Republican National Convention (Day 3)

YOUR UNFILTERED VIEW OF POLITICS. >> NIGHT THREE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, THE THEME, AMERICA LAND OF HEROES. WE HAVE SEEN WHITE HOUSE LOCATIONS AS A BACKDROP FOR THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY. THIS EVENING, VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE WILL ACCEPT HIS NOMINATION AT FORT MCHENRY LOCATED AT LOCUST POINT IN BALTIMORE, WHERE U.S. TROOPS FOUGHT THE BRITISH AND THE WAR OF 1812, INSPIRING FRANCIS SCOTT KEY TO WRITE "THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER." OTHER SPEAKERS INCLUDE HIS WIFE KAREN, KELLYANNE CONWAY, SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM AND REPRESENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK OF NEW YORK. I'M JOINED BY A REPORTER. FROM "THE WASHINGTON POST" WHAT WILL YOU BE LOOKING FOR? >> I'M GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR THE ABSENCE OF TOPICS WE ARE SEEING DOMINATE THE NEWS MEDIA. FROM THE HURRICANE THAT IS ABOUT TO HIT TEXAS AND LOUISIANA , HURRICANE LAURA, AND EVERYTHING GOING ON IN WISCONSIN. REPUBLICANS HAVE CALLED BLACK LIVES THAT ARE A HATE GROUP, AS PRESIDENT FROM TWEETED. I AM CURIOUS TO SEE HOW REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO A COACH THIS TOPIC, IF THEY ARE GOING TO IGNORE IT, IF THEY ARE GOING TO MAINTAIN THAT ALL LIVES AT HER, I TALKING POINT THEY HAVE DRIVEN HOME TRYING TO DESCRIBE DEMOCRATS AS BEHOLDEN TO RADICAL, LEFT-WING ANARCHISTS, AND WHETHER THEY WILL MENTION THE SEVEN TEEN-YEAR-OLD RIGHT WING GUNMEN SHOT PROTESTERS, CLAIMING HE IS PART OF A VIGILANTE MILITIA AND PROLONGED AND DEVELOPING NEWS, A TRUMP'S ORDER -- A TRUMP SUPPORTER. THERE IS A LOT UP IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW WITHOUT THE RNC HUNDRED APPLICANTS ARE GOING TO COACH THIS. HOLDING IS NOT ON THEIR SIDE AT THE MOMENT -- POLLING IS NOT ON THEIR SIDE AT THE MOMENT. THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS ARE IN RACING THIS MOMENT TO SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER. ARE REPUBLICANS GOING TO SAY THEY ARE AGAINST THIS? OR ARE THEY GOING TO BREAK WITH TALKING POINTS AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE COURAGE WE ARE SEEING PEOPLE LIKE THE MILWAUKEE BUCKS, AND THE PROTESTERS OUT THERE IN THE WAKE OF THE POLICE BRUTALITY. >> THE NBA CANCELED LAYOFF GAMES TONIGHT. WE HAVE SEEN DEMONSTRATIONS IN KENOSHA. FEDERAL AGENTS WILL BE GOING INTO WISCONSIN, INCLUDING NATIONAL GUARD. YOU MENTIONED THE STORM. THIS HEADLINE FROM OPEN BOAT THE BEAUMONT EXPRESS," THE MAYOR SAYING, IF YOU STAY, IT IS BETWEEN YOU AND GOD VERY POWERFUL STORM. AND IT COMES ON THE NIGHT OF THE CONVENTION. >> AND IT COMES AT THE CONFLUENCE OF ANOTHER DISASTER RIGHT NOW, THE CORONAVIRUS PIN. -- PANDEMIC. WE'VE SEEN THE LAST TWO NIGHTS AS REVISIONIST HISTORY WITH THE RESIDENT OR TRADE AS A SAVIOR IN HANDLING A PANDEMIC THAT IS CLAIMED THE LIVES OF 180,000 AMERICANS. AMERICANS ARE VULNERABLE RIGHT NOW AND HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS IN MANY OR TO EVACUATE THE AREAS THAT ARE THREATENED IN LOUISIANA AND TEXAS. ALL THAT THIS MAKES FOR POTENTIALLY MORE EXTREME TRAGEDY, IF THAT IS EVEN POSSIBLE. STEVE: LET'S TALK STRATEGY THIS MORNING, YOU WROTE REGARDING THE FIRST LADY, TIFFANY TRUMP, KIM REYNOLDS, ALL ADDRESSING THE NATION AND THEY HOPE TO BRING THE FEMALE VOTER INCLUDING WHITE SUBURBAN WOMEN AND THOSE WITHOUT COLLEGE DEGREES BACK INTO THE FOLD. HOW DID THEY DO LAST NIGHT AT WHAT YOU EXPECT TONIGHT WITH DR. THAT KEY VOTING LOT -- WITH REGARD TO THAT KEY VOTING BLOCK? >> ON A SUPERFICIAL LEVEL, LAST NIGHT WENT WELL FOR REPUBLICANS. ON A FACT-CHECK AND LEVEL, THERE WERE NUMEROUS EXAGGERATION HYPERBOLE. THEY TALKED ABOUT HOW THE PRESIDENT IS EMPATHETIC TO AMERICANS. THEY LINED UP A SLATE OF PROMINENT WOMEN WHO WERE FOR THE PRESIDENT OR ARE RELATED TO THE RESIDENT TO VOUCH FOR HIM. THE FIRST LADY VOUCHED FOR HIS CHARACTER, TOOK BRIDGE THE EMPATHY GAP AND THE CHARACTER CHASM WE ARE SEEING RIGHT NOW. JOE BIDEN LEADS DONALD TRUMP AMONG WOMEN BY NYMPHET KIT MARGIN. WHITE SUBURBAN WOMEN IS TO THE PRESIDENT IS HEMORRHAGING WITH RIGHT NOW AND WHO PREVIOUSLY ONE IN 2016, AND THEY HAVEN'T REALLY RATE UP THERE MY. THE CONVENTION WAS A RESET WITH THEM TO CONVEY A MESSAGE OF VAPID THE AND SWING THEM INTO THE RT AND PREVENT THEM FROM SO WORKING JOE BIDEN. STEVE: TONIGHT IS A NIGHT FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT, NOT ONLY FOR HIS REELECTION CLEARLY WITH HIS EYES ON 2024. >> WE EXPECT THE VICE PRESIDENT TO TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY OF THE U.S. AND HOW HIS ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR A SUCCESSFUL RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS. BUT THERE IS THAT RISK OF BEING TONE DEAF TO THE CURRENT BREAKING NEWS BEFORE OUR EYES, THE UNREST IN WISCONSIN IN RESPONSE POLICE BRUTALITY. ATTENTION AND CAUSED THE MBA -- THE NBA, MLB AND MLS TO PUT SPORTS ON HOLD AND PROTEST OF POLICE AND SYSTEMIC RACISM AND INEQUALITY. WHAT WE HEARD THIS MORNING AND GOING INTO THE DAY, AND TONIGHT, IS THAT THE VICE PRESIDENT WILL TOUT THE ADMINISTRATION'S RESPONSE TO THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS BUT AGAIN, HASN'T BEEN APPROVED OF BY A MAJORITY OF AMERICAN PEOPLE AND HAS KILLED OVER 170,000 AMERICANS. STEVE: WE WILL LOOK FOR YOUR WORK AT WASHINGTONPOST.COM. OUR LIVE COVERAGE OF DAY THREE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. >> MEN AND WOMEN OF REMARKABLE CHARACTER AND FORTITUDE. AN EXTRAORDINARY SPIRIT FUELED THE DREAMS THEY HELD. THAT SPIRIT LIVED ON TO WIN LIBERTY IN THE REVOLUTION, AND BOLD AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROADS, STRENGTHENED THE BRAVE SOULS OF NORMANDY, IT ENDURED WITH THOSE WHO GALLANTLY FOUGHT THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM, AND ON 9/11, THAT SAME SPIRIT WAS FOUND IN THE MEN AND WOMEN STORMING THE GATES TO SAVE PRECIOUS LIVES. THE SPIRIT OF HEROISM THRIVES IN THE PRESENCE OF TYRANNY, DISASTER. IT IS STRONGER THAN ANTIVIRUS. -- THEN ANY VIRUS. WHAT THERE ARE THOSE WHO SEEK TO ERASE HISTORY AND DECONSTRUCT THE AMERICAN IDEAL, REMAKE AMERICA INTO SOMETHING IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE. THE SPIRIT OF HEROISM STANDS IN THE BREACH, LIVES IN THE HEART, IT BREATHES IN THE SOUL AND IS WOVEN INTO THE COURAGEOUS FABRIC OF AMERICANS LIKE YOU. IT PRESERVES LIBERTY. IT STRENGTHENS FAMILIES. IT EMPOWERS THE EXTRAORDINARY. THE SPIRIT OF HEROISM INSPIRES US TO ACT WHEN OTHERS ARE IN NEED. TO BUILD THE RIGHT THINGS. JOIN US TONIGHT. DREAM HEROIC DREAMS. CELEBRATE AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE. ♪ >> FROM WASHINGTON, D.C., WELCOME TO THE 2020 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. TONIGHT, CELEBRATING AMERICA AS THE LAND OF HEROES. ♪ LORD, ALMIGHTY GOD, WE COME BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING AND PRAY FOR YOUR DIVINE PROTECTION OVER OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE PATH OF STORMS ALONG OUR GULF COAST. YOU ARE OUR ROCK AND OUR SHELTER IN THE MIDST OF THE STORMS OF LIFE. YOU ARE THE GOD WHO COMMANDS THE WINDS AND THE WAVES, AND WE PRAY THAT YOU WILL PROVIDE REFUGE TO OUR PEOPLE. O LORD, YOU HAVE GRANTED US CERTAIN NATURAL RIGHTS SUCH AS THE RIGHT TO SPEAK FREELY, LIFE, LIBERTY, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, AS WELL AS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE, AND THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE. ONLY IN AMERICA HAVE THESE GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS SO FLOURISHED AND BEEN CATEGORIZED AS BELONGING TO THE PEOPLE, EMBODYING THE VERY ESSENCE OF OUR GOVERNMENT. FATHER, WE PRAY THAT THIS OUTLOOK AND MINDSET, THIS FORM OF GOVERNMENT CONTINUES, AS HAS BEEN OUR HISTORY, ESPECIALLY NOW, WHEN TO OUR HORROR, IT IS BEING CHALLENGED. SO WE PRAY THAT GOD GIVES STRENGTH AND HEALTH TO OUR PRESIDENT, WHO HAS SPLENDIDLY DEMONSTRATED DAILY HIS DETERMINATION TO DEFEND AND MAINTAIN THE GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS OF OUR CITIZENS AS ENSHRINED IN OUR CONSTITUTION AND IN OUR DECLARATION. ELOQUENTLY PASSED DOWN THROUGH OUR JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS STOOD UP FEARLESSLY AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE CORRUPTING THE TERM SOCIAL JUSTICE SO AS TO DENY AMERICANS THEIR BIRTHRIGHT AND THESE DIVINE GIFTS. MAY GOD PROTECT HIM. MAY GOD BLESS ALL THOSE IN GOVERNMENT AND AMONG OUR CITIZENS WHO SEEK TO HONOR, DEFEND, AND PRESERVE OUR HERITAGE. LIFT -- THIS LAND WAS FOUNDED IN AN EPIC AND PROVIDENTIAL MOMENT. LIKE THE REVELATION AT SINAI, IT WAS THE MOMENT IN WHICH THE VISION OF GOD RENDEZVOUSED WITH A SOARING AND NOBLE PLANS OF APPOINTED MEN. YET, EVERY SO OFTEN, WE ARE COMPELLED TO RESURRECT AND GIVE REBIRTH TO OUR PROVIDENTIAL BEGINNING, TO RENEW OUR PRESENT DAYS WITH THE EXUBERANCE OF THOSE FOUNDING DAYS. PERHAPS THAT IS WHAT IS MEANT WHEN WE SAY, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. WE PLEDGE TO VIGILANTLY PROTECT AND TEND THE GARDEN SO AS TO IMBIBE ITS BLESSED FRUITS. MAY GOD TO -- CONTINUE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AND MAY WE CONTINUE TO BE HIS PEOPLE, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, AND LET US SAY, AMEN. >> I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. >> GOOD EVENING. I'M GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM OF SOUTH DAKOTA. I AM HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE I BELIEVE AMERICA IS AN EXCEPTIONAL NATION, FOUNDED ON THREE PRINCIPLES, EQUALITY, FREEDOM, AND OPPORTUNITY. BUT TODAY, OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES ARE UNDER ATTACK. THIS YEAR, THE CHOICE FOR AMERICANS IS BETWEEN A MAN WHO VALUES THESE IDEALS AND ALL THAT CAN BE BUILT BECAUSE OF THEM, AND A MAN WHO ISN'T GUIDED BY THESE IDEALS AND COINCIDENTALLY, HAS BUILT NOTHING. REMEMBER, AMERICA'S BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENCE AND FIGHT FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE WAS SOMETHING THAT HAD NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. MEN OF GREAT INTELLECT AND WISDOM, LIKE JAMES MADISON, THE FATHER OF OUR CONSTITUTION, HELPED OUR CONSTITUTIONAL -- HOPED OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC WOULD LAST FOR AGES AND PREVENT TYRANNY. MADISON AUTHORED MUCH OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS BECAUSE HE UNDERSTOOD THE NATURAL TENDENCY OF GOVERNMENT TO INCREASINGLY ENCROACH ON THE PEOPLE'S CONSENT, AND THUS OUR FREEDOM. HE URGED HIS COLLEAGUES TO ADOPT THESE AMENDMENTS TO ENSHRINED IN OUR CONSTITUTION THE IDEALS LAID OUT IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THAT ALL POWER COMES FROM THE PEOPLE, THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS CREATED AND OUGHT TO BE EXERCISED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE. OUR CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES THE RIGHT TO SPEAK, TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO WORSHIP. THE RIGHT TO ARM OURSELVES AS A COUNTERBALANCE TO A STANDING ARMY. AND THE RIGHT TO A FAIR AND EQUITABLE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. WE MUST FIGHT TO PROTECT THESE FOUNDATIONAL RIGHTS FROM GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE AND INDIFFERENCE. AMERICA IS UNIQUE IN THE WORLD. GOVERNMENT'S POWER AT ALL LEVELS IS LIMITED TO THE CONFINES OF OUR CONSTITUTION, WHICH PROTECTS OUR GOD-GIVEN LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS. WE ARE NOT AND WILL NOT BE THE SUBJECT OF AN ELITE CLASS OF SO-CALLED EXPERTS. WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE GOVERNMENT . NOW, AT TIMES, OUR COUNTRY HAS STRUGGLED TO LIVE UP TO OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES. ANOTHER GREAT AMERICAN, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, NEW THAT STRUGGLE BETTER THAN ANYBODY. WHEN HE WAS JUST 28 YEARS OLD, HONEST ABE SAW WILD AND FURIOUS PASSIONS WORSE THAN SAVAGE MOBS TAKING THE PLACE OF RECENT JUDGMENT. HE WAS ALARMED BY THE INCREASING DISREGARD FOR THE RULE OF LAW THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. HE WAS CONCERNED FOR THE PEOPLE THAT HAD SEEN THEIR PROPERTY DESTROYED, THEIR FAMILIES ATTACKED, AND THEIR LIVES THREATENED OR EVEN TAKEN AWAY. THESE GOOD PEOPLE WERE BECOMING TIRED OF, AND DISGUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT THAT OFFERED THEM NO PROTECTION. SOUND FAMILIAR? IT TOOK 244 YEARS TO BUILD THIS GREAT NATION. FLAWS AND ALL. BUT WE STAND TO LOSE IT IN A TINY FRACTION OF THAT TIME IF WE CONTINUE DOWN THE PATH TAKEN BY THE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR RADICAL SUPPORTERS. FROM SEATTLE AND PORTLAND, TO WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK, DEMOCRAT RUN CITIES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY ARE BEING OVERRUN BY VIOLENT MOBS. THE VIOLENCE IS RAMPANT. THERE IS LOOTING, CHAOS, DESTRUCTION, AND MURDER. PEOPLE THAT CAN AFFORD TO FLEE HAVE FLED, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT CAN'T, GOOD, HARD-WORKING AMERICANS, ARE LEFT TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S COMMITMENT TO INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND SELF-GOVERNMENT IS AS NECESSARY TODAY AS IT WAS IN 1860, WHEN WE WON OUR FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. OUR PARTY RESPECTS INDIVIDUALS BASED ON WHO THEY ARE. WE DON'T DIVIDE PEOPLE BASED ON THEIR BELIEFS OR THEIR ROOTS. WE DON'T SHUN PEOPLE WHO THINK FOR THEMSELVES. WE RESPECT EVERYONE, EQUALLY UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, AND WE TREAT THEM AS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WISHED, ACCORDING TO THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER, NOT THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. IN JUST FOUR YEARS, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS LIFTED PEOPLE OF ALL RACES AND BACKGROUNDS OUT OF POVERTY. HE SHRUNK GOVERNMENT. HE PUT MONEY BACK INTO THE POCKETS OF HARD-WORKING ORDINARY AMERICANS. HE HAS ADVANCED RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. HE PROTECTED THE SECOND AMENDMENT. YOU CAN LOOK BACK 50 YEARS. YOU WON'T FIND ANYONE THAT HAS SURPASSED PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SUCCESS ON THESE FOUR ISSUES ALONE. HISTORY CHOOSES ITS HEROES FOR THE TIME IN WHICH THEY LIVE. AT OUR FOUNDING, MADISON WAS ONE OF THE CHOSEN. WHEN THE NATION'S VERY EXISTENCE WAS CHALLENGED, IT WAS LINCOLN'S TURN. THANKS TO THESE MEN, AMERICA IS A LAND OF HOPE. THEIR EXAMPLES HAVE BEEN REPEATED IN COUNTLESS WAYS BY SIMPLE AMERICANS FOLLOWING THEIR CONSCIENCE. BUT THERE WAS ANOTHER AMERICAN HERO TO BE RECOGNIZED. AND THAT IS THE COMMON AMERICAN. THIS IS WHO PRESIDENT TRUMP IS FIGHTING FOR. HE IS FIGHTING FOR YOU. ♪ >> I REPRESENT LOGGERS AND TRUCKERS IN MINNESOTA, BUT I'LL -- ALSO REPRESENT A WAY OF LIFE. LOGGING HAS BEEN PART OF THE GREAT AMERICAN STORY FROM THE BEGINNING. IF YOU GO TO THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA AND LOOK UP, YOU CAN SEE LOGGERS ON ONE OF THE PANELS. NEW ENGLAND SETTLERS CARVING OUT A NEW WORLD FROM THE WILDERNESS. LOGGING IS THE MOST DANGEROUS JOB IN THE COUNTRY BUT WE EMBRACE THAT RISK BECAUSE WE KNOW AMERICA WAS BUILT BY STRONG PEOPLE TILTING THINGS TOGETHER. AMERICA NEEDS US TO KEEP BUILDING AND WE CAN'T WAIT TO BE A PART OF IT. BUT THE LAST TIME JOE BIDEN WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, MINNESOTA LOST NEARLY HALF OF ITS MILLS, THOUSANDS OF JOBS, AND EXPERIENCED NEARLY A DECADE OF DECLINE. IT WAS A SIMILAR STORY IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. THE ADMINISTRATION JUST DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE. 47 YEARS IN WASHINGTON, JOE BIDEN HASN'T DONE ANYTHING FOR THE TIMBER INDUSTRY. WHEN PLANTS CLOSED IN DULUTH, C OOK, AND BEMIDJI, THEY WERE NUMBERS ON A PAGE FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. FOR ME, THEY WERE PEOPLE, JOBS AND FAMILIES. UNDER OBAMA-BIDEN, RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS WERE ALLOWED TO KILL THE FORESTS. WILDFIRE AFTER WILDFIRE SHOWED THE CONSEQUENCES. MANAGED FORESTS ARE HEALTHY FORESTS. UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, WE SEE A NEW RECOGNITION OF THE VALUE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT IN REDUCING WILDFIRES AND WE HAVE SEEN NEW SUPPORT FOR OUR WAY OF LIFE, WHERE A STRONG BACK AND A STRONG WORK ETHIC CAN BRING -- BUILD A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS. WE WANT TO BUILD FAMILIES WHERE WE WERE RAISED AND STANDBY COMMUNITIES THAT STOOD BY US. WE WANT THAT WAY OF LIFE AVAILABLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION AND WE WANT OUR FORESTS, TOO. PRESIDENT TRUMP, THANK YOU FOR HELPING US DO JUST THAT. ♪ >> I AM U.S. SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN FROM TENNESSEE. AMERICA IS A NATION OF HEROES. IN TIMES OF DIFFICULTY, WE ARE REMINDED THAT THEY ARE ALL AROUND US. THEY ARE IN LINE WITH US AT THE GROCERY STORE, IN THE PEW WITH US AT CHURCH. THEY ARE THE REGULAR AMERICANS TO STEP UP TO VOLUNTEER AND SERVE WHEN WE NEED THE MOST. THEY STOOD AT THE FOREFRONT THROUGHOUT THIS PANDEMIC. THE EMERGENCY ROOM NURSES WHO GO BACK SHIFT AFTER SHIFT, THE MEDICAL RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING A VACCINE AND THERAPIES TO COMBAT WHAT THE CHINESE COMMUNIST REGIME UNLEASHED ON THE WORLD. COOKEVILLE'S DOUBLE SPRINGS CHURCH OF CHRIST MEMBERS LIFTING OUR COUNTRY UP IN PRAYER AND PROVIDING FOR THOSE IMPACTED BY TRAGEDY. BUT TONIGHT, I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT ANOTHER KIND OF HERO. THE KIND DEMOCRATS DON'T RECOGNIZE BECAUSE THEY DON'T FIT INTO THEIR NARRATIVE. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE HEROES OF OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ARMED SERVICES. LEFTISTS TRY TO TURN THEM INTO VILLAINS. THEY WANT TO CANCEL THEM. BUT I AM HERE TO TELL YOU THESE HEROES CAN'T BE CANCELED. TENNESSEE IS FULL OF THEM. AFTER ALL, WE ARE THE VOLUNTEER STATE. MY DAD SERVED IN THE ARMY IN WORLD WAR II. WHEN HE CAME HOME, HE PUT ON ANOTHER UNIFORM AND FOR 30 YEARS, VOLUNTEERED TO HELP OUR UNDERFUNDED SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. I AM REMINDED OF HIM WHENEVER I SEE COMPASSION AND SELFLESSNESS IN OTHERS. WHEN I SEE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERY SINGLE DAY TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITIES SAFE, IN SPITE OF THE HATRED THROWN AT THEM. WHEN I SEE THE HEROES WHO VOLUNTEER TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY, PUTTING THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE FOR OUR FREEDOM. MANY OF THESE HEROES CALL TENNESSEE HOME, AND WE COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION AT FORT CAMPBELL. THE COMMON THREAD BETWEEN THEM IS A DEEP-SEATED DESIRE TO SERVE A CAUSE LARGER THAN THEMSELVES. THEY DON'T BELIEVE THEIR COUNTRY OWES THEM ANYTHING. THEY BELIEVE THEY OWE THEIR COUNTRY AND THEIR FELLOW MAN. AS HARD AS DEMOCRATS TRY, THEY CAN'T CANCEL OUR HEROES. THEY CAN'T CONTEST THEIR BRAVERY, AND THEY CAN'T DISMISS THE POWERFUL SENSE OF SERVICE THAT LIVES DEEP IN THEIR SOULS. SO THEY TRY TO DEFUND THEM. OUR MILITARY, OUR POLICE, EVEN ICE. TO TAKE AWAY THEIR TOOLS TO KEEP US SAFE. JOE BIDEN, KAMALA HARRIS, AND THEIR RADICAL ALLIES TRY TO DESTROY THESE HEROES BECAUSE IF THERE ARE NO HEROES TO INSPIRE US, GOVERNMENT CAN CONTROL US. THEY CLOSE OUR CHURCHES. THEY KEEP THE LIQUOR STORES AND ABORTION CLINICS OPEN. THEY SAY WE CAN'T GATHER IN COMMUNITY GROUPS, BUT ENCOURAGE PROTESTS, RIOTS, AND LOOTING IN THE STREETS. IF THE DEMOCRATS HAD THEIR WAY, THEY WOULD KEEP YOU LOCKED IN YOUR HOUSE UNTIL YOU BECOME DEPENDENT ON THE GOVERNMENT FOR EVERYTHING. THAT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE COMMUNIST CHINA TO ME. MAYBE THAT IS WHY JOE BIDEN IS SO SOFT ON THEM. WHY NANCY PELOSI SAYS THAT CHINA WOULD PREFER JOE BIDEN. I BET THEY WOULD. BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS STOOD UP FOR OUR HEROES EVERY DAY. HE STOOD BY OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, OUR MILITARY, AND THE FREEDOMS WE HOLD DEAR. HE HAS MADE GOOD ON HIS PROMISE TO PUT AMERICA FIRST, AND I HOPE YOU WILL STAND WITH ME AS WE SEND HIM BACK FOR FOUR MORE YEARS. WITH THE CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE DEMOCRATS, YOU WILL NEVER CANCEL OUR HEROES. ♪ >> I AM CONGRESSMAN DAN CRENSHAW. EIGHT YEARS AGO IN THE FIELDS OF AFGHANISTAN, A CLOSE FRIEND AND TEAMMATE LAID DOWN COVER FIRE AGAINST TALIBAN INSURERS AREN'T SO I COULD WALK, BLINDED AND BLOODIED, TO A MEDEVAC HELICOPTER AND SURVIVE. BUT DAVE WAS KILLED TWO MONTHS LATER. HE DIED A HERO TO THIS GREAT COUNTRY. HERE IS THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA. WE ARE A COUNTRY OF HEROES. I BELIEVE THAT. SO SHOULD YOU. WE ARE A PEOPLE WITH A COMMON SET OF IDEALS CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY. PEOPLE THAT HAVE SACRIFICED TIME AND AGAIN FOR OUR FREEDOM AND THE FREEDOM OF OTHERS. THAT IS SOMETHING NO OTHER COUNTRY EVER, ANYWHERE, CAN CLAIM. SINCE 9/11, I HAVE SEEN AMERICA'S HEROES UP CLOSE. SOME OF THEM SAVED MY LIFE. SOME OF THEM SAVED MANY OTHERS LIVES. MANY OF THEM NEVER MADE IT HOME. THESE HEROES ACTED AS IF THE WHOLE STRUGGLE DEPENDED ON THEM ALONE, AS IF ANY WEEK THIS ON THEIR PART WOULD BE A REFLECTION ON THE WHOLE NATION. THAT IS CALLED DUTY. AMERICA HAS A LONG HISTORY OF IT. OUR ENEMIES FEAR US BECAUSE AMERICANS FIGHT FOR GOOD AND WE KNOW IT. IT GIVES US STRENGTH. WHEN OUR HEROES ARE TRUSTED AND EQUIPPED, FREEDOM PREVAILS. THE DEFEAT OF ISIS WAS THE RESULT OF AMERICA BELIEVING IN OUR HEROES. OUR PRESIDENT HAVING THEIR BACKS AND REBUILDING OUR MILITARY SO WE HAD WHAT WE NEEDED TO FINISH OUR MISSION. THE COVERING OF THE IRANIAN REGIME AND RESTORATION OF THE DETERRENCE ONCE LOST IS THE RESULT OF AMERICA BELIEVING IN HER OWN MIGHT AGAIN. AMERICA'S HEROISM ISN'T RELEGATED TO THE BATTLEFIELD. EVERY SINGLE DAY, WE SEE THEM, IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK. IT IS THE NURSE WHO VOLUNTEERS FOR BACK TO BACK SHIFTS CARING FOR COVID PATIENTS BECAUSE SHE FEELS THAT IS HER DUTY. THE PARENT WHO WILL RELEARN ALGEBRA BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY THEY ARE LETTING THEIR KID FALL BEHIND WHILE SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED. IT IS THE COP THAT GETS SPIT ON ONE DAY AND WILL SAVE A CHILD'S LIFE THE NEXT. AMERICA IS THE COUNTRY WHERE THE YOUNG MILITARY WIFE WITH TWO YOUNG CHILDREN ANSWERS THE UNEXPECTED KNOCK ON THE DOOR, LOOKS THE MEN IN UNIFORM IN THE EYE, AND AS HER WHOLE WORLD COMES CRASHING DOWN, SHE HOLDS BACK TEARS AND TAKES CARE OF HER FAMILY BECAUSE SHE MUST. HIS IS WHAT HEROISM LOOKS LIKE. IT IS WHAT WE ARE. A NATION OF HEROES. WE NEED YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER. WE NEED TO REMIND OURSELVES WHAT HEROISM REALLY IS. HEROISM IS SELF-SACRIFICE. IT IS NOT MORALIZING AND LECTURING OVER OTHERS WHEN THEY DISAGREE. HEROISM IS GRACE, NOT PERPETUAL OUTRAGE. HEROISM IS REBUILDING OUR COMMUNITIES, NOT DESTROYING THEM. HEROISM IS RENEWING FAITH IN THE SYMBOLS THAT UNITE US, NOT TEARING THEM DOWN. AMERICA IS A FABRIC, WOVEN FROM THE THREADS OF HISTORY'S BEST STORIES, BEST ATTRIBUTES AND GREATEST IDEAS. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT REFLECTS THE OLDEST AND MOST IMPORTANT VIRTUES, SELF-SACRIFICE, COURAGE, TOLERANCE, LOVE OF COUNTRY, GRACE, PASSION FOR HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT. WE CAN DECIDE RIGHT NOW THAT AMERICAN GREATNESS WILL NOT BE REJECTED NOR SQUANDERED. AS THE AMERICAN FOUNDING WAS GROUNDED IN INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, SO WILL BE OUR FUTURE. IF WE ARE TO REDISCOVER OUR STRENGTH, IT MUST BE AN ENDEAVOR UNDERTAKEN BY EACH AND EVERYONE OF US. WE MUST BECOME THE HEROES THAT WE SO ADMIRE. AMERICA WAS BUILT BY THEM. OUR FUTURE WILL BE PROTECTED BY THEM. IT WILL BE PROTECTED BY YOU. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ♪ >> GOOD EVENING. I AM RETIRED LIEUTENANT GENERAL KEITH KELLOGG. IN 1967, AT AGE 22, I VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE MY COUNTRY IN VIETNAM. FROM THE JUNGLES OF VIETNAM TO THE DESERTS OF IRAQ, I HAVE GONE WHERE MY NATION ASKED. I HAVE BORNE WITNESS TO SOLDIERS' LAST MOMENTS ON EARTH, THEIR LIVES SPENT IN HOPE IN -- AND PROMISE OF A BETTER FUTURE ARE ALL AMERICANS. I WAS IN THE PENTAGON ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. I LOST FRIENDS THERE THAT DAY. IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED, I WATCHED MY DAUGHTER, SON, AND SON-IN-LAW DEPLOY TO AFGHANISTAN. I HAVE LOOKED INTO THE EYES OF MY GRANDCHILDREN AS THEY SAID GOODBYE TO THEIR FATHERS AND HUGGED THEM ONE LAST TIME. I LIVED SERVICE. I UNDERSTAND SACRIFICE. I KNOW LEADERSHIP. OVER THE PAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, I HAVE WITNESSED EVERY MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION BY THE PRESIDENT. I HAVE BEEN IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED. I SAW ONLY ONE AGENDA, AND ONE GUIDING QUESTION. WHEN TOUGH CALLS HAD TO BE MADE, IS THIS DECISION RIGHT FOR AMERICA? WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP TOOK OFFICE, DECADES OF FAILED FOREIGN POLICY HAD CRIPPLED US. HE FACED WARS WITHOUT END IN SIGHT, CREATION OF FAILED STATES LIKE LIBYA AND SYRIA, A PAST THAT ALLOWED A TERRORIST CALIPHATE TO GROW AND LEADERSHIP IN WASHINGTON THAT ALLOWED ARM MILITARY TO ATROPHY WHILE WE SPEND TRILLIONS ABROAD INSTEAD OF INVESTING AT HOME. PRESIDENT TRUMP REVERSED THE KLEIN OF OUR MILITARY AND RESTRUCTURED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY WITH HISTORIC INVESTMENT AND VISION. OUR MILITARY IS NO BETTER EQUIPPED, BETTER RESOURCED, AND BETTER MANNED THAN ANY MILITARY IN THE WORLD. PRESIDENT TRUMP DEMOLISHED THE TERRORIST ISOLATES -- ISIS CALIPHATE AND ELIMINATED ITS LEADER, ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST BRUTAL TERRORISTS. PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK DECISIVE ACTION AGAINST IRANI AND TERRORIST MASTERMIND QASEM SOLEIMANI, A MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN SERVICEMEN. WHEN OUR NATO ALLIES FAILED TO MEET THEIR COMMITMENTS AS WE UPHELD OURS, PRESIDENT TRUMP DEMANDED PARITY. NATO MEMBERS HAVE NOW INCREASED THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS OVER $100 BILLION THIS YEAR. NATO'S SECRETARY-GENERAL CREDITS PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. PRESIDENT TRUMP CHALLENGED AND CONTINUES TO CHALLENGE AN EVER INCREASINGLY PROVOCATIVE AND MILITANT CHINA. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NO HAWK. HE WISELY WIELDS THE SWORD WHEN REQUIRED, BUT BELIEVES IN SEEKING PEACE INSTEAD OF PERPETUAL CONFLICT. JUST OVER A WEEK AGO, OUR PRESIDENT BROKERED A PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND ISRAEL. THE FIRST IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN OVER 25 YEARS. THIS WEEK, AFGHAN NEGOTIATORS WITH HELP FROM AMERICAN OFFICIALS WILL START PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE TALIBAN AND THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT TO END AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR. ASK YOURSELF, HAS THIS PRESIDENT KEPT HIS PROMISES? TO KEEP US OUT OF NEEDLESS CONFLICTS AND PURSUE ENDING WARS WITHOUT END? HAS HE DEFENDED YOUR INTERESTS IN RENEGOTIATING TRADE DEALS THAT PREVIOUSLY HURT AMERICANS' INTERNATIONAL SECURITY? HAS HE FULFILLED HIS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ROLE BY DECISIVELY GOING AFTER OUR NATION ENEMIES? YOU AND I KNOW, THE ANSWER IS YES. THE CHOICE IS CLEAR. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME. THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WILL DECIDE THE COURSE OF OUR COUNTRY FOR DECADES TO COME. I AM ASKING YOU TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED SO WE NEVER HAVE TO LOOK BACK AND RECALL WHAT IT WAS ONCE LIKE IN AMERICA, WHEN MEN AND WOMEN WERE FREE, OUR FAMILIES WERE SECURE, AND WE HAD A PRESIDENT WHO SERVED THE PEOPLE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. THANK YOU, AND GOOD NIGHT. ♪ >> GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS PARRA MYERS. TONIGHT, I AM HERE AT -- AS A WIFE AND MOTHER TO SHARE HOW EDUCATION FREEDOM HAS PERSONALLY IMPACTED MY FAMILY, ESPECIALLY THE LIFE OF MY SON SAMUEL. BEFORE SAMUEL WAS EVEN BORN, I WAS TOLD HIS LIFE WOULDN'T BE WORTH LIVING. WHEN EARLY TESTS REVEALED HE HAD DOWNS SYNDROME, OUR DOCTORS ENCOURAGED ME TO TERMINATE THE PREGNANCY. HE SAID IF YOU DO NOT, YOU WILL BE BURDENING YOUR LIFE, YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR COMMUNITY. I KNEW MY BABY WAS A HUMAN BEING CREATED BY GOD, AND THAT MADE HIM WORTHY OF LIFE. I AM THANKFUL THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP VALUES THE LIFE OF THE UNBORN. WHEN WE WENT TO REGISTER SAMUEL FOR KINDERGARTEN, WE WERE TOLD TO JUST PUT HIM WHERE HE WOULD BE COMFORTABLE. DON'T STRESS HIM OUT BY TRYING TO TEACH HIM. WHEN WE PUSHED FOR HIM TO ATTEND HIS NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL WITH HIS SISTERS, WE WERE TOLD, JUST GO HOME AND LET US DO WHAT WE DO. WHEN I INQUIRED ABOUT FUNCTIONAL LEARNING, I WAS TOLD, THIS IS ALL YOU GET. LIKE IT OR NOT. I DID NOT LIKE IT. ONE SIZE DID NOT FIT ALL. SO I HELPED FIGHT TO PASS LEGISLATION IN OHIO FOR A SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOLARSHIP SO THAT ALL STUDENTS COULD CHOOSE THE RIGHT PROGRAM FOR THEIR NEEDS. I WORKED TO START A NEW FUNCTIONAL LEARNING PROGRAM AT OUR LOCAL PRIVATE SCHOOL. FINALLY, SAMUEL HAD AN APPROPRIATE PLACE TO LEARN. LAST DECEMBER, SAMUEL WAS INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO MEET OUR PRESIDENT AND SHARE HIS THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION FREEDOM. HE SAID, SCHOOL CHOICE HELPED MY DREAMS COME TRUE. MY SCHOOL TAUGHT ME THE WAY I LEARN BEST. I WAS ABLE TO FIT IN. I MADE MANY FRIENDS. I BECAME A PART OF MY COMMUNITY. MY TEACHERS HELPED ME BECOME THE BEST I CAN BE. PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOOK MY HAND AND SAID, WONDERFUL JOB, MOM. YOUR SON IS AMAZING. UNLIKE THE DOCTOR WHO TOLD ME TO END SAMUEL'S LIFE BEFORE IT EVEN BEGAN, PRESIDENT TRUMP DIDN'T DISMISS MY SON. HE SHOWED SAMUEL HE VALUED HIM AND WAS PROUD OF WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED. PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE SAMUEL AN EQUAL SEAT AT THE TABLE. TONIGHT, I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND MY THANKS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FOR THEIR AND FOR FIGHTING TO MAKE SURE EVERY CHILD IN AMERICA HAS AN EQUAL SEAT AT THE TABLE AND AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN LIFE. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. >> IT ALL STARTED AT A TEA PARTY. 13 YEARS BEFORE THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. CIVIL UNREST AND DIVISION SEPARATED COUNTRYMEN INTO TWO OPPOSING CAMPS. ONE DETERMINED TO KEEP AFRICAN-AMERICAN PEOPLE ENSLAVED. THE OTHER DETERMINED TO SEE ALL PEOPLE FREE. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON ANSWER THE CALL TO FIGHT FOR THAT FREEDOM WHEN THEY WERE SELECTED AS DELEGATES FOR ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION BUT UPON ARRIVAL WERE TOLD THEY COULD NOT SPEAK OR VOTE AT THE MALE-DOMINATED EVENT. THEY MET FOR TEA. BY THE END OF THE DAY, THEY FORMED A COALITION WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GAINING THE RIGHT FOR WOMEN TO VOTE SO THEY WOULD BE FREE TO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF OTHERS. WOMEN ACROSS AMERICA UNITED AND FORMED ACTIVIST GROUPS WORKING TIRELESSLY TO WIN THE VOTE FOR AMERICAN WOMEN. THE INCOMPARABLE SUSAN B ANTHONY BECAME ONE OF THE MOST PHYSICAL LEADERS OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE WHEN SHE REGISTERED AND VOTED FOR EVERY REPUBLICAN ON THE BALLOT. AS PUNISHMENT FOR HER ACTIONS, SHE WAS ARRESTED FOR ILLEGAL VOTING. AT THE REQUEST OF SUSAN B ANTHONY, THIS SENATOR INTRODUCED THE 19TH AMENDMENT IN 1878. SUSAN B ANTHONY AMENDMENT WAS SUBMITTED AND DEFEATED FOUR TIMES BUT WOMEN CONTINUED TO FIGHT. THEY FOUGHT FOR ALL WOMEN'S VOICES TO BE HEARD AND ALLOWED TO VOTE. FOR THE TWO YEARS PRIOR TO RATIFICATION, THEY TICKETED THE WHITE HOUSE. FINALLY, REPUBLICANS WOULD REGAIN CONTROL OF CONGRESS. THE EQUAL SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT WAS SIGNED INTO LAW. IT TOOK 72 YEARS AND IT WILL CHANGE THE LIVES OF WOMEN FOREVER. THE VICTORY WAS ACHIEVED PEACEFULLY THROUGH THE VALIANT EFFORTS OF WOMEN PATRIOTS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. IN A BOLD DECLARATION OF RIGHTS FOR WOMEN, PRESIDENT TRUMP GRANTED A FULL PARDON TO SUSAN B ANTHONY ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT RATIFICATION. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE WAS BORN FROM A DESIRE TO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF OTHERS. NOW, WE, THE GREAT PATRIOTS OF AMERICA WILL BANDED TOGETHER ONCE AGAIN AND WITH ONE UNIFIED VOICE, WE WILL VOTE FOR FREEDOM. >> YOU MAY KNOW ME AS A SUPPORTER OF PRESIDENT TRUMP. TONIGHT, I AM HERE TO SHARE WITH YOU HOW HE SUPPORTED ME, BOTH AS A NEW MOM AND AS AN AMERICAN WITH A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION. WHEN I WAS 21 YEARS OLD, I GOT A CALL THAT CHANGED MY LIFE. IT WAS MY DOCTOR INFORMING ME THAT I HAD TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE GENETIC MUTATION. THE MUTATION THAT PUT MY CHANCES OF BREAST CANCER AT 84%. IT WAS THIS A MUTATION THAT MY MOM HAD, COMPELLING HER TO GET A PREVENTATIVE DOUBLE MISTAKE TO ME. REMOVING HER BREAST TISSUE BUT PROTECTING HER FROM A DISEASE THAT HAS TAKEN FAR TOO MANY OF OUR MOTHERS, OUR SISTERS, OUR FRIENDS. IN MY FAMILY, EIGHT WOMEN ALONE WERE DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER. SEVERAL IN THEIR YOUNG 20'S. I NOW FACED THE SAME PROSPECT. FOR NEARLY A DECADE, I WAS ROUTINELY AT THE CANCER CENTER GETTING M.R.I.'S, ULTRASOUNDS AND NECESSARY SURVEILLANCE. DURING THESE VISITS, I CROSS PATHS WITH BRAVE WOMEN BATTLING CANCER AND FIGHTING THROUGH CHEMOTHERAPY. THEY WERE A TESTAMENT TO AMERICAN STRENGTH. THEY ARE AMERICAN HEROES. ON MAY 1, 2018, I FOLLOWED IN MY MOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS. I WAS SCARED. THE NIGHT BEFORE, I FOUGHT BACK TEARS AS I PREPARED TO LOSE A PIECE OF MYSELF FOREVER. BUT THE NEXT DAY, WITH MY MOM, DAD, HUSBAND, AND JESUS CHRIST BY MY SIDE I UNDERWENT A MISSED ECTOMY. ALMOST ELIMINATING MY CHANCE OF BREAST CANCER, A DECISION I NOW CELEBRATE. IT IS AN INDIVIDUAL DECISION, MY DOCTOR AND I CHOSE A COURSE OF SURGERY THAT LEFT ME VIRTUALLY UNCHANGED. BUT MORE IMPORTANT THAN PHYSICAL RESULTS, I DEVELOPED A STRENGTH AND A CONFIDENCE THAT I CARRY WITH ME. DURING ONE OF MY MOST DIFFICULT TIMES I EXPECTED TO HAVE THE SUPPORT OF MY FAMILY BUT I HAD MORE SUPPORT THAN I KNEW. AS I CAME OUT OF ANASTASIO, ON OF THE FIRST CALLS I RECEIVED WAS FROM A IVANKA TRUMP. AS I RECOVERED, MY PHONE RANG AGAIN. IT WAS PRESIDENT TRUMP, CALLING TO CHECK ON ME. I WAS BLOWN AWAY. HERE WAS THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD CARING ABOUT MY CIRCUMSTANCE. AT THE TIME, I HAD ONLY MET PRESIDENT TRUMP ON A FEW OCCASIONS. NOW, I KNOW HIM WELL. I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS PRESIDENT STANDS BY AMERICANS WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS. IN FACT, PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED ME THIS MORNING AND SPOKE WITH A SEVERAL TIMES TODAY. HE TOLD ME HOW PROUD HE WAS OF ME FOR SHARING THIS STORY. THE SAME WAY PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SUPPORTED ME, HE SUPPORTS YOU. I SEE IT EVERY DAY. I HAVE HEARD HIM SAY THE HARDEST PART OF HIS JOB IS WRITING TO LOVED ONES OF FALLEN SOLDIERS. I HAVE SEEN HIM OFFER HEARTFELT OUTREACH TO GRIEVING PARENTS WHO LOST THEIR CHILDREN TO CRIME IN THE STREETS. I HAVE WATCHED HIM FIGHT FOR AMERICANS WHO LOST THEIR JOBS. PRESIDENT TRUMP FIGHTS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BECAUSE HE CARES ABOUT STORIES LIKE THESE. I HAVE A NINE-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER. SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL, SWEET LITTLE GIRL. I CHOOSE TO WORK FOR THIS PRESIDENT FOR HER. WHEN I LOOK INTO MY BABY'S EYES, I SEE A NEW LIFE. A MIRACLE. TO WHICH I HAVE A SOLEMN RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT. THAT MEANS PROTECTING AMERICAN FUTURES. A FUTURE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL FIGHT FOR. WHEREVER NEIGHBORS -- NEIGHBORHOODS ARE PROTECTED. WHERE LIFE IS SACRED, WHERE GOD IS CHERISHED. NOT TAKEN OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS, REMOVED FROM OUR PLEDGE AND ERASED FROM OUR HISTORY. I WANT MY DAUGHTER TO GROW UP IN PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP'S AMERICA. CHOOSING TO HAVE A PREVENTATIVE MASTECTOMY WAS THE HARDEST DECISION I EVER HAD TO MAKE. BUT SUPPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP WHO WILL PROTECT MY DAUGHTER AND OUR CHILDREN' WAS THE EASIEST. >> GOOD EVENING. KAREN: THE 19TH AMENDMENT WAS ADOPTED INTO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, GUARANTEEING WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE. BECAUSE OF HEROES LIKE SUSAN B ANTHONY AND LUCY STONE, WOMEN TODAY LIKE OUR DAUGHTERS AUDREY AND CHARLOTTE AND FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD AND THEIR VOTES COUNT. THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT WAS THE GATEWAY THAT LED TO WOMEN HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACHIEVE MONUMENTAL MILESTONES AND ACCOMPLISH SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS IN BOTH CIVIC AND GOVERNMENTAL ROLES. THIS EVENING, WE LOOK AT HEROES IN OUR LAND. A SECOND LADY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE PAST 3.5 YEARS, I HAVE HAD THE HONOR OF MEETING MANY HEROES ACROSS THIS GREAT COUNTRY. DEPENDS -- THE PENCES ARE A MILITARY FAMILY. ONE IS A MARINE, ONE IS IN THE NAVY. MILITARY SPOUSES, THESE MEN AND WOMEN LIKE OUR DAUGHTER CHARLOTTE AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, SARAH ARE THE HOME FRONT HEROES. I HAVE BEEN PRIVILEGED TO HEAR SO MANY STORIES OF SELFLESS SUPPORT, VOLUNTEER SPIRIT AND GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARMED FORCES AND OUR COMMUNITIES. MILITARY SPOUSES MAKE VERY FREQUENT MOVES AND JOB CHANGES. ALL WHILE EXHIBITING PRIDE, STRENGTH AND DETERMINATION. AND BEING A PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER THAN THEMSELVES. TO ALL OF THE MILITARY SPOUSES, THANK YOU. PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT PENCE HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING OUR UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES, INCLUDING OUR MILITARY FAMILIES ON A SIGNIFICANT SCALE. WHILE TRAVELING THROUGHOUT OUR NATION, TO EDUCATE MILITARY SPOUSES ABOUT POLICY SOLUTIONS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS PROMOTED, INVOLVING REAL, TANGIBLE PROGRESS IN MILITARY SPOUSE EMPLOYMENT. I HAVE BEEN INSPIRED TO MEET HEROES LIKE LISA BRADLEY AND CAMERON CRUZ. THESE MILITARY SPOUSES DECIDED TO START THEIR OWN BUSINESS. NAMED AFTER THE ROSIE THE RIVETER CAMPAIGN USED TO RECRUIT WOMEN WORKERS DURING WORLD WAR II. OUR RIVETER MAKES BEAUTIFUL HANDBAGS, DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY BY MILITARY SPOUSES. MANY OF THOSE SPOUSES LIVE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. THEY PREPARED AND SENT THEIR SECTION OF THE BAG TO THE COMPANY LOCATED IN NORTH CAROLINA WHERE THE FINAL PRODUCT IS ASSEMBLED. MILITARY SPOUSE HERO IN BILLINGS MONTANA IS A CULINARY ARTIST WHO HAD DREAMED OF STARTING HER OWN RESTAURANT. WORKING WITH A SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER, SHE STARTED HER RESTAURANT, THE SASSY BISCUIT. SHE JUST OPENED A SECOND RESTAURANT IN DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE. AS THE SECOND LADY, I HAVE ALSO BEEN ABLE TO BRING AWARENESS TO A FORM OF THERAPY FOR OUR ROAD VETERANS. SUFFERING FROM PTSD. ART THERAPY FACILITATED BY A PROFESSIONAL ART THERAPIST IS ESPECIALLY EFFECTIVE WITH POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER. A MARINE VETERAN I MET WHO DEPLOYED FOR COMBAT IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN SAID NOTHING HAD HELPED HIM DEAL WITH THE TRAUMA FROM HIS SERVICE IN THE MARINES UNTIL HE FINALLY AGREED TO MEET WITH THE ART THERAPIST AT WALTER REED MEDICAL CENTER. CHRIS CREDITS ARE THERAPY WITH SAVING HIS MARRIAGE AND HIS LIFE. CHRIS WENT ON TO ESTABLISH A GLASSBLOWING WORKSHOP TO HELP OTHER VETERANS. MANY OF OUR VETERAN HEROES STRUGGLE AS THEY TRANSITION BACK INTO CIVILIAN LIFE AND SOMETIMES DISTRESS IS TOO DIFFICULT TO MANAGE ALONE. A FEW WEEKS AGO, I HAD THE HONOR OF SPEAKING WITH SOME AMAZING AMERICANS WHO ANSWERED THE VETERAN CRISIS LINE. ONE IN PARTICULAR, SIDNEY MORGAN, ESPECIALLY IMPACTED ME. THE VETERAN HERSELF, CITY SAID IT IS THE HIGHEST HONOR OF HER LIFE UNTIL THEY PHYSICALLY WALK INTO A CLINIC TO RECEIVE HELP THEY DESERVE AND SHE CAN PASS THEIR HAND TO SOMEONE READY TO HELP. IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES, WE HAVE ALL SEEN SO MANY EXAMPLES OF EVERYDAY AMERICANS REACHING OUT A HAND TO THOSE IN NEED. THOSE WHO IN HUMILITY HAVE CONSIDERED OTHERS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THEMSELVES. WE HAVE SEEN HEALTH-CARE WORKERS, TEACHERS, FIRST RESPONDERS, UNTIL HEALTH PROVIDERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, GROCERY AND DELIVERY WORKERS, FARMERS, SO MANY OTHERS, HEROES ALL. 100 YEARS AGO, WOMEN SECURED THE RIGHT TO VOTE. LET'S VOTE, AMERICA. LET'S HONOR OUR HEROES. LET'S REELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT PENCE FOR FOUR MORE YEARS. GOD BLESS OUR HEROES AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. >> WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT. THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. ALWAYS FOR THE PURSUIT OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. >> GOOD EVENING. I AM KELLYANNE CONWAY. 100 YEARS AGO, COURAGEOUS WARRIORS HELPED WOMEN SECURE THE RIGHT TO VOTE. THIS HAD BEEN A SENTRY WORTH CELEBRATING. IT IS A REMINDER THAT OUR DEMOCRACY IS YOUNG AND FRAGILE. A WOMAN IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE CAN STILL SEEM NOVEL. NOT SO FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP. FOR DECADES, HE HAS ELEVATED WOMEN TO SENIOR POSITIONS IN BUSINESS AND IN GOVERNMENT. HE CONFIDES IN AND RESPECT US. HE INSISTS WE ARE ON EQUAL FOOTING WITH THE MEN. PRESIDENT TRUMP HELPED ME SHATTER A BERRY IN THE WORLD OF POLITICS BY EMPOWERING ME TO MANAGE HIS CAMPAIGN TO A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION. WITH THE HELP OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, OUR TEAM DEFIED THE CRITICS, THE NAYSAYERS, THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM AND WE WON. FOR MANY OF US, MS. EMPOWERMENT IS NOT A SLOGAN. -- WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT IS NOT A SLOGAN. IT COMES FROM THE EVERYDAY HEROES WHO NURTURE US, SHAPE US AND WHO BELIEVE IN US. I WAS RAISED IN A HOUSEHOLD OF ALL WOMEN. THEY WERE SELF-RELIANT AND RESILIENT. THEIR LIVES WERE NOT EASY. BUT THEY NEVER COMPLAINED. MONEY WAS TIGHT BUT WE HAD AN ABUNDANCE OF WHAT MATTERED MOST. FAMILY, FAITH AND FREEDOM. I LEARNED THAT IN AMERICA, LIMITED MEANS DOES NOT MAKE FOR LIMITED DREAMS. THE PROMISE OF AMERICA BELONGS TO US ALL. THIS IS A LAND OF INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS, ENTREPRENEURS AND EDUCATORS, OF PIONEERS AND PARENTS, EACH CONTRIBUTING TO THE SUCCESS IN THE FUTURE OF A GREAT NATION AND HER PEOPLE. THESE EVERYDAY HEROES HAVE A CHAMPION IN PRESIDENT TRUMP. THE TEACHER WHO TOOK EXTRA TIME TO HELP STUDENTS ADJUST TO MONTHS OF VIRTUAL LEARNING. THE NURSE WHO FINISHED A 12 HOUR COVID SHIFT AND THEN TOOK A BRIEF BREAK ONLY TO CHANGE HER MASK, GOWN AND GLOVES TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER STRIVING TO REOPEN AFTER THE LOCKDOWN WAS LIFTED. AGAIN AFTER HER STORE WAS VANDALIZED AND LOOTED. THE SINGLE MOM WITH TWO KIDS, TWO JOBS, TWO COMMUTES WHO 10 YEARS AFTER THAT EMPTY PROMISE FINALLY HAS HEALTH INSURANCE. PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VICE PRESIDENT PENCE HAVE LIFTED AMERICANS, PROVIDED THEM WITH DIGNITY, OPPORTUNITY AND RESULTS. I HAVE SEEN FIRSTHAND, MANY TIMES THE PRESIDENT COMFORTING AND ENCOURAGING A CHILD WHO HAS LOST A PARENT, A PARENT WHO HAS LOST A CHILD. A WORKER WHO LOST HIS JOB, AND ADOLESCENT WHO LOST HER JOB. DON'T LOSE HOPE HE HAS TOLD THEM , ENSURING THEM THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE AND THAT THEY MATTER. THEY ARE ALWAYS PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAR MORE THAN US. OUR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO FOCUS ON THOSE WHO HAVE FAR LESS THAN US. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS DONE PRECISELY THAT IN TAKING UNPRECEDENTED ACTION TO COMBAT THIS NATION'S DRUG CRISIS. HE TOLD ME THIS IS SO IMPORTANT, KILLIAN. SO MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN RUINED BY ADDICTION AND WE WILL NEVER EVEN KNOW IT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE ASHAMED TO REACH OUT FOR HELP. THEY ARE NOT EVEN SURE WHO TO TURN TO THEIR TOUGHEST HOUR. RATHER THAN LOOK THE OTHER WAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP STARED RIGHTLY AT THIS DRUG CRISIS NEXT-DOOR AND THROUGH LANDMARK BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION HAS HELPED SECURE HISTORIC INVESTMENTS IN SURVEILLANCE, EDUCATION, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND RECOVERY. WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. BUT THE POLITICAL INERTIA THAT COSTS LIVES AND THE SILENT AND THE STIGMA THAT PREVENTS PEOPLE IN NEED FROM COMING FORTH IS MELTING AWAY. THIS IS THE MAN I KNOW AND THE PRESIDENT WE NEED FOR FOUR MORE YEARS. HE PICKS THE TOUGHEST FIGHTS AND TACKLES THEM AS COMPLEX PROBLEMS. HE HAS STOOD BY ME AND HE WILL STAND UP FOR YOU. IN HONOR OF THE WOMEN WHO EMPOWERED ME AND FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CHILDREN Y'ALL CHERISH, THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU, ALWAYS. >> GOOD EVENING, I AM SISTER DEDE BURN. I BELONG TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE LITTLE WORKERS OF SACRED HEART JESUS AND MARY. LAST FOURTH OF JULY, I WAS HONORED TO BE ONE OF THE PRESIDENT'S GUESTS IN HIS SALUTE TO AMERICA'S CELEBRATION. I MUST CONFESS THAT I RECENTLY PRAYED WHILE IN CHAPEL AND BEGGED GOD TO ALLOW ME TO BE IN INSTRUMENT FOR HUMANLIKE. HERE I AM, SPEAKING AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. I GUESS YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR. MY JOURNEY THROUGH THIS LIFE WAS NOT A TRADITIONAL ROUTE. IN 1978 AS A MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDENT AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, I JOINED THE ARMY TO HELP PAY FOR MY TUITION AND THEN ENDED UP DEVOTED 29 YEARS TO THE MILITARY, SERVING AS A DOCTOR AND A SURGEON IN PLACES LIKE AFGHANISTAN. AFTER MUCH PRAYER AND CONTEMPLATION, I ENTERED MY RELIGIOUS ORDER IN 2002, WORKING TO SERVE THE POOR AND THE SICK IN HAITI, SUDAN, KENYA, IRAQ AND WASHINGTON DC. HUMILITY IS AT THE FOUNDATION OF OUR ORDER. THAT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT TO TALK ABOUT MYSELF. I CAN'T SPEAK ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR THOSE WAR-TORN AND IMPOVERISHED COUNTRIES ALL AROUND THE WORLD. THOSE REFUGEES ALL SHARE A COMMON EXPERIENCE. THEY HAVE ALL BEEN MARGINALIZED, VIEWED AS INSIGNIFICANT, POWERLESS AND VOICELESS. WHILE WE TEND TO THINK OF THE MARGINALIZED AS LIVING BEYOND OUR BORDERS, THE TRUTH IS THE LARGEST MARGINALIZED GROUP IN THE WORLD CAN BE FOUND HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. THEY ARE THE UNBORN. AS CHRISTIANS, WE FIRST MET JESUS AS A STIRRING EMBRYO IN THE WOMB OF A NODE WHAT MOTHER AND SAW HE BORN NINE MONTHS LATER IN THE POVERTY. IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT JESUS STOOD UP FOR WHAT WAS JUST AND ULTIMATELY CRUCIFIED BECAUSE WHAT HE SAID WAS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT OR FASHIONABLE. AS FOLLOWERS OF CRITES, WE ARE CALLED TO STAND UP FOR LIFE AGAINST THE PUT A QUICK CORRECT WHO OR FASHIONABLE TODAY. THEY CELEBRATE DESTROYING LIFE IN THE WOMB. KEEP IN MIND, THE LAWS THAT WE CREATE DEFINE HOW WE SEE OUR HUMANITY. WE MUST ASK OURSELVES WHAT WE ARE SAYING WHEN WE GO TO SNUFF OUT AND INNOCENT, VOICELESS, POWERLESS LIFE. LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION. WHILE WHAT I HAVE TO SAY MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR SOME TO HEAR, I AM SAYING IT BECAUSE I AM NOT JUST PRO-LIFE, I AM PRO-ETERNAL LIFE. I WANT ALL OF US TO END UP IN HEAVEN SOMEDAY. THIS BRINGS ME TO WHY I AM HERE TODAY. DONALD TRUMP IS THE MOST PRO-LIFE PRESIDENT THIS NATION HAS EVER HAD. PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL STAND UP AGAINST JOE BUDDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS WHO ARE THE MOST ANTI-LIFE PRESIDENTIAL TICKET EVER. EVEN SUPPORTING THE HORRORS OF THE TERM ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE. BECAUSE OF HIS COURAGE AND CONVICTION, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS EARNED THE SUPPORT OF AMERICA'S PRO-LIFE IMMUNITY. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, WE ARE ALL PRAYING FOR YOU. >> MANY MAY KNOW ME AS THAT FOOTBALL GUY. THIS IS A PLEASURE, BLESSING AND AN HONOR WHO -- PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A CONSISTENT WINNER, AN OUTSTANDING LEADER AND DESERVES TO BE REELECTED AS PRESIDENT. FIRST, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I GREW UP IN A ONE-BEDROOM BEDROOM HOUSE IN WEST VIRGINIA. I MAY HAVE BEEN POOR BUT THE LESSONS MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME WERE PRICELESS. THEY TAUGHT ME THAT LIFE IS ABOUT MAKING CHOICES. WHETHER THEY ARE GOOD OR BAD, DON'T BLAME ANYONE ELSE. GO GET AN EDUCATION, GET TO WORK. YOU CAN OVERCOME ANY OBSTACLE. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS, ANYONE CAN AMOUNT TO SOMETHING SPECIAL. I LIVED BY THOSE PRINCIPLES OF HARD WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY MY WHOLE LIFE. LIVING OUT THE AMERICAN STORY. IT WORKS. THERE ARE PEOPLE TODAY LIKE POLITICIANS, PROFESSORS, PROTESTERS AND OF COURSE, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NAYSAYERS IN THE MEDIA WHO LIKE TO BLAME OTHERS FOR PROBLEMS. THEY DON'T HAVE PRIDE IN OUR COUNTRY. BECAUSE THEY NO LONGER ASK WHAT CAN I DO FOR MY COUNTRY? ONLY WHAT THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE DOING FOR THEM. THEY DON'T HAVE PRIDE IN THEMSELVES. THAT IS WRONG. WHEN I WAS AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY, I SERVED WITH SO MANY GREAT AMERICANS WHO EMBRACE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR COUNTRY. I AM SO PROUD OF THEIR SACRIFICES AND THE OPPORTUNITY THIS PROVIDED FOR SO MANY MILLIONS. AMERICA REMAINS A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY NO MATTER WHAT THE OTHER SIDE SAYS OR BELIEVES. THERE IS A STATUE OF ME AT NOTRE DAME. I GUESS THEY NEEDED A PLACE FOR THE PIGEONS TO LAND. BUT IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, YOU WOULD SEE THESE THREE WORDS, TRUST, COMMITMENT AND LOVE. ALL MY LIFE, I HAVE MADE MY CHOICES BASED ON THESE THREE WORDS. I USED TO THESE THREE RULES TO MAKE CHOICES ABOUT EVERYTHING, MY BELOVED WIFE OF 59 YEARS, EVEN PRESIDENT TRUMP. I ASKED MYSELF THREE THINGS, CAN I TRUST THEM? WHEN A LEADER TELLS YOU SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO COUNT ON IT. THAT IS PRESIDENT TRUMP. HE SAYS WHAT HE MEANS, HE MEANS WHAT HE SAYS. HE IS -- ONE OF THE REASONS HE HAS MY TRUST IS BECAUSE NOBODY HAS BEEN A STRONGER ADVOCATE FOR THE UNBORN THAN PRESIDENT TRUMP. THE BIDEN-HARRIS TICKET IS THE MOST PRO-ABORTION TICKET IN HISTORY. THEY ARE CATHOLICS IN NAME ONLY, THEY ABANDON INNOCENT LIVES. PRESIDENT TRUMP PROTECTS THOSE LIVES. I TRUST PRESIDENT TRUMP. THE SECOND QUESTION I ASKED WAS IF THEY WERE COMMITTED TO DOING THEIR VERY BEST. PRESIDENT TRUMP ALWAYS FINDS A WAY TO GET SOMETHING DONE. IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING BAD ENOUGH, YOU WILL FIND A WAY. IF NOT, YOU WILL FIND AN EXCUSE. EXCUSES ARE A LOT EASIER TO FIND THAN SOLUTIONS. PRESIDENT TRUMP FINDS SOLUTIONS. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS COMMITTED. A THIRD QUESTION I ASK IS IF THEY LOVE PEOPLE, DO THEY CARE ABOUT OTHERS? TO ME, THIS IS VERY CLEAR. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS DEMONSTRATED THROUGH HIS REFORM, ADVOCATING FOR SCHOOL CHOICE THAT HE WANTS AMERICANS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCEED AND LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM. PRESIDENT TRUMP LOVES OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GREAT PEOPLE, TRUST, COMMITMENT AND LOVE. IN PRESIDENT TRUMP, WE HAVE A PRESIDENT THAT WE CAN TRUST. IF I APPLY THIS TEST TO JOE BIDEN, I CAN'T SAY YES TO ANY OF THESE THREE QUESTIONS. I USED TO TO ASK OUR ATHLETES AT NOTRE DAME, IF YOU DID NOT SHOW UP, WHO WOULD MISS YOU AND WHY? CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO US IF PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD NOT SHOWN UP IN 2016 TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT? I AM SO GLAD HE SHOWED UP. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP, MR. PRESIDENT. I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE LOVES THIS COUNTRY, WHO LOVES AMERICA TO SHOW TRUMP. THANK YOU. ♪ >> HI, I'M MICHAEL, BUT MY FRIENDS CALL ME MICK. I'M A 30 YEAR ACTIVE-DUTY LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMBER IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLICE ORGANIZATIONS. OUR ORGANIZATION RECENTLY ENDORSED DONALD TRUMP FOR REELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. OUR ENDORSEMENT RECOGNIZED HIS STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINES, PARTICULARLY DURING THESE CHALLENGING TIMES. WE VALUE HIS SUPPORT OF AGGRESSIVE FEDERAL PROSECUTION. HIS SIGNING OF THE LAW-ENFORCEMENT MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS ACT AND HIS SUPPORT FOR PERMANENTLY AUTHORIZING FUNDS TO SUPPORT 9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ACROSS THE NATION TAKE AN OATH TO RUN TOWARDS DANGER WHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS RUNNING AWAY. THEY DO SO WILLINGLY TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES. I AM PROUD THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST AND PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE WITHOUT HESITATION. AND GOOD OFFICERS NEED TO KNOW THEIR ELECTED LEADERS AND THE DEPARTMENT BRASS HAVE THEIR BACKS. CHAOS RESULTS WHEN FAILED OFFICIALS IN CITIES LIKE PORTLAND, MINNEAPOLIS, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK MAKE THE CONSCIOUS DECISION NOT TO SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT. SHOOTINGS, MURDERS, LOOTING AND RIOTING OCCURRED UNABATED. THE VIOLENCE AND BLOODSHED WE ARE SEEING IN THESE AND OTHER CITIES IS NOT HAPPENING BY CHANCE. IT IS A DIRECT RESULT OF REFUSING TO ALLOW LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES SYRIA JOE BUDDEN HAS TURNED HIS CANDIDACY OVER TO THE FAR LEFT ANTI-LAW-ENFORCEMENT RADICALS. KAMALA HARRIS PUSHED TO FURTHER RESTRICT POLICE, CUT THEIR TRAINING AND MAKE OUR AMERICAN COMMUNITIES AND STREETS EVEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN THEY ALREADY ARE. ADVERSELY PRESIDENT TRUMP SUPPORT THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL STANDARD FOR TRAINING ON DE-ESCALATION AND COMMUNICATION TO GIVE OFFICERS MORE TOOLS TO RESOLVE CONFLICT WITHOUT VIOLENCE. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRUMP, HENCE AND BIDEN, PARENT -- TRUMP-PENCE AND BIDEN-HARRIS, ARE CLEAR. THE MOST -- WE INVITE THOSE WHO VALUE THE SAVING OF THEIR FAMILY AND LOVED ONES TO JOIN THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF POLICE AND SUPPORT DONALD J. TRUMP. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. ♪ >> I AM CONGRESSWOMAN ALISA PHONIC. I REPRESENT NEW YORK IN THE CRADLE OF THE RESOLUTION -- REVOLUTION. 250 YEARS AGO, BRAVE PATRIOTS FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA TO TURN THE TIDE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 40 YEARS AGO IN LAKE PLACID, A TEAM OF AMATEUR HOCKEY PLAYERS DEFEATED THE SOVIET UNION, STUNNING THE WORLD AND GIVING US THE UNFORGETTABLE MURAL -- MIRACLE ON ICE. TODAY IS HOME TO FORT DRUM IN THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION AMONG THE MOST DEPLOYED UNITS IN THE U.S. ARMY SINCE 9/11, WHERE I SAW FIRSTHAND PRESIDENT TRUMP GRACIOUSLY THANKING AND HONORING OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM AND SIGNED THE LARGEST PAY RAISE FOR OUR TROOPS IN A DECADE. SINCE OUR NATIONS FOUNDING, GENERATION AFTER GENERATION OF EVERYDAY AMERICANS SERVE AND SACRIFICE TO PRESERVE AND STRENGTHEN THE AMERICAN DREAM. LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, AND THE IDEA THAT IF YOU WORK HARD AND DREAM BIG, YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING YOU IMAGINE. I BELIEVE IN THE AMERICAN DREAM BECAUSE I HAVE LIVED IT. LIKE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, I GREW UP IN A SMALL BUSINESS EMILY WHERE I LEARNED THE VALUES OF HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION. I WAS THE FIRST PERSON IN MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY TO GRADUATE COLLEGE, RAN FOR CONGRESS TO SERVE UPSTATE NEW YORK, AND HIM THE YOUNGEST -- AND I AM THE YOUNGEST REPUBLICAN WOMAN ELECTED IN HISTORY. I AM HONORED TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP BECAUSE I KNOW HE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE WHO WILL STAND UP FOR HARD-WORKING FAMILIES AND PROTECT THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. SINCE HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SOUGHT TIRELESSLY TO RISK -- DELIVER RESULTS FOR ALL AMERICANS DESPITE THE DEMOCRATS' BASELESS SHAM AND THE MEDIA'S OBSESSION WITH IT. I WAS PROUD TO LEAD THE EFFORT STANDING UP FOR THE CONSTITUTION, PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THIS ATTACK WAS NOT JUST ON THE PRESIDENT. IT WAS AN ATTACK ON YOU, YOUR VOICE AND YOUR VOTE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE NOT SWAYED BY THESE ARTISTS AND ATTACKS. OUR SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP IS STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE. WE KNOW WHAT IS AT STAKE IN THIS ELECTION. ALL AMERICANS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE ARE UNIFIED IN SUPPORT OF OUR PRESIDENT. IT IS WHY MORE REPUBLICAN WOMEN THAN EVER ARE RUNNING. WE UNDERSTAND THIS IS A CHOICE BETWEEN THE FAR LEFT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST AGENDA VERSUS PROTECTING AND PRESERVING THE AMERICAN DREAM. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WORKING TO SAFELY REOPEN OUR MAIN STREET ECONOMY. HE UNDERSTANDS THE ENGINE OF OUR COUNTRY IS FUELED BY THE INGENUITY AND DETERMINATION OF AMERICAN WORKERS, ENTREPRENEURS AND SMALL BUSINESSES. JOE BIDEN WANTS TO KEEP THEM LOCKED UP IN THE BASEMENT AND CRUSHED THEM WITH $4 TRILLION IN NEW TAXES. WE FACE A CRITICAL CHOICE. JOE BIDEN'S FAR-LEFT FAILED POLICIES OF THE PAST SEVEN YEARS, OR PRESIDENT TRUMP WHO WILL STAND UP FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE CONSTITUTION. I BELIEVE IN THE WISDOM AND SPIRITS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO ELECT THE ONLY CANDIDATE CAPABLE OF PROTECTING THE AMERICAN DREAM, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. THANK YOU TO THE NORTH COUNTRY FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE AS YOUR VOICE SUPPORTING HIS REELECTION. GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH. ♪ >> GOOD EVENING. I AM RUNNING TO REPRESENT NORTH CAROLINA'S 11TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. THIS IS A TIME OF GREAT ADVERSITY FOR OUR COUNTRY. I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT ADVERSITY. AT 18, I WAS IN A CAR ACCIDENT THAT HAS LEFT ME PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN. MY HOPES AND DREAMS WERE SEEMINGLY DESTROYED. I WAS GIVEN A 1% CHANCE OF SURVIVING. THANKS TO THE POWER OF PRAYER, A LOVING COMMUNITY AND SKILLED DOCTORS, I MADE IT. IT TOOK ME A YEAR TO RECOVER. MY FIRST PUBLIC OUTING IN A WHEELCHAIR WAS TO A PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL GAME. BEFORE ACCIDENT, I WAS 6'3". AS I WE'LL THROUGH THE STATE -- WHEELED THROUGH THE STADIUM, I FELT INVISIBLE. AT 20 I THOUGHT ABOUT GIVING UP. I KNEW I COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE. MY ACCIDENT HAS GIVEN ME NEW EYES TO SEE AND NEW EARS TO HEAR. GOD PROTECTED MY MIND AND ABILITY TO SPEAK. I SAY TO THE PEOPLE WHO FEEL FORGOTTEN, IGNORED AND INVISIBLE, ICU, -- I SEE YOU. I MADE A CHOICE. OUR COUNTRY HAS A CHOICE. WE CAN GIVE UP ON THE AMERICAN IDEAL FOR WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE OUR IMPERFECT UNION MORE PERFECT. I CHOOSE TO FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE, TO RETAKE THE SHINING CITY ON A HILL. WHILE THE RADICAL LEFT WANTS TO DISMANTLE AND DESTROY, REPUBLICANS, UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, WANT TO REBUILD, RESTORE AND RENEW. I JUST TURNED 25. I WILL BE THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF CONGRESS IN OVER 200 YEARS. IF YOU DON'T THINK YOUNG PEOPLE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, YOU DON'T KNOW AMERICAN HISTORY. GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS 21 WHEN HE SEEMED -- HE RECEIVED HIS FIRST MILITARY COMMISSION. MY PERSONAL FAVORITE JAMES MADISON WAS JUST 25 WHEN HE SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE STEPPED UP AND SAVED THIS COUNTRY AND BROAD -- A BROAD AND AT HOME. WE CROSSED OPTION -- OCEANS AND CRACKED CODES. TODAY POLITICAL FORCES WANT TO USHER IN THE DARK AGES, A TIME OF INFORMATION WITHOUT WISDOM AND TRIBALISM WITHOUT TRUTH. NATIONAL LEADERS ON THE LEFT HAVE NORMALIZED EMOTION-BASED VOTING AND A RADICALIZED IDENTITY POLITICS THAT REJECTS MARTIN LUTHER KING'S DREAM. HIS DREAM IS OUR DREAM. FOR ALL AMERICANS TO BE JUDGED SOLELY ON THEIR CHARACTER. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE RISK THEIR LIVES EVERY YEAR TO COME HERE BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN THE DREAM OF MLK AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. JOIN US AS WE DOUBLE DOWN ON ENSURING THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR ALL PEOPLE. WE ARE COMMITTED TO BUILDING A NEW TOWN SQUARE. IT WELCOMES ALL IDEAS AND ALL PEOPLE. WE WILL HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, NOT FROM SPEECH. TO LIBERALS, I SAY LET'S HAVE A CONVERSATION. BE A TRUE LIBERAL, LISTEN TO OTHER IDEAS AND THAT THE BEST ONES PREVAIL. AND CONSERVATIVES, LET'S DEFINE WHAT WE SUPPORT AND WIN THE ARGUMENT IN AREAS LIKE HEALTH CARE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR BELIEFS OR COWER TO A MOB. YOU CAN KNEEL BEFORE GOD BUT STAND FOR OUR FLAG. MY ANSWER STORES FOUGHT FOR THE HIM -- THE IDEAL MY AMERICAN ANCESTORS FOUGHT FOR IS JUST AS EXCITING TODAY AS IT WAS 250 YEARS AGO. I SAY TO AMERICANS WHO LOVE OUR COUNTRY, BE A RADICAL FOR FREEDOM. BE A RADICAL FOR LIBERTY. BE A RADICAL FOR OUR REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH I STAND, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, WITH THE LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU AND MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA. ♪ >> I AM JACK BREWER, A FORMER THREE-TIME NFL TEAM CAPTAIN, COLLEGE PROFESSOR, COACH, HUSBAND, SON AND FATHER. I AM A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT, BUT I SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP. I DIDN'T COME HERE FOR THE POPULARITY OR THE PRAISE, THE LIKES FOR THE RETREATS. -- RETWEETS. I AM HERE AS A SERVANT TO GOD AND OUR PRESIDENT. I GREW UP IN A TOWN MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS THE FIRST BLACK MAN TO SETTLE AS A SHARECROPPER IN 1896. MY EARLY HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE INVOLVED WRITING WITH SKINHEADS AND BEING A WITNESS IN AN ATTEMPTED MURDER TRIAL AFTER MY FRIEND SHOT A SKINHEAD IN SELF-DEFENSE. I REMEMBER MY DAD'S BRAVERY WHEN HE STOOD UP AGAINST A KKK RALLY IN MY TOWN. IN MY HOUSE, MY FATHER TAUGHT ME TO BACK DOWN FROM NO ONE. I KNOW WHAT RACISM LOOKS LIKE. I HAVE SEEN IT FIRSTHAND. IT HAS NO RESEMBLANCE TO PANDER -- PRESIDENT TRUMP. I AM FED UP WITH THE WAY HE IS PORTRAYED IN THE MEDIA, WHO REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR OUR COMMUNITY. IT IS CONFUSING THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN. MY ENERGETIC EIGHT-YEAR-OLD SON STOPPED ME AND SAID, PLEASE JUST TELL EVERYONE THAT ALL LIVES NEED TO MATTER AND THAT GOD LOVES EVERYONE? IN THAT MOMENT I REALIZED MY EIGHT-YEAR-OLD HAD FIGURE OUT -- FIGURED OUT WAS SO MANY ADULTS SEEM TO FORGET. WE ARE NOT AS DIVIDED AS OUR POLITICS SUGGEST. FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN, THE POLICIES MUST TAKE PRIORITY OVER THE FISH ANALOGIES. BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN ISSUE WITH HIS TONE, YOU GO TO ALLOW BIDEN AND HARRIS TO DENY OUR UNDERSERVED CHILDREN SCHOOL CHOICE? ARE WE SO OFFENDED BY THE CAMPAIGN SLOGAN, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, THAT WE WILL IGNORE JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR TALKING UP COUNTLESS BLACK MEN ARE NONVIOLENT CRIMES? -- LOCKING UP COUNTLESS BLACK MEN FOR NONVIOLENT CRIMES? HE DIDN'T SAY THAT, IT IS A LIE. AND IGNORE THE BLACK LIVES MATTER ORGANIZATION THAT OPENLY ON THE WEBSITE CALLS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NUCLEAR FAMILY? MY FELLOW AMERICANS, OUR FAMILIES NEED EACH OTHER. WE NEED BLACK FATHERS IN THE HOMES WITH THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN. THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY DEPEND ON IT. I AM BLESSED TO RUN INNER-CITY YOUTH PROGRAMS. THE INMATES IN MY FEDERAL PRISON PROGRAM RECEIVED DAYS OFF THEIR SENTENCE JUST FOR ATTENDING MY CLASS. THAT IS THANKS TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN HIS FIRST STEP BACK. PRESIDENT TRUMP CARED ABOUT THESE AMERICANS AND THEIR FAMILIES EVEN WHEN MANY OTHERS HAD LEFT THEM BEHIND AND WRITTEN THEM OFF. I'M GRATEFUL FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THAT. HE GOES THROUGH RELENTLESS ATTACKS, AND SO DO MANY WHO SUPPORT HIM. MY MAMA ALWAYS TOLD ME WHEN THE LORD STOPS BLESSING, THE DEVIL STARTS MESSING. THIS CONVENTION MARKS A TIME TO CELEBRATE OUR HISTORY. REPUBLICANS ARE THE PARTY THAT FREED THE SLAVES AND THE PARTY THAT FOR THE FIRST BLACK MEN AND WOMEN -- THAT PUT THE FIRST BLACK MEN AND WOMEN IN CONGRESS. IT IS THE PARTY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND NOW TIM SCOTT AND PRESIDENT HAS MADE STRIDES TO END MASS INCARCERATION AND GIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACKS IN AMERICA TO RISE. AMERICA, LET THIS ELECTION BE A CALL FOR ALL GOD'S PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED BY HIS NAME TO HUMBLE OURSELVES AND PRAY TOGETHER AND TO SEEK HIS FACE AND TO TURN FROM OUR WICKED WAYS. THEN HE WILL HEAR US FROM HEAVEN AND FORGIVE OUR SINS, AND HE WILL HEAL OUR LAMB. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ♪ >> STANDING UP TO TYRANNY IS NOT EASY. I KNOW. WHEN I SPOKE OUT AGAINST CHINA POLICY AND OTHER INJUSTICES, I WAS PERSECUTED, BEATEN, SENT TO PRISON AND PUT UNDER HOUSE ARREST BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY. IN APRIL 2005, I ESCAPED AND WAS GIVEN SHELTER IN THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN BEIJING. I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR WELCOMING ME AND MY FAMILY TO THE UNITED STATES WHERE WE ARE NOW FREE. THE CPP IS A ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE AND IT IS THREATENING THE WAY OF BEING OF THE WORLD. IN CHINA, EXPRESSING BELIEF OR IDEAS NOT APPROVED BY THE CPP -- CCP -- THE MASS SURVEILLANCE AND CENSORSHIP, THE U.S. MUST USE ITS VALUES OF FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW TO FURTHER A CORRELATION OF THE DEMOCRACIES TO STOP CCP'S AGGRESSION. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS LED ON THIS AND WE NEED THE OTHER COUNTRIES TO JOIN HIM IN THIS FIGHT, A FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE. STANDING UP TO FIGHT UNFAIRNESS ISN'T EASY. I KNOW. SO DOES PRESIDENT TRUMP, BUT HE HAS SHOWN THE COURAGE TO LEAVE THAT FIGHT. WE NEED TO SUPPORT, VOTE AND FIGHT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD. THANK YOU. ♪ >> I AM CONGRESSMAN LEE ZELDIN. AS WE CELEBRATE AMERICA AS A LAND OF EUROS, I AM HERE AT A POST OF EUROS IN WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NEW YORK -- HEROES IN WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NEW YORK. RAISED IN A LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY, DEPLOYED TO IRAQ AS AN 82ND AIRBORNE. TROOPER AND SERVING IN THE ARMY RESERVE, MY GENERATION OF POST-9/11 VETERANS HAS HUGE ISSUES TO FAIL. FOLLOWING OUR GREATEST GENERATION THAT FOUGHT TYRANNY AND SAVED THE WORLD. ALL OVER OUR COUNTRY EVERYDAY HEROES SERVE AND SACRIFICE FOR THE GREATER GOOD. FARMERS, TRUCKERS, CRAFTSMAN. THEY KEEP AMERICA RUNNING. PRESIDENT TRUMP FIGHTS FOR THEM EVERY DAY. THIS YEAR WE HAVE ESPECIALLY RELIED ON ONE PARTICULAR GROUP OF HEROES, FRONTLINE MEDICAL WORKERS. MY TWIN DAUGHTERS WERE BORN OVER 14 WEEKS EARLY. THEY WEIGHED 1.5 POUNDS. AT TWO WEEKS MICHAELA WENT INTO SEPTIC SHOCK AND UNDERWENT BRAIN SURGERY LEAVING A THIRD OF THE LEFT SIDE OF HER BRAIN AND HOLE. THE DOCTORS DID NOT BELIEVE SHE WOULD SURVIVE. FEARING THE CONSEQUENCES EVEN IF SHE DID. THROUGH THE MIRACLES OF MODERN MEDICINE, THE POWER OF PRAYER AND HER WILL TO LIVE, MY DAUGHTERS ARE NOW STARTING HIGH SCHOOL AND DOING GREAT WITH NO LONG-TERM EFFECTS FROM THOSE FRIGHTFUL MONTHS IN THE NICU. WHEN I LEARN MY COUNTY'S PPE STOCKPILE WAS DEPLETED, I THOUGHT OF THE HEALTH CARE WORKERS WHO SAVED MY BABY GIRLS. WE WENT -- JARED KUSHNER AND I WERE ON THE PHONE LATE INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCED HE WAS SENDING 200,000 N95 MASKS. HE ACTUALLY DELIVERED ALMOST 400,000. MASKS, GOWNS AND MORE. THE PRESIDENT SENT THOUSANDS OF VENTILATORS TO NEW YORK. HE DEPLOYED THE USS COMFORT AND CONVERTED THE JAVITS CENTER TO A FIELD HOSPITAL. HIS ADMINISTRATION AUTHORIZED TESTING REQUESTS AT BLINDING SPEED. DURING A ONCE IN A CENTURY PANDEMIC, AN UNFORESEEABLE CRISIS, SENT TO US FROM A FARAWAY LAND, THE PRESIDENT'S EFFORT WAS PHENOMENAL. FOR OUR NATION TO EMERGE EVEN STRONGER, MORE PROSPEROUS, FREER AND MORE SECURE THAN EVER, TO MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE, WE MUST REELECT PRESIDENT TRUMP. WE ARE THE LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE. WE ARE THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO WANTS TO EMPOWER THE BEST OF WHO WE ARE TO BE THE BEST OF WHAT WE CAN BE. THERE HAS NEVER IN A NATION GREATER THAN OURS. DIFFERENT PEOPLE, MORE RESILIENT THAN OURS, AND NEVER A FUTURE MORE PROMISING THAN OURS RIGHT NOW. KEEPING AMERICA GREAT IS UP TO US. LOSING IS NOT AN OPTION. ♪ >> I AM VERY PROUD TO HAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP IN OFFICE HERE. HE IS THE BEST WE HAVE EVER HAD. HE HAS DONE THE MOST FOR EVERY PRESIDENT -- ALWAYS TRYING TO TAKE YOUR OF VETERANS, GIVING VETERANS WHAT THEY NEED. TURNAROUND TIME SEVEN INCREASED. >> ONCE HE CAME INTO OFFICE, WE HAD LIKE 90 DAYS, YOU TURNED YOUR PAPERWORK IN, YOU HAD SOME ANSWER. >> A PIECE OF PAPER TO GET -- NOW IT IS A LOT BETTER TURNAROUND. BEFORE IT WAS A FIVE-YEAR WAITING PROCESS TO APPEAL. HOW LONG DO WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR BENEFITS? I HAVE WAITED 20 YEARS TO FILE. RAPIDLY WAS APPROVED FOR MEDICAL, THEN TURNED AROUND AND GOT DISABILITY. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SEVERAL YEARS WORTH OF WAITING TO HEAR. HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED A LOT IN 3.5 YEARS. IT HELPS AMERICAN PEOPLE AND HE HAS DONE A LOT OF VETERANS, THE MIDDLE CLASS. I CHOSE TO SERVE MY COUNTRY. IF I COULD, I WOULD DO IT AGAIN. THIS IS THE KIND OF PRESIDENT HE WOULD RUN THROUGH A BRICK WALL IF HE ASKED YOUTUBE TO. THIS ONE I CAN SAY IS THE BEST PRESIDENT WE HAVE EVER HAD AND EVER WILL HAVE, I BELIEVE. ♪ >> HELLO, AND THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME INTO YOUR HOME THIS EVENING. IT IS A PRIVILEGE. MY NAME IS JONI ERNST. I WAS RAISED ON A SMALL FAMILY FARM HERE IN IOWA WHERE I LEARNED THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITH, HARD WORK AND SERVICE. I WORKED MY WAY THROUGH COLLEGE, THE DEDICATED MY LIFE TO SERVING MY COUNTRY. AS A LOCAL OFFICIAL, BATTALION COMMANDER AND A U.S. SENATOR. SERVICE IS MORE THAN A WORD TO ME. IT IS A MISSION, A WAY OF LIFE. IT IS WHAT BROUGHT ME TO CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA IN 2008 WHEN I WAS IN THE NATIONAL GUARD. WE SAW HISTORIC FLOODS THAT SWEPT THROUGH THE COMMUNITIES. WE LENT A FELLOW -- A HELPING HAND TO FELLOW IOWANS LITERALLY UNDERWATER. WE THOUGHT WE HAD SEEN THE WORST BUT 12 YEARS LATER, THESE SAME COMMUNITIES HAVE FACED A MORE DEVASTATING DISASTER, THE RECENT DIRECT SHOW -- DERECHO STORM. WHILE REPORTERS IN THE STATE WERE IN THE TRENCHES COVERING THE EQUIVALENT OF A CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE, MOST OF THE NATIONAL MEDIA LOOKED THE OTHER WAY. IOWA IS STILL JUST FLYOVER COUNTRY. HOUSES, FARMS WERE DESTROYED. ONE THIRD OF OUR CROPS HERE WERE DAMAGED. IN SOME CASES THESE STORMS WIPED OUT A LIFETIME OF WORK. YET IOWA FARMERS DIDN'T HESITATE TO GRAB THEIR CHAINSAWS AND CHECK ON THEIR NEIGHBORS. OUR FARMERS LIVE EVERY DAY WITH THAT SENSE OF SERVICE, STEWARDS OF THE LAND, THE ONES WHO FEED AND HEAL THE WORLD. PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNED AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION FOR IOWA TO PROVIDE RELIEF. WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP CAME TO CEDAR RAPIDS, THE NATIONAL MEDIA FINALLY DID TOO. FOR YEARS I HAVE WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE PRESIDENT FOR FARMERS IN IOWA AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE SCRAPPED OBAMA AND BIDEN'S PUNISHING WATERS OF THE U.S. RULE WHICH WOULD HAVE REGULATED 97% OF LAND IN IOWA, IN SOME CASES EVEN PUDDLES. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A NIGHTMARE FOR FARMERS. THE PRESENT DELIVERED ON MAJOR TRADE DEALS WITH JAPAN, AND THE USMCA. AND HE IMPLEMENTED THE SALE OF E 15 FUEL YEAR ROUND THAT MEANS MORE CHOICES AT THE PUMP AND MORE JOBS FOR FARMERS. THIS IS SOMETHING THE OBAMA-BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FAILED TO DO IN EIGHT YEARS. I CAN'T RECALL AN ADMINISTRATION MORE HOSTILE TO FARMERS THAN OBAMA-BIDEN UNLESS YOU COUNT THE BIDEN-HARRIS TICKETS. THIS DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS PUSHING THE SO-CALLED GREEN NEW DEAL. THEY WOULD ESSENTIALLY BAN ANIMAL AGRICULTURE AND ELIMINATE GAS POWERED CARS. IT WOULD DESTROY THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY NOT JUST HERE IN IOWA BUT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. WHEN THE PANDEMIC HIT, PRESIDENT TRUMP HEARD US AND OUR CALL FOR ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS. KNOWING WE HAVE AN ALLY IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS IMPORTANT. THIS ELECTION IS A CHOICE BETWEEN TWO VERY DIFFERENT PATHS, FREEDOM, PROSPERITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. OR THE BIDEN HARRIS PATH PAID FOR BY LIBERAL COASTAL ELITES AND RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, WHERE FARMERS ARE PUNISHED, JOBS DESTROYED AND TAXES CRUSH THE MIDDLE CLASS. THAT IS OUR CHOICE, AND IT IS A CLEAR ONE. THANK YOU, AND GOD BLESS. ♪ >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I AM BURGESS OWENS. SHACKLED IN THE BELLY OF A SLAVE SHIP, AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY CAME TO AMERICA TO BE SOLD ON AN AUCTION BLOCK. BY THE GRACE OF GOD, HE ESCAPED THROUGH THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND SETTLED IN TEXAS. HE WANTED TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR. HE BUILT HIS COMMUNITY'S FIRST CHURCH AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND PURCHASED FARMLAND WHICH SHE PAID OFF IN A FEW YEARS. I AM HERE BECAUSE OF MY GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER. I WAS RAISED IN THE SOUTH DURING THE DAYS OF JIM CROW AND THE KKK. EVEN WITH THE CHALLENGES OF SEGREGATION, WE WERE TAUGHT ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IN AMERICA. WHEN I WAS 22, I THOUGHT ALL OF MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE WHEN I WAS DRAFTED BY THE NEW YORK JETS. A FEW YEARS LATER, I LEFT THE NFL TO START A BUSINESS. I THOUGHT I COULD NEVER FAILED, BUT YEARS LATER I DID AND LOST EVERYTHING. AS I MOVED MY FAMILY OF SIX INTO AN APARTMENT IN NEW YORK, I HAD A CHOICE TO MAKE, FEEL SORRY FOR MYSELF OR GET TO WORK. I WENT -- WORKED AS A CHIMNEY SWEEP AND A SECURITY GUARD. IT WAS HUMBLING TO BE CLEANING THE CHIMNEY OF SOMEONE WHO HAD CHEERED ME AS AN NFL FAN. WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE WE ARE ENCOURAGED TO DREAM BIG AND SECOND CHANCES ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR AMERICAN DNA. WE DON'T HEAR THAT MESSAGE FROM NANCY PELOSI'S CONGRESS, CAREER POLITICIANS AND FORMER BARTENDERS WHO WANT US TO BELIEVE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. THEY WANT TO BELIEVE WHAT I DID FOR MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ORDINARY AMERICANS. AS PATRIOTS, WE KNOW BETTER. WE STAND AT A CROSSROAD, MOBS TORCHED OUR CITIES WHILE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PROMOTE THE SAME SOCIALISM MY FATHER FOUGHT AGAINST IN WORLD WAR II. WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO SAYS I AM NOT BLACK IF I DON'T VOTE FOR HIM. WE NEED LEADERS TO STAND BY THEIR PRINCIPLES AND WANT COPPER MIGHT DOES COMPROMISE FOR POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES. NOW WE NEED LEADERS WHO STAND UP TO LAWLESSNESS SUPPORTED BY THE RADICAL LEFT. THIS NOVEMBER WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REJECT THE MOB MENTALITY AND BE THE AMERICA MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER BELIEVED IN. DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BUSINESS OWNERSHIP AMONG BLACKS, HISPANICS HAS REACHED ALL-TIME HIGHS. THOSE SAME GROUPS ENJOY RECORD LOW UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNPRECEDENTED PROSPERITY. WE ARE JUST DOING STARTED. IRAN FOR CONGRESS BECAUSE WE DON'T NEED MORE CAREER POLITICIANS SCREAMING NEED MORE CHIMNEY SWEEPS, MORE LEADERS LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP WHO UNDERSTAND THE FREEDOMS THAT MAKE UP THE FABRIC OF AMERICA. SPECIFICALLY MY DEMOCRAT AND INDEPENDENT FRIENDS, IT IS NOW TIME FOR US UNITE AND TO PUT ASIDE PARTISAN BARRIERS, WIN BACK THE HOUSE, KEEP THE SENATE AND GIVE OUR PRESIDENT FOR MORE YEARS. I PROMISE YOU, WE WILL MAKE YOU PROUD. THANK YOU, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ♪ >> STANDING GUARD OVER BALTIMORE HARBOR IS THE REMAINS OF AN EARTHEN STAR, A REALLY GOOD TIME PASSED. IT RECALLS A TIME WHEN THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY STOOD FOR MEN OF RENOWN WHO STOOD IN THE GAP BETWEEN THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THE WORLD, 27 HOURS, 1000 MEN, LOW ON AMMUNITION FIRING SCRAP METAL, THE BATTLE RAGED, INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS. DARKNESS ON THIS NEW NATION. IN THE MIDST OF THE FIGHT, THE HEROES OF FORT MCHENRY WERE UNMOVED. THE LIGHT OF DAWN OVERCAME THE DARKNESS. THE GALLANT FLAG POSTED ABOVE FORT MCHENRY STOOD VICTORIOUSLY OBSERVING A DEJECTED ENEMY, RETREATING INTO THE RISING SUN, INSPIRING THE ANTHEM OF OUR NATION. A SPIRIT OF LIBERTY NOT TO BE DENIED. THE EARTHEN STAR FORT MCHENRY, A REMINDER OF THOSE BRAVE PATRIOTS WHO HAVING DONE ALL, STUDENT PREVAILED. IT IS WHY WE STAND TODAY HONORING PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS OF FREEDOM LOVING AMERICANS WHEN WE HEAR THE ANTHEM AND RAISE THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. ♪ >> GOOD EVENING, AMERICA. I AM LAURA TRUMP, DAUGHTER OF BOB, SISTER TO KYLE, MOTHER TO LUKE AND CAROLINA AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OF OUR 41ST PRESIDENT -- 45TH PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP. TONIGHT I COME AS A NORMAL AMERICAN. MY PRAYER IS WERE SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND WORKED HARD TO MAKE SURE MY BROTHER AND I HAD EVERYTHING WE NEEDED BUT NOT EVERYTHING WE WANTED. MY PARENTS RAISED ME TO BELIEVE IN AMERICA I COULD ACHIEVE ANYTHING WITH HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION, THAT THE OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO ME WERE LIMITED BY THE SIZE OF MY AMBITION, THAT I SHOULD DREAM BIG, AND I DID. THOSE DREAMS ARE WHAT LED ME TO NEW YORK CITY. I HAVE HEARD THE ADAGE IF I CAN MAKE IT THERE, I CAN MAKE IT ANYWHERE. I INTENDED TO DO THAT. NEVER IN ONE MILLION YEARS DID I THINK I WOULD BE ON THIS STAGE AND NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD END UP WITH THE LAST NAME TRUMP. MY SEVENTH GRADE ENGLISH TEACHER USED TO TELL US BELIEVE NONE OF WHICH YOU HERE, HALF OF WHAT YOU READ -- YOU HEAR, HALF OF WHAT YOU READ. THE MEANING OF THOSE WORDS NEVER WEIGHED ON ME UNTIL I MET MY HUSBAND AND THE TRUMP FAMILY. ANY PRECONCEIVED NOTION AHEAD OF THIS FAMILY DISAPPEARED IMMEDIATELY THERE THEY WERE WARM AND CARING, HARD WORKERS AND DOWN TO EARTH. THEY REMINDED ME OF MY OWN FAMILY. THEY MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS HOME. WALKING THE HALLS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, I SAW THE SAME FAMILY ENVIRONMENT. I SAW COUNTLESS WOMEN EXECUTIVES WHO THRIVED THERE YEAR AFTER YEAR. GENDER DID NOT MATTER. WHAT MATTERED WAS THE ABILITY TO GET THE JOB DONE. I LEARNED THIS WHEN IN 2016 MY FATHER IN LAW ASKED ME TO HELP WIN MY CHERISHED HOME STATES AND MY DAUGHTER'S NAME STAKE -- NAMESAKE, NORTH CAROLINA. HE BELIEVED IN ME. HE WAS CAPABLE EVEN IF I DID NOT. I DID NOT SURPRISE ME WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP APPOINTED SO MANY WOMEN TO SENIOR-LEVEL POSITIONS IN HIS ADMINISTRATION. SECRETARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS, THE AIR FORCE, THE FIRST FEMALE CIA DIRECTOR, THE FIRST FEMALE DIRECTOR OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND COUNTLESS AMBASSADORS TO NAME A FEW. UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP, WOMEN'S UNEMPLOYMENT HIT THE LOWEST LEVELS SINCE WORLD WAR II. 4.3 MILLION NEW JOBS HAVE BEEN CREATED FOR WOMEN IN 2019 ALONE AMONG WOMEN TOOK 70% OF ALL NEW JOBS. FEMALE SMALL BUSINESS OWNERSHIP IS AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH AND 600,000 WOMEN HAVE BEEN LIFTED OUT OF POVERTY SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK OFFICE. HE DID NOT DO THESE THINGS TO GAIN A VOTE OR CHECK A BOX. HE DIDN'T BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. 