Goveor desantis talks about representative Kevin Mccarthys removal as speaker of the house and the status of the Republican Party. His remarks came from a politics and eggs event in manchester. Ladies and gentlemen, if i can have your attention. We want to begin so lets give a warm New Hampshire welcome to the honorable governor of the great state of florida, Governor Ron Desantis. [applause] good afternoon Everyone Welcome to a special addition of our politics and eggs. We are pleased so many of you joined us. I want to stop by thinking our politics and eggs sponsors, whose banners you see across the room today, without the ongoing generosity of the sponsors, these programs will not be possible. Were grateful for the commitment to not only to today but to the entire series, and giving the Business Community the opportunity to hear the president ial candidate as they visit this wonderful state. I also want to take the time to thank, at this time, New Hampshire institute of politics, and our cohost here for their ongoing collaboration, the new England Council cannot ask for a better partner in the ongoing initiative. I want to take a moment to quickly remind you of a few of our new England Council of coming events. Next week we will be hosting the House Minority leader with Katherine Clark in boston. New hampshires own congressman chris pappas will be speaking to the new England Council in washington. The following week will be in providence for a breakfast at the sheldon whitehouse. We hope you will be joining us on october 26 for the annual 2023 annual celebration where we will be celebrating four incredible new englanders of the year. As of this morning we have 193 tables. Today, we are on it. We are honored to welcome Governor Ron Desantis to the granite state. As he campaigns for the 2024 republican president ial nomination. Im now pleased to introduce my good friend, our good friend, the executive director of the New Hampshire institute of politics here at , the honorable Neil Levesque will introduce the governor. [applause] i was going to say good morning but obviously we are in the afternoon. A little crumbly creme brulee. What a good day to have our speaker here today as we all know Governor Desantis is a leading figure in the conservative movement. He is a distinguished has a distinguished record of Public Service including being the 46th governor of florida. He was first elected in 2012, 14 and 16 the congress, as we know, and elected governor in 2018, and reelected in 2020 with 1. 5 million more votes than his opponent. That is pretty good. During his tenure he focused on economic growth, job creation, education reform, and in his education, he is an attorney, and without he served with that he served in the u. S. Navy. I want to welcome the governor florida, ron desantis governor of florida, ron desantis. [applause] gov. Desantis thanks so much. Thank you all for being here. Its great to be back in new england. Im a native floridian, born and bred, but i spent seven years of my life in new england for education. I say that im one of the very few people in this country who can say that i made it through both harvard and yale and came out more conservative than when i went in. Not easy to do when youre talking about that. We have at home, a 6, 5 and threeyearold kids, who are floridians. They have never seen snow before. Part of the campaign, being between iowa and New Hampshire, they will get to see snow for the first time. Is it going to be New Hampshire or will it be iowa first, either way we will get them to do snowballs and all the things that they want to be able to do. I was a bluecollar kid growing up in florida. My mom was a nurse, my father worked for nielsen tv ratings. They had to put a device on the familys cable boxes back then. I started working minimum wage jobs. I was a baseball player, i had very good with baseball, high school baseball. My horizons were focused on that. I got recruited to go to places like yale and instant for baseball. I had never been to new england in my life. I never thought to be able to do anything like that. I would show my first day on campus doing what somebody from the west coast of florida would do. I wore flipflops, i wore jeans shorts, and a tshirt. Not something that was in vogue at an ivy league campus, much less when you had kids that went to andover economy academy. It was a different culture for me, the whole time i kept working hard. I did school and sports. I worked every job under the sun to be able to get to school and be able to advance myself, starting with six dollars an hour, working through as many things i can. By the time i graduated, i was known as the most employable kid on campus. If someone needed something i would get random phone calls, can you do this, that . That was kind of the ethic. I want to be able to do well in this world. America gives me the opportunity. I will work hard to put myself in a position to do it. I ended up in new england at harvard law school. Then that was after september 11. I made a different career choice. I can say i was up here when the red sox won the world series in 2004, and broke the curse. I will tell you it was a big deal to be up here. For all seven years i was up here, i was rooting for the red sox over the yankees. Dont worry about that. [applause] in fact my first year in college one of my friends that i played baseball with growing up, his father was managing at the time. Jimmy williams he was a great guy. He called me and said im going to a game at fenway,d o you want to go . We got in the car from connecticut. You show up and it is a neat experience. Tickets are at will call. It is me and another freshman, sophomore. We hand the ticket to the usher. This is a crusty veteran usher. He looks at it. These are good seats. He looks at us, he walks us up, we are next to the dugout. You look