And gentlemen, welcome the governor of iowa, kim reynolds. [applause] reynolds let me start by saying thank you to each and everyone of you for being here. I know it has been a very trying week on top of some very trying years. I appreciate the Vice President and his team being here, taking time to meet with our iowa farmers who have been impacted by the Severe Weather we have experienced. I spent the last two days surveying, and it is devastating and widespread. From flattened cornfields to destroyed grain bins and structures, it is another huge blow to iowa farmers. Early and i will stress early estimates show at least 10 million crop acres have been impacted, half of our cropland. That does not include the structures and storage issues we have moving forward. Hundreds of thousands are without power. At its peak we had 550,000 households that did not have power, including 97 of when county. Devastation,ut the the resilience and the determination of iowans continues to show through. First responders, emergency spring to managers action. Utility workers from around iowa and around the country are working 24 7 to restore power. Mid am had 500 resources on the site. Alliance has teams as well. People are opening their homes to those without power and food. I was touring a farm yesterday. We had not eaten all day. I said where is the nearest gas station . Up the, hey, i can fire grill and we will fix you supper before you leave. I said, that is iowa. [applause] farmers are busy assessing their fields and working to salvage their crops. Have are to tell you we Strong Partner in President Trump and Vice President pence. Onpoke to the president tuesday. He called to find out what the devastation was, to let us know we have his full support and the support of the federal government in response and recovery. Appreciateent i their unending commitment to iowa. I am also extremely thankful to have our senators, senator joni ernst, in washington. She is an individual who embodies the strength and the determination of iowa. Whether she is helping iowans with covid19, trade, protecting the biofuel industry, or her response to disaster recovery, we are so fortunate to have a fighter like joni. In small towns could not have a more faithful strongeran her and a advocate on your behalf. It is my great honor and pleasure to introduce iowas senatorjunior sender and my good friend senator ernst. [applause] sen. Ernst folks, thank you for being here today. What do you think . [applause] sen. Ernst i appreciate you so much. Said,s the governor prayers go out to everyone that has been impacted by these latest storms in iowa. Had the opportunity to get out and see families that have been affected. I was out earlier today. I will be out again tomorrow morning. God bless them. We want them to stay safe and make it through this, and they will. We are iowa strong and we are iowa resilient. Again, let us focus on right here and now though. What we have going on. It is great to be with you today. I see a lot of friends in the crowd, and i am so thankful for you. And i am thankful to be here with my friend mike pence. In just aar from him second. [applause] sen. Ernst the Vice President is from another i state, indiana, but we will forgive him. Folks, he loves farmers. Being the governor of indiana, he loves farmers and he really gets it. I am joni ernst. I dont want your forgiveness. November 3 is coming quickly. [applause] but i was raised on a small farm in southwest iowa and i am so proud of that. I still call Montgomery County home. The folks back home, really a community that raised me. My folks instilled values, hard work, you name it, in me, that all of us farm kids have. I did work my way through college, iowa state graduate. [applause] sen. Ernst and i have dedicated my life to serving iowans and our great country. I have served as county auditor for micah murray county. I have served for Montgomery County. I have served in the national guard. [applause] sen. Ernst thank you. I have served as a state senator representing southwest iowa. And now the great honor as the United States senator. What i would like to do is describe what we have in front of us. We have two roads. This election is about choosing a direction for our country, and ahead of us, we have those roads. On one hand we have the road of freedom, prosperity, and joint. Sounds like a good road to me. On the other hand you have a road of the radical left. Thoset road is paved by radical environmentalist policies that are so detrimental to iowa agriculture. They are paved with abortion on demand, with the Second Amendment rollbacks that nancy pelosi has been proposing. And of course the hopes and dreams of every coastal elite. That is the other road. You know, im going to choose that first road and that is the road of prosperity, of freedom, and of choice. I hope you will take that road with me. [applause] sen. Ernst this is the road im going to fight for. I know you are going to fight for that. This is the road that donald trump and mike pence are fighting for as well. Are we going to support them . [applause] folks, they understand that right here in iowa, our American Dream is still alive and still doing well because we will continue to fight for that right here in the heartland. For all of our farmers out there, anybody involved in agriculture . [applause] sen. Ernst