We answered every call we could. And im so proud of my staff. That despite some profanity, they were always polite. They were always compassionate. And they remembered the motto in our office which is, culture starts at the top. And iowa first. So thank you to my staff. [applause] now with that, i think its time to get onto the program and why were really all here because iowa is first in the nation. We show up. We do the job. We ask questions. And we are going to propel the next president that is going to occupy the white house in january of 2025. Ms. Miler meeks i want gives me great pleasure to introduce our next speaker to you, one of our fantastic president ial candidates, i would say hes the best second the second best governor in the country. Governor ron desantis is a former j. A. G. Officer who served in iraq. Hes a former federal prosecutor who put child predators behind bars. As a congressman he fought for term limits. And he spearheaded the fight to fight back against the weaponization of the governor against conservatives. In 2022 with Battle Tested leadership, a bold policy agenda and never backing down to Corporate Media or special interests, he delivered a recordsetting victory of nearly 20 points please welcome the governor of the state governor ron desantis. [cheers and applause] the tailgate is yours. Mr. Desantis hello, iowa, its great to be back. Are you ready to send joe biden back to his basement in delaware where he belongs . We have an open border. We have a hamasisrael war. We have inflation. And what is he doing . We have hostages, our own people being held hostage. What is he doing . Hes at the beach in delaware again not doing his job. We can do better. You deserve a president that will take the 2 00 a. M. Phone call and do everything to advance this countrys interests. I look at what biden is doing. He wants tosen your money to the gaza strip. That will be commandeered by hamas terrorists. Not one red cent to hamas. We cannot do that in this country. [applause] you see students demonstrating in our own country in favor of hamas terrorists. Some of them are foreigners on student visas. When im president youre making common cause with hamas, im canceling your visa and im sending you home. [applause] we are not going to let the left wing in this country have hundreds of thousands of gaza strip refugees deposited in the United States of america. That is not our role. We dont want to import the pathologies of the middle east here. The arab countries should handle any refugees that are needed in that region and ill ensure that thats the policy of the United States of america. When this attack happened, i knew instinctively it was going to be important for florida because we have a lot of people that have relationship that travel there. The state department wasnt helping our own citizens get out of harms way. The embassy wasnt helping them. So last week, i filled the void. We did an executive order in florida, i scrambled our Emergency Management resources, and we have brought hundreds of people back from israel to the state of florida to safety. Biden biden then said theyll take you to greece and dump you in greece and then send you a bill for that to leave a war zone, meanwhile if you come across our border illegal theyll fly you all over the country at no charge. Theyll put you up in hotels at no charge. Its time we start putting the American People first. You save your people when theyre in harms way. We stood up and we led and we got the job done. What those attacks show us is, we have a massive vulnerability in our own country with our open southern border. Weve had over seven Million People come across the border illegally. Its not just all mexico and Central America. Youve had people from iran. Youve had people from russia. From china. Other people through the middle east. Do you not think our enemies are going to take advantage of what is going on . So i view this as a National Security issue. As president on day one, im going do claire the border to be a national emergency. Were going to marshal our resources, including the United States military, to stop the invasion cold. When people come into this country illegal im sending them back to the country they camefrom. [applause] we are going i am going to build the wall and i am going to have mexico pay for it. Now remember that promise in 2016. I went to the rallies. I was fired up for it. Didnt happen. Heres the deal. Yeah, mexico is not going to just give you money. The way you have mexico pay for the wall is you impose fees on the remittances that people send back to mexico from america and Central America and south america. Youll raise billions of dollars and we will construct that border wall and this country will be safer as a result. Were also going to [applause] were also going to hold the mexican drug cartels accountable. Im treating them like foreign terrorist organizations. Because they are killing our people. 100,000plus Drug Overdose deaths. That should not be happening. Yet the elites in d. C. Just shrug their shoulders. They dont care. I care about it. I dont want to see americans dieing from fentanyl overdose. So we will authorize the use of deadly force against the mexican drug cartels. When theyre invading our country and killing our people, as commander in chief you not only have the right, you have the responsibility to fight back on behalf of america. I will do that. I will end the problem of the mexican drug cartels in this country. Look, as president , its a team effort. As your nominee im going to be working up and down the ballot to make sure we return republican and expand republican majorities. Districts like this are very important for us to be able to hold. You cant do it by yourself as president. Youve got to have people that are going to help in the legislature, that are going to share the vision. So my pledge will be, its not going to just be about me. Its going to be about brining in house members and bringing in u. S. Senators. I will say ive been watching whats going on in d. C. In florida, we dont do the theater. We dont do the drama. We dont do the palace entry, we just do results. Im the only one running for president that can tell you, i have delivered on 100 of my promises. Everything i told the people of florida i would do, ive accomplished. Whether thats Universal School choice. Whether thats paying down our debts. Whether thats tbheang Chinese Communist party from purchasing land. Whether thats the heart beat protection act, whether thats constitutional carry. Whether its banning sanctuary cities. On and on down the line weve gotten it