the 82nd airborne was there two days later. two days later. eighty-second airborne is an hour away from western north carolina it took six days to get them there. that does not happen without failure of leadership. got to the bottom exactly with the failure of leadership look like. the final thing i will say, sir, is the only way to fix this is by accountability. eschewing the private sector. through the public sector. if you do not have accountability and others if you don't fire the people screwed up it will never get better. what is fundamentally. [cheering] [applause] what's fundamentally different of the leadership style of kamala harris and donald trump, i went donald trump got famous singer fired but he believes in count building our government. kamala harris just doesn't. this attitude to go long to get along pretty screwed up i may be a got people killed but were not

one fire you brew that is not going to do good for people the 21st century. i want to say one final thing. resources the guys are pilots. [applause] i just want to say i want to be the kind of vice president where you feel like i have your back and that i have not left you behind to put a note donald trump with to be the kind of president that will always have your back and never leave you behind. we are so proud of him. we're so grateful for it we are going to fight for you when we are in the white house. god bless you guys, thank you. thank you for the question. >> that is what it is to be an american. that's what is to be american. our next question comes and jean.

>> first, thank you so much for being here. we really appreciate it. thank you for being that public official who knows how to answer question. [applause] quicksand from north carolina. my question regards illegal immigration. last week we learned 13000 murderers came across our border illegally. what is the plan to deport these awful criminals? >> a plan to put it simply as we got to send them home. we got to send them home asap. they have no right to be in the country. it's funny because the media,

which for three and a half years how refuse to even cover the terrible problems of kamala harris' open border. will now say things how are you going to deport people? it's way too hard to deport people. it's not hard to deport people get deaf competent administration is willing to some people back to where they belong unless we get this right in the next administration, we are throwing open the floodgates to illegal immigration of the nt 30 years. think of the message you are sending. 13000 murderers. tens of thousands of violent criminals in addition to the 13000 murderers. millions upon millions of people who come here. some of them are good people but that does not mean that the legal right to be in the nine states of america. we've got to separate those things.

if the message the country sends after 25 million illegal aliens come to this country is you get to stay here. you get to collect housing benefits. to get to collect welfare benefits or folks in western north carolina are struggling to survive. we will never have a board of this country again. got to like donald trump would send a message number illegal immigration. no more open borders. >> the topic of illegal immigration, it's estimate cost this country wonder $50 billion a year. so i would like to hear where is that affecting the american people? when that is solved when can expect to improve? >> it is affecting people in so many different ways. think what a $50 million maybe undercounting it. a lot of, a lot of what that money is illegal aliens who collect welfare benefits in some form or another. section eight housing.

take one example. i have seen this in communities i represent the state of ohio what you will have multiple families living in the same house. each of them get section eight. they are able to pay way more than an american citizen who is just working at their job 40, 45, 50 hours a week. americans are getting evicted from their homes to make way for illegal aliens were only there because of the generosity of american taxpayers. that's one of the biggest way it affects his head drives up the cost of housing leads to a lot of people being able to for their home. it's in a big way it matters. i did with the exact number north carolina is but michigan, 85000 children of illegal aliens are in the michigan public schools. i've michigan enniskillen is probably about the same. what you think that does all

this they're dealing with classrooms full of people that don't even speak the language. and again it's nothing against those kids but saying something against kamala harris let those come in and deprive americans of a good education bridge or something else that matters that i know very personally. my mom struggled with addiction for a very long, very long time. my mom got clean and sober about 10 years ago. [applause] i thank you all for that. i know, please, there is hope on the other side of addiction but there's hope for recovery for all that struggling with the orpheum as it do for this only hope of a get people second chance. one thing i really worry about when you talk about 100,000 americans dying of functional and the functional is brought in by the mexican drug cartels that's 100,000 kids that never get a second chance with her mom. that's 100,000 moms and dads that never get a second chance

to come clean. this is destroying our country. i happen to believe it got the best of people in the world. if got the best country in the world but we cannot allow kamala harris broken leadership to continue to screw this up for that is going to change it. we got great people, let's fix the broken leadership and get kamala harris out of there. [applause] >> we all look forward to that. >> 26 days. >> 26 days the countdown is on. >> it's going to happen too. >> yet voting, vote early. the next question comes from kayleigh.

