You come together in this fight, i can promise you that americas days are yet to come. Thank you very much. God bless you. I appreciate it. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you so much. Round of a. [applause] we are getting the youth involved in the campaign. Doing a great job traveling in different parts of the country for us. I wanted to share with you immediately getting into what matters right now. Lets start with whats going on internationally in israel. Our top job as a country today is to make sure that we are strong while standing for our allies in israel. I think their way we have to purchase is cool, levelheaded, calm and rational. We have to stand for israels right to defend its own borders. While making sure that we avoid broader regional conflict in world war iii that when it advance american interests. And most importantly of all, and i say this coming to you today, right now, where i flew here from, was eagle pass on our own southern border still processing what i saw down there, making sure that we protect the homeland right here at home in the United States of america. Last weekend i was in pittsburgh, New Hampshire on our northern border. Earlier today on our own southern border. And i am alarmed right now nobody is talking about it, so i wanted to open with this. We have to protect our own homeland in this country now more than ever. Border defenses that is absolutely lacking, 70,000 special interest aliens coming to this country from countries that have islamic jihadist ties right here in the United States, 70,000 of them apprehended. Cyber defenses, super emp defenses, Nuclear Missile defenses, all of which are lacking at home in our homeland. I wanted to share that with you, thats been on my mind since we were in the southern border earlier today. Its a travesty what we saw but its least about what i wanted to talk to you about. We are in the middle of a war in the United States of america, right now. It is not a war between black and white as the media would have you believe, at times. It is not even a war between democrats and republicans, not really. It is a war between those of us in the United States of america who believe in our founding ideas. Who believe that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among these, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Who believe in Martin Luthers creed that with you get ahead in this country not in the color of your skin for the content of your character and controversials, who boast the rule of law on free speech and open debates, the pursuit of excellence, who believes the United States as a nation founded on the greatest ideals known to man, that american exceptionalism is real. Even though we are an imperfect nation, we are founded on the pursuit of a more perfect union. The pursuit of liberty, equality and justice for all. That is one side of this war. And on the other side of this where we have a different view. One that says your identity is based on your race, your gender and your sexuality. That if youre black youre inherently disadvantage. If youre white, youre inherently privileged. No matter your economic background are up bringing, your genetics determine who you are and what you can achieve in life. Who believe that we have to abandon Carbon Emissions in the United States at all costs, even as we shift those same Carbon Emissions to places like china, who believe that we can use our military to protect somebody elses border halfway around the world, but its unjust to use our own military to protect our own border, who wish to apologize for the american way of life. Why do i call this a war . I call this a war because theres no middle ground between these two views. Either you believe in meritocracy or you believe in group quotas. Either you believe in american exceptionalism or you believe in american apologists him. Theres no having both. The first step to winning a war is knowing that youre in when in the first place. I have good news for you, thank you. That the baby . I appreciate that. The good news i have is that most of us in this country ive traveled to most of the states in this union, 80 of us in this country, easily, are on the proamerican side of this war. Black or white, even democrat or republican. Better better news is afton 20 their people younger than me who never learned those ideals. We will bring them along as well. But the bad news is that the other side is still winning this war right now. What i want to talk to you about tonight is why. I got my first job in the fall of 2007 on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis at a Financial Firm in new york, interesting time to get a first job. What happened back then was we had just given in 2008 the bailout under the republican a ministration from all of us, the taxpayers would use that money to give it to a bunch of big big banks. That happened under republican launch. The old laughs as we want to take that money and redistribute it from those wealthy corporate fat cats and give it to poor people to help poor people. Agree or not, thats what the old left had to say. But right around that time there was the birth of this new strand of the left that set it a little bit differently. They said the real problem in this country is not economic