Donald trump is set to begin the townhall in janesville, wisconsin about an hour ago. It is running later than we thought but we will have it live once it gets underway on cspan. On this day that the Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker endorsing ted cruz for president. He made that announcement earlier today on a local radio station. On the line the governor of the state of wisconsin, Governor Scott walker. Gov. Walker good morning. It is a beautiful day. I appreciate you coming on to the show. Thewant to make announcement about your decision of who you will endorse. Gov. Walker absolutely. I have spent a lot of time in prayer about this. , i think these years it is time we elect a strong new leader and i have chosen to endorse ted cruz to be the next president for three simple reasons one, i fundamentally believe he is a constitutional conservative. I know as a governor and talking to other governors across the country, we need a leader in washington who understands our founders intended for the power to be in the states and the hands of the people, not concentrated in washington. Ted cruz not only believes that, he shows he is willing to act on that. Secondly, i think importantly in weconsin, we have shown that know how to take on the Big Government special interests and put the power back in the hands of hardworking taxpayers. That is something ted cruz has not only talked about in his campaign, more than just about anybody else in washington, he has shown he is not afraid to take on the Big Government special interests even sometimes when they are lined with our own party. That is exactly what we need for president. Then, third, a very practical point is i just fundamentally believe if you look at them facts and numbers that ted cruz is the best positioned by far to both win the nomination of the Republican Party and then go on and effete Hillary Clinton in the fall defeat Hillary Clinton in the fall. We want conservatives who do what they say and stick to their guns, but also people who can both win the nomination and go on to defeat Hillary Clinton in the fall. For that reason, im proud to endorse ted cruz. , to add one other quick thing i want to add one other quick thing. Like ing for something said many times in campaigns for governor. I want to be for something. Looking at the speeches, the records, looking at what the candidates have said and done in the past, it was an easy call for me to support ted cruz. Im really struck by your endorsement in the sense that i make an you would endorsement in order to block donald trump. You sound like you were all in on ted cruz. Gov. Walker absolutely. I have said it on the campaign trail for governor. I said it last july when i threw my hat in for a while. I think americans know what you are for, not what you are against. I spent a lot of time in prayer and thought about this. I wanted to make a decision on whether a wanted to endorse or not. , if ily, whether or not did, who that would be. For me, just looking at all these facts just on a personal level, in a way a lot i americans have not seen, didnt know ted cruz well before the campaign this past year. I got to see him and know him at a lot of events. We bumped into each other at event across the country. I think the media does not give him all the benefit from what i found personally interacting with him. That is he is a decent man. You loves his family, his wife. He adores his children. He loves his country. He and i are both preachers kids so we will break away here and take you live to wisconsin with the townhall meeting with donald trump. Mr. Trump thank you, everybody. Wow. Thank you. I feel so badly. Outside, we have 5000 people and they cannot get in. I feel badly. I want to apologize. We have speakers outside. We have over the 5000 people who cannot get in. Does anybody want to leave and give your place to somebody else . No. Mr. Trump i had a feeling you might be saying that. It is an honor to be with you. It is very important. We are doing very well. Millions of votes ahead of cruz. [applause] mr. Trump i called him lyin ted cruz. I win, as you know. I have been winning all of the evangelical vote. He stands up bible high, puts it down and then he lies. It is amazing to watch him. He said, im the only one who can beat donald trump. I said, wait a minute, i have won like most of the states. I think he had five or six and i had 20 or 22, right . And, i said i cannot believe it. I have millions of votes more. I have like millions of votes more. I will tell you something so important. There is something happening, it is like a movement. It is a movement and we are part of the movement. It is not me. Im a messenger. This is something that is so special and so amazing and it is on the cover of time magazine, every newspaper. It is something that maybe has never happened. They are saying it is a phenomena. The message is what we want. We want jobs, we want jobs. We want trade deals that are smart, not stupid deals. Wisconsin, wrote down some notes it is one of those things. I wrote down some notes and it is like devastating. Walker came out today. I wrote down notes about wisconsin. [booing] look, he certainly cannot endorse me after what i did to him in the race. Look at this. Of 2015, wisconsin was facing a 2. 2 billion, twoyear budget deficit. That is terrible. These are out of books. This is not trump. Total state that is 45 billion. Maybe somebody will tell me that is wrong. 45 billion is very high. 20,000 fewer people in labor force in wisconsin than seven years ago even though population has grown by 100,000. Your population is higher. What he endorse cruz . He is not doing a great job. He comes into hi with his motore jacket. The motorcycle guys really like trump. [cheering] mr. Trump and he does not look like a motorcycle guide to me. Y to me. Unemployment rate they say they cannot be possible. At 20 , that cannot be possible. Is it 20 . Effective or regular . Effective Unemployment Rate at 20 . 