it is just over an hour and a half. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the united states, donald j. trump. ♪ ♪ ♪ [cheering] pres. trump: thank you. [cheering] pres. trump: thank you very much. hello, dallas. it's great to be with you tonight. thank you. [cheering] pres. trump: i am thrilled to be here. deep in the heart of texas. [cheering] pres. trump: where we just opened a beautiful new louis vuitton plant. [cheering] pres. trump: but i'm with the freedom loving patriots of the lone star state. [cheering] pres. trump: there has never been a better time to be a proud texan. [cheering] pres. trump: there's never been a better time to be a proud american. there never has. [cheering] pres. trump: so i came from a small town, alvarado, texas. [cheering] pres. trump: we celebrated the incredible revival of american manufacturing and we opened up some beautiful places. i'll tell you, this place is doing great. it created in a very short period of time an extra 1000 jobs for texas. [cheering] pres. trump: since my election, we've created 775,000 new jobs across your state, including 70,000 texas manufacturing jobs. they said those jobs have disappeared, didn't they? [cheering] pres. trump: our country is once again living by two simple rules. buy american and hire american. the economy is booming. our people are prospering. our country is thriving. and our nation is stronger than ever before. [cheering] pres. trump: the more america achieves, the more hateful and enraged these crazy democrats become. [booing] pres. trump: right? they are crazy. [booing] pres. trump: they are crazy. at stake in this fight is the survival of american democracy itself. don't kid yourself. that's what they want. they are destroying this country. we will never let it happen. not even close. [cheering] pres. trump: for three straight years, radical democrats have been trying to overthrow the results of a great, great election. maybe, maybe the greatest election in the history of our country. [cheering] pres. trump: they want to impose an extreme agenda. they cannot pass it and they cannot win it at the ballot box. they won't come close in 2020. they know it. [cheering] pres. trump: they are not going to win it. they say, let's see. what's another idea? what's another idea? how do we win this election? you know, i really don't believe anymore that they love our country. [booing] crowd: [chanting "four more years"] pres. trump: crazy nancy. thank you. crazy nancy. she is crazy. [booing] pres. trump: shifty schiff. how about this guy? [booing] pres. trump: he makes up my conversation, which was perfect. he makes up my conversation. he sees what i said. it doesn't play well because it was perfect. he made up a totally false conversation with the ukrainian president. [booing] pres. trump: and we caught him cold. everybody knew it anyway. see, we did one thing -- you always have to do the unexpected. they never thought i'd release the conversation with ukrainian president. [cheering] pres. trump: i want to get him before congress and i want to see what he has to say. you know, they say he has immunity. why would you have immunity for outright fraud? why do you have immunity? why? he's a fraud. we're fighting a campaign against leftists, socialists, and globalists who want to return to open borders, rampant crime, and disastrous one-way trade deals. we're changing that one around very quickly. [cheering] pres. trump: they believe america is the world's piggy bank and that your tax dollars should subsidize the defense of every other nation in the world but our own. [b's not happening anymore. pres. trump: our political opposition made its fortune selling out our nation and its citizens. and you know that's what's been happening. and that's why 2016 was so important. and that's why 2020, i can never say it's more important. but you know, it's like the roots of a tree. you plant the baby tree. it's got to catch. you need that extra time. we'll have more tax cuts. you know what? we have rebuilt our military. what we've done has never been done before. [cheering] pres. trump: the do-nothing democrats have betrayed our country and that great betrayal is over. we're finally again, we've been doing it now for almost three years. can you believe we've been doing this? [cheering] pres. trump: can you believe it? i've been a politician for three years. i can't believe that. i never thought i'd be called a politician. i don't like it. but it is what it is. we are finally again putting america first. [cheering] pres. trump: the radical democrats want to destroy america as we know it. they want to indoctrinate our children. and teach them that america is a sinful, wicked nation. you see that happening all the time. [booing] pres. trump: and i know it from personal experience, what they want to teach your kids. not good. they come home. mommy, daddy, this is what i learned. you're going, no. don't tell me. let's get them into another school fast. they want to disarm law-abiding citizens. they want to take your guns away. [booing] pres. trump: and they want to install far-left judges to shred our constitution. it's not happening. [booing] pres. trump: they want to tear down symbols of faith and drive christians and religious believers from the public square. they want to silence your voices on social media. and they want the government to censor and shut down conservative voices. you know that. [booing] pres. trump: if they didn't hate our country, they wouldn't be doing this to our country. they wouldn't be doing it because know better. they know better. as an example, we're building a great wall along the southern border. [cheering] pres. trump: and it's going up rapidly. it's going up. crowd: [chanting] build that wall, build that wall, built that wall, built that wall. pres. trump: and, you know, five years ago, almost every one of them wanted a wall. until i came along and said, we will build a great wall. they could never get it done. and then they stopped the funding. they made it almost impossible. few people would have been able to do what we did. but we got it from here and we got it from there and we got it from all over the place. and we're building that sucker right now and it's having a tremendous affect already. not easy. [cheering] pres. trump: highest level, everything we said it would be. it's moving rapidly. although the fake news back there, they don't want to talk about it. [booing] pres. trump: they don't want to talk about it. [booing] pres. trump: look at all those cameras. you believe it? look at all those red lights. don't worry, i won't say anything bad about your networks. because a lot of times, i get ready to do a number on these 20 -- phony networks. you see those red lights go off, off, off. i'm going to say the legitimate media. i don't mean that. [laughter] pres. trump: they don't want their viewers to see it. that's ok. i'm not going to say it tonight. [laughter] pres. trump: look at that. look at all those cameras. that's like the academy award used to be before it failed. do you know why it failed? they came