injustice and poverty, as the old left used to say, they said its Racial Injustice and misogyny and bigotry and Climate Change. Well, if youre wall street, occupy wall street is a tough pill to swallow. But the new woke stuff was pretty easy. You put some token minority on your boards. It was about Climate Change after you fly in a private jet to davos. Its good work if you can get it, but they didnt do it for free. They expected the new left to look the other way when it came to leaving their own Corporate Power intact. And it worked masterfully for both sides. I was on wall street right is that happen, played out in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. Then you open your eyes and see the same thing was happening in every area of american life. Strange bedfellows getting in bed together. They dont love each other, its an arranged marriage, not of love. Its more like mutual prostitution. In the net result was the birth of this woke Industrial Complex thats far more powerful than just Big Government or big this is because its a hybrid of the two that together did what neither could alone. So Silicon Valley was doing the same thing. The old version of breakup big tech used to come from the left, actually. Silicon valley said, we will censor hate speech and misinformation as you define it. But we wont do it for free. We expect the new left to look the other way when it comes to leading our monopoly power intact. That worked masterfully for both sides. Then you open your eyes and you see this everywhere. Cocacola issuing statements about new voting laws in georgia. It makes it sound more like a super pac than a soft drink manufacturer. Teaching their employees how to be less white. Their words, not mine. But not saying ap pub out what they used to get criticized for was spreading diabetes and obesity, including in the black community. Its the hypocrisy. This is a mystery story, im telling you this really frankly, my Campaign Advisors tell me not to do this on stage, its too complicated, simplify it, no, the truth is complicated, we have to see it with clear eyes. You see it in every area of life. Look at our k12 education system. They told our kids, in the innercity they couldnt go to school for two years because apparently covert only affects Public Schools but not private schools. What do they say now . Last year they said mathis racist. Because black kids are not doing as well as on math tests as white kids. To plus two still equals four, but what what mightve been an equitable was failing to teach those kids in the inner cities how to do math. Deflecting accountability for their own failure. So its one area after another. I am a millennial, im 38 years old. Many of my peers still havent paid off their student loan debts. Many of them were told, you become a gender studies major in california its a head start on the american dream. That didnt work out. In college you get Critical Race Theory to give yourself victim hood narrative to explain why you are swimming in debt when it was a system that failed us. Asked about wokeness in the military, this is everywhere in american life. This is relevant today. Some of the Republican Party to get me in trouble over saying this, but its the truth. 25 years of failed wars in afghanistan, iraq, 3 trillion spent, thousands and thousands of innocent american lives lost, to what end . The taliban is still in charge in afghanistan and hostile antiamerican regime is still in iraq. This is pointless and now is the moment to learn those lessons coolheaded lead as i said to the present, but those mistakes of the past, remember, it it was the left that was good to sizing the military. If your general mark ellis erie millie lets say white rage to defang the criticism of the left. This is the story of how that fringe minority in this country, the antiamerican minority in this war is winning this war because the swamp, the managerial class inside government and, prop them up to deflect criticism from the left where it used to come from so that they could keep their power structure intact. Thats the first part of the story. Once you see it, you cant unsee it. And then, something happens. A third party then showed up on the scene. And turned this arranged marriage into a three party affair. Thats the communist party of china. I didnt promise you this is going to be simple, i will ask you to stay with me. Xi jinping, when he is pressed on the weaker human rights crisis, a million religious minorities enslaved in concentration camps, subject to forced sterilization and worse, what is he say . Black lives matter shows that the United States is no better, xi jinpings words. Not an accident. His top diplomat talk so error pet puppet called tony blinken, or whatever, china wants to see the u. S. Stop slaughtering black americans in that china wants to see the u. S. Do better on human rights. This would be a laughable if it werent for the fact that our own companies and universities, and k12 education, our own military lends credibility to those claims. After blackrock you apply and omissions cap and talk about systemic racism. They build a great chinese wall that stops you from entering the Chinese Market if you criticize the ccp or apply and omissions cap over there, but do those things in the United States, they