Jan. 16, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| Ladies and gentlemen, coming to you from our underground bunker here in Des Moines, Iowa, Donald Trump is victorious. | ||
| Check out the scoreboard right next to me, right here from the New York Times, the New York salty, salty, salty Times tonight. | ||
| 39% of voters in, and Donald Trump has 23,000 votes, 52%. | ||
| of the electorate has, vote for him, 16 delegates at the convention. | ||
| And behind him, quite pitifully, is Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley vying for a second and third place. | ||
| Vivek Ron, Swami Klockan. | ||
| At 7% with a respectable 3,400 votes. | ||
| And then no one else after that. | ||
| Chris Christie got 17 votes. | ||
| How's that even possible? | ||
| I don't even know. | ||
| Donald Trump absolutely and totally dominant tonight. | ||
| Donald Trump absolutely destroying tonight. | ||
| And because of multiple technical difficulties, we could not be live during the initial calling. | ||
| I was just on Tim Kass's show, Tim Pool's show, Tim Kass IRL. | ||
| And the reason why... | ||
| We were delaying the lives because we thought it would take a second. | ||
| But they called it for Donald Trump in about 30 seconds. | ||
| The official call time from when the caucuses started, and some caucuses are still going on right now, many caucuses are still going on right now, was 30 minutes. | ||
| 30 minutes was when they called it for Donald Trump, called by the Associated Press, and called by a bunch of very, very, very salty libs who fill my cup with sodium, and I'm sodium deficient. | ||
| So that's really, really good. | ||
| It's very good for your electrolytes. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump absolutely crushing. | ||
| We have so many big details for you. | ||
| First, let's go to the call. | ||
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We're gonna make a call. | |
| Let's bring in Martha McCallum, anchor of the story, and Brett Baer, anchor of Special Report. | ||
| What do we have, guys? | ||
| So based on the first results and our Fox News voter analysis, the Fox News decision desk can now project that former President Donald Trump will win the Iowa caucuses. | ||
| He will take the lion's share of the state's 40 delegates. | ||
| This result really solidifies his place as the current frontrunner for the nomination. | ||
| Former Governor Haley and Governor DeSantis fighting for second. | ||
| And this is really going to maybe last a while because it's a close race right now, how we see it based on the numbers we're looking at. | ||
| You know, he, the former president, overperformed in the rural parts of Iowa. | ||
| But it has been overwhelming some of these numbers from these precincts that are already starting to come in. | ||
| Overwhelming is exactly what the numbers look like. | ||
| You are looking at them on your screen right now. | ||
| Let's go ahead and zoom in just a little bit so you can see where we are. | ||
| This is Donald Trump here at 52%. | ||
| Stayed at that percentage or above, 50 or above. | ||
| At 50 or above, there just is no race. | ||
| There's no more race for the presidency, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| It is Donald Trump's second term right now, and Donald Trump is the incumbent president, effectively. | ||
| That's the way that you have to look at this. | ||
| This is Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. | ||
| It's anyone's guess who will wind up in second or third. | ||
| If Ron DeSantis winds up in third, then you gotta kiss him goodbye. | ||
| You're done. | ||
| Then he's done. | ||
| There is no path forward, perhaps for Ron Santos or Nikki Haley or anyone, obviously. | ||
| That's personally what I believe. | ||
| But you're finished, right? | ||
| You have to drop out. | ||
| So that's where the race stands right now. | ||
| Again, 39% of votes in. | ||
| We're not even at the 50% mark. | ||
| And these... | ||
| These tabulations are changed and updated regularly, and we will show you the updates as they roll in. | ||
| This is Fox News breaking down Donald Trump's win, and I will note for you that Donald Trump will be speaking very, very soon. | ||
| Donald Trump and some of the other people in the campaign will be speaking. | ||
| What I mean is Nikki Haley will have to speak, Ron DeSantis will have to speak. | ||
| I've actually been backstage at these things, and what happens is all the candidates' campaigns, they call each other like, are you going to speak? | ||
| No, are you going to speak? | ||
| Are you going to speak? | ||
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I don't know! | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the great state of Iowa. | ||
| This is my home state. | ||
| This is the place where I am from. | ||
| We have long predicted that Donald Trump would win walking away. | ||
| We've been very, very interested in the candidacy of Vivek Ranswamy just because he brings so much young energy and he sort of seems like the heir de camp, right? | ||
| To the America First movement. | ||
| But this, of course, not Vivek's night. | ||
| Although, if you consider how much money he spent, the two of these spent $100 million each. | ||
| $100 million for this result in Iowa. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| How much is that per vote? | ||
| I can't do the math on the top of my head, but that's tens of thousands of dollars per vote. | ||
| Tens of thousands of dollars per vote. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Okay, so that's a lot of money. | ||
| Vivek Ranswamy ran a much leaner campaign and is getting a decent result here. | ||
| A respectable result. | ||
| So anyway, call it what it is. | ||
| This is Trump's night, however, and this is what Donald Trump did to the map. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| Fox News breaking down Donald Trump's victory here, but we will be breaking... | ||
| Directly to Donald Trump's speech, which could happen at any moment. | ||
| And of course, we will cover that and bring that to you live. | ||
| We are monitoring right now. | ||
| I'm with the great Rolls Royce. | ||
| And so we will, of course, bring you Donald Trump when he starts speaking. | ||
| Donald Trump was speaking at an event earlier tonight. | ||
| But let's have the Fox breakdown of his victory. | ||
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Especially when it comes to that MAGA voter. | |
| It's telling us a lot about how President Trump is having a really good night there in Iowa. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
| This is some of the key findings so far when it comes to the MAGA supporters in our Fox News analysis. | ||
| More than 6 in 10 of them, of those caucus goers that identify as MAGA, the vast majority of them, close to 8 in 10, it is revealed, are breaking for Donald Trump. | ||
| He still appears to be king of the MAGA world, 77% of them. | ||
| But looking at the moderate voters, this is a key group that we were watching heading into Iowa. | ||
| This appears to give some hope to Nikki Haley. | ||
| Now, when it comes to those moderate voters, she doesn't beat Donald Trump there, but she's well ahead of DeSantis and Ramaswamy among moderate voters. | ||
| This may reflect something about her potential strength in a general election. | ||
