Amnesty. If you vote for me, ill stop illegal immigration. If you vote for Hillary Clinton youre voting for obamacare to be here in perpetuity. If you vote for me we will appeal every word of obamacare. Thats how we win with a cheerful, clear, meaningful distinction that makes a difference to working men and women across this country. Thank you, senator. [ applause ] hello. Thank you. Im from the federal government, im here to help you. So the rjc is 30 years old, right . You never looked better. You dont look a day over 20. Dont you feel like youre more relevant than ever . [ applause ] dont you feel like that what you have been trying to tell people is coming true . So i want to thank you all for helping me all these many years. Im from South Carolina as you might can tell. And the last election for senate, i had six primary opponents. From mildly disturbed to completely insane. As the insane guy was worried the most about. He rallied to my side. The Pro Israel Community on both sides of the aisle invested in Lindsey Grahams campaign with the ferocity that made me feel like family. We are family. If elected president , i may have the first all jewish cabinet in america. Ken, thank you for introducing me. Thank you for being my friend. For so long. This journey we started together with Lindsey Graham was well over 20 years ago. I had a guy show up at my office when i was running for congress, the first republican to win the third Congressional District since 1877 in South Carolina. Strom thurmond knew the guy, i didnt. He said he was a nice fellow. We change senators every 50 years in South Carolina whether we need to or not. Theres a guy that showed up in my office, he said im from aipac. I said, great, whats aipac . Im here to help you. And they did. The bottom line is that the Pro Israel Community, aipac, rjc and others have been very, very helpful to making sure those of us in congress who understand the commonality between israel and the United States are elected. Shared values, shared enemies. Im the first of my family to go to college. Anybody in that boat . Neither one of my parents finished high school. My dad owned the liquor store, a bar and a pool room. This is why i would be a good president for you. I drew up in the back of a bar until i was in high school. We lived in one room. My mom, my dad and my sister who was 13 years nine years younger than i am, life was pretty good. If you own your own business you go to work every day whether you feel like it or not. Does that sound familiar . You cant get sick. I ran the pool room as a kid. This is why i would be good regarding the iranians. I know a liar when i see one. So the bottom line is, that is my world view. From the back of a liquor store. Living in a small town in South Carolina. Being raised by wonderful parents who cared a lot but not well educated. But they gave me the one thing that is essential. Unconditional love. They loved me and they loved my sister unconditionally, and they didnt leave us a lot of money but they left us the one thing that every kid should get from their parents. Love, encouragement and respect. So when im 21, im at the university of South Carolina. Where we just got beat by the citadel a couple of weeks ago. Long, struggling gamecocks. Im a sophomore in college and my mom gets diagnosed with hodgkins disease. 15 months later she passes. We get wiped out financially because were underinsured. 15 months later, my dad dies, im 22. My sister is 13. We move in with an aunt and uncle who worked in the textile plants in South Carolina and never made over 25,000 in their lives. If it wasnt for Social Security survivor benefits, coming to my sister as a minor from my parents contribution, we wouldnt have made it. I dont need a lecture from a democrat about Social Security. If it werent for college loans, my sister would not have gone to school. I dont need a lecture about how hard it is to send your kids to college. I paid the medical bills until i got out of the air force. I dont need a lecture about what happens if you get sick and you lose everything because youre underinsured. The Republican Party has the best chance to win the white house in a very long time. Do you agree with that . [ applause ] now, i heard senator cruz mention a couple of things. Im going to take issue with. Why we lose. How many of you believe that were losing elections because were not hard ass enough on immigration . [ light applause ] i dont agree with you. I believe were losing the hispanic vote because they think we dont like them. [ applause ] i believe that its not about turning out evangelical christians. Its about repairing the damage done by incredibly hateful rhetoric, driving a wall between us and the Fastest Growing demographic in america who should be republicans. I believe donald trump is destroying the Republican Partys chance. [ applause ] to win an election. That we cant afford to lose. Let me tell you about life in america as it really is. 25 years ago a young man and young woman came over from mexico to seek a better life. We have two borders. One with mexico and one with canada. I have yet to meet an illegal canadian and im looking for them all over the place in new hampshire. I cant find them. They may be there may be one out there. Isnt it kind of odd were not run over by illegal canadians . Rule of law country. Sound economy. Not a bad place to live. The canadians come to myrtle beach in march and they go swimming and were glad to have them. Too damn cold for us to swim in march so we have canadian week. They leave on sunday. The people come here illegally usually come from poor and corrupt countries and some of them are bad, but most of them good. A couple came here 25 years ago with one child, they have two since. Theyre u. S. Citizens under our law. You want to revisit that law, count me in, but were not going to retroactively change it. The bottom line is the