done. Thats what its going to take you need someone as a nominee who is going to win the election. We have the record of political success to show you we can do it. You need somebody who will be able to convert and get all this stuff done. The time for excuses is over. We are not going to get a mulligan on the 2024 election. Weve got to get the job done or we are going to be in a hole were not going to be able to dig out of. It is not going to be enough for us to just simply manage this decline that our country is going through a little bit better than the democrats. We need to reverse this decline. We need to usher in an american revival. We need to give this country a new birth of freedom and i will get that job done. I have a parent im a parent of a 6, 5, and 3yearold. Were in jeopardy of turning over to our kids and grandkids in america less pros plus an america less prosperous and less free than what we inherited. I will not stand idly by and let that happen. We also owe a debt of gratitude to those who have fought nor country, in uniform, risked their live, given their live, so we can be free. Were not doing their sacrifice justice if we do not get the job done in 2024. So as your nominee, i will get the job done by winning the election. By sweeping in majorities in the house and senate. As a leader, ill always be somebody that you can be proud of and as your next president , i promise you this. I will not let you down. God bless you awful thank you so much. We appreciate it. Im asking for your support in the caucus in january. You can make it happen. We will make it happen. And well change the country for the better. Thank you so much. We will see you all. God bless the great state of iowa. [cheers and applause] wont be turned around mrs. Millermeeks my karaoke song is these boots are made for walking but i think maybe Governor Desantis should change that to his walkon song. Our next guest is the bestselling author of woke inc. , nation of victims of capitalist punishment. The leftleaning media called him one of the intellectual godfathers of the conservative movement. He says to put America First, we must first recover what america is. Thats what his policy is all about. Hes tackling the most pressing issues facing America Today from reviving our National Identity to unleashing our economy, and declaring independence from communist china. Vivek ramaswamys vision focus on a national revival, not a national divorce. He notes America First didnt start in 2016. It started in 1776. Please welcome vivek ramaswamy. Thunder hear the thunder lightning then the thunder [applause] mr. Ramaswamy thank you for the warm welcome. I want to in many ways pick up where Governor Desantis left off. I want to respect one thing he did, bringing those americans back home to the state of florida, i respect that. My wife and i in recent days had the privilege of doing the same through our foundation, getting a charter flight of 200 americans out of harms way. America first means no american left behind. Thats the spirit we need to revive. Now thats an old saying that goes, from thomas sole if you care about somebody you tell them them the truth if you care about yourself you tell them what they want to hear. When it comes to our moment, after a crisis like this, what happened to israel, it was barbaric. It was medieval. It was wrong. Morally wrong. And weve seen what that looks like in this country. In the wake of 9 11 as well. I want to make sure that we dont make the same mistakes that we did in that post9 11 era. 6. 5 trillion spent in iraq, in afghanistan. To what end . The taliban is still in charge. 20 years later in afghanistan. A hostile antiamerican regime in iraq thats now vulnerable to iranian incursion. We have to ask the difficult questions and the mistake weve made in the wake of 9 11 is we were told, i remember this, i was aging into my early adulthood then, shut up, sit down, go along with the plan. Failed to have the debate that i worry we need to have now both within and beyond our party. I am deeply concerned, i am the only republican candidate saying it, only person in either party saying it, but its the truth so im going to say it. I dont know if this is politically advisable or not, im told its not but its the truth. Im deeply worried about the wisdom of this ongoing potentially imminent Ground Invasion to gaza which i do not believe is going to be good for israel and do not believe its going to be good for the United States. Some people will ask, is that antiisrael . No, no, no. This is the most proisrael thing we can do as a friend to say learn the lessons proisrael thing we can do as a friend. Learn from the lessons we made 20 years ago so we do not repeat them again. I hope these words do not age well, but i worry they are, by the day. I will begin with praying for peace in israel and the u. S. If that can happen to israel two weeks ago, i say this as someone who has traveled to both borders in the last several weeks. It can happen here in the u. S. In my job as your president , my moral obligation is to stand for american interests, protecting americans in the homeland. That has to be the top priority of our national of our national defense. [applause] mr. Ramaswamy thank you, i appreciate that. Looking inward, we are in the middle of a war in this country. It is not a war between blackandwhite as the media will teach you to believe. It is not a war between democrats and republicans. It is a war between the majority of us in the u. S. Who love our founding ideals, who believe all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with in alienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Who get ahead on the content of your character, who believe in free speech and open debate, who believe american exceptionalism is real. Even though we are imperfect, we are founded on the pursuit of a more perfect union, liberty, equality and justice for all. That is most of us in this country on one side of this war. On the others, we have a fringe minority who hates this country and our national ideals. Who believe your identity is based on your race, gender and sexuality. That if you are black you are disadvantaged, if your whites, your privilege. Who believe we have to abandon Carbon Emissions, flogging ourselves for our way of life as we ship off Carbon Emissions to china. Who believe using military to secure our border is xenophobic. That is the other side of this war. I call it a war because there is no middle ground. Either you believe in meritocracy, or believe in group quotas. Either you believe in free speech, or you believe in censorship. Either you