| So that is a key takeaway. | ||
| Now let's take a look at another very key group there in Iowa, This is a sizable group in Iowa. | ||
| We all know that. | ||
| We've been watching that heading into Iowa. | ||
| With this group, DeSantis courted them, was even endorsed by Bob Vander Plaats, as we know. | ||
| But they love Donald Trump. | ||
| DeSantis is 40 points behind him and just five points ahead of Haley. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So another key finding with Trump is the fact that he is still facing multiple investigations and indictments. | ||
| So we put the question to voters. | ||
| This, for the most part, does not appear to be a factor for caucus goers. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| More than half think the former president did nothing wrong on January 6th. | ||
| I think the same about interference in the 2020 election. | ||
| That bumps down to 4 in 10, as you can see, when it comes to classified documents at his Florida home. | ||
| Overall, though, Iowa Republicans think the investigation into the former president... | ||
| Are political, not legitimate. | ||
| So take a look at this. | ||
| Another key finding and a question that we put to voters when it comes to those Trump charges. | ||
| Close to 8 in 10 say the charges against Trump are political. | ||
| Only 2 in 10 say legitimate. | ||
| And speaking of legitimate, more than 6 in 10 caucus-goers say President Biden was not legitimately elected four years ago. | ||
| This is when we put this question to voters. | ||
| Those who think Biden's election was on the up and up, clicking yes here, they're backing Nikki Haley. | ||
| Those who don't break strongly, close to three quarters for Donald Trump. | ||
| And finally, one other hot-button issue among Iowa Republicans is what is being taught in schools. | ||
| So we asked about three issues, and here is what they said in some of the top findings that we took away from. | ||
| The Fox News voter analysis. | ||
| School teachings. | ||
| Half say K-8 schools are teaching too much, Sean, about racism. | ||
| But look, close to three quarters of caucus attendees think schools are focusing too much on sexual orientation and gender identity. | ||
| These are some really revealing numbers. | ||
| Something to dig into, Sean. | ||
| And brand new information just for you. | ||
| Something to dig into, Sean. | ||
| Did you hear her gasping multiple times? | ||
| I'm looking at the comment section right now, ladies and gentlemen, and we're going to be doing super chats tonight. | ||
| Again, we've been in Iowa for the last two days, and we have learned a lot. | ||
| But I've got to tell you, it's very, very interesting. | ||
| The energy here was not based on the press to coronate Donald Trump. | ||
| That certainly was not the goal here. | ||
| So you see a lot of gasping in these broadcasts. | ||
| Even the Fox News anchor is going, I can't believe what these voters actually think, which is so important to break the bubble. | ||
| It's so important to smash the bubble. | ||
| As I've been out in the streets, as I've been out at caucus events, as I've been out speaking with people and seeing people, and yes, taking selfies, and yes, having a great time, and yes, they don't care who you voted for, but a ton of people obviously breaking for Trump. | ||
| A ton of Trump voters. | ||
| We were at the Trump event earlier tonight, and we actually may have a live feed from the Trump event. | ||
| To bring to you, we obviously have staff there right now, and so we'll work to see if we can't bring you the great ALX who is there at the moment. | ||
| We couldn't do our live from inside of the event because it's just not possible. | ||
| It's too loud, too noisy, and there's just no place to actually do a live like this. | ||
| Although we can bring you actually live footage from inside the event with ALX. | ||
| In fact, we need to see if ALX could pop on right now from inside of Trump's victory party there in Des Moines, just a little bit down the road from where we were broadcasting right now. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump did give a speech already tonight. | ||
| He was speaking at a caucus event. | ||
| This is in Clive, Iowa. | ||
| Donald Trump had already been declared the victor. | ||
| And so Donald Trump made a speech in Clive, Iowa to a packed audience. | ||
| And this is what he said. | ||
| Maybe a preview of things to come when Donald Trump takes the stage. | ||
| And of course, we'll stop everything when Donald Trump speaks. | ||
| I'm really glad we get to go live a little bit later today, tonight, because it means that we'll be able to capture Donald Trump's speech. | ||
| I do not know when it will be. | ||
| But according to ALX, who is at the event, our executive producer, ALX, he's seeing people peek out from behind the curtain. | ||
| At any time. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is Donald Trump earlier tonight, not his official victory speech, his caucus speech, even though he had already been declared the winner. | ||
| Nation three years ago and today people are laughing at us. | ||
| It's not going to happen. | ||
| So I just want to thank everybody and get out and vote and I will see you later. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, this is Donald Trump. | ||
| These are caucus speeches. | ||
| A lot of people go. | ||
| We embedded with Marjorie Taylor Greene to go for her speech at a caucus speech. | ||
| And also, a DeSantis supporter attacked one of the friends of our show, a man named Wesley Hunt, who is also... | ||
| Somebody who is a Texas congressman, he was speaking here as a Trump surrogate, and he got attacked by a DeSantis supporter. | ||
| We'll pull up that video for you soon. | ||
| A lot happening here in the state of Iowa tonight, but of course the top-line news is the Donald Trump victory. | ||
| Royce, can you pop up that preview window, please, so that you can see sort of all the parties there, all of the victory parties there simultaneously. | ||
| They're all on screen right now. | ||
| You can see there, obviously, can we, um, let's... | ||
| Let's enlarge that. | ||
| So these are all of the victory parties. | ||
| DeSantis, Haley, and Donald Trump there in the screen. | ||
| And so what we'll do is we'll wait for one of them to speak, and then we'll pop over, right? | ||
| So what I want to do right now, though, is I did play you the Fox clip where they were going through, like, how many people believe that January 6th was a setup? | ||
| How many was a Fed's direction? | ||
| How many people believe that Joe Biden is illegitimate? | ||
| And Fox News was literally left gasping, gasping on air with those results. | ||
| But the best thing, the best clip of the night so far is our salt that lib of the night. | ||
| So I hope that you jump into the salt shaker and get out your salt shakers right now. | ||
| And you join me in Rachel Maddow crying over the polling results of Trump voters in Iowa saying that they don't believe that Joe Biden is a legitimate president of the United States. | ||
| She is very salty here. | ||
| She is literally crying on camera. | ||
| The salt must flow. | ||
| It's good for you. | ||
| It's good for me. | ||
| It's good for sodium, okay? | ||
| It's great to have extra salt in your cup. | ||
