He ran against ted cruz. Ted cruz won. He spent almost 100 million. We campaigned together. Jason chaffetz in for sean. Lets go back to mississippi and listen to the president. What the hell is he doing . What is he on . Do you remember . He made the statement that he was born for this. Anybody that says he was born for this, theyre in trouble. You know . I used to have guys come into my office. Sir, im the greatest salesman. The truth anybody that says theyre a great salesman, usually theyre not a very good salesman. Its true. Its those sneaky ones in the
back that dont talk. But you dont know about. Theyre the ones. But beto was nasty. And he said that he was born for it. Like he was born from heaven. He came down. If thats the case, some really bad things happened because he made a total fool out of himself. And he came out of texas. The great state of texas. He came out of texas a very hot political property and he went back as cold as you can be. He was a nasty guy, but he had a c
he said i have been doing this all my life. i love the people. he built the most beautiful african-american museum. he built the most beautiful but he s got confidence. he said, no, sir, i don t really want to do that. he said that s enough. most people are so insecure they keep going and going and going. i like his attitude. i m going to introduce phil in a second. tate reeves who fill endorses and is a champion for your state and really a champion for mississippi values, and tate helped cut your taxes over 50 times, including the largest tax cut in mississippi history. [applause] tate is pro worker. he s pro jobs.
do you see this as just a left/right play, or was this an allusion to something else also known as color? it s hard to give donald trump is benefited in instances like this, but seems like in this context he was talking about the idea that mike espy is a democrat, he s describing it as a far-left candidate. he s a new democrat in the clinton mold. so that s probably what he was talking about more, and this would be the play they would make probably for any democrat, this idea that they don t fit in with mississippi values, they don t fit in with republican and conservative values. that s what he was saying there. if you re the president, you want to go to mississippi, you want to avoid a doug jones situation in alabama. it s a state that voted for him, i think, by 18 points or something like that. he won that state, so that s his crowd. the thing in this race to look for, obviously, is what the african-american turnout is
do you see this as just a left/right play, or was this an allusion to something else, also known as color? it s hard to give donald trump the benefit of the doubt in instances like this, but seems like in this context he was talking about the idea that mike espy is a democrat, he s describing it as a far-left democrat. but he s a moderate democrat, in the clinton mold. so that s probably what he was talking about more, and this would be the play they would make probably for any democrat, this idea that they don t fit in with mississippi values, they don t fit in with republican and conservative values. that s what he was saying there. if you re the president, you want to go to mississippi, you want to avoid a doug jones situation in alabama. it s a state that voted for him, i think, by 18 points or something like that. he won that state, so that s his crowd. the thing in this race to look for, obviously, is what the african-american turnout is there.