>> back the blue! back the blue! >> i don't have to tell you here at the republican national convention the choice in this election has never been clearer, and the stakes have never been higher. we'll be taking our case to the american people this week but it will be you, and the millions of americans involved in our party and every state and territory of this nation, will be carrying that message to the phone lines and to the front doorsteps of the american people. it is a reason why i wanted to be here today. it's a reason why i got a good feeling you might just see a friend of mine at the republican national convention today. [applause] because we wanted to say thank you. we wanted to say thank you for all the work that you have done

and all the work that you will continue to do on the days ahead. in the car on the way here after i landed in charlotte i was on the phone with more than 5000 volunteers all across america. we'll be getting people together in your state and in every state and territory across this land. we already have the largest grassroots campaign in american history and we're going to secure two million volunteers before election day. [applause] it israelly about reelecting this president for four more years but it also about an agenda. about an agenda that made america prosperous, more prosperous than ever before, before this great global pandemic struck our nation. more americans were working than ever before. we were setting records in this economy left and right. in the midst of this pandemic,

when i speak about wenz night the leadership of this president and the compassion of the american people shown forth. [applause] we'll continue to work every day until we put this coronavirus in the past. when we reelect president donald trump remember it is going to be, it is going to be four more years. that means more jobs, four more years means more judges. [applause] four more years means more support for our troops and our cops. [applause] it is going to take at least four more years to drain that swamp. [cheers and applause] so, men and women of the

republican national convention, it's on. [cheering] now is the time, this is the moment for each of us to do everything that we can in our power to reelect this president, this team for four more years but also do our part to reelect, elect republicans up and down the ballot. let's reelect the republican majority in the united states senate and let's make sure that leader kevin mccarthy is speaker kevin mccarthy in a new republican majority in the united states house of representatives. [cheers and applause] so we all got work to do.

i know you're up to the task. i saw the way this party, this movement, led our nation back in 2016. and i just know each and everyone of you are going to do your part this year to reelect this president and elect and reelect republicans with strong, sound, conservative principles every day. because you know there is, i heard the other day that democracy is on the ballot but i think we all know, the economy is on the ballot. [applause] law and order is on the ballot. [applause] our most cherished ideals of freedom and free markets are on the ballot. that is why we need four more years of president donald trump in the white house. [cheers and applause]

>> four more years! four more years! four more years! >> so i'm going to slip away because i have feeling somebody else will be here before too long. and as i said, i will have more to say about the action that you took today come wednesday night at for the fort mchenry. it is the greatest honor of my life to be your vice president. i will work my heart out to be your vice president for four more years. [cheers and applause] and i'm absolutely convinced that if all of us do all that we need to do between now and

november 3rd, if we organize, if we mobilize, if we hit the phones, hit the doorsteps, do our part in every state and territory in this country, we'll elect and reelect republican leaders all across this land. we're going to reelect president donald trump for four more years and with your continued support, and with god's help, we're going to make america great again. again. thank you all very much. an honor to be with you today. god bless the republican party and god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause] ♪. neil: welcome back, everybody, i'm neil cavuto, this is "coast to coast." you've been listening to the president of the united states. as luck would have it, his

timing with with the arrival and they want florida to put the president over the top. he is at 1259 delegates. you snead 1276 to close the deal, not any doubt that would happen. florida will get the honor to do so, florida will pledge the delegates for the president, there will be a lot of whooping and hollering, that is a moment. hillary vaughn on all the timing of this as the republicans begin the first of four-days for their convention a week after the democrats held theirs. hillary, the significance of florida putting them over the top. it can't be lost on people, huh? reporter: definitely not, neil and, you know that is where president trump moved his home. he claimed residency in florida. so it's significant in that way but florida is also a battleground state and a swing state, one that president trump wants and needs to win in

november but, what we are getting, some events happening in charlotte, north carolina, today, we'll also get some events happening at the white house that is significant, they have received criticism that white house and taxpayers would end up picking the tab for that, but rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel said we'll see speeches at the white house on tuesday from first lady melania trump, and on thursday president trump's acceptance speech the party is picking up the tab, not taxpayers. the convention will feature a roster of republican stars but also non-politicians too. criminal justice advocate alice johnson, covington high schooler nick sand mann. and the mccloskeys will also speak, neil. neil: they are waiting for

florida to put the president over the top. >> all 47 members of our delegation work hard and sacrifice to become elected to come to north carolina to reelect our president but due to the restrictions they cannot be with us. although they are not in this room, they are here in spirit and they fully support our great president. so on behalf of our national committee woman, michelle fee orrery, our national tee man, the state of nevada, proudly casts all 25 votes for the re-election of donald j. trump as president of the united states. [applause] >> pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and rules and procedures of this convention, nevada casts 25 votes, president trump. new hampshire. 22 delegates with the following, 22 president trump.

neil: this did not go exactly according to plan. we're told florida would president put the president over the top. in the end it was nevada. 35 from nevada did it. it might have been a miscommunication t was perfunctory anyway. he has more than enough delegates to be the party's nominee for the second convention in a row. he indeed arrived in charlotte, north carolina. we're told he will be visiting the center where this is going on. he will be speaking every day this week but right now, he has gone ahead and crossed the top to be the republican presidential candidate, the nominee of his party once again. i think we're going to go back with hillary vaughn right now. she is still with me. hillary, hillary is gone. we'll go steve forbes with us, forbes media chairman. former presidential candidate himself and laura fincke, the democratic strategist.

laura, end with you, this roll call of the states very, very different than democrats did it last week on the second night of the convention where they went state by state. rhode island being my favorite when they showcased their famous calamari. leaving that aside, the numbers are the numbers. the nomination was never in doubt as it wasn't in doubt last week for joe biden. your quick thoughts. >> i think that, as you say there was no doubt about it, but i think, neil, what you will see in the convention was a very different tone from last week. last week until biden's acceptance speech was one downer after another, america being this terrible place and everything is going wrong. i think you will see a much more upbeat, much more america can do it theme this week. think that is really, really ties into the american spirit. people know we have problems but they also know we're solving them and we're going to come out

of this it is a reaganesque theme, but you're not old enough to remember jimmy carter, he talked about america's malaise in the 1970s. america's best days are over. trump is taking the opposite tack, the pro-reagan tack, the country will astound the world what we'll do in the next four years and the four years after that. it is exciting and i think the american people will relate more to the theme of this week than the dreariness of last week. neil: it is just ironic, because, steve, when you think about it, you know, many democrats had criticized the president's inaugural address as being depressing, dark, speech and now the roles seem to be flipped on how each party views the world for the time-being. laura fincke, democratic strategist, to set this back a little bit, we're waiting for the president's arrival himself. nothing is official until the party certifies these delegate

count the. they have not done so yet. while the president technically crossed the threshold of 1276 delegates to be the party's nominee, until they put the stamp on that, it is not official official. no doubt he will be the party nominee, just as last week, no doubt joe biden would be the nominee. they will throw more curveballs including more live speeches, events, upbeat tone. what do you think about that, laura? >> watching in real time just like you, neil, i will say this, mike pence smooth baritone was smooth in 2016. we heard it, it is smooth again. what it can't cover up the reality of the pandemic economic crisis which was interesting he chose not to talk about at all. not even in acknowledgement or a plan to move forward. so i really feel like it was harkening back to reagan and the good ol' days but that is not the reality most americans are living in. so it will be curious to see whether that reality, the

paychecks that are being missed, the masks that we're all wearing and the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people who have passed away, passed away as a result of coronavirus is acknowledged in this convention. neil: well you know what is interesting is, the backdrop for what is happening with the convention, steve, is, is improvement on the virus front. we've seen cases below, that is new cases below 50,000 for eight straight days right now. i'm sure the ticket will be pounding the theme we're through the worst of it. the risk of that, you're not prepared for a sudden flare-up if it happens, but how do they handle the virus? >> i think first of all, the fact of the matter is our death rate per million or 100,000 or whatever ratio you want to use is no worse, no better than the rest of the world. the cases are starting to move down again. the economy has made a

remarkable improvement given what happened to it last spring. so people want to know where do we go from here. treatments are coming. we got announcement yesterday from the fda on that. vaccines are being tested. it is stage three which means we'll probably have one early next year. so we're going to get this thing behind us. then people want to know what kind of environment will we have coming out of this? will we have a high tax, heavy regulation environment that hurts the economy. are we going to have a low-tax, friendly environment so that businesses can rehire. people can get wages and rising wages again. that is why the president suspended the payroll tax to give people an instant raise and reduce the cost of hiring people. so which approach you want to have? the european socialist approach which guaranties stagnation or the american approach which guaranties we'll have another prosperous economy we had until the disease hit. in terms of handling the disease, most takes were made but they're made everywhere around the world. we're coming out of it faster.