two children have no place to call home other than america. This is where they have been raised. They have gone to school. One joined the marine corps. The highest percentage of minorities in the marine corps are hispanics. Hes done a tour of duty in afghanistan, maybe in iraq. He hears, wheres mom . Shes walking back to mexico. Thats selfdeportation. Mitt romneys one of the finest men ive ever met. Hes a wonderful man. When he embraced selfdeportation, he made a mistake because he exposed our party to a concept that most americans dont buy and very few buy it off. In 2016 we have to go further. Now its not selfdeportation, its forced deportation. Were literally going to round them up. Does that sound familiar to you . Every one of them. And including their american citizen children. Thats the leader of the Republican Party. You think youre go oing to win an election with that kind of garbage . Undercut everything you have worked for. So if you think its about turning out more people, and staying on this path then youre setting this pty up for oblivion. Its not about turning out more people, its about getting more people involved in our cause. Its about looking to hispanic american in the eye and saying, we get it. Youre pro life, youre entrepreneurial, youre very hard working, very patriotic. Be part of our cause. Is the marine corps legal american citizen gonna vote for a party that wants to deport his mother . I dont think so. And if you do, boy, im your worst choice. You really want to win this election . Do you really want to win this election . Well, start taking everything that we say seriously and push back when we make absolutely no sense. I wanted to come here and talk about Foreign Policy. My 36th trip to iraq to tell you how bad things are and ill get there in a minute. But after mr. Cruz, im going to talk to you about winning an election. How many of you believe we have got a problem with young women as republicans . What do you think that problem is . Any idea . What . Its a variety of problems. How about abortion. Any of you think that that does create a problem for the Republican Party . [ applause ] i think you can be pro life as you want to be, as long as youre sincere and as long as you have a reasonable approach to the pro life issue. Im prolife. Were not going to lose this election because youre prolife. Hispanics as a group are prolife. Africanamericans are more supportive of traditional marriage than any demographic in the country. Its not because of social issues that we will lose. Its positions we take regarding social issues that can disconnect us from america at large. How many of you believe that there should be an exception for a woman who has been a victim of a rape and has become pregnant . [ applause ] i dont believe you can be prolife and win an election, but if youre going to tell a woman whos been raped she has to carry the child of the rapist, youre losing most americans. And you asked a question to ted cruz, how do you get a prochoice person to vote for you . Let me tell you what i will do. Im prolife, youre prochoice, isil is neither. The tax code is a monstrosity for all of us. But if you dont understand the following, then were making a big mistake. And heres the following. If the nominee of the Republican Party will not allow for an exception for rape and incest, they will not win. Ted cruz doesnt have an exception for rape or insist. He says the debate is going to be about the Little Sisters of the poor. Hes going to take the fight to the democrats about their wanting to impose social policy on charitable organizations. It will be about rape. And if you dont think that, then youre just then you dont understand what they will do. It will be about the nominee of the Republican Party. Telling a woman whos been raped, youve got to carry the child of the rapist. Good luck with that. Not the speech that you thought you were going to hear, right . Not the speech i thought i was going to give. But he didnt answer the question. He did not answer the question. Im going to answer the question. We will lose if thats the position of the nominee of the Republican Party. We will lose young women in droves. And if we continue this garbage about illegal immigration and everything is amnesty well do from 27 to single digits. And if you want to ask his ppans from 44 of support to the Republican Party to 27 , theyll tell you we dont think you like us. And give them what i have heard i would be in their camp too. So a little bit about me. I come from the reddest of red states. I was called lindsey gomez. Lindsey gramnesty. I was working with the democrats to find a comprehensive solution to a broken immigration system. I have come to conclude that securing the border requires controlling who gets a job is essential but youre not going to deport 11 million illegal immigrants. You cant do it. You shouldnt do it. The people who we want to deport are crooks. As to the rest, you can stay on our terms. Speak our language. I dont speak it well, but look how far i have come. Pay a fine because you did break the law. Dont cut in front of those who have been doing it right. Wait ten years before you can even think about applying for a green card. That will sell. My goal is not to have a third wave. I have taken a beating over this issue. Let me tell you why i can beat Hillary Clinton. Her definition of flat broke and mine are a bit different. If you think after being in the white house eight years youre flat broke, maybe youve lost your way of what flat broke looks like. Maybe thats why they stole the china. If you want to change Barack ObamasForeign Policy, why would you pick his secretary of state . You want to be commander in chief, where the hell were you when people in benghazi needed your help . How could you have an ambassador in libya and not talk to him for a whole year . And how could you not know that 600 requests for security