| Rachel Maddow, please fill my cup. | ||
| Let's salt that lib. | ||
| A caucus in Iowa, a third of them... | ||
| Think that if Donald Trump is convicted, he is not fit to be president. | ||
| In this incredibly conservative electorate, where Trump is going to run away with the Iowa caucuses by a mile and then some, still a third of that electorate says if he's convicted, they're going to nominate him nationwide? | ||
| When even a third of Iowa caucus goers say, no, he can't be president if he's convicted? | ||
| I'm sorry, but he's got to be convicted. | ||
| Okay, so salty. | ||
| Oh, I love seeing all that salt pouring in in the comment section. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I'd say, oh, the salt. | ||
| The salt is flowing. | ||
| I love seeing you on screen. | ||
| Look at that salt. | ||
| A little out of focus, but here we are. | ||
| Look at the salt. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Look at that beautiful salt flowing on screen. | ||
| Thank you all. | ||
| So salty. | ||
| Rachel Maddow. | ||
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Saying they don't care if Trump's convicted of a fake crime that we created to convict him. | |
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| I'm sodium deficient. | ||
| So thank you for all of the extra salt, lady. | ||
| So... | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, how about your average Trump voter? | ||
| There have been some fun interviews from the field. | ||
| This is your average Iowa caucus goer from Right Side Broadcasting, one of our favorite networks, interviewing the front row bobs at the Iowa caucus. | ||
| So this sort of gives you a good example of who were the Iowa caucus goers tonight and what did they think? | ||
| What do they think about the job Joe Biden's done? | ||
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Okay, a group that comes to every Trump campaign event are the Front Row Joes. | |
| They were nicknamed the Front Row Joes by President Trump because they're always first in line and they're always front row. | ||
| I have Mike and Sharon with me today. | ||
| The party's getting started. | ||
| How excited are you? | ||
| I can't describe it. | ||
| There's no words. | ||
| This is just the start. | ||
| Of the best that's yet to come. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| How are you feeling, Mike? | ||
| This is awesome. | ||
| This is like a rally, man. | ||
| Everybody's pumped up. | ||
| The energy in here. | ||
| Donald Trump won Iowa. | ||
| He's going to win New Hampshire. | ||
| He's going to win the whole United States. | ||
| He's going to be the 47th president. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| He's ready for 40s. | ||
| 47th president. | ||
| Let's go ahead and check in on the tab here, ladies and gentlemen, and see how it is going for Donald Trump right now in Iowa. | ||
| It looks like we have gone down in the percentage of votes. | ||
| So only 20% of the votes in. | ||
| This used to be at 39. I assume that's an error. | ||
| I'll show you what I'm looking at here so that you can see. | ||
| This was at 39 at start of show, and now it's only at 20%. | ||
| Now, Donald Trump's percentage of actual votes has gone up a tick now at 53%, and DeSantis and BirdBrain are both below, polling below 20%, Vivek sort of holding solid here at seven and a half and a quarter. | ||
| And so here we have, again, a very dominant performance by Donald Trump. | ||
| And then you can see this strange ticker here. | ||
| So you saw the update in real time there, right? | ||
| So now you have the update in real time, 28% of the votes in. | ||
| It always makes me very nervous when I see stuff like this because, like, do you remember on election night when you would see the votes tick up and tick down and you'd see the number of actions counted, like, sort of change wildly? | ||
| Anyway, I always think that's very disconcerting when that happens. | ||
| So now it says 28% of the votes are in for the Iowa caucus. | ||
| And, ladies and gentlemen, there's another update now, 31% in. | ||
| And you're seeing the changes there. | ||
| Ron DeSantis holding on to a fairly sizable lead over Nikki Haley. | ||
| Now 1,000 votes over Nikki Haley. | ||
| Nikki Haley polling. | ||
| Apparently she's polling really well against Donald Trump in New Hampshire at like 30%. | ||
| That's as good as anyone's polled against Donald Trump in any state anywhere. | ||
| So maybe Nikki Haley will continue into New Hampshire. | ||
| The great Dan Scavino. | ||
| Saying congratulations. | ||
| Thank you, Iowa. | ||
| Dan Scavino and Donald Trump there posing in front of the screen. | ||
| Expect a lot more of this. | ||
| Junior posting a photo with his dad right there. | ||
| Don Jr. and dad. | ||
| And they are in front of the screen. | ||
| Donald Trump projected to win. | ||
| Donald Trump Jr. says, well, that was fast. | ||
| Thank you, Iowa. | ||
| Let's end this nonsense and go after the insanity of today's Democrat Party. | ||
| Enough is enough. | ||
| Time to put America first and time to put America first for a change. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Again, Donald Trump was speaking earlier tonight at a rally in Clive, Iowa, and he will be speaking soon at his victory party, presumably. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we have our live results. | ||
| This was something I did want to show you. | ||
| We were at the caucuses earlier tonight, and this is an example of your Nikki Haley voter. | ||
| This is an example of your Nikki Haley voter double or triple mask there. | ||
| This guy is definitely not a Republican. | ||
| Just going to go out on a limb. | ||
| Not a Republican. | ||
| Don't think so. | ||
| Might be Larry David, but is not a Republican. | ||
| So, this is actually what polling shows as well. | ||
| That many of the Nikki Haley voters are not Republicans and are willing to vote. | ||
| Now you can see the vote totals coming in. | ||
| Let's watch this for a tick. | ||
| I got some hilarious CNN reaction clips to show you from tonight because CNN is just pouring salt. | ||
| Out of their faces. | ||
| And we have a Jake Tapper crying clip. | ||
| Apparently, Ron DeSantis' campaign manager is also crying that it was rigged and stolen, that the entire thing has been rigged and stolen. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Insanity. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| 74%. | ||
| Massive jump. | ||
| 74% of votes in. | ||
| So just jump from 30% to 74% of votes in, which is wild. | ||
| I don't trust those numbers, but I suppose we'll see. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, again, here's what I'm using. | ||
| I'm using the Iowa caucus results from the New York Times. | ||
| And the race was called by the Associated Press. | ||
| And so there it is. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So here you can see the votes ticking up once more. | ||
| Donald Trump has not dipped below 50%. | ||
| Donald Trump has not dipped below 50%. | ||
| Not in the two hours that I've been watching this tally. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So here we go. | ||
| If there is a major update, we will jump right over to it. | ||
| If Donald Trump takes the stage, we will jump over to it. | ||