100 YEARS AGO TODAY, THE 19TH AMENDMENT WAS RATIFIED GRANTING THE RIGHT TO VOTE TO EVERY AMERICAN WOMAN. SINCE THAT DAY, STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE BY WOMEN IN AMERICA FROM A MALIA YOUR HEART TO ROSA PARKS AND SALLY RIDE, WOMEN SHAPED OUR HISTORY AND THEY ARE A PART OF WHAT HAS MADE OUR COUNTRY THE MOST EXCEPTIONAL IN THE WORLD. I THINK BACK TO MY 24-YEAR-OLD SELF DRIVING ALONE IN MY CAR FROM NORTH CAROLINA. I THINK ABOUT WHAT I TELL MYSELF NOW AS WE GO TOWARDS THE MOST CRITICAL ELECTION IN MODERN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT JUST A CHOICE BETWEEN REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT OR LEFT AND RIGHT. THIS IS AN ELECTION THAT WILL DECIDE IF WE KEEP AMERICA AMERICA WHERE WE GO DOWN AND UNCHARTED FRIGHTENING PATH TOWARDS SOCIALISM. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ONCE SAID AMERICA WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED FROM THE OUTSIDE. IF WE FALTER AND LOSE OUR FREEDOM, IT WILL BE BECAUSE WE DESTROYED OURSELVES. THOSE WORDS WERE SPOKEN OVER 150 YEARS AGO, NEVER HAVE THEY BEEN MORE RELEVANT. WILL WE CHOOSE THE RIGHT PATH AND MAINTAIN THE UNIQUE FREEDOM AND BOUNDLESS OPPORTUNITIES THAT MAKE THIS COUNTRY THE GREATEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD? WILL WE REMAIN A BEACON OF HOPE TO THOSE FIGHTING OPPRESSION AND TYRANNY? THE CHOICE IS OURS. I KNOW THE PROMISE OF AMERICA BECAUSE I HAVE LIVED IT, NOT JUST AS A MEMBER OF THE TRUMP FAMILY BUT AS A WOMAN WHO KNOWS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO WORK IN BLUE-COLLAR JOBS AND TO ASPIRE TO RISE. WHEN I LOOK AT MY SON LUKE AND MY DAUGHTER, I WONDER WHAT SORT OF COUNTRY WILL I BE LEAVING FOR THEM AND FUTURE GENERATIONS? WE HAVE SEEN WEAK, SPINELESS POLITICIANS TAKE CONTROL OF AMERICAN -- POLITICIANS CEDE CONTROL OF AMERICAN CITIES TO VIOLENT MOBS. JOE BIDEN WILL NOT DO WHAT IT TAKES TO MAINTAIN ORDER. TO KEEP CHILDREN SAFE, TO RESTORE OUR AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE . WE CAN'T DARE TO DREAM OUR BIGGEST DREAMS FOR OURSELVES OR OUR CHILDREN WHILE CONSUMED BY WORRY ABOUT THE SAFETY OF OUR FAMILIES. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THE LAW AND ORDER PRESIDENT TRUMP ORDERS TO BACKYARD. PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL KEEP AMERICA SAFE. PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL KEEP AMERICA PROSPEROUS. PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL KEEP AMERICA AMERICA. IF YOU ARE WATCHING TONIGHT AND WRESTLING WITH YOUR VOTE, I IMPLORE YOU, TUNE OUT THE BIASED COMMENTARY AND HEAR IT FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS. I AM FROM THE SOUTH. I WAS RAISED A CAROLINA GIRL. I WENT TO PUBLIC SCHOOL AND WORKED MY WAY THROUGH STATE UNIVERSITY. MY TEACHER WAS RIGHT. WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD. I LEARNED HE IS A GOOD MAN, HE LOVES HIS FAMILY, HE DIDN'T NEED THIS JOB. NO ONE ON EARTH WORKS HARDER FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THAT HE IS WILLING TO FIGHT FOR HIS BELIEFS AND THE PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY THAT HE LOVES. HE IS A PERSON OF CONVICTION. HE IS A FIGHTER AND WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR AMERICA. HE WILL UPHOLD OUR VALUES AND PRESERVE OUR FAMILIES AND BUILD ON THE GREAT AMERICAN EDICT THAT OUR NATION WILL NEVER BE PERFECT UNTIL OPPORTUNITY IS EQUAL FOR ALL, ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN. OUR 40TH PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN SAID IT BEST. THE DREAMS OF PEOPLE MAY DIFFER, BUT EVERYBODY WANTS THEIR DREAMS TO COME TRUE. AMERICA ABOVE ALL PLACES GIVES US THE FREEDOM TO DO THAT. IT IS UP TO US TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY A PLACE WHERE NO DREAM IS OUT OF REACH FOR OUR CHILDREN AND GENERATIONS EONS. TO MY FATHER-IN-LAW, THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN ME. THANK YOU FOR LEADING THIS COUNTRY AND THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO FIGHT EVERY DAY FOR AMERICA. MAY GOD BLESS AND PROTECT THE STATES IN THE PATH OF THE HURRICANE AND OUR TROOPS AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS THIS COUNTRY. ♪ >> THAT EVENING. MY NAME IS SAM. THERE IS A HOLE IN MY HEART SINCE MY BELOVED JACKY WAS TAKEN FROM ME. THIS IS HER STORY. THERE WERE TWO THINGS SHE LOVED TO DO EVERYDAY. ONE WAS TO GO TO THE GYM AND PRINT OUT BIBLE VERSES. ON NOVEMBER 19 THE TWEETS STOPPED. SHE LEFT FOR THE GYM EARLY IN THE MORNING. I HEARD THE GARAGE DOOR OPEN. SECONDS LATER I HEARD THE CAR HORN. I WENT OUTSIDE TO SEE IF SHE HAD FORGOTTEN SOMETHING. WHAT I SAW WAS A CHEAP BLOCKING HER CAR IN THE DRIVEWAY. I NOTICED THE BULLET HOLE. I SAW SOMEONE JUMP IN TO THE JEEP AND SPEED IT AWAY. SHE HAD JUST BEEN SHOT AND KILLED IN COLD BLOOD. WE THINK THIS WAS A CARJACKING GONE WRONG. EVERY TIME I OPEN THE GARAGE DOOR AND STAND IN THE DRIVEWAY I HEAR THAT HORN, SEE HER SLUMPED IN THE SEAT. WHEN I GO TO BED, THAT SOUND AND IMAGE WANT ME. THAT IS MY LIFE SENTENCE. IT HAS BEEN SERVED BY TOO MANY FAMILIES LEFT BEHIND BY SENSELESS KILLINGS. ALBUQUERQUE WHERE I LIVE IS ONE OF THE MOST VIOLENT CITIES IN THE COUNTRY. FEWER THAN 50% OF HOMICIDES ARE SOLVED. IT IS A SAD IRONY JACKIE MIGRATED FOR A BETTER LIFE -- INTEGRATED TO THE U.S. FOR A BETTER -- IMMIGRATED TO THE U.S. FOR A BETTER LIFE ONLY TO BE GUNNED DOWN. THERE WERE NO CONNECTIONS. THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE WERE OVERWHELMED AND NEEDED HELP. HELP ARRIVED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP WHO LAUNCHED OPERATION LEGEND IN JULY OF THIS YEAR. ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THE FBI TOOK OVER HER CASE. IN A MATTER OF DAYS THEY ARRESTED FOUR PEOPLE. THE KILLER WAS ARRESTED IN TEXAS ON UNRELATED CHARGES. HE IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH A LONG CRIMINAL RECORD. HE HAD BEEN DEPORTED IN SEPTEMBER AND HAD COME BACK IN OCTOBER 2 TERROR RISE -- OCTOBER TO TERRORIZE OUR COMMUNITY. I AM IMPRESSED WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP -- I AM HONORED TO SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE IS SUPPORTING US. I KNOW HE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE, FOR LAW AND ORDER, PEACE, SECURITY IN OUR COMMUNITIES. ♪ >> GREETINGS, MY FELLOW AMERICANS. I AM CLARENCE HENDERSON. THERE ARE MOMENTS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY. AMONG THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY WAS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 60 YEARS AGO SEGREGATION WAS LEGAL AND ENFORCED. THE SIMPLE ACT OF SITTING AT A LUNCH COUNTER COULD LEAD TO PHYSICAL HARM, JAIL TIME OR WORSE. I KNOW FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WALKING INTO WOOLWORTH DEPARTMENT STORE ON NOVEMBER 2, 1960, IT WAS UNLIKE ANY DAY I HAD EXPERIENCED BEFORE. MY FRIENDS HAVE BEEN DENIED SERVICE BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. WE KNEW IT WASN'T RIGHT. WHEN WE WENT BACK THE NEXT DAY, I DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER I WOULD COME OUT IN A VERTICAL OR PRONE POSITION, IN HANDCUFFS OR ON A STRETCHER OR EVEN IN A BODY BAG. BY SITTING DOWN TO ORDER A CUP OF COFFEE, WE CHALLENGED INJUSTICE. WE KNEW IT WAS NECESSARY, BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. WE FACED DOWN THE KKK. WE WERE CURSED AT AND CALLED ALL KINDS OF NAMES. THEY THREATENED TO KILL US AND SOME OF US WERE ARRESTED, BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. OUR ACTIONS INSPIRED SIMILAR PROTESTS THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH AGAINST RACIAL INJUSTICE. IN THE END SEGREGATION WAS ABOLISHED AND OUR COUNTRY MOVED A STEP CLOSER TO TRUE EQUALITY FOR ALL. THAT IS WHAT ACTUAL PEACEFUL PROTEST CAN ACCOMPLISH. AMERICA IS NOT PERFECT. WE ARE ALWAYS IMPROVING, BUT THE GREAT THING ABOUT THIS COUNTRY IS IT IS NOT WHERE YOU COME FROM, IT IS WHERE YOU ARE GOING. I WAS BORN ON WHAT SOME WOULD CALL THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS. I DON'T EVEN HAVE A BIRTH CERTIFICATE. I NEVER ATTENDED AN INTEGRATED SCHOOL, AND I AM THE ONLY ONE OUT OF MY FAMILY WHO GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE, AN HBCU. I HAVE A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND I AM A REPUBLICAN. I SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP. IF THAT SOUNDS STRANGE, YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR HISTORY. THERE WAS A REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT PASSED THE 13TH AMENDMENT, ABOLISHING SLAVERY. IT WAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT PASSED THE 14TH AMENDMENT GIVING BLACK MEN CITIZENSHIP. IT WAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT PASSED THE 15TH AMENDMENT, GIVING BLACK MEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE. FREEDOM IS A POWERFUL THING. AMERICANS, VOTERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WHO THE MEDIA HAS TRIED TO CONVINCE TO CONFORM TO THE SAME DEMOCRATIC TALKING POINTS. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WILL GET YOU? THE SAME OLD RESULTS. JOE BIDEN SAID IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR HIM, YOU ARE NOT BLACK. TO THAT I SAY IF YOU DO VOTE FOR BIDEN, YOU DON'T KNOW HISTORY. DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A POLITICIAN . HE IS A LEADER. POLITICIANS ARE A DIME A DOZEN VERY LEADERS ARE PRICELESS. -- A DIME A DOZEN. LEADERS ARE PRICELESS. THEIR RECORD NUMBER OF JOBS HE CREATED FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE INVESTMENT HE DROVE INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS WITH TAX INCENTIVES AND OPPORTUNITY ZONES. SO ARE THE LIVES HE RESTORED BY PASSING CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM WHERE 91% OF THE INMATES RELEASED ARE BLACK. THESE ACHIEVEMENTS DEMONSTRATE DONALD TRUMP TRULY CARES ABOUT LACK LIVES. HIS POLICIES SHOW HIS HEART. HE HAS DONE MORE FOR BLACK AMERICANS IN FOUR YEARS THAN JOE BIDEN HAS DONE IN 50. DONALD TRUMP IS OFFERING REAL AND LASTING CHANGE AND UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY TO RISE, A COUNTRY THAT EMBRACES THE SPIRIT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF THE 1960'S, A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE ARE JUDGED BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER, TALENT AND ABILITY, NOT BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. THIS IS THE AMERICA I WAS FIGHTING FOR 60 YEARS AGO. THIS IS THE AMERICA DONALD TRUMP IS FIGHTING FOR TODAY. LET'S ALL JOIN IN THIS FIGHT FOR REELECTING DONALD TRUMP ON NOVEMBER 3. THANK YOU. >> DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DEBATES FOUR YEARS AGO, ONE OUTSIDER STOOD ALONE AND SAID IN PUBLIC WHAT MOST AMERICANS THOUGHT IN PRIVATE. IT WAS 14 YEARS AFTER THE START OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN AND 12 YEARS AFTER THE INVASION OF IRAQ. THOUSANDS HAVE DIED AND TRILLIONS IN TAXPAYER DOLLARS HAD BEEN SPENT. AND YET NO CANDIDATE COULD BRING THEMSELVES TO ADMIT SOMETHING HAD GONE WRONG WITH AMERICAN FOREIGN-POLICY. BUT THE AMERICAN VOTER, THE AMERICAN SOLDIER AND THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER HAD ALL BEEN LET DOWN. EXCEPT FOR ONE, DONALD TRUMP. HE CALLED AMERICA'S ENDLESS WARS WHAT THEY WERE, A DISASTER. THE MEDIA WAS SHOCKED BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP WAS RUNNING AS A REPUBLICAN. YET HE SAID OUT LOUD WHAT WE ALL KNEW, THAT AMERICAN FOREIGN-POLICY WAS FAILING TO MAKE AMERICANS SAFER. AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR, DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON BOUGHT INTO THE ILLUSION THAT THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD START TO RESEMBLE AMERICA. SO THEY STARTED TO PURSUE UNLIMITED GLOBALIZATION. THEY WELCOMED CHINA INTO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION. THEY ENGAGED IN NATIONBUILDING IN AFGHANISTAN AND TRIED TO EXPORT DEMOCRACY TO IRAQ. THEY SIGNED A NUCLEAR DEAL WITH IRAN AND A GLOBAL I'M IN AGREEMENT IN PARIS. BUT THEY DIDN'T GROUND ANY OF IT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN. FOR DECADES WHILE WASHINGTON POLITICIANS BUILT A GLOBAL SYSTEM, AMERICAN WAGES STAGNATED . OUR GREAT CITIES AND INDUSTRIES WERE HOLLOWED OUT, ENTIRE COMMUNITIES DEVASTATED AND OUR MANUFACTURING PLANTS WERE SHIPPED OFF TO CHINA. THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WASHINGTON STOPPED BEING THE CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES AND STARTED BEING THE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. AS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY, I HAD A FRONT ROW SEAT TO DONALD TRUMP'S AMERICA FIRST FOREIGN POLICY. I WISH EVERY AMERICAN WOULD SEE HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP NEGOTIATES ON THEIR BEHALF. I HAVE WATCHED HIM CHARM THE CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY WHILE INSISTING GERMANY PAY ITS NATO OBLIGATIONS. I WAS PROUD TO WITNESS PRESIDENT TRUMP SAY, I DON'T BLAME YOU WANTING TO PAY AMERICA -- WANTING YOU -- IT STOPS WITH ME. I WILL LET THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF. DONALD TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION HAS ALWAYS MADE CLEAR THAT OUR PRIORITY IS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S SECURITY. IT IS THE JOB OF ALL LEADERS, TO PUT THEIR PEOPLE FIRST. WE HAVE SEEN HOW THIS STRATEGY HAS SUCCEEDED. IN FOUR SHORT YEARS DONALD TRUMP HAS LED EVEN SOME WASHINGTON DEMOCRATS TO AGREE ON THE CHINESE THREAT, ON TRADE DEALS THAT BENEFIT AMERICA FIRST, ALLIANCES THAT SHARE RESPONSIBILITY. IN FOUR YEARS DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T START ANY NEW WARS, HE BROUGHT TROOPS HOME AM A REBUILD THE MILITARY AND SIGNED PEACE DEALS THAT MAKE AMERICA SAFER. THE WASHINGTON ELITES WANT YOU TO THINK THIS FOREIGN-POLICY IS IMMORAL, UNTIL THEY CALL IT NATIONALIST. THAT TELLS YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. THE D.C. CROWD THINKS WHEN THEY CALL DONALD TRUMP A NATIONALIST THEY ARE INSULTING HIM. AS IF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BASE FOREIGN-POLICY ON AMERICA'S NATIONAL INTERESTS. A RETURN TO THE BIDEN WAY OF THINKING MEANS AMERICA GIVES THE RADICAL TERRORIST REGIME IN TEHRAN A PLANELOAD OF CASH IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. PRESIDENT TRUMP SENT AN AIRCRAFT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO DEAL WITH IRAN. BUT THAT WAS ON A DIFFERENT MISSION. AN AIRSTRIKE TO TAKE UP AHEAD OF THE TERROR MACHINE WHO PLOTTED THE DEATHS OF AMERICANS. WE ALSO MUST BE CLEAR THAT WHEN THOSE WHO SEEK FREEDOM TAKE TREMENDOUS PERSONAL RISK IN PLACES LIKE HONG KONG, TORONTO OR -- TEHRAN OR MINSK, THERE IS NO DOUBT WHO TRUMP SUPPORTS. WE WILL ALWAYS STAND WITH THE PEOPLE WHO FIGHT FOR THEIR GOD-GIVEN FREEDOMS. DON'T BE FOOLED. THE -- WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT IS TRYING TO SELL YOU ON THEIR CANDIDATE. JOE BIDEN WAS FIRST ELECTED TO THE SENATE IN 1972. 