tim scott has been elected by voters in south carolina a very rich african-american state, the lieutenant governor also african-american of the only african-american lieutenant governor in the country. i think you're going to see this trend in further and more positively as we move forward. >> michael mccarthy from center for latin american

studies. my question i think every person on the panel to address perhaps from a different perspective. it has to do with this question of what it is he mean when we talk of being latino. in particular for neri, how do you identify who is into that the latino when you get out there at the street level into looking for potential candidates? what is the basis for the last name? how do you find these people? for glenn and they but i'd be curious what the demographics are telling us at the macro level about if it harder to track who latinos are and whether or not the assumptions that go into the latino vote still apply as immigration demographic trends change. thank you. >> in terms of recruitment, latino and hispanic is a self identifying marker.

i think people self-identified hispanic and latino. i don't identify people as hispanic and latino. they identified themselves as that and i identify the candidates. in terms of a political strategy of identifying candidates, first we look at top target seats and races into chambers where we are going to invest the most amount of resources which we feel like we can take some democrats. we don't just recruit candidates for the purpose of recruiting candidates. we are recruiting in the places where we are most likely to win so that we get more elected officials. i think that's what makes the differencdifferenc e. in terms of that political strategy, i have a 50 state strategy. i have traveled 35 myself. i've traveled to a number of states a number of different times. i work with the leaders are doing recruitment in states identify what are the biggest targets, where do we need to recruit, ha how do we find the t candidates. let's go get them.

it's as simple as that. that is the political strategy. i think it's important to find someone from that community. when we find the person in the community they identify as has been our latino and we do recruit and diverse communities as well, also african-american, asian, native nation, et cetera. but yeah, we look for the best candidate that represents the district in which right to bring more diversity to the ballot and more diversity to the legislature. i think republican states genuinely love this initiative and are very supportive of it. >> do you get outside support from other groups in your efforts, resources like super pacs and others? >> no. the republicans -- we do not coordinate. we are our own separate organization. >> i just want to say i think the work than one doing is

important to the political sides work tells us is that recruitment is very important in the decision, to become candidates. we know that's more important for women than for men. men are more willing to put themselves forward and i chose to believe that are qualified but maybe they are not so qualified. at the same level of education credentials women are less likely to think they are qualified. i think candidate recruitment is very important and i think as a student of parties i've seen the organization that neri is part of a democratic state focus groups our modern developers. 30 years ago this was really happening in a serious way. state party campaign committees have developed in a way that developed in a way that was a trip ticket to go. so recruitment efforts exist, and they are important but i do

want to emphasize this. that as long as a community believes that a party does not represent its interests on policy, it's not a question necessary of whether these individuals are authentic representatives of the community. if people can say they are authentic is because they think they don't represent the policy the committee wants. i believe these are laudable efforts and in the long term they would probably help the republican party by creating a team of potential candidates but i don't think that just having candidates of a certain ethnicity is going to be a solution, whether we are talking about reaching out to latino voters or african-american voters or any other group. >> thank you very much. i'm sorry we are out of time for another question. please ask your panelists the question during break. we're going to take about a four minute break between the next panel to set up. the next panel is the democrats

and the latinos. matthew wright as the moderator. five minute break, okay? [applause] [inaudible conversations] in the second panel of the american universities latino public affairs forum we get a close look at the latino electorate with representatives of political organizations, let your decisions and the national council of la raza. this is one hour 10 minutes. >> time is running. i'll get started on people are collecting the rest of their snacks and coffee and so forth. i name is matt right. i am a faculty member in the government department.

i occasionally done research in this area. i was part of this panel should we did it and so now i have come back to a process as moderator. i want to say thanks to eric and gym for the opportunity to be part of this. want to thank the panelists who are all very exciting and knowledgeable people. a lot of expertise and although feel like i'm not busy enough. in a a lot more than i do but this do. i will talk as little as possible. this panel is called the democrats and the latino advantage. ronald reagan famously claimed the latino hispanics are really republicans who just didn't realize it. another title could be democrats and why latino still haven't realized they are with the wrong party. let me with that just introduce the panelists. i will start with matt barreto who is cofounder and managing partner of the polling results

from latino decisions which is the preeminent polling firm capturing public opinion and behavior for latino respondents. is professor of political science at ucla. on the academic side in addition to the polling and consulting on the academic side he's done three books. a number of articles, and so forth. now also with us maria urbina the works were voto latino. her role in our possession issues the vice president a politics of national camping. her portfolio includes developing voter registration charge of running multinational campaigns, heading up organizations political arms. you see what i am feeling inadequate. i would be neglectful in mentioning, not mentioning that she participated with our women and politics institute at.

>> and university with the leadership can program for young women in politics. finally, we were going to have dennis fernandez come and visit us. we were saddened she has been replaced by clarissa martinez de castro who is deputy vice president of the national council of la raza's office of research advocacy and legislation. in that role she oversees the organization's work on immigration and advocacy to expand latino organizations. one of want to do is open the floor to them. each in frequency of the order i introduced them, let them have a few minutes to make some points and then i'll ask a question or two and then after that i'd be happy to turn the floor over to the wider public. so i think matt wants to come up here so we'll have him start. thank you. >> thank you.

as a cross between a pollster and professor of course i have extensive amount of data up here for you guys look at it guys look at iphoto be easier if i sort of went through a couple of what i think are important issues and where we were and how we got to where we are now this 2016 election and look at the last few election cycles and what they have meant for the latino electorate, latino community. if you look at the headline in the summer of 2012 this is a "new york times" piece this is obama faces a frustrated hispanic electorate which was really the case in the summer of 2012 ar2012. in particular the article notes there are about 400,000 deportation per year during his term and this is making latinos upset, something that jim mentioned in his opening panel at this was, in fact, because. we found a nipple we did for a 1% of less enthusiastic about

president obama. you have a deficit with the latino community in the summer of 2012. not only, the article goes on to say he had promised to tackle this issue in his first term, in his first year of his first term he had not done this and with asked. obama did not push hard enough to get immigration done. this is awesome because of a quote from clarissa in this article, something i use all the time and motivating my pocket or she is sitting in this panel. and so you had a lot of people this is warning come and may be hard to process light turnout and clarissa said, i don't know if you want to read or i should read. she said people should what gives? i thought that exactly what she would've said sounds just like her. people are saying what gives? and people were quite upset. we asked a question, 53%

hispanic set after three years they were less excited about president obama. only 30% were more excited. the article concludes by saying there were groups of students doing sit ins. this is up in which you want students doing sit ins into office saying stop deporting us while you're running for reelection. that's sort of what had happened. this was the headline on election day. let the no voters sweep obama to office. record latino turnout. we had a very sharp change in those last four months or so of the election in 2012. i'm going to try to grapple with what remains -- what explains this tournament. here he is signing the order entity dreamers responding, here's a group who had a rally

on this front of the white house, president obama, thank you for making our dreams come true. it was overwhelming reaction in 2012 to that leadership that obama chose. but resolve as we look at some actual data of the 2008-2012 election. i compared the key motivating factor in 2008 a 2008 and what e keep voting factor in 2012. you can see on the bottom with a variety of different policy issues. the economy, the war, health care, generic outreach. what really changed between oa and 12 was those latinos who felt strongly about obama's immigration policy were the most likely, 16% more likely to vote for him, the key ingredient in 2000 progress in 2008 at issues like the economy, iraq war health care and other things were more important. immigration was down more. there was a big increase.

it became in 2012 a mobilizing issue. not only mobilizing in terms of the vote but also the decision to vote. one of the key variables, so as a question but voter database, when you could look at the actual official vote history people said they were upset about governor romney's immigration policy were almost 18 points more likely to vote. it had a bigger effect than education which is a strong motivating factor. thinking romney wasn't that bad to think usually bet on immigration, 18 points more likely. even more powerful than some of our traditional predictors. this is happening in 2012. why is that the case? well, in the polling we're doing in 2012 we found out two-thirds of latino voters, not just those

who are affected day today in terms of the news coverage of the actual voters, two-thirds of latino voters said they have personally known undocumented immigrants. half of those two-thirds said someone in the family. it could be case a brother or sister but one-third had someone in her family. reason i think this such a mobilizing issue, i'll give you the punch line outcome is not because it shows up as the number one issue. there was a couple of colonels of truth and that was latinos to care about a product to care about a product of issues. reason is what you think back to the senate election in missouri in 2010 when todd akin was running for senate.

he had this comment about legitimate rape. these sorts of issues of reproductive rights and choice, these are not a single riding dominant issue for women voters in missouri. that's not what the ripple their entire day-to-day life around. they probably on average they don't even think about this issue. some but the most bill. after he made that statement, very few people were look at the candidate or the party the same way. it elevated the significance of such a statement and the same thing happened with immigration rhetoric and the latino community. i think glen made a lot of statements explained the. we asked one that you know anyone not undocumented but you know anyone who has been detained or deported that went up to a high of 39% in 2013. that they actually knew someone who had been detained or

deported. what motivates this is that one can sissified in the academic literature is that group can unify. this is across any groups of voters. they feel their personal well being is threatened at stake him much more likely to take part participate in politics. writing about california and proposition 187 which reference is made to earlier by david, a lot of people have found that this is what happened and start to mobilize and energize latinos. we saw this in 2006 with immigration rally. we see issues of identity and solidarity increasing. in addition i want to point you to another topic of literature and the political science that talks about emotion. emotion and politics. that emotion suggest enthusiasm, fear, anxiety, anger, play an important role. you are saying that right now with the trump supporters. but in the latino community

similar to that comment that todd akin made in the latino committee there are a few issues i can't evoke emotion more than immigration. few issues that i'll show you some examples. how did this become such an important issue? this is a famous picture. who knows what this is? yes. sex, los angeles immigration rally. good job. must be whether students. in 2006, 500, 6000 people on the streets of los angeles protesting, rallying in defense the sensenbrenner bill. eventually this turn in 2010. that momentum continued. this was an ad put together by republican candidate sharron angle in nevada, really rationalizing the immigration issue in a campaign against

harry reid. harry reid respond by laying in very forcefully on the issue bringing the panel together again now with maria who is a former harry reid staffer. campaigning on behalf of immigrant rights. that put us at the forefront and we know as i my that it all came together with a night at the great emotion for daca. that's how we got onto the issue. i would be remiss if i didn't mention this. but then we have these pictures. can anybody read these shirts? access obama deports parents. that's what i say about emotion. this was an issue people are passionate about. you don't see rallies like this over like changing the tax code or things like that. so this is in 2013-2014 after elections that obama won. you saw the continued pressure, the issue state in the spotlight.