will roll out the red carpet. Thats how this game is played. This is not a democrat or republican story, really, both parties, for years, we thought we could export max and happy meals and that would spread democracy to places like china, we thought we could use our money to get them to be more like us, they did us one step worse. They realized they could use access to their market, their money to get us to be more like them. They realize they could use our money to get us to be more like them and it worked. And heres the dirty little trick in that. That erodes our most valuable asset of all. That is not our nuclear arsenal. It is our moral standing on the global stage by creating a false equivalence between chinese nihilism and american idealism. Its a comp located story, but its the truth of how we got to where we are today. Question is, what do we do with this information . Knowing that this fringe minority is winning this internal domestic war we are in because the managerial class at home in the ccp abroad is propping them up, what do we do with that . Abraham lincoln said it well in 1863 at the height of our civil war then. That the dogmas of a quiet past are in adequate to the stormy presence present. And i say that the dogmas of 1980 are in adequate to address the unique challenges we face today in the year 2023. We need new solutions, lead, if i may say so myself, by a new generation to actually address the unique challenges of the present. First thing we need the next president to do, what i will do as your next president , got that swamp, that managerial class, get in there and shut it down. This is the real american politics today, the people who we elect to run the government, i heard some of the discussion backstage having with sean spicer, good conversation about dysfunction in congress and all that, thats a sideshow compared to the reality. Reality is the people we elect to run the government are not even the ones who run the government. Its the people in the deep state, the shadow government, three letter agencies that a writing policy today. If i cannot be your next president for more than eight years, which i think is a good thing, thankfully, then neither should any of those federal bureaucrats reporting into me. Eight year term limits for the bureaucracy instead of the Civil Service protections. Thats how you drain the swamp. When there are Government Agencies that should not exist from the fbi to the u. S. Department of education, to the atf to the Nuclear Regulatory commission, we will get in there and shut them down, thats how you revive the integrity of a three Branch Constitutional republic. 75 headcount reduction in the federal bureaucracy and washington, d. C. Cut out 50 of unconstitutional federal regulation that failed West Virginia versus epa, the supreme courts test last year. This is how you drive generational change. Drill, burn coal, embrace nuclear. Stopping people more money to stay at home than to go to work. Zerobased budgeting. Starting out with last years budget but zero as the baseline and then ask whats actually necessary. This is not moderate. Im not a fan of moderation because america and her ideals are not moderate. This is what its going to take to drive our nation forward, not incrementalism, but a quantum leap to our future. Thats domestically at home. Then abroad, the other half of the story, the other culprit was the communist party of china. Thats the real threat we face. My strategy, with respect to china, reagan said with the ussr in 1980, we win, they lose, thats my strategy. We will declare independence from china. We have to cut the cord. We cannot depend on our enemy for our modern way of life. That is the declaration of independence that Thomas Jefferson would have signed. If you were alive today. Thats a declaration of independence that i will sign as your next president. We cannot depend on an enemy. We are in a codependent relationship, those dont end well. The only question is, who ends at. The first way we declare independence from china is unshackle ourselves from the climate colts at home. That shackles the United States while leaving china untouched. It is wrong. The same people who want us to stop burning carbon here say ship it to china. The same people opposed to Carbon Emissions are also opposed to Nuclear Energy. The bestknown form of Carbon Free Energy production known to mankind. Why . Because Nuclear Energy might be too good at solving their supposed made up crisis because this is really not about the climate, its about letting china catch up to the United States. Guess which one country on earth has a gender for nuclear reactor, thats china. Unshackle ourselves, declare semiconductor independence from china. The chips in our phones that light the fridge rater that keeps your water cold before you drink it tonight. Those depend on little chips, Semiconductors Made on an island nation off the southeast coast of china. We have to make those in the United States. Pharmaceutical independence in this country. 