by the way, neil, i don't think it is any mistake, the red states even though they were hit hard this summer have less death rates than the blue states and their economies are recovering faster than the blue states. one little thing here in new york. there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to eat inside after restaurant. no scientific reason at all yet the petty pirates in new york are banning that. ridiculous. neil: laura, what do you make of, the mood is here on law and order. democrats are criticized at their convention what is a very front burner issue for americans when polled on the subject was sort of a non-issue for democrats last week at their convention. and some key party operatives were telling, especially over the weekend they think that is something they regret now, should have balanced it out with the rights of peaceful protests and the like but they didn't. republicans plan to ram that issue right through like a mack

truck. what do you make of that? >> well, i love a mack truck but i love a teamster driving it. i love a living wage for the truck driver. i honestly don't know. i think for republicans the polls that i'm seeing it doesn't make the top three issues. the top issues right now are the pandemic, are the economic crisis, are people putting food on the table? are people having a job safe to go to? so i think right now, you know the democrats really were brilliant in targeting not just the democratic base but also conservative voters, in particular conservative women where they reached out to them. they talked about the need for unity. they talked about a reality check where we are. we can't, sort of whistle and cheer when this crisis is not over and substantive steps have not been made. i think steve did a good job of doing that rah-rah cheerleading but i don't think things like the payroll tax underfunding social security is the answer here. and right now voters are with me. they're not trusting president trump's plans. they're not certainly not on the

pandemic. they're trusting scientists. we don't see moves following the science, moving forward. i think the democrats addressed that in their convention which is a top concern. health care, which is a top concern. and then the bread and butter kitchen table issues, like will you have a job, will it pay you enough to keep a roof over your head? or only people at golf clubs that benefit from this recovery? those are the things that swing voters are looking at. the white working class voters want to make sure whatever plan comes out has horse sense and myriad of conservative women taking another look at joe biden after voting for trump. neil: well all those issues are important but again as i saw the law and order one might be more of an issue than people appreciate. having said that, steve, you know, laura mentioned a very good thing about the payroll tax cut, whatever you think, whether it is wise or not, very few ceos have collected on payroll tax, giving it back to works.

stuart. some feel they can't do that on their own with the president's directive. they feel safer with congress behind it, it typically has the power of the purse string. furthermore, if it is not permanent they will have to give the money back. so they don't want to be in that position. is this a case where, forget about what the democrats are doing, you know, in response to the president's executive actions. regular ceo's, company bosses are not acting on it? >> i think this is where clarification has to come from the treasury department. the treasury department said you don't have to collect the tax. just as they told employers last march you don't have to collect the tax you owe on people on your payroll. they suspended that and the tax wasn't collecting. it is matter of getting orders out and ending any possibility of confusion. extend the order going into next year. i guarranty you, whether it's a republican or democrat congress they're not going to force the american people to pony up that

money. for social security i have to laugh about that. when barack obama suspended part of the payroll tax with the approval of congress in 2011, 2012, people like joe biden were cheering it. if a republican does it, oh, no, we can't do that the fact of the matter is, you used the general funds to pay any social security benefits. the trust fund theoretically has more than enough money to cover benefits from here and several years out. it's a phony issue. what they are are fearful of, having that payroll tax suspension will help the economy and that is, they don't think that will help their electoral prospects. so in earlies of it the economy as we all know, neil, before covid the u.s. economy was on a roll. lower income people, workers were incomes were rising faster than anyone else's. first time in a generation that happened. post covid how will we recover? will we use stale formulas that failed europe and this country in the past or tried and true formulas. i think you're right safety in

the cities. democrats rule the cities. they have been uniformly a disaster, why people are moving out of places like new york because they don't feel there is a future for them for the kind of governance they have now. so it is very stark, whether the economy, quality of life in our cities, i think the american people will go with a positive approach rather than dreary negative approach that by, golly we have to have more regulations, more taxes, gloomy future. no, nonsense. not the american way. neil: steve, i will take a leap here say you're not a fan of the democrats. but, laura -- >> i -- [inaudible]. neil: i know, i appreciate that. the impression after democrat that sounded like a monty python character, touche, bringing own sort of endgame here. laura, he does raise a good point what appears to be double standard among democrats on that payroll tax cut thing. twice they liked it when

barack obama did it. to be fair, twice when barack obama did it republicans hated it. so isn't this all politics to say that, you know, good idea with him, bad idea with this guy? that everyone play this is game, that is what is happening here? >> well i don't think it is quite as easy as a wash like that. i think you have to look at the context and degree. to your earlier point there is a question whether this will be even impactful go into workers pockets which in our consumer economy we need to drive. i think we're sort of waiting because the consumer economy has kept stock prices up. i know that the economy can't rest on the laurels at least for working people. i have don't think the issue is bigger than the social security debate but you certainly don't want to underfund social security right now in a pandemic where seniors, some of the people most at risk. and you know steve has nice ideas how you duct tape here and use some rubber cement over there but i don't think seniors

want their fundamental security threatened. that is what cutting the payroll tax would do with really very little benefit. >> the fact of the matter -- neil: guys, we'll take a quick break. i promise you can go at each other's throats right after this. we're waiting to hear from the president. he is going to address those to ho have informally put him over the top right now, the delegate count. that has not been stamped by the conventioneers themselves. until it is, until they certify, that hasn't happened yet. he has more than numbers necessary. their roll call very different from what we saw democrats, they are rifling through it one at a time to individual states doing it, later in the game, i believe its with the second night of the convention. this is happening before the night of the day one. so they're already doing things very, very differently. republicans tell you that is

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neil: still watching the role call of the delegates right now. pennsylvania, just declaring its8 delegates. it was pennsylvania that surprised everybody preview to coming battle state grounds competition, the president picked up pennsylvania in all 20 electoral votes. polls remain tight even to this day. we're monitoring this. waiting for the president to arrive. with wind going at his back the initiative with the fda yesterday, granting emergency use of plasma treatment that essentially takes plasma from those who had covid-19 and giving it to those who recently were diagnosed with covid-19. the reports are it had favorable reports on patients it was being

used, dropping death rates by anywhere from 33 to 35%. others are saying that they're putting this out there a little bit too soon. it hasn't been adequately thoroughly tested. be that as it may, this is a plasma high for the markets as well, on the belief, whether it is this or other treatments fast tracking right now, something could come maybe by the end of the year. edward lawrence keeping track of all of this. hey, edward. reporter: the discussion with laura and steve, the underlying facts, talking about delegates and votes is the economy. as the federal reserve says the economy is tied to the virus, trying to find treatments. the emergency use authorization gets the plasma which has antibody from people who had the coronavirus and were able to fight it off. that plasma can be used for people fighting off severe cases of it. white house economic advisor said the fda did not move fast enough to approve the emergency use authorization for the

plasma, saying it should have been done a week ago. basically they can use the antibodies for someone fighting off a severe case of covid-19 to try to deal with that issue. now on the vaccine front, they're working both on treatments and vaccine fronts. pfizer is now saying that they will have enough data by october to go forward with possibly regulatory approval of a vaccine for them. they hope to have, 100 million doses by the end of 2020. then 1.3 billion doses by 2021, or through the end of 2021 for the world n addition astrazeneca says they will possibly be first as we first told you with a vaccine here. they are in a phase three trials. we'll have it updated by october again to come forward with a possible vaccine for approval. this could be done you there the approval process or through the emergency puce authorization. now it is interesting today astrazeneca is denying there are discussions going back and forth

with the administration possibly getting fast-tracked for their vaccine in the united states but again you have now two companies going forward with an earlier than expected possible approval of this vaccine and that could bode well for the economy which could then as your discussion with laura and steve, talk about voters going forward into the election is the economy better under president donald trump or is it better under a possible democratic president? back to you. neil: all right. thank you my friend, very, very much. with remdesivir the only other drug used for emergency treatment this could be a promising development as well. we should also say the markets of course racing ahead on this news. we've always said it is the virus that will dictate the course of trading. better it looks for a vaccine the better it looks obviously for the markets. that there will be some closure to this nightmare. the fact that we have had eight straight days where new cases in this country have been under 50,000. you sort of leap what you can get here. so we'll monitor all of that,

but the markets are sponsoring favorably to the possibility there could be light at the end of this virus tunnel here. separately we're watching the arrival of the postmaster general earlier this morning on capitol hill as we await the arrival of donald trump right now to speak in north carolina. but ahead of that, the postmaster general and what was a bumpy give-and-take with him about what he knew and what he was recommending and what he was doing, president admitting that it got that nasty. chad pergram with more on capitol hill. chad? reporter: neil, you remember ron johnson the chair of the governmental affairs committee last week he wanted louis dejoy come to his committee on friday because he said the committee in the house was hostile. it was certainly contentious this morning. >> i'm tempted to ask after 240 years of patriotic service delivering the mail how can one person screw this up in just a few weeks? my last question is this.