then what happened was all? obama gave another speech. you can see a favorite enthusiastic reaction. thank you, mr. president for daca. in november 2014 after the announcement if you were a latino democrat united states 4%, build of approving the president. party identification should be driving the way you view the president. if you didn't care about daca direct 19. if you did, more important in our model after control their party identification with the president's position on these issues. the immigration issue has not been resolved. deportations are continuing. reference pages earlier. the fifth circuit has put daca and dapa on hold. we are the presidential candidates talk about this but

all of the presidential candidates talk about how they would be repealing daca including marco rubio people would appeal that on his first day. they use his previous statement in spanish, repeal it on the first day. at the supreme court has agreed to take us out. we are going to hav have a decin in the summer of 2016 in the heat of the election. the court will tell us whether or not these parents are eligible for deportation or whether they can stay and. let me conclude with a little bit of a forecast of 2016 and a turned over to the rest of the panelists to give their comments at that, of course, take any questions and comments towards the end. i'm going to jump over some stuff. show just what i think is -- this is a comparison to 2012 and

2015. this comes from our collaborative election poll that we did with national council of la raza in november 2012. mitt romney's major but most people but he didn't care. 56% of latino said he doesn't care. when asked the exact same question, november of 2015, these people have transitioned to navigate the republican party is hostile, 45%. so romney which prompted that autopsy reflection we need to do better was also because he's pushing a huge percentage of people. they don't care about us, you are ignoring us. now they're pushing done it in a very dangerous territory. this is the last thing i wanted to show you. we are on the verge possibly one of the largest latino turnout in american history. not just because what was said

earlier, because of the emotion that is involved in the election. it takes two ingredients, it takes the anger which i talked about earlier, and you see that on this site. to the trouble of statements make it more favorable or less favorable? 80% say less favorable. but it takes something to vote for. something to vote in favor out. you don't just show up and vote, cast about for one of the candidates. you're not just going in and getting out of. giddy both of these things and we think there's an alignment if clinton commits to renewing daca and dapa ag committee further, 85% say it's positive. it creates an opportunity. we will have to wait and see what specific groups do and the mobilization that takes place but a very, very rich opportunity for latino voters. i know i went over my time.

thank you and i will yield all the rest of my time to whatever you call it. [applause] >> thanks a lot. not like to bring up maria urbina. >> great, thank you. i'm here on behalf of voto latino. [inaudible] -- i'm sorry, through leadership development. at a glance and that kind of rent is through import numbers but where we have always centered our strategy that the work is due young latinos. voto latino has been around for 11 years. the forefront has been a young latina. young latinos on average, the median age is 27.

you can imagine a lot of our young people are finally taking into the electorate and we've always do when you defined and where they are which is online. largely english language. that's what i want to run you through we look at young latinos and why they are important and why does work both from voto latino's perspective after organizations like national council of la raza because much of what we say the messages we send resident much different than a partisan message or a campaign message. also i should also add that young latinos for the first time are going to make up nearly half of the latino electorate. about folks are commenting on that now sort of young latinos, where are they going to go. we can have a higher share so we will take some of our best practices and also we see in the opportunities. the case for digital, we've been strong on digital. our president says it's because

it's free. it was a great way to reach young people and we've learned over the years it's been a really, really effectively for mobilizing young people. as you can see here young latinos are early adopters, take what users and other communities are catching up but we been on the forefront of digital use. here's our influence on line and you can read the numbers yourself but one of the things when people look at this you say so what, why does it matter? the reason it matters is because young latinos just like many of you in this room or perhaps young users, we realize mobilization doesn't stop there. the mobilization, we started, we start a conversation year and we take it to the ground. we are saying hey, young latina and nevada were in colorado are, we need to go register voters don't we need you to register voters in nevada or when a judicial around we are hosting

with america ferrera because there's at the immigrant going on college campus and we can likely to our audience online and get them on the ground somewhere within 24 hours. we've done that with after the latin grammys when they put down their banner that said latinos will not vote for races. we turned that around in a day ticket young people in texas to register voters at concerts. it's just one example of why having a strong committee online can really translate to folks on the ground. this map demonstrate our key target state for the 2016 raise. again we'll be doing voter engagement programs where young latinos are which is college campuses, music festivals, concerts and we will also be at south by southwest unveiling one of our new boat ads that is mostly for organizers. we are really excited about alexander the going deep. my political training from nevada a novella that -- we

think it's important to be in state or perhaps they are not battleground states and i getting as much love from the campaigns or other operatives like california or texas. we think it's important to be in the deep-rooted long-standing latino communities as well. i play favorites. where 328,000 eligible come of those more than a third our young latinos and we've seen that in my work in nevada we've seen a large, large component of our leadership in nevada is driven by young people so we want to not only of the work of local partners and young people there already but also uplift young latinos who are not at the table, and matt is right that immigration is a huge motivator and a primary motivator for most of our families. we still see a drop off in voter mobilization efforts. we want to look into other jumped latinos that are not being really moved by the message of immigration or the tragedy of the broken system and

how do we get them to get engaged. our ideas again are largely centered through cultural and artistic touch points so that when you're at the concert in san antonio, which we just had a few nights ago and you walk by our table and juicy our literature, it's again with a young latino at the forefront. we just launched a concert partnership with live nation which is a concert venue hall because we know that young people and their families will go to our concerts. we are really proud of this partnership and we're glad she is on board to help us get out of the with young latinos and we will be unveiling different artists throughout the year. been part of our program, we will be standing up some college programs throughout to meet young which is what our and finally will continue our leadership development which is

through our power summit which is a huge leadership conference that brings an industry leader in all areas not just advocacy but tech, business, academic and media. and there's my contact information at but largely, i also jus just what is the end of happy to questions, i just want to share with you our work because i think it's so important. and i come from electoral politics before this so i say that with that in mind that unless you have leaders who are sort of one off really empowering our communities, there is the way we can build long-term latino political infrastructure, if not for organizations like voto latino, like a national council of la raza and other organizations that have done incredible work. we invite you to learn about our work to join us and really happy to be here with good friends. [applause] >> thanks a lot. let's bring up our final speaker on the panel, clarissa martinez

de castro. >> hi, everybody. so the other funny thing you notice, this is probably account if you were paying attention that matt and i have worked together so long that we use the same generic powerpoint. [laughter] format. i was laughing when i saw his cover slide. so a couple of quick things, and i agree with maria, i think matt has covered a lot of stuff so it gives me the freedom to go to a couple of additional things. but here's one thing that's interesting. so latinos in 2012 made headlines, and you saw some of those from the mass articles. there were a slew of those headlines i think, the noises

headlines came from the republican side, right? they need to embark on a new strategy to figure out to bring latinos into the party. and so the ironic thing about what dean does find themselves in 2016 is that even though we finally got pundits to understand the role that latinos play in the american political landscape, that parties understand that these voters are a factor in the winning equation for the white house, and a growing number of state and local races, and that in the philanthropic world come in the political world people understand the importance of voter registration. one of the ironies is that if you look at the strategy on the republican side it doesn't seem like they got the memo. and if you look at the level of investments in actually getting voter registration done in the latino community, you would also think that in the philanthropic community are people who aren't

taking the space they also didn't get that memo. among latino organizations there is a sense, more than a sense, the books reflect, there's less investment on latino voter registration going on right now than we saw in previous years. i'm not saying that only latinos are the ones that the latino voter registration but i think that being culturally competent and having their credibility and standing with the community is important to some, certainly to my organization i would say it's important to anybody who ready believes in for the people and by the people, should include with the people, not just doing it to the people, right? so anyway with all that i think as maria mentioned the organizations that we don't have a phone and a partisan fight other than our candidate is that latino voter because we believe that bringing more latino voters into the space could potentially

help grow the middleground that is needed to actually make forward progress on a lot of policy issues. that's what we are tried to do. so we are trying to the created as we can, but i do want to address a little bit about what democrats and republicans are doing in terms of this electorate. and i think that in many ways summarizes it. i think that the electorate we saw in 2012 is the best electric that the gop is going to see if the remaining on its current track. and for democrats, while the republican party in many ways has seeded the ground, republicans, democrats haven't necessarily moved in full force to try to seal the deal. in some wise latina continue to see either being bypassed by one party and/or being neglected by

the other. even though that's not the rules, let me be clear, i'm not saying that's the rule. but what are some of the reasons this happens? i think with the latino communities as with any good story, people want to oversimplifying to such an extent that oftentimes we use things that are partially true to try to solidify or cement big misconceptions. one of the examples is about in the political world for many, many years, and you can see some of that today, when a candidate goes to speak to the latino community the advice would be you can talk but immigration. that's the issue you've got to talk about and that's it. it used to be also include things like our legal education and other things like that. -- bilingual. if look at the polls for the last 20 years you would see the top issues have consistently tended to be the economy and education. but then what happens?

then punted on the other side would say that means latinos don't care about immigration so, therefore, whatever your position is an immigration it doesn't matter. just talk about the economy, which was also being wrong. and you saw matt's very specifically sound modeling on that issue. so i think one of the reasons why you are seeing bernie sanders message gain traction is because he's talking about an issue that is of incredible importance to the latino candidate and also because on immigration there's less daylight between the candidates on the democratic side. on the other hand, on the republican side even if folks have the most brilliant, 100% of latino support our economic kind of messaging and narrative, like he knows have learned to see immigration as a proxy not just some public policy regarding

immigration but for how the candidates speaking about the issue regards their community. and let's face it, whenever we hear the toxic narrative on immigration agents to be a very thin veneer to stir up anxiety about the latino community and about demographic change. so makes sense that latinos by the same token interpret it that way. so anyway perhaps even though every election season we end up kind of putting the same point forward, it would be useful if the basics got settled. and that i would say is that latinos care about the economy and education, but immigration is a defining, energizing issue. that the vast majority of latinos are actually united states citizens. and how those under 18, it's about 92% who are united states citizens. so for some folks who may feel

that immigration and closing the wall is going to prevent latino growth in the united states, the statistics would say otherwise. we are not a monolith. we know that. but for our affinities over a number of issues that create a potential for unity in how we interpret candidates and parties. and we don't believe that demography is destiny. that's why we are doing the work that we do. but lastly, particularly because it keeps coming back in the context of what the u.n. ted cruz, let me just make it absolutely clear for the record, ted cruz and rubio are latino. i don't think any of the latino are going to dispute that. i think that the problem is that some interpreted it differently. being latino does not -- nor to

be a champion of the latino community do you have to be like tina. just to clarify those things. and the last thing i would say which i think sometimes democrats punted would like to believe and at the immigrant forces and the republican party like to advance, there is a democratic gene in the latino dna. the biggest determinant of how as latino vote, a voter votes, if you're talking about republicans is what republicans do, right? latina voters want a choice. so when it comes to the latino vote i would say that republicans are their own worst enemy and democrats best friend. and we hope that tha the change. so anyway, those are the main things. matt has gone over the numbers but i think that one of the

reasons even the people continue to talk about whether the number of latinos is small or big is that between 2000-2012 the number of latinos casting a ballot grew by 89%. compared to 38% for african-americans, and an increase of 2% for white voters. it is that growth rate that has people paying attention. and, obviously, we've talked about the number of people that are eligible to vote, but did not specifically, to register voter registration continues to be an essential element to really, really feel the magnitude of latino voters. i'm not even going to go into that because there's too much but there is too much data. sometimes it's overkill. what i'm trying to show is we go into 2016, latinos are going to be essential in a number of battleground states, and you all know what those are.

