[music] you very much. Thank you very much. You. Thank you very much. Friends, delegates and distinguished guests, please. I stand before you tonight honored by your support, proud of the extraordinary progress we have made together over the last four incredible years. Brimming with confidence in a Bright Future we will build for america over the next 4 years. [applause] we begin this evening, our thoughts are with the wonderful people who have just come through the wrath of hurricane laura. We are working closely with state and local officials in texas, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, sparing no effort to save lives while the hurricane was fierce, one of the strongest in a landfall in 150 years. The casualties and damage were far less than thought possible. Only 24 hours ago. [applause] and this is due to the great work of fema, Law Enforcement and the individual states. I will be going this weekend and congratulations, thank you for that greatjob out there. We really appreciate it. We are one National Family and we will always protect, love and care for eachother. Here tonight are the people who have made my journey possible and filled my life with so much joy you for your Incredible Service to our nation and its children, i first lady. Nk our magnificent [applause] i also want to thank my amazing daughter ivanka for the introduction and all my children. Ivanka, please stand up. [applause] and all my children and grandchildren, i love you more than words can express. I know my Brother Robert is looking down on us right now from heaven. He was a great brother. And was very proud of the job we are all doing. Thank you. We love you, robert. Let us also take a moment to share our profound appreciation for a man who has always fought by our side and stood up for our values, a man of deep faith and steadfast conviction. Our Vice President , mike pence. [applause] and mike is joined by his beloved wife, a teacher and military mom, karen pence. Thank you karen. My fellow americans, tonight with a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism, i profoundly accept this nomination for president of the United States t. [applause] the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln thgoes forward united, determined and ready to welcome millions of democrats , independents and anyone who believes in the greatness of america and the righteous heart of the american people. In a new term as president we will again build the greatest economy in history , quickly returning to full employment, soaring incomes and record prosperity. We will defend america against all threats and protect america against all dangers. We will lead america into new frontiers of ambition and discovery and we will reach the new heights of national achievements. We will rekindle new faith in our values, new pride in our history and a new spirit of unity that can only be realized through love for our greatcountry. [applause] because we understand that america is not a land cloaked in darkness, america is the torch that enlightens the entire world. [applause] gathered here at our beautiful and majestic whitehouse , known all over the world as the peoples house, we cannot help but marvel at the miracle that is our Great American story. This has been the home of largerthanlife figures like Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson who rallied americans to bold visions of a bigger and brighter future. Within these walls lived contagious generals like president grant and eisenhower. Who led our soldiers in the cause of freedom. From these grounds, Thomas Jefferson sent lewis and clarke on a daring expedition to cross a wild and uncharted continent. In these depths of a bloodied civil war, president Abraham Lincoln look out these very windows upon a half completed Washington Monument and ask god in his providence to save our nation. Two weeks after pearl harbor, Franklin Delano roosevelt welcomed Winston Churchill and just inside a set our people on the course to victory in thesecond world war. In recent months our nation and the entire planet has been struck a new pand powerful, invisible enemy area like those brave americans before us, we are meeting this challenge. We are delivering lifesaving therapies and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year or maybe even sooner. We will defeat the virus, and the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before. [applause] what United Generations past was an unshakable confidence in americas destiny and an unbreakable faith in the american people. They knew that our country is blessed by god and has a special purpose in this world. It is not conviction that inspired the formation of our union, our westward expansion. The abolition of slavery, a passage of civil rights, the Space Program and the overthrow of fascism, tyranny and communism. This towering american spirit has prevailed over every challenge and lifted us to the summit of human and never. And yet despite all of our great greatness as a nation, everything we have achievedis not in danger. This is the most important election in the history of our country. [applause] thank you. At no time before have voters taste a clearer choice between two parties. Two visions, two philosophies or two agendas. This election will decide whether we save the American Dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny. [applause] it will decide whether we rapidly create millions of highpaying jobs or whether we crush our industries and send millions of these jobs overseas as as foolishly been done for many decades. Your vote will decide whether we protect