| Or if anybody takes the stage in order to capitulate, cry, or bow out. | ||
| But if it is 76% of the votes in, as you can see here, 76% of the votes in, and these votes are now flying in, they sort of like... | ||
| So we're stuck at 1% and 2% for a very long time. | ||
| Now the votes are just absolutely flying in. | ||
| Donald Trump maintaining that above 50% dominance in the polling. | ||
| It's insurmountable, of course, which is why they called it for Donald Trump almost immediately. | ||
| Almost immediately. | ||
| So ladies and gentlemen, in the... | ||
| Can we pop sort of that on right now, what the screen is showing? | ||
| Right there. | ||
| Okay, so this is sort of... | ||
| This is sort of our, as we await Donald Trump, 70% of votes. | ||
| So this squares with what we see with the New York Times. | ||
| So 70% of votes in. | ||
| I mean, everyone needs to capitulate, right? | ||
| At this point, you kind of just need to everyone drop out, just clear the field. | ||
| Everyone's just wasting money again at this point. | ||
| So Jim Jordan is a surrogate for Donald Trump on the campaign trail here. | ||
| Jim Jordan was in town. | ||
| Jim Jordan was talking to Fox News about the investigations into Donald Trump and then his investigations into Joe Biden. | ||
| What effect is that going to have now on the 2024 race? | ||
| Jim Jordan is a very wise man. | ||
| Jim Jordan is a Midwesterner himself, a great wrestler, and we respect that in Iowa. | ||
| Here's what the man had to say. | ||
| Congressman Ronny Jackson, Congressman Jim Jordan. | ||
| Guys, good to see you. | ||
| Both supporting Donald Trump. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Big night for President Trump tonight. | ||
| Yeah, it sure was. | ||
| I think the people in Iowa see what the American people See as well, and that is, you know, in a three-year time frame, we went from a secure border to no border. | ||
| We went from safe streets to record crime. | ||
| We went from $2 gas to $3, $4, $5 gas. | ||
| And maybe most importantly, we went from stable prices to record inflation. | ||
| And I haven't even got into foreign policy. | ||
| Would you like to talk about the war in Europe, the war in the Middle East, the territorial ambitions of China? | ||
| There's a lot to talk about there. | ||
| Well, the old line is that, you know, weakness invites aggression. | ||
| And that's exactly what we're seeing. | ||
| You know, Hamas and Hezbollah attacking our dear and best friend, the state of Israel, and what Putin's done to Ukraine. | ||
| Did you read that Joe Biden hung up on Netanyahu? | ||
| 20 days ago, and they haven't spoken since. | ||
| That's how we treat our top ally in the Middle East. | ||
| And instead of saying, you've been attacked, we want to support you the way you supported us after 9-11, go win the war. | ||
| The embassy in Jerusalem and the Abraham Accords with President Trump and hanging up on Netanyahu, that's the contrast as well. | ||
| So the people see that. | ||
| That's why Iowa's red like Ohio's red. | ||
| I mean, that's Trump, what he's done. | ||
| I thought of you because your committee, Judiciary Committee, has been looking into the weaponization of the DOJ and the FBI and how they've been politicized. | ||
| Eight out of ten people in Iowa said that they believe that these charges are political. | ||
| That message has gotten out. | ||
| They believe it because that's the case. | ||
| I mean, anyone can see the history of what they've done to President Trump. | ||
| He has a great line. | ||
| He's got a lot of great lines when he's out talking. | ||
| We were at Indianola with him yesterday at that rally. | ||
| But he says, they're coming after him because he's fighting for us. | ||
| Yesterday, he changed it. | ||
| I thought it was even better yesterday what he said. | ||
| He says, they're coming after my freedom because I'm fighting for yours. | ||
| And that, people get it. | ||
| People in Iowa get it. | ||
| People across the country get it. | ||
| That's what's at stake. | ||
| And that's why he's going to win. | ||
| People in Iowa, just like the people in Ohio. | ||
| Salt of the earth. | ||
| Congressman Jackson, good take. | ||
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Yeah, no, I agree with Jim, exactly. | |
| I think, you know, what I said at the caucus location I just came from, and there were probably, like, there was about 400 people at this. | ||
| It was two precincts that were combined together. | ||
| But overwhelming enthusiasm, all of it directed at President Trump, right? | ||
| I mean, he just walked away with it at the caucus site I was at. | ||
| And I think, you know, what I got up when I said to people, I said, look... | ||
| There's a lot of people that could sit in that Oval Office, but there's only one person that will sit in that Oval Office and do what has to be done in the years coming, right? | ||
| He's lived it. | ||
| He knows what the deep state's all about. | ||
| The deep state, he's been the victim of it for a long time now. | ||
| And, you know, it takes a lot of courage to get in there. | ||
| This started the day he came down the escalator. | ||
| Three years. | ||
| Jim Jordan, how often were you on this show? | ||
| We were vindicated on everything we reported for three years. | ||
| The media, the lies, the conspiracy theories they peddled. | ||
| And they were never held accountable. | ||
| And even in some cases, like the New York Times got Pulitzer's. | ||
| Yeah, there was only a few of us in Congress, and there was only a few of you in the media. | ||
| Very few. | ||
| John Solomon, Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett. | ||
| God bless you for doing it. | ||
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Honestly, if he didn't become president again, there will be no accountability for anything that's happened over the last few years. | |
| The only way we'll get any accountability is put Donald Trump back in the Oval Office. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Great to see you in Iowa. | ||
| Thank you, guys. | ||
| You guys are used to this cold. | ||
| I'm now in the free state of Florida, where it's a lot warmer. | ||
| I never thought it would make that much pressure. | ||
| Anyway, guys, good to see you. | ||
| Sean Hannity. | ||
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I love watching Sean Hannity. | |
| It's always like watching my dad do a news show. | ||
| So here we go, ladies and gentlemen, behind the scenes with Donald Trump. | ||
| So here we have Donald Trump watching the results. | ||
| Trump projected to win Iowa caucus. | ||
| You can see Donald Trump there backstage at his own event. | ||
| And also breaking news right now, Jason Miller, one of the major campaign officials inside of the Trump team, has said that Donald Trump will be speaking between 9.30 and 10.30. | ||
| So what does that mean for us? | ||
| That means it is 9.32 right now, Central Standard Time in Iowa. | ||
| That means that we are now in the window. | ||
| To listen to Donald Trump's victory speech and listen to it, we shall. | ||
| We have a live shot at the victory speech. | ||
| We have live staff at the victory speech. | ||
| And so we will, of course, cut to it as soon as Donald Trump is ready to go out on stage. | ||
