[ cheers and applause ] cruz cruz i dont even think larry byrd could get that kind of reaction. Welcome, indiana. Thank you so much for having us in your city tonight. Its an honor to be here. Senator, good to see you again. We appreciate you being back on the program. Sean, thank you. Carly fiorina, welcome back to you. All right. We got to ask the obvious question. Tell us about the process that brought you two together to make this announcement. Well, sure. You know, it really is the, perhaps, the most solemn and serious decision that any president ial candidate makes is choosing a Vice President ial nominee because youre really telling the American People this is a person whos prepared to lead the country. This is a person who you can trust to honor the promises were making to defend, to preserve, protect and defend the constitution. And [ cheers and applause ] and critically, this is a person who is prepared to step in and be commander in chief and keep this country safe and defend us from our enemies both foreign and domestic. Carly, you have youve been out on the campaign trail. Ive interviewed you with senator cruz before. I have said this publicly when you were running, after you got out of the race, i do think youve been one of the most effective people of the 17 in prosecuting the case agait Hillary Clinton, taking her on very boldly. Are you are you convinced she is the opponent for the republicans or do you think shes in an orange jumpsuit and shoes without laces . Well, look, when ted cruz is the president of the United States [ cheers and applause ] i suspect that Hillary Clinton will be prosecuted, but until then, isuspect shell be the nominee of the Democrat Party which is something ive always said is going to happen. We do have an update on that. The attorney general, Loretta Lynch earlier today said just like james comey, theres no deadline as it relates to the investigation. I rest my case. I rest my case. So the you know, the investigation is going to go on and on and on and on and on and then on november 5th the new president elect will say, id like an update on that case, please. Uhhuh. [ cheers and applause ] you know, i just have to say that hillary may have to pardon herself. If she ever won. Shes not going to win, dont worry. Yeah, you know why shes not going to win . You know why shes not going to win . Because ted is going to win. The reason [ cheers and applause ] the reason ted is going to win is because think about the contrast. Think about the sharp contrast between cruz and fiorina and clinton and trump. Now why do i put them together . Clinton and trump. Because theyre two sides of the same coin, sean. Theyre two sides of the same coin. [ applause ] they are both they are both the ultimate insiders. I mean, wow, john boehner says yesterday that donald trump is his texting and golfing buddy and harry reid thinks donald trump is okay, too, and donald trump contributed seven times to Hillary Clinton. Im sorry, it is not a choice or a contrast when donald trump agrees with Hillary Clinton on so many positions. Yeah, hes okay with the Iranian Nuclear deal. Yeah, hes okay with Single Payer Health care. Yeah, he was okay until he wasnt on partial birth abortion. You go on and on and on. How long have republicans and conservatives said we can only win by presenting a clear contrast . So here it is. People of indiana, cruz fiorina, trump clinton. [ cheers and applause ] you mentioned john boehner. Im a commentator. I had strong words to say about him yesterday. Im pretty ticked off because as speaker, he would not fight the obama agenda. He did not use his constitutional authority, power of the purse. While he was speaker, he allowed obama to accumulate 4. 1 trillion in debt. They would not repeal the parts of obamacare they could. You stood for 22 hours, senator. Then he calls [ applause ] then he called you a miserable s. O. B. , over his dead body would you be elected and he compared you to satan. Yeah. Look, i give him credit i have a couple of candidates i might go there with. Im not going to mention who. Listen, i give boehner credit for imagery. I suppose the speaker was letting out his inner trump. [ applause ] but, you know, those comments reveal everything you need to know about washington. Listen, we dont have two parties in washington. We have one corrupt bipartisan mess in washington. I afrgree with that. Not just that boehner allowed obama to run up trillions in bets. Boehner leaded effort. Striking in boehners comments he praised Hillary Clinton and praised donald trump. He said donald is my friend, we go texting, we go golfing, hes my buddy. The one person he had vitreal and venom for is me. I dont know john boehner. I dont think weve said 50 words to each oather in our lives. You didnt represent him. I was a junior lawyer. I worked on the case. I worked on appellate briefs. You dont him . I dont know that i ever met him. We havent said 50 words to each oath ther in our lives. I was a baby lawyer. Working on briefs and writing them. I dont know the man. We dont need lectures from a guy who gives us an extra 4. 