[applause] it is great to see everybody here. Im going to be fairly quick because you are not here to see me. You cant govern if you dont win. We can sit in this room and talk about policies we would like to see all day long but none of that matters unless we vote gop in november. The thing i get nervous about is talking about the federal issues. We are letting the complete discussing this and complete the funerary getting into our local elections and into our state elections. We win and lose how we represent. There is a reason we have 400 members of the house of representatives. Because we can and we must and our citizens deserve that we go doortodoor. Most importantly, what they want to see. Our campaigns are not about us. Its about them. We had a lot of messages in 2020. I dont mind telling you i had a lot of people saying, governor, this is a great budget and it will never pass. School choice . You have to get rid of that thing. All these tax cuts, interest and dividends tax, you cant get rid of that. Absolutely. Its going to zero. Income tax, sales tax. How are you going to cut the room and meals tax but send more money back . Everything is possible but we did it. We did it because we Work Together as a team. As republicans. Did i agree with everything in this budget . No. But we realize that when you come together, 80 or 90 of things that really affect peoples lives, thats what wins. And if you take that and carry that through to november, thats what we are doing. This election is about inflation. The democrats have hiked prices and they have to be held accountable for it. That determines if someone is going out to dinner and they can put gas in their gas tank. It is all effectively doubling across the country. You cant let the democrats pull away. Gas prices are getting a little better. It doesnt matter. They caused the problem in the first place. School choice. The brilliance of the School Choice bill was this. We did not try to get everything. School choice across the board would not have passed. So we focused on 300 of the federal Poverty Level and below. Low income families, innercity families, families of color that were never given an option in a never told what do you want for your kids were finally asked. And we listened. And we said you can take this money and do is you please because its about you, not us. Our elections are won by the individuals. Individual businesses, individual families, individual kids. Thats part of our job. A lot of republican officials and politicians and at the end of the day, it doesnt matter. When you listen to those families, they get excited. We didnt talk about issues for 20 or 30 seconds, we have to talk about public safety. You see it nationally. We see what is happening in the major cities. Its republicans that are standing up and pushing back saying we support Law Enforcement every single time. We support hardening our schools. We support making sure folks can defend themselves and their families and we have the process to do that. I cant tell you how many governors come up to me. How are you doing this if you have no taxes . It isnt about me or the government. Government is not here to solve your problems. But were here to create as many doors of opportunity for you and your family and your business. And as Technology Changes and communication changes, we will keep opening up new doors. This is how we separate ourselves from the democrats, making sure that we put those individuals first. Do not assume that because washington is screwing up and biden is lucky to know where he will get lunch. Do not assume that this is going to carry republicans into an election in november. You have to earn it. You have to earn every vote. The money is really important. You may have the best product in the world but if you dont have the money to sell it, no one will know about it. This isnt charity. These are investments people are making in your campaign. They are investments for businesses to make sure their taxes go down. So that kids can continue to have School Choice. Phones matters. A knocking on doors matters. These are the type of things get your signs. This is New Hampshire. We do it here locally. All the opportunities are on the table but we have to close the deal. We are the ones that have 75 days to close the deal. People start really paying attention to the primaries and thats great. And then it is an absolute sprint. Senator hassans Approval Rating is 42 . About a year and a half ago. She spent 25 million. Her Approval Rating is 42 . I hope you spend 100 million because it is useless. People in this state know what they are getting with senator hassan. Nothing. Someone who has tried to come back and quickly convince people of something that isnt real. It might fly and 49 other states but not in New Hampshire. She has done none of it. Do not take it for granted. We still have to have the right candidate to win on the federal side and the stateside. People that engage with the public and their neighbors and carry that message forward. I am always mr. Positive except when i have to take people to tasks sometimes but it all works out. I cant thank senator cotton enough for joining us. The governor and i share a lot in common. We have little competition thats a very friendly competition but arkansas is doing really well. There are new factories coming down here. Arkansas was not exactly like New Hampshire but we share a lot of similarities. He is up here thinking about 22. We can talk about president ial bids and none of it matters if we dont close the deal in 22. We need folks to come up here and talk about whats important to New Hampshire. Our local candidate is over the finish line in november and that means the world. A little thing called the first in the nation primary. There are democrats that dont support the first in the nation primary. They go to washington and make the pitch to keep it and hassan is blowing it. But not republicans. Because this is real campaigning. This is about the individual. We like to get