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Fr what reagan even recognize that country in which we now live . Tonight candidate seeking the ke republican nomination converging california to chart a new path to the grand old party. Now is the time for choosing. Welcome to the second Republican Debate of the 2024 primary. Live from the Ronald Reagan t president ialhe library in simi valley, california. We are inside the Spectacular Aiherer force one pavilion the e is set for a showdown. I am Stuart Varney of foxbusiness im thrilled to be sitting alongside my coat moderator dana perino and ilian, calderon good evening. Thank you, thank you stuart. I technically described america as a shining city on Tya Hill Andog tonight seven candidates will make in the case they should beo the one to lead the city into a brighter tomorrow. But first they have to convince you, the voter. Please allow me too welcome our spanishspeaking audience. The five and good evening lets meet the candidates who have qualified and chosen to be on o this stagerd tonight. They are positioned by the order they rank in the polls with the highest pulling candidate in the middle. Panic center stage Florida Governor desantis. [applause] [cheering] dana entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Former s south china governor nikki haley. [applause] [cheering] ilia next is senator tim scot. Florida governor chris christie. See five wings tonight former Vice President mike pensive. [applause] [cheering] in north dakota governor doug burgum. [applause] stuart we have questions on alive variety of issues candidates get one minute tonds answer and 30 seconds to respond if singled out. When their time it rents out we will all hear this. We have a lot of ground toua cover. Sort please keep it civilized. Dana lets get going. We are in the spacious sunny place tonight designed toe reflect the very nature andt character of Ronald Reagan. Ma it is a place that makes you proud to be an american. Yet, today our nation is a drowning and division and instability. Voters say thed y dread the 202d election and politicstw exhausting. Two and three americans think the country is on the wrong track. Three and four say the economy is not in good shape. Stuart are up 18 since 2020. Po more than half of the u. S. Population has little access tof childcare. Onal 85 of americans say personal finances are a source of stress. Dana americans want to believe a leader who says you can follow me, i have got you. Do notdo worry. President biden is trying to do that with bidenomics. Stuart yesterday joined Thes Ar Picket lines will auto workers are demanding more wages and job security. Senator scott, You Recentlyis Reacteind on fire and air traffc controllers in 1980 saying you strike, you are fired. Riki would you fire us Thousands Oft . Striking autoworkers today . What sums to the president has his cannot fire anybody in the private sector. However, we should look back att the first bill in congress under joe biden. The first bill had 86 billion for that unfor the union pensioe they continue to overpromise yet under deliver. Derd the one of the chall challenges we e with the current negotiation s is they want before they work weeks but more money. They want more benefits working fewer hours. That is simply not going to stand. I sat on the Finance Committeegh here when a widow came before the committee who was promised o pensions from the unions. H. 4000 a month. Unfortunately it had been cut to 1000 a month. We must make sure that we honor the commitments we make. One of the ways we do that, do not overpromise and then under deliver. Leave the taxpayers on the hook. I will say this, joe biden should not be on the picket line he should be on these Southernr Border Working to close our Southern Border because it is o unsafe, widepe open leading to e deaths of 70000 americans in the last 12 months because of fentanyl. It is devastating. Every county in america is now a Border Co County because of fentanyl has devastated americans in every single state i will also say 6 million illegal crossings since joe biden has taken office. And he eliminated title 42 per the one thing he should do is t finish the wall, reinstate title 42 and get the job done. [cheering] a. [applause] dana i can promise you willan have a lot of questions on theet border and immigration in the meantime we doing to talk abouta the economy anndd jobs. Ik especially what toe talk about the strike for just a moment more. Mr. Tried what you said you empathize the strikers do you agree with what he said did you think is wrong . What side with some of what he said for sure like the spirit of it. I dont have a lot of patiencean for that union bosses thats were he and i have a common view lot. Or you have a lot of sympathy for the workers however. We are going to real hardship i. This country. Ive been through hardship growinr g up. Ff my father stared down layoffs a ge under jack welchs tenure at the ge plant and evendale, ohio for my