| Donald Trump is there with his son, Eric, who is a great dude. | ||
| And we are very close with Eric Trump. | ||
| And bravo to them. | ||
| Both congratulations. | ||
| And Don and Eric, the whole family, is here. | ||
| Or at least the two sons. | ||
| I haven't seen Ivanka. | ||
| And there they are, happy as can be backstage. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Let's check in. | ||
| Here's a big dump right there of votes up to 80% of votes in now. | ||
| 80% of votes in now. | ||
| Again, Donald Trump's campaign just said that he will take the stage between now and 1030. | ||
| Donald Trump is preparing to take the stage. | ||
| I think it is safe to say. | ||
| So here it is. | ||
| 81% of votes in. | ||
| Donald Trump at a dominant 51% in the polling. | ||
| So there's a couple of things that I want to get to. | ||
| Donald Trump can take the stage at any time, so there's a couple of things I just want to hop to before that happens. | ||
| This is the DeSantis campaign, and let's go ahead and check on where DeSantis is. | ||
| This is Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Ron DeSantis spent $100 million in Iowa. | ||
| $100 million to come in a distant, distant second at 18,000 votes. | ||
| And it really doesn't look like, if you can see... | ||
| If you can see here on your screen, it really doesn't look like Nikki's going to catch him. | ||
| With 20% left to go, it doesn't look like Nikki will actually catch up to Ron. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| So Nikki Haley will come in, having spent millions herself, Nikki Haley will come in third. | ||
| And Vivek will come in fourth at a respectable 7.7%. | ||
| There's another dump of votes you can see here. | ||
| And while the gap closes just a little bit, I don't know. | ||
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We'll see. | |
| We'll see. | ||
| We'll be monitoring it. | ||
| We'll be monitoring it. | ||
| What does DeSantis' campaign chief have to say about this? | ||
| Well, ironically, because it was a knock at Donald Trump that he couldn't accept the results of the 2020 election, now the DeSantis' campaign. | ||
| Are whining about the results of this election, saying it's a rigged process. | ||
| Here's what they were saying on MSNBC earlier in the evening. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, for some reason, the clip is we are not able to play the clip. | ||
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We are not able to play the clip. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we do have 84% of the votes in. | ||
| We're watching very, very carefully. | ||
| Maybe Donald Trump will take the stage when it's 100%. | ||
| Maybe Donald Trump will take the stage at 90%. | ||
| We kind of assumed as a team, and we've been here for the last two days, we kind of assumed as a team that Donald Trump might come out on stage like very quickly. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we are here on a live feed, and we are back. | ||
| And my producer, we just had a quick, a short freeze. | ||
| We are not offline. | ||
| We are here, and we will be bringing you the Donald Trump speech. | ||
| Very, very soon. | ||
| We are on strong internet and we have a strong connection here, which is why we're doing it inside of Benny's. | ||
| We'll call this the Benny Bunker Basement. | ||
| It's exactly where Joe Biden campaigned. | ||
| I will not be campaigning from here, nor will I be doing my live from here. | ||
| We will be heading back to our studio very soon. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| But ladies and gentlemen, we are a connection that we normally are not on. | ||
| Again, broadcasting from Benny's basement bunker. | ||
| So, again, Donald Trump speaking soon. | ||
| what is to blame for Donald Trump's victory, according to MSNBC. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| According, so this is communism, I will say. | ||
| This probably is exactly what we will blame for that glitch. | ||
| There is communists that exist in the world, and those people hate our show. | ||
| And I think that they tried to glitch out our show, but we are back, baby, and we are still monitoring for Donald Trump, and we will continue the broadcast. | ||
| Sorry about that. | ||
| I hate it, absolutely hate it when that happens. | ||
| But ladies and gentlemen, nobody hates Donald Trump winning more than CNN. | ||
| CNN was on air, Jake Tapper was on air, who sounds like he's going to break into tears at any moment, always when he's talking. | ||
| But Jake Tapper was particularly bitter and salty today. | ||
| Jake Tapper announcing Donald Trump's victory live on CNN like you're watching an ISIS hostage video. | ||
| Pretty hysterical, pretty amazing, laugh out loud funny. | ||
| Please enjoy our pollsters. | ||
| And right now we can reveal the first information from our entrance poll of Iowa voters as they went into caucus sites across the state. | ||
| David Challion is here with that. | ||
| David, what are you seeing? | ||
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Well, Jake, we are sort of trying to take stock of what does this electorate look like in Iowa tonight? | |
| Now, these are early entrance poll results. | ||
| These are people who arrived at the caucus site early. | ||
| These numbers will change throughout the night as we do more interviews. | ||
| But look at this. | ||
| We asked folks, are you part of the MAGA movement? | ||
| 53%, a majority of those that we've interviewed thus far say yes. | ||
| They consider themselves part of the MAGA movement. | ||
| 41% say no, they're not. | ||
| We also asked folks, do you think Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election? | ||
| 68%, 68%, more than two-thirds of those in these early entrance poll results showing up early to the caucus sites say no. | ||
| He did not, wrongly say no. | ||
| He did not win legitimately in 2020. | ||
| And then we asked, if Donald Trump is convicted of a crime, do you still think he's fit for the presidency? | ||
| A similar result here, nearly two-thirds of those who have showed up at the Republican caucuses tonight in Iowa, at least these early arrivers, tell us, yes, Donald Trump is still fit for the presidency, even if convicted of a crime. | ||
| These numbers show a very Trump-aligned Republican electorate, Jake. | ||
| All right, David, thanks so much. | ||
| Let's go to Anderson. | ||
| 60, 70% of people say Joe Biden is not a legitimate. | ||
| That's it. | ||
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha That's so funny. | |
| Oh, that's great. | ||
| Oh, you love to see it. | ||
| Oh, you love to see it. | ||
| So, again, again, we await Donald Trump's time on stage, jumping on stage. | ||
| Donald Trump, his campaign has announced that he will be taking the stage at any moment. | ||
| And this is what the stage looks like live. | ||
| This is a live shot of. | ||
| The stage right now. | ||
| And as soon as Donald Trump hops on that stage, we will be cutting to Donald Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump has a seismic, absolutely earth-shattering victory here in Iowa. | ||
| Let's go ahead and check the tape. | ||
| What do we got here now? | ||
| 86% of the votes in nary. | ||
| 14% left of the total votes in Iowa. | ||
| 47,000 votes for Donald Trump. | ||
| 51%. | ||