after us. that's why it failed. [cheering] pres. trump: it failed because they had stupid people saying horrible things about us. stupid. [cheering] pres. trump: stupid people. they are stupid people. and their ratings have dropped like a rock. == a -- a rocket. i love seeing it. [cheering] pres. trump: but no matter how hard they try, they will fail because the people of texas and the people of america will never surrender our freedoms to those people right there. [cheering] pres. trump: we will stand strong for family, faith, god, and for country. [cheering] pres. trump: last week, a very dumb democrat candidate for president, that's the end of him in this state, pledged to revoke the tax-exempt status of many churches and religious charities. [booing] pres. trump: and by the way, that was after a few weeks ago, he said, excuse me, we're going to take your guns away. that doesn't work well. [booing] pres. trump: and i told him, remember the flailing arms? nobody noticed it. i noticed it. you remember? the flailer. he was flailing all over the place. john gordon is going to win so easily. just like ted cruz won. [cheering] pres. trump: he's going to win, no matter what happens. [cheering] pres. trump: john cornyn isn't talking about beddoe anymore. beto, in a few short weeks, got rid of guns and religion. those are not good things in texas. [cheering] pres. trump: and i will never allow the federal government to be used to punish americans for their religious beliefs. [cheering] pres. trump: and i will never allow the irs to be used as a political weapon, except in the case of myself when they use it against me. [cheering] pres. trump: the radical left tolerates no dissent. it permits no opposition. it accepts no compromise. these people are crazy. and it has absolutely no respect for the will of the american people. first, it was the russia hoax. [booing] pres. trump: then it was the smearing, which continues, that disgraceful, disgusting smearing of a fine man, just as -- justice kavanaugh. [cheering] pres. trump: and now they continue the outrageous impeachment witchhunt with nothing. with nothing. they come after me, but what they're really doing is coming after the republican party and what they're really, really doing is fighting you and we never lose. [applause] pres. trump: i'm fighting for everyone who believes in the values, traditions, principles, that has made our nation the greatest in the history of the world. and i have to say this, we are far greater now than ever before. you go back four years, you go back seven, six, eigh. even another administration, 10 and 12 years. where were you compared to where you are right now? [applause] pres. trump: so we must hold the democrats accountable for their lies and their corruption. they are corrupt people. and we must show and vote. we have to go out and we have to win this election coming up. it is going to be a landslide. we have to make it a landslide. [applause] pres. trump: today's do-nothing democrats -- they don't do anything -- where's the usmca? everybody wants it. the democrats even want it. and crazy nancy won't let anybody vote on it. she's nuts. today's democrats believe anyone who opposes them must be crushed. i have to say this. the republicans said i'm not sure i like this. the republicans play a softer game. when our stars, when they went to the speaker of the house at the time, and they asked for subpoenas. let's take it easy. ok, i get that, too. she hands them out like it is cookies. i heard a commentator who happens to be standing right there, doesn't like us at all. i've never seen anyone hand out so many subpoenas. i have people getting subpoenas i've never heard of them. i said who are those people? never saw anything like it. it's a disgrace what they're doing to our country. because of what they do, not the republicans and not what we've done, because of what they've done and what they see, when people come to my office which is now the oval office, which is your office, too -- [applause] pres. trump: presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens. i hate to say sometimes, dictators. they just don't lieke to go by that title. congratulations on what you've done. it's incredible. your economy is the greatest on earth. if my crooked opponent had won the election, china would be by far the number one nation from an economic standpoint. we've gone up trillions of dollars. they've gone down trillions of dollars. and we are so far number one they will never catch us if we are smart right here. >> usa! usa! usa! usa! pres. trump: but the do-nothing democrats believe anyone who opposes them has to be crushed. they don't want to just beat them. these are sick people. they want to crush these people. the anger, the hatred. any lie or crime or corruption is justified. so schiff gets up and makes up my statement. and then he says we didn't speak to the whistleblower. the whistleblower got it all wrong. who is the whistleblower? who's the whistleblower? we have to know. is the whistleblower a spy? and who is the ig that did this? all he had to do was look at the tape or what they wrote down to -- the transcribed version of the phone call. to compare that to the whistleblower's account. and you see it had nothing to do with it. so why does the ig allow a thing like this to happen to our country? why? why? a lot of bad people out there. one by one, we're advancing. one by one. just look at the terrible foreign corruption of the bidens. i hate to talk about him, you know why? i don't think the guy's got a chance. sleepy joe, i don't think he's got a chance. i don't see it. i don't know, i have these great, brilliant senators over here. i don't take he has a chance. i'd like him to. i'd like him to. you know, i thought pocahontas was gone. you got to give her credit. those embers kept going. it now it looks like she's doing better. i don't think joe has a chance. did you see the other night, cnn, in a totally unsubstantiated statement, the president said this. we're so sorry. his son walked out with $1.5 billion from china. these were not the same chinese people i just dealt with. but joe biden was in charge of ukrainian policy while his son, with absolutely no energy experience, got thrown out of the navy like a dog. was paid massive sums of money by a ukrainian energy company. you know what that's called? it's called a payoff, folks. he didn't know anything about energy at all. they hired him, paying him massive amounts of money, much more than the $50,000 a month you've heard of. that's a lot. that's a lot. then joe biden made him go out and fire the prosecutor on tape. but then they didn't want to show the tape. i had to put it up on a social media site. he was bragging. they're not going to get this money. boom, they got rid of the prosecutor. he was investigating the son of the son's company. that's what you call quid pro quo. while these charges are totally unsubstantiated -- these are the fake newsers. we just made such a great deal in china. my guy said if we could get $20 billion in agricultural product, that would be