and last but not least, the formula to unlock support from voters is not rocket science but you need candidates matter, those candidates building a relationship with that community and ease with that community. the issues matter. so do they have skin in the game skin in the game on the issues the king and he cares about. and meaningful average as a center. have mentioned but i think that harry reid 2010 race is the perfect playbook not for the democrats, for any party. the same way that udall in colorado in 2014 would be an example of what not to do or what not to neglect. so last but not least, i would say for our part to really help unlock that potential as maria was talking about, we are trying to make sure yes, people are

registering, they show up on election day, but it's really about what happens the day after as well and who's going to hold those in my kids accountable so that the policies they advance continue to get the community to feel that something gives, going back to that quote. anyway, so to do that one of the things we are doing a variety of things. trying a lot of different things. in 2012 we read the largest nonpartisan board registration operation in florida and we are getting it ready and starting again next week. not the largest latino. the largest non-voter registration in florida they were adding a number of different things because we have a big, big pool of voters and we need to figure out how to get to a breakthrough point. we are working with schools on high school pilot projects they want to make sure that an opportunity to register before

they scatter. and a couple of other tests, operator assistance, models as well as online. you all heard the big segment of latinos or millennials. frankly, for anybody to false the latino community closely knows that we are a young community. we are also going to be a large percent or segment of generational come whatever it is cold, millennial to portal or whatever it is. to me, we are also creating an absolute can bring voter registration to the palm of our eligible voters hands and nature people have a chance to express their voice for whichever party that's the best. of convincing them to ge give tr support. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. i would like to express all a bit of solidarity with the two of our presenters can specifically with the notion once you find a powerpoint

scheme that works, you stick to it. i do want to ask you to question myself because i want to throw it out to you guys as quickly as possible. i do have a couple of questions i want to just get the ball rolling. the first of which, the last time we did this i was on a panel, i had a one year old and a four year old so it's kind of a blur at this point, but it was one of those years and so the book from back in 2006 at among other things one of the main arguments was that both political parties were failing to sort of reach out organization to immigrant communities, including not just latinos but asians as well. so the first crush i want to ask me to maria and clarissa also of course to trim what it wants to weigh in, that was 10 years ago, almost 10 years ago.

what it sounds like an there's been a lot of change but want to give them describe what they think is the democratic party specifically now -- first of all, is the premise accurate? secondly what's different now in terms of what formal democratic party organizations are doing in order to reach out to immigran immigrants? >> i'll go ahead and start with that. look at, i think the climate has changed for how both parties lean into this issue or don't. look, i was on the 2010 race to oust of latino political work in northern nevada and it was really clear that from the leadership down there was an appetite to say to nevada, hey, this is an issue that's important. these are our families and so when folks who try to shame senator reid at the time it did not taking a favorable position on the trail for immigrant families, he didn't walk into that but he didn't take the bait. matt mentioned it in his case

study. you can look at that and say that was great at that moment but really that outrage was not just about a good race but it was about a member who's been doing outreach to the committee for a long time. so that's the other piece that oftentimes campaigns on both sides will come knocking on the door a little too late. they will come knocking on the door a little too late for hard to reach communities like ours with limited resources, limited strategies that just to work. if you don't have folks on the ground who understand the community, the committee's needs, depending on whether you're a latinos are at chicago in colorado or someone perhaps like myself central american heritage. so i would say the investment in our committee oftentimes comes a little too late and secondly it's not just about strong campaign strategies but it's about having a legitimate steward and champion of our policies which are the same for many americans. secondly, that you have a record

coming out reach record that is long-standing, not just in the near cycle. >> one thing i would add, just made as a caveat, i is hispanic and latino interchangeably, i do not use latino and immigrant interchangeably. it is a significant segment of the immigrant community that is latino, but i wouldn't talk about what the democratic strategy is with the immigrant committee because the immigrant community is very diverse and it varies from state to state. what i would say in terms of latino average, saw come up outreach to latino voters is that it's lackluster but it's not even by any means. but i mentioned the udall campaign. i've heard quite a bit from applicants who are on the grid in colorado in 2014 that there was no outrage to the latino

community. and that's what i use the comparison to the harr harry red campaign. now because as a democrat but because i think that's what you need to do to attract these voters. the candidate matters, and issue positions matter and you still have to do outreach. now, the other thing that's interesting is that okay, the campaigns will say look, we have limited resources so it is what it is. we've got to look for the 50 plus one equation that's going to get us over the top. okay, fair enough. the interesting thing that even if you look at latino voters highly likely latino voters, the levels of outrage that they report getting from the parties is very low, from democrats to tennessee less than 50% of highly likely latino voters, tend to get the average. it's even lower from the republican party. so i would say it's lackluster over all.

it varies and is more intense in some battleground states, but there's a lot of first-time voters in our community, therefore, that data mining that campaigns due to create a profile of highly likely habitual voters, not even going to include those folks. >> so thank you very much. i wanted to ask tribal specifically something i found interesting in a lot of work, to do with, correct me if i misrepresented but i would say one of the interesting things that pops up in your presentation is when asked which the most important issue, latino voters will often mention the economy is something not related to immigration. yet we are predicting vote in pops out enormously the number one predictor. net of everything else or all else being equal. my question is i can think of reasons why that would happen

but i'm interested in the perspective of somebody with a foot in the consulting world as well as the political side world and say how do you translate this into advice for people who are running campaigns? >> yes. your description is exactly right and clarissa mentioned this as well but when we've done polling we tend to find continuing today that the economy comes in as the number one issue. people are quite concerned about the economy. the recession hit the latino committee harder. it continues to rate hike as an issue that people want to address, likewise with education. immigration has been creeping up on that list since 2006. before it was further down the list. but since the rallies and sharron angle and jan brewer, this is put immigration higher up on the issue listed, but it still does attract a majority of people saying it's the number one issue. it has been i would say in the

top to for the last five or six years. but in the vote models will be fight is it has the most capacity to mobilize. you care about these other issues that you may even want issues like waged equality and other stuff addressed but what's end up mobilizing people to take part and participate on those issues that has the letters which adjust, the ones tied to anxiety, enthusiasm. on that dimension it supersedes the other issues. it makes a much stronger emotional connection to the electorate in a way that these other issues are oftentimes drier. it's hard to separate the emotion out of these are the policies on the economy. all the candidates say the same thing. want to make the economy better, right? on immigration that's not the case. they say the opposite thing. so becomes an issue where

contrast is clear, where voters can easily map their preferences onto the candidate. and on the economy and these other things it's hard. you have to read into these very key policy issues to see whether their policy for this or that is going to 20 years down the road after the federal reserve and everything else actually improve the economy. with immigration we have a candidate that says they are single-handedly providing work permits and legal status or 1.5 many people, that's an obvious thing, so they can relate to, you can rest it on and attached to. i think that's sort of the way that immigrationworks. and i also say at some point the issue could go away. i strongly believe as the issue gets resolved, there was a lot of truth in that gop growth and opportunity report. as the issue gets resolved it will not be as obvious of an issue because it will not be trading so much attention.

until he gets resolved i don't see it slipping away from the top package of issues. i do see continue to have the most mobilizing effect much more so than any economic issue ever could. >> thanks a lot. like to ask one more question of the three panelists and i would like you to open to see what the audience has to have. so the story that emerges special out of matt's presentation, the study of public opinion, that the congress but if you want to call it that is to activate latino voters is to trigger an emotional response to this issue of immigration and other issues as well, that this wasn't a consideration of the identity. to me what that suggests is that if are going to give advice to a campaign up to his what you want to do, you want to make latinos angry. at the risk of trading a false

contrast that didn't sound like what you guys are doing in terms of organization. the message was much more positive and sing we want to get you to the polls and do something you can believe them. i just felt like i would be interested in hearing how you all address and consider camping. to what extent all the mobilization site to issues like anger and anxiety of things that mobilize come in to play? >> the great question. and look, and i think i want to speak to this with numbers but we see that especially among young latinas with very aspirational. we are young and so we are not as jaded as everyone else. putting it out there. there's a real opportunity to cultivate that positive thinking, that kind of forward thinking. i would also add that absolutely what matt described is absolutely true but what we see as well in voter engagement model is that there's still a

huge drop off of our community, of the electorate. and so although immigration is huge and it does give that company evokes all of that emotion, they're still some that are not hearing what they need your or having access at the need to have in order to finally go in and become a photo. i would add that peace and absolutely believe in and it worked for us if we uplift young latinos who often are the leaders within their homes. we think about young latinos, when the first generation or third generation, they're often the leaders in their homes. even if they're not helping their parents with language access issues they are helping with their parents navigating cultural helping the grandparents apply for salsa skidoo benefits. they are often the person in the household that navigates very complex american institutions. what we see is a real prime opportunity to take a young latina entrance on that power

into the electorate and transform the power into committee building. that's a we firmly believe that you do that through positive in public, leadership development and also fun. our strategies are about saying hey, young latinas love music and culture. they don't see themselves as a political person at first we open the conversation so there's an opening, a nexus for saying we are here, we are jamming out. now let me talk to you about getting racially profiled on your way to school. so that is why we think the work we do is really moving. >> to meet its really simple but it's not rocket science. and it's not about making an ethnocentric appeal that is particular to latinos but if you look at what's happening in the republican primary you would say that stirring up fear and anxiety works pretty good and not just with latinas. i don't think that this is an ethnocentric thing.

that's one of the reasons politicians keep trying to use those tactics over and over. latinos are a very optimistic community and i think that as much as there's a clarity about the current environment where voting becomes an act of self-defense, it also needs to be couched in what is what we hoped for, and what is the narrative of the real america that we are trying to build, right? if anybody saw the oscars, i think some candidates are trying to pretty much paid a mad max world. but as result of latinos and demographic change, right? so as much as the optimism drives you i think the rally cannot escape you. the reality right now is that we are seeing a very, very high intensity level of policy and politics where too many candidates are all too happy to

eat of latinos to the lions. so in that environment, you bet that people are going to think about what you said i can do and if this is happening in the context of the campaign trail, get registered and become a voter. but very much motivated, i think the messaging we've seen that the community response to is very much about latinos seem see themselves as part of the american community, as part of that mosaic and not a stand alone and separate communities but as part of the american family. and that's why we think that bringing more of those voices to the electoral arenas, joined with other americans of good faith who are concerned and believe can be very helpful. >> terrific. thanks very much. i'd like to throw the floor open. i encourage you to ask questions. we've got about 20 minutes.

stager name, position in life, whatever you think of whatever is germane to the discussion. -- state your name. >> my name is stephanie. i'm a sophomore here at american from venezuela and i have two quick questions or maria. do you have or would have a voter program here at american or any of the surrounding universities? and also with some of the hypocrites kind of latinos that we see this presidential election and also the very hateful messages towards immigrants as well as latinos in general, from trump, what is your campaigns or your organization specifically doing with these? >> i would say to your first question yes, if you're helping me build one, just after and we

can chat because absolutely we would love to have one here if you're interested in helping us. secondly, again when we talk about hate as immobilizer, i think clarissa perfectly elaborated that already and it is immobilizer for people to vote. as you said ugly and a self-defense kind of way. we have joined other sister organizations who have done campaigns against when snl was having him on the show. we did a large digital campaign around that can send some of our folks up in your city as well to protest. and really it's not, the whole thing is about having self dignity and respect. it's not just one campaign and does the pushback against hateful voices, but it's having, saying hey, we are under the latinos and we count, we are present and we are very.