thats most of you. Thank you so much. On that small farm i was raised on and i think some of you will have some of this will have the same experience, too, i grew hogs. Und you saw my ads. We were taught to work with our stalls,o clean the shoveling with a now call whatever thelizer, left want to call it today. We worked really hard. That really did shape who i am today. In very profound ways, understanding that every job is worth doing area we are feeding and fueling a nation. Right here in the state of iowa. Kudos to all of you. Thank you for doing that. [applause] to givest it is easy cheap talk about agriculture. There are some engaged in this race like my opponent, theresa greenfield, that is offering up a lot of cheap talk. About agriculture. Those that are engaged in it know that it is 24 7. And you know what . Sometimes you have to get a little dirty and get in the mud, right . Thats a lot like politics. But we are going to fight for this. And i know our farmers will never forget how bad barack obama was for farmers. Think back. Think back. Waters of the United States. What an overreaching, overburdened some regulation that was on agriculture. On farmers and ranchers. Andof course, joe biden theresa greenfield are hiding. The catch phrase for theresa greenfield right now is hiding with biden. She is hiding with biden. [applause] sen. Ernst im wondering if joe biden and theresa greenfield are going to come out of their basements long enough to say whether they support a plan like barack obama did that would regulate most of iowas cropland. I would love to hear an answer. At least one answer from theresa greenfield. The democrats in this country have gotten in lockstep with the plan called the green new. How many of you have heard of that . [booing] sen. Ernst thats what i thought. I am taking that boo to washington, d. C. [applause] sen. Ernst no green new deal. It is a rotten deal for farmers. Together alongside our farmers and our producers, we have fought day in and day out for iowas farmers, our aggie industry, our fuels industry. We have kept our farming economy strong and expanded opportunities for farmers to make a living around the globe. Even during this pandemic. Folks, again, lets go back to those two roads. The one is the road of freedom, prosperity, and choice. Eventher one, im not going to go over it again. We dont need that. We dont need fundamental change to our great United States of america. Because, folks, we keep getting it right. And choice. Sperity, that is what we need right here. [applause] i have said it once, i have set it twice, i have said it a dozen times. This is going to be a tough election cycle and we need everyone out there participating. I am a fighter. I am a fighter. We are going to keep pressing on through the very last minutes and hours of this election cycle. We have to hold this state and we have to hold the white house. That is why it is such an honor for me to be on this stage today introducing a man i have known for many, many years. I am a great admirer of this gentleman. He served in some any different capacities from congress to governor of the great state of indiana. He is none other than our Vice President mike pence. He will join me on this stage. Give a warm iowa welcome to our Vice President. [applause] vice pres. Pence hello, iowa. It is great to be back in the Hawkeye State. To governor kim reynolds, senator joni ernst, to all of the great americans gathered here today, thank you for coming and being part of a national movement. Farmers and ranchers for trump. I want to thank joni ernst for those great words and thank you governor. I will have more to say, but i have to tell you, the state of iowa is truly blessed. That a principled conservative who has served this nation in uniform and who fights for the Hawkeye State every single day, senator joni ernst. Is a national treasure. [applause] sen. Ernst vice pres. Pence i know we are gathering at a time of great progress, great hope. A time of choosing right around the corner. Before i get started, let me take a moment to address every ioan and frankly people across the heartland of this country. Derecho that destroyed millions of acres of crops, left iowans without power, and tragically took the lives of two iowans. Storm,heard about this as a lifelong hoosier, i was taken aback. To hear the magnitude of the storm. I just met with families who literally have seen virtually their entire crop wiped out. But they were standing strong, standing together. I assured them they and all of those that have been impacted by this derecho are on the hearts and in the prayers of millions of americans. Let me say, on behalf of the president of the United States, and our administration, i want iowans to know we are with you, we are going to stay with you, and we will work with your governor and your senators to make sure we bring iowa all the way back. Bigger and stronger than ever before. I promise. But it really is great to be in iowa. From the first day of this administration, this president since stood strong for the people of the state. A promise he always will. As a son of the heartland, i feel right at home. Thats why i am here today. I am here because iowa and america need four more years of President Donald Trump in the white house. [applause] vice pres. Pence while you are at it, we need six more years