Good evening, everybody. I'm Martha McCollum, and I'm Bret bare. This
is the very same stage on which the Republican choice for president will accept the
party's nomination next summer. The eight contenders are positioned by the order they sit
in the polls, with the highest polling candidates in the middle standing center stage
Florida Governor Ron dessentism Fonny, former Vice President Mike Penns, former South Carolina
Governor Nicky Haley, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Carolina, former Arkansas Governor
Asa Hutchinson, and North Dakota Governor Dunburg Hunting some ground rules for tonight.
Will ask the questions and then candidates get one minute to answer. If someone
is singled out, you get thirty seconds to respond, and when the time
runs out, we all will hear this. It's very pleasant. So tonight
these candidates have a big opportunity to break out of the pack and to explain
why they are best prepared to be the Republican choice for president at a time
when the likely Democrat nominee, President Joe Biden, is working to convince the
country that with Bidenomics, things are looking up. Please call my plan Bidenomics.
I'm not sure they mean it. AM totally complimentary with at the time.
I don't know what's a good idea to have Joe Biden the first person
speaking at the Republican debate and to show that he's actually, you know,
relaxed and a little bit funny, but okay, whatever, Fox Business,
guess what It's working? But isn't. More than sixty five percent of Americans
say the country is headed in the wrong direction. And here's the reality.
For some voters we talked to here in Wisconsin this week, see that the
problem with the way they asked that question. Is the country headed in the
right direction? What I say, it's headed in the right direction? No,
And I'm going to vote for Joe Biden in this election. Right head
in the wrong It's head in the wrong direction for a million reasons. It's
head in the wrong direction because the middle class is shrinking, because CEO pay
is up three hundred times, while while standard worker pay has barely risen at
all, the cost of everything is up and salaries are not matching. There's
there's a bunch of reasons why we don't have universal healthcare in this country.
Our healthcare prices are through the roof. That's not Joe Biden's fault. Sure,
I would like him to do something about it, but it's not his
fault. He can't get all that stuff passed through all rephases of our government.
So it being headed in the wrong direction doesn't mean Joe Biden isn't doing
a better job than any of these clowns. We have noticed a dramatic increase
in prices at the grocery store just across the board and foolish. There's a
lot of people out here home. It's because they kick by food. It's
tough. When you got mortgage rates at seventy percent verses two to three,
it says you can't afford the house anymore. It's an inflation. It's ridiculous.
It's killing us out here. And it's not just inflation. It's the
fact that salary has not continued to rise like it was before. The minimum
wages and the general pay rates are not rising along with inflation. That is
the issue. People aren't homeless because of Joe Biden. As we sit here
tonight, the number one song on the Billboard chart is called Richmond North of
Richmond. It is by using are from Farmville, Virginia named Oliver Anthony.
His lyrics speak of alienation, of deep frustration with the state of government and
of this country. Washington, DC is about one hundred miles north of Richmond,
Richmond for Richmond, lord knows it? Oh doest Wannah total control?
Want to know what you think, know what you do? And then I
don't think you know ho that you do? Your dollar hate shit and it's
taxonal fim a rich man, a rich Man. So Governor DeSantis, why
is this song striking such a nerve in this country right now? What do
you think it means? Our country is in decline? This decline is not
inevitable. It's a choice. We need to send Joe Biden back to his
basement and reverse American decline. Oh my god, it's it has everything to
do with rising CEO pay and bonuses and and the standard worker pay not rising.
And it's what's grossing me out about this is politicians on the right and
the left continue to enable corporate greed. Democrats and Republicans continue to enable corporate
greed. They won't raise the minimum wage, they won't get universal healthcare passed,
they won't reevaluate our tax system. They won't make the rich pay their
fair share while going after the little guy over six hundred dollars here and there
in empty and bake accounts with twelve hundred dollars in it, while looking the
other way when billionaires pay seven hundred bucks in taxes, that's the problem.
And then they take turns every four years saying, all right, guys,
we'll blame you this time, and then next time you blame us, we'll
divide society, make them fight each other, and we'll just keep fueling our
own pockets. And we play this stupid ass game every four years. Democrats
pretend Republicans put us here, and then Republicans pretend that Democrats put us here,
when all along they're all working together to make damn sure they load their
own pockets. There is definitely one party that does it worse than the other.
The Republican Party has fewer sensible people in it. I think the Democratic
Party has a handful of people like AOC and Katie Porter and Bernie Sanders.
There are a few people over there that get it, but they're not powerful
enough to make any changes. And if one of them got elected president,
they still wouldn't have the power because you've got to get roughly sixty five seventy
percent of the Senate on board. And all of those people, Democrats and
Republicans, are using their insider trading information to become millionaires in the stock market.
They're leveraging the system. They're taking giant donations from big Pharma and industries
like that to prevent regulations. I mean, they're all in on it,
and every four years they pretend it's the other guy, and we follow along
with this stupid ass game. And I'm just so sick of it. But
let's hear what this clown's got to say about it. With understanding, we
must reverse by dynamics so that middle class families have a chance to succeed again.
We cannot succeed as a country if you are working hard and you can't
afford rose frees, a car or a new home, while Hunter Biden can
make hundreds of thousands of dollars on lousy paintings. That boy, that didn't
take long for Hunter Biden to come up wrong. We also cannot succeed when
the Congress spends trillions and trillions of dollars those rich men north of Richmond have
put us in this situation, and finally, we need to lower your gas
prices. We're going to open up all energy production. We will be energy
dominant again in this country. I showed it could be done in the state
of Florida. I pledge to you as your president, we will get the
job done and I will not let you down. First of all, where
are you yelling? Bro? He doesn't like an a Sesame Street character.
I swear this guy every time he finishes a sentence that he's proud of.
It reminds me of George Bush. George Bush, you should do that little
giggle after he said something he thought was cool. DeSantis has this little muppet
smile. He doesn't. It's irritating. Thank you. Governor Christie. Do
you agree with Governor DeSantis just said there? And why would you be better
on the economy than him? Well, look, I do agree predominantly with
what Governor DeSantis just laid out. I think that if you asked every one
of us up here, that we would agree predominantly with what he just laid
out. Here's the difference. The difference is that we're going to have to
work and make sure that we sell these ideas and were able to be able
to put ourselves in a position where we get a majority of the vote,
not only by winning the Congress and the Senate in the twenty four but also
by having someone who's had the experience of doing it now. I was elected
as a conservative Republican in a blue state with sixty one percent of the vote,
with the Democratic legislature against me the entire time, and we still,
through hard, strong decision making, brought them around to our point of view.
We cut taxes in New Jersey, We cut debt in New Jersey.
We made sure that each and every I don't know about that. I think
I can't wait for all this to come out and for there to be a
fact check on it. I'll try to do a follow up episode whenever there
is a comprehensive fact check. I think they had credit issues while he was
governor. Actually I don't recall exactly what happened, but to say he cut
debt, come, I guess you can cut debt and have bad credit at
the same time. I don't know. Time we were confronted with bad democratic
ideas, we stood and stopped them, and when there were good ideas,
we brought people together to make progress going forward. Truth and accountability are the
things we need to do to fight waste. And I'd say the last thing
is this, Brett. We cannot sit by any longer and allow the kind
of spending that's going on in Washington, because every dollar they spend is a
dollar that these people are not allowed to spend on their children and their grandchildren.
It's robbing our country and it's wrong. Well, Governor, let me
just follow up very quickly. New Jersey when you were governor, had the
second lowest credit rating in the nation after Illinois. It was downgraded eleven times.
That's what it was. That's what it was, the second lowest rating
and down I didn't know it was eleven times. Jesus, I knew they
had credit issues, but it's eleven times. Yeah, And that's what happens
when you inherit a blue state. Oh yeah, while you were a governor,
it was downgraded eleven times. And but it's it's because it was a
blue state, zero accountability. But when you look at what we did on
debt, Brett, in that state, we cut debt in that state,
debt that had been left. Here's a sad part. He's one of the
more reasonable Republicans, Like I don't like him, but he's one of the
more he's on the more reasonable, and I think him and maybe Nicky Haley
are on the on the reasonable side for the most part. But he's just
he's just sidestepping. I don't know. I can't. I'm not gonna be
able to pause it and talk this much each time, because there's things that
were five hours long. So let me let me get it going by three.
Democratic subnatorial predecessor. Yeah, blame the people before up that tremendously.
And because they ran it up three doesn't mean it would go down eleven times
during your governorship. Man, oh man, these people. I mean,
look, just disclaimer here. Most of what you hear on this show is
probably gonna be false. I've not this is I'm watching this for the first
time live and then pausing it as it goes, so, uh, just
just know that this has not been fact checked. Also, saw ste was
to cut the unemployment rate in half. It was over ten percent when I
became governor in twenty ten. What we also did was cut pension payments to
public employees to make sure that taxpayers were not being soaked by a public employee
union system that was killing the taxpayer. Thank you, governor, Governor Scott,
I mean Tim Scott, Senator Scot. Excuse me. The song also
goes after welfare programs. As a senator, now, President Biden argued for
freezing federal spending. This was back in the eighties and dealing with sacred cows.
He does not talk about that anymore. You have been a senator though,
for ten years, So what have you done to reign in the increasing
size of government? Well, thank you for the question. Over the last
several years, I've had an opportunity to vote against spending package after spending package
after spending package, and then take credit for all what all that's all gonna
do whenever you lose that and the Democrats force it through and your people love
it and love all the infrastructure jobs that come to your state into your towns,
and you take credit for it even though you voted against it. But
I know you're not going to mention that. Part also need to understand is
that Joe Biden's Biden nomens has led to the loss of ten thousand dollars of
spending power for the average family. There is no way that's true. That
is just okay, dude. You see sixteen percent inflation, Your gas is
up forty percent, your food is up twenty percent, your electricity is up
twenty percent. We can stop that by turning to spick it off at Washington,
sending the money back to the states, and allowing the decisions to be
made at their own houses. I helped write the Tax Cussing Jobs Act in
two seventeen. We cut taxes for a single moment, the one that raised
me by seventy percent, for dual households by sixty percent, returning to the
average family four thousand dollars. If you don't send it to Washington, we
can't spend it. That's good news for the American people. Okay, But
just to follow up, you did during the Trump administration. You approved four
point four trillion, four point one trillion, one point seven trillion over the
course of that administration. That's a lot of money. There's no doubt that
during the Trump a minute, I love that these moderators are holding their feet
to the fire. And that's good. And we were dealing with the COVID
virus. We spent more money. But here's what happened at the end of
our time in the majority, we had low unemployment, record low unemployments three
and a half per cent for the majority of the population, seventy seventy year
low for women. African Americans, Hispanics and Asians had all time low.
But our inflation was at two percent. Under Joe Biden, we've seen the
exact opposite. We've seen inflation explode, which led to twelve federal reserve increases.