lawabiding americans or whether we give free reign to violent anarchists and agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens. And this election will decide whether we will defend the american way of life or whether we will allow a eradical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. That wont happen. At the Democratic NationalConvention Joe Biden and his party repeatedly assailed america as a land of racial , economic and social injustice. So tonight i ask you a simple question. How can the Democratic Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time caring down our country . [applause] they do not see america as the most free, just an exceptional nation on earth. Instead they see a wicked nation that must be punished for his sins. Our opponents say that redemption for you can only come from giving power to them. This is a tired and from spoken by every repressive movement throughout history. But in this country we dont look to career politicians for salvation. In america, we dont turn to government to restore our souls. We put our faith in almighty god. [applause] joe biden is not a savior. Of americas soul. He is the destroyer of americas jobs and has given if given the chance he will be the destroyer of american greatness. For 47 years joe biden took the donations of bluecollar workers e, gave them hugs and even kisses. [applause] and told them he felt their pain. And then he flew back to washington and voted to ship our jobs to china and many other distant lands. Joe biden spent his entire e career outsourcing their dreams and the dreams of American Workers. Off shoring their jobs, opening their borders sending their sons and daughters to fight in endless foreign wars , wars that never ended. Four years ago i ran for president because i could not watch this betrayal. Of our country any longer. I could not sit by as career politicians let other countries take advantage of us on trade, borders , foreignpolicy and national defense. Our nato partners as an example were very far behind in their defense but at my strong urging, they agreed to pay 130 billion more a year the first time in over 20 years that they opt their payments. And this 130 billion will ultimately go to 400 billion a year. And secretary general stoltenberg who heads nato was amazed after watching for so many years and said that President Trump madid what no one else was able to do. Thank you. [applause] from the moment i left my former life behind and it was a good life, i have done nothing but fight for you. I did what our political establishment never expected and could never forgive. Breaking the Cardinal Rule of washington politics. I kept my promise. [applause] together we have ended the rule of the failed Political Class and they are desperate to get their power back by any means necessary. Youve seen that. They are angry at me because instead of putting them first , i very simply said america first. Thank you. Days after taking office we shopped the washington establishment and withdrew from the last administrations job killing Transpacific Partnership. I then immediately approved the keystone xl and Dakota Access pipelines. Ended the unfair and very costly paris climate accords. And secured for the first time American Energy independence. We passed recordsetting tax and regulation cuts at a rate nobody had ever seen before. Within three short years we built the strongest economy in the history of the world. Washington insiders asked me not to stand up to china. They pleaded with me to let china continue doing our jobs , ripping us off and robbing our country blind. But i kept my word to the american people. We took the toughest, boldest , strongest and hardest adding action against china in American History by far. They said that it would be impossible to terminate and replace nafta but again they were wrong. Earlier this year i ended the nafta nightmare signed the brandnew us mexico Canada Agreement into law. And right now, Auto Companies and others are building their plants and factories in america, not firing their employees and not deserting us for other countries. In perhaps no area of the Washington Special interests d try harder to stop us and on usmy policy of proamerican immigration. But i refuse back down and today americas borders are more you are than ever before. [applause] we ended catch and release, stopped asylum fraud , took down human traffickers who prey on women and children and we have to ported 20,000 gang members and 500,000 criminal aliens. We have already built 300,000 miles of border wall and adding 10 new ones every single week read along will soon be complete and it is working the on our wildest expectations. We are joined this evening by members of the board Border PatrolUnion Representing our countryscourageous border agents. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you. Brave, brave people. [applause] you see, this country loves our Law Enforcement. Thank you. They really do. Love and respect. When i learned that the Tennessee Valley authority laid off hundreds of American Workers and forced them to train their lower paid for in replacements, i promptly removed the chairman of the board and now those talented American Workers have been rehired and are back providing power to georgia, alabama, tennessee, kentucky, mississippi, North Carolina and virginia. They have their old jobs back and some are here with us this evening please stand, you wentthrough a lot. Thank you. Thank you very much. Youve been through a lot o. Thank you very much. Last month i took on pharma. You think thats easy . And signed orders that will massively lower the cost of your prescription drugs and give critically ill patients access to lifesaving cures. We passed the decades long awaited right to try, right to try. We also passed va accountability and vachoice. Our great veterans, were taking care of our veterans. 