of senator joni ernst area in the United States senate. Let me also say, the president and i and senator ernst and your great governor need the great send more to to washington, d. C. Thank you all for coming out today. Summertime the iowa state fairgrounds is usually a little busier. But these are no ordinary times. It is still a joy to be with all of you today. I am here because i stand with President Donald Trump. [applause] when this pence president stands up for business and family and the american flag, i stand with President Donald Trump. When this president stands up to the radical left and their socialist agenda, we stand with President Donald Trump. And when this president fights for americas farmers and ranchers and those with the strength of this nation begins with the men and women who work the land, we stand with President Donald Trump. Four years ago a movement was born. A movement of Everyday Americans from every walk of life. Here in iowa you knew we could be strong again. You knew we could be prosperous again. You said yes to president donald know iowa is and i going to say yes to four more years of President Donald Trump. In 2020. [applause]. Vice pres. Pence the choice in this election could not be clearer. The stakes could not be higher. In this president you have a leader who has done more for this countrys economy, more to toengthen our military, more extend the godgiven liberties in strident in enshrined the founding document of this country than any president in my lifetime area there is only one way you can describe it. Three years of action. [applause] vice pres. Pence it has been three years of results. [applause] vice pres. Pence it has been three years of promises made and promises kept. But we are just getting started, iowa. [applause] vice pres. Pence think about it. Has kept every promise he made to the people of iowa and then some. And the results have been incredible. I must tell you, it is the greatest honor of my life to be your Vice President , the highest title i will ever hold. [applause] vice pres. Pence and as the proud father of a United States marine and the fatherinlaw of a United States navy pilot, i could not be more proud to serve with a president who has rebuilt the military of the United States of america. We made our Strongest Military in the world stronger. This president cut taxes across the board for working families, small businesses, and family farm, and he has cut more redtape than any president in the history of this country. Businesses large and small in our first three years created more than 7 million jobs across this nation. 2 million americans were lifted out of poverty. 7 million americans were able to leave food stamps behind and pursue their dreams. This president and our entire administration in the midst of ,ll of it always put family farmers, and ranchers first. [applause] vice pres. Pence we did. , wethose tax cuts eliminated the estate tax for virtually every family farm. Death is no longer a taxable offense. [applause] being from thee this president allowed for immediate expensing of equipment. We made great progress. Our economy was growing as never before. In three short leaders short years, President Trump and our allies like joni ernst, worked together to create the strongest economy in the history of the world. And then the coronavirus pandemic struck our nation from china. We have been going through a challenging time. Early in this pandemic, the American People saw the leadership of President Donald Trump shine forth. This president marshall did not only a whole of government response, but a whole of america response. America has done more testing the coronavirus than any nation on earth by far. [applause] at thees. Pence president s direction, our task force arranged for the manufacture and delivery of hundreds of millions of medical supplies to all of the Incredible Health care workers and hospitals across this nation. We have been working aroundtheclock since february this year developing new therapeutic, medicines that are becoming increasingly available across the country, and im proud to say i believe we will have a vaccine for the coronavirus by the end of this year. Only in america. Only under the leadership of President Donald Trump. We have a ways to go. We all have a role to play. To continue to protect the vulnerable with the help of others first. To save lives. I know the people of iowa will do as you have done all along. Put the health of others first. By since the gone president asked me to leave the task force we have not thought of families that have suffered loss. Today i encourage your prayers for the more than 160,000 American Families that have lost loved ones including here in iowa. Our hearts are also full of gratitude for the lives that have been saved by the incredible first responders, doctors, nurses, and Health Care Workers across this nation. Their efforts have been nothing short of heroic. And you have our thanks. [applause] let me alsoence say President Trump and i could not be more grateful for the extraordinary leadership and character of governor kim reynolds. Jobhas done an amazing leading this state through challenging times and governor kim reynolds. Bringing iowa all the way back. And the American Economy is coming back. At the height of this pandemic, our economy had lost 22 million jobs. Because of that Solid Foundation that we poured in those first three years, of less taxes, more free and fair trade, more american energy, an american comeback has begun. From that height of 22 million jobs lost, as of a short time ago, this economy is already adding back 9. 