came in and were not honored . How could you not tell your daughter, oh, this was a protest, and then tell the world oh were going to get that guy that made that video . Put me in the room with her. Give me a chance. Ill win. Then ill govern this country in a way that it should be governed. Ill bring us together. I will work with democrats. To fix a broken immigration system. Ly work with democrats i will work with democrats to get us out of debt before we become greece. Im running as a republican and im proud of it, but im here to tell you the next president needs to be a better american than a better than a republican or a democrat. [ applause ] how are you going to bring us together if your whole career has been about dividing us . Ive got one general rule of thumb. If a law is named after the president whos still in office, youre probably not going to repeal it. So this idea of shutting the government down to get obama to repeal obamacare never made a whole lot of sense to me. I am tired of that crap. I want to put an agenda forward that actually makes sense to the average american. I embrace working with the other side because the next president has to. I embrace what Ronald Reagan did with tip oneill. Start drinking together. And find a way to save Social Security. Heres what i would do. Id ask everybody in this room to give up some of their benefits because most of you can afford to do it. I would ask younger people in this room to work a little longer because you have to. I would do revenue because the republicans have to give some too. I wouldnt raise rates but i would eliminate deductions and pay down the debt and get us all in a room. 80 million baby boomers are going to retire in the next 20 years and we ought to have plan to deal with it. If we dont we lose our way of life. We cant defend ourselves because all of the money goes to medicare, Social Security and interest on the debt. Thats a ticking time bomb. Have you heard of simpsonbow s simpsonbowles . Im ready to do Something Like that. Im ready to challenge you and im ready to challenge the Republican Party. Are the democrats ready to be challenged . I hope so. Because if im president theyll be challenged. Im at 1 . The election still a long way away. Help me stay in this race. [ applause ] you want to talk a little bit about Foreign Policy . Do you think i even need to talk to you about my support for israel . No. Im first guy to go to the rjc event and never mention israel in 15 minutes. You know why . Because i dont have to. Because you know where im at. Dont you really want me to be president of the United States . [ applause ] in your heart of hearts, dont you want me to be by bibis side . Dont you want me across the table from the ayatollah . Dont you want me to be commander in chief because i have walked in their shoes . How many of you believe that i would go on offense on day one . [ applause ] how many of you believe that if i told the iranians im going to tear this deal up, they would believe it . [ applause ] if somebody running for president on our side says i wouldnt tear the deal up, then you dont understand the deal. Because if its fully implemented its a death sentence for israel. They dont even have to cheat. Who in their right mind would give ayatollah 1 billion to do whatever he wants to without changing his behavior . John kerry. Never let someone negotiate with the iranians whos never bought a car. [ applause ] i would tear the deal up because its unworkable. And i would do the following. Id call the congress and say, give me one piece of legislation as leverage. If you do business with iran, youre not going to use american banks. The phone would ring. Then id get you a better deal. Ill tell the ayatollah if you want a Nuclear Power plant, you can have it, but you wont have enriched uranium because we dont trust you. Were not going to let a religious nazi enrich uranium if im president. Youre not going to get a penny of money and another weapon until you stop becoming the largest state sponsor of terrorism. If you try to break out ill stop you. If you want a war, youll lose it. My goal is to take off the table the nightmare of all nightmares. A weapon of mass destruction in the hands of a radical islamist who would use it. Thats the number one threat to mankind. Its the way the second holocaust becomes reality. If you dont stop this deal and replace it with something else, every arab in the region will want their own nuke. And our friends in israel are in an untenable position. I understand why this is a bad deal. But i have the credibility in the region to get you a better deal. I have been there 40 times in the last ten years. I know everybody worth knowing. I am intent on stopping this deal. And stopping this regime before its too late. Ted cruz says hed keep assad in power. I sure as hell will not. I am not going to give damascus to the iranians. Baghdad to the iranians. Theres a corridor between damascus, deep in the heart of lebanon where hezbollah can transport weapons that will be used against our friends in israel. As long as assads around, hezbollah has a partner. Do you agree with that . If im president , assads going standing up or laying down, but he is going. Isil will be destroyed. Im the one guy that can go to every arab leader in turkey and say were going to use your armies and pull the caliphate and were not leaving until the job is done. They will follow me. They trust me. Then well turn to assad, russia and iran and say the following. Were going to let syrians pick the next leader of syria. Not the ayatollah, not putin. And if russia and iran wants to fight the entire arab world, turkey and western powers theyre welcome to do so. If you want to fight for the butcher of damascus, be my guest, putin. You have 18 planes and six of them cant fly. Hes got a pair of twos and we have a full house and hes kicking our ass because we have somebody that d