all of our campaigns how the message of pushing back on the things you mentioned. >> my master in political communication and i have a question related to the let you know millennials. -- latino millennials. ..

we know there's still a lot of work to do. we have been at this for 10 years. more aggressively in my recently. we can't expect parties to build turnout at our communities. we have to do that in our community. the organizations and community leaders has to come together and say how do we invest in the real mobilization effort and not rely an hateful things people are talking about. in order to do that, we have to do that with good partners and people investing in communities. i mentioned earlier when you look at investments, there's a built authority. we don't have the tools we need to be testing the message models to work for the team as a test in the message models or other

models for things we have not yet identified perhaps within the electorate. that requires a lot of strategy funding, creative. i ask that if they're a lot more work to do and getting folks out? yeah. we are ready to continue building on what is where 12, but also what has been unidentified at this point. >> i will add just a little bit to that. this has been a topic in these of turnout among young people. it is the case latino millennial start turning out at lower rates than white and black than other ethnic groups. but it's also the case that all are turning out at extremely low rates. most of that is not a latino issue. it is a young person issue. the issue that still is the most mobilizing for young people

which we said in a commentary. as the anti-american rhetoric. it is more mobilizing many other issues. it is absolutely the case that nothing seems to be working. much of this we can talk about on the political science side is what we call life cycles. that is very hard to convince someone to vote until they buy a house and have children and pay taxes and realize why these things make so much important value in their life. so, i don't think -- it is something that absolutely needs to be addressed. it's very difficult to find a silver bullet that will bring young turnout levels anywhere come even remotely close to those of voters over 65-foot day. we know there is this mere step pattern and until we have the draft was the last issue that created massive turnout and what

lead to lowering the voting age to 18. it is a huge challenge in some name that probably deserves most of our resources to try to figure out. but it is not one -- mr. the reason for lifecycle issue. most of the people who are putting out will be voting in 2016. there's volumes and volumes including one to follow the exact same people. we need to figure out a way to bring the urgent need to them sooner. but it is something that i think we take a long time to tackle. >> the last thing i will ask about is as more people pay attention to what is happening in the latino community, some things that have always been the case become kind to me/come of breaking news. so adding to the very basic list

that we started with a little while ago, latinos are a young population. so before a millennialist and after millennial, young people are going to be a significant part of the latino population. the same challenges that apply that matt talked about that apply to growing electoral participation among young people will continue to be the case. i think that in particular, with our community when you look at many of our young prospective voters, to be the first one in their family also to be that voter, a lot of times people don't think common sense or one may take for granted are not so much the case. i can tell you that i naturalized as an adult and i really didn't know where do i go register. and the first time i was going to go, and i was a little

intimidated. you can call it whatever vanity. i've never been there. is the deal seems like they know what they are doing. so it's obviously the environment where people can see their vested interest, but part of it is making sure they don't have those student going through the process. that is why we try a variety of things. the high school registration point, legislation to make registration easier. the mobile application as well. it's in the palm of your hand and you can pass it to the person sitting next to you. if you're engaged in your friend is not, now you became just by having a phone. creating those avenues i think are going to be important as well and making sure people have the information they need so they don't feel that is an impediment. >> just one more quick thing in

terms of message. often times when we talk about pitino outreaches drive the, we often our advantage. my parents grew up in a spanish-speaking home. absolute ian important part of our outreach community. another part really is not how we reach out, especially to young americans and young latinos. so from the beginning we had a strong presence on english language from a digital channels and having partners that are part of publications that are not just exclusively what our parents listened to, which are also key partners, too. i began latinos here, most of us get our news either in english made my comment then spanish or maybe so but not exclusively spanish. we just add that when we look at some of our census data as an official partner.

folks who got information in spanish participated at higher grades because they are older but also the same investments are not made in creating strategic english language only messages for young latinos. >> we have time for a couple more. >> my name is donovan come apart at the latin america class undergrad. my question is about the afro latino community in your organization. so through the community you know the lendale slot straight and consider themselves part of the black vote. how does your organization to educate bad on latino issues in the context of african american issues also? >> that's a really great question. for black history month we wanted to be really intentional and not just uplifting who you often think about uplifting and black history, but also latinos

who often don't get uplifted. it's usually on mondays for the past month we dedicated one of our graphics for that reason because we don't see each other together and so that was really important to us. secondly, we think it's really important to lock arms with a lot of younger things happening elsewhere. so we have tried really hard to uplift our work and be at the table with them. i really want your questions because they think we don't always think about it like that. >> one thing i would add and i don't think you meant it that way about latinos issues that the african-american community is involved with because the reality is that they are largely the same issues. i think that a lot of times the

media and simplifying issues tries to paint police brutality as an african-american issue and they go to leaders in the african-american community to talk about the issue the same way that even though scl ire works on a variety of baskets of basic issues you would think about from taxation to housing to whatever, the time we get talked about and cover them is on immigration. so there is that segmentation that in reality is not there as much as perception because that is how it gets covered. in terms of education, health and education disparities certainly on criminal justice issues on police brutality issues, those are, believe me, very much the same concerns and there is deep and integral work that happens in coalitions with

organizations in the civil rights and social justice pays african-americans and latinos working together. in addition to one of the things that is really cool about the latino community, but the reality is you can't make a latino without parts of everybody else. and so, in some ways i always remember this joke from paul rodriguez same essentially in the united states we are all going to look for latinos. so that is the next step. so that gives me hope because eventually, just like afro latino and all these different things, we will get to appoint that latinos in the nation of mass, latinos are the ultimate last, so that is kind of what we're going to. >> one more question and then we will wrap things up here at the macro fell granada with the

hill. i wants you to discuss the future relationship between the latino voter and the democratic party. they have a common enemy right now, but they both fail to deliver the crown jewel in texas and the electoral college and comprehensive immigration reform. what is going to happen in the future? [inaudible] >> welcome to texas is a purple state and the latino vote was key is not. the interest of the democratic party. >> i can answer that question, thank you. but that question does exactly to the point i was trying to make earlier. if you look at press coverage and particularly the political raiders, not just in the press, but even in many organizations, they want to automatically equate latino growth with

democrat wins. that just has to be challenged in this notion that if latinos are a significant part of a particular community or state, they have incredible and unchallengeable path to become blue. that is not for latinos to deliver to democrats. i am sorry. i've heard way too many election analysis that when a democrat loses they blame latinos or other voters, even if those candidates did nothing to reach out to that community or state position on the things that any given community cared about was being afflicted by at the time. i think that clearly the numbers show that there is a greater affinity on the democratic side

that has to do and not give credit where credit is due with the fact that democrats are putting more skin in the game on issues that pitino said as a general community, not all the same. i am not saying we are all the same, said don't discount the point made on that. but statistically, there are more democrats who are showing -- that they are championing the issues the community cares about. to go from not in a latinos in texas have it delivered the stakes to democrat when anybody who studies the state can see the incredible under resourcing of the elect. and that state, the lack of competition in meaningful outreach, i was there that got to start challenging people who try to make that point.

>> already. i want to thank our panelists once again. pat, teresa. [applause] we will take a break for a couple minutes and come back with our third panel. thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [applause] >> republican presidential candidate john kasich other route to plymouth memorial building and plymouth, massachusetts, one day ahead of super tuesday. it is an hour and 10 minutes. [applause]

[applause] [cheers and applause] >> already. thank you vary, very much. thank you, limit. [inaudible conversations]

[applause] >> can you handle it? >> already. i want to thank you very, very much for coming out here today and plymouth, america is hometown. [applause] and state representatives paul cries from a member of house republican leadership that state house and i am about an hour and a half or so from here at england. i go as far inland as ohio, but seeing the ocean is a treat. we are very glad we get to come out here to plymouth and do this today. can we all just rise into the pledge of allegiance together? thank you.

i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic, for which it can't, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you. this is the third town hall event governor kasich has done in massachusetts. [applause] he has had great crowds and wurster and in springfield and no other republican candidate has come here to do three town hall meetings. and i hope that you remember that when you vote tomorrow. [applause]

i also want you to remember something else because you are getting robocalls today. i already got a couple of them. you might even get one for today. i don't. but you get a lot of robocalls today stated that there is one candidate in particular that can beat hillary clinton. that candidate is wrong because poll after poll after poll has shown that clearly there is one republican candidate that can beat hillary clinton and does so by very big margin and that is governor john kasich. [applause] there's one other caveat. but we've got to remember when the vote tomorrow.

the road to the white house for a republican candidate goes through ohio. we need to have someone who could win ohio and governor john kasich has done it twice. [applause] governor john kasich commodes all seen in the debate. did anyone watch the debate last thursday? yeah, yeah, at one point i was watching that debate we trained trump, rubio and cruise and i honestly i was watching a reenactment of a three stooges routine. [applause] governor john kasich didn't jump in. he didn't get into the fray and name-calling and mudslinging and everybody else.

he just answer the questions. he answered them with intelligence. he answered them with specifics. and he answered that through his heart. never once -- never once did he tried to get into point angers are calling other people names. that is the kind of leadership we need in washington d.c. today. and you need to get him elected. we need to get him and we need to start with that tomorrow. [applause] we ought now to cite their own governor charlie baker here in massachusetts, the reformer governor john kasich is, taking on tough problems in ohio. he turns huge, huge input in a certain candidate, huge, huge deficit and made them very huge surpluses. he created over 400,000 new jobs in ohio.