straight ahead, you have the green monster. After the game, we were in the office with jimmy and you see pedro martinez, and all of these other people. I got an intermittent intimate view of fenway park. I was up here for that. It was a huge deal. It was really exciting. I made the decision to join the military and volunteer, and volunteer to serve in a rack. When you see what is one on with israel and hamas, a lot of that brings memories with respect to the war on terrorism. I spent time in guantanamo bay. We were in places like ramadi, western iraq, a lot of al qaeda and iraq. There was bad stuff that happened. Ill tell you i dont think i ever saw or read a report on anything approaching the level of barbarism we saw over the weekend with respect to hamas. The decapitation of babies, executing elderly people. It reached a new level of depths of depravity. It shows you that there is evil in this world. The other thing i remember from being over in iraq, in spite of all the talk of al qaeda and the sunni terrorists, most of the combat deaths our folks are facing were from sheer militia funded by the uranian government. We lost hundreds of u. S. Troops, probably over 1000 during that period. So, you want to talk about iran funding hamas. They have doing this for decades. They funded the attacks on our marine barracks. Im no stranger to the role that iran plays in all of that. We did that. I and up they talk about some of the political, it was not something i set out to do. By age 40 i end up the governor of, florida the countrys Third Largest state, and the 13th largest economy in the entire world if we were our own country. Im a testament to the American Dream. A lot of people would not have bet their chips that i would end up running for president , be elected governor, certainly i would not have had predicted that at the time. Im running for president now because i think we are in danger of being the first generation of americans that we leave to our kids and grandkids, that is less prosperous and free than the one we inherited. You look at what is happening in the world, our economic problems at home, the state of our cities, all of these issues, we see the country in a period of decline. I dont think that decline is inevitable. I think the decline is a choice. So, it is going to fall to us to make the types of decisions and exercise the types of leadership that will reverse that decline, that will usher in an american revival, and give this country a new birth of freedom. Thats exactly what i intend to do as the next president of the u. S. Start with the economy. Well reverse the trends we are seeing. Why are we seeing higher prices, Interest Rates . It was government induced, by the response to covid, which was a total disaster, by borrowing and printing trillions and trillions of dollars, acting like that was not going to cause disruptions in the economy. Of course it is going to. You cant spend money and borrow and print money without consequence. We need to discipline congress. Im willing to do that as president with the veto pen. We have too much bureaucracy, too much red tape that bears down and stifles innovation, particularly for small businesses. Well get rid of that. Well utilize the Energy Resources that we have in this country. We have more Energy Resources. If you look at places like the marcellus shale, that any country in the entire world, will help you pay for lower gas prices, less for everything throughout the economy. Its good for jobs, its good for our industrial base. Its good for our national security. You look at iran, russia, china, doing a Green New Deal type policy where we tried to kneecap that production, that benefits them, us being the dominant Energy Producer in this world hurts all the right people. Well make sure we do that. It will be good for the economy. It will be good for our country. Well restore sovereignty in this country. You cannot be a nationstate and have 7 Million People pouring across your border illegally. Do you not think that our enemies around the world have not exploited that open border . We know people have come from china and iran, russia, throughout the middle east. That happens every day. Yet it is happening without really a care in the world by the powers that be. Of course that is led has led to fentanyl coming into the country. Its triggered deaths in this country, at levels we have never seen before. We are losing over 100,000 people a year because of the opioid epidemic. Addiction is a tough thing. This is not limited to people who are habitual drug users. You have students thinking they are taking a pill to relieve stress and it is laced with fentanyl. They take one pill and they die. Ive met a lot of the angel moms throughout the u. S. Who have had this happen, where they have lost a loved one. We had a situation in florida. A family was renting an airbnb unit, an 18 month old baby crawling on the carpet, that happened to be residue from fentanyl from the previous tenant. The baby died by coming into contact with fentanyl. This has got to stop. We will declared a National Emergency on day one. Well marshall all available resources including the military to stop the invasion of this country. Ill build the wall. Donald trump promised in 2016 he would will the wall and have mexico pay for it. More recently, there was no mechanism he could make mexico pay. He did not have a legal way to do it. Thats not what he said in 2016. He was saying mexico is going to pay. He did not do that. The reality is, you actually can have mexico pay. They will not just fork over money. You can impose fees on the writ menaces that foreign on the remittances that Foreign National sent to the u. S. You raise. Billions and billions of dollars i rather they pay for it than have it be paid for by the general taxpayers. More important than that, we are going to treat the foreign