believe in american exceptionalism, or you believe an american apologies him. You cannot have apologism. You cannot have both at once. I have good news as somebody who traveled the majority of states in this union, rooms like this. I can say with conviction most of us are on the proamerican side of this war, 80 of this country easily. Half of the 20 are people younger than me who never learned those ideals in the first place. We are going to bring them along. Many were students. I met them in iowa city last night, they are lost, hungry for a cause, purpose, meaning. We will bring them along, too. The bad news is, in this country the other side is winning this war. The question we have to answer is why. The short version is, the Administrative State, the bureaucrats in washington, d. C. , the swamp within and outside of government has propped up this antiamerican movement to deflect accountability for their own failures. Even our own military. Those 25 years of wasted wars in iraq and afghanistan. The left used to criticize us. What does general mark milley say . We talk about systemic racism and rage instead. Our schools closed for two years in inner cities as private schools remain open. What did they say last year . Math is racist. It is not, but what is inequitable is failing to teach those kids how to do that for two years. It is woke smoke to deflect accountability for their own failures. How do we fix this . A couple simple things i would do as president. The people we elect to run the government today, they are not the ones who run the government. It is the managerial class in those three letter agencies that pull the strings to power. My top job domestically as your next president is, we will shut the Administrative State down. 75 headcount reduction across the federal government. Resend a majority of unconstitutional federal regulations so we can drill, frack, burn coal, embrace Nuclear Energy again, fight National Debt starting with zerobased budgeting. Do not use last years budget as a starting point. Start with a zero and ask what is necessary. Shut down the u. S. Department of education that should not exist. Return that money to the state and people. This is how we revive of the integrity of a constitutional republic. That is my top job domestically at home. As we think about Foreign Policy we are in a complicated moment. Avoid world war iii. Lightning and thunder see the thunder see the thunder lightning and thunder see the thunder see the thunder lightning and the thunder see the thunder lightning and the thunder mr. Ramaswamy that is china. Shut down the Administrative State at home. That is how you revive the integrity of this republic. We have celebrated our diversity and differences that we forgot all of the ways we are just the same as americans. I believe deep in my bones those ideals still exist. E pluribus unum. That is what won us the revolution and reunited us after the civil war and won us two world wars and the cold war. That is the creed that gives hope to the free worlds. If we can revive that over Group Identity and victimhood and grievance, nobody in the world, not a nation, not a corporation, not a virus, not china, will defeat us. That is what american exceptionalism is about. That is what we will revive for this country. God bless our United States of america. Thank you, god. Lets get that music on. Appreciate it. [applause] ms. Millermeeks i am hoping this mic is working. Thank you very much. I like the song, too. Sorry about that. We have a lot of great candidates. We are trying to get through them and respect your time. It is with great pleasure i introduce our next president ial candidate. In 2010, nikki haley was elected governor of South Carolina and became the countrys youngest governor and first minority female governor in america. What is astonishing about that, it was not a democrat. We know they prefer identity over merit. During two terms as governor she ushered in South Carolinas largest education reform in two decades and her state became a National Economic leader and the state saw more than 20 billion in new capital investment. The Unemployment Rate hit a 15 year low and her administration announced new jobs in every county in the state. Now she is running for president because she believes it is time for a new generation of leadership to rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure our borders, strengthen our country, our pride and purpose, please welcome ambassador nikki haley. [applause] eye of the tiger Ambassador Haley thank you so much, it is great to be here. I love a good tailgate. Go, hawkeyes my Clemson Tigers play tomorrow against miami and yall have a better record than we do. But i love college football. I want to thank dave and mindi for opening up their place and letting us speak here today. It has been a tough couple weeks and a heavy couple weeks. When you think about what happened in israel, hear you had people who had just finished their most priorful time in the week, it was quiet prayerful time in the week, it was quiet and then murder broke out. This was not just brutality, just killings, just burning people, not just rape, this was flat out torture. What haunts me is that five years ago, i gave a speech at the United Nations talking to all the countries. I said, we know there are maps and these maps are held by hamas. What these maps say is, if they can break the border, these are the communities they are going to hit first and their whole goal is, how do you erase as many israelis as you can and kill them . And of those maps came true. It is haunting, but it is a lesson. What we are looking at now is, we are going to continue to see issues. Two prayers were answered today. Two hostages came home. We have 201 more to go. First thing i said to netanyahu when this happened was, finish them. Finish them. Do not ever forget what happened. [applause] Ambassador Haley what i said to biden today is, do not fall for it. I have done negotiations with the qatari when they tried to get hostages home. They will do this to try to get you to back off, they are trying to keep israel from going into gaza. Qataris are doing this to earn favoritism with america. They do not want to see hamas fall. We should have three priorities. Support israel, whatever they want, whenever they need it, we need to be there for them. The second is to eliminate hamas. The third is, do whatever it takes to bring our hostages home. Do not forget there would be no hamas if there was not an iran. See this for what it is the secondbiggest threat we face is china. China has been planning war with us for years. We