>> i'm a small business owner and a first-time voter and i'm a hair dresser. >> god bless you. [laughter] [applause] >> i was wondering how you are going to help -- >> oh, i lost my place. one day i want to start a family and own my own home, but with rising costs, i do not know if that will be able to happen. you have come from humble beginnings, so what is your plan for creating more opportunities for people like me? >> yes, ma'am, of course. well, thank you for your question, and it's the an important one. [applause] i will say i think we've got a question here, a question over here and a question over here. i think i need a swivel chair -- >> they need to make us a lazy susan, spin around. >> well, i think, to answer your question, let's start by understanding where, because it's really to to important to

the understand the root causes of some of these problems. why are hinges so expensive under -- things so expense if we've, and there are a whole host of things i could point to, but most important is energy, okay? so think about it like this, groceries are 25% higher than they were three and a half years ago because the truck drivers are paying way more for diesel fuel, and it's the truck drivers who are getting the groceries to the grocery store: our farmers are paying more for deals, and finally, you think about building a house, well, if all the people are paying more for gas and energy, that's going to the raise the the price of everything. so president trump has this phrase which i think is very simple, but it's also a yen winly specific policy. the most important thing we've got to do to lower prices and make life more affordable is drill, baby, drill. we've got to unleash american energy. [cheers and applause] it really is so important. [applause]

and it also, it also -- by the way, i admire you so much for doing what you do and having the courage to go out and do it on your own. it's not easy. but you want to have a government that makes your life a little bit easier for you to get ahead instead of harder and harder to get ahead. think about this, you're a small business woman, you're building something that is going to to create -- that is creating prosperity in the just for you, but for your community. of course, you provide a good service. i need a good haircut right now, so i'll call you. [laughter] but think about this, we have got two really different economic proposals from kamala harris and donald trump. kamala harris' entire economic plan if boils down the we're going to raise taxes on american workers, and we're going to reward companies that ship jobs overseas. if donald trump's vision is like the pact opposite. we're going to cut taxes for american workers, penalize folks

who are shipping american jobs overseas. we want to reward people like you who are creating prosperity right here mt. united states of america. [applause] if -- in the united states of america. but, you know, the one last thing i'd say, and i ask you -- i'm sure you've got, you know, a lot of friends. you're clearly, like you say, a first-time voter, and i know a lot of first-time voters are figuring this stuff out. i'm older than you, but i'm pretty young by the standards of national politics, i'm only 40. and one of the things i really worry about the young generation in this country, their growing up in a nation where they're going to become -- in the country that their parents and grandparents built. i want you to own a piece of the future and in the just be a permanent debtor the people and institutions -- to people and institutions that don't care about you and don't like you. i want you to own a slice of this country, and that's how we're going to create prosperity.

thank you. [applause] >> the globalist view of own nothing >> i tried cricket one time. >> i've also tried cricket. it is more disgusting than you could possibly man. don't eat bugs, we'll eat red meat. >> yeah! [applause] >> no crickets. >> i've somehow if become a steak and potatoes girls.

-- girl. i'm also a first-time voter. i've never voted before, but this time around i have to vote. [applause] >> good for you. >> yeah t that important. >> i just want to be clear, you're voting for us, right? you're voting for the good guys? [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> there we go. >> if i could vote guys, i would. >> we don't do that. we're republicanning -- republicans. we only vote -- we vote healey. >> the way you vote twice is to bring a friend. >> that's right. >> bring a friend. >> that's a good point. vote twice the the legal way, bring yourself and a friend to the polls. very good. >> speaking of energy, we became energy independent for the first time under donald trump's administration. >> right. >> with the, with a.i. requiring so much power to run it and with wanting to become energy independent again, how long do you think it's going to the take

