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sen. cruz: thank you all very much. [cheering] sen. cruz: wow. [cheering] sen. cruz: god bless

commonwealth of virginia. you know, pastor thompson, thank you so much for welcoming me here. for being your. thank you for your friendship. thank you for your strong principled leader. let me say to the men and women of virginia, can could you nelly, he is a strong, principled, courageous conservative. was a remarkable attorney general. he would have made a tremendous governor of virginia. he is a fearless conservative leader on the national stage, speaking the truth to power.

he was a great leader for the people of virginia. the people of this state know about fighters. you have a tradition of patriots , and i would note that the virginia shocked and astonished washington, d.c. when you sent dave brat to join us in congress. [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: there was a sonic boom on the other side of the potomac. there, people seemed to realize, it's almost

as if we the people were sovereign. i will tell you this. i spent all morning in .c.hington, d so it is great to be back in america. so, on tuesday in vegas, we had kind of a quiet evening. that we have is it such a tremendous array of young, dynamic, talented republican candidates for president? [applause] contrast. and what a [laughter] .en. cruz: with the democrats you know, i'm pretty sure the first democratic debate

consisted of hillary and the chipotle clerk. [laughter] actually, well, now, that's not fair. we can't forget about bernie sanders. field the democratic consists of a wild eyed socialist with ideas that are dangerous for america and the and bernie sanders. [laughter] sen. cruz: they keep scheduling the democratic debate at 2 a.m. on a saturday on alaska pbs. it's almost like they don't want anyone to see their candidates .or president

there is good news. they have announced the venue for the next democratic debate. they are holding in a leavenworth. they wanted to make it easier for hillary to attend. [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: we are here today because our country is in crisis. we are here today because we are bankrupting our kids and grandkids. because the constitution is under assault each and every day , and because america has receded from leadership in the world and it has made the world a much more dangerous place. here with a word of

hope and courage and exhortation. i want to tell you all across virginia and all across this country, people are waking up and i am here to tell you, help is on the way. [applause] i want to ask everyone here to look forward. .ook forward to january 2017 if i am elected president -- [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: amen. i want to tell you what i intend to do on the first day in office. the first thing i intend to do on the first day in office is resend every single illegal and

unconstitutional -- rescind every single illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by this president. [applause] sen. cruz: you know, president obama likes to say he's got a pen and he's got a phone. you live by the pen, you die by the pen. and my pen has got an eraser. [applause] sadly, the corruption is not just limited to the white house. across everyed agency of the federal government. the second thing i will do on my in office is open in investigation into planned

parenthood and these horrible videos. [applause] sen. cruz: and to prosecute any and all criminal conduct by that organization. of justicetration should be blind to party or .deology the only fidelity at the department of justice should be to the laws and the constitution of the united states. [applause] the third thing i intend to do on the first day in is instructive the department of justice and the irs and every other federal agent that the persecution of religious liberty ends today.

[cheers and applause] sen. cruz: that means that every service man and woman has the right to seek out and worship god almighty with all of our hearts, minds, and souls, and their superior officer has nothing to say about it. that means the little sisters of the poor, a catholic charity right now being persecuted by the obama administration, will find the case against them has been dismissed.

the fourth thing i intend to do on the first day in office is ripped to shreds this catastrophic iranian nuclear deal. [applause] sen. cruz: the single greatest national security threat facing america today is the threat of a aclear iran, and we need commander-in-chief who will stand up on the world stage and say unequivocally, under no circumstances will the nation of iran, led by a theocratic ayatollah who chants "death to

under no circumstances will iran ever acquire a nuclear weapon. [applause] the fifth thing i intend to do isthe first day in office begin the process of moving the american embassy in israel to jerusalem, the once an internal -- the oncesrael and eternal capital of israel. [applause] you know, a lot of presidential candidates, both democrats and republican, have made that exact same promise. yet inevitably when they get to the white house, they don't do it. is theirhat happens teams come to them and they say, you know, if we do this, it will make other folks in the middle

east really, really unhappy with us. noticed,you hadn't they are already pretty unhappy with us. and the single biggest difference between me and the fine men and women on that debate stage, when i tell you i'm going to do something, i'm going to do exactly what i said i was going to do. [applause] so, that is day one. [laughter] there are 365 days in a year, four years in a presidential term, and four

years in a second term. [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: by the end of eight years, there are going to be a whole lot of newspaper reporters and editors and journalists that have checked themselves into therapy. in the days that follow, we will go to congress and we will repeal every word of obamacare. [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: we will pass

commonsense health care reform that makes insurance personal bowl -- personal and portable and gives the government from getting in between us and our doctors. in the days that follow, i will instruct the u.s. department of education, which should be abolished -- [cheers and applause] i will instruct the department of education that common core ends today. we willays that follow, secure, finally finally our borders and and sanctuary cities.

there are about 360 jurisdictions in america that declare themselves sanctuary cities. they will find every penny of federal money cut off. we are going to stop releasing criminal illegal aliens. we are going to pass caselaw, and we are going to end welfare for those here illegally. in the days that follow, we will rebuild our military and we will honor the commitments made to our soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines.

and that includes protecting the to beartional right arms of every man and woman. so that the next time a jihadist walks into a recruiting center in chattanooga, he's going to end ofter the business firearms wielded by a dozen marines. in the days that follow, the

commander-in-chief will stand up and say to the world, we will defeat radical islamic terrorists. we will have a president willing to utter the words "radical islamic terrorists." and we will not weaken, we will not degrade -- we will utterly and completely destroy isis. we will make clear to any militant on the face of the planet, if you go and join isis, if you wage jihad against innocentif you murder americans, you are signing your death warrant.