| There, and an insurmountable, of course, victory for Donald Trump at this point. | ||
| And Ron DeSantis pulling away quite significantly to Nikki Haley. | ||
| Shocking to me. | ||
| Ron DeSantis running a really rough campaign, quite frankly. | ||
| And, I mean, I would argue the worst campaign I've seen in my life. | ||
| I've never seen somebody start, here's what I'll say, as somebody who is a Florida resident. | ||
| Get the hell back down to Florida. | ||
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Quick. | |
| Drop out. | ||
| This has gone horribly for you. | ||
| You spent $100 million, and this is all your result. | ||
| You don't even have 20,000 votes. | ||
| Leave the race. | ||
| Come back to Florida. | ||
| I actually thought you were one of the best Republican governors of my lifetime, and you should just go do that. | ||
| And please stop wasting all of the Republican donors' money in this strange fantasy that you're going to beat Donald Trump. | ||
| Ron Sanders will not beat Donald Trump. | ||
| And not tonight. | ||
| And, of course, as we carry forward, Deron DeSantis has pulled out of New Hampshire. | ||
| He's not campaigning in New Hampshire or South Carolina. | ||
| And so then we have ourselves another situation where we just continue to light money on fire as a Republican Party. | ||
| After this dominant night for Donald Trump, 50% If Donald Trump is above 50% here in Iowa, then the race is entirely over. | ||
| It's totally over. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, that's what should happen. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| This is a live shot of inside of the Donald Trump election party when CNN called the state for Donald Trump. | ||
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See, I can make this projection based on his own running lead in the entrance. | |
| Hold it out. | ||
| *laughs* | ||
| He's got to chuck a meme in there. | ||
| Here's actual liberal news network, MSNBC, blaming Donald Trump's win on, you guessed it, Racism. | ||
| And I think to the point that you made, Steph, I mean, it's the elephant in the room. | ||
| She's still a brown lady that's got to try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant and which accepts the notion that you can say immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country. | ||
| She's getting, you know, birthered by Donald Trump. | ||
| And I don't care how much the donor class likes her, which will ramp up a lot, the better she does in New Hampshire. | ||
| So it's still a challenge. | ||
| I don't see how she becomes the nominee of that party with Donald Trump still around. | ||
| I can't picture it happening. | ||
| Maybe it could happen. | ||
| Ron DeSantis' only argument for staying in it is he's the white guy that he can still make the appeal to whitey. | ||
| So, yeah, got it. | ||
| So you're giving Nikki Haley the birther agreement? | ||
| Ooh, it's good. | ||
| Oh, it's going to be an amazing 2024. | ||
| We are very excited for 2024. | ||
| So, we are here in Iowa. | ||
| It was palpable, right? | ||
| We were out today, and everyone who went to these Vivek events were like, hey, listen, we're going to vote for Trump, but we really like you, you know, and your plan B, and you got great energy to you, and there's a future for you in the MAGA. | ||
| In the MAGA world. | ||
| And there you go. | ||
| And that's what we saw time and time again everywhere we went here in Iowa. | ||
| The one thing I didn't find ever was a Nikki Haley supporter. | ||
| That's the one thing that I don't have. | ||
| I got nothing for you. | ||
| I got no Nikki Haley supporters. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen Miller. | ||
| Who is a name that perhaps you know, maybe you don't. | ||
| I'm going to play you Stephen Miller right now commenting on this. | ||
| And this is why it's very important. | ||
| The Stephen Miller commentary is because Stephen Miller was the most effective Donald Trump advisor. | ||
| Stephen Miller is the guy who effectively got any of Donald Trump's policies that you liked. | ||
| Stephen Miller's behind those getting implemented. | ||
| There were so many Judases. | ||
| There were so many people that betrayed Donald Trump, got power through Donald Trump, and then betrayed him in his own administration. | ||
| And so Stephen Miller is one of the very good ones and also somebody who's continuing to do great work by suing the Biden administration with his group called America First Legal. | ||
| Perhaps you've heard of it. | ||
| He's awesome. | ||
| Stephen Miller was on talking about what is going to happen when Donald Trump... | ||
| Wins victory. | ||
| He tweeted a tweet that went very viral. | ||
| He tweeted the deportations will begin at noon. | ||
| The deportations of illegal criminal aliens in our country will begin at noon on Inauguration Day. | ||
| So Stephen's already got his plans set up for that. | ||
| But he was on Fox talking about what happens next for the Trump campaign. | ||
| And if Stephen Miller speaks, Donald Trump and the rest of his team, they have taken this very seriously. | ||
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President Trump's team that he has put together is truly world-class. | |
| Let's not mince words, Sean. | ||
| This is a thunderous victory tonight. | ||
| History making, history shaking. | ||
| We've seen a lot of stunning things over the last eight years. | ||
| Tonight is one of the most astonishing. | ||
| But the man who deserves all the credit is the man who is for three years put up with the most relentless persecution, and for four years before that, one persecution, one witch hunt after another. | ||
| DOJ and the Democrat prosecutors tried to kneecap this man before Iowa, and here he stands tonight, not just atop the field, but by a margin that no one can remember. | ||
| This really is, Sean, an unprecedented event, and it shows how resilient, So, who will be second place? | ||
| Let's go ahead and check in on the tabulations. | ||
| They've been coming in fast and furious now, but we are still at 86% of the votes in. | ||
| Nikki Haley is behind by a considerable margin. | ||
| A margin that will be a little... | ||
| That'll be tough to make up, actually, 2,000 votes at this point. | ||
| Nikki Haley is somebody that is despised, quite frankly. | ||
| I'm not sure if the MAGA base despises Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley the most. | ||
| I'm not exactly sure about that. | ||
| I do know that both of them are despised for different reasons. | ||
| Nikki Haley has said that her idol, politically, is Hillary Clinton. | ||
| Nikki Haley has said that if you use the term illegal alien, that's offensive. | ||
| And you're not allowed to use the term criminal illegal alien around her. | ||
| Nikki Haley uses intersectionality, intersectional feminism, anytime she can, as a weapon. | ||
| You can't say that to me. | ||
| I'm a woman. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Well, what makes you different than a leftist? | ||
| Nikki Haley wants forever war? | ||
| And is it important and is incumbent on people like me to tell you these things? | ||
| Now, a Donald Trump campaign? | ||
| Official was not ruling out Nikki Haley as a VP pick. | ||
| So I guess we'll see. | ||
| I guess we wait and see. | ||