>> thank you, sir. >> what the heck is he doing. >> gentleman's time expired. >> thank you, sir. reporter: dejoy already preapproved over time for the postal service prior to the general election. >> this is continued misinformation regarding what i did since i have gotten there i never put a limitation on overtime. reporter: dejoy testified that the postal service is fine through the legislation and next august. 26 republicans joined all democrats with a bill over the weekend to infuse the post offers $25 billion. republicans say the democrats are trying to create a political wedge issue. the top republican member drew parallels how democrats approached postal service and impeachment. >> this is a political stunt. during saturday's debate chairwoman maloney unveiled a 60 page power point deck she receive overnight from apparent

whistle-blower. madam chair, your and adam schiff's record with whistle-blowers is less than stellar. reporter: jim cooper is a democratic representative from tennessee. he asked dejoy during the hearing this morning if his backup plan was to be pardoned like roger stone. dejoy with a scowl on his face i will not give that question a response. i'm not even going to go give it the time of day. pretty contentious hearing on capitol hill. back to you, neil. neil: chad, thank you very, very much. chad pergram on capitol hill. we're still nominating process going on right now. republicans doing it differently than democrats. not going to each and every state in their physical state but going through all of this. ronna mcdaniel, the rnc chair is cueing up florida with which will be a pivotal state. wants to have a pivotal mention here. let's listen. >> president of the united

states, donald j. trump. we're known as the sunshine state. we have the best beaches in the world, second to none. we have a great economy and no income tax. we believe in the great american comeback. we believe there is one leader that will deliver us prosperity once again. that will defend the rule of law and that will bring great things back to our country. florida is home to america's number one anti-communist, freedom fighting senator marco rubio. we're home to america's number one senator in terms of the economy and jobs and who is making washington work for us again, senator rick scott. and we're home to america's favorite governor, ron desantis, who signed the toughest sanctuary city ban in the entire country. [cheers and applause] and he welcomes over 1000 people a day from failed leadership states like new york, including individuals like our new favorite son, donald j. trump. for the 122 delegates that are

back at home and the, over five million republicans that we have registered, and it is an honor for us to award florida's 122 delegate votes to the next president of the united states, to delay his full-time relocation back to his home state of florida, donald j. trump for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> florida casts 122 votes for donald j. trump for president. ladies and gentlemen, please join plea in me in welcoming, the president of the united states of america, and our nominee, donald j. trump. ♪ and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free. and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to

you and with her still today, but there ain't no doubt, i love this land, god bless the usa ♪ president trump: thank you. >> oklahoma loves you, mr. president. [cheering] >> four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! president trump: if you want to drive them crazy you say 12 more years. >> 12 more years! 12 more years! >> we caught them doing some really bad things in 2016. let's see what happens. we caught them doing some really bad things. we have to be very careful because they're trying it again with this whole 80 mail-in

ballots that they're working on. sending them out to people that didn't ask for them. they didn't ask. just get them. and it's not fair and it's not right and not going to be possible to tabulate, in my opinion, just my opinion, we have to be very, very careful. you have to watch everyone of you, you have to watch because bad things happened last time with this spying on our campaign and that goes to biden and that goes to obama. which have to be very, very careful, have to be very, very careful and this time they're trying to do it with the whole post office scam. they will blame it on the post office. you can see them setting it up. be very careful and watch it very carefully because we have to win this is the most important election in the history of our country. this is the most -- you know -- [applause] for a long period of time, i would say, well, 2016, how special was that evening? was that wonderful? [cheering] that was one of the great

evenings. but we have to be very, very careful and we have to win. our country is counting on it. this is the biggest. this is it. our country can go in a horrible, horrible direction or in an even greater direction. before the plague came in from china that's where we were going. we were going in a direction like we had never seen. the most successful economy in the history of our country. the best unemployment numbers in history for african-american, asian-american, hispanic-american, women, college students, bad students, good students, everybody. [laughter]. if you had a diploma, if you didn't have a diploma, didn't matter, you were doing well. everybody was doing well. and we were actually coming together. success brings people together, maybe better than anything else. success brings people, we were

divided. we were very divided under president obama. people have no idea how divided. they didn't talk about as much. they didn't say it as much but we were really coming together. and i was speaking with democrats all of a sudden because the success, the markets were at a all-time high. and by the way, take a look what is happening with the markets. take a look at your 401(k)s which you probably do every hour. [laughter]. take a look at your stocks. we're very close to breaking the record. nasdaq has already done it. you know nasdaq has broken the record i think 16 times already. [applause] during a pandemic. hopefully we'll at the final phase of the pandemic. biden the other day, said no, he would shut it down. he would listen to some guy say, he would shut it down. we just broke a record on jobs, all-time record. there has never been three

months where we have put more people to work. over nine million people. and again we're just about ready to break the all-time stock market record. i mean you look at it -- [cheers and applause] with just about ready to do it again and what that means everything else is going to follow. very smart on wall street. everything else is going to be there. the economy is coming up very rapidly. our farmers are doing well. our farmers are doing well because i got china to give them $28 billion because they were targeted by china. i got the farmers $28 billion. 16 and 12. [applause] that is why, so in spite of the pandemic and our farmers did a great job in supplying food and all of the difficulties during this period of time, we're guesting ready to do things like nobody has ever seen before but the best way to bring unity is success.

success brings unity. then we were there and we got hit with the plague. we won't forget that. i just want to thank the people of north carolina, because to be honest with you i felt an obligation to be here. you have a governor who is in a total shutdown mood. i guarranty on november 4th 2 will open up and be fine. on november 4th, you know these democrat governors, they love shutdown until after the election is over because they want to make you our numbers look as bad as possible for the economy. but our numbers are looking so good. frankly i used to say a v. people would say, maybe not, i don't think so. >> super v! president trump: we have a super v. you're right. now looking like a super v. our public numbers are incredible. new cars, brand new cars. manufacturing numbers are incredible. we're putting a lot of manufacturing jobs to work that the previous administration said you would need a magic wand. you would need a magic wand for

manufacturing jobs. i don't think so. i guess we had the magic wand. we're putting them back. bringing them back. think of your life just prior to the plague coming in, it was the best it ever been. your state had the best numbers they ever had by far. we had the best employment numbers also. we were up to 160 million jobs. never anywhere near that and then we had to shut it down. we saved millions and millions of lives. we learned the enemy. we learned all about the invisible enemy. how it affects really people that are older especially, older people. the elderly but older people with problems, with heart, with diabetes, with other problems and we learned and most of the country is right now doing very, very well. they have done an incredible job and to have a man sifting on television the other day say,

oh, i would shut it down, like it is easy, shut it down. by the way, we should it down. we did the exact right thing and we shut it down and we reopened. that's what we're doing now. we're well into it. [applause] if we didn't shut it down at that point we would have had millions of people dead. millions of people. you see the numbers. the job that mike pence and the task force and all of us together have done been incredible what we've done, what we've achieved. whether it is ventilators, whether it is supplying equipment to governors that were totally ill-prepared. many of the governors were totally ill-prepared nobody wants to say that it is supposed to work that way, federalist. it is supposed to work that way. governors are supposed to do it. many of them did a fine job. many of them came back well. but most of them didn't have the equipment that they should have had. few of them had the ventilators which are very, very complex machines and hard to make and

hard to manufacture and expensive. and we're right now making thousands of ventilators a month. we're sending them, we have all we can use. our whole country, every state we're stocked. we're stocked. i always say it. i will say it again. there has never been a person that need ad ventilator that didn't get a ventilator. every single person that ever needed a ventilator with all that you heard with how much, you know, they said we didn't have -- again i took over a country whose military was depleted and whose cupboard on this front were bare. the cupboards were bare. we didn't have anything. we didn't have a thing. we had very, very little. and we did a great job. we haven't been given, it is not for me, it is for the incredible people, generals, admirals, doctors, nurses, and yet you saw yesterday convalescent plasma,

you saw remdesivir. you will soon see vaccines pouring out years ahead of would have been more traditional, let's use that term, a more traditional administration where they would have taken years to come up with this stuff. we're coming up with it like nobody's ever seen before. fda, dr. hahn, i want to thank him. alex azar, i want to thank him. they have come with things and done things that have never been done in terms of speed. and frankly terms of it quality. if you look at what we're doing and what we're coming up with, drug companies are coming out with vaccines that are, i've seen some results already. it is going to be very, very soon. they're in stage three trials. it's unheard of. we wouldn't be there for two years if this were a more normal situation. [cheers and applause] so i just want to thank everybody for being here. and again, i felt an obligation

to come to north carolina. it has been a place that, that's been very good to me. you know we won a lot of victories here. i haven't been doing this long. i won every chance i had in north carolina. i even stole a great chief of staff, mark meadows. i stole him from -- [cheers and applause] he left congress as a very popular guy. could have been there for a long time. he came in. by the way you have a fantastic junk young gentleman taking his place. he is a fantastic young guy. he will be a real star in the party. he will be a real star in the party. i want to thank everybody from north carolina. i want to show a little bit of a difference, another state that has been good to me is wisconsin. [applause] joe biden was going to have their convention in milwaukee and they didn't go there at all.