and when he was in congress, he was the architect of the very last time, very last time that our federal budget has ever balanced, that it never showed a surplus and that if that went down. that was governor john kasich. we need more of that in washington today. we need that leadership. do you have to vote tomorrow. teacher friends out to vote tomorrow. your friends and family. massachusetts needs to send a message to the rest of our republican party that we are serious, that we want a candidate to know what he's talking about and their candidate to win in november. that is governor john kasich. now, it is my pleasure to introduce the first lady of ohio

and with your support and your help tomorrow, the first lady of the united states of america, karen kasich. [applause] >> hello. thank you. thank you very much in thank you all for being here this afternoon. i've got to say i'm thrilled to be back in massachusetts. it's a little bit like coming home for me. my parents are both from newton, massachusetts and we spent summers coming back to the cape and every my daughters, anna and reese back to the cape every summer as a mom myself. i have mom myself. i have two cousins mom myself. i have two cousins in the mom myself prepared to present an audience that my cousin steve and my cousin carol from wellesley and her husband dave. [applause] it feels good to be here. [applause] one question i get asked not for is how did you meet the governor get roped into this life of

politics because i didn't choose this life of politics, but he did like to send i'm a young woman right out of college and i was working for ohio state putting together a magazine. they asked me to go and take pictures of officials in the state of ohio. i had seven officials that i needed to take a photographer around and get some pictures. so i went to congressman john kasich's office. he didn't mean any more to any other officials on the piece of paper, but we laughed and smiled and a good time during the photo shoot. we went back to my office and a couple months later my phone rang and it was congressman kasich who called tell me he thought the magazine turned out really nicely. i thought that was nice. and another man called to tell me that the magazine came out nicely. i was kind of oblivious. about a month later he called again and this time he asked me out to lunch. i am just out of college and i wasn't really aware too much of

the political world. i called my mother and i said this congressman just asked me out to lunch, mom. she said zero no. she said you pay no attention to current affairs. you don't know anything that's going not. go get "newsweek" magazine and start reading. so until the day she -- day she died should have "newsweek" magazine for chris miss. but the conversation must've gone alright because here we are after 19 years of marriage with two wonderful 16-year-old twins and we're still laughing at my lame everyday. i think that things went well. i couldn't be prouder of the man i watched grow over the last 25 years from his time in congress as paul mentioned when he was budget committee chairman and balance the budget for the first time and my senses man walked on the moon when he was in congress 18 years on the armed service committee. i watched with waste fraud and

abuse to ensure that the weapons they had available closer our men and women in uniform with the weapons they needed at the right place at the right time and i was so proud of those that he made. and then he retired and went into the private sector and i really liked that. he worked on wall street, worked with ceos. he spent a lot of time helping people create jobs that learned a lot about what the economy has to do with wise companies decide to add jobs or not. that was all wonderful until he looked at me and said, you know, ohio is in a death spiral and i'm the one who can fix it. i said here we go again. john ran for governor, defeated an incumbent or the first time in 36 years an incumbent was defeated as governor of the state of ohio. as paul mentioned, turned the economy around. he balanced the budget. they created 400,000 private sector jobs and he sees this

economic growth as a means to lift all people, not just those that typically get lifted, but those who as john said was in the shadows that the drug addict did, developmentally disabled, working poor. he put policies in place to make sure those people are listed along with the rest. i support his run for president. i believe he is a uniter, not a divider in the country is hard enough to buy again and meet a united strong america going forward. [applause] set thank you for being here. thank you for being here to your my husband, ohio governor john kasich and i would appreciate your vote tomorrow. [applause] >> thank you all. really, and so glad you are all here because this is really something to see.

i wanted a family to see what it is like either when i'm out on the road. i want to tell you, i can't believe we are in plymouth. i have been looking for pilgrims since i got out of the car. we saw one guy, my wife says he was than they pilgrims, he was a wash ashore. and i'm looking at you and wondering, what time is that by the way? what is the time? 4:00. why are all these people here? okay, that is the first day. why? listen, folks, my father was a mailman. he carried mail on his back. he delivered the mail to our home and my wife said stop saying that your dad stuck his nose into everybody's business.

but my father knew everything about everybody on his mail route. he would celebrate with their families if their kid scored a touchdown or their daughter sang a solo. my dad was there. when at last somebody or something, he cried with them. he was an incredible guy. his father was a coal miner. he died of black lung, losing his eyesight as a god older. the real interesting story as when he would go into the mind, he would dig -- it was just unbelievable heart. when he would come out he thought he was going to get a good base pay and they would say i'm sorry but shoot her too much and not enough core and they gave them half of what he was going to get. total rip off.

grandfather have no control over what was happening in his life and people would take advantage of them. he immigrated here as a little boy. he didn't for a while if he wasn't sure if his name was taken on by the family he traveled with. my mother was a remarkable woman. she was extremely intelligent. and very articulate and she could cut you with her incisiveness. i have been 10 people and the virtuous of talkshow pioneer. and somebody would say something on the radio, she would yell at the radio to correct them. she really got into the whole talkshow radio show business. one day she was listening to the radio and got very excited about this heated debate going on on the radio.

where two bones in her house. one in the kitchen and one up in the bedroom. she went all over the house looking for me. the last place you'd look would be in her bedroom. she came in a mouse a the person on the phone. mas back i guess that is called a foreshadow. a town where i grew up, people found themselves out of work, you know. today there are a lot of americans that are fed up. they are not sure that their jobs are secure. they haven't had a decent wage increase in enough a long time. all the bills are going up except their own pay. and then they've got a son or daughter living in the attic who has big college debt and either can't find a job or has a job that under pace. and then they think about --

they go to the grocery store and a scraping by the somebody who was on relief and they say that person is better than im and they think somebody is coming in across the border and that's why my wages are good and the senior citizens say they are going to steal my social security. the young people as they have better better chance of seeing a ufo than a social security check. people are frustrated, frustrated with the way things are. may be the time has come to throw everybody out and start all over again. i get that and i understand that. do you realize if we do that, we are not going to solve our problems. as frustrating as it gets, i don't know when you were kids, you play chess with your brother or checkers with your sister and

use the ink you just not how the pieces off the chessboard are after checkerboard. and guess what? the game is over. the game is over. did you accomplish anything? maybe for a second he felt good about what you did. but the game was never completed. folks, we can't have the status quo, but i think what we are lacking in this country today is vision, toughness, strength and leaders who are willing to put their own political height at risk for the good of the people they serve. now i actually was there when that happened i don't care what party you're in. if you're a democrat, i don't

care what your party is. i will tell you a story. i labored for 10 years against a republican president for a large part of it to get our budget balanced. why do i want a balance there? the budget is not balance. people who create jobs will sit on their wallets because they think at some point will come and whack them in the head and they're not going to advance to get caught. and that type that gets run up our kids have to pay. there's a couple reasons. i was offered against republican president is. and remember dan quayle? they called me one day and said the president not to you because he's scary angry. he said i know you were misquoted. is that actually i was in. but i hung up the phone and told if you want to discuss where we

will talk after business and i never did hear from him. i called karen and i said the president is really mad at me. how do i get myself into this? a couple hours later i got flowers delivered to my desk with another said the president may be mad at you, but i mad about you. that's when i knew i had to marry her. [applause] but i am plugging along, plugging along, plugging along. i am stepping on everybody's toes. then i started to make a little bit more progress. and then we had an election in november of 294 and we elected a whole bunch of people that came to washington saying that they were committed to change. and we are looking out this great great basketball player seth curry say my goodness,

we've never seen anything like this. we have the patriots and we saw for many years look what they are doing. they can just win. the determination of winners came to washington. they said these are the things we are going to do what we do not care if we ever get elected again. it was a magic time. newt was the speaker before things went downhill. we had a great team on the frontline. i was budget chairman. during that period of time, i watched politicians not give one single boot about politics. i think we had a chance after 9/11 with the same thing happened and the opportunity was lost. there is a saying in politics. never let an opportunity when things are in trouble go past because there is an opportunity when things are bad to strike a

lot of things that are good whenever there is a moment of chaos. we blew it back then after 9/11. the country was very united and many things could have been done. i was there in the 90s when we did it and we got to a balanced budget. we paid down half a trillion dollars of the national debt. we cut the capital gains tax. let tax. let it remind you as we moved into this century that was not that long ago, jobs growth, wages were up, people were more optimistic because the economy was growing. i've come to learn over the course of my lifetime that there's only three things that matter that a politician needs to focus on. there'll be a moral, three things. jobs. what he think the second one is? jobs. but it's the third one? jobs. when there are jobs, our families are stronger connected to a more secure, neighborhoods are better and that is what we

needed to focus on. to balance the budget, you step on everybody's toes. you are a farmer, teacher, student, senior in the military. it affects everybody. if you sit around and put your finger in the air, not just on that issue, but any issue and you are free to lead, get out of that place and go home. get out. [applause] and then i went to ohio. paul mentioned a lot of it. over 400,000 jobs. our credit is strong and if you are mentally ill, drug addicted, the working poor we are devoting resources to you. if you're a developmentally disabled, want to integrate you. if you're a member of the minority community, we want you

to believe the country works for you in the state of ohio works for you as well. we know what it takes. we know what the formula start to get us going again. i am saying to you if the people of this country, and i've just set all revere here in massachusetts. i will be like paul revere. if we knock off the pieces off the chessboard, if we engage in nothing but negativity and don't focus on getting the leadership, and proven leadership in that time, we are going to drift and we are not going to be satisfied with where we are drifting too. it is just not going to happen, folks. now you can't have some weak newsperson korean-american trying to fix that stuff. that will not work. you have to have something that has the guest comment tenacity and experience to get this done because these kids, even though they don't know it, they are counting on it. there is no time to be playing a political game that political

game that the powerful are the rich. who gives a hoot? we go there to try and help you. we don't go to up to them so that they can be in a position of calling the shots. i hope that is why you are here today because i am going to tell you when i'm elected president of the united states, there will be nobody calling shots. the shots will be called by few and not a bunch of people in a faraway town. [applause] now, a couple other things that need to be sad. what are we watching? blast back you know, we kind of laugh about it, but we are not electing class president or class clowns. we are picking the president of

the united states, the leader of the free world. i want to tell you, folks, there are people that the u.s. to get in there and start hammering on these people. i would rather lose than degrade myself and call people names. [applause] you know, kids are watching this and they want to believe that their leaders of all places where we learned about the history of people who had courage, the history of people who are willing to die for what they believed in. is there a place that has more history, more people that had conscience and courage and got

been willing to sacrifice for the next generation than right here? i don't there is. there's not a place where it matters even more. what i would say is what get through this process. let's keep the faith that at the end of the day, the vision of positive message in the reality of change and reform can really carry the day. i think it can. i believe at the end it will or i wouldn't be standing here in this great hall in this great outing with all of you here. i just know you this before we take questions. i will do my level best because when i look into your eyes, i may not be perfect, but i'm going to do my best not to disappoint you. thank you. let's take some questions.

[applause] okay, who wants to go first? we want to take some questions. right here, yes. >> we want to welcome you to massachusetts. there's a lot of us who are very happy that you have taken the high ground in this battle and we hope that you continue that battle. we agree with you 100%. i'm a firefighter here in the state of massachusetts. i've recently donated to your campaign. after i donated to your campaign i got thinking if my conscious is correct in what i think about you, so i called some relatives ohio and asked what they thought of you. [laughter] it was good. >> thank you very much for that. so i wanted to know what your

plan is to support police officers, unions in the country, but especially fire and police because we are the first one when it comes to terrorism and that kind of thing. domestic. what is your plan? >> first of all, we all know why firemen wear red suspenders. you know? keep their pants a period yet never heard that before. look, i have had squabbles with alisa and fire in ohio. i tried to change some of the roads to get people to give more to support their own pensions and health care. i think it was a bridge too far. and i got hammered. and i'm a big player. i like to shoot the three. i am not a guy that says let's wait until tomorrow.

you know, sometimes when you lose, you learn as much as when you win. frankly when you lose, you get more done when you win. i would tell you, look, everybody loves the police and fire. you are the ones on the highway when we see a terrible car crash and we hold our breath. i know i do because my mother and father were killed in a car crash. and so, i can just imagine the kind of things that you see on the road. i have highway patrol that travel with me as governor and the things that they tell me about what they see in the doorbells they have to bring with the saddest news of the world are the firemen willing to rush into some place. i think about 9/11. i went to ground zero area shortly after the attack of 9/11 i had a television show at fox and there was a show called

heroes. i went to try to profile the first responders. the things that they did, running up a building that is on fire rather than running out. sarah, everyone in this room salute you and we need to make sure no time either of veterans, police, fire, first responders must be honored in this country and i honor you for your service and for your works are thank you for being here. [applause] and by the way, if you ever go to the new world trade center building, freedom tower, i don't know if any of you have ever seen it, but they have a short film. when you see that film, you will always realize what these first responders have met to us as a nation. there was another hand. yes, sir. we will go into the crowd. maybe even a couple back there.