people to come in but the first of the nation is absolutely critical. It is absolutely critical. Remember in 2020 . I think they are still counting votes in iowa at this point. And the whole country looked at New Hampshire and said does this primary thing work anymore . People have lost faith in the whole process. One of my more friendly democrats, were going to get this thing right. We counted the votes, we got the winter. We tried to warn the country. Joe biden came in fifth. We tried to warn everybody he wasnt up to the task. But we got it right across the board. In the whole country took a sigh of relief. For folks to understand the value of things, it means the world. Senator cotton is not just advocating here for us in New Hampshire, he advocates for us in washington and its an honor to have you, sir. [applause] thank you. Thank you all so much. Thank you for the very kind introduction. Thank you for the kind introduction. It speaks very well for New Hampshire whenever your democrats know that joe it is great to be back here. We have a lot in common between our state and your state. I wish i could say that we have this kind of weather in midaugust. For you it is tuesday and for us it is a once in a generation beautiful day. Whether you play golf this morning or whether youre here at the lunch, thank you so much for what youre doing. Chairman. Thank you for your leadership at the party as well. As the governor said, this is a critical election, a key time. Not everyone understands just how important it is pure would have got to confess, my little fiveyearold son, daniel, he was not so enthusiastic about me leaving yesterday, he latched onto my leg and said, daddy, please dont go, i said ive got to go work, he said, cant someone else beat the democrats . [laughter] and i said, there are lots of people who can beat the democrats, but it takes all of us working together to beat the democrats. And in New Hampshire, in particular, since you are still in the primary phase, we all have to Work Together right now, what you are doing teddy is making sure that all of our great candidates whether its the nominee that beat maggie, for your state legislature, for your local races are going to be in a strong position to Carry Forward our banner in a month here in the granite state. Which is once again the center of the universe. Your Senate Election can make a difference, whether we are in the majority in the senate or not, the races can make the difference whether the house is in republican hands are not. Whether we begun to hold the democrats accountable for some of the outrageous abuses that we have seen in recent years. A lot of you are deeply concerned about what happened last week with the rate at maralago. By the department of justice. That we had a lot more questions then we have answers right now. That what they have done so far has not justified the actions taken in our history. But the concerns go much broader than that. It breaches our fundamental liberties and the right of all of us to be protected under the laws, with evenhanded enforcement, irrespective of our politics. Just look at what else Merrick Garland has done in his 18 months in office. You may remember last october he stick to feds on parents of School Boards across america because they didnt like their schools masking policy or curriculum choices, the most classic example of local government at the grassroots level. And Merrick Garland likens most parents to domestic terrorists, suggesting some of the same legal tools that we used against al qaeda and i says we should do use against them. Or a few months ago when you had leftwing agitators protesting outside of the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices. This is not something that is a question of legality. It is a clear violation of federal law. To go protest at the home of a judge to try to influence the outcome of a pending case. There is not a single arrest at any time. Not a single arrest. It ended with a lunatic flying to california to washington to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh to try to change the outcome of that case. The fbi director, by my committee, was asked, where are the arrests . They are committing a crime on tv. You dont have to be a master detective to figure it out. All you have to go is go arrest them, they said they had higher priorities. Speaking of double standards, speaking of crimes committed, it seems like hunter biden cannot help himself but record himself every time he commits one of his numerous felonies. But where was the Democratic Party in 2020 . I know where they were. They were colluding with big tech, trying to suppress that evidence. And russian disinformation. Trying to keep it out of our political debate at a time when it shouldve been the centerpiece of the debate. With whom the father, it appears, was in business with him in the u. S. Or consider some of the other examples of unfair, uneven enforcement of our laws. Look what happens in the obama administration. Remember when lois lerner and the irs saved their agents on conservative grassroots organizations . Who wanted to advocate for conservative principles . Auditing them, denying them their nonprofit status. Why do you think maggie voted to give the irs 80 billion last week . That money is going to fund 87,000 new irs agents. Who do you think they are going to be auditing . Hunter biden . Or hardworking granite staters . Small businesses . People trying to grow their businesses and help their communities . Families like many of yours. Thats what they are going to be doing. Thats why they gave the irs more money than the entire budget of our marine corps. Ive got to tell you, i would much rather have 87,000 new marines than i would 87,000 new irs bureaucrats. [applause] so, it is not just about the way they enforce the law against republicans and conservatives. It is also how they dont enforce the law out in the streets across our country. Remember, the blm riots from a couple of summits ago summers ago . Mostly