That's devastating home buyers today. Mister Rama Swammy, you're listening to the
five, so I don't know if I get a chance to response. He
didn't mention you specifically, but we'll be with you in a second, mister
Vice President, mister Ramaswamy, listening to all of this, Mister, voters
choose you over more experienced politicians on this stage, you're basically, you know,
a blank slate for people. You're thirty eight years old. You've said
that you only voted in two presidential elections before this moment, this political race.
So Vivek Ramaswamy, is he the one that I saw a clip from
There was a clip on TikTok of. I think of this guy proposing that
we raised the voting age from eighteen to twenty five. I think he was.
I think this guy might be one of the crazy Republicans. I don't
know him yet, but let's see what he's got to say. I think
this is him. I could be wrong. First, let me just address
a question that is on everybody's mind at home tonight. Who the heck is
this skinny guy with a funny last name? And what the heck is he
doing in the middle of this debate stage. I'll tell you I'm not a
politician, Brett, You're right about that. Did he just use the Obama
line? And why does he talk like that? Hold on the hope of
a mill worker's son who dares to defy the odds, the hope of a
skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him
too. Yeah, that's what I thought. He just ripped that line off.
Who the heck is this skinny guy with a funny last name, and
what the heck is he doing in the middle of this debate stage? No,
he did it. Ah, you're just gonna oh, bro, and
he's doing it. He didn't even do it like jokingly. He's Oh my
god, I don't like his smile. I don't like his voice. I
don't like that in his first couple of lines he stole a bit from Obama.
I'll tell you I'm not a politician, Brett. You're right about that.
I'm an entrepreneur. My parents came to this country with no money forty
years ago. I have gone on to found multi billion dollar companies. I
did it while marrying my wife, Aporva, raising our two sons, following
our faith in God. That is the American dream. And I am genuinely
worried that that American dream will not exist for our two sons. He doesn't
sound real. This guy sounds He sounds like AI like I don't. It's
so bizarre the way he's talking their generation unless we do something about it.
And I do think Brett's going to take an outsider because for a long time,
we have professional politicians in the Republican Party who have been running from something.
Now is our moment to start running to something, to our vision of
what it means to be an American today. If you have a broken car,
you don't turn over the keys to the people who broke it again.
You hand it over to a new generation to actually fix the problem. That's
why I'm at this race and we're just getting warmed up, all right.
So you, Haley, So why are you better a position to turn around
this economy that we've heard all of these voters talking about tonight? Then mister
Ramaswamy, who is a successful entrepreneur nationally right now, he's beating you in
the polls. Well, I don't care about polls. What I care about
the fact is that no one is telling the American people the truth. The
truth is that Biden didn't do this to us. Our Republicans did this to
us too. Whoa NICKI Haley? How dare you go out there and say
the truth? Are you gonna make me like you today? You're gonna say
that at a Republican debate the first one they passed that two point two trillion
dollars COVID stimulus bill. They left us with ninety million people on Medicaid,
forty two million people on food stamps. No one has told you how to
fix it. I'll tell you how to fix it. They need to stop
the spending, they need to stop the borrowing. They need to eliminate the
earmarks that the Republicans brought back in and they need to make sure they understand
these are taxpayer dollars. It's not their dollars. And while they're all saying
this, you have Ronda Santis, You've got Tim Scott, You've got Mike
Pets. They all voted to raise the debt and Donald Trump added eight trillion
to our debt. And our kids are never going to forgive us for this.
And so at the end of the day, you look at the twenty
twenty four budget, Republicans asked for seven point four billion in earmarks. Democrats
asked for two point eight billion. So you tell me who are the big
spenders. I think it's time for an accountant in the White House. Damn.
Now, I don't agree with all of what she said, because we,
damn it, we definitely needed to not shut government down and increase the
debt ceiling, right, that was an emergency. But that was pretty damn
bold of her to call out Republicans and tell the truth. Okay, niggy,
you got my attention. Pass Do you imagine that fifty four percent of
voters say the cost of groceries has a quote major problem for them. You
blamed the Biden administration spending No, it's not the cost of groceries. It's
the lack of salary to pay for those groceries. Again, that's the biggest
issue for that increase. But as Vice president, your administration spent more than
any prior seven point eight trillion dollars added to the national debt, three point
five trillion of that before COVID. So does that mean yeah, let's keep
that in mind, before COVID over three trillion dollars added over seven trillion dollars
added to the debt under Trump and Pence. It's the most, like he
just said, the most under any administration in history. So when Republicans talk
about spending and Democrats wild spending, what Nikki just said was spot on,
at least for that piece of it. That let's look at what the Republicans
are doing as well. This is not a problem Joe Biden created. I
am shocked that she I'm shocked that she said that you're part of the spending
problem. Well, first off, thanks for the question, thanks for letting
me respond to a reference to our administration's record. I'm incredibly proud of the
record of the Trump Pens administration. I mean, in four short years,
we rebuild our military. We revived our economy. We unleashed American energy,
and we appointed it was our military not built. Was our economy falling.
The economy was on the rise after Obama, and it continued on the same
trajectory under Trump until COVID hit and his lack of preparedness for it tanked us
worse than it would have under any other administration. So rebuilt our economy and
military revived our economy. We weren't suffering when Trump took office. I don't
know what this guy's talking about. Preconservatives to the Supreme Court that gave the
American people a new beginning for the right to lie. Oh you're disgusted,
Martha. You asked earlier, who's the most best prepared for this job?
And I'm gonna say, with all due respect to all of my friends on
the stage, and even to one that's probably looking on, I think on
question one, that's a friend that's probably looking on. You mean when they
called for you to be murdered, RelA, I am the best prepared,
the most tested, the most qualified and proven conservative in this race. I
was a leader in the Congress of the United States. I led Indiana where
we balanced budgets and had a triple A bond rating. When I was governor
and as Vice president of the United States, we spent funding to backfill on
the military cuts of the Obama administration, and then we were there in the
worst pandemic in a hundred years. All that being said, I was the
first person in this race to say that we've got to deal with the long
term national debt issues. You've got people on this stage that won't even talk
about issues like social security and medicare. Vek, you recently said a president
can't do everything. Well, I got news for you, Vavec. I've
been in the hallway. I've been in the West Wing. A president in
the United States has to confront every crisis facing America. Every time they mentioned
each other, anytime someone mentioned somebody, that person gets to respond, Okay.
I will put our nation back on the path to growth and prosperity and
restore fiscal responsibility, just as I did in Congress and as governor vice president
when I was vice president. But I'm going to give back first. This
isn't that complicated. Guys. Unlock American energy, drill frack burn cole,
embrace nuclear, put people back to work by no longer paying them more to
stay at home, reform the US FED that stabilize the US dollar, and
go to war. The only war that I will declare as US president will
be the war on the federal administrative state that is the source of those toxic
regulations acting like a wet blanket on the economy. So I'm not sure I
exactly understood Mike Pence's comment, but I'll let you all parse that out for
me. Yeah, of course you didn't understand it, because you just got
here pretty simple. That's something the US president can do with focus, and
I'll deliver on. Let me explain it to you, and let me explain
it to you. In fact, let me explain it to slower this time.
Sometimes I'll go slower this time. Oh man, I love a little
insults. I'll go slower this time. I was a House Conservative leader before
it was cool. I actually pushed a deficit reduction actor. Was the last
time we actually reduced the national debt in the United States? When I was
the leader of House Conservatives, I balanced budgets and cut taxes when I was
governor. I mean, look, Joe, buy so much of what these
people say it's just the fact check of this thing is going to be a
mile long. They're gonna be like, well, technically, for a month
and a half the budget was balanced, but all these other issues happened.
You know. It's they just had these little talking points, which is why
when I started this, I was like, you know, this doesn't matter
as much as we think it does. There's got to be bigger changes across
the board in this country, because otherwise we're all just pawns. But I
don't want to be a broken record here. I want to get through this.
This weakened this country at home and abroad. Now is not the time
for on the job training. We don't need to bring in lookie, that
is go Pens. I never thought i'd say that this dude Ramaswamy's pissing me
off of Whammy. I'm not a fan of Pens, but seeing this,
seeing this young man be putting his place is I mean, I'm enjoying the
Republican infighting for damn sure, bringing people without experience. Wow, the crowd
is losing it because I'm picking up on this. I'm picking up on the
fact that I think it's a largely Trump audience. Why because well, it's
a it's a Republican, it's a Republican audience, and the Republicans are mostly
Trumpers nowadays, I guess. So that's what's happening here. Remember to have
a moment on the economy. I think that's fair. People who have enough,
we're going to get back to that. We are there to us dollar
and go to war the old, the deep. We don't need to bring
in people without experience. We need to bring when you have a rebuttal okay,
and you are up, Governor de Santa. So here's the thing.
Why are we in this mess? Part of it and a major reason is
because how this federal government handed COVID nineteen by locking down this economy. It
was a mistake. Shit. I think he meant handled when he said handed.
He's a little nervous and very awkward. I say the wrong word all
the time. I get it. But I'm not running for president, So
I think he's a little shaken right now. I think he's I think he's
fighting above his weight. Class happen and in Florida, we led the country
out of lockdown. We kept our state free and open. And I can
tell you this as your president I will never let the deep state bureaucrats lock
you down. You wow, so dog whistles to quan on deep state bureaucrats
take somebody like Fauchi and coddle him. You bring Fauci in, you sent
him down, and you say, Anthony, you are fired. Gross just
trying to steal trumps whole fired thing. Trying to pretend to be a tough
guy. And I know you're just listening to this because you probably can't stomach
to watch the nonsense. But he looks just as cheesy and fabricated as you
could imagine it gets. It's so clear that he's trying to pretend to be
tough. It's just it's over acting. I mean, if I was his
acting coach, I'd be like, dude, you're doing it a little too
on the nose, and it's cringe ee. We're gonna I wanted to spun
Mike for one second because he invoked me back. Now that everybody's gotten their
memories pretty prepared slogans out of the way, we can actually have a real
discussion now the reality and the fact that yours no, not really Mike.
We can have a real discussion now. He's very robotic. Now that you've
done that, maybe I can speak now this guys, this guy's on my
last nerve man talk about the Biden economy, because the economy and one of
yours not really like actually, we're just gonna have some fun tonight. And
the reality is you have a bunch of people professional politicians, superPAC puppets,
following slogans handed over to them by their four underfage superpacs last week. The
real choice we face in this primary is this, do you want a superPAC
puppet or do you want a patriot who speaks the truth? Do you want
incremental reform, which is what you're hearing about, or do you want revolution?