see it in the way they bought up farm land, the largest pork reducer and the world, the way they are infiltrating our universities, the way they steal technologies. The fact they killed more americans with fentanyl then the iraq, afghanistan and vietnam wars combined. They have 500 nuclear warheads, the Largest Naval fleet in the world, 350 ships and will have 400 ships in two years and we will not have 350 in two decades. They are doing cyber, space, developing hypersonic missiles. We have barely gotten started. The one thing i will tell you, there is an unholy alliance. China and russia have named themselves unlimited partners and iran is their junior partner. China is importing more oil from iran, sending billions to iran. Russia is getting drones and missiles from iran. Understand what they are trying to do because they are all united in trying to defeat the west, and they all hate america. We have to be smart. This is the time we have to understand what got us here. What got us here was joe biden,w eak biden, weak when it came to afghanistan, slow when it came to ukraine, pandering to iran, and completely absent when it comes to our border and we are paying the price. America has to remember, stop acting like it is september 10. We have to remember what 12 what september 12 felt like. America cannot be so arrogant as to think we do not need friends. Or so arrogant to think if we sit in our own silence that what happened in israel cannot happen here. What we need is leadership and strength. What we have seen is democrat chaos with inflation. We feel it at the Grocery Store and gas stations. Democrat chaos on the streets with crime. Democrat chaos in the schools with lack of transparency. Democrat chaos at the borders because they are open. Let me tell every republican in washington, d. C. , you do not fix democrat chaos with republican chaos. They need to get in a room and figure it out and get us a speaker and get on with their job. [applause] Ambassador Haley when i was governor we had a Republican House and senate that butted heads all the time. I took them in a room and said you do not leave until you figure it out. I never let south carolinians see how the sausage was made. We need to get focused. Four months ago i dropped my husband michael off for another year long deployment and i watched him and 230 soldiers pick up two duffel bags of belongings to go to a country they have never been, all in the name of protecting america. They are willing to sacrifice their lives and families because they still believe in this amazing experiment that is america. So if they are willing to fight for us there, shouldnt we be willing to fight for america here . We have a country to save. In order to do that, we need a new generational leader. One that will understand these threats are real and we need new solutions to deal with it. We need to leave the baggage, negativity, vengeance behind. Because we owe it to our families to do everything we can to keep america safe. I think it is time we put an accountant and the white house, a former governor and the white house, time we put someone who fought with china, iran, russia, north korea every day in the white house. We need to have an america that is strong and proud again. If you like what i have to say, tell 10 people to go to nikkihaley. Com. Caucus for us. We have one chance to get this right. It is going to take a lot of courage and that will happen from me running and all of you remembering, do not complain about what happens in a general if you do not lay in this caucus. We can do this, america can do this. We are strong, we just need the right leader. If you will commit with me and stand with me, i promise, our best days are yet to,. Thank you, god bless. Go, hawkeyes [applause] eye of the tiger ms. Millermeeks if nikki haley wasnt running for president , i would nominate her for speaker. You have to laugh at yourself. That is what i told my kids as they grew up. Life is hard, you need to learn to laugh at yourself. You can understand why President Trump put her in as the u. N. Ambassador. A great pleasure again to introduce to you our next speaker. As president and ceo of Generational Group in texas, ryan binkley leads more than 300 employees oak a stone mergers and acquisitions, consultancy for Business Owners throughout north america. He views business as more of a means to financial success. It is a way to serve employees and the community. Ryan and his wife ellie are founders of a create church, a multiethnic, multigenerational church in richardson as lead pastor, his deep passion is to see Church Leaders live out their purpose. Today he is calling americas leaders to return to trusting in god and each other again. Leading with integrity and bringing hope and healing to the nation. Please welcome ryan binkley. Dont stop leaving believing hold on to that feeling [applause] mr. Binkley thank you, very much. This is an amazing woman to read what an amazing time. I want to thank the family hosting this event. My name is ryan binkley. I have been on this campaign trail since april with a simple message. It is time for america to turn back to god, turned back to each other, remember the foundation of who we are as americans, and start a revival that is needed in our country again. America is called to be a lamp post of freedom where we are protect and built on a foundation of liberty. I believe for all of us, but every nation to see, i nation with principles of liberty we are protecting so they can see this country and go, what is that like to have liberty in your country . Where we are protecting freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to worship, freedom of press. We have seen for decades that lamp has been getting dimmer every year. We have seen corruption, debt. The division in this country, i would call it a k, start i would call it decay, start to dim the lamp. I want to brighten the lamp of freedom again. There is something broken in our nation. I am running for the next generation. I have five kids from 13 to 23. My wife was at a meeting here in iowa. One of the leaders said to my wife, why are you in this race . Nobody knows who you are. She said, it is for the next generation. If we do not make significant changes in our country, not only the wars we are facing across the land and across the world, they are coming home because we are so broken financially here. I believe this with all my heart. If we do not fix something financially in our country, our children will not have the same opportunity you and i have. I was able to buy a home in my 20s. The next generation is facing things we