>> thank you, governor. i work with veterans are 22 veteran today died by suicide. what is your plan? how do we end it? >> number one, when a combat veteran returns to america, they should be able to get health care whenever they want whenever they want it. end of story. [applause] why does this happen? why do we see this? they get so frustrated that they can't get their calls returned. the organization itself has to be completely redone and we need to put somebody in charge of the veterans administration who has credibility with the american people and there's no question that no question in my mind they need to be decentralized and broken it all or part. i know the man is running the va. he's a west point graduate.

he loves america as much as anybody. what happened the night job as they going to change the e. and the bureaucracy i don't want to say changes him, that has defeated him in many ways. so it is clear to me that we need a wholesale change. secondly, when a veteran is coming home, i believe we should have the information and that the veteran is returning to america and we need to connect them with the veterans service organization in the job creators, the people who watch the jobs and connect veterans with the jobs. everybody wants a higher veteran. leadership, flexible, strong. we don't always do that. the bureaucracy of the pentagon doesn't get the information to the state. i don't know how many other states are doing it. i would do it nationally. the veteran and family needs to know there will be a job

opening. there are worries many job openings. i just saw the other day of $186 job openings in ohio. lots of job openings, no one to fill it. the veteran -- they would hire veteran and a second and we need connect them. thirdly, when a veteran comes home, let's say they are in afghanistan and they drive a truck from kabul to anywhere in afghanistan, to kandahar. when they come home to ohio they want to get a cdl to drive a truck from columbus. they are already qualified to serve in the military and we're not screwing around. here it is. you do what you want. if your emt, you go to work at the fire department. if you read into the military

and we put you through some rick roll, forget it. we also say if you have skills will give you credit in college and credit in the community college that a cruise to your benefit of all of this for free. that is the least we should do for our veterans. i will tell you this -- [applause] let me tell you, sir. there should never be a homeless are unemployed combat veteran and the united states of america. it just shouldn't be. now here is what happens in politics. i say all of that. all of a sudden i have people telling me what we can do it. you put a plan together and carry it out and everybody is squawking and complaining and this group jumps up in that group jumps up and they try to block you. at the end you don't let anybody block you. you just go do it and you get it

done. when i became governor, the state was a disaster. i had a meeting. i was invited to speak to all the lobbyists, all the special interest groups in ohio. so i showed up. i fed folks, i just got elected governor as you know and the state is in big trouble. we lost 350,000 jobs. our operating budget is 20% in the whole and i need your cooperation because the changes are coming to ohio. we were going to raise taxes. we were going to cut taxes. people said that's crazy. you can't do it. so we're all in the room. i said i'm going to give you a little bit of advice. i will sketch out a little bit of what i need. i'm going to be driving a bus and i expect you to get on the bus because if you don't get on the bus, i am going to run over you with my bus.

they created so much consternation in the state they thought i was talking to people. but i was talking to the special interests. they are the very want to block you because they are preservers of the status quo. we can't have the status quo in america and longer. should she get out. when the back. [applause] right here. this lady right here. sir, do not fall out the window or we will never forgive ourselves, okay? that would be a real pain would knit in life? it is not working with the jokes. okay go ahead. >> governor, i heard you make a statement with respect to marriage equality that the court has spoken and you respect that. so i'm looking at citizens united and the issues raised at that decision, how do you tackle

that and what you say to issues of campaign? >> i don't like the ideas that billionaire sir president of the united states. [applause] did you know, what i would really like is if you can figure out how we can limit the amount of and attract a whole lot smaller contribution. i don't know what the limit to be, but i will tell you in my stance you've got to have a reasonable plan that when you put it in we don't turn around and say that's a lousy plan because that's what happened on the other campaign-finance reforms. it would be the number one issue. my number one issue is this issue of jobs. to that end, i would have a plan to freeze all federal regulations for one year except for >> hours to vote on anything over $100 million.

i would have the vice president, he or she would be unwinding of israel's crippling small businesses ability to create jobs. a lower tax rates to 25% and not double taxed corporations so they bring money home from europe and invest in america rather than era. i allow them to write off the cost of investment equipment in a single year so they will invest them will have tools to have wage growth. i would reduce the personal attacks of 28, 25 and 10% but the 15% capital gains rate on a simplified tax system and i would have a plan that would get us fiscally ability and we would shift welfare education, medicaid transportation and job training back to the states and i would have to fly around of me with all of our friends in europe said they know we have there that. we have a plan to fix social security, another plan to fix the border and get people on a path to legalization and get it behind us once and for all.

and i would do that first 100 days. [applause] but i would tell you that this issue -- frankly what should be eliminated in every state in america is the issue of gerrymandering. what happens is people running in districts than they are worried on the extreme. so they move to the extreme and that's a very bad thing. at the end of the day, what works in this country is when you have leaders. not just our country, but in a country around the world. you know, when margaret thatcher was the last man standing in europe, she did an incredible job of leading. they are all struck by winston churchill. -- and it did. many people who are democrats voted for him on the hope he could bring america back in the morning and not be in the

sunset. leaders can do this because if you make laws to try to get people to do what they're supposed to do, you are going to out what all should. we need laws, reasonable proposals to get these things working. at the end, its leadership. it's not rules and it's not laws. it is leadership and leadership gives people to perform at a higher level. i was talking about the patriots earlier. i think bill belichick couldn't get out of another theory and go to the super bowl. that is what leadership does. [applause] right here, sir. right here. let me give you a microphone. is anyone working the microphones? if they are, you are going to lose your pet. what are you getting paid? a volunteer, okay.

>> mine is not really a question. it is just a statement. i am 72 years old. three weeks ago i was diagnosed with aggressive cancer. >> but that microphone up so people can hear you. >> it makes a stop and think about my children, grandchildren. i don't need a hug, but i need you to win because there's nobody better in this country. [cheers and applause] >> how about a hug? how about a hug? [cheers and applause] god bless you. [applause]

e-mail, the greatest thing about the campaign is it's changed my life. you might say how. i have learned to slow down into listening to people. you know, in this fast-paced world, we move so fast. i go back to my dad who knew everything going on in the neighborhood and was there to help. i want to just tell you something about i think the spirit of this country are back to the pilgrims for a second. you know, the pilgrims didn't go anywhere to find out what to do. when i was a kid, our hero was roberto clemente. he was a baseball player and he was a great one and we americans know much. and here it is bobby border. i'll give you another one that i love. a larry bird. here is one. john have to check. is that what you thought i was

going to say? [applause] he was mr. hustle. when i look at austin or plymouth or massachusetts, you know what i see? i see community, family. you see, folks, we can elect a leader at the high level. but you don't think the president is going to come writing in here on sunday at coors to solve other problems. you've got a problem with drugs here. who was going to solve that? you are going to solve it if you want to. if you want to solve this problem and to give, you will not let these kids turn to drugs. you will have samuels is, but most of the time he will win. when kids understand they have a purpose in life, a god-given purpose in life and if they do drugs in handicap themselves, they cannot live their life. they cannot carry out their

purpose. we need to be in the schools and we need to be in the boys and girls club and the ymca churches and synagogues and we've got to beat the curse of drugs. i will give you the money. but that is not what is going to do it at the end. it is people deciding we've had enough of this curse. you want to know about income inequality? give your kids the skills they need to compete in this century. that is at the school board level. nothing is holding you back from taking on problems of the schools. ..

you call people, you are so dead tired, didn't go to bed. you make one more phone call, or it'if the teacher that gave up n awful lot of money to try to change somebody's life. and i happened to have a belief that these things get recorded in the book of life. there is a book of life. our lives are recorded. i want to tell you one last one. this is the woman who is married for 52 years to her husband. he died.

you call her on monday and you say, this saturday we're going out to dinner. my husband and i are going to take you out to dinner. thursday she goes to the hairdresser. saturday she put on a dress that she had not worn in six months. does that change life? did that change the world? it does. and that's our job. so the spirit of our country rest where we are, look, i'll take care of all these other things. you take care of the spirit in plymouth. come back, we will have an eating right and assault and we will celebrate the rebirth of the spirit of the united states of america, okay? [applause] right there. you. [inaudible] >> i am a teacher and i have fr

a long time been on the fence about the common core and i'm wondering if you become president what your thoughts on the common core -- >> i'm going to shoot all the federal education programs back to the state. there's 104. [applause] but massachusetts, there is a guy who's here, i don't know where he is, i don't already lives. i think you still there. hissed in his david driscoll. do you know that in? at your boss? [laughter] i'll tell you he is but he's a guy who said we would not tolerate low standards for our kids. and it shook everybody up, am i right? and people were like instead of getting a's, irrigating c's. we really, really want to live in lake will be gone were and what is handsome, everyone is pretty, everybody is going to be an astronaut or a doctor or a billionaire. but we don't live in lake will

be gone. we live in plymouth and we live in massachusetts and we live in ohio. and driscoll, he took the whole system on and he raised the standards in the state and became an inspiration for me as governor of ohio. so look, i don't know about all this common core and what it says on the internet. here's what it is to me is what we do in ohio. this is what we are to be across the country. high standards local control. the school board is where it happens. let me just a couple of things. i think you probably have most of the standard you need a third grade reading guarantee but youu cannot promote its agenda because of the first request to drop out of school. number two, when he job mentoring programs in all of our schools and we need to mentor the kids were poor and mentor the kids are middle and the kids who are rich. when i was oblivious to barbers would come out of the barber shop when i would walk by and never joke johnny, someday you're going to be something.

i remember it like it was yesterday. the fact is telling kids what they can do and what they can be, it changes lives. we need to do it in all of our schools with all of our kids. you have nothing to do in. you're retired or dead and you don't know what to do with yourself, called the school and going to mentor but hopefully they will say you can coming. maybe they will tell you that. i think the other thing is we need to start teaching kids at a very early age of occupations. what is a fireman, but as a policeman do books what is a teacher do? what does a scientist do? we need to start getting them to think about what they might do. then we need your feedback as they get older and older, give them a real world experience. my daughter loves fashion. i wonder to be able to go to or three or four hours a week right into working with somebody who's in fashion. we have the limited out in columbus. let her go out there and see what it's like and then she will

understand why reading writing and arithmetic and computing matters. if you think that somebody drop out then we ought to be in a position of where we have two great a separate curriculum. every kid has got to get a diploma. i don't have to go to college but we can't let them quit. you know what happens when they quit. and then i think on top of, bring location education down to the seventh grader everybody doesn't have to go to college. most plumbers make more than most lawyers. that's a great thing in this country. [applause] and i want to tell you, teachers feel very under appreciated. this is how crazy the campaign is. i was up in new hampshire and i made the statement if i were king i would and all the teachers lounge is. and all the teachers went crazy. you know what i meant by that? sometimes the teachers will gather and they will hear these

things about the public doesn't like them, they're going to lose their jobs, we will take their benefits and all this other stuff. what's more important in our society? and the teacher. and, frankly, all of us remember those teachers who changed our lives. so we honor you for your work as a teacher, and keep it going. keep it going. [applause] all right, chris, you're going to pick the last few. i know, i've got to go all over the place. come on, you pick the last two. who are you going to? all right. then we're going to probably have to get three. [laughter] >> where do you stand on the protection of religious liberty? >> religious liberty, here's what i feel about religious liberty because this came up in the last debate.