3 million jobs and we are just getting started. [no audio] [applause] vice pres. Pence i will make you a promise and the governor knows we mean it. As people continue to contend with this pandemic, we will not rest, we will not relent, we will spare no expense and no americantil iowa and put the coronavirus in the past and we bring america all the way back. Upopen up america and open americas schools. [applause] vice pres. Pence to do that we will do our part, but to bring america back, we need four more years of President Trump in the white house. [applause] president , this administration begins with farmers and ranchers. To bring america all the way for we will keep fighting americas farmers and ranchers and every one of you. This president , i mentioned before, has already not just cut taxes for family farms and ranches, but this president has been busy rolling back red tape at a record level. President trump at sign more bills cutting federal redtape than any president in history. Reflected nst and i was there when he signed it he signed a measure to ensure farmers and ranchers are able to control their own private property. We repealed the waters of the usa role and restored private property rights. Here in iowa and across america. [applause] where past administrations anded their back on farmers ethanol producers, President Trump told the people of iowa this administration will expand into all markets, and that is what we have done. Last year the president traveled to Council Bluffs and announced e15 is available yearround. Promises made, promises kept. [applause] after decades of being held back, america is a net exporter of Energy Around the world for the first time in 75 years, and we will fight to expand ethanol as a part of americas vital energy industry. Of independent and dominance, we are setting records every day. With strong leadership of senator joni ernst, and strong sense of old and unwavering conservative leadership of senator Chuck Grassley, this president announced an agreement on renewable fuel standards that ensures a 15 billion gallon ethanol blended into the fuel supply in 2020. I do not have to tell you in had one impact nasa communities and manufacturing in this country. In 2016 when the president and i were coming to the state, he , we when it comes to nafta could do better. He said we would renew our trading relationship with mexico and canada. Some people said it could not be done. I watched him do it. He rolled his sleeves up, and a man who wrote part of the deal got a great deal for the American People, and the usmca is the law of the land. [applause] for iowas farmers and ranchers, in 2018 farmers and ranchers exported 6 billion worth of goods to canada and mexico. Canada has agreed to expand Market Access for american dairy, eggs, poultry. 2. 2ink we will sell billion more in agricultural exports to canada and mexico alone. That includes 3 million in dairy exports in the first few years. For iowa, a win for the heartland and americas farmers. [applause] experts tell us it will 250e 600,000 jobs and add billion to the economy out of the gate. It is incredible. , beforecomes to trade the president took office, he made it clear the era of economic surrender to china was over. We were going to fight for american jobs, american farmers, american workers. [applause] years, one administration after another in both Political Parties stood idly by while we saw china a mass and extraordinary trade surplus. Half of our International Trade deficit when we took office was with china alone. At a time when china was giving us limited access to what we make and grow in this country. 500 billion of our International Trade deficit was with china. As President Trump make clear, those days are over. , and farmersng across this country stood strong. You stood with us as the placeent put tariffs in to level a Playing Field with china. The way farmers and ranchers stood in the pocket for this president and free and fair trade was an inspiration to the nation. You have artifacts. Ourou have thanks. Farmers and ranchers understand to get things done, you have to take a firm stand. Because of the stand you took, the stan President Trump took, it seems like in a few short months, President Trump signed the phase one trade deal, and we secured 50 billion in agricultural exports to china for the next two years. [applause] that is progress. We have a ways to go, and most fs are tarif still there, but it is a beginning. I just learned this morning that corn sales to china just broke all records last month. On july 30, the usda reported 1. 