good. the most china ever did was $16 billion for the farmers. the most they ever did was $20 billion of product. from our farmers, our great farmers, our patriot farmers. who never left us. even though they were being targeted by china. they never left me. so they wanted $20 billion and china agreed. i said no, i want $50 billion, not $20 billion. my guys say we have a problem, sir. our farmers can't produce that much, it's true. i said tell them to go out and get bigger tractors. john deere. all-american. only american tractors. we only buy american. go out and get bigger. so now china has agreed. they've already started buying. hopefully the agreement gets signed sometime prior to a big summit we have with president xi in chile. look at this. they said, sir, we can't produce $50 billion. i said i want the farmers to tell me. we're going to win so much. we're going to say, we just can't stand winning. john cornyn and ted cruz, they're going to come and say, we just can't stand this. it's too much. that's what i want from the farmers. i want them to say, i want the farmers to say, we just can't produce that much product. we can't do it, sir. i'm going to say, yes you can. they're going to take in $50 billion from china as opposed to $20 billion. that's what's going to happen. that's what's going to happen. they stuck with us. in the meantime, we've taken in tens of billions of dollars and china's eaten the cost. it costs tens of billions of dollars. it's cost us nothing. you know what i did for the farmer? i gave them $16 billion last year and $12 billion the here before came out of the tariffs. i had a lot of money left over and nobody complained. and farmers didn't want the money. everybody comes from money. everybody wants money. the farmers said we don't want this money. i said no, it's not a subsidy. you're being targeted. they said it's a subsidy. this is why we have 35 farmers in the oval office. they didn't want it. they said just give us a level playing house. it's level like this. it's level like this. nice and easy. nice and easy. the farmers, i call them the great patriots, the farmers. they always said i'm in trouble. i have a problem. but this should've been done many years ago by other presidents. we lose for many years, $500 billion a year with china. but that's all changing now. but we lose $500 billion, not million, but billion -- and $500 million is a lot. we lose $500 billion. it's a disgrace. it was allowed to go on for 25 years. it was a disgrace. now we're taking in billions of dollars. they've had the worst year we have had in 27 years. so, biden flew with hunter on air force two. they flew to china. hunter walked out of the plane quick meeting, walked away with $1.5 billion. the characters said that's ok. there's no problem. can you imagine if don or eric trump or ivanka trump, who's here someplace. right here. [applause] pres. trump: and by the way, our great first lady said this is the most exciting thing i've seen in a long time. great first lady, doing a great job. such a great job. we're doing a great job. the whole country is doing a great job. so biden takes $1.5 billion. and he goes on and allows china to rip us off. he said no, china is good. they're wonderful people. i don't blame china, by the way. i blame our leaders for allowing this you know what and pillage. you know what word i'm talking about, right? i don't want to use it because they'll say it's a horrible word trump used. so the bidens got rich while america got robbed. tonight, we forcefully condemn the corruption of the democratic party. and nobody ever pays a price in the democratic party. they never paid. maybe soon, that will start. we've had a lot of obama people, clinton people, and to be honest with you, we've had some bad republicans that didn't exactly love us. but slowly, they're getting out. they have all sorts of protections. he says get rid of them. we're trying. but their partner is the fake news media. that's the problem. because the democrats and the fake news media, it's a partnership. you see it all the time. i've never seen it to this extent. when i won in the primaries, when i won the election, i was treated horribly by the media. and then when i won the election, we had one of the highest rated dates in the history of television. all over the world. and i won and i said oh, the great thing. i said to ivanka, i said to the first lady, i said to anyone who would listen, it's so great. we, all of us, we're going to be respected by the media. and you know what happened? they got worse. worse than they ever have been. they're worse now than they've ever been. they're crooked. the only message these radicals -- and they're radical, is a crushing defeat. with your help, we will win back the house. we will keep the senate. and we will keep the white house in numbers like they haven't seen in a long, long time. joining us tonight are many terrific republican leaders. and they are terrific. and frankly, if they're not, i'm not going to introduce them. we have great leaders. you have great leaders in texas. great leaders. and they love texas. so a friend of mine, a guy that a lot of people weren't so sure -- we have an unbelievable relationship. when ted cruz held a rally in washington he said, can you come to my rally? everybody thought these people thought, they said to me, when is the fighting between these two? when is the fighting going to start? they said don't worry, the fighting going to start. it's going to be vicious. and it was vicious. now, we love each other again. ted cruz. and he had a great victory against the man who spent almost $100 million -- that's a lot of money. thank you, ted. another man who is currently running against somebody. i kept thinking maybe beto will jump in because he's at zero right now. we hope he's going to jump in. remember, no religion and no guns. i think that's not good. oh, i think he's pretty light in oil production, too. and john, i have no idea who you're running against, but nobody's going to be able to beat john. he's a good man. thank you, john. we have a lot of congresspeople here. we have a woman who's been fantastic from the beginning. kay granger. thank you, kay. we have a man who is as smart as hell. and he is tough and he is mean and he is nasty. but he loves the state. and he's only mean and nasty because he wants to defend you and me and all the horrible things we go through. louie gohmert. [applause] louie.nt trump: he's a great guy, been a great friend of mine. he would not leave us, no matter what. he had mueller and everybody figured out before anybody else had. a person who's been an incredible ally, again, loves your state, randy weber. thank you, great job. one of the best lawyers you'll ever find. he's slick. he's smooth. but boy, he's loyal. he has them all buffalo road. john radcliffe. thank you, sir. a man i saw on television last night, defending me. i tweeted out and said, thank you very much. that was a great defense. i appreciate it. thank you, brian. that was great last night. i put a tweet out because it is easier than making a phone call. talking for a half-hour. thanks, brian. i just said, thanks. he would rather have that, too. and lance. a special person. thank you, lance. thank you, lance. lance was one of 60 people that stuck in there. he was unbelievable. ron. thank you, ron. great job. these are great people. with republican party chairs and all of these winners. here is one. rhonda mcdaniel. i will tell you what. [cheers and applause] >> you know, she was the head of michigan. michigan had not been won by republican for decades. they said, you cannot win. why? we are getting these massive crowds. why? she was in charge of michigan. i said, i want you to do me a favor. find out who this woman is. she's driving me crazy. she calls and says, one more trip. who is she? we won the state of michigan. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: when it came time, when it came time to picking somebody to head the rnc, i said, what about that woman? she drove me crazy from michigan. thank you, rhona. she has done a fantastic job. she's fantastic. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: and a great governor from your state. he is a great, great man. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: and a friend of mine. and together with your ,ieutenant governor dan patrick you had a hurricane two years ago now, they still keep calling me for money. sir, could you give us another one? the governor called up. dan was there. you know, thank you for being so generous to texas, sir, the hurricane, it was a big one, a bad one. i think the biggest dump i can remember. our coast guard saved 16,000 lives. [cheers and applause] but it kept going in and out. water. water. finally, i get a call. i paid billions and billions of dollars to the state. numbers -- my people are driving me crazy. i get a call from the governor. dan is there. where is dan? [cheers and applause] pres. trump: the two of them called me. then i had ted cruz on my back. i had john cornyn on my back and i had the congressmen calling. it was brutal. it was not even fair. they said, sir, thank you for being so generous. they made a fortune. you made a fortune in the hurricane. thank you for being so generous, sir. sir, we want one more small request. just a small one. it's not much and we appreciate you listening to us. we want to build a dam in the ocean. so if we ever have another hurricane, the water will not be able to come in. to houston and all the areas it came into. i said, how much? it's only $10 billion. 10 billion? right, ted? $10 billion. the way they sell it, it is so good. they are incredible salesman. they say it is only $10 billion, i am supposed to be happy. let's see. could we give texas an extra $10 billion for some crazy thing that may work and it may not, right? no, they are great people. they love your state. cochairman, real friend of ours. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: thank you, tommy. our great campaign manager, the most sophisticated man with a computer you have ever seen. thember that used to say campaign is so sophisticated. then after she lost they said trumps campaign is so sophisticated. she spent like six times more on this than we did. in the old days, my father taught me, if you can spend less, that is a good thing. right? if you can spend less -- so we spent much less than hillary. crooked hillary. [booing] pres. trump: where are those emails? they may find those emails. 33,000they are looking. they may find those deleted emails. they may find them. remember the email sciacca -- the emails? 33,000 emails covering her daughter's wedding. 33,000. that is a lot of emails for a wedding. and working out. a great job. thank you, brad. [cheers and applause] trump: and secretary of commerce, one of the legends of wall street, he was really amazing and he is doing an amazing job, wilbur ross. thank you you, wilbur. smart guy. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: a friend of mine, he is another one. he was so tough. he was nasty. he hit me during the campaign. i said, that guy is ruthless. when it was over, there was nobody more gracious. i called him and made him secretary of energy. he has done a phenomenal job. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: and rick perry -- [cheers and applause] pres. trump: could not have done a better job. really. really. he is going to be leaving at the end of the year. probably coming back here. ever he does, he's going to be successful. he spent three years with us and i want to thank you. what a job you have done. thank you. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: what a job he has done. he was also a great governor of texas, as you know. and everything we do, we are fighting for the faithful citizens of this country. this includes putting a stop to the catastrophic era of endless wars. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: they do not stop. they do not stop. they go on forever. we become policemen. we end up becoming police. we are policing these countries. that is not what it is about. we have spent $8 trillion in the middle east. thousands of american soldiers have lost their lives. tens of thousands more severely wounded. and in all fairness, the other side has lost millions of people. millions. millions of people. think of it. mass chaos,rought instability, destruction, and death. today, we choose a different path. we had tremendous success. i don't know if you saw. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have built in the last three years, the strongest military by far. i was embarrassed to tell it, but now i tell this story, when i first got in, a general told me we could have had a conflict with somebody, said we don't have ammunition. said, i never want to hear a president -- i never want somebody to have that statement made to them mcginnis president. we do not have ammunition. now we have so much of it, we don't know what to do with it. [cheers and applause] ies. trump: as you know, guess you have been watching, i said vice president pence and secretary of state pompeo -- to lead an american delegation to meet with president erdogan of turkey. they got there today and it did work. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: without spilling a drop of american blood, not one drop of american blood. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have all agreed cease-fire ina the border region of syria. it was unconventional what i did. i said, they are going to have to fight a little while. sometimes you have to let them fight a little while. then people find out how tough the fighting is, these guys know right up here. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: these guys know. sometimes you have to let them fight. like two kids in a lot. you got to let them fight and then you pull them apart. it was unconventional. they fought for a few days and it was vicious. the kurds, who are our friends, and turkey is our friend, but they fought -- it was tougher. it was nasty. and you could not make a deal for 15 -- think of it. for 15 years, 20 years, they could not make a deal. turkey did not want to budge. turkey was having a lot of bad things happening. in all fairness to turkey. they were having a lot of bad -- now all of a sudden they are fighting and it is not fun having bullets all over the place. we went there. we said, we want a pause. the kurds have been terrific. they are going to move back a little bit. we are going to keep isis locked up. ok yeah, -- ok? [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we are going to find more of them. turkey is all set. president erdogan was great. we are going to take the worst sanctions and tariffs and everything, we put the worst -- i mean, i don't think they could have economically survived. but that does not matter. president erdogan was a gentleman, he understood it. but without a little tough love -- you know what tough love is, right? without a little tough love, they would never have made this deal. president obama lost a million people in the area. [booing] we are doingso now -- during a five day period we are going to see if we can get it finalized. i think it will be. i think it will be. turkey is going to be happy. the kurds are going to be happy. isis is going to be unhappy. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we will deal with whoever we have to deal with but we will get it done. it is a great tribute to a lot of very talented people. thank you to vice president pence and mike pompeo. good job. good job. they are traveling back to our country. they will be back soon. we will have a big conference on it. it was a terrific day. we have taken care of a lot of religious persecution. we added that in. a lot of things are in that agreement that we never -- that a lot of people never thought possible. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have to fundamentally change our approach to homeland security. that example, nobody would have ever done that. you have to be a little different to do with that way. i took a lot of heat even from some of our congressmen, some of our senators. but now they are all happy. and i am happy with them. i am happy with them. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: now, i don't know what about the to mcgrath's -- the democrats. the democrats will say, what a terrible -- anything we say, the democrats will criticize. if i said, we get beijing for one dollar. they would say, what a terrible deal. [laughter] pres. trump: it just doesn't work with them. you know, the wall, we spent so much time with them on the wall. i realized about two weeks ago, all i had to say was, we will never build a wall and they would come through and say, we demand you build it. it would have been so much easier. it would have been so much easier, ted. american combat troops should not be at the center of ancient sectarian conflicts all over the world. bring our soldiers back home. bring our soldiers back home. [cheers and applause] [chanting "usa"] pres. trump: the same people pushing us to fight endless wars overseas want us to open our borders to mass migration. from these war-torn terror afflicted regions. their policies would import terrorism right onto our shores. with american issued visas. isn't that wonderful? and by the way, the democrats want open borders. they want everybody to flow in. they want those caravans to flow in. [booing] >> the caravans. they would not get rid of the loopholes. but you know what? mexico has been great. mexico today had 27,000 soldiers on our border. we have stopped this horrible migration. many of them are bad people. you know, when countries send them off, they are not sending their finest. use your head. they are not sending the finest. you have to see some of the people. but now we send them back. by the way, ice is fantastic. they have taken out thousands and thousands of ms 13 killers. they have taken thousands of killers. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: now we have made deals with guatemala and honduras. el salvador and mexico. we have made deals where we can bring back -- there are 45,000 people waiting in mexico, but it is going to be tough. when did you ever hear that? there used to be no people waiting in mexico. our borders are getting strong. when the wall is complete, they will be as strong as any border in the world. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: my administration believes in a simple principle. the best way to keep foreign terrorists out of america is to deny them admission in the first place. it is really pretty simple. imposed andi have we passed and we won at the u.s. supreme court, a travel ban on some of the most dangerous countries. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: if democrats seize power, they would throw the floodgates wide open. wide open. we would have people coming into our country. look at what's going on in california. the people of california don't want it. they say come into california, we will give you free health care, free education. why wouldn't they? i may even move to california if they keep going. all it does is it brings everybody in. what is wrong with these people? we are rebuilding our military. stronger than ever before. we are not going to deplete it again on stupid, senseless, endless wars. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have invested more than $2.5 trillion restoring our armed forces. all of it was built in the usa. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: that includes the 200 andtion of almost 35 fighters, stealth. many of them are built right in fort worth. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: as we restore our security, we are also restoring our prosperity. america is winning again. and america is respected again. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: by the way, i have to say -- outside, they have close to 30,000 people. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i wonder if i could ask the fire marshal -- let him in. philip this little area. they have a certain max. we broke the record tonight. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: good place. [chanting "usa"] pres. trump: last month, unemployment reached its lowest level in 51 years. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: 7 million americans have been lifted off of food stamps since the election. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: 1.3 million children have been lifted out of poverty, think of that. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: and african-american, hispanic american, asian american unemployment rates have reached the lowest levels in history. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: our great hispanic american population has reached a poverty level which is an all-time low in u.s. history. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: after years of stagnation, wages for hispanic americans are rising fast. up nearly 8% since my election. in the fake news would have say it -- would have said that is impossible. [booing] pres. trump: think of this. median income for hispanic americans surpassed $50,000 a year for the first time ever. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: with republicans in congress, we passed the largest package of tax cuts and reform by far an american history. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: by the way, the democrats want to raise your taxes, you know. i don't mean a little bit. i mean like double, triple. it still won't pay. we eliminated a record number of regulations and we ended the war on a thing called american energy, which is very good for texas. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: since my election, natural gas production in texas has increased 35%. oil production has increased by 60%. [cheers and applause] and the u.s. is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: yet every major democrat running for president wants to abolish all production of oil and natural gas. i think they want to go to windmills. windmills, you know. darling, i want to watch trump speak. we cannot, the wind is not blowing. they want windmills. [laughter] pres. trump: they want to annihilate your texas economy. can you imagine? no more oil, no more natural gas. here we have a few people, right? no guns, no religion. no oil. no natural gas. abraham lincoln could not win texas under those circumstances. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: couldn't do it. couldn't do it today. could not do it. abraham lincoln, honest abe, could not do it. they used to say, i can be more presidential. look. [cheers and applause] i have always said i can be more presidential than any president in history. except for honest abe lincoln when he is wearing the hat. that is tough. that is a tough one to beat. it is much easier being presidential. all you have to do is act like a stiff. look. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: ladies and gentlemen of texas, it is a great honor to be with you this evening. [laughter] pres. trump: the media would love it. everybody would be out of here so fast, you would not have come in in the first place. democrats will never get that chance. texas will never give it to them. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: remember the last election? these ponies in the back, they phonies in the back, they said texas is in play. they said, utah is in play, too. we did rallies thousands of , people outside that could not get in. why is texas in play? it is phony. they try to get your hopes down. this is just like fake news. they said texas. they said texas is in play. ladies and gentlemen, texas is in play. [booing] pres. trump: president trump -- i had guys in from texas and they are wearing cowboy hats. a lot of guys. they said, i don't know about you, but i know something about texas. donald trump is not going to lose texas. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i don't know what you are talking about. texas is not in play. big tough guys. they are on television. what are you talking about? texas is not in play we had that great, great night. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: the polls closed at 7:00. usually they have to take hours. sometimes at least -- even if it is big, they take half an hour. the texas polls are closed. if it is close, it takes hours. if it is not so close, it takes a long time. they go, ladies and gentlemen, the polls have closed in the state of texas. donald trump has won the state of texas. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: right? the polls have closed in utah. remember the guy with the shaved head? he was going to be my competition. even hillary beat him. now he is on the talk shows. the hell out of me all the time. even hillary beat this guy in utah. hillary came in second. i came in first. that was another one, too close to call. except, ladies and utah, the polls have closed. donald trump has won the state of utah. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we won by a lot. we won florida and south carolina and georgia. we won north carolina. we won pennsylvania. we won a lot. remember these phony people? there is no way to get to 270. i kept going to maine, i love maine. get won., you it is cut in half. i went there 4, 5 times. they got me up to 269. could not get to 270. i won, by the way. i one -- i won maine, too. i went there. i went there a lot. that is the beautiful thing about the electoral college. you go everywhere. winning the popular vote would be much easier. i would rather have that. i would go to four states and relax. i went to 21 states. [cheers and applause] trump: i used to be a believer in the other. it is like you are a track star. you are working out for the 100 yard -- or the mile. it is a different form of training. it is a different form. but we did great. to 270.d he cannot get they were right. we got to 306. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: after decades of economic surrender, i have taken historic action to confront china's rampant trading abuses. our relationship is fantastic. great things are happening. you watch. they get it now. a lot of good things are happening. we are replacing nafta. i mean, it has been -- to me -- i used to call it the worst trade deal in history. wto, a the world trade, real beauty. that is a real beauty. they consider china a developing nation. because you are a developing nation -- they consider china to be a developing nation. they get tremendous -- we wrote them letters. we don't consider them to be a developing nation. we don't consider india to be a developing nation. because they are ripping us off. we did not win any cases. won $7.5 billion of countries that were taking advantage of us. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have won a lot of cases. we did not win anything for years, practically. now we have won a lot of cases. they know i will leave it they don't treat us fairly. they know it. and then the piggy bank is gone. we are replacing the nafta disaster. we have to get this crazy nancy pelosi to put this up for a vote. [booing] pres. trump: the usmca is a giant victory for manufacturers. workers and oil. the democrats should pass it. overwhelmingly, they will. but nancy has to put it up for a vote. do-nothing democrats. nowhere is the democrat betrayal of our nation more dramatic than on immigration. in recent debates -- did you see these debates? do you believe what i am competing with? i don't know, when i had to compete with ted cruz, that was brutal. he was the national debate champion. a story i have never told. i never did that before, right? i ran for office. all of a sudden, i'm supposed to be debating tomorrow night. i said, who are these people? i don't know all of them. i contributed to a lot of them. they used to treat me nicely when i contributed to them. not so nice and i was their i said, let me see, i want to see. who are these people? i had never debated with the podium and this and that. i said, who are they? we had 17 people. plus me. 18. remember? gilmore. nobody remembers him. we had 18 people all. i said, who are these people? are they any good at debating? i hired a debate