Okay? And I stand on the side of the American revolution. Geez,
I'm just waiting on him to say, yes we can at this point
turvity record in which I lowered taxes keep jumping. You want revolution, okay,
and I stand on the side of the American revolution to address to take
control back here, we need to have a moment on the economy. I
think that's fair. People who have enough, we're going to get back to
that. We are. There are two people who we have not heard from
yet. So let's hear from Governor Burgham and then from Governor Hutchinson. I'm
the economy sir, who Martha, And of course I'm from a town of
three hundred people. It's a big deal to make it on this stage with
all these folks. Yeah, no one knows who the hell this guy is.
Doug Bergham. He's apparently the governor of North Dakota. They were all
wishing me well and I think I took him a little too literally when they
said go to Milwaukee and break a leg. So, yeah, he apparently
has some kind of injury on his leg or something. So we get such
low Biden economy because the economy, energy, and national security are all tied
together. We of course we're paying too much for our energy in our in
our state, right in our country right now. But part of the reason
why is because the Biden policies on energy. We've got a plan right now.
The one point two trillion dollars of Green New Deal spending buried in the
Inflation Creation Act is something that is just subsidized. Inflation Creation Act. Stop
buying oil from the Middle East and start buying batteries from China. We're just
trading OPEC for sign and then belatedly, belatedly, the Biden administration says,
no, we're going to put sanctions on Russian oil. Well, we put
sanctions on Russian oil. We'll done. Is twenty percent off? Who's buying
a China. So if you buy a battery in this country, you buy
a solar panel, it's being produced in a plant in China powered by coal,
or it's being powered by oil and gas at twenty percent off. And
every farmer in this country you'd like to buy diesel at twenty percent off,
just like they're buying in China. This guy's pooring. He's getting too specific
with the details. You know, people, it's talking points time. Man.
Delighted to be here tonight, and let me just tell you that I'm
a pro life governor, conservative state that have a conservative record in which I
lowered taxes in Arkansas. As governor, I created a two billion dollars surplus
that I passed off for you. Always another conservative when they say conservative.
I made sure that we shrunk the size of government. We have fourteen percent
fewer state employees in Arkansas after I left government and when I took over as
governor eight years ago, I tell that, because that's what we need in
Washington, DC. We need somebody who can actually constrain the growth of the
federal government, that can actually reduce the size. And I've pledged to reduce
by ten percent our federal non defense workforce. That's a specific pledge to make
that attacks the administrative state. And let me applaud some of the business partners
that are here that have had success in business. But let me tell you,
I've been a federal prosecutor. I've served our country in terms of being
head of the DA in homeland security in times of crisis. And while I
think that that's experience that is important for the future of our country, to
be the president of the United States that can lead with positive solutions, to
be held accountable. Thank you. We have a lot of topics to get
to and I promise we're going to get to everyone if we play within the
rule. Okay, next topic. More than a thousand people are still unaccounted
for in Maui after the deadliest US wildfire and more than a century. Hawaii's
governor and White House officials said that climate change amplified the cost of human error,
and a tropical storm hit California for the first time in eighty four years,
the ocean hit one hundred and one degrees off the coast of Florida,
and in the last month, the heatwave in the Southwest broke records nearly fifty
years old. Alexander Diez from Young America's Foundation has a question for you all
OO. Polls consistently show that young people's number one issue is climate change.
How will you, as both president of the United States and leader of the
Republican Party, calm their fears that the Republican Party doesn't care about climate change?
Oh? I want to start on this with this show of hands.
Do you believe in human behavior is causing climate change? Razor hand if you
do. Look, we're not school children. Let's have the debate to take
it to stop. Nobody raised their hand. I don't think that's the way
to do. So let me just say that, alex saying, Oh,
he's avoiding the he's avoiding you. The reasons our country's decline is because of
the way the corporate media treats wakens versus demic. What a chicken shit beach
while those people were suffering. He was asked about it, he said,
no comment. Are you kidding me as somebody that's handled disasters in Florida.
You gotta be guys, he gotta be there. He's just avoiding it.
None of them, none of them raise their hands the deal. Is that
a hand raise? You do not? I think it was a hand raise
for him, and it's my handser in my pockets. Had let us be
honest as Republicans. I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and
paid for, so I can say this, the climate change, the climate
change is a hoax. And he just said climate change agenda is a hoax.
Agenda is the wet blanket on our and so the reality is more people
are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate cha.
Oh my god, this guy, this rama Swamy needs to go kick rocks
man. Listen, listen, hold on, I've had enough already tonight get
him a guy who sounds like chatchy pt And the last person in one of
these debates Brett who stood in the middle of the stage and said, what's
a skinny guy with an odd last name doing up here? Was Barack Obama.
Thank you, Fred. We're dealing with the same type of amateur.
Yeah, who ended up being our greatest president in history. And you'll help
let me just like Obama, hold on, hold on, governor a clown
like to say. Is the fact that I think this is exactly why Margaretcher
said, if you want something said, ask a man. If you want
something done, ask a walm up. Of course she went there. First
of all, we do care about clean air, clean water. We want
to see that taking care of. But there's a right way to do it.
And the right way to do it is first of all, yes,
is climate change real, Yes it is. But if you want to go
and really change the environment, then we need to start telling China in India
that they have to lower their emissions. Okay, fair point. And these
green subsidies that Biden has put in, all he's done is helped China because
he's understand all these electric vehicles that he's done, what that dot Half of
the batteries for electric vehicles are made in China, and so that's not helping
the environment. You're putting money in China's pocket. You know, you can
put money in China's pocket and help the environment at the same time. Nikki,
the truth, which is these subsidies are not working. We also need
to take on the international world and say, Okay, India and China,
you got to stop polluting. And that's when we'll start to deal with Scott.
Are you brought and paid for? Absolutely? Are you bought and paid
for? Are you bought and absolutely not? Absolutely observed as a debate about
the issues that affect their lives, is Scott going back and forth being childish
is not helpful to the American people to decide them the next leader of our
country. Divorce for a second number two. As a kid who grew up
in a single parent household poverty, I wondered was the American dream reel for
kids who are devastated by poverty, devastated by the challenges of life. I
came to the conclusion that America can do for anyone what she's done for me
if we focus on restoring hope. Creed this is just his stupid stunt speech.
If we want the environment to be better, and we all do,
the best thing to do is to bring our jobs home from China. If
we create ten million new jobs, that my mate an American plan, we
will have a better economy and a better environment. Let me tell you why
I say that, Brutica, do it quickly. America has cut your dinger
already wants boy and talk slow. So America. That was quick. America
has cut our carbon footprint in half in the last twenty five years. So
places where, Yeah, how did we do that? Increase what you're saying
to stop doing. We've cut the carbon footprint by doing what NICKI Haley just
said. We should stop doing your own economy. Let's bring our jobs home.
We have a lot of different topics together. Yeah, we do.
We thank you all, Thank you, Senator Scott so. Coming up next,
the candidates will weigh in on what could be a defining issue in the
twenty twenty four campaign. The first Republican debate continues moments away. Yeah,
please ask them about I don't know, Donald Trump, who's getting Uh,
we're probably gonna surrender tomorrow or a by the time you hear this. Maybe
it's today, Maybe it already happened. Maybe you've seen his mug shot.
I don't know. In six state referendums all have upheld abortion rights in this
country, and even in red states. There are more swing state referendums that
are coming up as we head into the elections as well on this. So,
Governor Haley, what do you say to your party, of course starts
with it, and to your state, which today confirmed a six week abortion
law as well, especially the impact on women's suburban voters across this country.
Thank you, Martha. I am unapologetically pro life, not because the Republican
Party tells me to be, but because my husband was adopted and i had
trouble having both of my children. So I'm surrounded by blessings. Having said
that, we need to stop demonizing this issue. This is talking about the
fact that unelected justices didn't need to decide something this personal, because it's personal
for every woman and man. Now it's been put in the hands of the
people. That's great. When it comes to a federal ban, Let's be
honest with the American people and say it will take sixty Senate votes, it
will take a majority of the House. So in order to do that,
let's find consensus. Can't we all agree that we should ban late term abortions.
Can't we all agree that we should encourage adoptions. Can't we all agree
that doctors and nurses who don't believe an abortions shouldn't have to perform them.
Can't we all agree that contraception should be available, And can't we all agree
that we are not going to put a woman in jail or give her the
death penalty if she gets an abortion. Let's treat this like a respectful issue
that it is and humanize a situation and stop demonizing the situation. Right.
Okay, So I disagree with several points she's making, but as a conservative,
she does sound at least the most reasonable. One of your biggest financial
backers said that you need to quote shift to get moderates or you will lose.
What do you say to him and others who say politically that is a
tough thing to sell nationally, Well, I would say we sold the biggest
election, landslide victory and the history of the Republican Party in the state of
Florida in twenty twenty two. That's what I did. Yeah, that was
before you signed the abortion band. You gotta do what you think is right.
I believe in a culture of life. I was proud to sign the
heartbeat Bill. I'm one of the most impactful moments of my life was when
I heard the heartbeat of my oldest daughter in my wife's wound, and didn't
he sign that bill like in the middle of the night, like in secret.
She was super proud of it. And this issue is wrong to allow
abortion all the way up to the moment of birth. I know a lady
in Florida named Penny. She survived multiple abortion attempant. She was this is
this is so cringey. I'm at a guy named Dan, and Dan works
hard and has his six pack. I mean, it's just I'm a regular
person like you. It's just so gross stream. But just to be clear,
Governor, would you sign a six week ben Federally, I'm going to
stand on the side of life. Look, I understand Wisconsin is going to
do it different than Texas. I understand Iowa and New Hamps are going to
do death. He just won't answer questions. We all support the cause of
life. As governor and as president, you're shaking Vice President Pens you're shaking
your head. Well, look, I'm I'm not new to this cause.
After I gave my life to Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I
opened up the book and I read before I formed you in the womb,
I knew you, and see I said before you life and death, blessings
and curses. Now choose life. And I knew from that moment on the
cause of life had to be my cause. So you're going to champion legislate
based on your beliefs, Vice President of Mysticism, you're my friend that you
can't prove a truth. This is the opposite of leadership. When the Supreme
Court returned this question to the American God with a fucking tool. I just
the fact that you believe this is fine, use it to manage and govern
your own life. But to take your belief system that you can't prove is
true and try to control other people's bodies based on it is ridiculous. In
every state in the nation that says when a baby is capable of feeling pain,
an abortion cannot be allowed. A fifteen week ban as an idea whose
time has common supported by seventy percent of the American people. But it's going
to take unapologetic leadership, leadership that stands on principle and expresses compassion for women
in crisis, well pregnancies, I'll get that as president of the United States.
YEA, where's the compassion for women in what the hell you just said?
So First of all, I will say it is in the hands of
the people and that's where it should be. But well, when you're talking
about a federal ban, be honest with the American people. We haven't had
forty five pro life senators and over one hundred years, so no Republican president
can be and abortions anymore. That a Democrat president could ban all those states.