9 4 Million Metric Tons to china, the largest daily sales total ever. [applause] it is working. They are buying. We are leveling the Playing Field. In july, soybeans to china ,eached 3 Million Metric Tons the percent of u. S. Agricultural exports going to china are compared with the rest of the world. Twice the share went to china in 2017. Men and women gathered at this farmers and ranchers for trump rally is what leadership looks like. That is the leadership of donald trump. [applause] i promise you we will continue to stand firm with china until we level the Playing Field, not just for american agricultural but American Manufacturing and american workers. Under this president and administration, we always put america first. [applause] it is amazing to think all we have done in three and a half years through extraordinary opposition from the left and the democrats. And through the midst of a challenging pandemic. Incredible and happens when you have a president willing to fight each and every day. I promise you the guy i serve with will never stop fighting to keep the promises he made to the people of iowa. [applause] know all theo progress we have made is at risk. My fellow americans, we are passing through a time of testing, but soon we will come to a time for choosing. That is something the people of iowa know well. The choice in this election has never been clearer, the stakes never have been higher. I want to talk to you about what is at stake. About the choice our nation faces. You can talk to your neighbors and friends. Iowa, our economic recovery is on the ballot. There are things on the ballot more fundamental. And more foundational to our country. Election,is coming the choice is not whether america will be more conservative or liberal, whether america will be more democratic or republican, i think the choice is whether america remains america. [applause] the choice in this election is whether we leave a country grounded in our highest ideals of freedom, free markets, the inalienable right to life and liberty, or whether we believe torturing grandchildren a country that is fundamentally transformed into something else. We stand at a crossroads of freedom. Paths, oneive two based on the dignity and worth of every individual, and the other on the growing control of the state. One leads to greater freedom and opportunity for every american regardless of race or creed or color. The other leads inexorably to socialism and decline. Biden andstake, Joe Kamala Harris will set america on a path of socialism and decline, and we will not let it happen. [applause] President Trump set our nation on freedom and opportunity, but it is amazing when you look at their agenda. In the midst of a global pandemic, joe biden and kamala by 4 will raise taxes trillion. That is more than double the tax increase that Hillary Clinton never proposed. By contrast, President Trump signed the largest tax cuts and tax reform in american history, and we will keep delivering tax relief to working americans. [applause] harris willd kamala bury the economy under more regulation and bureaucracy. The california senator he named as his running mate this week said during her Short Campaign for president that americans needed to be educated about the effect of our eating habits on our environment. Senator harris said she would change the dietary guidelines of this country to reduce the amount of red meat americans can eat. You. E red meat for we will not let joe biden and, let harris cut americas meat. [applause] joe biden and Kamala Harris have a plan to abolish fossil fuels. He wants to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and implement his own version of the green new deal. I do not have to tell you these radical left policies would devastate americas farmers and ranchers. By contrast, President Trump has put an Energy Strategy on the table that is driving in andican energy renaissance, we are exporting energy to the world, and we will keep expanding. [applause] the choice is not just clear at home on issues that there directly on our livelihood. A contrast of leadership on the world stage. The American People deserve to remember joe biden was a leading voice of appeasement toward iran and in support of the iran nuclear deal. President trump got us out of the iran nuclear deal. Gone. L solemani is [applause] administrations made promises, it was President Trump who kept his promise when he moved the American Embassy to jerusalem, the capital of israel. [applause] i do not know if you heard about it, this morning in the oval office, the president announced for the first time in more than 25 years a leading arab nation has normalized relations with the state of israel. Israel. Is recognizing [applause] that is history, and that is leadership. This president has stood with our allies and up your enemies. Closer to home he has stood with the many women who serve and Law Enforcement every day, and we always will. [applause] President Trump and i know what the people of iowa know, many women who serve in Law Enforcement are the best people in this country. We will always back the blue. [applause] joe biden actually said he believes america is in his words systemically racist. And that Law Enforcement has an implicit bias against minorities. When joe biden was asked if he would cut funding to Law Enforcement, he said yes, absolutely. Let me make it clear. Andehalf of this president this administration, we are not going to defund the police, not now, not ever. [applause] it is about security at home and abroad, about prosperity, but ultimately the rule of law. When it comes to the rule of law, we know joe biden and Kamala Harris will appoint activist judges to our courts who will legislate from the bench. By contrast, President Trump has already appointed more than 200 federal judges to our courts at every level, and they are