have not seen in decades. If you and i as generational leaders do not make significant sacrifices and changes, we will be known as the generation that prospered the most because we have had more wealth in our generation than the two previous combined, but we will be known as the generation that sacrificed the least. It is time for republicans to lead. When i look at our nation, what is broken, how do we come out of this division . It is time to remember who we are. As i share the message of revival economically and spiritually, the republican has lost its way. We are in a broken place. Not only can we not elect a speaker of the house, our party is divided. We are so broken in our messaging and what we represent. We have to remember where the party of financial stewardship. We cannot lead across the world because every nation is looking at us in a vulnerable place and seeing us broken. We are scheduled to be 50 trillion in debt in the next eight years. We are spending 28 billion a day in debt. We are spending as much on Interest Payments as on our entire military and there is no plan out. I am an economist. I see this through a financial lens. When we are strong culturally, financially, we will lead well internationally. There is something we have to do. We have to put together a plan to do it. I have been in iowa now, i have been to 80 counties. Thank you, iowa, for hearing this message. Not only for being first, but for being relevant. This allows a grassroots candidate to get a message out. We have to get back on track financially and spiritually. We put together a seven Year Economic plan to balance the budget in seven years. This is something i am calling all my colleagues to do. Putting together an actual plan. I am not much of a hunter, but i did win the shootout shooting skeet. I have never hit a target i did not shoot at in business or life. We put together a plan that balances the budget, curbs spending, and changes things read when we get strong financially, we will be able to lead again. We cannot do it without changing health care. Our Health Care System is so broken. I put together a Health Care Plan that puts patients back in charge, demands price visibility at every dr. Office and clinic. Health care inflation is 40 higher than regular inflation and is stealing the wealth of our nation. It is time to desocialize health care. The financial side of our country is one thing, but the cultural side is another. We need a spiritual awakening in america. How many agree . [applause] mr. Binkley the bible says, if my people who are called by my name would humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, he would hear from heaven and heal our land. Regardless of your faith, age, Everybody Knows something is broken and our country, truly broken. The Republican Party has this message. We have not had a message or messenger connecting with those hurting in our society. One message is not only to be on track financially and fix health care, but to have a message for urban america. Urban america is hurting. 80 of our population lives in urban america. 46 of the top 50 cities voted democrat. The Republican Party does not have a message that connects to their heart. It is time for the Republican Party to send a message not with more money, but what is the republican alternative to socialism . A volunteer movement helping, educating kids in urban america. Calling on hundreds of thousands of college students. Will you donate five hours a week to change the life of a child . Only one out of six are reading at an eighth raid level. It is time an eighthgrade level. It is time. We have never been more divided than we are right now. In three short years it will be our 250th birthday. What should america look like . Can you see that celebration . It should be a weeklong celebration. My vision is that one day regardless of your age, where you are born, your race, whether youre in urban or rural america, whether you are in college or elderly. I am proud to be an american, that is our vision, to see america turn back to god and each other. God bless you and have a great night. [applause] dont stop believing hold on to that feeling ms. Millermeeks thank you so much, ryan. We should have played i am proud to be an american. I am always proud to be an american. That has never changed in my entire life. Our next guest is a pleasure for me to introduce. I first met our next guest years ago when he came to iowa. Not running for president. He came to speak at one of our Republican Party of iowa events. He spoke about something we do not talk about a lot anymore and that is personal responsibility. How we make decisions and the consequences of those decisions. The u. S. Senator tim scott comes from South Carolina. He speaks of hope, opportunity and redemption. He has journey that he calls cotton to congress in one lifetime. Elected to the senate is 2013 has won the most conservative voting records in congress and he was in the house of representatives prior to that and i think that they elected a speaker without any difficulties. He plays a Critical Role in protecting the unborn, preventing but i think our Second Amendment rights, and advancing opportunities in education for families. He is committed to stopping socialist spending of the and administration, striking the government, and helping americans keep more money in their pockets. Please welcome senator tim scott hello thank you so much. Im not finished yet, but i am leaving the stage it is so good to be back in iowa. I love coming to this remarkable state. Thank you all, i am a southern boy, i am people being nice and friendly. This thing called iowa friendly, it is real i love it thank you all for some kind. I am not sure about you, but i am sick and tired of people saying to israel settle down whether it is joe biden or one of my opponents, i am hoping that israel will wipe hamas off of the face of the map [applause] we need to understand with great clarity that appeasement is a strategy for war i am a big believer in the gospel of jesus christ. I know is blessed in part because psalms 122 says pray for the peace of jerusalem. For those who do, you will prosper. We have been blessed by our partnership making our allies one of the strongest, most important commitments that we make. On october the seventh, after the absolute atrocities, i turned to the gospel to romans 12 15 to mourn with those who mourn. I pray for them. For the next chapter, it is really important as well. For those who do evil, the wrath of god should be the consequence. I hope it comes with the israeli and American Hardware [applause] it is easy to