1 trillion in debt, right . Its actually, sean, its very revealing. What boehner is so angry with, not anything ive ever said to him, its the fact that i stood up and said im going to honor the promises i made to the men and women who elected me. Im going to fight to stop obamacare. Im going to fight stop the debt. Im going to fight to stop amnesty. And what happened is house conservatives rose up with me and said were going to honor our commitments as well. Its why boehner lost his job is because house conservatives rose up and said, stop having a speaker who funds obama and the critical thing to understand is john boehner and Hillary Clinton and donald trump are all part of the same corrupt system. Its why donald trump writes checks to boehner and hillary and if you want to change the system, you know, one of the greatest frauds in modern electoral history is donald trump pretending to be an outsider when he has funded liberal democrats when he funded john boehner. Gave john boehner, 100,000, his superpac a few years ago and immesh with the corruption. Trump is texting boehner. I dont have boehners cell phone and im perfectly okay with that. [ applause ] can i say one thing . Look, the American People are angry. Youre ticked. Im ticked. Were all ticked, because guess what, the system isnt working for us anymore. It works if youre big, youre powerful, youre wealthy, well connected. It doesnt work for anyone else. Now, i have to say, as someone whos fought systems all my life, thats how you go from secretary to ceo, you challenge the system, you challenge the status quo. I am so tired of people atta attacking ted cruz because guess what, you know who attacks ted cruz, the people whose status quo hes challenging. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. If youre going to challenge a system and this system needs challenging, if youre going to challenge the status quo, if youre going to challenge the wellconnected and the wealthy and the powerful, youre going to make enemies. So you know what, i have come to know this man exceedingly well over the last seven weeks as a friend, a husband, a father, and as a great leader. I for one am exceptionally proud of the enemies he has made. Take a break. Were just Getting Started with senator ted cruz and his Vice President ial running mate Carly Fiorina. Theyll be with us the entire hour. 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From high school that actually cut school today with the permission of their teacher which never happened to me in my entire life. Congratulations. We welcome you young people to our event tonight. So we continue. All right. You know, there are a couple i pointed out, senator, usually before these events i come out and say hi to the crowd as i always do and i saw a number of really cute young people including little anabelle over there. I said this election is about them. We now have one in four American Families that dont have a Single Person in the labor force. The 95 million americans out of the labor force. 50 million in poverty. 46 million on food stamps. Obama will accumulate more debt than any other president before him combined. I look at those numbers and to me it seems almost unfixable. Well, theres no doubt that the Obama Clinton economy is a train wreck. It is a disaster. And millions of people are hurting. And the single most important issue in this election is how we turn that around. I can tell you, my top priority as president will be bringing back jobs and economic growth. Bringing jobs back to america. Bringing manufacturing jobs back to indiana. Raising wages for working men and women. Expanding opportunity for young people. And, you know, this election provides a clear contrast. One of the reasons why i named carly early right now is to provide a clear choice for the voters, for the voters of indiana. A clear choice between a campaign that is based on yelling and screaming and cursing and insults versus a positive, optimistic forwardlooking conservative Campaign Based on real policy solutions. Its one thing to yell about jobs. Its another thing to know how you bring them back. You know, it was one of the things Ronald Reagan understood and actually before him john f. Kennedy understood that the key to jobs is you cut taxes, you lift regulations on Small Businesses and you see millions of new jobs. Weve seen that here in indiana with governor mitch daniels, with governor mike pence, but we need to bring indiana values to the country. Obviously youre pleased with governor pence today and a lot has happened today for you and your campaign. But the reality is conservative governors, and i can mention scott walker and john kasich and rick perry and bobby jindal and rick scott of florida. They have done a great job. Theyve taken high def sits, turned it into surpluses. High unemployment rates. They brought hundreds o thousands of jobs to their states. Washington republicans, carly, have failed. Theyve not been able to duplicate that. Why is there this fear, this unnatural seems, you know, unpredictable fear of almost pathological that theyre going to get blamed for Government Shutdown if they stand on principle . Its called lack of courage and leadership. Thats what its called. Thats what its called. But, you know, one of the things that i did before i voted for ted cruz, and i voted for him before i ever had a conversation with were you on the ballot . Yes, i was still on the ballot wrhen i voted for ted cruz. One of the things i did before i voted for