they didn't do this we did this out of respect for your state. we didn't do this for any reason out of respect for the state of north carolina. we said we wanted to hold our convention in north carolina. i think you're going to remember that, frankly on november 3rd. we wanted to hold our convention in north carolina. [applause] so i did that out of respect and if you had a governor that would have let us have some people. he actually told me this. we had an arena that holds 19,000 people. it was totally jammed sold out. every hotel was full everything. i called him but we have a shutdown going on. according to the rules and regulations -- this is 19,000. he did say it. i don't think he will deny it. but he said according to the rules an regulations the most people you're allowed to have in that room, meaning that arena, he viewed it as a room, is 10 people. so, governor, so i'm at 19,000.

you're at 10. can we work something in the middle? it didn't sound too good. [laughter]. we had no choice. it was a terrible thing. i felt so badly, economicville meant economic development money, all the things that happened. i was with ronna, everybody, mark, the big deal, the roll call, let's have it right here. i will do it. i will show up. until a few minutes ago, nobody knew i was coming, right? nobody knew i was coming. [applause] what is more important than the roll call? what is more important than the roll call. >> we love you. president trump: i have to tell you. we'll do a lot of things. i will go over very briefly. because we'll make a speech on thursday night. i hope you all will be listening. [cheers and applause] because i came in. i'm on air force one. air force one has more televisions than any plane in

history. they have got them in closets. they have got them on ceilings, floors. they have got more televisions, you can't escape a television. i turned to cnn, they didn't have it. they weren't having it, can you believe it? no, no. cnn didn't have our roll call. i turned to msdnc as i call it. [laughter] msdnc, which is truly it is a branch of the democrats. right? it is a, i would not say fully owned corporation or fully controlled or they control them. nobody knows who is controlling who. but they had it on television. i remember watching it. it was interesting. you know you see the different states. we say this and we say that. the great state of alaska. the great state of alabama. the great state of north carolina. the great state of all of them, it is very interesting to me. they had theirs on but they didn't show it.

instead they're showing the scam because they're trying to show the post office so that when their whole mail-in thing fizzles they will try blaming it on the post office. they are showing hearings very boring actually. they're not showing this. though weren't showing this. fox had it on but unfortunately fox wasn't showing it too much because because they had the announcer talking, talking. i want to hear the delegates what they're saying. we had to switch to c-span or oan or somebody. i wanted to hear them. [applause] i can promise you, i can promise you a few things. number one, we will not be taking the word god out of the pledge of allegiance, okay? [cheering] like they did a number of times at their caucuses. so they took the word god out. i heard it. i was listening. that's strange. sort of weird.

you heard it all your life, right? under god. under god. all sudden those two words are missing. oh, he must have made a mistake. maybe the teleprompter wasn't working or his book working that i have right here. something wasn't working. but the problem was then the next day i heard it again. i said that is not a mistake. then they immediately went into a mode, no, no, we didn't mean that. we didn't say it for the convention. we didn't say it. that is where they're coming from. you can say it or not say it. that is where they're coming from. just like with energy. they don't want energy. not working well in texas by the way. just looked at a poll. by the way, just came out that we have received 51% in the big and very important "rasmussen poll" and my numbers actually went up during the democratic

national convention. [cheering] 51%. so, think of it. >> four more years. four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! president trump: thank you. i love this state. i like this place. you're from all over the place but this has been a good one for me. think of it. we're at 51% in rasmussen. did you read about it? hear about it? don't hear about it. they give you the suppression polls do registered voters instead of most likely. it is supposed to be likely, likely. in other words how about, you're likely to vote. but how about you, you're registered. but i'm not voting. see under their plan where they send these ballots you don't have to want to vote. you get the ballot. and then they have harvesting. they get guys to go, you want to

vote. not really. but i have a ballot. who is it for? "sleepy" joe biden of the put it here. can i have it. they will take it. harvesting is illegal in your state. they wanted to put a republican, fine man, a pastor, they wanted to put him in jail because he harvested. now they want to make harvesting legal all of sudden. they will put him in jail as republican. if he was a democrat they wouldn't think about it. in california they do the same thing. no repercussion. in north carolina you had a fine pastor, a fine man, they got him on harvesting. they wanted to put him in jail. now they want to make it so everybody can harvest because they know it is not a good thing. people don't want to vote will be sitting there. they will be making them, if you talk about 80 million ballots. could even be higher than that. i used to say 51 million. now it is0 million. sir, you're a little obsolete with the 51.

what is it? 80. 80? how is it possible to think of them. they will sending them, dumping them in neighborhoods. people will pick them up. bribing, paying off people to grab some. this will be one of the greatest scams. this is common sense. it has nothing to do with politics. it is common sense. anybody, you don't have to know politics. they will mail out 80 million ballots. it is impossible. they have no idea. who is mailing them? mostly democrat states an democrat governors. well supposing they don't mail them to republican neighborhoods? that means they're not going to get them. so they are going to complain and election will be over, then they will complain. say, oh, well, we didn't get it, big deal. meantime you might lose the election. this is the greatest scam in the history of politics. i think. and i'm talking about beyond they act like they're aggrieved

by saying this, by saying such a horrible thing. we're not patriotic by saying this. no. we voted during world war i. we voted at the voting booth during world war ii. the pandemic, we're doing very well and people know how to handle it. look at the crowds. they're doing very well. it's very safe. it's going to be very safe. if you have an absentee ballot where you request it, we're all in favor of that. absentee like in florida, they have absentee is good. but other than that, they are very very bad. there will be millions of ballots, take a look at new york. take a look at virginia. take a look at new jersey. all different cases, they just had one last night, now they are thinking about recalling certain elections that took place with mail-in and these are small little elections that are locally based that are easy to run, not millions, but thousands of ballots. thousands. hundreds of ballots. but these are small and they

can't control it. they said 23% of the ballots were defective. what does defective mean? it means fraud. it means a lot of things that we won't get into because i don't want to be accused. you see all the cameras back there? that's the fake news. i don't want to be accused of anything. what it means is they're trying to steal the election from the republicans. that's what it means, in a very very nice way i will tell you they are trying to steal the election just like they did it last time with spying and we caught them and that included president obama and that included -- let's be nice. this could only happen in north carolina. but that included them. and they got caught. then somebody said well, what are you going to do. well, we can't attack a president. oh, i see. if it was me.

they said we can't attack a president. we caught them. we caught them cold. they say we can't attack. he was at meetings talking about it. by the way, this is spying before and after and i think it's a disgrace to our country. i think we can never let that happen again. but now they're doing something that in a certain way is more dangerous. because it's more effective. they spied on my campaign. know what they found? nothing. but this is big stuff. this is stealing millions of votes and it's going to be very hard. we are in courts all over the country and hopefully we have judges that are going to give it a fair call because if they give it a fair call, we are going to win this election. the only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election. we are going to win this election. we are going to win this election.

i'm just saying, we cannot have these live, some people call them universal, i like the word live, live mail-in ballots send to everybody, including people who never asked for them. here's the bottom line. it was just given that in the polls, believe it or not, because the polls [ inaudible ] that's why i respect rasmussen. they did well last time. those are the ones i look at, the ones that did well last time. rasmussen was very good. but if you look at it, every single vote that they have, every single vote, it's going to be looked at. a man is sitting, or a woman is sitting waiting for nothing, watching television, has no enthusiasm because on enthusiasm, the polls are saying that i'm up by massive numbers, not just a little. i'm also way up on the economy, by the way, way, way up. but i'm up by massive and when i

say i'm up, i'm talking about we're up, okay. so if you could, please. but i'm up by massive numbers on enthusiasm. our voters are saying i'm very angry about this, i'll go to the poll directly and vote. but their voters are saying i don't care if biden gets in. he doesn't have any enthusiasm. when you go to ohio, when you go to wisconsin, when you go to north carolina, when you go to a lot of states, they have the trump/pence sign on every lawn. it's all over the place, right? it's all over. indiana, too. indiana, indiana's great. bobby knight, we love bobby knight, too. i'll tell you. we love bobby knight. all of them, they love us and we love them. indiana's great. thank you. but here's the thing. so if they don't have any enthusiasm, so you'd say you going to vote? i'm not getting up to vote. okay, i want to watch television instead of vote. all right. here's a ballot. it just got to you. you open it, oh, it's a ballot, what the hell am i going to do

with this thing. then they have somebody knocking on your door and they're harvesting. you gotten your ballot? yeah, i have my ballot. you going to sign it? if you want i'll sign it. here it is, get out of here. that's the most honest way of doing it. and that's unfair. that's unfair. because now they're taking all of that enthusiasm that our party has and we have tremendous enthusiasm. i think we have record enthusiasm. we have a base the likes of which nobody has seen including these people, "wall street journal" that are fantastic story this weekend, fantastic cover story this weekend on this base. it's an incredible base. everybody here is going to vote. everybody in our -- i mean, we have a tremendous base. they don't. they have no enthusiasm for their candidate. because frankly, bernie sanders, they had much more enthusiasm for him but bernie sanders, excuse me, again, he's the greatest loser i have ever seen.