to be there again, and what are the -- what is the path away to that? if -- pathway to that? >> that's a very good question because, to your point, a.i. requires so much power that unless we have effectively unlimited power, we're not going to be able to power the a.i. revolution. i mean, this is like crazy, you know, space age stuff. like stinted of going to the a doctor to -- instead of going to a doctor the get your skin checked if you've to got skin cancer, for example, you can take a photo, and it'll tell you whether you have cancer. that's what the a.i. revolution's going to mean. that's going to the mean cheaper medical costs but only, to your point, if we get those energy costs reasonable, you is ask how long is it going to take to get energy independent, if if donald trump is president, it'll happen almost immediately. [applause] i mean, two years should get us back to where we were because, i mean, look, in pennsylvania, in north carolina, i mean, in florida, we've got energy resources that the world would

literally kill for. in some cases, some of these countries have is have actually started wars over the resources we have. kamala's entire policy so to buy oil and gas from tin pot dictators all over the world. let's buy it from american citizens right here at home and create a lot of good american jobs in the process. [applause] but, look, if kamala harris wins, god forbid -- i'm going to have nightmares now just for saying that, but i think it would take us ten years after her administration assuming she only got four years, it would take us ten years to get us out of the hole she would dig us into. that's how bad these guys are on energy. they've got it in their mind that they care about the environment, but they don't actually care about the environment. we believe in clean air and clean water in the republican party. we created a lot of the environmental protections that exist. bobby kennedy cares about the environment. trust me, he does.

but if you want clean air, you don't ship all of our manufacturing and energy to to china which is the dirtiest economy per unit of economic output in the world. you build more and make more in the united states of america. that's what president trump will do. [applause] >> our next question comes from patricia. [laughter] >> good evening. >> now i really need that swivel chair. [laughter] >> i've got your back. >> thank you. [laughter] [applause] >> i'm pat, and i'm from timber lake are, north carolina, and i'm a retired health care worker. and my question tonight is that, it's about social security. >> yes, ma'am. >> and i've seen ads and posts

where donald trump is going the take away our social security or cut it or decrease it, but then i also see ads and posts that donald the. >> yes, ma'am. first of all, i don't have to tell you this, ma'am, you know this, i think a lot of us know this, don't believe everything you see on tv because a lot of those things are paid for by democrat money. it's december honest. here's what donald trump's going to do: he's going to protect social security and cut taxes on social security income because our seniors, you've paid into it

for your whole lives, you ought to be able to enjoy the benefit of it on the other end. it's that simple. [applause] but here's something that a really matters here because you know what will bankrupt social security in this country? giving it to illegal aliens. [applause] and that is exactly -- this is what i think is so sick about what kamala harris is going out there doing. he is accuse us of doing the very same thing that she herself is promising to do. she wants to bankrupt this program not by giving it to the people who paid into it, but by giving it to people who don't even have the legal right to be in this country the begin with. and if you want our seniors to enjoy their social security, donald j. trump is the only, the only candidate in this race that's going the protect it. [cheers and applause] >> so i think it's safe to the say that if you were in the administration for the last few years, you'd do some things different. >> i think so. i think so.

[laughter] >> i liked it when kamala speaks, we gain 100,000 votes, is that the number? [laughter] >> you know, some of her interviews are so bad, maybe it's a couple hundred thousand votes. but, you know, you're -- there's an interview that she gave a couple of days ago with "the view." >> in the exactly a hard-hitting one. >> i guess it's tough if you can't even hit a tee ball which i think is camilla a haste in some of these bear if views. but, you know, he was -- kamala harris. the whole argument of her campaign is that she is different from joe biden. you would actually, in fact, be forgiven for believing that she's not his sitting vice president even though, of course, she is. because she's running so far away from it. and she cast the deciding vote on a lot of the worst policy. she has bragged about being the the last person in the room when these decisions were made. so "the view" asked kamala harris a total softball, would you have done anything differently from joe biden over