him, before i endorsed him, before i with great humility and pride accepted his invitation to serve as his running mate, i went through and read all his policies. You know, its not Rocket Science why jobs leave and its not Rocket Science why they come back. We know what works. We know what works. You have to lower taxes. You have to compete hard for every job. You have to lift obamacare and the epa and this just crushing weight of regulation off the backs in particular of Small Businesses because it is Small Businesses that create 2 3 of the new jobs in this country but to do all those things that obviously work, weve seen it over and over again, to your point, to do those things that obviously work, guess what, you have to be willing to challenge the system that has been in place for so long that says no, no, no, were just going to keep raising taxes, keep rolling back regulations. You know what, ask yourselves a question. Why is the constitution so important . Because the constitution tells us what is going to work in this country. Let me just pick one example as regulations. We are no longer a rule a nation of laws. We are a nation of rules. And ask yourself who are the rule makers . Unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats. Nameless, faceless, bureaucrats. And that machinery has been in place in washington, d. C. , for 30plus years and republicans and democrats have not stopped it. This is a guy with the courage and the policies and the platforms and the leadership to stand in the breach and say, enough, were rolling it back. [ cheers and applause ] let me turn to the process questions. Id rather speak more on substance, but these are important questions. The task you have in front of you to win the nomination is daunting. Im sure you both read the numbers. The current delegate count is donald trump 996. Youre in second place, 566. He won 27 contests. You won 11 contests. Marco rubios won three. John kasich has won one. So really it has been a twoperson race for a long time. That is a big gap to bridge, a big gap for you to bridge delegatewise. How important is indiana . Is it a mustwin state for you now . Listen, indiana is critically important. We have seen, donald has had a good week. He won his home state and he won the adjoining states and the media has treated that with great astonishments. Of course, the proceeding three weeks we won starting with utah then north dakota then wisconsin then colorado and wyoming. You know, those five states 1. 3 Million People voted in those five states and we won landslide after landslide after landslide. Listen, its fine he did well in the northeast, in the corridor, he did well there. Were back in heartland. One of the real differences [ applause ] both Hillary Clinton and donald trump view aindiana as flyover territory. In their view america is new york city and washington, d. C. , and it is the elites and the rich and the powerful. I think the values of indiana are the values of america. And it gives me great comfort that this primary is going to be decided by the midwestern common sense of the hoosier state. And i dont think theyre interested in in some bully who yells and screams and doesnt have any real policy solutions. Let me do a followup. Yeah. For donald trump to get to 1,237, for you now to get the nomination, youre going to need a second ballot in a contested convention. You both know that. You understand the rules. Sure. Youre fighting hard. This is the process. Everybody knew the process going in. 243 is Donald Trumps number to get to 1,237. So my question is, and i think a lot of people dont understand it. Do you all understand how this works . All right. There probably are some people here who dont. For those who dont, explain what the rules are, how the process goes so they will so people that dont know understand. Let me note one thing that the numbers that are being reported by some of the Media Outlets this is the ap. The aps numbers are bogus. Theyve given the unbound delegates in pennsylvania to donald trump. Those delegates are not his. Thats just reporters who want to run up his total. If you actually look at the bound delegates, donald has about 50 fewer theyre unbound on your side, too. Theyre unbound so the media doesnt get to assume that every unbound delegate is i understand. Im not going to argue. Heres the simple reality. I believe nobody is going to get to 1,237. Donald trump is not going to get to 1,237. Nobody is before cleveland. So whats going to happen is simple. Were going to go into cleveland. Im going to have a ton of delegates. Donald trump is going to have a ton of delegates. Then cleveland were going to have a contested convention and the battle is to see who can earn the support of a majority of the delegates elected by the peel a people and the reason donald is so desperately trying to get his media accolades to say this is over, this is over, this is over, is because donald cannot earn the support of a majority. He wants to change the rules so you dont need a majority. Listen, if you cant get a support of the majority of delegates, you cant unite this party and you cant win in november. Let me followup on [ applause ] this is really important. Can i use a really simple analogy . Last night was the nfl draft pick, right . The Indianapolis Colts did pretty