this guy can lose and be so happy. hillary clinton, i want to use nice language, so i don't want to use a certain word starts with the word s-c, i don't want to use it because they'll say he used foul language so i won't do that. bernie sanders got taken advantage of. is that okay? by hillary clinton. but worse, by the democrats this time. because pocahontas, elizabeth warren, got out of the campaign one day prior to the super tuesday vote, bernie sanders would have won every single state because biden won by a little bit and she took -- she didn't do well but she took thousands and thousands of votes away. if you adjustd just a percentag those votes back, bernie would have won easily the nomination and i'm glad he didn't because he had much more enthusiasm. he would have had a much smaller

base than ours but equally, i have to say this, equally as enthusiastic. this base doesn't like joe biden. they don't like joe biden. i think we will get a lot of votes. we did last time. people were surprised. primarily because of trade. i know how other countries take advantage of us and i understand that, and that's something bernie sanders people really feel because i understand trade. i have done usmca now, i got rid of nafta, the world's -- [ applause ] china tariffs. china had the worst year they have had in 67 years prior to the plague. the worst year they have had in decades and decades. we had the best year we've ever had. but we took in billions from china. we never took in ten cents from china. never took in ten cents. china, for 25 years, not only obama, for 25 years, china was taking in anywhere between 200 billion with a "b" and 550

billion dollars from the united states. i give them all the credit. number one for being smart and out-foxing all the people that stood here and their representatives, but china, we built china. we helped build -- we gave them three, four, $500 billion a year because before that, and before the world trade organization and getting into it, china was flat-lined. china was -- it was after that happened and then they took advantage of us because we didn't have people that were smart enough to see and by the way, biden would be the worst of all of them because his son took out one and a half billion dollars and gets fees on one and a half billion which is millions of dollars a year. give me a break. china will own our country if this guy gets elected. so we have a big one coming. just to finish, enthusiasm.

so they take the enthusiasm out of the equation because they are going to go knock on everybody's door, here, would you sign this, yeah, i'll sign it. nobody knows who the hell is signing it. they now want to have it where the signature doesn't have to be verified. signature doesn't have to be verified. how can -- then they are going to play the game that we're not patriotic. what they're doing is using covid to steal an election. they are using covid to defraud the american people, all of our people, of a fair and free election. don't let them give you the post office stuff. the postal service, they do a great job. lose a lot of money. i said if they charged amazon and these companies doing that a couple dollars more a package that amazon has to pay, not the customer, know what would happen? post office would start doing

very well, thank you. amazon dumps all the packages. why should we deliver it, we'll let the post office do it, lose a fortune. if they charged amazon, now of course, he owns "the washington post" so when i get bad stories in "the washington post" i will wonder why, right? i will wonder why. but i just tell it like it is, right? we have accomplished more during the first three and a half years of this administration than any president in the history of our country and i'm not even getting, you know, pushback. i have been saying this for two years, for three years. i used to say for two years, for three years. but we have done more let's say just about, this way they can't say well, you know, somebody won a war or something, right? no, no, we have accomplished more than just about any administration in the history of our country. we have secured our borders. we have built our wall which

will be finished very shortly. we brought back manufacturing jobs. we defeated the entire, defeated the isis caliphate and killed al baghdadi. we also killed the greatest, biggest terrorist maybe of them a all, suleimani and elal baghdad. by the end of the first term we will appointed 300 -- it's an unheard of number, because president obama was very nice and he gave me 142 openings. historically, historically, you get no -- when you become president, first question is how many judges. they'll say none, sir, because the other previous president, it's a very important thing, federal judges, so i have appointed, we will have

appointed 300, could be even more than that, by the end of the first term, and i sat down, i said, first day i said how many judges do i get to appoint. they said sir, 142. because you know what? he thought hillary was going to win. and the republicans did not make it easy, let's say but if you have enough time, there's not much anybody can do about it. we ended up with 142 judges and then we have added many many and we are going to end up with 300 and two great supreme court justices. remember this. i'm saying that i'm demanding, actually, a list, let biden put up a list of judges he's going to appoint and he will take them out like i did. we will be announcing a list over the next couple of weeks with the judges that we had plus we might add a few more so you know exactly where we stand. he can't do it because he would appoint -- it's not him.

he has no choice. the radical left will demand that he appoints super radical left wild crazy justices going into the supreme court. your american dream will be dead if that happens. it will be dead. and the next -- by the way, the next president, so i have had two. some presidents have had none, you know. i have had two in a relatively short period of time. but i will tell you that the next one could have two, three, four and even five, the next president. this is so important. this is so, whether you are talking about life, whether you are talking about second amendment, whether you are talking about military. this is so important. we have to do this. we have to win this election. but we brought back manufacturing. we rebuilt our military. we wiped out isis. think of it. when i came, isis was all over iraq. the prime minister of iraq was in last week and he said i want

to thank you for defeating isis. i said are you talking about me or the united states. you, because when you came into office, it was a mess. they were all over iraq and syria, and you defeated them, sir. i said good. tell that to the media, please. would you do that. he said i will. let's see if he does. but we passed the biggest tax cuts and regulation cuts in the history of our country. we replaced the worst trade deal ever made, nafta, with a great usmca deal that's going to keep our companies here and it's going to be treating us very nicely and i wouldn't say the other two countries were thrilled with it but they were happy enough. and we did that and that's another thing. they said you'll never be able to replace nafta, you will never be able to get it and i got it. we got it through congress. we fixed a lot of our broken and bad trade deals. we are getting $40 billion from japan. we fixed the horrible deal that

was made with south korea. remember, that was a hillary clinton special. she said this will produce 250,000 jobs and she was right except unfortunately, the jobs went to south korea, not to us. she said it would produce 250,000 jobs. and it did. to south korea. and we stood up to china like nobody's ever stood up between the tariffs and the trade deal which now don't forget, when i made that, the ink wasn't dry before the china virus poured into our country. the ink wasn't dry. i view that differently than i would have because it's done very well. last week they had the largest order of corn, the largest order of soybeans, they are doing things, you know, they are very smart. a lot of people because they see my attitude, a lot of people would say we're not going to order. they do just the opposite. i got a call last week, sir, sonny perdue is here, secretary of agriculture, is that right,

sonny? i got a call, they ordered the largest, it was the largest order of corn in the history of our country, twice. twice. the largest order of corn. largest order of soybeans. so here's how smart. somebody else would say running some country, you know, they would say well, we're not going to do business with them. he's not saying nice things. china is very smart. instead, they order more corn than we have ever thought possible, right? order more soybeans than we ever thought possible. now i have farmers calling me up sir, we love china very much, please don't be too tough on them. makes it very difficult, right? we do too good a job sometimes. we have achieved american energy independence and we are now number one in the world by far. i saw where these phonies, you know they want to end everything we've done. they want to end it. they want to go to wind. they don't even know if they're

going to go to wind. i think they want to basically close up our country because they're taking away our strength but they want to do something but you don't have -- there is no such thing. solar can't do it. solar, it's all fine. very very, heavily expensive, very expensive, but they want to go to other forms of alternate, alternative energy and i think that's okay, except we don't have them. it's not going to power these massive factories so we need, hydro, i love. it's one of my all-time favorites. hydro, i love. i have to tell you. the great dams. you don't see that too much. know why? environmentalists say you can't build a dam there. now we can because we have done things nobody thought were possible. like example, the keystone pipeline. we got that approved. the dakota access pipeline, they were all bogged down. right? right? i got it over. we've got things they said you couldn't get done. so we are energy independent and

they said we want to ban fracking. no fracking. how do you think they will do in texas, oklahoma, north dakota, louisiana is going to love it. there's no fracking. there's basically, they want no fossil fuel whatsoever. no gas, no oil, no coal, no nothing. okay? they don't want anything. now they are getting killed because a poll just came out in texas, texas wasn't happy. they want no guns, they want no oil and gas and they want no god. no god. it's no religion, no guns, right, no oil and gas. i don't think you are going to do too good in texas. you know, george washington could come back from the dead and he could choose as his vp candidate the late great ab r m raham lincoln and you're not going to win the state of texas if you don't have oil, guns and

no religion. you're not going to win too many places. we eliminated obamacare's horrible and very unfair individual mandate which basically knocked out obamacare. we knocked out obamacare. we have protected your second amendment, so important. we protected your second amendment. we cut drug prices first time in 51 years. we got drug prices down. now i'm really doing -- i did a favored nations clause meaning we pay the same price as the lowest country that has the best deal. the companies are going crazy, the drug companies. they're taking ads on me. i said oh, i went to mark meadows, i said mark, they're killing me, they have nothing but cash, okay. big pharma, they call it, for a reason. there's nobody that gives the politicians more money than big pharma. nobody. not even close. so i said well, look, if you're not going to negotiate a fair

deal, we are going to do a favored nations clause to the top people, the biggest guys. they said no, don't do that favored nations. favored nations, because you know, we have countries out there that are paying a tiny fraction of what our people are expected to pay. so if you have a country, germany or others, if they make -- by the way, uk, all of europe, canada pays 50%, 5-0, 50% less. people leave our country, go to canada, pick up their drugs and come back home. can you believe it? this is the kind of difference. i say i want a favored nations clause. i also want a rebate clause, a rebate where instead of the money going to the middlemen who have to be the richest people in the world, they get so much. they get more money frankly than the drug companies, at least the drug companies make a product. i wiped out the rebate where now it goes to people and i instituted what's called a favored nations clause. it's very simple. you have that in deals.