Well, it's don't make women feel like they have to decide on this
issue when you know we don't have sixty Senate votes from people support legislation but
experiencing don't. Seventy of the Senate does not. You have to be honest
with the American people. Let's get Governor Bergaman for one minute. Her so,
but the Supreme Court. I'm actually pretty proud of Nikki. I mean,
I disagree with a lot of what she's saying, but I'm proud of
her for fighting back against Pens on this on this abortion issue. That's where
it is right now. So as I understand it, you are not in
favor of a federal ban. What do you say about the states? There's
about five of them, including New Jersey. I think a few others that
allow abortion up until the time of birth, though if you were president,
would you be able to abide that? Well, first of all, a
pro life governor of a very pro life state, and this is issue is
of course very important. But I am on the record and I stand behind
that we should not have a federal abortion ban. We should not, And
the reason why we shouldn't is very simple. It's the Tenth Amendment in the
Constitution. In the Constitution which the states created the federal government, not the
other way around. It says that there were certain duties allowed to the federal
government delegated to them by the states. The rest are left to the states
comma or importantly or to the people. We need to get back to freedom
and liberty for the people in this country, and we can have we can't
be had. Republicans who fight for fifty years for this great cause and when
to return it back to the states, and then the next day they turn
around and go, no, the Fed should do that, because the Feds
are stepping into people's lives, they're stepping into people's businesses over and over.
If we say that the FED should be in on this one, where do
we stop. I say that we follow the Constitution, and this was returned
to the state. This is where it should. Governor you sign him a
six week band. You signed a six week ban. Governor Bergham, you
signed a six week ban. So you're saying federally, it's all going to
go to the states. Yes, and what is going to work in New
York will never work in North Dakota, vice versa. That's where this is
too important of an issue that I have to address. First of all,
the Supreme Court gave it back to the elected representatives, whether it's the States
or whether it's the United States Congress, so there is authority. And that's
why President Biden is pushing for a Democrat proposal, which is an essence,
abortion on demand through the term. So they have their extreme position at a
national level. Okay, he's boring and irrelevant and is not going to perform
well in the polls. So I'm just going to talk over humans that of
pausing it because it's going to screw up the playback. I'll say this,
and it's important to say this. Uh, this whole idea that Democrats support
abortion right up until birth in the third trimester, and most of you listening
already know this, and the third trimester. It is extremely rare to have
anyone that wants an abortion. The vast majority and I mean ninety nine point
nine nine are because of medical issues concerning the viability of the fetus. So
it's a very difficult situation. I implore everyone to go find the documentary called
After Tiller t I lll Er the abortion doctor who was killed, the late
term abortion doctor, and watch that. Watch After Tiller to get a full
understanding of what late term abortion is and what it takes to get one,
and what the people go through and they have to get one, and that
it ultimately is about reducing harm and suffering of the fetus who is not going
to be viable, who is going to be in constant pain, and to
reduced suffering of the mother as well. So all of these things need to
be considered, but these guys just throw it out. Is right up until
birth. It is a medical decision between doctors and women. It is none
of your goddamn business. Creator gave us in alienable rights that include life.
That is a list that isn't well, why don't you get up there and
preach about it and pasta tomb Scott, this isn't your church jackass. This
is our government by the people, would kiss me off Ern and Kamala Harris?
Are they for thirty eight weeks? Are they for thirty nine weeks?
Are they for forty weeks? Because that's what the media needs to be at.
Why don't we vote on it? How about that? How about we
vote on abortion? Across the board, cities are in decline. People are
moving out as homelessness, drugs, crime move in. There are problems accelerated.
They did accelerate during the pandemic and are still rising. Actually, murders
in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago all up thirty percent between twenty nineteen
and twenty twenty two. Homelessness is up eleven percent, the largest jump in
recording. They're showing like the three worst streets in Los Angeles where they're like
nine tenths acting like that is La. How much of what we're seeing happening
around this country is a result of those COVID lockdowns? And is your administration
in part to blame for how we got here? It's gonna be bidenbout to
blame. Is the Democrats's been talking about defunding the police for the last five
years, and we ought to be funding law and from Sorry, particularly in
our major city, defunding police caused homelessness. You're a jackass pen So it's
claiming innocent lives literally every week and every major city in this country. Demis
answer. Yet Democrats and liberal prosecutors in major metropolitan areas continue to work out
their fans for full agendas to do a bail reform. And bail reform,
yeah, that means, you know, if you get arrested for a non
violent crime, you shouldn't be locked in a cage like an animal. If
you have a drug problem, you should be cited for carrying something illegal and
then sent to rehab or given the opportunity to recover, not locked in a
cage like you're in the fucking zoo. That's what bail reform is about.
Bail reform is so that rich people can't take advantage of the system and commit
crimes that poor people can't afford to commit. Don't act like this homeless problem
doesn't have anything to do with you know, minimum wage being at a record
low while CEO pay skyrockets to three hundred times our pay. No, no,
no, it's not about that. It's because we defunded police. That's
why they are homeless people just popping out of the ground this weekend here in
Milwaukee. I'm sorry, I'm so pissed at these people. I'm so pissed
a number of them, including kids. Add that to the big increase in
school shootings around the country. Democrats blame this crisis on easy access to guns.
They also blame Republicans for blocking gun control legislation. Well, yeah,
who would President Christie? Do? You know? I'm proud of the fact,
Bret, that I'm the only person, along with Governor Hutchinson up on
this stage who's actually running United States Attorney's Office. I ran the fifth largest
office in America in a state where answer the question urban crime, and the
problem is not going to be solved by more money. The problem is that
these prosecutors in these localities in the States are refusing to do their job and
to arrest violent criminals. So what a President Christie would do is a pointed
Attorney General who would instruct each of the ninety three US attorneys that they are
to take over the prosecution of violent crime in every one of those cities that
are failing to do so. We have plenty of room in the federal prison
to lock up these violent criminals and clean up what's going on all across this
country in these individual cities. Secondly, but we need to make sure that
each and every one of these criminals understand is that the laws apply to everybody.
And when Hunter Biden fills out a fake application, a false application for
a gun permit, and then it's facing a ten year mandatory minimum which was
mandated by legislation sponsored by his father, and then you have a Justice department
that walks away from those charges. We're telling people that the law doesn't apply
to everybody. In a Christie administration, he would go to jail for ten
years. What about a President Ramaswamy. What does a President Ramaswamy do about
guns? So the reality is we have a crime wave in this country and
we know how to fix it. The question is do we actually have the
spine to do it. More cops in the streets who are on the streets
able to do their jobs without looking over their shoulder for getting sued. And
we also have a mental health epidemic in this country. Just over the same
period that we have closed mental health institutions, that we have seen a spike
in violent crime. Do we have the spine to bring them back? I
think we should. As president, I will, But it's not just drugging
up people in those psychiatric institutes, will Zoloft and sarahquil. It's a deeper
issue. I think faith based approaches can play a role here too. Faith.
We're in the middle of a national identity crisis. And I say this
as a member of my generation. The problem in our country right now,
the reason we have that mental health epidemic is that people are so hungry for
purpose and meaning at a time when family, faith, patriotism, hard work
have all disappeared. What we really need is a tonal reset from the top
saying that this is what it means to be an American. Yes we will
stand for the rule of law. Yes we will close the southern border where
criminals are coming in every day, and yes we will back law enforcement because
we remember who we really are. And that's also how we address that mental
health epidemic in the next generation that is rectly leading to violent crime. He
is so terrible that he's probably going to do very well in the polls,
because if they don't have Trump in this race, that's going to be their
guy, I'm loving idealistic, hard working people the world has ever known.
We just need government as good as our people. Well, Mike, I
think the difference is you might have some others like you may have on the
stage. It's mourning in America's speech. It is not mourning in America.
We live in a dark moment and we have to confront the fact that we're
in an internal sort of cold cultural civil war art and we need people.
It's a failed government in Washington, DC. We just need government as good
as our people. Again, logan, because I don't know what that's the
station mark. That's actually how we translate. Has been on the rise in
Florida, Governor desensus, how do you stop crime? We actually crimes at
a fifty year low in Florida. We're happy with that. Well, the
statewide, it's a fifty year low. And so here's the thing, these
hollowed out cities. This is a symptom of America's decline in one of the
biggest reasons because you have George Soros funding these radical left wing district attorney.
Okay, this is it's just conspiracy theory bingo at this point. Again,
that's another example of the talking point twist a palooza that happens right, Florida's
crime is rising because Florida's because Miami's crime is spiking. But if you don't
count Miami overall, the Florida crime rate is dropping. And so they can
both get away with saying the same thing. The moderator can say crime is
on the rise in Florida and Governor DeSantis can say crime is at an all
time low or a fifty year low in Florida. Yet both are true depending
on how you point the scope right. It's like the Bible, it's like
it's it's you. You can interpret it and twist it and close one eye
and squint a lit and make yourself right. And so the talking points become
quite pointless. Back to another boring guy who I've already forgot his name,
governor of North Dakota, and helps him get the crop off. There's accountability,
there's transparency. One thing that I think this country could use is something
in the White House that understands small town values, because that's our road back
to get this country on track again. That was a memorized sentence on the
former head of the DA I understand the drug crisis in America and right now,
whenever you look at these, when I was previously assigned to a job,
I was also not qualified to do. I now have it on my
resume, and so I'm gonna say stuff. And you should just gone on
ahead and believe that I know what I'm doing because I once held a title,
even though if you look back at the record, you can't see a
damn bit of difference. I'm they doing any damn thing good. The tools
that are needed for addiction counseling, that's what we expanded in Arkansas as well.
Whenever you look at the underlying challenge of America. Though no one likes
to see in America with smashing grab in, are any inter cities. As
President of the United States that will stop it starts? Do you ever think
it's a smashing grab problem because of the pay is so low and rent is
so high, and CEOs are making three hundred times the lowest paid employee,
and that people are struggling without health insurance and can't buy clothes further children,
No, no, no, we just need more police and guns for boom
boom jail time. With the President of the United States, I despise these
people. So speaking of that, right now, you are looking live at
Fulton County Jail where former President Donald Trump will be processed tomorrow. So next
to candidates will have an opportunity to talk about the coming trials of Donald Trump.
All right, they're about to go to commercial break. It's gonna be
very short. What do you think they're gonna say about Donald Trump? Who's
gonna who's gonna do it, Who's gonna do it, Who's gonna speak up
and say? I think Chris Christie will the Americans want to hear. I
think Ramaswamy's gonna kiss Trump's ass immigration education. But we are going to take
Nicki Haley maybe a little against Trump. I don't know. Elephant not in
the room. The elephant not in the Former President Trump has been indicted in
four different states on ninety one counts. He will be processed tomorrow in Georgia
at the Fulton County Jail for charges relating to the twenty twenty election loss.