800,000 foodstamp recipients. Middleclass hit very hard due to loss of manufacturing jobs. These are the facts. You know about this. It goes on and on. Wisconsin has lost 15,00000 net jobs to mexico. Kasich is running also. He voted for nafta. Both of them want tpp. Tpp, both of them want transpacific. That will make nafta look like a baby and wisconsin will be hit so hard. Are you a motorcycle guy . I bet. Do they love trump . I dont even know. The motorcycle guys love trump. I love the disabled veterans and the veterans. We will take care of our veterans, you know that, right . [applause] what is it about trump that they like . We went to hilton head, different places. There were hundreds and hundreds of bikers. Beautiful bikes. Lots of harleys, made in america. Beautiful bikes. What is it with them . Why do they like me . Tell me. [indiscernible] mr. Trump who is that . I love it. I dont know what it is but they like me. I feel good with them. I took a picture. Secret service went crazy. These are good people. I appreciate it, fellas. We are going to give you three. Keep you free. We are getting rid of isis. We are going to have borders again. Here we have something that is pretty interesting. I love you, too. You lost 70,000 jobs to china. 70,000 jobs. 100,000 Illegal Immigrants living in wisconsin. Taxpayers are paying tens of millions of dollars. I dont know. What happened with walker i will finish off with this. He came up to my office about a year ago. I had been a politician for about eight months. The last thing in my monitor one it tmind i wanted to be was a politician. Very little debt, tremendous cash flow. I say that not in a bragging way. I say that because that is the kind of thinking we need. We cannot have china ripping us off at mexico and japan and vietnam. We cannot have it and they are ripping us like they have never ripped anybody before. We are rebuilding china, mexico. Airconditioners moving to mexico. Ford moving to mexico. Nabisco, home of the wonderful, formerly wonderful oreo which we dont eat anymore. We dont need anymore. It is called enforced diet. You know what . Look, were losing our jobs. You i see that statistic, are losing your jobs. When i went after your governor when he decided to run and i said i will be nice to him. He came up to my office and he handed me a plaque because i supported him. I gave him about 50,000. That is pretty good. I like the fact he was always fighting. To a certain extent, i would like to see somebody being able to make a deal without having to go through that mess. I gave him a lot of money. He came up and gave me a plaque. A beautiful picture of something. I never really got to read it. I put it aside. My girl found it and she said she just found it. A wonderful woman comes up and i said where is it . She found it under a pile of a lot of other plaques. I will bring it. I will try to get it because i will be here the whole week. I will be in wisconsin the whole week. [applause] win wisconsin, it is going to be pretty much over because we are going to do great. Poll came out and i have asked the 8 in new york compared to about 10 i have about 78 in new york compared to about 10 . New yorkers are very good. Cruz is no good. I think we are going to do great in new york, new jersey. Chris christie endorsed me. A good guy. Ben carson endorsed me. Sarah palin endorsed me. Sheriff joe endorsed me. With evangelicals, i have had so many ministers and pastors endorse me. Jerry falwell endorsed me. We have done well with evangelicals. Christians, evangelicals, we have done so well. When we went to south carolina, that was going to be cruzs territory except we won in a landslide. This guy follows me around. You were there. He was going to win that in the landslide. I started talking to people and i started saying the good and the bad and the ugly. I have won just about almost every place with evangelicals. It has been an amazing time. Now, im here to talk to the people of wisconsin. I have been here before. It is an incredible place but it is a place that has problems. You have a governor that has you convinced it does not have problems. I remember when he was on the campaign trail, i was so nice to him. Im not going to hit him. I hit jeb instead, right . [applause] right . I hit rand, oh, rand. I hit a lot of people. Nice that just with his mouth make things happen that are positive . Is reallyith a mouth, with the mouseuth, the heart and the brain. I have a lot of friends that are good with the mouth, but not with the brain. A poll came out, a nationwide 8, i thinkas trump 4 cruz was second in the mid20s. Kasich was way down. What happened is they showed the poll. It was an nbc poll. An nbc monkey poll, and it was on the today show. Morning joe held it up. 48 is pretty good. 45 and i have had about seven people. How do you get 45 when you have seven . How do you crack 50 . The poll was good. Way ahead of anybody else. They showed Hillary Clinton. Got a bigger problem with emails then i think with bernie, to be honest with you. The bigger problem should be that. We will find out how honest our country is. Poll got they put her up. Then, they said and then donald trump is winning. That is it. They did not put numbers up. They didnt say im doing great. They say that donald trump is winning and they put a slightly negative statistic. Wait a minute. They put her numbers up and didnt put mine up. It is so unfair. The press is so dishonest it is unbelievable. [applause] todd thishuck morning on the today show. They put hillarys numbers up and him winning by a lot. I guarantee you one thing, if i was doing poorly, it would be up all morning because they dont like what is happening. Im self funding my campaign. Im putting up my own money. [applause] kasich ared john getting money from the Bank Industry, and energy industries, pharmaceutical companies. You cannot straighten out this mess. We are in a mess. If you cannot do what you have to do. When millions of dollars are given to cruz and kasich, and millions from different industries, you were not going to be able to say we are going to go against the Bank Industry to do what is right for the people if the Bank Industry give you millions of dollars. That is true with hillary. Im the only one self funding my campaign. What is beautiful is when i was running against jeb in new hampshire. I was in for 2 million and jeb was in for 48 million. I was first and he was close to last. By the way, did jeb endorse anybody get . Did he endorse . That shows you how important it is. I dont even know. Hell