in the days that follow, we will take on the eva. -- we will take on the epa. cfpb.e of federalhabet soup agencies, the descendent like locusts on small businesses, killing jobs all across this country. you know, a few years back, i is out in west texas, and asked folks they are, what is the difference between regulators and locusts? i said, well, the thing is, you can't use pesticide on the regulators.

old west texas farmer, he leaned back and said "wanna bet?" [cheers and applause] and in the days that followed, i will go to congress, and we will pass fundamental tax reform, we will pass as simple flat tax. so every american can fill out your taxes on a postcard. that, we should .bolish the irs [cheers and applause]

sen. cruz: there are about 90,000 employees at the irs. we need to padlock that 90,000, andke all put them on our southern border. now, to our friends in the media, i see that somewhat tongue in cheek. but if you think about it, imagine you traveled thousands of miles in the blazing sun. you are swimming across the rio grande, and the first thing you see is 90,000 irs agents. you would turn around and go home, too.

[applause] of you all may be thinking, all of this makes sense to me. basic, common sense. live within your means. don't bankrupt our kids and grandkids. follow the constitution. but can it be done? can we do it? well, you know, scripture tells us, there is nothing new under the sun. i think where we are today is very, very much like the late 1970's. i think the parallels with the jimmy carter administration are uncanny. same failed economic policy. same misery, stagnation, and malaise. same feckless and naïve foreign

policy -- in fact, the exact same --ntries -- russia and iran openly laughing at and mocking the president of the united states. the one person in america thrilled with the job barack obama is doing is jimmy carter. [laughter] [applause] thatcruz: so, why is it that analogy gives me so much hope and optimism? because we know how that story ends. all across this country, millions of men and women rose up and became the reagan revolution. and it didn't come from washington.

washington despised ronald reagan. by the way, if you see a candidate washington embraces, run and hide. it came from the american people, and it turned this country around. we went from misery and stagnation and malaise to booming economic growth, to millions lifted out of poverty into prosperity and the american dream. we went from our hostages languishing in a rant to winning the cold war and tearing the -- to winning in iran the cold war and tearing the berlin wall to the ground. why am i so optimistic? because the same thing is happening again. all across virginia, this country, people are waking up. there is an awakening.

there is a spirit our revival that is sweeping this country -- there is a spirit of revival that is sweeping this country. you know, when we launched this here in march at liberty university -- [applause] thiscruz: when we launched campaign, "the new york times" cannot win. because the washington elites despise him. i kind of thought that was the whole point of the campaign. listen, if you think things are

going great in washington, then i ain't your guy. on the other hand, if you think washington is fundamentally broken, that there is a ofartisan problem politicians of both parties that get in bed with special interest and grow and grow and grow government and we need to take the power out of washington and back to we, the people, that is what this campaign is all about. [cheers and applause]

audience: [chanting] usa! usa! usa! sen. cruz: let me close with this. freedom is not some abstract concept we read about in school books. freedom is real. it is personal. it is in our family. i think about my dad. my father was born and raised in cuba. as a teenager, my dad fought in the cuban revolution. old, the t 17 years step through him in prison. he was laying on the floor of a cuban jail cell covered in mud and blood and crime. his nose was broken. his teeth were shattered out of his mouth.

he remembers thinking, i don't have any kids. me.dy depends on it does not matter if i live or i died. but thankfully, god had different plans for my father. jails released from that cell. he was 18 years old. could not speak a word of english. had $100's own into the lining of his underwear. got a job washing dishes. made $.50 an hour. he paid his way through school. he and my mom went on to start a small business together. i grew up in texas, as the son of two small business owners, seeing the ups and downs, the challenges and the triumphs of running a small as this. today, my dad is a pastor. he travels the country, preaching the gospel.

[cheers and applause] sen. cruz: now, my whole life, my father has been my hero. know what i find so extraordinary about his story? how commonplace it is. every single one of us here, we have a story just like that in our background. , -- somes, many of us of us, it is us. others are parents. others are great, great, great grandparents. what ties us together, each and every one of us, we are the children who risked everything for freedom and that is why i am so optimistic because it is the of what it is to

be an american. when i was a kid, my dad used to again -- over and over when we faced oppression in cuba, i had a place to flee to. if we lose our freedom here, where do we go. here today.we are because we are not content to go quietly into the night. we are not willing to give up on our kids and grandkids. and fight together for the constitution and fight for the values this country was built on, if we come together as we the people, then we can and that last,ng back best, hope for mankind.

city on a hill that is the united states of america. thank you and god bless you. [applause] >> thank you so much. god bless you. sen. cruz: here, let me sign this for a second. >> [indiscernible] >> can you get a picture for me? [indistinct conversations]

>> my stuff is over there. sen. cruz: [indiscernible] thank you very much. thank you. >> i would really like it if you would come out and do the michael savage radio program. senator, [indiscernible] sen. cruz: what is your name? >> [indiscernible] sen. cruz: how do you spell it? >> [indiscernible] >> let me begin by asking, your comments about speaker paul ryan. in a divided government, you do not get everything you want. you disagree? billcruz: today's omnibus wasn't the trail. for