it's whatever the lowest price in the world, we are the biggest purchaser of prescription drugs by far in the world, so whatever the lowest price is that other countries pay, so if you havie k country paying ten cents for a pill and we are paying $2.10, it's not such a exaggeration, believe me, we get it for ten. what happens, that doesn't work so they will go up a little bit, we will come way, way down. i said favored nations, i want to pay what the lowest price is anywhere in the world. we are the biggest purchaser. we want a favored nations. they had a heart attack. then i signed it. they didn't believe it. now what they're doing is they have ads, millions and millions of dollars worth of ads that i have been horrible to the people because of drugs and i believe in socialism. socialism. you know what, because some of the socialistic countries get the lowest price. the only thing i have with socialism is i want to get their

price. that's the only thing. other than that, our country will never be a socialist country. so we cut drug prices. you could get cuts, you could get cuts -- [ chants of "usa" ] you could get cuts as much as 50%, 60% or 70%, maybe even more than that on prescription drug prices, and wouldn't it be a kick -- i'll use this. wouldn't it be a kick in the ass if i lost and sleepy joe is president, and this thing kicks in right about soon, right, in 30, 40 days. people wake up after the election, boy, biden's done a great job, my drug prices just went down by 70%. what a great president he's been. he's great.

sleepy joe would say i thought about that but nobody ever -- everybody knew about favored nations but nobody had the guts to do it. i'll tell you, i was called by many politicians please don't do it, sir, please. i said why. they don't want to tell me why. i know why. because you know, they're politicians and they have been helped out and i guess we have to understand that, too. but the fact is that we signed a favored nations clause and rebate clause and your numbers are going to come down 60%, 70% and i hope you remember that on november 3rd because nobody but me would ever do it. the other thing i've done aside from very strongly protecting the second amendment which was not easy, that was not easy and by the way, they will take your guns away as sure as you are standing or sitting there. they will take your guns away. either that or obliterate the second amendment. the right to bear arms. you have the right to bear arms especially when you look at portland and you see how weak

those democrats are, the mayor, the governor, how pathetic. they let them riot every night. we're saying let us come in and solve your problem. we will solve it for you in one hour. just like we did in minneapolis, minnesota, right? five nights, six nights, they have to ask us in. let us come in, we will solve your problem. they are almost used to it. this is the way our whole country would be if you ever let a thing like this happen. our whole country would be. so we protected your pre-existing conditions. very strongly. protected pre-existing and you don't hear that but we very strongly protected your pre-existing conditions so we got rid of the horrible individual mandate which cost everybody a fortune and we strongly protected every republican is sworn to protecting your pre-existing conditions. it's very important. you won't hear that. you won't hear that from the fake news. we passed right to try, we passed va accountability and va

choice. we mobilized the largest response since the second world war. we are doing an incredible job on the china virus but i'm going to talk to you about that thursday night. will anybody be listening on thursday night? just very quickly in the second term among many other things, we will continue with our military. we built the strongest military by far. it was depleted. nice marine back there. it was depleted like you wouldn't believe. we have the best jets and rockets and equipment of any kind, tanks. tanks made in ohio. lima. tanks made in ohio. we are going to create ten million jobs. i think very easily in the first ten months. that's not -- they want to raise your taxes. you know all my life i heard as a politician you like to lower taxes. this is the only election where somebody said we're going to raise your taxes. they're going to raise your taxes, quadruple your taxes, they are going to add on to the regulation so all of these

projects we got started that great projects, they won't be able to get built so they will raise your taxes, raise your regulations, make it impossible to build a highway. it used to take 17 years, 18 years, 20 years, 21 years, long time in some cases, to get approval to build a highway, rig right. we have it down to two years, may get down to one. it may get rejected for environmental or safety reasons but we will know very quickly. we won't take 17 years. we can name highways, they took forever, ended up costing 100 times more, they're not as good. some go in circles to get to a point. they want to miss a certain nest. let's spend $37 million to miss -- look, we've got to be smart. got to be smart. got to win an election. also, we are going to create tax credits for companies that bring our jobs back from china and other countries. and oppose tariffs on countries that take advantage of the

united states as they have been taking advantage of us for years and years. i have already done it in certain cases. we have countries that tariff us and we don't tariff them. so they tariff us. it's very simple. it's called reciprocal. they tariff us, we tariff them. we are going to fully fund law enforcement and hire more police. we are going to go with school choice and we have made a lot of progress on school choice for every student in america. we are going to continue to expand opportunity zones. there has been nothing better. don't forget, it was us, us together that got criminal justice reform done. the greatest thing for the black community. african-american community, they came and said we can't believe

it, obama didn't even try. not only that, i got funded the historically black colleges and universities. i got that -- i got them funded. they weren't funded. they were year to year. we didn't know if they would be around for another year. they would come into the white house and after three years i said why do you guys keep coming back. it's a year-to-year deal. i said that's not fair, so you have to come back every year. we got them long-term financing and long-term funding. nobody's done more for the historically black colleges and universities than donald trump. nobody. nobody's done more for the african-american community. no president has done as much as anybody since -- i mean, since, and i say it, since abraham lincoln. it's true. it's true. criminal justice reform, opportunity zones, with tim scott of south carolina, he's a great senator, a great

gentleman. tim scott is fantastic. opportunity zones. think of it. criminal justice reform. opportunity zones. the colleges and universities. what we've done has been amazing but the most important thing is prior to the virus, the greatest job numbers in the history of the african-american community, the hispanic community and the asian, as i said. so i just want to thank everybody. we are going to get rid of our sanctuary cities as soon as we can so that they don't protect, we put nasa back in action. nasa had grass growing through its runway. it had grass growing through the cracks of its runways. it was closed, essentially just sdas te disaster. now it's the number one space center anywhere in the world by far. you saw the ships going up. for some reason, a lot of rich people like rockets going up and so we say let's lease them our beautiful launching areas and let them send all the rockets.

let them pay for it. but we'll be landing on mars. we are going to the moon, we are going to mars. we will be the first on mars. let's see if that happens. we have to do it. if we're here, it's going to happen. if somebody else is here, probably not. i just want to again thank -- i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. you are incredible warriors. you have incredible strength. you have un blooefbelievable intelligence and patience. it's a combination of both. i don't know which is better, the intelligence or the patience but let's assume it's the intelligence, okay? but i have to tell you, i think we have the greatest base of support anywhere at any time, any election and people are starting to find that out. they found it out in 2016 and i will be honest, this election, i believe we have far greater enthusiasm in this election and we had a level that was a record

because they still don't believe what happened. they said where are all these people coming from, right? people that were great americans that never voted, but -- because they didn't like who they were watching or looking. people were great. they didn't vote. i'll never forget a congressman from tennessee came up, they do very early voting, tennessee, great state, and they had just started voting and i was in pennsylvania making a speech. he said sir, i don't know, i can't speak for anybody but i'm from tennessee and i have been doing this for a long time, said i have every in seen anything like it. people are coming from the valleys and hilltops, they come from the cities, they come from all over, i never seen it, they are coming out of the rivers, they are coming along the beautiful, those beautiful war fields that we have, they are coming from everywhere, sir, i have never seen anything like it. but if other states are like tennessee, you are going to win this election. he was the first one to say it. he was the first one. they came from the mountains, they came from everywhere. he said i have never seen

anything like it. and people, they would be having trump/pence and the hats, these are people that never were political people. they never wore a pin in their life having to do with politics. it's been an incredible experience for me. it's been an incredible experience i think for everyone. i will tell you what, next year's going to be an incredible -- it's going to be a great, great year. it's going to be a year of tremendous success. we are fighting off this horrible thing that was delivered by china and it was by china and we are never going to forget it and i let them know it, we are never going to forget what they did because you know what, we are going to do great economically. [ audio lapse ] but we are going to do better economically but we can never forget the 175,000 people which will go up. remember this, though. we saved millions because if we didn't move and if i didn't put the ban on highly heavily infected people coming to our nation from china, that