| But this is, I think, obviously a very, very toxic person, and I'm not the only one who thinks that. | ||
| Nikki Haley, her biggest donor, straight up admitted on Fox News, a clip that they do not want you to see, straight up admitted on Fox News, but we caught it, that they're Democrats. | ||
| Nikki Haley is funded by people who are trying to put Trump in prison. | ||
| A lot of people who are funding the Trump lawsuit, they're funding Nikki Haley. | ||
| That gives up the game here. | ||
| So this happened earlier today on Fox News, where a Nikki Haley donor straight up admitted, I'm a Democrat. | ||
| Well, okay. | ||
| Thanks for showing you the cards, pal. | ||
| What she had raised in the corner before that. | ||
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So the money train is still flowing and going. | |
| Are you worried, though? | ||
| Thank you, Neil, for having me, and Happy New Year. | ||
| We actually have a large fundraiser on the 30th of January at a major apartment in New York City where we're raising a tremendous amount of money. | ||
| Believe it or not, a number of it coming from Democrats. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You weren't supposed to say that live on TV, pal. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Thanks for making our point for us that Nikki Haley is a Democrat. | ||
| We don't have the clips loaded up right now because we're not operating at full capacity down here in the Benny Bunker basement. | ||
| As we await Donald Trump speaking, of course, we are monitoring the feed and we'll cut directly to Donald Trump speaking as soon as possible. | ||
| He hops on stage. | ||
| His campaign has told us that Donald Trump will be speaking sometime in the next 30 minutes. | ||
| Now, we also have people inside of the Donald Trump victory party, and those people, of course, will notify us when they see Donald Trump moving or when they see the Secret Service come out on stage or when they see them just straight up put the presidential seal on the podium and say, let's just get it over with, right? | ||
| Let's just get it over with. | ||
| Donald Trump winning 99 counties in Iowa. | ||
| There are 99 counties in Iowa. | ||
| The projections show that Donald Trump may have won all 99. And we'll show you why in just a second. | ||
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And down here in Johnson County, where Nikki Haley really had the best arguably chance to win a county, she's now trailing him by about three points, two and a half points. | |
| What am I suggesting here? | ||
| I am suggesting that as of now... | ||
| Donald Trump may win all 99 counties tonight. | ||
| And we're going to watch that over the next hour and see what happens. | ||
| Well, that would be significant, obviously. | ||
| That would be a very good night for the Trump camp. | ||
| Thank you, Bill. | ||
| We're getting ready to hear from the former president. | ||
| So, again, they're teasing Donald Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump, you know, again, will pop on stage. | ||
| We'll cut straight to it. | ||
| How does Donald Trump win 99 counties? | ||
| Well, the snowman shows you exactly. | ||
| How Donald Trump won 99 counties. | ||
| Here's a clip that went viral earlier today of a massive Donald Trump snowman in Iowa where it is really, really cold and there is a lot of snow on the ground. | ||
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And what do you do when it's 15 degrees below zero here in Iowa? | |
| 40 degree wind chill? | ||
| Give all the Trump snowman, baby. | ||
| That's how they roll here in Iowa. | ||
| Trump's going to get a massive victory tonight. | ||
| I can't wait. | ||
| Trump 2024 for everything. | ||
| Like, share this video, give me a follow. | ||
| Love y 'all. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I love the Trump snowman. | ||
| But hold on. | ||
| Let's go back. | ||
| Let's go back to frame. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Trump snowman. | ||
| Extremely, extremely based. | ||
| We will do, as we await Donald Trump, and as we await the speech, let us jump to a couple of super chats. | ||
| Oh, wait. | ||
| Donald Trump is going up right now. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump live. | ||
| Donald Trump live at his event. | ||
| Donald Trump is taking the podium. | ||
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Donald Trump is taking the podium. | |
| He's waving to the crowd. | ||
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To the hills of Tennessee. | |
| Across the plains of town. | ||
| From sea to shining sea. | ||
| From Detroit down to Houston. | ||
| And New York to LA. | ||
| Where there's pride in every American heart. | ||
| And it's time we stand and say. | ||
| That I'm proud to be an American. | ||
| Okay, so as we wait for former President Trump to step up to the microphone, let's just tell you who is behind him right now. | ||
| You see there North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who was mere months ago running against Donald Trump there in the primary. | ||
| You have Matthew Whitaker. | ||
| There behind him, who was briefly, for a time, Donald Trump's Attorney General. | ||
| The gentleman to his back left, that's Stephen Cheung. | ||
| He is one of the main Trump campaign spokesmen. | ||
| And so you can see a lot of family members as well. | ||
| I saw Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. | ||
| I believe I saw Tiffany Trump as well. | ||
| So many of his family members are there for this big win tonight in Iowa. | ||
| Some have described this as an inevitability based on how Trump has polled throughout the last several months here. | ||
| And you can see, of course, the iconic song that punctuates most of his rallies. | ||
| Lee Greenwood's, I'm proud to be an American. | ||
| You see there Donald Trump Jr., his son, Dan Scavino, and others. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Well, I want to thank everybody. | ||
| This has been some period of time. | ||
| And most importantly, we want to thank the great people of Iowa. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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We love you all. | |
| What a turnout. | ||
| What a crowd. | ||
| And I really think this is time now for everybody, our country, to come together. | ||
| We want to come together. | ||
| whether it's Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative, it would be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems and straighten out all of the death and destruction that we're witnessing. | ||
| It's practically never been like this. | ||
| It's going to happen soon, too. | ||
| It's going to happen soon. | ||
| I want to thank some of the... | ||
| Great people. | ||
| We have so many senators. | ||
| If I go through every name, we'll be here all night and everybody's going to get angry at me. | ||
| But the senators, the congressmen from Washington, they came down from all different states. | ||
| I want to thank you very much. | ||
| I want to congratulate Ron and Nikki for having a good time together. | ||
| We're all having a good time together. | ||
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And I think they both actually did very well. | |
| I really do. | ||
| I think they both did very well. | ||