48 YEARS AGO. IT IS ACTUALLY THE TYPICAL WASHINGTON STORY. THIS YEAR, 22 DEMOCRATS RAN FOR PRESIDENT. THEY REJECTED ALL OF THE OUTSIDERS AND NOMINATED THE ULTIMATE WASHINGTON INSIDER, SOMEONE THEY HAD TO BRING OUT OF RETIREMENT. EVERY TIME JOE BIDEN OFFERS A NEW IDEA, YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF, WHY DIDN'T HE TRIED THAT OVER THE LAST 48 YEARS? -- DIDN'T HE TRY THAT OVER THE LAST 48 YEARS? THE DEMOCRATS BLAME RUSSIA FOR HILLARY CLINTON'S LOSS IN 2016. AS ACTING DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, I SAW THE DEMOCRATS' ENTIRE CASE FOR RUSSIAN COLLUSION. WHAT I SAW MADE ME SICK TO MY STOMACH. THE OBAMA-BIDEN ADMINISTRATION LAUNCHED A SURVEILLANCE OPERATION ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND SILENCED MANY BRAVE INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS WHO SPOKE UP AGAINST IT. THEY PRESENTED BOGUS INFORMATION AS FACTS AND LIED TO JUDGES AND CLASSIFIED ANYTHING THAT UNDERMINED THEIR CASE. AFTER DONALD TRUMP WON THE ELECTION, WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE CONTINUED THE AMERICAN TRADITION OF HELPING THE PRESIDENT ELECT TRANSITION INTO THE WHITE HOUSE, THEY TRIED INSTEAD TO UNDERCUT HIM EVEN MORE. FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ASKED INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS TO UNCOVER THE HIDDEN INFORMATION ON PRESIDENT TRUMP'S INCOMING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR THREE WEEKS BEFORE THE INAUGURATION. THAT IS THE DEMOCRATS. BETWEEN SURVEILLANCE, CLASSIFICATION, LEAKS AND PUPPET CANDIDATES, THEY NEVER WANT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO KNOW WHO IS CALLING THE SHOTS. WITH DONALD TRUMP, YOU ALWAYS KNOW EXACTLY WHO IS IN CHARGE. BECAUSE THE ANSWER IS YOU. YOU ARE IN CHARGE. NOT LOBBYISTS, NOT SPECIAL INTERESTS, NOT WARMONGERS OR GLOBALIZATION FANATICS. WITH DONALD TRUMP AND MIKE PENCE, THE BULK OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- BUCK STOPS WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLS THIS AMERICA FIRST. IT DOES NOT ADVANCE THE INTERESTS OF ONE GROUP OF AMERICANS AT THE EXPENSE OF ANOTHER. HAS NO BIAS ABOUT RED OR BLUE, EDUCATED OR NOT, URBAN OR RURAL. AMERICA FIRST IS THE BELIEF POLITICIANS SHOULD FOCUS ON THE QUALITY AND DIGNITY OF EVERY AMERICAN AND THAT THIS DUTY IS FULFILLED BY PROMOTING THE SAFETY AND WEALTH OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOVE ALL ELSE. THAT IS AMERICA FIRST. THAT IS THE TRUMP DOCTRINE, AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS FOUR MORE YEARS. ♪ >> BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT, MILLIONS GIVE THANKS FOR THIS LAND, LIBERTIES AND THOSE WHO DEFEND IT VERY THAT SAME PRIDE INSPIRED THE WORDS OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM, PENNED HERE AS THE SMOKE OF BATTLE LIFTED TWO CENTURIES AGO. WHEN THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND DIED -- THEY DID SO NOT ONLY FOR OUR PEOPLE WHICH THE FLAG REPRESENTED BUT FOR OUR PRINCIPLES ARE WHICH THE FLAG STOOD, GOD-GIVEN FREEDOMS, THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW, GOVERNMENT EITHER PEOPLE. THESE ARE THE THREADS THAT BIND US TOGETHER AS AMERICANS BECAUSE WE ARE NOT A NATION BORN OF BLOOD, BUT A BELIEF. EVEN THOUGH THAT OLD FLAG HAS BEEN BEATEN AND FADED AND FORGOTTEN, FIRED UPON AND SET ABLAZE, THERE ARE HEROES THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY WHO HAVE PICKED UP THE TATTERED STRANDS, MENDED THEM AND GRACED OUR FLAG A NEW. JUST AS THE SOLDIERS OF FORT MCHENRY FOUGHT FOR THE BELIEFS THAT BIND US TODAY, THERE ARE NEW LEADERS WHO HAVE DEVOTED THEIR LIFE TO DO THE SAME. ♪ >> GREETINGS ACROSS THE EMPEROR WAVES OF GRAIN, THIS IS MIKE PENCE. -- AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN, THIS IS MIKE PENCE. >> BE FILLED THE RADIO WAVES WITH CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY, GUARDING AMERICAN IDEALS, BUT MUCH LIKE THE MAN WHO INSPIRED HIM, HE DIDN'T GROW UP A REPUBLICAN >>. >>AS PRESIDENT REAGAN SAID, FREEDOM IS NEVER MORE THAN ONE GENERATION AWAY FROM EXTINCTION. >> HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A HARD-WORKING IRISH IMMIGRANT AND DROVE A BUS. HIS FATHER SERVED OUR NATION BRIEFLY IN THE KOREAN WAR AND EARNED A BRONZE STAR. HE WAS THE THIRD OF SIX CHILDREN RAISED IN INDIANA. >> FOUNDATION OF AMERICA IS FREEDOM AND THE FOUNDATION OF FREEDOM IS FAITH. >> IT WAS IN THIS TOWN, HIS FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST WAS LAID AND FROM THAT CONVICTION, -- IN SERVICE TO OTHERS. IT WAS AT A CHURCH SERVICE WHERE HE MET HIS WIFE, KAREN, AND HAD THREE CHILDREN. VICE PRES. PENCE: I AM A CHRISTIAN, A CONSERVATIVE, AND A REPUBLICAN, IN THAT ORDER. >> MIKE CAME THE HOST OF A STATEWIDE RADIO SHOW AND THEN A CONGRESSMAN. IN WASHINGTON, HE QUICKLY BECAME KNOWN AS THE FOREMOST DEFENDER OF FREEDOM. HE LED CONSERVATIVES IN THE FIGHT TO PROTECT OUR TIME-HONORED VALUES OF FAMILY, FAITH, LIFE, LIBERTY, AND LIMITED GOVERNMENT. VICE PRES. PENCE: OUR NATION'S STRENGTH BEGINS AT HOME, BECAUSE STRONG FAMILIES MAKE A STRONG AMERICA. >> MIKE EARNED THE TRUST OF THE PEOPLE OF HIS STATE AND BECAME THE 50TH GOVERNOR. HE EXPANDED SCHOOL CHOICE, LED THE COUNTRY IN MANUFACTURING, AND HELPED MORE HOOSIERS GET TO WORK THAN EVER BEFORE, BUT HE WAS NOT THROUGH. >> ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED THAT DONALD TRUMP WILL CHOOSE INDIANA GOVERNOR MIKE PENCE AS HIS VICE PRESIDENT. PRES. TRUMP: I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO THE PERSON I THINK WILL BE THE NEXT VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> AS MY -- VICE PRESIDENT, HE MET WITH THOSE PRINCIPLES ALONGSIDE PRESIDENT TRUMP. OUR NATION EXPERIENCED PROSPERITY LIKE NEVER BEFORE. PRES. TRUMP: HE IS SOLID AS A ROCK. HE HAS BEEN A FANTASTIC VICE PRESIDENT. >> AND NOW, WE ARE EQUIPPED TO OVERCOME. IN TIMES OF TROUBLE, SOME CALLED TO RETREAT FROM THOSE IDEALIST, BUT AMERICANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE HAD HOPE AND RESILIENCE. MIKE PENCE KNOWS THOSE STARS AND STRIPES DO NOT CLEARLY REPRESENT WHO WE ARE BUT, MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT WE CAN BE. AS THE SUN RISES AGAIN ON AMERICA, AND WE LIFT OUR EYES TO THOSE LOFTY TRUTHS, TO GUIDE OUR COUNTRY AND EVERY ONE OF US TO GREATER HEIGHTS, IN THIS LAND OF THE FREE, THE HOME OF THE BRAVE, VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE. ♪ [APPLAUSE] ♪ >> PLEASE WELCOME THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, MIKE PENCE, ACCOMPANIED BY THE SECOND LADY, KAREN PENCE. ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CROWD CHANTING, "FOUR MORE YEARS"] VICE PRES. PENCE: GOOD, AMERICA. IT IS AN HONOR TO SPEAK TO YOU TONIGHT FROM THE HALLOWED GROUNDS OF FORT MCHENRY, THE SITE OF THE VERY BATTLE THAT INSPIRED THE WORDS OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM. THOSE WORDS HAVE INSPIRED THIS LAND OF HEROES IN EVERY GENERATION SINCE. IT WAS ON THIS SITE 206 YEARS AGO WHEN OUR YOUNG REPUBLIC HEROICALLY WITHSTOOD A FEROCIOUS NAVAL BOMBARDMENT FROM THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE ON EARTH. THEY CAME TO CRUSH OUR REVOLUTION, TO DIVIDE OUR NATION , AND TO END THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT. THE HEROES WHO HELD THIS FORT TOOK THEIR STAND FOR LIFE, LIBERTY, FREEDOM, AND THE AMERICAN FLAG. AND THOSE IDEALS HAVE TO DEFINED OUR NATION. BUT THEY WERE HARDLY EVER MENTIONED IN LAST WEEK'S DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. INSTEAD, DEMOCRATS SPENT FOUR DAYS ATTACKING AMERICA. JOE BIDEN SAID THAT WE WERE LIVING THROUGH A SEASON OF DARKNESS, BUT AS PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID, WHERE JOE BIDEN SEES AMERICAN DARKNESS, WE SEE AMERICAN GREATNESS. [APPLAUSE] IN THESE CHALLENGING TIMES, OUR COUNTRY NEEDS A PRESIDENT WHO BELIEVES IN AMERICA, WHO BELIEVES IN THE BOUNDLESS CAPACITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO MEET ANY CHALLENGE, DEFEAT ANY FOE, AND DEFEND THE FREEDOMS WE HOLD DEAR. AMERICA NEEDS FOUR MORE YEARS OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE. [APPLAUSE] BEFORE I GO FURTHER, ALLOW ME TO SAY A WORD TO FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF HURRICANE LAURA. MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU TONIGHT. AND OUR ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE AUTHORITIES IN THE STATES THAT WILL BE IMPACTED. FEMA HAS MOBILIZED RESOURCES FOR THOSE IN HARM'S WAY. THIS IS A SERIOUS STORM, AND WE URGE ALL OF THOSE IN THE AFFECTED AREAS TO HEAT STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES. STAY SAFE, AND KNOW THAT WE WILL BE WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY TO SUPPORT, RESCUE, THIS POND, AND RECOVER IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD. -- RESPONSE, AND RECOVER IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD. THAT IS WHAT AMERICANS DO. [APPLAUSE] FOUR YEARS AGO, I ANSWERED THE CALL TO BE ON THIS TICKET, BECAUSE I KNEW OF DONALD TRUMP AND THE VISION TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS, I WATCHED THIS PRESIDENT ENDURE UNRELENTING ATTACKS BUT GET UP EVERY DAY AND FIGHT TO KEEP THE PROMISES HE MADE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. SO WITH GRATITUDE FOR THE CONFIDENCE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS PLACED IN ME, THE SUPPORT OF OUR REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND THE GRACE OF GOD, I HUMBLY ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION TO RUN AND SERVE AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] SERVING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THIS OFFICE HAS BEEN A JOURNEY I NEVER EXPECTED. IT IS A JOURNEY THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF MY FAMILY, BEGINNING WITH MY WONDERFUL WIFE, KAREN. [APPLAUSE] SHE IS A LIFELONG SCHOOLTEACHER, INCREDIBLE MOTHER TO OUR THREE CHILDREN, AND SHE IS ONE OUTSTANDING SECOND LADY OF THE UNITED STATES. I AM SO PROUD. AND WE COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF OUR THREE CHILDREN. MARINE CORPS CAPTAIN MICHAEL J PENTZ AND HIS WIFE SARAH -- PENCE AND HIS WIFE, SARAH. OUR DAUGHTER, CHARLOTTE PENCE BOND, OUR DAUGHTER AND THE WIFE TO HENRY BOND, SERVING OUR NATION IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY. [APPLAUSE] AND OUR YOUNGEST, A RECENT LAW SCHOOL GRAD, OUR DAUGHTER AUDREY , AND HER FIANCÉ, WHO, LIKE SO MANY OTHER AMERICANS, HAD TO DELAY THEIR WEDDING THIS SUMMER, BUT WE CANNOT WAIT FOR DAN TO BE A PART OF OUR FAMILY. [APPLAUSE] IN ADDITION, MY WIFE AND KIDS, THE PERSON WHO SHAPED MY LIFE THE MOST IS ALSO WITH US TONIGHT. MY MOM, NANCY. [APPLAUSE] SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF AN IRISH IMMIGRANT, 87 YEARS YOUNG. AND MOM FOLLOWS POLITICS VERY CLOSELY. AND THE TRUTH BE TOLD, SOMETIMES I THINK I AM ACTUALLY HER SECOND FAVORITE CANDIDATE ON THE TRUMP-PENCE TICKET. THANK YOU, MOM. I LOVE YOU. OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS, I HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR PRESIDENT. I HAVE SEEN HIM WHEN THE CAMERAS ARE OFF. AMERICANS SEE PRESIDENT TRUMP AND LOTS OF DIFFERENT WAYS, BUT THERE IS NO DOUBT HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP SEES AMERICA. HE SEES AMERICA FOR WHAT IT IS, A NATION THAT HAS DONE MORE GOOD IN THIS WORLD THAN ANY OTHER, A NATION THAT DESERVES FAR MORE GRATITUDE THAN GRIEVOUS -- GRIEVANCE, AND IF YOU WANT A PRESIDENT WHO FALLS SILENT WHEN OUR HERITAGE IS DEMEANED OR INSULTED, HE IS NOT YOUR MAN. [APPLAUSE] NOW, WE CAME BY VERY DIFFERENT ROUTES TO THIS PARTNERSHIP, AND SOME PEOPLE THINK WE ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. BUT, YOU KNOW, I HAVE LEARNED A FEW THINGS WATCHING HIM, WATCHING HIM DEAL WITH ALL THAT WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS. HE DOES THINGS IN HIS OWN WAY, ON HIS OWN TERMS. NOT MUCH GETS PAST HIM. AND WHEN HE HAS AN OPINION, HE IS LIABLE TO SHARE IT. HE CERTAINLY HAS KEPT THINGS INTERESTING, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS KEPT HIS WORD TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. [APPLAUSE] IN A CITY KNOWN FOR TALKERS, PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A DOER, AND FEW PRESIDENTS HAVE BROUGHT MORE INDEPENDENCE, ENERGY, OR DETERMINATION TO THAT OFFICE. FOUR YEARS AGO, WE INHERITED A MILITARY HOLLOWED OUT BY DEVASTATING BUDGET CUTS, AN ECONOMY STRUGGLING TO BREAK OUT IN THE SLOWEST RECOVERY SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION. ISIS CONTROLLED A LANDMASS TWICE THE SIZE OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND WE WITNESSED THE STEADY ASSAULT ON OUR MOST CHERISHED VALUES, FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND THE RIGHT TO LIFE. THAT IS WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP STEPPED IN. AND FROM DAY ONE, HE KEPT HIS WORD. WE REBUILD OUR MILITARY. [APPLAUSE] THIS PRESIDENT SIGNED THE LARGEST INCREASE IN OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE SINCE THE DAYS OF RONALD REAGAN AND CREATED THE FIRST NEW BRANCH IN OUR ARMED FORCES IN 70 YEARS, THE UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE. [APPLAUSE] AND WITH THAT RENEWED ENERGY, WE ALSO RETURNED AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS TO SPACE ON AN AMERICAN ROCKET FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY 10 YEARS. [APPLAUSE] AND AFTER YEARS OF SCANDAL THAT ROBBED OUR VETERANS OF THE CARE THAT YOU EARNED IN THE UNIFORM OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENT TRUMP KEPT HIS WORD AGAIN. WE REFORMED THE V.A., AND VETERANS CHOICE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR EVERY VETERAN IN AMERICA. [APPLAUSE] OUR ARMED FORCES AND OUR VETERANS FILL THIS LAND OF HEROES, AND MANY JOIN US TONIGHT IN THIS HISTORIC FORM. TONIGHT, WE HAVE AMONG US FOUR RECIPIENTS OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR. [APPLAUSE] SIX RECIPIENTS OF THE PURPLE HEART. [APPLAUSE] A GOLDSTAR MOTHER OF A GALLANT NAVY SEAL. [APPLAUSE] AND WOUNDED WARRIORS FROM SOLDIERS STRONG, A GROUP THAT SERVES OUR INJURED VETERANS EVERY DAY. WE ARE HONORED BY YOUR PRESENCE, AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. [APPLAUSE] WITH HEROES JUST LIKE THESE, WE DEFEND OUR NATION EVERY DAY. BUT UNDER THIS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, WE HAVE TAKEN THE FIGHT TO RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS ON OUR TERMS ON THEIR SOIL. LAST YEAR, AMERICAN ARMED FORCES TOOK THE LAST INCH OF ISIS TERRITORY, CRUSHED THEIR CALIPHATE, AND TOOK DOWN THEIR LEADER WITHOUT ONE AMERICAN CASUALTY. [APPLAUSE] AND I WAS THERE. WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE THE ORDER TO TAKE OUT THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS IRAN'S TOP GENERAL WILL NOT HARM ANOTHER AMERICAN, BECAUSE CUSTOM SOLEMANI -- QASSEM SOLEIMANI IS GONE. HISTORY SAYS JOE BIDEN OPPOSED THE OPERATION THAT TOOK DOWN OSAMA BIN LADEN. IT IS NO WONDER THAT THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE UNDER THE OBAMA-BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ONCE SAID THAT JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN, AND I QUOTE, WRONG ON NEARLY EVERY MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE OVER THE PAST FOUR DECADES. SO WE HAVE STOOD UP TO OUR ENEMIES, AND WE HAVE STOOD WITH OUR ALLIES, LIKE WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP KEPT HIS WORD AND MOVED THE AMERICAN EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM, THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. [APPLAUSE] SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE FIRST ARAB COUNTRY TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL IN 26 YEARS. CLOSER TO HOME, WE HAVE APPOINTED NEARLY 200 FEDERAL JUDGES TO THE COURTS. WE SUPPORTED THE RIGHT TO LIFE AND ALL OF THE GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS ENSHRINED IN OUR CONSTITUTION, INCLUDING THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS, AND WHEN IT CAME TO THE ECONOMY, PRESIDENT TRUMP KEPT HIS WORD AND THEN SOME. WE PASSED THE LARGEST TAX CUT AND REFORM IN AMERICAN HISTORY. WE WHIRLED BACK MORE FEDERAL REDTAPE THAN ANY ADMINISTRATION EVER HAD. WE UNLEASHED AMERICAN ENERGY AND FOUGHT FOR FREE AND FAIR TRADE, AND IN OUR FIRST THREE YEARS, BUSINESSES LARGE AND SMALL CREATED MORE THAN 7 MILLION GOOD PAYING JOBS, INCLUDING 500 THOUSAND MANUFACTURING JOBS ALL ACROSS AMERICA. [APPLAUSE] OUR COUNTRY BECAME A NET EXPORTER OF ENERGY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 70 YEARS. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND HISPANIC AMERICANS HIT THE LOWEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED, AND ON THIS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO VOTE, I AM PROUD TO REPORT THAT UNDER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, WE ACHIEVED THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR WOMEN IN 65 YEARS. [APPLAUSE] AND MORE AMERICANS WORKING THAN EVER BEFORE. IN OUR FIRST THREE YEARS, WE BUILT THE GREATEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD. WE MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. [APPLAUSE] AND THEN, THE CORONAVIRUS STRUCK FROM CHINA. BEFORE THE FIRST CASE OF THE CORONAVIRUS SPREAD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, THE PRESIDENT TOOK UNPRECEDENTED ACTION AND SUSPENDED ALL TRAVEL FROM CHINA, THE SECOND LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD. NOW, THAT ACTION SAVED UNTOLD AMERICAN LIVES, AND I CAN TELL YOU FIRSTHAND IT BOUGHT US IN VALUABLE TIME TO LAUNCH THE GREATEST NATIONAL MOBILIZATION SINCE WORLD WAR II. PRESIDENT TRUMP MARSHALED THE FULL RESOURCES OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM THE OUTSET. HE DIRECTED US TO FORGE A SEAMLESS PARTNERSHIP WITH GOVERNORS ACROSS AMERICA IN BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES. WE PARTNERED WITH PRIVATE INDUSTRY TO REINVENT TESTING AND PRODUCE SUPPLIES THAT WERE DISTRIBUTED TO HOSPITALS AROUND THE LAND. TODAY, WE ARE CONDUCTING MORE THAN 800,000 TESTS A DAY, AND WE HAVE COORDINATED THE DELIVERY OF BILLIONS OF PIECES OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR OUR AMAZING DOCTORS, NURSES, AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS. [APPLAUSE] WE SOUGHT TO THE MANUFACTURE OF 100,000 VENTILATORS IN 100 DAYS, AND NO ONE WHO REQUIRED A VENTILATOR WAS EVER DELIGHT -- DENIED A VENTILATOR IN THE UNITED STATES. WE BUILT HOSPITALS, SERVED MEDICAL MILITARY PERSONNEL, AND ENACTED A RESCUE PACKAGE TO SAVE AMERICAN JOBS. AS WE SPEAK, WE ARE DEVELOPING A GROWING NUMBER OF TREATMENTS, KNOWN AS THERAPEUTICS, INCLUDING CONVALESCENT PLASMA, THAT ARE SAVING LIVES ALL ACROSS AMERICA. NOW, LAST WEEK, JOE BIDEN SAID THAT NO MIRACLE IS COMING. WELL, WHAT JOE DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT AMERICA IS A NATION OF MIRACLES. AND I AM PROUD TO REPORT THAT WE ARE ON TRACK TO HAVE THE WORLD'S FIRST SAFE, EFFECTIVE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. [APPLAUSE] AFTER ALL THE SACRIFICE, IN THIS YEAR, LIKE NO OTHER, AND ALL OF THE HARDSHIP, WE ARE FINDING OUR WAY FORWARD AGAIN. BUT TONIGHT, OUR HEARTS ARE WITH ALL OF THE FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES AND HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS STILL STRUGGLING WITH SERIOUS ILLNESS. IN THIS COUNTRY, WE MOURN WITH THOSE WHO MOURN. WE GRIEVE WITH THOSE WHO GRIEVE. AND THIS NIGHT, I KNOW THAT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS PAUSE AND I PRAY FOR GOD'S COMFORT FOR EACH OF YOU. OUR COUNTRY DOES NOT GET THROUGH SUCH A TIME UNLESS IT'S PEOPLE FIND STRENGTH WITHIN -- ITS PEOPLE FIND STRENGTH WITHIN. DOCTORS, NURSES, FIRST RESPONDERS, FACTORY WORKERS, TRUCKERS, AND EVERYDAY AMERICANS, WHO PUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THEIR NEIGHBORS FIRST, HAS BEEN NOTHING SHORT OF HEROIC. [APPLAUSE] VERONICA SAYEZ PUT ON HER SCRUBS EVERY DAY AND DAY IN AND DAY OUT WENT TO WORK IN ONE OF NEW YORK CITY'S BUSIEST HOSPITALS. SHE STAYED ON THE JOB, PUT IN THE LONG HOURS UNTIL IT WAS DONE , AND THEN GOT BACK IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD AND HELPED NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS STRUGGLING. HER BROTHER, WILLIAM, IS A NEW YORK CITY FIREFIGHTER. AND THEY ARE BOTH EMBLEMATIC OF HEROES ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. THEY ARE WITH US TONIGHT, AND I SAY TO THEM AND TO ALL OF YOU, YOU HAVE EARNED THE ADMIRATION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND WE WILL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR SERVICE. [APPLAUSE] THANKS TO THE COURAGE AND COMPASSION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WE ARE SLOWING THE SPREAD. WE ARE PROTECTING THE VULNERABLE. AND WE ARE SAVING LIVES. AND WE ARE OPENING UP AMERICA AGAIN. BECAUSE OF THE STRONG FOUNDATION THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP POURED IN OUR FIRST YEARS, WE HAVE ALREADY GAINED BACK NINE POINT 3 MILLION JOBS IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS ALONE. [APPLAUSE] AND WE ARE NOT JUST OPENING UP AMERICA AGAIN. WE ARE OPENING UP AMERICA'S SCHOOLS. [APPLAUSE] AND I AM PROUD TO REPORT THAT MY WIFE, KAREN, THE SCHOOLTEACHER I HAVE BEEN MARRIED TOO, WILL BE RETURNING TO HER CLASSROOM NEXT WEEK, AND SO, TO ALL OF OUR HEROIC TEACHERS AND FACULTY AND STAFF, THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE FOR OUR KIDS, AND WE ARE GOING TO STAY WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. IN THE DAYS AHEAD, AS WE OPEN UP AMERICA AGAIN, I PROMISE YOU. WE WILL CONTINUE TO PUT THE HEALTH OF AMERICA FIRST, AND AS WE WORK TO PRAYING -- TO BRING THE ECONOMY BACK, WE ALL HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY, AND WE ALL HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE. ON NOVEMBER 3, YOU NEED TO ASK YOURSELF, WHO DO YOU TRUST TO REBUILD THIS ECONOMY? A CAREER POLITICIAN WHO PRESIDED OVER THE SLOWEST ECONOMIC RECOVERY SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION OR A PROVEN LEADER WHO CREATED THE GREATEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD? THE CHOICE IS CLEAR. TO BRING AMERICA ALL OF THE WAY BACK, WE NEED FOUR MORE YEARS OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE. [APPLAUSE] [CHANTING, "FOUR MORE YEARS"] MY FELLOW AMERICANS, WE ARE PASSING THROUGH A TIME OF TESTING. BUT IN THE MIDST OF THIS GLOBAL PANDEMIC, JUST AS OUR NATION HAD BEGUN TO RECOVER, WE HAVE SEEN VIOLENCE AND CHAOS IN THE STREETS OF OUR MAJOR CITIES. PRESIDENT TRUMP AND I WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT THE RIGHT OF AMERICANS TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST. BUT RIOTING AND LOOTING IS NOT PEACEFUL PROTEST. TEARING DOWN STATUES IS NOT FREE SPEECH, AND THOSE WHO DO SO WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW. [APPLAUSE] LAST WEEK, JOE BIDEN DID NOT SAY ONE WORD ABOUT THE VIOLENCE AND CHAOS ENGULFING CITIES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. SO LET ME BE CLEAR. THE VIOLENCE MUST STOP, WHETHER IN MINNEAPOLIS, PORTLAND, OR KENOSHA. TOO MANY HEROES HAVE DIED OFFENDING OUR FREEDOM TO SEE AMERICANS STRIKE EACH OTHER DOWN. WE WILL HAVE LAW AND ORDER ON THE STREETS OF THIS COUNTRY FOR EVERY AMERICAN OF EVERY RACE AND CREED AND COLOR. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] PRESIDENT TRUMP AND I KNOW THAT THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO PUT ON THE UNIFORM OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE THE BEST OF US. EVERY DAY, WHEN THEY WALK OUT THAT DOOR, THEY CONSIDER OUR LIVES MORE IMPORTANT THAN THEIR OWN. PEOPLE LIKE DAVE PATRICK UNDERWOOD, AN OFFICE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED DURING THE RIOTS IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. DAVE'S HEROISM IS EMBLEMATIC OF THE HEROES THAT SERVE IN BLUE EVERY DAY. WE ARE PRIVILEGED TONIGHT TO BE JOINED BY HIS SISTER, ANGELA. ANGELA, WE SAY TO YOU WE GRIEVE WITH YOUR FAMILY. AND AMERICA WILL NEVER FORGET OR FAIL TO HONOR OFFICER DAVE PATRICK UNDERWOOD. [APPLAUSE] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW WE DO NOT HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN SUPPORTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND STANDING WITH OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEIGHBORS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THEIR LIVES, EDUCATION, JOBS, AND SAFETY. AND FROM THE FIRST DAYS OF THIS ADMINISTRATION, WE HAVE DONE BOTH, AND WE WILL KEEP SUPPORTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND KEEP SUPPORTING OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND MINORITY COMMUNITIES ACROSS THIS LAND FOR FOUR MORE YEARS. [APPLAUSE] JOE BIDEN SAYS THAT AMERICA IS SYSTEMICALLY RACIST AND THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AMERICA HAS, AND I QUOTE, AND IMPLICIT BIAS AGAINST MINORITIES. WHEN ASKED WHETHER HE WOULD SUPPORT CUTTING FUNDING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT, JOE BIDEN REPLIED YES, ABSOLUTELY. JOE BIDEN WOULD DOUBLE DOWN ON THE VERY POLICIES THAT ARE LEADING TO VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN CITIES. THE HARD TRUTH IS YOU WILL NOT BE SAFE IN JOE BIDEN'S AMERICA. UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, WE WILL ALWAYS STAND WITH THOSE WHO STAND ON THE THIN BLUE LINE, AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO DEFUND THE POLICE, NOT NOW, NOT EVER. [APPLAUSE] MY FELLOW AMERICANS, WE ARE PASSING THROUGH A TIME OF TESTING. SOON, WE WILL COME TO A TIME FOR CHOOSING. JOE BIDEN HAS REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS A TRANSITION CANDIDATE, AND MANY WERE ASKING, "TRANSITION TO WHAT?" LAST WEEK, DEMOCRATS DID NOT TALK VERY MUCH ABOUT THEIR AGENDA. AND IF I WERE THEM, I WOULD NOT EITHER. I MEAN, BERNIE SANDERS DID TELL HIS FOLLOWERS JOE BIDEN WOULD BE THE MOST LIBERAL PRESIDENT. IN FACT, HE SAID, AND I QUOTE, THAT MANY OF THE IDEAS HE FOUGHT FOR THAT JUST A FEW YEARS AGO WERE CONSIDERED RADICAL ARE NOW MAINSTREAM IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. AT THE ROOT OF THEIR AGENDA IS THE BELIEF THAT AMERICA IS DRIVEN BY ENVY, NOT ASPIRATION, THAT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS HARBOR ILL WILL TOWARDS OUR NEIGHBORS INSTEAD OF LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS AS OURSELVES. THE RADICAL LEFT BELIEVES THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST BE INVOLVED IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES TO CORRECT THOSE AMERICAN WRONGS. THEY BELIEVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO DICTATE HOW AMERICANS LIVE, HOW WE SHOULD WORK, HOW WE SHOULD RAISE OUR CHILDREN, AND IN THE PROCESS, DEPRIVE OUR PEOPLE OF FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY AND SECURITY. THEIR AGENDA IS BASED ON GOVERNMENT CONTROL. OUR AGENDA IS BASED ON FREEDOM. [APPLAUSE] WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP CUT TAXES, JOE BIDEN WANTS TO RAISE TAXES BY NEARLY $4 TRILLION. WERE DONALD TRUMP ACHIEVED ENERGY INDEPENDENCE FOR THE UNITED STATES, JOE BIDEN WOULD ABOLISH FOSSIL FUELS, END FRACKING, AND IMPOSE A REGIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE REGULATIONS THAT WOULD DRAMATICALLY CHANGE THE COST OF LIVING FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES. WHERE WE FOUGHT FOR FREE AND FAIR TRADE, AND THIS PRESIDENT STOOD UP TO CHINA AND ENDED THE ERA OF ECONOMIC SURRENDER, JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN A CHEERLEADER FOR COMMUNIST CHINA. HE WANTS TO REPEAL ALL OF THE TARIFFS THAT ARE LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD FOR AMERICAN WORKERS, AND HE ACTUALLY CRITICIZED PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR SUSPENDING ALL TRAVEL TO CHINA AT THE OUTSET OF THIS PANDEMIC. JOE BIDEN IS FOR OPEN BORDERS, SANCTUARY CITIES, FREE LAWYERS AND HEALTH CARE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. PRESIDENT TRUMP, HE HAS SECURED OUR BORDER AND BUILT NEARLY 300 MILES OF THAT BORDER WALL. [APPLAUSE] JOE BIDEN WANTS TO END SCHOOL CHOICE, AND PRESIDENT TRUMP BELIEVES THAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHERE THEIR CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL REGARDLESS OF THEIR INCOME OR AREA CODES. [APPLAUSE] PRESIDENT TRUMP, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS STOOD WITHOUT APOLOGY FOR THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE EVERY DAY OF THIS ADMINISTRATION. JOE BIDEN, HE SUPPORTS TAXPAYER FUNDING OF ABORTION RIGHT UP TO THE MOMENT OF BIRTH. WHEN YOU CONSIDER THEIR AGENDA, IT IS CLEAR. JOE BIDEN WOULD BE NOTHING MORE THAN A TROJAN HORSE FOR THE RADICAL LEFT. THE CHOICE IN THIS ELECTION HAS NEVER BEEN CLEARER, AND THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER. LAST WEEK, JOE BIDEN SAID MOXIE IS ON THE BALLOT. AND THE TRUTH IS, OUR ECONOMIC RECOVERY IS ON THE BALLOT. LAW AND ORDER ARE ON THE BALLOT. BUT SO ARE THINGS FAR MORE FUNDAMENTAL AND FOUNDATIONAL TO OUR COUNTRY. IN THIS ELECTION, IT IS NOT SO MUCH WHETHER AMERICA WILL BE MORE CONSERVATIVE OR MORE LIBERAL, MORE REPUBLICAN OR MORE DEMOCRAT. THE CHOICE IN THIS ELECTION IS WHETHER AMERICA REMAINS AMERICA. IT IS WHETHER WE WILL LEAVE TO OUR CHILDREN AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN A COUNTRY GROUNDED IN OUR HIGHEST IDEALS OF FREEDOM, FREE MARKETS, AND THE UNALIENABLE RIGHT TO LIFE AND LIBERTY OR WHETHER WE WILL LEAVE THEM A COUNTRY THAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED INTO SOMETHING ELSE. WE STAND AT A CROSSROADS, AMERICA. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SET OUR NATION ON A PATH OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY. JOE BIDEN WOULD SET AMERICA ON A PATH OF SOCIALISM AND DECLINE. BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET IT HAPPEN. [APPLAUSE] PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP BELIEVES IN AMERICA AND IN THE GOODNESS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THE BOUNDLESS POTENTIAL OF EVERY AMERICAN TO LIVE OUT THEIR DREAMS AND FREEDOM, AND EVERY DAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN FIGHTING TO PROTECT THE PROMISE OF AMERICA. EVERY DAY, OUR PRESIDENT HAS BEEN FIGHTING TO EXPAND THE REACH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. EVERY DAY, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN FIGHTING FOR YOU. AND NOW, IT IS OUR TURN TO FIGHT FOR HIM. [APPLAUSE] ON THIS NIGHT IN THE COMPANY OF HEROES, I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL, DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THIS GREAT NATION, THAT I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE AGAIN. I PRAY TO BE WORTHY OF IT, AND I WILL GIVE THAT DUTY ALL THAT IS IN ME. IN THE YEAR 2020, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE HAD MORE THAN OUR SHARE OF CHALLENGES, BUT, THANKFULLY, WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WITH THE TOUGHNESS, ENERGY, AND RESOLVE TO SEE US THROUGH. THOSE TRAITS ACTUALLY RUN IN OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER. AS THE INVADING FORCE LEARNED ON APPROACH, IN SEPTEMBER OF 1814, AGAINST FIERCE AND SUSTAINED BOMBARDMENT, OUR YOUNG COUNTRY WAS DEFENDED BY HEROES, NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM THOSE WHO ARE WITH US TONIGHT. THE ENEMY WAS COUNTING ON THEM TO QUIT. BUT THEY NEVER DID. FORT MCHENRY HELD. AND WHEN MORNING CAME, OUR FLAG WAS STILL HERE. [APPLAUSE] MY FELLOW AMERICANS, WE ARE GOING THROUGH A TIME OF TESTING. BUT IF YOU LOOK THROUGH THE FOG OF THESE CHALLENGING TIMES, YOU WILL SEE. OUR FLAG IS STILL THERE TODAY. [APPLAUSE] THAT STAR-SPANGLED BANNER STILL WAVES OVER THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] FROM THESE HALLOWED GROUNDS, AMERICAN PATRIOTS IN GENERATIONS GONE BY DID THEIR PART TO DEFEND FREEDOM. NOW, IT IS OUR TURN. SO LET'S RUN THE RACE MARKED OUT FOR US. LET'S FIX OUR EYES ON OLD GLORY AND ALL SHE REPRESENTS. LET'S FIX OUR EYES ON THIS LAND OF HEROES AND LET THEIR COURAGE INSPIRE. AND LET'S FIX OUR EYES ON THE AUTHOR AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH AND OUR FREEDOM AND NEVER FORGET THAT WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS FREEDOM. THAT MEANS FREEDOM ALWAYS WINS. [APPLAUSE] MY FELLOW AMERICANS, THANK YOU FOR THE HONOR OF ADDRESSING YOU TONIGHT AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO RUN AND SERVE AGAIN AS WERE VICE PRESIDENT. I LEAVE HERE TODAY INSPIRED, AND I LEAVE HERE TODAY MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER THAT WE WILL DO IN OUR TIME AS AMERICANS HAVE DONE THROUGHOUT OUR LONG AND STORIED PAST. WE WILL DEFEND OUR FREEDOM AND OUR WAY OF LIFE. WE WILL REELECT OUR PRESIDENT AND PRINCIPLED REPUBLICAN LEADERS ACROSS THE LAND, AND WITH PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR FOUR MORE YEARS, AND WITH GOD'S HELP, WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN. THANK YOU, GOD BLESS YOU, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING, "FOUR MORE YEARS"] >> HERE TO PERFORM OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM, PLEASE WELCOME COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERSTAR TRACE ADKINS. >> GOD BLESS YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. >> OH, SAY, CAN YOU SEE BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL AT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING WHOSE BRIGHT STRIPES AND BRIGHT STARS THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT, O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHED WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING? AND THE RANK GE -- ROCKETS' RED GLARE, THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE O, SAY, DOES THAT STAR-SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVE O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE? ♪ ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT AREA -- PRESIDENT. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD. THANK YOU. ♪ ♪ [CHEERING] [APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ HOST: AND NOW, IT IS TIME TO HEAR YOUR VOICES AND GET YOUR REACTION TO VICE PRESIDENT PENTZ'S SPEECH -- PENC'S SPEECH. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR AMERICA TO BE AMERICA? REPUBLICANS -- DEMOCRATS --

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Length: 180min 54sec (10854 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 26 2020