actually reduced the national debt in the united states. when i was the leadehe r of housenservati conservatives, i balanced budgets and cut taxes when i s governor. i mean, look, joe biden has weakened this country at home and abroad. now is not the time for on the job training. we don t need to bring in a rookie. we don t need to bringa in people without experience and we need to bringn pe this gy in 30 seconds when you have a rebuttal. okay. and yo0 secondwhen youu are up,. so here s the thing. why are we in this mess? it and a major reason is because how this federal government handled covid 19, by locking down this economy, it9, by was a mistake.ap it should have never happened. and in floridapened., we led tho country out of lockdown. we kept our state frewn e and open. and i can tell you this, as your president, i will neverr let the deep state bureaucrats lockte you down. you don t take somebody likee fauci and coddle him.
i left government than when i took over as governor eight years ago. s> i tell that because that what we need in washington, d.c. we need somebody who can actually constrain the growth of the federal government that cawth ofn actually reduce the sy and i ve pledged to reduce 1 by 10% our federal non defense workforce. that s a specific pledge to make that a tax. the administrative state.t me and let me applaud some of the business partners are heresn that have had success in business. but let me tell you, i ve beenpt a federal prosecutor. i ve served our countr y in terms of being head of the dea in homeland security tis in times of crisis. and while i think that that s experienc e that is important for the future of our country to be the presidenti of the united states, that can lead with positive solutionste countabl and to be held accountable. thank you. we have a lot of topics to get to and i promise we re going to get to everyone if we play
and they are victimizedent innocent people in every corner of this country. and it will stop when i get into office. okay. one more here before the break, everybody. urgum. but bret, martha, i just thought it was interesting. you askeed a qued your question about the problems we re having in big cities. nobody ever asks the questiobign of what about the crime wave in small towns because it is smalle towns. town neighborsn neighbors, people understand each other. if a farmer getsch other sick,mh everybody comes together and helps them get the crop off. there s accountability. there s transparencye cr. one thing that i think this country could use is somebody in the white house that understands smal e housel town values, because that s our road back to get this country on track againk to. governor hutchinson was former head of the dea. i understan d the drug crisis in america. and right now, whenever americyou look the challenges ir in this inner city, there s three simple words that
you bring fauci and you sit him down and you say, anthony, you are fired. so we get to bring republicans. we re going to bring in our white house correspondent. mike , for one second becaused. he invoked me back. let s now that everybody s gotten their memorized, e pre-prepared slogans out of the way, we can actually have a real discussion now thatve a a the reality and the fact of the matter is, everyone here is not really mike, actually,fu we re just going to have some fun tonight. and the realitt. the realy is you have a bunch of people, professional politicians, superpac puppet s, ver to following slogans handed over to them by their 400 page super pacsthem b last week.cs ls the real choice we facet in this primary is thihoices wse you want a super pac puppet or d do you want a patrioto you otwho speaks the truth? ? do you want incremental reform, which is what you re hearingh is wha about?utn or do you want revolution? okay. and i stand on the side of the american revoluti
i mean, i m happy to take it to start, alexander. so do i raise. way i don t think that s the way to do so. let me just say to alexanderdert this. first of all, one ofhi the reasons our country s decline is because of the way the corporate media treats republican s versus democrats. the biden was on the beach while those people were sufferin g. he was asked about it. he said, no comment. are you kidding meare yo? as somebody that s handled disasters in florida, you got to be activate flod. are you ve got to be there. you ve got to be present. you ve got to be helping people. can we? so we re doing is thithe s answer. to bush and he has to deal with it. so the question here is, is that a ye?s or is that a yes? is that a hand raise?t you do not. i think it was a and raisewahanr him. and it s i m my hands in my pockets. i don t know. i haven t changed hands. let us be honest. as republicans, i m the only person on the stage who ins bought and paid for. so i can say this. the clim