see that joe biden is abdicating his responsibility as commanderinchief. His weakness that invites conflict, chaos, and attacks. If the negotiations with iran, the 6 billion dollars that helped them find terrorism throughout the world, the greatest strongest, most powerful force for people, is a nation of iran. 90 of the money that goes to hamas comes from iran. When joe biden signs a deal 6 billion for hostages you know that money is going to end up sooner or later in the hands of terrorists. One of the first things he says is to stand down or refrain from responding. It is that kind of behavior that is driving more violence in our world. Instead of talking about how strong and powerful the city on the hill, america is, he turns the page and says let us do it again. Let us condemn americans for their hate filled response. Why does he not start with the Democrat Party . The squad . [laughter] why not call the squad out . [applause] why does a president in his first address say the congresswoman to lead do not be a part of hamas propaganda machine. Delete the tweet. It is a lie for those who are not responsible for hud 500 deaths in a hospital, it was not their fault but instead of calling out his own party, he skips the entire thing. Instead of addressing the antisemitism on college campuses, he does not. We are seeing our tax dollar supplement colleges that allow for mass protests, let us have a jewish genocide supporting terrorism and calling for murder as a of the United States i would sign the bill i have already sponsored that takes away the pell grants from any college or any university that says it is ok to spread tourism on our campuses terrorism on our campuses it is ok to be antijewish on our campuses i say no [applause] these are simply the values we have all grown up with. Without any question. We have to hold tight to the values that made america the greatest nation on earth. I am a kid who grew up in poverty in a singleparent household and i have to tell you, for storing our work ethic as a country is how we stay strong and as a country. Thank you [laughter] thank you very much thank you both very much if you have seen one of my ads you know i love my mother because she worked 16 hour days teaching me that there is dignity in all work. That is why i say if you were able bodied in america, you work. Number one. Number two, i say this very simply, these are commonsense things, if you take out a loan, you pay it back. I do not care if it is student loans, your car loans, or your mortgage. Do not look at me to pay it back number three, every big blue in America Needs to know this. If you commit a violent crime, you go to jail. [applause] as president of the United States, i would make sure that we do everything in our power to eliminate this no bail bond nonsense why you let criminals out of jail and you punish good people in their own homes. Finally, if we are going to restore the city on the hill, we have got to remember, god made you a man. You play sports against men. Let us preserve this nation. [applause] by doing the right thing. I have to tell you, it is not that hard. All things are possible when you start with personal responsibility. There is something growing in our nation that is a disaster. It is a drug of victimhood. It comes with the narcotic of despair. If we are going to remain the city on the hill, if we are going to be the beacon in the midst of darkness, we have to start at home by restoring personal responsibility by taking the consequences that come with bad decisions and celebrating the benefits that come with good decisions. May god bless the United States of america god bless you thank you so much, i wish i were tall enough and i could walk down the aisle, you would never see me god did not give me height, but he gave me fight. Are you having fun . Ok. I hope everybody has got food and something to drink. I think somewhere around here is my husband and i wanted to thank him. [applause] he is the wind beneath my wings, he is my forte in the storm, and he gives me courage and strength every single day, thank you, honey. [applause] also, before we finish up i want to thank again those who hosted us, this is a tremendous amount of work for today and their staff, thank you so much for hosting us again. This tremendous lineup of president ial candidates is not over yet. It is still continuing. Coming from the private sector where he was president of the Great Plains Software north dakota governor doug burgum understands how government regulations and red tape can hinder economic growth. Governor burgum believes that our federal government and american big cities desperately need more smalltown ideas and values. He believes that to a month the best in america we need a leader was focused on energy, security, and good, Clean Reliable Energy brings manufacturing back to the u. S. And reduces our supply chain risk. When we are truly Energy Independent and supporting our allies, that is when we stabilize the globe. Restore america as the leader of the free world. Please help me welcome governor doug burgum. Let us give it up for triple m thank you all for being here. I wanted to start out and say thank you to all of you. Thank you for investing your time, the iowa caucus and what all of you do are so much. It is not pundits and it is not political insiders that get president s, it is iowa caucusgoers who are investing to learn and listen to candidates like you are doing tonight. You have played an incredibly Important Role in this country. Give yourself a hand. Thank you for everything you are doing. [applause] i do want to say today was a beautiful fall day, amazing fall day. It was over on the side, a beautiful first lady from north dakota. It was the third best day that i had ever had in iowa. It was today. Catherines family is from north dakota and her family is in the john deere business. I had a chance to get away from campaigning a little bit. The combine, i was driving a combine and i made a conch in here for anyone from coggin. It was fantastic. And was a pr for me. I had never been in a john deere combine where i have seen, i am from the north, i have never seen a number over 300 on the yield thing and for a while we were going through most spots, 316. It was on a big john deere with all of the latest auto steer. Her family was in that so she has a happy moment. Of course, the giant grain cart we filled up after one trip up and down the field being pulled by the quad track. Not the biggest ones, the 600s. 450s are made in north dakota and had a chance to dry the 600. That is one of the cool things about being a governor in