i think that churches and these religious institutions ought to be inviolate. nobody should tell them what to do because they're a religious institution. you shouldn't impose things on them that they don't support. i am involved right now for a couple years, a friend of mine started a church and we are now up to 70, maybe 70 members. and so my faith is important to me. i've also so if you're a cupcake maker, make a cupcake. if that's what you do in your life, and somebody said there's all these lawsuits everything going on, look, if you want somebody to do something that they don't feel good about, then have a little common sense. don't go and pull them into court. that's not the way we live in this society. if someone does want to be a photographer at your wedding, find another photographer, okay?

don't be silly the photographer. i we just assuming each of the? commonsense, if this gets out of control, if it does get out of control because in my state it is not. we don't even hear about this. if it gets out of control then we got to figure it out and pass some law with constitution worst and all this other stuff, and that's what we will have to do. but in the meantime until i see it rises to a point where people just can't respect people's conscience, it doesn't happen in my state. maybe it's happening in massachusetts. i don't know how many times but i don't we just pass a law because there's three or four or five things that happen. we don't need any more laws. but if we have to have one we will have one, okay? else? >> thank you. my question to you, mr. kasich, is what are your opinions on rebuilding the military? >> how old are you?

>> i am 14. >> fourteen. okay. how about that? [applause] one time when i was reminded of this, i don't know, i was 16 or 17, they purchased a senior in high school. we had a race riot in our high school. i didn't even remember all those until this reporter eating into my life told me he went out to my old hometown. i did know that at a school board meeting i stood up and kind of lectured everybody in my town. i remember my father came home. i didn't think too much of it. i got up and yelled everybody in the town for what, we were not solving problems, and i would hope that we did that, my dad came home the next day. he says johnny comp committee. what'what that? he said what did you do last night? it's all over town. what did you do? i said i just made a little talk. so when i see a 14 year-old stand with a microphone and speaker, that's a good thing,

isn't it a? it's a really good thing. [applause] perfect one-two finish on because i want is a couple things about the military and about our country. first of all, the military has really run down. we are going to need to spend more money. let me also tell you that the pentagon itself is a place where the waste lots of money. there are 800,000 people inside the department of defense performing bureaucratic functions, 800,000 people here never heard that before, did you? i was one of the guys who found the hammers and screwdrivers that cost tens of thousands of dollars and i fought with every defense contractor and attorney. i limited the production of the b-2 bomber which was, had a mission to fly inside the soviet union in the middle of nuclear war and troppo nuclear weapons. hominick yet to drop in one day to have a bad day?

[laughter] we limited the production of that. but the military needs to be seriously to be rebuilt. and it needs to be rebuilt while making sure we also refor from y in which they spend money so the money is to the people in the front line. let's talk about the world very quickly. so we face this group of isis. ices is a cult of death. women are nothing but objects. women are to be degraded in the minds of the people who operate under isis. young ladies, are you aware of this? it is a horrific, evil philosophy. you can't negotiate with them. he came accident and say let's try to work this out. they have to be destroyed. they will get destroyed if i'm there with a combination of western forces, europe, america,

and also with the muslim countries, the arabs who are at risk today. and you might they be? egypt, saudi arabia, jordan, the gulf states. they are all at risk and they all know it. so we have an opportunity to unite people to accomplish this mission if we have the determination to do it. once we destroy them and things settle, we come home. i don't believe in being listened of the world are i don't believe in nationbuilding. i don't believe in converting people to vote the way we vote. just take care of things, settle it down and then come on back home. let you talk about a couple countries and russia, vladimir putin is to understand we're going to arm the ukraine is. they want to fight for the freedom. we are going to give them the weapons to fight for the freedom and we're going to kill putin that if, in fact, you want to invade my native country -- going to tell -- were we've made a pledge that an attack on one

if an attack on us, he needs to understand. if you attack them, you are attacking us. we will not sit back. we will engage you. we don't need to threaten and we don't need to rattle sabers. we just need to make it clear to them what we are willing to put up with and what we are not willing to put up with. the same goes with the chinese. they are hacking into our systems and they must stop. because we will defend ourselves and we will counter attack. they do not own the south china sea and no matter how much they build islands out there, which is what they are doing, they are not going to take over and we will unite our friends in asia to tell them to knock it off. we don't need to threaten them either. they are a competitive but they don't have to be an enemy, but we have to be firm within. if the united states is not the policeman of the world, if we don't have to rattle sabers, we don't have to be in a position where we threaten war with somebody. just say what we mean and mean

what we say. and if we do that the countries around the world will have more confidence in us. on right now they lack it. when people lack confidence in the united states, our friends don't know what you think after enemies become more adventurous and that is not acceptable. and concluding is this, these young people but here are going to go to college. and inevitably they will have some professor to talk about all the wrongs that the united states has done. it's inevitable that they go there. we all hear heard it. then we went home and talked to our parents at thanksgiving and we know what happened when we got home, okay? [laughter] i just want to say to you, folks, i love our country because we stand for human rights, equality of women, respect for science and civilization. the fact that everyone should have an opportunity to rise.

and while at times with engage in military action we are fundamentally a country of peace and a country of hope. and we need to rise again because when we don't, the world finds itself in a really bad place and we are seeing it today. and with a little bit of assertiveness and an ability to lead, the world will be better. and let me also say if the world is better, of course it means we are more proud of ourselves. not braggarts ar proud of hersef and her destiny and who we are so that our children and our grandchildren and that little girls grandchildren someday are going to live in a country that is as new, so much in the morning, useful, spirited. that's what in america. and let me conclude by saying this to you. i need your help. if you did not like my presentation, tell no one, okay? [laughter] but if you like to i am, please

do not get on the phone and call a few of your friends and say vote for john kasich in the republican primary. if you're a democrat, crossed over and vote that way. whatever it takes, gives us the vote. it's great to be with you, and god bless you. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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>> republican presidential candidate marco rubio was joined by south carolina governor nikki haley at a campaign rally in atlanta ahead of super tuesday. he took the opportunity to talk about the controversy over donald trump not condemning the kkk or david duke. [cheers and applause] >> hello, atlanta. [cheers and applause] >> so i always love to come to my sister state and to see the

good people of georgia but we have somebody kind of cool who's with us here as well. and he has lost his voice. [laughter] so i will tell you the interesting thing is when you work hard and you fight hard, sometimes these things happen. so when these things happen and what did you? you call your friends. and when you call your friends, it's a dangerous thing when you say, will you speak for me? because you know what i think marco would say if they could talk? [laughter] my ears aren't big. [applause] so there's one thing i've always known, and that is if you really

want to know what kind of leader you are going to get, you can always tell by how hard they work in a campaign. [applause] the fact that he's doing by events the day to touch as many people as he can, and when he gets up and he says i don't have a voice, but he knows we've got thousands of people out here in georgia and says i'm going anyway, that someone who is fighting all the way till the end. [cheers and applause] so this is what i want to do. i want us to be the voice that

he can have right now. but and killed they can talk, and he might talk a little bit, we'll see, i want to tell you a little bit about what i am for marco and want to talk a little bit about what marco rubio for president sounds like and what it could be if we fight hard enough. i am the daughter of indian parents have reminded my brothers and my sister and me everyday how blessed we were to live in this country. [applause] they came to this country with $8 in their pocket, because they knew the opportunity that was america. and a new that in america they could make a better life for their children. my mother, she was a lawyer, and would've been one of the first female judges in india but they

didn't allow women to be judges and she wasn't able to do it. yet when she came to this country, six years ago she got to watch her daughter become the first female governor of the state of south carolina. [applause] go tigers. i know what my parents wanted for us. i know what i want for my children. first and foremost, i want a president that's going to keep my children safe. [applause] secondly, i am the proud wife of a military combat veteran. [cheers and applause]

i know the words that military families go through. and that because something that marco goes around and says all the time. we have the smallest and oldest air force that we've ever had in history of our country. we have the smallest army since world war ii. we have the smallest and oldest navy in the last 100 years. do you know what that does to military spouses like me? it means when you call my husband to go fight, you're not going to have his back. i want a president like marco rubio that will have the backs of our military officers when they go overseas. [cheers and applause] we want to know they're going to do something to take a of our military. we want to know they are going

to our backs. we also want to look at everything else is last eight years has done. we want someone who's going to go in there and repeal obamacare and say it is not working. [applause] we want a president that understands the importance of the supreme court nominations and say we are not going to put a moderate in there. we are going to put a conservative in there. [applause] with our first amendment, second amendment on the line and the hobby lobby case, yes what? the hobby lobby ceo came out and endorsed marco rubio for president. [applause] and then there's some of the people that are running in the race. [booing]

but let's talk about this because i want to talk about the reality of the race. you know when there's other contenders out there we have to acknowledge and. first of all i appreciate the sacrifice of anyone who decides to run for president. [applause] but i have to tell you, donald trump is everything i taught my children not to do in kindergarten. [cheers and applause] i taught my two little ones, you don't lie and make things up. [applause] i taught my two little ones that you don't push people around and just tell them what you think should happen. and i told my two little ones to get exactly what marco rubio did in the last debate.

when a bully hits you, you hit that bully right back. [cheers and applause] [chanting] [inaudible] [laughter] [applause] >> so i will tell you this. now let's get serious about the opposition. this race is really about two people. in our republican primary it's about marco and it's about donald trump. we are talking about a man who has filed for bankruptcy four times. we can't afford for an antidote in as president and bankrupt our country. d.c. is already doing that. we don't need someone

encouraging them to do that. [applause] donald trump is one who goes after project after project after project. we've seen it with trump vodka, we've seen with trump mortgage, we've seen with all of his trump endeavors. and right now he is being sued for fraud with trump university. every single one of them has failed. and now he wants to run for president. this is not a game. we are not a project. this is the best country in the world fighting for the truth and value of what makes us great. [cheers and applause] >> so what i want to tell you is there is a lot of people out there loud for trump. but the one thing i want you to

remember that i came from south carolina to georgia to tell you is south carolina went through a terrible tragedy last year. and a kkk came to south carolina from out of state to protest on our statehouse grounds. [booing] we saw and looked at to hate in the eyes last year in charleston. i will not stop until we fight a man that chooses not to disavow the kkk. that is not a part of our party. that's not who we want as president. we will not allow that in our country. [cheers and applause]

that is not who are republican party this. that's not who america is. because when my parents came here, they came to because they knew there was love and acceptance in this country. and they knew that this country and opportunity for all. so ladies and gentlemen, i will tell you that when it was time for me to endorse, i wanted someone who had true leadership and courage to do everything we needed to do to self correct america. i wanted someone with true passion that would fight till the bitter end, even if that meant losing his voice and showing up anyway. [applause] >> i wanted someone with integrity to do the right thing. and above all, i wanted somebody

with humility that understood you serve and work for all people, not just the ones that vote for you. [applause] >> so where do we go from here? [shouting] >> we fight. we show our passion. we show our integrity. we show what we are made up. georgians need to stand up tomorrow and you need to show the entire country what we want in a president, and that's marco rubio. [cheers and applause]