91 percent Approval Rating this month, the va given our veterans, first time anything like that ever happened. By the end of my first term we will have approved more than 300 federal judges including two great new Supreme Court justices area. [applause] and to bring prosperity to our forgotten innercity we worked hard to pass historic terminal justice reform, prison reform, opportunity zones and longterm funding of historically black colleges and universities and before the china virus came in produced the best unemployment numbers or africanamericans, hispanic americans and Asian Americans everrecorded. [applause] and i say very modestly i have done more for the africanamerican unity in any president since Abraham Lincoln. Our first republican president. [applause] and i have done more in three years for the black community and show biden has done in 47 years. And when im reelected the best is yet to come. [chanting] four more years. Four more years. Thank you very much. When i took office, the middle east was in total chaos. Isis was rampaging. Rand was on the rise. And the war in afghanistan and no end in sight. I withdrew from the terrible onesided iran nuclear deal. Unlike many president s before me, i kept my promise , recognize israels true capital and moved our embassy to jerusalem. But not only did we talk about it as a future site, we got it built. Rather than spending 1 billion on a new building as planned, we took an already owned existing building in a better location, real estate deal, right . And opened it at a cost of less than 500,000. Many things like that that government is doing right now. We all also recognized israeli sovereignty over the golanheights. At this month we achieved the first middle east peace deal in 25 years. Thank you to the uae. Thank you to israel area. [applause] in addition, we obliterated 100 percent of the isis caliphate and killed its founder and leader, pence. Abu bakr albaghdadi. In a separate operation we eliminated the worlds number one terrorist by far, qasim soleimani. Unlike previous administrations i have kept america out of new wars and our troops are coming home. We have spent nearly 2. 5 trillion on completely rebuilding our military which was very badly depleted when i took office as you know. This includes three separate pay raises for our great warriors. We also launched the space force, the first new branch of the United States military since the air force was created almost 75 years ago. We have spent the last four years reversing the damage joe biden inflicted over the last47 years. Bidens record is a shameful rollcall of the most catastrophic betrayals and blunders in our lifetime. He has spent his entire career onthe wrong side of history. Biden voted for the nafta disaster, the single worst trade deal ever enacted. He supported chinas entry into the world trade organization, one of the greatest economic disasters of all time. After those biden calamities the United States lost one in four manufacturing jobs. We laid off workers in michigan, ohio, new hampshire, pennsylvania and many other states. They didnt want to hear bidens hollow words of empathy. They wanted their jobs back. As Vice President he supported the Transpacific Partnership which would have been a death sentence for the us auto industry. He backed the horrendous south korea trade deal. Which took many jobs from our country and which ive reversed and made a great deal for our country. He repeatedly supported mass amnesty for Illegal Immigrants. He voted for the iraq war. He opposed the mission to take out osamabin laden. He opposed killing qasim soleimani. He oversaw the rice isis and cheered the rise of china as a positive development for america and the world. Some positive development thats why china supports joe biden and wanting to win, i can tell you that upon very good information. China would own our country if joebiden got elected. Unlike biden i will hold them fully accountable for the tragedy i that they cause all over the world, they cause and in recent months our nation and the world has been hit by the once in a century pandemic that china allowed to spread around the globe. They could have stopped it but they allowed it to come out. We are grateful to be joined tonight by several of our incredible nurses andfirst responders. These standards and accept our profound thanks and gratitude. [applause] Many Americans including me sadly lost friends and cherished loved ones to this horrible disease. As one nation we mourn, we grieve and we hold in our hearts forever of the memories of all those lives in so tragically taken, so unnecessary. In their honor we will unite. In their memory we will overcome. And when the china virus hit we launched the Largest National mobilization since world war ii. Invoking the defense production. We produced the Worlds Largest apply of ventilators, not a single american who has needed a ventilator as been denied a ventilator which is a miracle. Good job. Vetting the task force by our great president. [applause] we shipped hundreds of millions of masks, gloves and gowns to our frontlinehealthcare workers. To protect our nations seniors we rushed supplies, testing kits and personal to nursing homes, we gave everything you can possibly get and were still giving it because were taking care of our senior citizens. The army corps of engineers