north dakota. We were, that was our day to day, our third best day ever. Some people say how does it get any better than that, i said we were both here and the first and second best days in iowa it was when north dakota state beat the hawkeyes and when they beat the cyclones what . Too soon i was 2014 and 2016 . And we live in the past once in a while can we live in the past once in a while . Do not think about us. Ok i want to say it is fabulous to be here. This is uncertain times. We have uncertainty in the world and at home. Inflation is the number one thing that is choking every american family. A cost 700 more a month to put food on the table. Gas in the car than when Joe Biden Took Office in under three years ago. It is reaching into every hardworking americans savings including everybody in this room like a thief in the night. Your bank account says money is still there but you have lost 30 of your purchasing power along with every other american than what is in your savings and that is the number one thing that is killing opportunity in our country. Interest rates have hit a 23 year high, closing on 8 , putting their dream of homeownership out of reach for most young people. We know the homeownership is what drives our country forward. That is selfinflicted. By the biden policies of spending more than they have and outofcontrol spending. Number two, Energy Policy is also driving that inflation. When he tried to kill the u. S. Energy industry, opec which we finally got free of, china is basically writing joe bidens policy. If we get rid of liquid fuels with ethanol and biodiesel and what we do in places like north dakota and texas, liquid fuel is team usa. If you are on ev, you are on team china. Any plan to have our entire fleet of transportation electrified right now depends on china. A country that is the worldss largest polluter and they put more co2 in the air than anyone in the world. They have 260 coal plants permitted. How can you have an energy plan if you cared about the environment you would want to have every ounce of energy and every electronic produced in the United States of america. [applause] running on economy wrong on economy, and National Security. We have joe biden who is funding iran who is funding hamas and funding hezbollah, we are in a proxy war with russia and iran and a cold war with china, that is all happening because of failed policies. We are generating conflict or weakness. We need peace through strength and one thing that Ronald Reagan taught us is the way you win a cold war is you get your economy really moving. In north dakota we have done everything we need to do, we have cut the red tape, there is 51 more red tape reduction bills. We say innovation, no regulation. That is what we do to drive our economy. That is how america has always won. [applause] we also save on energy, on day one, we will sell energy to our friends and allies. Stop buying it from our enemies. That is the policy right now. We cannot have National Security without food security. Energy security and border security. I have been down to the border more than joe biden, we were there continuously during my time as governor. Not just guarding the order about flying my Helicopter Missions from san diego to the gulf coast, north Dakota National guard and helicopters. Trying to stop transnational criminal organizations. The invasion in our country. 6. 5 billion people, that is how many asylumseekers have been let in from countries who are on the terrorist watch list. Our country is less safe and less prosperous under joe biden. Who will fix that . It will not be from somebody in washington dc it will take someone who has small town values who understands. Someone who has worked in the private sector. I have been making payroll since my mid 20s. I have created more jobs than anybody else on the base state combined. They have served our country but we have got to it if someone is going to fix this economy they have to have done the work. Every job i had growing up on the farm out of the ranch there is a chimney sweep, paying my way through college, i took a shower at the end of the day. Im out there for the American Worker and American Farmer and i understand their pain. My father died when i was in high school, my mother was making sure that we could pay the mortgage and save the farm. That is what we went through. We can turn around the economy and energy. Make america more safe and more prosperous. Thank you. We will see you soon the midwest elects the best governors, that is why we need more republican governors thank you. I will borrow that line since i talked about liquid fuels and carbonbased fuels and energy in d. C. , i will borrow the line the liquid fuels our team usa, evs our team china are team china a great lineup of president ial candidates does not stop yet. Ava hutchison is an attorney, a businessman, and i Public Servant who has served as the 46th governor of arkansas from 2016 for 2023. Throughout his long career, he has been a talented utility infielder for the Republican Party. Since i was on the Baseball Team i know what that is i do not do anything, i was the team doctor he was appointed by Ronald Reagan to serve as u. S. Attorney for the Western District of arkansas. He served three terms in congress and was appointed by george bush to not one, but two positions. First as the administrator of the Drug Enforcement administration and undersecretary of border and transportation security at the department of homeland security. Today, as he runs for president , his platform is prosperity, strength, and freedom. Give a welcome to former governor Ava Hutchinson what courage, conviction, she always supports iowa, thank you. Thank you for hanging around, i think i am the last speaker, stay tuned we have Something Special for you. I love iowa and my wife has been up here and my bride, we have been married for a while. We got four children. We are blessed to come here to iowa, you all do it right i support your first of the nation caucus as i Campaign Around a while, there are questions coming to me. You look at it seriously and you have President Donald Trump running and about eight other candidates who are running and you asked the question, what distinguishes you from all of the other candidates . Is that a question you have asked . My answer is i am the only one who was in 4h [applause] that is not all. I think it is important for iowa do you have somebody who grew up on a farm, who understands small communities, the understands the values of faith, helping your neighbors, and that is what my dad and mother taught me. Arkansas, we identify with