coach. he lasted for about 10 minutes. i said, this guy knows less than i do. he didn't know anything, it is true. he said never interrupt while they are speaking. i said, ok, coach, put me in, coach. after couple of those statements, you cannot beat ted cruz if you do not interrupt him. i said, let me see the cards. i want to see it. i need help. i'm going to be debating. everyone is saying, do you think he is going to be able to debate professionally? he was president of his class. one guy was a good debater in college. he was this, he was ok. they give me the first card, ted cruz. it says, national debate champion from princeton. is that right? and then, national debate champion from harvard. i said to my wife, first lady, potentially, i've got a problem. i said some of these guys are ok. they were only president of the class. i never ran for president of the class. i liked playing baseball better. i said, melania, i have a problem. ted cruz was the number one guy in college. he was the number one guy in college. we came out ok. he was tough. smart as hell and tough. good man. the first card i looked at, ted cruz. national debate, he was the best in all of college and law school. in recent debates, you see these people up there. they are not ted cruz, leave me. you should turn democrat, you would win. no? i don't think so. every single democrat candidate for president, raised their hand in favor of giving free health care to all illegal aliens. they want to give more to illegal aliens than they give to american citizens. as president, i will never allow the democrats to take away your health care dollars. can't do it. in fact, i just signed an executive action to protect american health care benefits for all american citizens. among those hardest hit by illegal immigration are millions of illegal immigration are millions of legal immigrants right here in texas. including patriotic mexican americans who play by the rules. strengthen our communities. whether you are a first generation or 10th generation, and every american citizen, you have been treated badly but you were not being treated badly anymore. we got rate of the individual mandate from obamacare. every citizen deserves a government that defend your jobs. and is always loyal to you. we are loyal to you. my administration has reduced illegal border crossings by 60% since may. but as with no help from the democrats. they will not close the loopholes. we could do it in 15 minutes. we are building the wall. the democrats will not close the loopholes. you know what the loopholes are, right? catch and release. you catch them. you say, how are you? could you give us your name and phone number. could you give us your address. they don't want to have an address in honduras. can you please give us your address? they can't. they say, that is ok, we catch and release. and then we are getting them out of the country. some are very good people. some of them are unbelievably dangerous and bad. we are focusing on the bad. they're getting the hell out of the country, ok? while we are fighting for shared priorities, the democratic party has never been further outside of the mainstream. every democrat running for president is pushing a health care agenda that would eviscerate medicare. my administration will protect medicare for our seniors. we will protect patients with pre-existing conditions. our ambitious campaign to reduce the price of prescription drugs has produced the largest decline in drug prices in over 51 years. people don't talk about it. the press will not talk about it. we have news conferences. you have no idea how dishonest the media is. virtually every top democrat supports late term abortion. ripping babies straight from the mothers's right up until the moment of birth. and the crack pot governor from virginia executes the baby after birth. you said that, right? you are member that one from last year. that is why i'm asking congress to prohibit late-term abortions. republicans believe every child is a sacred gift from god. democrats are the party of crazy politicians, high taxes, high crime. open borders. socialism. blatant corruption. they are corrupt like schiff is corrupt, he is corrupt. it is the party of the american worker, the american family, and the american dream. it is also the party of honest abe lincoln, we forget that. we have to use that more often, don't you think? i liked honest abe. thank you. play that to them. you are right. we have confirmed 152 federal justices. neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh. when i got into office, they say the most important thing a president can do, they say it is defense. they say federal judges. how many do you have? i have none. i said, how many federal judges do i have? you have 142. you don't understand the question. that is impossible. that would mean president obama did not appoint 142 judges. you get none. i said, check it again. they said, 138. actually, the number is 142. 142 judges. we will have passed 182 federal judges. [applause] pres. trump: and then they say, obama, wasn't he such a wonderful president? how are you wonderful when the most important thing you can do, you hand it over to the republicans. 142. how is that good? if i were a democrat, i would not be too happy about that number. we will have a record number of judges. by the time our term is over in 16 years, maybe 20. i am only kidding. they say, see. she is assuming control. we have this crazy guy on television. he is talking to a guest. you know, he is going to win, don't you? we have done a good job, we should be happy. but he says our military, our schools, our this, our everything. he's going to win. he's never leaving. you know that, don't you? he's never leaving. [applause] president trump: he's never leaving. he's never going to leave! [applause] president trump: and i thought this whacko was kidding. he's a comedian. i thought he was kidding. he was serious. we passed via accountability for these great people. they been trying to pass it for almost 50 years. they couldn't get it done. but those guys and me, we got it done. and to protect america's security, i withdrew the united states from the horrible, one-sided i ran nuclear deal -- iran nuclear deal. [applause] president trump: i recognized israel's true capital and opened the american embassy in jerusalem. [applause] president trump: and we also recognized israeli sovereignty over the golan heights. [applause] president trump: for years, we watched as your politicians apologized for america. you seen it many times, oh, i'm so sorry. [no audio] together, we will elect a republican congress to -- [inaudible] [applause] president trump: and by the way, thank you robert jeffers for being here, wherever you may be here. he may not be the greatest. it may not be the most perfect christmas. he may not know the -- perfect christian. he may not know the bible as well as some. where is that guy? robert jeffers. [applause] president trump: where are you? he's a great guy. got a big big group of people on sunday mornings, i can tell you. we will enact