mom had to work overtime in Nursing Homes and Southwest M Ohio to make endees meet and paa off our home loan. So i understand hardship is not a choice. A but victimhood is a choice. We choose to be victorious inth the united statee s of america. If i was giving advice to thosed workers i would say go picket it front of the white house in washington d. C. That is really where the protest needs to be. Disastrous economic policies that have driven up prices that have driven up Interest Rates a ant d Mortgage Rates at the sam. Time wages remaining stagnant. What we need is to deliver Economic Growth in this country. Unlike american energy, drill,e frak, burn coal, embrace nuclear energy, the people back to work by no longer paying them more money to stay at home. Stabilize the u. S. Dollar itself and rescind a majority of those unconstitutional federalou regulations that are hampering our economy. That is how we unleash americane exceptionalism. That is not a democratic vision or a republican vision that is an American Vision that we embrace Economic Growth and capitalism is still the best system known to man to lift us up from poverty. We should not apology for that is what it means to be an american. [cheering] before to gather the ceos of general motors, ford, Make 336e Times the number of the number of rank and file workers. That is justt part of a widerin Income Inequality Trend in the country for the richards 1 nowh controlses one fifth of allce income. Based president pence, last week yoyou said you side with americn workers. You also support how these companies operate. Which is it . Thank you for the Questionis Foior doing to Thank Univision D Foxbusiness for assembling such a wonderful form. Look, i do disagree something tim scott just said joe bidenng does not believe on a ticket line he belongs on thei unemployment line. M fr [applause] i am from the secondleading Manufacturing State in the country per capita. I was governor of the state of indiana. We brought 12000 factories and back to america during our administration. I know something about manufacturing. I have got to tell you whileg ab that union bosses or tongue but Class Warfare and talk about, disparity and wages i have to tell you i really believe what is driving that is a bidenomics has failed. Wages arflate not keeping up Wih Inflation Rate Autoworkers and all American Workers are feeling get them families are struggling in this economy. Joe bidens Green New Deal agenda is good for beijing andre bad for detroit. We ought to repeal the Green New Deal. Andaget rid of the mandates and subsidies that are driving american gasoline, Automotive Manufacturing into the the gravd and beyond that also, ash president of the United States i will be senate with workers alln diacross america. I will be standing for the righg to work up every american. R to join a union or not join a union as they decide. Sue for centers Got You Weret Thmentioned your care to respona joe biden needs to bet fired thats why im running for president i look forward to being the next president of the United States. I will also say i know american due for anyone what she is done for me. It is why we are focusing onport restoring hope, creating opportunities and protecting the america we all love her growing up in a singleparent householde i wonder if the American Dream t would work for a kid in thed innercity. I have gotne for good news for h single child whether you are ina the inner cities of chicago are the rural parts of iowa, america and the dream it is alive. It is well and it is healthy. God bless these United States on america. [cheering] [applause]ed y cooks Governor Haley raised a hand . We need to looke ne at exacth what happened. Biden showed up onow u that pict line but why are those workers actually there . E it is because of all of then spending he has pushed throughok in the economy that is raisedwe inflation. So when you look at the fact wep are paying higher gas prices, higher grocery prices, 7000 we more a year for families, but we need to do a is i can open economic plan eliminate the gas and diesel tax so they have more money in their pocket. M its focus on going after Middlee America and cuttinrig taxes for. Middle america and collapsing those brackets. Lets get rid of unfair distortions like the state and local tax that they give to wealthy people in blue states and not in red states. Tax lets make sure we make the Small Business taxes permanent. They only made those temporaryxe they made the Corporate Taxes permanent. Lets focus on what it takes to get more cash in the pockets of workers. Ocke that is the way we will be able to go strikes like this. Deal not sitting on a picket line like joe bidens. Thank you to prohibit other questions i got to about the economy. I am sorry i have too. I have to jump in we arent missing the point in every other network is missing the point. I the reason my people are striking in detroit is because joe bidens interference with Capitol Markets and with free