all conservatives who will uphold the godgiven liberties in our constitution like the freedom of religion, the freedom of states, and the Second Amended right to keep and their arms. Bear arms. [applause] of that would have been possible without the stalwart greatt of iowas two senators. Join me in thanking senator joni ernst and senator Chuck Grassley for standing strong. [applause] all, i could not be more proud to serve as Vice President to the most prolife president in american history. [applause] with an election 80 days away, we have worked to do to carry our message forward. Despite all the progress we have made, including two justices to the Supreme Court, a few recent decisions remind us we have a ways to go. Like that 54 decision that struck down a louisiana law that simply require doctors that work in abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, or like the 54 decision that said the state of nevada can impose greater restrictions on a chapel than caesars palace. One thing is clear with those decisions, we need more conservatives on the Supreme Court of the United States. We need four more years of President Trump in the white house. [applause] for american strength and american jobs and law and order and liberty and life, we have to decide right here and right now that joe biden will never be president of the United States. We are going to reelect President Trump. [applause] ready. Et buckle up. It is on. Most, wenow more than will carry the message you just heard across the state and this nation. We need all of you to get ready to bring it like you did four years ago. Bring this enthusiasm, bring your voice and support, tell your neighbors and friends all we have accomplished. And all this administration can do to continue to make this nation stronger and more prosperous than ever before. And continue to build an american future on all the ideals and values that have made the nation great in the past. As we open up america again, as we bring our nation back, i want to encourage you to reflect those values that are so unique to farmers and ranchers. Up in one word, and that is faith. [applause] i woke up this morning and thought i will be with some of the best people in this country. Growing up in the heartland as i did, we had a cornfield in my cattled, 100 head of that my dad had with a few partners. I have mucked my share of stalls for horses, but i am inspired by the character and faith of many women who work the land. Who raise the livestock. Who feed the nation. You are people who come from generations of americans who have endured great hardship like iowa just passed through. You came through it with a resilience and strength that i think has been a wellspring of strength for the nation. I have always marveled at how may times the bible tells us to consider the farmer. Oflearn from the patience a farmer, and apply that to her personal lives. As i got up today, i could not what one greater radio host said so many years ago. Talked aboutvey why god made a farmer. He said on the eighth day god his paradise and said i needed caretaker, so i made a farmer. God said, i need somebody willing to get up and work all day in the fields, milk cows, eat supper, then go to town and state past midnight at a meeting of the school board, so god made a farmer. God had to have somebody to go double speed to get the hate in ahead of the ring clouds hay in ahead of the ring clouds rain clouds. God made a farmer. God said, i need some strong and gentlelear trees enough to tame the lands. Mower andtop his splint the broken leg of a meadowlark. So god made a farmer. Feed,dy to seed, weed, replenish andnd finish a hard weeks work with a drive to church. Would bail a family together. The soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and. Eply with smiling eyes when a son says he wants to spend his life doing what dad does. God made a farmer. And in god made a farmer so doing made america stronger. That will always be true. [applause] when so much is on the line, when we have so much at stake in this election, i ask you to draw on that wellspring of strength. Understand leaders in your community, people respect you not because of what you do but because of who you are. To unveile you yourself of that strength. If you are inclined to about ahead and bend the knee, which no farmer i ever met was not, i encourage you to do that too. , if his people who were called by his name will humble themselves and pray, he will do as he has done through much more withenging this one nation undd liberty and justice for all. [applause] to farmers and ranchers, thank you for your support and i am convinced if all of us do we need to do between now and november 3, your support with your example, with your voice and your prayers, we will reelect this president for four new years, and elect two great members and a new republican majority. [applause] bring americao all the way back because we will make America Great again. 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And his running mate Kamala HarrisWork Together in delaware for a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic from Public Health experts. They talked to reporters just before the briefing. How has the first day been with senator harris . Mr. Biden its been great. , i haveher husband, joe become close with them. Its been a great, great day