trade deals that resort and more products proudly stamped with those beautiful words, that beautiful phrase, i love it, "made in the usa." [applause] president trump: we will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, finding new cures for childhood cancer, and ending the aids epidemic in less than 10 years. we're doing that. who would believe? we're doing that. the previous administration spent no money on that. who would have thought we would end, within 10 years, the aids epidemic? who would've thought we would advance that? we will defend privacy, free speech, free assembly, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. because it is all about your family. your future. about the future fate of our great country. help we will lift million more students -- -- together, we will elect a republican congress to create a and lawful, fair system of immigration. and by the way, thank you robert jeffers wherever you may be. he may not be the greatest. it may not be the most perfect christmas. he may not know the -- perfect christian. he may not know the bible as well as some. where is that guy? robert jeffers. [applause] president trump: where are you? he's a great guy. got a big big group of people on sunday mornings, i can tell you. we will enact trade deals that resort and more products proudly stamped with those beautiful words, that beautiful phrase, i love it, "made in the usa." [applause] president trump: we will achieve new breakthroughs in science and medicine, finding new cures for childhood cancer, and ending the aids epidemic in less than 10 years. we're doing that. who would believe? we're doing that. the previous administration spent no money on that. who would have thought we would end, within 10 years, the aids epidemic? who would've thought we would advance that? we will defend privacy, free speech, free assembly, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms. [applause] president trump: above all, we will never stop fighting for the values that unite people all across our land and throughout the great state of texas. this is a great state. [applause] president trump: we support, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. we stand with the incredible heroes of law enforcement. thank you. we believe in the dignity of work and the sanctity of life. we believe that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the true bedrock's of our society. [applause] president trump: we believe in the crease of self-reliance, personal responsibility, and american independence. [applause] president trump: we believe that children should be taught to love our country, honor our history, and always respect our great american flag. [applause] president trump: loyal citizens like you helped build this country and together, we are taking back this country, our country. we love our country. we're returning power to you, the american people. that's what we've done. [applause] president trump: from dallas to el paso, from houston to austin, from the red river to the rio grande, this estate was settled by some of the toughest men and strongest women ever to walk on the face of the earth, texans. [applause] president trump: this is the state where william travis, james bowie, and davy crockett made their last stand at the alamo. [applause] president trump: this is the state where a small band of patriots had the battle of gonzales, armed with a single cannon, stand down a foreign army and declared, "come and take it!" [applause] >> usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! president trump: and texas is the state where generations of farmers, ranchers, pioneers, and oil workers built a life and a home with their own two, beautiful hands. [applause] president trump: they didn't have a lot of money. they didn't have a lot of luxury. but they all had one thing in common. they loved their families. they loved their country. and they loved their god. [applause] president trump: these courageous texas patriots did not shed their blood, sweat, and tears, so that we could sit at home while others tried to erase their legacy, demolish their liberty, and destroy ever proud american heritage -- our proud american heritage. we will never, ever allow that to happen. [applause] president trump: with your help, your devotion, and your drive, we are going to keep on working. we are going to keep on fighting. and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. [applause] president trump: we are one group, one people, one family, and one glorious nation under god. [applause] president trump: and together, we will make america wealthy again. [applause] president trump: we will make america proud again. [applause] president trump: we will make america strong again. [applause] president trump: we will america -- make america safe again. [applause] president trump: and we will make america great again! thank you, texas. thank you. [applause] ♪ >> campaign 2020. watch our live coverage of the presidential candidates on the campaign trail and make up your own minds. campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. c-span's campaign 2020 coverage continues. today at 6:00 p.m. live on c-span, elizabeth warren holds a town hall in norfolk, virginia. and on saturday bernie holds a rally in new york city. onch on c-span come any time c-span.org and listen wherever you are using the free c-span radio app. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, we will discuss the latest on the house democrats' impeachment angry with ralph norman and virgin islands democratic delicate stacy plaskett. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. firmspan and the polling recently conducted a survey. we asked how committed the political parties are to making sure elections in the u.s. are fair and accurate. attitudes-- voters' towards the democrats are split down the middle. percent of americans think democrats are committed to fair and accurate elections and 38% disagree. why the discrepancy? largely due to those that identify as independent. 60% of self identified independents believe the same of the democratic party. we also asked how much trust and confidence voters have in the american people? 46% of voters had a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in their fellow americans' decisions. only republicans showed a majority on the question. you can find all of the results including whether americans think states and localities with a history of voter discrimination should have a right to decide their processes on c-span.org. >> acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney had a briefing at the white house to announce that the g20 summit would be held at the president's property in florida. this is 20 minutes. >> hello, guys. first things first. a brief comment on mr. cummings passing. i was on the committee with him and had a chance to work with him on a daily basis. he will be messed. he was a classy guy. i enjoyed working with him and our condolences to his family today. he will be sorely missed.

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