markets the subsidies we are subsidizing the automakers andto we are subsidizing the cars and a particular kind of carpet nott every car we are particularly w subsidizing electric vehicles. When you decide were going to take all of your taxpayer monies, take A Billion Dollars subsidize a certain type of vehicle and the Batteries Comek from china. China controls 85 of the Rare Earth Minerals they are called rare earth because they are measured in parts per million. China ichina is moving wondered thousand pounds of earth and indonesia, and africa they areh literally destroying the planet so we can make a battery thats in a car subsidize here. Use that is why they are striking they need two thirds less workers to build an electric car. Joe biden, this strike is a joe bidens feet. [applause]omy five oh 36 allow mate to follow question to government Governovr Christie for the government will shut down if congress does notoe reach nda deal by the end of ths week. Vice president pence warns a politics of quote trumps populist prodigies like mr. Vivek ramaswamy are a road to ruin for the gop. If the government shuts down should voters blame populist republicans question it. They should blame everybody who was in washington d. C. They get sent down there to doo. The job theyve been failing att doing the job for a very long time. Lets be honest about this withn these voters. During the Trump AdministrationTrump Administrationthey added , 7 trillion in National Debt. He another Biden Administration has put another 5 trillion on and counting. They have failed and they are in the spot they are in now because none of them are willing to tell the truth. None of them are willing to take on the difficult issues. They just want to keep kicking the can down the road. The inflation that nikki spoke about as absen is absently righs spending. Government people all across this country are suffering tonight. Ans and yet we dont get any answere because joe biden hides in his basement and will not answer as to why is Raising Thhee debt the way he has done. Is done. Donald trump hides behind th we walls of his golf clubs ande wont show up here to answer questions like all the rest of us are appear to her to answer but he put Seven Choi On Theansw debt he should be in this room to answer those questions for thare people you talk about whof are suffering. And if the government closes, and if the government closes it is to the blame of everyone in washington d. C. Who has failed to do their job and just plays displays tothe grandstand. [inaudible] ilia the next Ques Question isr Governor Desantis. Gove [inaudible] [inaudible] ilia can we please respect the time it. Governor desantis you have not spoken please be. The people in washington are shutting down the american dreac with their reckless behavior. They borrowed, they printed, they spent and now you are paying more for everything. They are the reason for that. They have shut down our nationar sovereignty by allowing our border to be wid wide open so pe spare me the Crocodile Tears for these people but they need to change what is going on and where is joe biden . N he is completely missing in action frohip. M leadership. Judy who else is missing in action . Donald trump is missing in action he should be on the stage tonight. He owes it t to you to defend hs record where they added 7. 8 trillion to the debt. That set the stage for the inflation that we have now but o can say this is Governor Florida we cut taxes elite ran surpluses, we have paid downt, over 25 of our state debt i vetoed wasteful spending when it came to my desk and as your w president when They Sentas Me Ag BloatedSpending Bill is going to cause your prices to go up in am going to take of this veto pen im going to send it right back to them. [inaudible] see if im going to center scott thats on the minds of a lot of moms and dads in america i knowo even thinking about it becausey Childcare Costs they are up, they are topping 10,000 dollars per month. Endi some families are spending up to half their income on childcare. They are having to decide is it worth it for me too work . Is it not make sense for me financially question with three days of billions of dollars of pandemicera thr funding is goio end and 70000 acres could close so you had an effort to broaden eligibility for Child Caret Assistance that fell apart last year. For the moms and dads out there who are worried, what can you tell them if you w you were ablo get it to the congressul how cod you do as president . Ress one of things i did as member of congress was to make sure Wet Protectehed the head Starty Gi Programs around the country. Giving people the opportunity to pick and choose the place theywe send their children. The challenges that we see todaa under the Biden Administration is the cost for daycare has gon over 15000 per child. , he and that build back a broker plan he calls it build back better plan it was going up to 29000. That way we fix that problem isa toct make sure we actually cut