95 percent of overthecounter pharmaceuticals coming from our enemy in china. I came from that southern border today were china is sending over the synthetic ingredients to make fentanyl to the mexican drug cartels, pumping that across our southern border killing tens upon tens of thousands of innocent americans here. You think the same country thats going to lace our illegal pharmaceutical supply chain with fentanyl isnt in a conflict scenario going to do the exact same thing with our illegal pharmaceutical supply chain that we rely on them for the same country that unleashed hell on the world with the covid19 pandemic, forget about it. Our Defense Industrial base. The f35. The military equipment we manufacture in the United States. Laughable, but its not funny, depend on china to provide those parts. Think about it with me, why are we accumulating military equipment if not to protect ourselves in a conflict scenario with an enemy that we depend on to provide the very parts to make that military equipment. Thats where we need to declare independence from china. These are not black ideas or white ideas. These are not even democrat ideas or republican ideas. These are fundamentally american ideas that we fought a revolution to secure in this country. And i think we live in a 1776 moment today, this is our moment to step up and revive our national identity. It will take knowing you are in a war to win that war. It will take a general from the next generation to lead us to the next generation because the real secret ingredient reading this wars the final thing i will close this on before opening up to a few questions. Reviving our missing National Pride in the United States of america. Young americans in this country have lost their sense of national identity, 60 of Young Americans say they would sooner give up their right to vote then to give up their access to tiktok. Im not making that up. I think every High School Senior who graduates from 12th grade should have to pass the same civics test that every immigrant has to pass in order to become a voting citizen of this country. You have to have skin in the game to play the game. You have to know something about the country not just passively inherited. In my generation we celebrated our diversity and differences so much that we forgot all of the ways, we are really just the same as americans. Bound by that common set of ideals that set this country into motion 250 years ago. I believe it deep in my heart, that those ideals still exist. Im running for president to revive them and i believe we can. In the way we are going to do it is all of us, not just me, all of us starting to speak openly again. You want to know the best measure of our countries health, the best measure of american democracy itself. Its not the number of three pieces of paper in our bank account or the number of ballots we cast every november. Those are important but they are not the most important. It is the percentage of people who feel free to say what they actually think in public. Right now we are doing poorly. The only way we will fix it is all of us starting to speak openly again. Thats what this campaign is again. Speaking the truth, not just when it is easy, but when it is hard, speaking the truth with conviction, the spine, without apologizing, speaking respectfully, but part of respectfully saying in public what we would otherwise say in private, that is what were doing tonight, speak that truth with a spine without apology. God israel, there are two genders. Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity, reverse racism is racism, and open border is not a border, parents determine the education of their children, the Nuclear Family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind, capitalism is the greatest system known to man to lift us up from poverty. There are three branches of government, not for, and the u. S. Constitution is the strongest and greatest guarantor of freedom in human history. That is the truth. We fight for the truth, we stand up for the truth, that is what won us the american revolution. That is what reunited us after the civil war. That is what won us two world wars and the cold war. That is what still gives hope to the free world. If we can revive that dream over Group Identity and victimhood and grievance, then nobody in the world, not a nation, not a corporation, not a virus, not china is going to defeat us. That is what american exceptionalism is all about, and that is what we together will revive to save our great nation. Thank you all for coming out tonight. May god bless you. God bless your family. God bless the United States of america. Thank you. , some question. A better microphone. I forgot that. We will take a couple questions and then we will wrap it up. Thank you for taking my question. Speak about being America First and focusing on america, with the conflict that has broken out between israel and gaza and the palestinians and has polat can iran and iraq, everything going on in the middle east, what if anything should be the United States role in that conflict and why . Absolute question and timely for now. America first is not mean your isolationists. It means that you look to every conflict abroad with a proamerican prism. What happened to israel was wrong. It was barbaric. Meet people and nature what hamas did to israel, so the job of the United States of america is to make sure we defend israels right to defend itself. Using whatever means necessary to stand for its own National Self existence. That means that we have