You all signed a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee. If former President
Trump is convicted in a court of law, would you still support him as
your party's choice. Please raise your hand if you would, Ramaswammy, Nicky
Haley, Tim Scott, the North Dakota Guy, Rhonda Santis, and Pence
all raise their hands. Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie did not their hands.
See you were kind of late to the game there, But no, I'm
doing this. Look what's new. Look, Look, here's the here's the
bottom line. Chris Christy motioned to speak, he didn't raise his hand.
To stop normalizing this conduct. Okay, now and now, whether or not,
whether or not you believe that the criminal charges are right or wrong,
the conduct is beneath the office of president. Thank you of the United States.
Ope, crowds crowd sounds divided, and you know this is the great
thing about this country. Booing is allowed, but it doesn't change the truth.
It doesn't change the truth. I'm supporting. I like to set spot.
Let's just speak the truth. Okay. And Trump I believe was the
best president of the twenty first century. It's Jesus Christ, it's trust trusty,
honest to God. Your claim that Donald Trump is motivated by vengeance and
grievance would be a lot more credible if your entire campaign We're not based on
vengeance and grievance against one man at people at home want to see a bunch
of people blindly bashing Donald Trump without an iota of vision for this country.
They could just change the channel to MSNBC right now. But I'm not running
for president of NSNBC. I am running for president of the United States.
We're skating on thin ice. And we cannot set a president where the party
in power uses police force to indict its political opponents in its law. These
were organization of justice, these were grand juries, eighteen people an evidence because
you sit here in an answer, You sit here in an answer. Wow,
he can't even hear an answer ahead to go to Christie. Well,
so listen, the more time we spend doing this, the less time they
can talk about issues you want to talk about. So let's just get through
this sexual he's having to get onto the audience to let Chris Christie sit here
talking about how you want to stand up for the rule of law. Yes,
and law and order. And the fact is that it can't be selective.
In your book, you had much different things to say about Donald Trump
than you're saying here tonight. And it is very true. It's very true.
I read it and I know n behavior and Chris and you should.
Yeah, you know what, I know a lot of difference behavior. I
know a lot better than you do. You've never done it like you've never
done anything to try to advance the interests of this government except to put yourself
forward as a candidate to And here's the thing. We stood up for law
and order. I did it as US attorney, I did it as governor.
And I am not going to bow to anyone when we have a president
of the United States who disrespects the constitution. He said, he said,
he said, Martha, Martha, it's important to say that. The president
said. Donald Trump said it's okay to suspend the Constitution. Now, Rose,
you take he did preserve, protect, and defend, not suspend.
I will always stand up for our constitution, regardless of the political pressure.
We have another question for you. We're going to get everyone in on this
issue, but you will Wow. All right. So President Trump's former vice
president is on this stage tonight. He has faced Heckler's on the campaign trail
over his actions on January the sex On that day, the vice president forward
with the certification of the election. So do you believe that Mike Pence did
the right thing, Senator Scott, do you believe he did the right thing?
Absolutely, he did the right thing. Number one, Oh, straight
answer. Just clap for him for giving an answer. I mean, please,
we should be asking ourselves a bigger question about the weaponization of the Department
of Justice. When I'm president, the first thing I'll do is fire Merrick
Garland. Second thing I'll do, oh my god, Derek Christopher Ray,
because we really the head of the FBI blindfold. Without that, no one
has confidence and our justicism. Seventeen percent of Republicans have confidence and our Department
of Justice. Here's why we keep seeing not only the weaponization of the Department
of Justice against political opponents, but also against parents who show up at school
board meetings. They're called under this deal Jay, they're called domestic terrorists.
Yeah, for just showing up to a school meeting. You might be leaving
out a few details there, Scott. Let me finish about comis yea not
only that? Wow. In addition to that, we see the SWAT team
show up at pro life activist homes with guns strong because this deal Jay uses
their powers. You mean, the one that literally threatened to kill the President
of the United States, and then took pictures of the gun he was going
to use and the Gillie suit he was gonna wear in order to hide,
and then talked repeatedly about seeing the president's body in his own pool of blood.
That guy, that's that's what you're talking about, those type of death
threats. Yeah, the swat team is gonna show up for that. This
entire thing is a misinformation. Pulosa selection is not about January sixth of twenty
twenty one. It's about January twenty twenty five, when the next president it's
gonna take goths. I know what the Democrats would like to do. They
want to talk about all these other issues. But we've got to focus on
your future. We've got to focus on reversing the decline of our country.
His entire thing, he is everything about RNDA. Santis has been avoiding,
sidestepping and coming up with ways to not answer questions. I'm not going to
raise my hand. We're not school children. Let's have this debate. So
is that a yes? Listen, I'm I'm with life. Is that a
yes or no? Look, look, we don't have to water that down.
He's just he's avoiding it. What about January sixth, and Mike Penn's
do the right thing. This isn't about January sixth, This is about twenty
twenty five. He's just avoiding reality. Agrees that I kept my oath to
the Constitution that day. There's no more important duty. So I answer the
question thing. I've answered this before. So yeah, why are we he
Mike, Mike did his duty. I got no beef with him. But
here's the thing. Is this what we're going to be focusing on forward,
the re hashing of this. I'll tell you Democrats would love that. We
may feel if I'm not Yeah Biden basement blah blah blah. We're going to
hold him accountable. Let me just say, Governor, just hand this.
We spend an hour talking about policy. Former President Trump is beating you by
thirty forty points in many poets. So it is a factor in the GOP
primary. Governor Hutchinson, you did not raise your hand. I did not
raise my hand because there's an important issue we as a party have to face
and wolver. A year ago, I said that Donald Trump was morally disqualified
from being president again as a result of what happened on January six more people
are understanding the importance of that, including conservative legal scholars who says he may
be disqualified under the fourteenth Amendment from being president again as a result of the
insurrection. This is something qualify him under our rules and under the Constitution.
And so obviously I'm not going to support somebody who's been convicted of a serious
felony or who has this. Is this qualified under our constitution and that's consistent
with our NC rules, and I hope everybody agree with Martha. Can I
answer the question? Okay, I'd like to answer all right, I'd like
to answer the question you asked and not give a pre can speech. Mike
Pence stood for the Constitution and he deserves not grudging credit. He deserves our
thanks as Americans for putting his oath of office and the Constitution of the United
States before personal political and unfair pressure. And the argument that we need to
have in this party before we can move on to the issues that Ron talked
about, is we have to to spence with the person who said that we
need to suspend the Constitution to put forward his political career. Mike Pence said
no, and he deserves credit for it. Okay, we haven't looked on
you on that your great I have so much did the right thing that day
or not. I do think that Vice President Pence did the right thing,
and I do think that we need to give him credit for that. But
what I will also tell you is, look, I mean when it comes
to whether President Trump should serve or not, I trust the American people,
Let them vote, let them decide, But what they will tell you is
that it is time for a new generational conservative leader. We have to look
at the fact that three quarters of Americans don't want a rematch between Trump and
Biden, and we have to face the fact that Trump is the most disliked
politician in America. Win a general election that way. Wow, Wow,
Tell the brother, it's signifying an opportunity. Happy to answer the question,
Mike penns did the right thing on January sixth, But I want to say,
you started off the top of this hour saying we're going to talk about
China Ukraine light I'm not. I have to use this moment to address what's
happening. It is shockingly disappointing that someone can say we can't support someone who
inspired an insurrection in this country and have the majority of the crowd boo them.
Just imagine where we are as a country when you're being booed for saying
you will not support someone who tried to overthrow an election and then call yourself
a patriot. Think about that? And does Pence deserve credit? Sure?
But he did what he was supposed to do. Unfortunately, things are so
disgusted thing in the Republican Party. Sorry, Ramaswamy is fighting Pince again.
Difference between you and me, I'm not a positional politician. Answer request.
Actually given pardons when I was governor's state of Indiana. Usually she follows a
finding of guilt and talk about, well, Mike, why did you say
nearly seventy seven I speak on this issue? I was you answer? You
didn't? You did say something? Yeah? I thought we thought you were
done. But you please, well, Mike, why didn't you say this?
Join me making it a commitment that on day one you would pardon Donald
Trump. I'm the only candidate on the stage, but the courage station say
it. That is how we move our nation forward. If I turned the
page for exactly will be convicted of these crimes? You could make it be
able to make a commitment the same justice system. That was this difference between
you and me. I'm not a potial politician. Answer request. Actually,
given pardons when I was governor's state of Indiana usually follows a finding of guilt
and contrition by the individual that's been convicted. So well, look, if
I'm president in the United States, we'll get fair consideration any pardon request.
But if I may, if I may, you know, it's not about
looking back at January twenty twenty one. It's about January twenty. At twenty
seventeen, I put my left hand on Ronald Reagan's Bible, I raised my
right hand, and I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of
the United States, and it ended with a prayer, so help me gone.
It was a promise that I made to the American people, but I
also made it. It made it to my heavenly father. Every day for
four years, I sought to keep that oath. And everyone on this stage
needs to make it clear whether or not they'll do the same if they earned
this job and the confidence of the American people. Look, I've made it
clear. I had hoped that the issues surrounding the twenty twenty election and the
controversies around January six had not come to this, had not come to criminal
proceedings. I would rather they have been resolved by the American people and the
American people alone. But no one's above the law. And President Trump is
entitled to the presumption of innocence that every American is entitled to, and we
will make sure and extend that to him. But the American people deserve to
know that the President asked me in his request that I reject or return votes
unilaterally, power that no vice president of American history had ever exercised or taken.
He asked me to put him over the Constitution, and I chose the
Constitution, and I always will. I had no right to overturned the election,
and Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat
them in twenty twenty four. Thank you, Vice President Pence. Wow.
And they're clapping for that now, which you're moving on to other issues.
The UT nearly seventy seven billion dollars in aid to the Ukraine War. Administration
is now asking Congress for twenty four billion dollars more. Regardless of that,
the specific specifics of that plan is there anyone on stage who would not support
the increase of more funding to Ukraine, we would not support it. Europe
needs to step up. Ramaswamy is the only one who raised his hands to
stop funding Ukraine. Mwam the only one. You would not too, Governor
Descantis. I will have Europe to pull their weight, but right now they're
not doing it. Would not hold on. There are several European nations that
are giving them doing it, and I would have support in China to be
able to take to be able to take China and do what we need to
do with China. Mister Ramaswamy, you would not support an increase of funding
to Ukraine. I would not. And I think that this is disastrous that
we are protective invasion across somebody else's border when we should use those same military
resources to prevent across the invasion and of our own southern border here in the
United States of America. We are driving Russia further into China's hands. The
Russia China alliance is the single greatest threat we face, and I find it
offensive that we have professionals. This little idiot does not understand the way foreign
policy works. He's never been in government. He doesn't understand that funding them
keeps us safe. He's such a jackass. I cannot stand this guy.