peaceful protests . As people stood in front of burning buildings . The bidengarland department of justice has brought almost no charges against those rioters and arsonists, people who were attacking federal courthouses and other federal buildings, who were laying siege to them and attacking federal lawenforcement officers, like the deputy marshals that were defending those courthouses. Democrats excuse it. Look at what they do at local levels. The elect radical prosecutors, who refuse to enforce the law. Sometimes, the locals wise up to it. In san francisco, of all places, they just recalled one of these radical prosecutors. Someone who was one of the first prosecutors funded by george soros to try to take over Law Enforcement in america. What happens in a lot of other places as well, like los angeles, and chicago, and philadelphia, and in boston. A woman named Rachel Wallace again who cared more about criminals than she cared about their victims, what did they do with rachel . Rollins . Rachael rollins . They made her the first prosecutor that got elevated to higher office, the u. S. Attorney for the state of massachusetts. And who voted for her . Maggie hassan. It is undisputed fact that crime and drugs is directly linked to gangs running out of massachusetts. And even though this was a major debate in the u. S. Senate, we almost never vote on u. S. Attorney nominees. In fact, its been decades since he had since we have voted on one. I insisted this time we had a recorded vote on Rachael Rollins a nomination. Because every democrat needs to be on the record whether they are a federal prosecutor, who refuses to enforce laws that she doesnt like, refuses to impose sentences that are required by the law, and that is exactly what maggie h. Voted for. But you see it all across america. Excusing criminals, thinking that really there are no criminals, there are two victims of every crime, the actual victim and then theres the criminal who was a victim of society or circumstances or what have you. Releasing felons from prison early. Not arresting them in the first place. Eliminating bail systems so they can turn around and commit more felonies. To intimidate the witnesses of their crimes. You see it in the drug trade all across america. With a tragic tool for so many families. Here in the granite state, you have had hundreds diet of opioids every year, year after year. In america for several years, its been over 100,000 Overdose Deaths every year. Think about that. More than 100,000 deaths. That is almost twice what we lost in the entire vietnam war. Every year, after year, after year. And the democrats do nothing about it. In fact, they make the problem worse, by opening our border and creating the worst crisis we have ever had on our southern border. Now, i was going to say here, i know you are not a border state, what you already border state, with canada, but you know what . Whenever we have 100,000 Overdose Deaths every year, every state is a border state, and every town is a border town. And you deserve better from your government than what we are getting on the southern border right now. [applause] the vast majority of illegal aliens crossing our southern border are coming here because they think they can get in. This is not speculation. I know this. I have been there. I have talked to them. You asked them why they are here, its not because they are being persecuted because of their religion or political views, americas always accepted refugees like that, it is because they want to get a better job. Ive asked them, why did you come . I want to get a better job, they say, i can get in no. Or most simply, joe biden. Thats why they were wearing shirts that said biden, let me in, the obliged and let them in, but in that huge influx of foreign nationals, there is also a large number of gang members, cartel members, and the drugs they bring with them. It almost all comes from mexico today, we have it in our power to stop it, not just by defending our border, but also cracking down on these criminals and these cartels. And frankly, on taking the fight to them in mexico. Ask yourself, what would you do, if you thought isis or al qaeda was setting up shop in tijuana or monterey . What would you do if you thought they had designs to kill 100 1000 of our fellow 100,000 of our fellow citizens every year from the outposts . I would say that whatever that is, that is exactly what we should do with these cartels. We should put them out of business in mexico, dead or alive, to protect our citizens. [applause] but, you know what . Unfortunately, im joe biden the democrats, crime is not the only thing surging in our country, prices are surging across america as well. As a governor talked about, it is bad here in New Hampshire and arkansas. A lot of you are enjoying the nice hot dogs that we had served earlier. I was talking to a grocer a couple of months ago and arkansas and he said they saw a sharp decline in the month of june of hotdog buns and a sharp increase in the sale of white bread. Why is that . Because families were getting ready for the fourth of july, they had to make the choice, and they could have paid three dollars for a pack of eight hotdog buns when they could substitute a three dollar pack of white bread. About families struggling that much to make ends meet think about families struggling that much to make ends meet. What they are going to do on the fourth of july. About the small enjoyments in the small luxuries that you may remember from being a child, that you hope for your children and your grandchildren. Families struggling to make ends meet at the end of the month, because of the price of gas, the price of food. Looking ahead to the winter and wondering if they will be able to keep their homes warm aroundtheclock. Wondering what they will have to forgo for their kids, whether it is a piano lesson, braces for the kids, that is the kind of stress that biden and the democrats have put on our families. And it is their fault. It is solely their fault. Joe