to provide diplomatic support, make sure the u. N. Doesnt pull its usual nonsense of drawing a false equivalence between israels selfdefense and the terrorists who attacked them. It means that we knew intelligence sharing, we engage in diplomatic support of every kind, munition support as needed, but do it in a way that does not create broader regional war in the middle east. That includes making sure iran never becomes nuclear equipped, but it is beyond insane that we are having discussions with saudi arabia about nuclear equipment. Thats different than every other candidate is talking about, but what true friends do is we learn from each other, and i also want to learn from israel to know that can happen right here at home, and we have to protect ourselves because if it can happen there with 70,000 specialinterest aliens in this country from hostile jihadist islamic countries, we have to make sure this doesnt happen at home. Outtake a couple more questions. If you want a quick followup we can come back to you after them. You set until we get semiconductor independence from taiwan, we will defend taiwan. China has over 5000 merchant ships, logistics winds wars. We know that strategy wins battles. We have 85 ships left in this country, we dont produce one shipyard that can produce on time, 85 ships. How will be defend taiwan . This is why love New Hampshire, we get real questions. I never go into this level of detail in general talk. But if youre asking me, we will go into the detail. We are too busy trying to make we are not making them, large aircraft carriers cost 13 billion apiece. Heres a quick way to replenish the navy, at least make the frigates, which we can make for a 10th of the cause. Smaller ships to replenish the navy now so we cannot wring our hands, we have to do its necessary now. We have to build alliances with nations like india. Im not saying that just because, you know. It matters to the United States, right. Thats where china gets its middle eastern oil supply. 60 of oil comes through. We need a supply we need a reliable person and we could do that if we get india on our side. If somebody can do that it better be somebody with my long last name. Who here loves the Second Amendment. All right, so do i, lets export the Second Amendment to taiwan, put a gun and every taiwanese household, teach them how to use it, china is deathly afraid of the Second Amendment. For the next several years we need to be able to run a destroyer through the Taiwan Strait every week, say affirmatively we will defend taiwan at least until we get semiconductor independence in this country, after which we resumed the status quo, what is now, of strategic ambiguity. Thats the kind of strategic leadership it will take, honesty with clear redlines, what consequences when you cross them, and xi jinping wont cross that on my watch, you have to be a fool to do it, the move from this strategic ambiguity of the broken Foreign Policy of the last 45 years to strategic clarity both for ourselves to our citizens, our allies and adversaries, thats a new american first Foreign Policy and it will take an outsider from a different generation to lead us forward, it doesnt follow the historical establishment approved talking points, thats not what im here to deliver, its an actual vision of how i would leave the country as commanderinchief. We will come right up here to the front, right here and then appear. My name is brandon, i created the Walkaway Campaign, the movement of people walking away from the democratic party, thank you. You created it . I created it, im the og. Over the last couple of years nearly a Million People have joined the movement. We have tens of thousands of people who created video and written testimonials talking about walking away. I might be a little bit biased but i believe its one of the most powerful and impactful grassroots movements happening in the conservative movement. I also think its the most exciting thing. Despite this fact, the rnc has never acknowledge the Walkaway Campaign or any of the work that weve done and no republican president ial candidate has acknowledged the Walkaway Campaign. So id like to extend the opportunity for you to be the first republican president ial candidate to acknowledge walkaway i love the opportunity to interview you someday, if that would be possible. Thank you, congratulations for what youre doing. I recognize the man for his efforts. If i may say, quickly. Because of the success of walkaway i was targeted on january 6. I was raided by the fbi, arrested and thrown in jail. I did not enter the capitol on january 6 or commit any theft or destruction, but my life was the dust torn apart by the United States department of justice and the fbi. The majority of my case was a complete and total lie. I was put in a position where i had to take a plea deal as opposed to going to trial and potentially facing years in prison for things i did not do. Im pretty sure that you will answer the question that you would pardon jays six prisoners, but i would like to take it a step further and ask, because a lot of republicans have stated that they would or the candidates. Right, what i have a problem with is that a lot of them at the caveat, if people didnt really do anything wrong. The problem i have with this is