>> we have two presidential candidates right now that are under investigation. hillary trump -- [laughter] that could be something. that even cracked me up. [laughter] hillary clinton and donald trump. we have two presidential candidates that refuse to disclose information. hillary clinton and donald trump. i am an accountant. i can tell you there is no audit that precludes you from showing your tax returns. donald trump, show us your tax returns. [applause] >> so in closing i'm going to say this.

i know what my parents wanted for me. i know what my parents, what i want for my children. i know what i'll put you want for your families. we know the sacrifice that our parents gave for us. we know the sacrifice that our grandparents before us. we know the sacrifice of every generation who wanted better for the next. this is our chance to do for them what they did for us. and so i know that if we can go out and we can fight and we can show the people of america that we do want to be great, but we are going to make sure, as i always say, it's a great day in south carolina, i want you to go out and tell 10 people that you're voting for marco rubio tomorrow. [applause]

>> i want you to go on social media and contact everybody in every other state and let them know the time is now to show what a great america really looks like. [cheers and applause] >> let's show our fight and let show our passion. it's a great do everything in south carolina. it's a great day today in georgia. it will be a great day in america when marco rubio is president. ladies and gentlemen, marco rubio. [cheers and applause] >> did greg. [laughter] [cheers and applause] -- garate. great. thank you. thank you.

[chanting] thank you. thank you. that was something else. i got my voice back just a little bit. if you ever need to be pumped up, if you need to be lifted up, you call nikki and she will keep you going. unreal. [applause] she covered a lot and so i just want to go right to the point. first of all of what you think the governor of south carolina for being with us today. she is a phenomenal leader. [applause] if you want to know what the republican party should be about, if you want to know what the conservative movement should be about, if you want to know what the party of lincoln and reagan should always be about, you should look at nikki haley. that is what our party is about. [applause] >> and that's an important question for us right now. it's an important question for

us as conservatives come as republicans and as americans. you have a choice to make tomorrow. you have a choice to make in november. in november you get to choose what kind of country america is going to be in the 21st century. tomorrow. we do get to choose what kind of party are we going to be in the 21st century. [applause] in the process of politics and government and leadership, there are two ways to motivate people. history teaches us that. when what is to appeal to anger and fear, to go to the darkest parts of peoples lies and convince them that they not only have a right to be angry but never right to be fearful and it is time to go out there and blame it on someone else. it's going to take the tackle some else. it's a powerful motivator. i want you to know the lesson of history. there has never been a great movement in human history that has been led by anger and by

fear. [cheers and applause] never. there have been movements that have taken power through anger and fear. there've been movements that have motivate people to anger and fear but there's never been a great cause in the history of all of mankind led by anger and by fear. in fact, history teaches us that any movement at its core is motivated by anger and by fear ip to your anger, to your fear, to your worries is a movement that is destined not just you failed to do great harm. history also teaches us the great movements in human history whether spiritual or political our lead by hope and dreams. are led by the belief pashtun. [applause] -- that things can be better. that doesn't mean you ignore your problems. you do not have be oblivious to our challenge is to be optimistic about your

opportunities. you do not have to ignore people's frustrations in order to understand their dreams. and we have to choose tomorrow and we have to choose what will it mean to be a conservative in the 21st century and what will it mean to be a republican? only going to be the party that did what reagan did 36 years ago? that says to people yes, times are difficult, the world looks bad, there are things going wrong in your life but if we do what needs to be done they can be morning in america again. [cheers and applause] >> the truth disaffected a donald trump leads i in the pols and has one already many delegates. and if it is to be believed, he will do very well tomorrow. in the end it's up to you, not

up to them. [applause] >> but that won't change what i'm doing to i will go to all 50 states in every territory. i will continue to speak out until i literally have no voice left. i will go anywhere to speak to anyone before i let a con artist get a hold of the republican party and the conservative movement. [cheers and applause] and i suppose i could say to today and hurl personal insults against him because he kind of the whole campaign. i've done like a couple times lately. [laughter] i'm not. i'm not. they want me to read -- not today. i lost my voice. too crazy. making fun of my time when.

you know what my ears our? the way god made me. [applause] >> what really motivated me the other night when i got to the debate was to think. it wasn't standing up for myself it is in the end it's politics. the worst thing that happens in politics if someone says something mean about you. number one, i was standing up for you, for us, for this country, for the direction that we have to choose. the other i would stand up for the truth. earlier that morning i read the story, i heard about it but i never round about it if i saw a promotional video for something the governor mentioned called trump university. that's when my blood began to boil. also a promotional video of donald trump said in a chair saying to a video camera we are going to hire the best people, the smartest people, but he did the best education, better than

the best schools in america and teacher everything you need to o know and all you would do is wind and wind and wind and you'll be successful. if you are not successful after my program then you will never be successful. let me tell you why that curled my skin. because that's what he's telling voters now. so i looked at the success of this program. this program was an outrage. this is a program with a broad americans who are struggling. because if you are successful you are not going to trump university. these are people who were struggling. [applause] and they told people that were struggling, if you give us money we will teach you to be somewhat like donald trump. if you give us money, a people so i don't have money, they said you can borrow money. people which i do want to go into debt and they would tell them all great businesses that debt your donald trump would know i suppose. [laughter] people took on debt. the people who borrowed $10,000 but actually when you went in

they would say to you if you want to make the big bucks, you've got to sign up for the $36,000 course. they would tell people go call your credit card company, have been increase or borrowing limit so you can borrow that money and pay us. they gave their money, they give their money to trump university and they get nothing but the only thing they left with was a picture with a cardboard cutout of donald trump. and i realized what he did to those students is what he's trying to do to you. is what he's doing to our neighbors, is what he's trying to do to our country. he portrays himself as a fighter for the little guy. it's a scam of the highest order. this is a guy that this is a kind of goes prancing every day i'm going to fight for the american worker but he in florida just this year turned down 300 american workers at instead brought people from abroad. he says the new jobs, no americans were polled by to do. i know americans are qualified to do those jobs because those

are the jobs my parents did working at a hotel. [applause] >> he says i'm going to take on china, and i'm going to take on mexico and bring back those jobs. but he doesn't take all that clothing this is our of honor, it's not just tacky but it's made in china and in mexico. [applause] if donald trump want to bring backs to america from china and mexico he constructed a. why don't you announce that from now on no products will be sold that's a donald kettl album and less that are made in america. [applause] -- that's a donald j. trump on

them. [chanting] he says he's \mr.{-|}\mister anti-illegal immigration. then why did you hire all of those workers in poland and italy? you brought them into this country. you were found to be part of a conspiracy to defraud these workers of their pay. if you don't believe me then look at and he says he fights for the little guy. ask any of these subcontractors because every single time a trump project went bankrupt, the first people that didn't get paid were those subcontractors that are literally people in this country are e-mailing, calling us and telling us their stories. we've got to make sure they are all accurate but you hear about these stories. of people that were plumbers and electricians, everyday people who are working on a project that they sub sub contracted and when the project went over donald trump kept his money. the bank got a little bit other money. these workers got no other money. some of them were broken by him. why is all this important?

is this a spirit against the person? no. this is the person is trying to convince and has been successful in convincing south americans that he is fighting for them. he has never fought for them. is never fought for anything except himself. [applause] >> and if this is just a business thing, it would be annoying, but he's asking you to do is make in the president of the united states of america. [booing] what he's asking you to do is to make him the face and the voice of the conservative movement. do you realize that if he is our nominee, americans will say of republican is someone like donald trump. [booing] a conservative means of donald trump. we are going to lose a generation of voters at a generation of americans. most of them want to be nothing like donald trump.

[applause] >> he is asking us to turn over the conservative movement to someone who yesterday was asked repeatedly will you condemn david duke who is a racist, an avowed racist, and he wouldn't condemn him. he finally said on twitter, why would you say it at the right wing was you say david duke to me, i say racist community. why wouldn't he condemn the ku klux klan? [applause] there is no room in the conservative movement and there's no room in the republican party for members of the ku klux klan or for racists like david duke. [cheers and applause]

and the thing that keeps me going the most is not just the future of the party. it's the future of america that's at stake. this election as a referendum. if we now make some like donald trump who can't win, he cannot win, he won't win. the guys in the press can everybody likes to beat up on the president they're doing their job. their number one job of the press whether they will admit it or not is rating. that's what every time he says something outrageous they cover it. this is a disrespect for but they cover it incessantly. he's had 1 10 times more coverae medical bills in the race combined. they are building him up. but all of these things about his record that i just said to you, they know all of it and mortar even as we speak t you i promise you there are democratic groups into giving the victims of donald trump's scamper i promise you that the day, it's never going to happen but if you ever do become our nominee, the minute he becomes our nominee

the press, the democrats and all these groups will descend on him like a house of hell and they're going to rip him apart. they are going to rip him apart. [applause] honestly, you know our country but you know your neighbors but you know your family ingenuity friends. do you really believe that they are going to vote for someone who refuses to disavow the ku klux klan? do you think you'll vote for someone with a record like his? they are not big that means we are going to lose. that means the winner of this election will be hillary clinton. because there's no turning back. someone the other day said some of these people that are voting for trump are so angry at government, so angry at a party. believe me, i am, too. nikki and i would like in 2010 when i ran against the establishment of my party. [applause] but they say to me, this is like

someone who marries someone their parents hate just to get back at their parents. and i said it but the difference is if you get married to this guy, you can't get divorced for four years. [laughter] you've got to live with them for four years. i don't know if america has four more years. not at the direction we are headed now. and if we lose this election and we will with donald trump as the nominee, and hillary clinton will be the next president. i say this to you without any hesitation and without any glee. a vote for donald trump tomorrow is a vote for hillary clinton in november. [applause] and that's why i'm here today to give you a choice. because it's still not too late. it's still not too late to get this right. it's still not delay to wake up and realize the direction we're

headed as a party and as a country. it's still not too late. to choose a different direction. i want you to know what a different direction looks like if i am elected president. when i'm elected president of the united states for the first time in eight years you are going to the president that follows the constitution of the united states of america. [applause] >> not a president that ignores it like barack obama, not a president like donald trump says that he is president he wants to change the first amendment to make it easier to sue people that say things he doesn't like. there are not enough judges in the world to hear all those cases. [laughter] when you can elect a president you have a president that protects your second amendment right to defend yourself and your family idea and. [applause]

when you elect me president you have a president that understands that what makes america great is not our president and it's not our government. it's our people. as our families. it's our communities. [applause] ..