the last four years, and kamala harris says nothing comes to mind. [laughter] it blew up the whole, the whole lie at the heart of her campaign in one interview answer. and i will say though, i will say when she says nothing comes to the mind, that's probably true about whatever topic the answer -- [applause] if is about. [cheers and applause] so i'm hardly the most obvious person to defend kamala harris, but maybe she was just being honest about her state of mind. >> shows she's a placeholder. >> exactly. >> didn't have any thoughts. we know that it would be different with you guys, and we know that you answer questions, and we love that. we love having someone in charge of our questions that answers questions and -- of our country that answers questions and is going to get things done. >> well, i appreciate that. [cheers and applause] i, so i think this answering

questions thing is actually kind of important because, look, i'm 40 years old. it's -- other than, other than omarlying this beautiful lady -- marrying this beautiful lady up here and raising our kids together, the greatest honor of my life is having been --ing being your vice presidential nominee. it's an incredible honor. but think about this, i'm asking you all to make me your next vice president. that is an awesome thing, an incredible responsibility. i'm asking for it. you ought to go out and earn it and if speak to the american people. kamala harris runs from the american people, and i think that shows a real defect of the kind of leadership skills you need to be the president of the united states in the first place. and i, i will tell you this story, so i guess this was a couple weeks ago. it was a sunday, and i was sitting at home with our 7-year-old in cincinnati, and i get a call, and it's the president. and i said, hey, sir, what's going on, how you doing? he said, well, they tried to do it again. they tried to do what again?

it was a sunday where a second assassination attempt happened on president trump's life. he had a just gotten from the golf course. like any friend, i go, are you okay? if physically you're okay because you're with calling me, but mentally, that's a traumatic thing. and if he goes, yeah, i'm somete that isn't the kind of person you want in emergency, crisis situations mt. oval office -- in the oval office, you want the guy who isn't fazed by an assassination attempt, you don't want the woman who runs from a friendly american media. [cheers and applause] there's something -- [applause]

you know, there's something about the way that kamala harris has run this campaign that i think is general genuinely -- genuinely, to all americans, is insulting. think about it, she's asking you to give her control over millions of american troops, potential -- i mean, over the entire nuclear arsenal of the united states with. she is asking for literally the authority to command life and death all over the world, and she won't even go out and talk to the american people in a non-friend februaryly setting. we all should be -- non-friendly setting. i think it's a disgraceful campaign, and i hope that we don't reward her, and i don't think that we will. [applause] >> and just to wrap it up since i know you'll answer any question -- [laughter] >> oh, no. >> i think you could share maybe what you did with your day off that you had a couple days

ago -- [laughter] and what your special secret skill is to the american people. >> okay. all right -- >> and be specific. >> okay. i will -- [laughter] well, i was raised in a middle class family -- [laughter] [applause] that's the kamala harris answer to any question. so -- >> forgot to laugh. you forgot to laugh. >> i forgot the awkward cackle afterwards. [laughter] the -- okay. so i had, i had half a day off on the campaign trail the other day, and, you know, because we're kind of in crunch time, so you don't really get much time off. you'd probably be shocked to know this, that i'm a big baker. i really -- you know, i can -- yeah. are there some bakers out there? [applause] >> so my 4-year-old and i, he's my sou us chef when we're baking. my wife and i were on the road

for a couple days. the kids are at home with my aunt and uncle, and then we get back tonight to. so i made them breakfast treats for three days in a row. so for the first day they had homemade if cinnamon rolls, the second day they had dulce deeleven chi rolls, and the third day they had chocolate chip scones. so we did all that together and, you know, i'm not perfect, but i do have the talent of baking, so that's one thing i've got going for me. [applause] >> fantastic. well, we also spoke about the pant that you don't get to drivt to drive anymore, so if you got to drive yourself away from here tonight, what kind of car would you want to drive? [laughter] >> that is a tough question. >> any car. >> well, you know, this just shows the phase of life i am, i would happily take my mini if van right now and drive it, because i don't have any ability to drive anything else. god bless you guys. thank you so much. [applause] if. ♪

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