that i have yet to meet a republican in leadership who knows any of the details of any january 6 case or why people pleaded guilty to crimes that they did not commit. So will you please take the time to learn why people pled but guilty to crimes that they didnt commit . You have my commitment to that. This one gets under my skin because it goes to the heart it was the First Amendment for a reason. The First Amendment. The reason why i dont know if summaries go walk in. Every time a protester walks into the room here, i traveled to College Campuses across the country, 1200 kids showed up in 24 hours notice on my way to the southern border. Now all of them agreed with me. We got protest. I give them the microphone, even if we disagree because thats the american way. You tell people they cannot speak, that is when they scream. You tell people they cannot scream, that is when they tear things down. Our Founding Fathers understood that as well as we ought to today. Ive been very clear, i dont do the wishywashy stuff. Anybody for whom there is no evidence of physical violence jays six purchasers, who were peaceful, that is no evidence of violence, they will get a pardon on day one of my ministration. Thank you, please note that a lot of people pled guilty to committing violence who do not commit violence. I understand the pressure of that in every case will be looked out one by one. We will come here for one last question and wrap it up. Unless we have some of the back. Im from middletown connecticut, marine corps veteran. I appreciate that. If you become president , will you declare black lives matter a terrorist organization question requires their behavior has earned it, so why wouldnt we. Black lives matter is vague. Antifa, absolutely. It relates to that last question. We cannot have two tiers of justice in this country. One for biden and another for trump. One for peaceful j six protesters on another for nt for burning down half this country. One for people in and let other political persuasion. I want to step out of the presence here. Thats now considered a republican talking point. I dont aspire to be just a partisan talking point guy. Lets look at this through an american lens. Our nation has been in perfect in our national history. We have had two tears of justice before for black americans and right and white americans. Back in 1870, that existed in this country, particularly in the south. We have to acknowledge that. That was wrong then, but the civil rights issue of our time today is about political expression. So you cannot have a Justice System that weaponizes its use based on the political belief of the defendant. That is wrong. That will and on my watch. We cant change the past except in one case, the u. S. President can pardon anybody who has been the victim of a politically motivated prosecution. Most president s are scared to do that because theres billable consequences. They wait until the last day or last week when they are in office. We are doing them on january 20, 2025 for peaceful j six protesters to donald trump, to douglas mackey, two julian assange, you name it. Anybody whos been a victim of politically motivated persecution through prosecution gets the pardon and anybody who has escaped the law and rule of justice due to the violent acts will have justice to out smelly face. Thats the commitment i give you on my watch. I will say this in closing, i want to be respectful of everybodys time. We have a Party Straight by the dashed down the hall, free reception, food and drinks. I hope thats real but it will be fun regardless. I want to say this in closing. We are taught to believe you hear those questions, i get it, we are taught to believe we are a nation in decline. We are taught to believe that we are at the end of the ancient roman empire and we have left is to fight over the scraps of the shrinking pie. I dont think so. I dont think we have to be that nation in decline. I dont think we have to be ancient rome. I think as a nation the truth is, we are really just a little young, actually. Going through our own version of adolescence, figuring out who we are going to be when we grow up. And when you view it that way, it makes sense again. You go through that identity crisis. You lose your way a little bit. You lose your selfconfidence, but we are stronger for it when we get to our adulthood on the others, so, no, i dont agree have to be that nation in decline. I think we can still yet be a nation in our ascent. Maybe the early stages of our ascent. Maybe we are not even yet at base camp, on our way still, yes, to that shining city on a hill. That country where no matter who you are or where your parents came from, or what your skin color is, or how long your last name is, some of our cases, that you get ahead in our country with your own hard work, your own commitment, euro dedication, and that you are free to speak your mind at every step of the way. That is the american dream. That is what we are running to, and that is what we together will revive to save our great nation. I will be at the party for the next couple of hours. We will see you there. Thank you all, god bless you. God bless your family, god bless our country. Thank you. Thunder, be the thunder lightning, in the thunder. Thunder thunder thunder thunder