Pliticians on the stage that will make a pilgrimage to Kiev to their Pope Zelenski
without doing the same thing for people in Maui or the South Side of Chicago
or Kensington. I think that we have to put the interests of Americans first,
secure our own border instead of somebody else's. And the reality is this
is also how we project strength, and by making America's strong. All right,
Look, I did go to Ukraine, and I went to Ukraine because
I wanted to see for myself what Vladimir Putin's are was doing to the free
Ukrainian people. And let me tell you, I want you all to look
around this arena tonight and imagine that every one of these seats was filled,
And if every one of them was filled, there would still be twenty five
hundred more children outside to make over twenty thousand who have been abducted, stolen,
ripped from their mothers and fathers, and brought back to Russia to be
programmed to fight their own families. They have gouged out people's eyes, cut
off their ears and shot people in the back of the head men and then
gone into those homes and raped the daughters and the wives who were left as
widows and orphans. This is this is the Vladimir Putin. This is the
Vladimir Putin who Donald Trump called brilliant and a genius. If we don't stand
up against this type of autocratic killing in the worldington, we will be next
Vice president. Penser was mentioned, you get thirty seconds. Yeah. Well,
let me let me be clear. Anybody that thinks that we can't solve
the problems here in the United States and be the leader of the free world
has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on earth. That isn't correct.
We can do both. Vec We've done both. We've been the leader
of the free world and the arsenal democracy for years. The Reagan Doctrine years
ago made it clear. We said, if you're willing to fight the communists
on your soil, we'll give you the means to fight him there, so
our troops don't have to fight him. But Vic, if we do the
giveaway that you want to give to Putin, to give him his land,
it's not going to be too long for he rolls across a NATO border,
and frankly, our men and women of our armed forces are going to have
to go and fight him. Exactly. The Ukrainians fight, and he's already
said Poland was next. He's literally said that. So I don't and the
Russians back out of him. I would, Vice President Pence, I have
a new slash. The USSR does not exist anymore. It fell back in
nineteen ninety. Threat. You talked about the communists and the real communists that
we have to address right now. Have the idea Putin's aims. You already
spoke now. I actually, yeah, no, no, no, he's
right. I hope Pence is about to say this. Vladimir Putin already said
he wanted to He regrets losing USSR. He wants to bring it back.
He's been saying he wants to re establish Thank you, old Soviet sphere.
You've made your point. You've insulted him by calling him a communist. He
is a dictator and a murderer, and the United States of America needs to
stand re against authoritarianism. Respond The real threat we face today is communist to
China, and we are driving Russia further into China's arms. The Russia China
military alliance is the single greatest threat we face. Nobody, either polit parties
talking about everybody. Keep us, mister president here to give Russia, mister
Vice President, give him a promise that Ukraine will never be in NATO,
and then somehow mister China will not think about taking Taiwan. We achieved peace
through strength, mister fist for freedom. Okay, here we go. I
think when we hear this bell, that means your time's done. So mister
Vice President, we appreciate your aggressiveness. No, I'm glad Penn said what
he said. The seconds mister Ramaswamy, you were mentioned, you get thirty
seconds. So the reality is that what today Ukraine is not a prior.
He's been talking more than anybody. And I think that the same people who
took us into the Iraq War, the same people who took us into the
Vietnam War, you cannot end. You're not start another no win war.
And I do not want to get to the point where we're sending our military
resources abroad when we could be better using them here at home to protect our
own borders, protect the homeland. All Right, That will be my top
priority for protect this Giving money to Ukraine is quite literally protecting our homeland.
We respect everybody's time here. So Governor Haley, you did not raise your
hand meaning that you would support more funding for the Ukraine war. You have
said of Governor DeSantis that you didn't appreciate it when he initially called it a
territorial dispute. Why. First of all, the American president needs to have
moral clarity. They need to know the difference between right and wrong. They
need to know the difference between good and evil. When you look at the
situation with Russia and Ukraine, here you have a pro American country that was
invaded by a thug. So when you want to talk about what has been
given to Ukraine, less than three and a half percent of our defense budget
has been given to Ukraine. If you look at the percentages per GDP,
eleven of the European countries have given more than the US. But what's really
important is go back to when China and Russia held hands, shook hands before
the Olympics and name themselves unlimited partners. A win for Russia is a win
for China. We have to know that Ukraine is the first line of defense
for US. And the problem that Vvek doesn't understand is he wants to hand
Ukraine to Russia. He wants to let China eat Taiwan. He wants to
go and stop funding Israel. You don't do that to friends. What you
do instead is you have the backs of your friends Ukraine, it's a front
line of defense. Putin has said if Russia, once Russia takes Ukraine,
Poland and the Baltics are next, that's a world war. We're trying to
prevent war. Look at what Putin did today. He killed Purgozan. When
I was at the UN the Russian ambassador suddenly died. This guy is a
murder and you were choosing a murder or over a American country. Damn.
I think Nicky Haley just maybe as much as I disagree with her, I
think she may be the smartest person on that stage. It's your career on
the boards of Lockheed and raytheon, but the facts of the man off.
You've been pushing this line, You've been pushing this live all week to go
and defund Israel. You want to get let me address that. I'm glad
you brought that up and give address each of those alive get false is of
a professional politician. There you have it, you so you have no foreign
politic spirits. And then you know what I addressed that, Oh she's crushing
it. Never be stronger than by the end of my first term. But
it's not a quiet relationship. It is a friendship. And you know what
friends do. Friends help each other stand on their own two feet. So
I will lead Abraham Accords two point zero. I will partner with Israel to
make sure Iran never is nuclear armed. But you know what I love about
Israel, and I've been there probably in the last ten years, more than
most people on the stage. You know what I love about them. I
love their border policies. I love they're tough on crime policies. If the
national ideas trying to flip it ironed Dome, to protect their homeland and so
yes, I want to learn from the friends that we're supporting. And what
puzzles me, no, I want to learn from those protect our homeland Israel
the Americans. Governor Descantis, you were mentioned in the territorial dispute. Not
only no, it's not a territorial disputing of the United States. Your first
obligation is to defend our country and its people, and that means you're sending
all this money, but you're not doing what we need to do to secure
our own border. We have tens of thousands of people who are being killed
because what we're I'm not handling vote and so I am going to declare in
a national emergency, I'm not going to send troops to Ukraine, but I
am going to send them to our southern border. When these alright, alright,
alright, alright, alright, alright, these men sound like whiny little
babies. And Nicki Haley sounds like a leader, albeit that I would disagree
with on many things. She sounds strong, she sounds powerful, She sounds
like the smartest person on stage and the most reasonable Republican maybe aside from Chris
Christy, I think she's kicking ass up there. Believe the US just arrested
two sailors accused of spying for China within our military. So the question is,
how would you deter China as a president? Burgum, Well, this
is the number one issue we're facing, and of course we haven't been talking
about it, and we act like that, letting Russia win in the Ukraine
is like a gimme as opposed to a gift to China. Russia has become
China as gas station. But how would we do it? The Biden administration
is a complete fail. China imports ten million barrels of oil a day,
more than any other country in the world. They do not even have all
the food they need to feed everybody in that country, so they don't have
energy security of food security. But the Biden administration sends Blincoln yelling over there.
They're they're over there time. They don't even bring up this guy is
just be sure to fact check the things you're hearing. Okay. I don't
normally let a lot of things fly on this show without fact checking. But
I'm just I'm watching this live with you and trying to make it palatable.
But I cannot confirm the things that you're hearing. I don't know if it
should never start, which is the goal. The way you have piece through
strength is that you actually have strength, you actually have deterrence. And what
we have in what we've got going on in Ukraine is an example of when
deterrence fail. What is an example there of Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan,
the fact that he green lighted Putin moving into Ukraine and then now they see
weakness, and when they see weakness, they make a move. And we
have to make strong and we have to be strong both in Ukraine, and
we can solve the southern border. Absolutely, we can do that because guess
what, there's only nineteen eight hundred and fifty five authorized people for the border
patrol. But they're not all staff because the Biden administration doesn't enforce law enforcement.
But Biden administration wanted to put eighty seven thousand people in the IRS as
opposed to giving the money in this fort. We need to our own border
patrol. Eighty seven to fifty thousand of those were replacing people who retired.
Again, more bullshit coming out of the GOP or the eighty seven thousand IRS
agents at higher or double the number of border patrol agents. I just left
Yuma, Arizona, about two weeks ago. The most pressing need of the
American people from a national security standpoint is our southern border. It has led
to the death of seventy thousand Americans because of fitting all plus six million illegal
crossings, says President Biden has taken office and two hundred people on our National
Security watchless have been caught at our border? How many wait a minute,
have not been caught at ours? Wait? If they've been caught at the
border, how was it open? And you want to talk about how many
people got through? Do you want to talk about more people being caught at
the border now than we're caught during the Trump administration. If people are being
caught, how was the border open? These people are talking out of their
ass of this government. As the next president of the United States, I
will make that border wall complete. There are many more questions. I love
how they accidentally make the point of the Democrats when they're trying to argue against
the policy. One thousand, Profeneral, We've lost two hundred thousand people to
overdose this since Biden took office. That's three hundred people a day. We're
taking mass casualties and those aren't that's a statistic. But these are sons and
daughters, nieces and nephews that were losing. We've got North Dakota troops down
there flying. Now, you guys have any idea that Biden was killing people
with FENTONYL Jeez had no clue. They've got better funding on their side than
we've got on our side. Speaking of what, Speaking of which, images
from earlier this month, Dotnor Hutchinson with Mexico Vice President Pens. Images from
earlier this month, Vice Presient Pens. It really doesn't help. I'm asking
a question. Earlier this month, images showed suspected cartel members crossing into Texas
with rifles. Do you consider this an invasion? Would you authorize lethal force
along that border? There would be lethal force used by the border patrol law
enforcement as needed to protect the border. Absolutely. When you look at the
military, the military has to be used for intelligence gathering purposes. This is
not unusual. Whenever I was in the Bush administration, we went down there
and met with President Vincente Fox of Mexico and ask his help in going after
the cartel's and he looked at me and said they're a problem to us as
well, and so we joined together and we took down the Ariana Felix brothers
leading the Tiajuana cartel. And that made a difference where Moan was shot and
killed and Ben and Mean was captured. Cooperation makes a difference. We cannot
be successful going against the cartel unless we bring in Mexico as a partner.
We have to use economic pressure to accomplish that. President Oberdoor has not been
helpful and we have to use economic pressure that this administration is not using.