everybody told me not to do, months later they were saying we shouldn't and then they all either apologized or admitted it was right and europe, i did europe, too, very early, if we didn't do that, our numbers would be at a level like you wouldn't believe. so i just want to thank everybody for this incredible support. be very very careful. this is going to be, i really believe this, this is the most important election in the history of our country. don't let them take it away from you. don't let them take it away. north carolina, we love you. that's why i'm here. thank you very much. you're special people. thank you. god bless you all. thank you. ♪ neil: for the better part of an hour you have been listening to the president of the united states. we took that from beginning to end because it is very unusual for a party's nominee, whether

it's the president in power or the guy who wants to be the president, to speak before his designated night which in his case, the president's case, will be thursday night from the white house, an event that will include fireworks and the like. but the president for this hour, going through a litany of developments and warning his supporters, be careful, they are trying to take this away from us, even referred to north carolina and the governor, democratic governor, who had restricted crowd sizes here, he fingered him for making this the event that he didn't want it to be. what he left out, of course, is that same restrictions were in place on the alternative side he was looking at, jacksonville, florida, where state officials wanted to hold back on that and say health precautions there warranted kind of the same response that north carolina is doling out now. so the florida thing is off. everything is north carolina. also a couple quick references he made to covid has changed the

dynamic here. that's probably an understatement. there's no way of certifying the millions of lives saved, he did acknowledge the 175,000 americans who had lost their lives here but he did go through a litany of other developments including the progress that he is making right now and something that shouldn't be stolen from americans, mail-in ballots take hold. now, he's talking about the propensity for abuse and fraud but the fact of the matter is, most mail-in ballots have not even been released yet to voters. it happens much closer to the election. we had 40 mail-in ballots four years ago, little disruption with those mail-in ballots. in fact, many say a good share of those, disproportionately, went to donald trump in those battleground states and ultimately decided him as the victor. we will go through a lot of all of this and the difference between the 40 million ballots then four years ago, the 80 plus million he sees today, that that

will lead to fraud and abuse and all of that. certainly no way of knowing that. of course, all of that was born of covid-19 where a number of republicans as well said there's got to be a clean and healthy process to keep americans safe for them to still vote. that's this idea of mail-in ballots. back and forth on that continues. connell mcshane in charlotte right now. you know, connell, you think about it, rare is it that the candidate nominee will be speaking every day as donald trump just did on day one, every day leading up to the white house speech when he formally accepts the nomination. connell: you talked about it as being an unusual circumstance and it comes in an unusual year and unusual convention. here in charlotte, this city was geared up to host a whole week of festivities that have been dialed back significantly, to the point where although we have a busy day so far of political events in this city, it's pretty much wrapped up its role already

in this convention. they had the roll call this morning, president trump's new home state of florida put him over the top so he was officially nominated and will run again for re-election under the republican banner but that's really the only role the city of charlotte, host city of the con engs ha convention, will play in all of this. also quite unusual the president did show up in person to accept the nomination in this city and as you said, spoke for the better part of an hour. he hit on all the major themes. it sounded more trump rally than convention speech. at times seemed to be working off some prepared notes but for the most part, riffed off of those notes. told a number of different stories. did not speak at length about his administration's response to covid-19 which he described as the china virus but said that he would on thursday night in that white house speech and presumably speak about plans to continue dealing with the virus in the future. now, if you talk about this state, the president's not done here. he's going to keep campaigning in person, making a couple other stops in north carolina and i believe one in neighboring south

carolina before heading back to washington this afternoon. we have been making our way around the state trying to speak to as many voters as we can, as we have in other battleground states over the last couple of weeks and you know, you look at the numbers, it is so close, virtual dead heat in the average of the polls between president trump and joe biden here in north carolina, and speaking to voters, you can tell the president does still have plenty of support here in this state. take a listen. here's a sample. >> first of all, he's reduced taxes. second of all, he's eliminated the payroll tax for the rest of the year to support the people. so more money in people's pockets means better economy, means we will be spending more money. it's straight up economics. >> i'm registered democrat or independent now, but i usually vote democrat. but i'm really a big supporter of the police and i do think there needs to be some re-evaluation of the training

process, but the worst thing for our country is to defund the police. connell: that last point about violence in the cities is one we expect to hear a lot about this week from the various speakers at the convention. i noticed when president trump brought it up in his remarks that you just heard, that was probably one of the largest cheers from that in-person crowd at the charlotte convention center. neil? neil: all right. connell, thank you very very much. connell mcshane in charlotte with all of that. keep in mind we are almost going to roll call of states right now. the president made mention of the fact networks were not covering that as they were last week with the democrats. the difference of course, the democrats did that in prime time when most of the networks were obligated from 9:00 to 11:00 to cover the event as they are for the republican convention. this is happening earlier in the opening day. in fact, the formal event is seen as kicking off tonight. be that as it may, the president did capture the delegates necessary to be the republican

nominee for the second time. four years ago he easily captured the republican nomination, even easier tonight. let's go to bobby jindal, the former louisiana governor, former 2016 presidential candidate. he was competing of course with donald trump back then. laura fink back with us, democratic strategist. governor jindal, good to have you. thank you both for your patience through all of this. the president was mentioning a litany of developments here that, you know, might call into question his role in the virus itself. he acknowledged 175,000 deaths. a lot of democrats are saying that many of those deaths are on him because he was late to respond to the urgency of the virus. barack obama was among those saying that. the president was kind of saying look at the big picture. could be a heck of a lot worse if i didn't act as i did with those coming from asia,

specifically china, it would be millions. i don't know where that number comes from but be that as it may, it would be a lot worse than it is. do you agree with that? >> yeah, look, neil, this election in november is going to be about the future and certainly, trump is behind in the polls right now but i think this is going to be a tight race. i think he's got a great path. i think the job he's got to do this week and going forward, it is to provide people with look, by november 3rd we are not likely to have a widely distributed vaccine, we will still be fighting the coronavirus but if he shows people things will get better, for example we have rapid antigen tests, if he can show people we have a vaccine maybe by october that preliminarily shows promise, if he can show people he can rebuild the economy, i think that's a great contrast with biden, a great contrast for him going into this election. you know, biden spent last week trying to make this a refer ren dumb on trump. trump has got to make this a choice between him and biden. he's beginning to do that today. i think that's what you will hear from republicans this entire week.

neil: the 40 million mail-in ballots we had four years ago, if the president didn't have a problem with how they were ultimately handled and counted in an election he won, i can understand that it's exponentially larger this time, maybe as many as 80 million but even a number of republicans were urging a way to get americans to the polls without them physically going to the polls in light of covid-19. might he look callous there, might he look indifferent to people who are worried about voting in an environment like this? >> well, look, a couple things. i think that certainly he's been enthusiastic and consistently supportive of absentee voting. i think the reality is this is something that should be done by the states. i think as republicans or democrats, we should want everybody who is legally allowed to vote, where everybody exercises their right, that's what's great about democracy, you wants everybody whether or not they are voting for you to be able to vote. i think his concerns, republican concerns are number one, you don't want the federal government taking over the

states' responsibility. it's up to the states to decide how their elections are conducted, to set the rules. some states are more aggressive than others in doing mail-in ballots but elected officials at the state or federal level shouldn't be able just to change the rules. they should go through the normal process. sexedl secondly there is a difference between absentee voting and ballot harvesting. you heard him talk about how some states want to mail ballots to registered voters and third party groups to turn in the ballots. that increases the chance for fraud and mischief. at the end of the day you want ae le an election where everybody is able to vote. i think you are seeing a republican party to encourage their followers to make sure they vote whether in person or mail-in ballot. you don't want these concerns about fraud to discourage republicans from mailing in their ballots or voting in person. at the end of the day, a good election is a fair election where everybody has a chance to vote. neil: we will never know how this ultimately sorts out. what we do know is the president went through a litany of things that he's done, the trade deals he argues are stronger, you

know. the billions he's gotten from china. that really is paid by american concerns because tariffs are not borne by the country on which they are slapped. but having said that, he is going to get a narrative i built this economy up, it's coming back through the virus the last three months, ten million jobs added, close to that, the trend is my friend, we are doing it again. market averages, save the dow, at records. the dow not far from one. how do you want to argue with that, joe biden? what do you say? >> well, i don't have to argue with it because the american people aren't there. you have to meet any audience whether you are a democrat or republican, where they are at. right now, americans are deeply worried about the economy and deeply worried which they know is attached to the coronavirus pandemic and they don't trust president trump to solve it. they don't trust his past behavior or his future behavior. until he begins to address that, he's got an uphill climb against joe biden or any other