iowa. What else distinguishes me is that i am only one with the Law Enforcement background. I have been a federal prosecutor. I understand terrorism. I have had to address an armed encampment of terrorists leading to their surrender and prosecution. I was head of the dea, i the challenge that we face with fentanyl in our communities today. I applaud Governor Reynolds for what she has done in educating our communities. We also have to go after they supply. That is what i did as head of the dea, dealing with methamphetamines, club drugs, cocaine, we have to do that with fentanyl as well. I understand what it means to lead in times of crisis. After 9 11, the president of the United States asked me to help protect america from a terrorist attack. I was in a situation room with him. I saw the challenges that we faced. I am the only candidate for governor that actually had a candidate for president that actually had the responsibility for border security. You can look at what i did and you will say you did not get a perfect. It looks perfect compared to what joe biden has done. [applause] i know what needs to be done. That is it you have got to get more resources to the border patrol. You have got to be able to reform your asylum laws so it is not catch and release. You have to increase the investment of your infrastructure and you have to partner with mexico to go after the cartel. And the only candidate who has actually done that i am the only candidate who has actually done that. I was with the president of mexico when we dismantled the leadership of a cartel. One shot and killed, one captured. I understand what has to be done. I have lead in times of crisis. When you look at our country today, we are challenged. If you look at one of these distinctions i have, challenges with our economy today. It is struggling, it is going to get more challenging for us. Today, there was a report that came out from ombs, the forecast of the deficit. It is larger than anyone expected. 1. 7 trillion dollars deficit. Let us put that in perspective. When i was in congress we had a 200 billion deficit. 200 billion a year. It is 1. 7 trillion. We are spending more than revenue comes in. I will also say that we have had other members of congress who are running for president. I am the only member of congress who actually when i was in congress, we balanced a budget. It was the last time it has been balanced and it was long overdue. We balanced it the budget, 1. 7 trillion today, we have got to get our economy moving. We have to balance the budget. We did that eight times as governor. Going back to the challenges that we face, i was after 9 11. My responsibility was to set up a piece of security in saudi arabia. I understand the threats there. I have been in israel, studying their security. With two prime ministers. We see israel under attack in a murderous, barbaric, fashion. There is one message from the United States of israel and that is what we stand with you. This is not a time of ambiguity. Is not difficult to make these decisions. It has been raised by one candidate that we ought to debate what is the real reason that you ought to go after hamas . Has purpose is to destroy hamas. To make sure that they are not going to be able to kill the innocent civilians we have seen. This is a challenging time. We need to have leadership that understands that we cannot keep the other nations out of that conflict. Can go we can go after their source of authority. We have got to be able to dismantle that institution. Whenever i am president , we will have a progrowth Energy Policy. President biden goes to saudi arabia and venezuela saying can you produce more oil . He drains the Strategic Petroleum reserves. He cancels leases in alaska. The first thing i will do as president is open up our federal lands to production and as a farmer, i know the importance of ethanol to your economy in iowa, i support that and i believe it is important. I will fight for it. [applause] look at what i will do as president , i know what has to be done with border security, i have been there and done that. I know what has to be done with our additions we have in america. How we educate and provide more rehabilitation. We have to go after the source of those supplies. I know how to do that. I have balanced the budget, reduce federal spendings we can get our economy back on track. Yes, we need to have a strong and firm america that is confident and deters aggression and we have to be able to make sure that we can compete against china. There is a candidate, former president who says we ought to put a ring around america. I will tell you what we do not need a 10 tariff on all of our friends who want to produce goods to sell in the United States of america. We canke that. We depend upon the global market. We want to sell our products overseas. Thank you for the opportunity to be with you. I need your support in the iowa caucus. I have experienced american stories, let us make sure that the American Dream is there for everyone thank you. Thank you also much, it is obvious we have tremendous president ial talent. We have a great bunch of candidates that are going up against president biden. I will reflect a little bit on what i see around our country. You all motivate me and inspire me and give me the passion to serve you. People are hurting in our nation. They are in pain. They are angry and they are frustrated. When you do not have control and you feel powerless, you feel anger. Sometimes that anger is directed at us as republicans. We deserve part of it. I know our nation is hurting because we have a president that does not put you first. We have record spending which led to inflation and the way to tackle inflation is to raise Interest Rates. And have not come down. You pay more at the Grocery Store, more at the gas pump, Interest Rates are at a two decade high. Mortgage Interest Rates are at 10 . People are struggling. They are looking for who is going to help them out of that pathway. And that quagmire. Who is going to make their lives better . You are all here because in iowa, we take it seriously to elect the next president. Your commitment, dedication, presence, even on a friday night football night. It is obvious. To you one for all of the support you give me, thank you for all of the support you give me out of these candidates. Somewhat in the Republican Party will be the next president of the United States someone in the Republican Party will be the next president of the United States of america thank you so much, please visit, cast a vote, t1 for coming out and go hawks bring it back to iowa city [applause]