biden wants to blame everyone else in the world for inflation, when it is only his fault. In march of 2021, when the economy was finally opened and back, even in democratic states, they spent 2 trillion more. Even democrats, like larry summers, bill clinton, the secretary of the treasury, admits it was 2 trillion of whistle spending that caused this inflation. They said at the time. We said at that time. In the democrats ignored us. Because they put their ideology ahead of your families interests. Joe biden blends a pandemic. He blames everyone. We had a pandemic for a year without inflation. He blames putins price hike. We had inflation before putin launched his war of aggression on ukraine. It is the democrats and their radical tax and spending bills that caused this inflation. And the only way to stop it is to pick the democrats out of office. Kick the democrats out of office. But what have they done . [applause] what have they done now . Theyve gone on a spending binge the last two months. I would say they are spending like drunken sailors, but i dont want to insult drunken sailors. Maggie h. Just cast the deciding vote for 700 billion a 700 tax and spend bill for irs agents are going to come harass you at your workplace. For all kinds of tax credits to buy electric vehicles for rich people. In reality, they are not electric vehicles, as you probably know, they are coal powered vehicles. Or maybe Nuclear Powered vehicles or Something Else that plugs into, because it does not just come out of the air. They spent billions and billions of dollars on a bill that they called a china competitiveness bill, when in reality it was just giveaways to most of their supporters and most of their friends and allies. It is only going to fuel more inflation. And the only way to stop it is to stop the democrats from being in charge of the agenda in washington. Finally, i will say one last thing that we need of why we need to be the democrats this fall, like i said with china, it is time that we elect republicans so that we can beat china once and for all, in this competition they launched against us, stealing our jobs, our factories, threatening our friends, now threatening even senior officeholders of the u. S. Of the United States of america. Its not very often that nancy pelosi is the tough one in the Democratic Party. But look at what happened just last month when she announced she was going to travel to taiwan. Joe biden was worried about some kind of work, even though senators and congressmen, republican senator markets alike for years have been traveling to taiwan. It is not unusual. What was unusual as you had the chinese communists threatening to shoot her plane out of the sky. Or attacked taiwan while she was there. And joe biden put pressure on her not to go. Kowtowing to the chinese communists. In the exact same way that he has been doing for decades. It didnt start last january. Hes been doing it for decades. His son only got in on the action when he was vice president. Joe biden has been appeasing and coddling the chinese communists since he was a senator. He did it as vice president. Now he is doing as president. All of that money the Democratic Party just spent on the socalled green energy . A lot of it is going to go straight to china. All those coal powered cars, the 8000 pound batteries . A lot of of those components are only made only made in china. The tens of billions of dollars of handouts . Two universities and companies to universities and companies that can engage in advanced manufacturing, research, and technology . Almost no safeguards that it will be done in china or it will not be stolen by china. A report out today just said that Bidens Administration has approved almost every single transfer, license for technology to china since it took office. It should be the reverse. It should be almost all of them are denied. Almost none of them are granted. But he doesnt take this threat seriously, the Democratic Party doesnt take this threat seriously. They never have and they never will. And if we want to stand up to china, if we want to protect our jobs and our factories, if we want to protect our freedom and our safety, we have to elect republicans to turn the tide in washington. I know these are all big asks, i know theres a lot to do. As the governor said, talking about how fiscally conservative maggie is when she spends trillions of dollars in one year but as he also said, she has not moved at all. In the same thing could be true if you are to members of congress as well. Even when it seems like it is toughest, we can still turn it around, if we act together. It would tell my fiveyearold son as i told him, yes, other people can beat the democrats, but will have to do it together. I just want to leave you with one final story from my time in the army that is hopefully an inspiration as we go forward towards november. People used to ask me, why the flag on our uniform blew backwards. The flag is reversed. The bluefield is on the right, not the left. I see some of you nodding your heads, if you are a veteran you may know these things. It harkens back to the age of cavalry charges, one someone would carry the colors on horseback, as a charge into enemy lines. If you are standing on the right side of the formation, you would see the flag flying in reverse as it went in the wind. Even though we long ago got off our horses and got into tanks, we still have that heritage on our soldiers uniform as a reminder that our army never retreats, it always advances. And at a time when it can seem like america is under assault, and conservatives, and our view and our way of life is under attack, that is an important lesson for us to go forward with. We will never retreat. We will never back down. We will never surrender, and the fight for our great nation. In the fight for all great nation. Thank you. God bless you. God bless the United States of america. [applause] cspan is your unfiltered view of government. 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