candidate. while i appreciate mr. jindal's optimism, i think that president trump needs to dig in and actually come up with real solutions and what i heard today was fear. it wasn't positivity. it was the lion's share of it was fear. fear they're going to take away and kill your american dream. the postal service and the election is going to be fraudulent. so americans, they don't respond well to that when they don't trust you. it's a base strategy -- neil: there is a lot of fear out of democrats last week, right? if you are arguing fear, democrats were kind of doing a little of that last week, right? >> i understand that. i wouldn't say that it was fear on the democrats' part. i would say instead it was an acknowledgment of what people are feeling, what they are seeing when they talk to americans and so it was less fearmongering than an acknowledgment of where we are as opposed to painting a rosy picture that does not acknowledge the 170,000 dead, the fact that testing and

tracing is not implemented and the fact that americans trust scientists and this president just has chosen not to listen to science every step of the way. neil: well, the irony could be the trend of late on the virus could be a trend, 50,000 or fewer cases eight days running now. too early to put a stamp on that. but we will see where this goes. laura, thank you. governor, always good having you. thank you both for taking the time. at the corner of the screen, you notice the dow is up largely on optimism about this plasma vaccine that essentially takes or will take, you know, plasma from those who have had covid-19, give it to those who have just been diagnosed with covid-19. critics of the president say moving too quickly, or the fda is, to get this out in the public. others are saying no, with the marked improvement it's shown to lower the death rates in those in the worst throes of this virus, better now than waiting. more after this. find your keys.

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will you raise taxes? >> i will raise taxes for anybody making over $400,000. let me tell you why i'm going to do it. it's about time they start paying fair share of the responsibility we have. the very wealthy should pay a fair share.

corporations should pay a fair share. neil: so charles payne, i think he was saying you should pay your fair share. thank you for joining me, my friend. you got to get ready for your show. what did you think of that? charles: you know, we have heard it before. the $400,000 number is the number president obama and vice president biden used a lot. by the way, they used the same five million number, too, for solar jobs. of course, 400,000 is even a lower number, you know, factoring in inflation than it was in 2008 when they made this promise. it's just, i don't know that there's anyone out there who really doesn't believe what the grand schemes that are on the plates of democrats, that they are not going to hike taxes a whole lot more and it's not just regular taxes. there's all kinds of different nuanced taxes in there. it doesn't -- i think the problem for me is that more often than not, it doesn't feel like it's a fiscal policy as more of a punitive policy. the way he talks about the

wealthy, with a certain kind of disdain, the way he talks about these big businesses, with a certain kind of disdain. but look at how many jobs amazon has created over the last ten years. they are one of the largest employers in the world. they have more people working for them than the post office. i mean, they do have a benefit to this country beyond the amazing job that they do delivering us these packages that we need that have gotten us through this covid. neil: why do you think the markets are up? are they ignoring the polls, not worried about it? thinking it's going to be very hard even if biden were to come in and get elected president to raise taxes in an environment like this? what is it? charles: i think the market right now believes trump is going to win, that -- but for the most part, the market, they say after labor day they really start to pay attention. i don't know anyone that's really seriously making any sort of financial decisions based on the polls. i will admit a handful of people have called me over the last month hey, should i sell

everything. but you know, the idea is be cool for right now, let these conventions play out and see what happens. i don't think the market is factoring in a joe biden victory at all, and with his policies there will be a hit. to what degree, we don't know. particularly now, when we are talking about -- the big debate right now, think about this for a moment. nancy pelosi is asking for $3.4 trillion to be spent to help the economy. if biden wins, say two, three months from now, he wants to increase taxes, not lower them. he wants to take money out of the economy, not add money to it. even their talk points are d opposed to each other. during this covid crisis, i think it's a suicidal idea. neil: the president said the media will never give him a fair shot, hence his criticism they didn't even cover the nominating process of the states. of course, big difference last week it was in prime time for

the democrats. you could make the argument i'm sure it would have been covered if it were prime time for the republicans. is that an opportunity missed, you think? charles: well, to your point earlier, they've got to cover 9:00 to 11:00. i got a feeling they will figure something out to fill in there. neil: i think you're right. charles: even watching just now, just watching just now, it was -- it felt like night at the improv almost but having a live audience there i think made a difference. plus of course president trump coming off the hip with socme o these things, telling the jokes, the texas thing. if he really lets himself go, you know, just lets his guard down, forgets about the press for the next three days, forget about them, they're not on his side, forget about it, and just be himself, i think he can actually make some new fans. neil: it sums up on thursday with his address from the white house. looking forward to your coverage as well on wednesday, when we

kick things off. looking at the convention, what's at stake for the president, the vice president as well. he teed things off today. thank you very much, my friend. see you in about ten minutes. meantime, i want to go to judge andrew napolitano. judge, there's so much to get into with you here. if you don't mind my veering a little bit on what the president mentioned about judgeships approved under his watch, better than 300. he mentioned 142 that were sort of left out there by president obama. of course, president obama was dealing with a republican senate. i'm wondering where you think this goes. if he gets a second term, still has a republican senate, he could break all sorts of judge records, right? >> well, yes, if he does have a republican senate. i mean, the president has been very faithful to his conservative promises to nominate people to the bench, talking about all three levels

of the bench, district court which is the trial level, circuit court which is the intermediate appellate level and of course, justices gorsuch and kavanaugh on the supreme court. he's been very very faithful. he has applied an idealogical test to all of his judicial nominees. his predecessor didn't do that for the district court and the circuit court. they only did it for the supreme court. so if president trump is re-elected and if the republicans keep the senate, yes, you will see another three or 400 just by the natural attrition of judges taking retirement or what we call in the federal system, senior status. by the way, there is no retirement. they get paid for the rest of their lives. they just don't have to work and that seat is vacated. he will have a field day filling those seats with people who represent the conservative views of those he promised. neil: switching gears a little,

judge, tiktok making some news. it's not going to take all these attacks from the president lying down, going after him, challenging him, making it very clear what you're saying isn't so. where is all this going? >> well, i don't want to sound like i wasn't paying attention but while the president was on, i read among other things the tiktok complaint which was filed while he was on, and they make two very interesting arguments. the statute under which the president has purported to say tiktok has to go has an exception in it, first amendment or free speech, and what is tiktok? it's free speech. it's videos, it's audios, it's messaging and all of that is speech. so the president under this theory in this complaint filed by very fine lawyers for tiktok, the president has violated the law. he doesn't have the authority to interfere. the other argument is there was no due process.

you didn't tell us what we did wrong. we didn't have a chance to prove to you that we have nothing to do with the government of china. now, the president's argument is we all know who owns you and you are owned by a company in mainland china and there's no major company in mainland china that is not controlled by the chinese government, and the chinese government's controlled by the chinese communist party, and there are notorious thieves of american technology. those are the two arguments that will be resolved in court. one thing the president won't have to do, he can still keep secret whatever national security secrets are implicated here, but the courts will give tiktok its fair time and require the doj, department of justice, to prove the president's case. neil: your thought on the way the president, on regulations which preceded the tax cuts to give this economy a goose.

obviously a president biden as it so happens would reverse a lot of those regulations. a president can do this, either add them or take them out. what is the -- what's the constitutional read on when presidents do that sort of thing? >> in my own view, the president of the united states, this is not donald trump's fault. he inherited a super powerful presidency. the president of the united states has far too much power, congress has delegated away to american presidents the power to do things that the constitution only authorizes the congress to do, and among those things are rule making. in fairness to president trump, no one has slashed red tape like donald trump has. it should be slashed by the congress but he has this power. he's going to use it. he has used it. he boosted the economy magnificently until covid came

along. the argument we just heard him make is that if he's re-elected as long as he has this power, he will continue to use it and continue to slash the red tape and nobody hates red tape more than donald trump. neil: you got it. meanwhile, i'm tweeting the president to let him know you were reading the tiktok legal brief while he was speaking. judge, kidding. no, i'm not, actually. i'm writing him right now. thank you very much. a lot more coming up. the dow up about 256 points. stay with us. made usaa insuranr veterans like liz and mike. an army family who is always at the ready. so when they got a little surprise... two!? ...they didn't panic. they got a bigger car for their soon-to-be-bigger family. after shopping around for insurance, they called usaa - who helped find the right coverage for them and even some much-needed savings. . . this is decision tech.

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neil: just hope of a vaccine including this one with fast-track approval for the fda to begin emergency testing on it is getting a whole lot of attention on wall street, propelling the market higher as well. charles payne to take you there and so many more places. hey, charles. charles: thank you very much, neil. i appreciate it. good afternoon, everyone, i'm charles payne and this is indeed of "making money." wall street adding to record four weeks of gains thanks in large to the big tech powerhouses. the market breadth itself, overall market is horrendous, more losers than winners even in the nasdaq. the question, should be sifting through to look for bargains? my guests will break it down and what they look for markets including the next short squeeze. republicans officially