endorse when you are in war, you have to fight hard. When i fight, i win. You are going to win. You know that. Do prettynow, you serious damage because you want to win fast. A lot of people dont love you after you finish. I dont care about them. [applause] in fact, they are asking cruz i have won every single debate. I have debated him 11 or 12 times. Every Single Online poll has me winning the debate. He is an ok debator, but he is a bad talker. He waits. Ever see, ego sentence after sentence and stops for about three or four seconds and goes again. It looks like we are in the theater. This is the real world. What happens thank you. Trump]ting mr. Trump that is all right. Thank you very much. The sheriff is here. He is a great guy and his people are fantastic. Thank you, sheriff. [applause] the only thing i feel guilty about his the people outside. We are going to come back to this area. You guys cannot come, ok . All of the ladies can come, but the guys cannot. But, but, all of the people outside, we are going to get some. I feel slightly guilty. Look, we have a very serious mess on our hands. We have a country that is not protected. A country that is sitting on a big fat bubble that will explode. Dont do it after i get in. Three days later, it will explode and it will be trumps fault. We are in a big fat, ugly bubble. We have Interest Rates that are so low that if you are rich like me, i can borrow money for any amount. If you are hardworking guy with a great farm or hardworking developer or businessman, you cannot borrow money. Think of how bad that is. You can borrow money for nothing practically if you are rich. But if you are rich, you dont need the money. If you are a business person and want to get a loan, you cannot get it. The regulators are running the bank. Doddfrank has been a disaster. [applause] our rulest disaster ar, and regulations are horrible. We will probably get rid of 85 of them. So many people from this area have told me regulations, regulatory climate is the worst they have ever seen it. I have a friend who was a farmia farmer. It is like a puddle and they consider it a lake. We are going to make our country so great again. We are going to make our country so strong again. Our military is going to be so amazing. We will never have to use it. I never wanted to go into iraq. All of these guys think im a tough guy so i will be quick with the trigger. I didnt want the trigger. When obama left, he should not have left the way he did. He gave a certain date and the enemy said it cannot be possible. Nobody can be that stupid. I actually dont think it hurt that much that the enemy when not believe anybody would be stupid enough to give a date. They pulled back and then you see what happened. They went in with fury. How about the 50 soldiers he sen t a couple of months ago . He sent 50 of our finest. Instead of sending them quietly, what does he do . He sends them in, makes a Big Press Conference that we are sending 50 soldiers into iraq, syria. Now, these soldiers have a big target on their back. Why cant we just keep our mouth shut . Why cant we be unpredictable . [applause] be unpredictable . First of all, it does not even sound good when you say 50 soldiers. Is that good or bad . But then, when you think about it, why do we have to say that . These are extraordinary people. These are our finest and it is a very dangerous mission. Why would you tell people that we are sending them in . You keep quiet and let them accomplish something. Butknows what has happened, right now they have a big target on their back. People that we have let go at gitmo have now killed americans. That came out yesterday. Is anybody surprised . Would anybody be surprised . We are keeping it open. They are sending hundreds of millions to run it. I guarantee you can run it a lot cheaper and you would have a lot of money left over. We will get efficiency in government. We will end obamacare. We will replace it with something so much better and so much less expensive. We are going to get rid of common core. We are going to bring our education local. [applause] ourre going to preserve second amendment. It is under siege. It is totally under siege. Christianity is under siege. You take a look. I have been with so many pastors lately. Jr. Was telling me that i reminded him of his father. What his father did with liberty university. Jerry, to top it off, has taken that to a new place. Probablyg had 50 of the ministers and pastors coming to my office. They are really under tremendous pressure because of that want to have their they dont want their taxexempt status taken under way. I said why is it that you folks are that way . Why do you allow them . Why arent you more forceful . Finally, somebody said we have to be careful with our taxexempt status. We are going to try to get rid of that. That is really terrible. We are going to try to i have said that to a lot of evangelicals, a lot of great christians. It has its sort of means that somebody walking down the street has more power than somebody of our religion, christianity, somebody that is an evangelical. They have more power. They have taken the right of free speech away. I said we would try to get rid of that and i think we will be very successful. How many christians are there . We have men and women. Cut it in half and we have a few more women, but we have far more christians than men and women. It is the Biggest Group of people. We are not allowed, they are not allowed to talk because they are petrified. You saw what was happening with the irs. We are going to try usually when i say try, that means i will get it done. [applause] we are going to try very hard and get that brought back. I think it is going to be very because ifnter it the whole evangelical, christian sector gets together, nobody can beat them. When i made the statement about muslims, having them in a temporary basis, i took so much heat. Now people are saying trump is sort of right about that because they have seen what happened. [applause] twelve and i think about what if id said it about out what christians, thats whats happened in our country. We cant let it happen. Were going to turn this country around and were going to be the smart people. Were not going to be the dummies anymore. Were not goi