The rule of all has to matter on both sides of it. This is
critical. I've done it. We know what needs to be done. The
military has to be limited in its use. When after nine to eleven we
had the global war on terror and guess what, we protected the border at
the same time. You can do both. Okay, let's go to governor
to Santis. So, as president, would you support sending US special forces
over the border into Mexico to take out fentanel labs, to take out drug
cartel operations? Would you support that kind of American military Yes, and I
will do it on day one. Here's the thing. The cartels are killing
tens of thousands of our fellow citizens. You want to talk about a country
and decline, you have the cartels controlling a lot of part of your southern
border. We have to re establish the rule of law and we have to
defend our people. The President of the United States has got to use all
available powers as commander in chief to protect our country and to protect the people,
so when they're coming across, Yes, we're going to use lethal forces.
Yes, we reserve the right to operate. How many more tens of
thousands are we gonna let to die? I am sick. I've met angel
moms throughout this country. I met a lady in Texas named Tracy and her
son no one purkose set. Okay, this is the Biden killed this lady's
son. You know clearly, that's guys. I don't know why I torture
myself like this. I want you to know what's happening out there. And
I know some of you won't listen or watch this without me, and I
love you for it, but I don't. I don't want to watch it
without you. You know, we need to do this like on a live
I think maybe there needs to be like maybe a live stream to where we
can all do it together. You know. Yeah, I'll look into that
for future debates. I don't I don't want to do this anymore. I
don't these people. I don't like the amount of lies. I'll say so
far, and I'm hoping it's wrapping up soon. I'll say so far,
Nicky Haley, I think is a standout. I think Pence is doing a
little better than I thought he would. He's actually got a little bit more
of a spine than I thought he did. Chris Christy said a couple of
hard hitting things against Trump that I'm glad he said out loud. But I
thought he would be a little more forward and powerful in this debate, and
he's kind of taking a back seat to Nicki Haley. Ada Hutchinson is pretty
sensible for you know, for a Republican, but he barely talks. And
I still don't even know the guy's name. That's the governor of North Dakota.
So yeah, and then Ramaswamy is just whack job city. And then
you know, De Santiss just looks weak and whiny and avoiding questions. That's
where I stand with this pensis flapping his lips. Now, let's see what
he's saying the same way, and we will partner with the Mexican military and
we will hunt down and destroy the cartels that are claiming lives in the United
States. Okay, thank you. Another issue that is relation to this is
that almost seven million migrants have crossed this border, our southern border. During
the Biden administration. So, Governor Christie, what would you do about the
seven million who are here? How would you handle them? What would you
do? Look, Martha, the first thing we need to do is to
stop anymore from coming. That's the first thing we need to do. Then
the next thing we need to do with the folks that are here is to
again, as we've talked about all night tonight, we have to have law
and order in this country. We have to enforce the law, and what
that means is to make sure that people who come here illegally are not rewarded
for being here illegally. We have so many wonderful people from around the world
who are waiting in line, following the law to try to come here and
pursue the American dream. And those people are waiting and waiting and waiting.
Because we haven't dealt with the problem of the folks who are here. We
have to have them detained. We have to make sure that they are not
rewarded for having broken the law. And one less he doesn't sound ready for
this questions with China, we can't take our eye off of that ball.
Yes, it's important that we hear Penn saying, right, I think this
is gonna end up being like a Christy Pence duo situation in chemicals to these
drug cartels for them to create the fentanyl that is killing hundreds of thousands of
our citizens. The Chinese are engaging in an act of war against us,
killing our citizens. We better make that priority one in our conversations with China
and to try to straighten that relationship out, because if we don't, we're
gonna lose more and more of our citizens. Want to clarify, would you
send those people back? Of course you'd have to. We have a lot
of issues that America disagree with, Christie, and next stop we're going to
talk about the crisis in education as millions of American children are not proficient in
reading or math. After this, but we're the greatest nation in the world,
right, you got all these problems. It's funny this party talks about
how great the country is, yet brings up all of these things were terrible
at and now we're going to fix it for reading, in math for fifteen
year olds and thirteen year olds. Government descantis, it's probably by nominate you
said, the Department of Education. But as president, would you still have
a responsibility to fix this crisis as we see it. Absolutely, the decline
in education is one of the major reasons why our country is in decline.
We need education in this country, not indoctrination in this country. And in
Florida, Wow, Florida, we stood up for what was right for We
had schools open during COVID and a lot of the problems that we've seen are
because these lockdown states lock their kids out of school for a year year and
a half. That was wrong. We stood up. I took a lot
of fire for that. I was pilloried by the media, but I stood
for our kids, and as president, I'll stand for you and your kids
as well. But we have to make sure that what our schools are doing
is focusing on solid academics. In Florida, we eliminated critical race theory from
our K through twelve schools, We eliminated gender ideology from our K through twelve
schools, and we have elevated the importance of American civics and teaching our kids
about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As President, I'm going to
lead an effort to increase civic understanding and knowledge of our Constitution. We cannot
be graduating students that don't have any foundation in what it means to be an
American. Mister, mister Pett, mister Ramiswami, hold on center Scott.
You've said that the Department of Education, the FBI, the ATF, the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the IRS, the Department of Commerce, many of these
should not exist. That's great. So the education question, talk about deal
with the crisis, talk about radics. So look, we have a crisis
of achievement. Let's shut down the head of the snake, the Department of
Education. Take that eighty billion dollars, put it in the hands of parents
across this country. This is the civil rights issue of our time. Allow
any parent to choose where they send their kids to school, and the teachers
unions at the local level to allow public schools to compete. What five our
national identity, where every high school senior should have to pass the same Civics
test that frankly, every immigrant, including my mother, had to pass in
order to become a citizen of this country. And the fact of the matter
is, look, there's a part of education policy that also rests with the
family. I didn't grow up in money, but you know, the word
privilege gets used a lot. Well, you know what, I did have
the ultimate privilege of two parents in the house with a focus on educational achievement,
and I want every kit to enjoy that. So part of the problem
is we also have a federal government that pays single women more not to have
a man in the house than to have a man in the house, contributing
to an epidemic of fatherlessness. And I think that goes hand in glove with
the education crisis as well, because we have to remember education stones with the
family, and the nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to it.
Oh my god, this guy is so terrible. They're gonna love him.
He is Trump two point er has said. Governor Haley has said that
biological boys playing in girls' sports is the women's issue of our time. You
said that even though you signed a ban on this in North Dakota, that
there hadn't been one instance where it was actually needed. Are you saying that
you think that too much is made of this issue. No, I'm saying
in North Dakota we made a priority of protecting women's sports, and we've done
that in our state. But I would absolutely do that. But I do
think when we start talking about education, and we think that we're going to
have a federal government one size fits all. We're just completely losing track of
the fact that education differs by states. Some school districts are doing a fantastic
job, some less so. But the idea that every school district, state
and every teacher is somehow in doctrining people's just false. You know, when
I was building a company from scratch, you know, with small town kids,
and we went you know, grew up in a town a three hundred,
but we built a global company in one hundred and thirty two countries with
over one hundred thousand customers. We listened to as customers. We spend time
with them, We talked to them. We did that. And as governor,
well, education is one of the biggest part of a state budget.
So as a governor, I go I shadow a student. I don't the
night before I find out the students, the student finds out. I'm going
to go to every class with them. I don't sit in lecture. School
districts try to do it. I go and see the experience. And there's
a lot of things that have to change. But what needs to change in
education is it's innovation. We're doing it the same way we did it fifty
years ago, with innovation not regulation. I would get rid of the Department
of Education. I would give block grants to schools, but i'd give them
on merit based on who's doing the most innovative. I just got done holding
the seventh Annual Governor's Conference on Innovation Education. You should see what the people
are doing when you get cut, loose the red tape, get the burden
off their back. They care. Teachers in this country, the mad basque
majority of them care about those kids. They're working in low paying jobs and
they're fighting, fighting for those kids and their families'll be women's issue at our
time. First, I'll tell you, as you know as a parent,
the one thing you want is for your child to have a better life than
you did. And we can talk about all of these things, and there's
a lot of crazy, woke things happening in schools, but we've got to
get these kids reading. If a child can't read by third grade, they're
four times less likely to graduate high school. So we need to make sure
we bring in reading remediation all over this country. We need transparency in the
classroom because parents should never have to wonder what's being said or taught to their
children in the classroom. Parents need to be deciding which schools their kids go
to because they know best. And let's put vocational classes back into the high
school. Let's teach our kids to build things again. When we do that,
we allow that innovation, that's when it will get back. And yes,
I will always say I'm going to fight for girls all day long because
strong girls become strong women, Strong women become strong leaders, and biological boys
don't belong in the locker rooms of any of our The lightning round, and
the first question is going to go She's still Republicans president, So this is
a lightning round. She's still Republicans. Forget answers please. President Biden will
be eighty two years old on inauguration day. Nearly seventy percent of Americans say
that he is too old to serve. Should presidents have to pass a mental
and physical test in order to serve Vice President Pence, Well, it might
be a good idea to have everybody in Washington, DC passing not bad seconds.
No, the American people can make those judgments. But let me say
I'm running for president in the United States, because we don't need a president's
too old, and we don't need a president's too young. We need a
president who's been there. We need a president who knows how Congress works,
how the White House works, how states worked. And on this education issue,
Martha, I was fighting against no child left behind. When Republicans were
double in the Department of Education, I'll also shut down the federal Department of
Education. And when I was governor, we doubled the size of the largest
school choice program in America. And we'll give school choice to every family in
America. This is a lightning round. Mister Ramaswami. I think there,
you're thirty eight, you're the youngest on the stage. You've said, and
you just said, you want a Civics test or a public service for those
under twenty five to be able to So Pence's translation there is I want to
give a bunch of millions and millions of dollars to religious families to then put
that money into private Christian schools to indoctrinate kids with public funding. That's what
that means. So the question is, do you want a mental acuity test
for presidents over seventy five? I believe in the people of this country to
tell the difference between somebody who's an automaton and somebody who's actually a thinking agent
in the White House, which we don't have in there today. And I
will tell you I want to address Vice President Pensis comment. I think we
do need somebody of a different generation to lead this nation forward. Look at
the way I've run this campaign. Go into the south side of Chicago to
Kensington in the middle of Philadelphia, where traditional Republican candidates don't go. We
have an opportunity to build a multi ethnic, working class majority to deliver a
land. People do not understand lightning round. They don't respect it. They
know that at the end of it, there's going to be some kind of
you know, calculation that says Ramaswamy, you had the most talking time,
or you know, Chris Christie had the least amount of talking time, or
whatever, and they're just trying to get in the news of this. Everybody's
going to get listen. We're getting control of the debate. This is a
lightning round, not rolling thunder. Governor Hutchinson, you have thirty seconds on
the same question on education. First of all, look at Arkansas. We
have to compete with China. I built computer science education. We lead the
nation in computer science education, going from eleven built students to twenty built computer
education. This is how you compete with China. As President of the United
States, I will make sure we go from fifty one percent of our schools
offering computer science to every school in rural areas and urban areas offering computer science.