the mexican drug cartels like Foreign Terrorist Organizations. They are invading this country, they are killing these people and we will use lethal force to put them in their place. We will also ensure that our military is the strongest in the world and that we remain the worlds leading superpower. Were not on a trajectory to continue being the worlds dominant superpower. What happened in israel reminds us that there is a lot that is going on with terrorism still,a s much as some of us as much as some of us would hope that is not the case. Were in a period where we do have a great power rival with the communist party of china. They want to be able to eclipse this country economically. They want to be able to eclipse this country militarily. If they are to win that battle over the next decade, decade and a half, that will affect the lives of every american in a really significant way. Were going to ensure that we remain a top economy, we remain the top military, and that we are able to deter chinese ambitions particularly in the indo pacific. When we do that, in the 21st century, we will still be an american century. We will ensure that schools in the country will focus on traditional education, not on indoctrination. Im a parent of a 6, 5 and threeyearold, we had to fight the fight in florida to say, you know what, we are going to teach math, reading, science. We will not teach firstgraders that they can have interchangeable genders. That is not appropriate or right. We stood by the rights of parents. Parents have the right to direct the education and upbringing of their kids. That should be the case across the country, including choosing the school of their choice like they can do in florida. I grew up in florida, we were not well regarded in education at the time. We are now fully invested in parental choice. We finished third and fourth in fourth grade reading and fourth grade math in the 2022 nations were card. It works. We also have to have a situation whether you live in a loose date blue state, red state, criminals are held accountable for their misconduct. If you do the crime you do the time. What is happening is a lot of cities are turning their back on the rule of law put a political agenda on accountability. People move to florida and they tell me about it. Everyone has a right to raise their family in peace and security. We will make sure the rule of law bring supreme. We need to restore the proper understanding of the u. S. Constitution our Founding Fathers created three branches of government they did not create a Fourth Branch of government, an administrative bureaucracy that the government is irrespective of elections. Government should be a lit limited. It should not be unaccountable and weaponized against us. We will usher in a reckoning for all the agencies for all those involved with the covid19 policies. They hurt peoples jobs, kids education, peoples abilities to choose whether they can work or not because of some of the mandates. Nobody has been held accountable for that. Florida rejected that. The state has never done better. We have the lower excess mortality because we let people make their own decisions. The cdc, nih, all these agencies have failed the american people. We will bring a reckoning, that we will make sure there is accountability to make sure this never happens in our country again. Part of what people say is how do you trust someone running for office what about you will lead you to be able to do this i think people can trust me to do this, if im the only one running for office today that is has accomplished everything i said i would accomplished. We delivered 100 on our promises compared to what is happening in washington dc with not being able to pick a speaker. We dont do showmanship in florida. It is not a game, it is about reading results. And the results we have been able to produce are second to none. We have run massive budget surpluses. We have paid down almost 20 of the states total that since i become governor throughout the entire history of the state. We have no income tax. People of New Hampshire appreciate that. Anytime i go northeast i dont find any place that is hospitable to taxpayers. We have the Second Lowest per capita tax burden in the entire country. We have Universal School choice. You have a lot of low income moms able to send their kids to the school of their choice. We have Charter Schools which are Public Schools but not run by the school district. If you took the 363,000 charter students in florida, disproportionately low income, racial and ethical ethnic minorities. If they were their own state, though students would rate one of the top five in the entire country. We deliver results in education. We understand that a four year break in iv university, that is not the only way to be successful. We have created workforce education as a centerpiece of our strategy to give people more opportunities and to help our economy because we need the skilled labor. We have cracked down on illegal immigration by doing things like banning sanctuary cities. We have kneecap bsg environment social governance. It is being used by private sectors to impose ideological agenda on society. These are policies that can never win at the ballot box. They are trying to do it through Asset Managers and wall street banks. We said no for our pension fund. They have an agenda. We said the rating agencies cannot use esg when they rate our state and municipal bonds. Were not going to be successful as an economy of every business becomes hyper politicized. We prohibited the purchase of land by the Chinese Communist party and its affiliates. They are trying to get farmland, land near military bases. We have enacted the parents bill of rights to confirm our view that parents have the fundamental right to direct the education and up ringing of their kids upbringing of their k