For the benefit of offering this isn't seventy eight in terms of technology.
This is going to go. This is coming to you. We're trying to
do a quick round of different topics here. So, Senator Scott, faith
is undeclined in this country. You talked about it a little bit before me.
Yeah, it. So is there a role for a president of the
United States in changing that? What would you do to change that? While
our nation was founded upon the Judaeo Christian values that has made this the greatest
nation on God's green earth? It was I'm a big believer and Ephesians three
twenty that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask our
magic. Our responsibility should be to model the behavior we want others to follow.
On education. The only way we change education in this nation is to
break the backs of the teachers unions. They are standing in the doorhouse of
our kids, locking them into failing schools and locking them out of the greatest
future they could have. As President, Governor DeSantis, would you support some
mandatory military service for all Americans. I think it should be voluntary. I'm
somebody that volunteered to serve inspired by September eleventh, and I deployed to Iraq
alongside US Navy Seals in places like Felujah Ramadi, and it's something that I
think has taught me. You know, when you go in that type of
environment, anything, you have your personal agenda, you check it at the
door you go there, and it's about focusing on the mission above all else.
He keeps saying alongside Navy seals. He keeps trying to compare himself the
Navy seals, hoping people will misunderstand and thinking he was a Navy seal all
these other side issues. My sole focus will be on your future and reversing
this country's decline. Okay, now for something a little out of this world,
and this is for you, the Governor, Christie. Do you believe
that the recent spike in UFO encounters. Look at the UFO question. Come
on, come on, man, Okay, we've been hearing a lot of
We've hearing here a lot of testimony in Congress, and people are taking this
lap more seriously, and we're hearing that you know, there are things going
on that people aren't aware of. So if you were president, Governor Christie,
would you level with the American people about what the government knows about these
possible look Martha's and especially coming from a woman from New Jersey, I think
it's horrible that just got them off. From New Jersey. You asked me
about unidentified flying objects and martians. We're different, but we're not that different.
Look. Of course, the job of the President United States is to
level with the American people about everything. The job of the President United States
is to stand for truth. The job of the President United States is to
be a role model for our children and our grandchildren. And so, whether
it was UFOs or this problem of education, and Tim's right, by the
way, and I started this in twenty ten by going right after the teachers
unions in New Jersey and drove them down to an all time low popularity rating
because they're putting themselves for our kids. That is the biggest threat to our
country, not UFOs oion closing arguments. Teacher unions. From teacher unions are
the biggest threat to our country. If this, if this is, if
this is teaching us anything, it's that I am further and further from being
a Republican every day of my life. That number has now plummeted to just
thirty nine percent. In his pitch to get to the Oval Office, President
Reagan called America the shining city on a We'll be back after this. Twenty
years ago, seventy percent of American adults said they were extremely proud to be
an American. That number has now plummeted to just thirty nine percent. In
his pitch to get to the Oval Office, President Reagan called America the shining
city on hill, a beacon of hope and optimism. So when you're a
closing statement tonight, please tell American voters why you are the person who can
inspire this nation to a better day. These are forty five seconds, and
we begin with Governor Bergham. I understand why America asserting Biden's inflation is choking
us. I grew up in a small town. Inflation is actually way down
under Biden. My mom, widow of three, went back to work.
Every job I had growing up was one right. I took a shower at
the end of the day and not at the beginning of the day. Our
cities are less safe because the fent and all pouring into this country. Okay,
these are the memorized stump speeches that just make me cringe, But I'll
try to get through as many as I can. One thing that I'll do
is president, I'll secure the border. You get this economy, you get
interesting, not calling like it is right now. And I would say that
other thing is for sure. When I'm on a horseback in the badlands of
North Dakota, it looks like the horizon is just limitless. And when you
can almost see beyond that horizon, you can see that this great country,
our future is unlimited. But we've got to focus on innovation, not regulation.
We've got to cut the red tape. We've got to drive ourselves toward.
The way we win the Cold War with China is by growing our economy
into innovation. And as president, he's a terrible speaker, bring out the
best of America. I will improve every American life. Government improve every American
life. Every Yeah, our nation is in troubles of failed leadership, and
the solution is not full more years of Joseph Biden. The solution is not
full more years of Donald Trump. The solution is new leadership that can bring
bold ideas to America and to bring out the best of America. A president's
number one responsibility is to bring out the best of our people. That's what
Ronald Reagan did, and he did it with optimism and hope for our country.
These people are so boring. These standard stump speeches are atrocious. Everything's
Joe Biden's fault. I'm so much better. It's time for hope and change,
rinse and repeat. But is the money gonna go up? Is anybody
gonna get any healthcare? Are we gonna stop believing conspiracy theories and lean on
science? Those are the things we need to be talking about. But these
people, they know they're not going to get Republican votes if they say those
things, so just oh, that's on my own. I was a disillusion
young man growing up in a single parent household mired in poverty. I wondered
if the American dream was real For a kid like me. I can stay.
You can hear him reading from his memory. Insidely he's got he's looking
at words in the front of his forehead, just saying this for memory,
making sure we have food on our tables. She taught me that if you're
able bodied in America, you work. If you take out a loan,
you pay it back. You commit a violent crime, you go to jail.
And if God made you a man, you play sports against men.
Oh my god, I'm too Scott. I'm asking you for your vote,
and if you're in Iowa, I'm asking you to caucus for men to just
these people are so cringey. It's almost over governor, almost over come on.
Let's go. Thank you, Martha. Look, everybody on this stage
wants to be the next president of United States, and the only way that's
going to happen is if we beat Joe Biden. I'm the only one on
this stage has ever beaten the Democratic incumbent in election. I did it in
a deep blue state, being outspent three to one. Beating a Democratic incumbent
is not easy. The last Democratic incumbent president who was defeated was Jimmy Carter,
and he was defeated by a conservative governor from a blue state who knew
how to get results, who stood for the truth, who cared about accountability,
and stood strong and hard against waste. Those are the very things that
I did in my eight years as governor of New Jersey, and it's exactly
what I'll do as President of the United States. Believe me, the Democrats
want some other nominee who's never beaten the Democratic incumbent. I'm the one who
can win this race, and if you give me the chance, I will
restore our country by winning it. Thank you, Governor Haley. Several weeks
ago, I dropped to my husband, Michael, a combat veteran from Afghanistan,
off at four am for another year long deployment. I watched him in
two hundred and thirty soldiers pick up their two Duffel bags of belongings to go
to a country they had never been, all in the name of protecting America.
If they are willing to protect us from there, we should be willing
to fight for America here. And they have amazing health care. I wonder
why they have access to so much good healthcare but the rest of us don't
without paying six hundred and fifty dollars a month for law enforcement. And we
will make sure we have a strong national security. And once again, we
will make sure we have an America that is strong and proud. We have
a country to say, join us, go to NICKI Hailey dot com and
let's get it done. Vice person pass. Thank you, Bret Martha with
this evening, it's an honor to be here. Joe Biden has a weakened
somebody was that a fart? The disaster? Bret Martha with this evening,
It's an honor to be here. Joe Biden has a weakened America. One
more, I think someone farted. I'm gonna turn it up with this evening,
It's an honor to be here. Joe Biden has a weakened America at
home. Someone the disastrous which are all from Afghanistan, their war on energy,
runaways, spending that launched the worst inflation in forty years, a crisis
at our southern border, an assault on our values and liberties, and the
American people have had enough. But I know what we can bring it back.
But different times called for a different leadership. The Republican Party owes the
American people the choice proven leadership. He's so cringey. How to move a
conservative? He's so cringe it's like he's in a movie. It's like he's
in a He's like the protagonist of a Christian film that nine people saw.
You know, a good, decent, hard working, faith filled, idealistic
people in this country. And I have faith that God has not done with
America yet. And if we will renew our faith in one another and renew
our faith in Him who has ever guided this nation since we arrived on these
wilderness shores, he arrived, you mean, took over and started killing people
to steal land and sources. I was born in nineteen eighty five, and
I grew up into a generation where we were taught to celebrate our diversity and
our differences so much that we forgot all of the ways we are really just
the same as Americans, bound by a common set of ideals that set this
nation into motion in seventeen seventy six. And this is our moment to revive
those common ideals. God is real. There are two genders. Fossil fuels
are a requirement for human prosperity. Reverse racism is racism, and open border
is not a border. Parents determine the education of their children. The nuclear
family is the greatest form of governance known to man. Capitalism lifts us up
from poverty. Three branches of government, not four, and the US Constitution.
It is the strongest guaranteur of freedom in human history. That is what
want us. The American rebels are okay with Trump saying we should suspend it.
This guy's talking out on both sides of his ass. I mean it
is myself tonight. Thank you. Oh God, he's so cringe. Governor.
This is our shot up for choosing. We will send Joe Biden back
to his basement, and we will reverse the decline of this country. I'm
a blue collar kid. I work minimum wage jobs. God, this is
this is guys. I'm sorry. I don't know if you want to hear
his shit or not. So many millions of Americans will restore it. I'm
a veteran who served in Iraq. I know what it means to put service
above self. I'm also a dad and a husband to six, five and
three year old I understand the importance of protecting parents' rights and the well being
of our children. In Florida, we showed it could be done. I
made promises and I delivered on all of those. It sounds like a high
school debate, like that's how cheesy some of these things are. Get the
job done, and as your president, I will not let you down.
God bless you all. Oh his smile, he just thinks he crushed it.
All the candidates on the stage tonight. I'm thank you to Milwaukee.
Thank you everybody. We will see you on the campaign trail from to me.
Wow, Oh my god, I'm so glad that's over. I don't
even want to I don't even want to recap. I'm exhausted. This is
Hopefully there will be fewer people on stage next time. I've already kind of
given my thoughts. I think I think Nicky Haley I've won this debate.
I think Mike Pence is a strong second place. And this is from my
perspective of being the most logical on the side of Republicans. Unfortunately, the
Republican Party's direction is so backwards to human integrity and decency. Ramaswamy is probably
gonna do great. He's probably gonna climb in the polls. He's probably gonna
look like the superstar, and he's going to be the Donald Trump replacement,
but his policies are atrocious, his ideas are ridiculous, and Pence, Nicky
Haley, and Chris Christie all very well pointed out that he clearly has no
experience and is talking out of his ass up there. But you know what,
that's what Trump did, and he won. He not only won the
GOP nomination, he won the presidency. So talking out of your ass might
not be the worst strategy. Not knowing what the hell you're doing doesn't disqualify
you from this job. Well, we did it. We got through that
atrocious thing together. I hope I didn't ruin it for you. I'm sure
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