| We don't even know. | ||
| What the outcome of second place is. | ||
| And I see Carrie Lake. | ||
| Congratulations, Carrie. | ||
| I spotted her. | ||
| I have to announce because she's terrific. | ||
| She's going to be a senator, a great senator, I predict, right? | ||
| You're going to be a great senator. | ||
| I also want to congratulate Vivek, because he did a hell of a job. | ||
| He came from zero, and he's got a big percent, probably 8%, almost 8%, and that's an amazing job. | ||
| They all did. | ||
| They're all very smart, very smart people, very capable people. | ||
| I think most importantly, I want to thank my incredible wife, First Lady, I'll say former and maybe future. | ||
| But more important than Melania, I want to thank her incredible, beautiful mother who passed away a few days ago. | ||
| And she's up there, way up there. | ||
| She's looking down and she's so proud of us. | ||
| And I just want to say to Amalia, you are special. | ||
| One of the most special people I've ever known. | ||
| And that was a tough period of time for the family. | ||
| But she's amazing. | ||
| She was amazing. | ||
| So I just want to thank. | ||
| What she's done for our family and her husband, who's home right now and very lonely. | ||
| He's a lonely man, but he's going to be okay. | ||
| Victor, they're great people. | ||
| Great parents to all of us, really. | ||
| Great parents, but also to Barron. | ||
| Boy, did she take care of Barron. | ||
| That's how he got so tall. | ||
| He only ate her food. | ||
| And I want to thank my family. | ||
| Generally, they've worked so hard. | ||
| And they've taken so much abuse for being good people. | ||
| I mean, good people. | ||
| But Eric and Don. | ||
| They really did. | ||
| These two have been working so hard. | ||
| And they, you know, they have another job also. | ||
| So they have to do it all. | ||
| But they've been working so hard. | ||
| And I know that Ivanka is home and Tiffany's home. | ||
| They're watching. | ||
| And I know that Baron's watching. | ||
| Good old Baron. | ||
| I said, you're going to be a basketball player. | ||
| I said, well, I like soccer, Dad, actually. | ||
| I said, at your height, I like basketball better, but sometimes you can't talk them into everything. | ||
| But he's a special boy. | ||
| But the whole family is just incredible. | ||
| And my sister, Elizabeth, who's just the biggest fan. | ||
| She's just an incredible person and always supportive. | ||
| We love Elizabeth so much. | ||
| Also, we have a woman who... | ||
| Took a big chance. | ||
| You know, in most states, we have support of everybody. | ||
| The Congress, the senators. | ||
| We had Marco Rubio. | ||
| We had Rick Scott the other day. | ||
| We have, you know, probably 50, 55 percent of the senators. | ||
| And now they're all calling and saying, we want to endorse you, sir. | ||
| I said, oh, great. | ||
| Same thing with the Congress. | ||
| Men and women, we have tremendous, much more than anybody probably has ever had in this position. | ||
| And we love them all. | ||
| They're great. | ||
| They're really trying to do a good job for our country. | ||
| But one woman in Iowa who really stepped up was your Attorney General, Brenna Byrd. | ||
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She really, really stepped up. | |
| Where is Friday? | ||
| Come here. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Glad to do it. | ||
| We need you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| She stepped up. | ||
| She's going to be your governor someday, I predict. | ||
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So we'll see. | |
| We'll be watching, but she really did. | ||
| She broke away from the pack. | ||
| And she had tremendous courage and wasn't easy. | ||
| In some states it's easy, in other states it's a little bit more difficult. | ||
| But we have really the support of the people of Iowa, which has been just incredible. | ||
| Another man who was actually the first person to endorse me. | ||
| In the entire country, he's a state senator. | ||
| His name is Brad Zahn. | ||
| He looks like he's the most handsome guy, I think. | ||
| Oh, you made it. | ||
| He had a drive from his caucus location. | ||
| You made it. | ||
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I call him the Marlboro Man. | |
| You want to say something? | ||
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Come on. | |
| Go up. | ||
| Say something. | ||
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Well, I'll tell you, I had to actually do a TV interview bragging about you. | |
| The reason why I was late was because of that, but is he awesome or what? | ||
| I am honored to be the first person in the United States to endorse this guy. | ||
| The next president, the 47th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump! | ||
| And when he says endorse, we're really talking about 2015. | ||
| He endorsed me before, actually, long before I knew I was going to run. | ||
| I said, who's this man in Iowa? | ||
| He's a senator, a state senator. | ||
| He's a good-looking guy, too. | ||
| Doesn't he look? | ||
| You could pay him and give him a lot of money. | ||
| And by the way, Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for being here. | ||
| You are so great. | ||
| Comes all the way from Missouri, which isn't that far. | ||
| You can't drive an electric car that far, though. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I appreciate it very much. | ||
| The group of people that we have on the stage is just emblematic of the tremendous group that we've had. | ||
| We've had such a great team. | ||
| You know, we did well. | ||
| We were looking really good in 2016. | ||
| And just to go back to the senator, he was saying, I said, who is that guy, Brad, his name? | ||
| Who is he? | ||
| He keeps endorsing me. | ||
| He keeps saying Trump. | ||
| And I didn't even know I was running. | ||
| He endorsed me four months before I knew I was running, about four months before the Escalade ride down with our great First Lady. | ||
| And that was Brad. | ||
| I said, who is he? | ||
| So he was the first one. | ||
| But we have people that are so incredible. | ||
| Your Republican Party chairman Bobby Kaufman and his son, who is a brilliant guy, and he worked with us. | ||
| And I will tell you, that is a family of... | ||
| We have a man that was very impressive. | ||
| And I say, there's nothing wrong with it. | ||
| He's so solid and so good that he didn't catch on. | ||
| Sometimes being a little controversial is good. | ||
| He's so perfect. | ||
| Although he did break his leg during the campaign, that wasn't so good. | ||
| It sort of stood out a little bit, Doug. | ||
| But Doug Burgum from North Dakota, the governor, and his beautiful wife, Catherine. | ||
| And he got out of the race. | ||
| What people don't know is that he actually supported me on the other side twice already, right? | ||
| Then he decided to do it. | ||
| And he was outstanding. | ||
| But the traction is never easy, right? | ||
| You need controversy for traction sometimes. | ||
| And this guy is the most solid guy. | ||
| There's no controversy whatsoever. | ||
| And he's one of the best governors in our country. | ||
| And I hope that I'm going to be able to call on him to be a piece of the administration, a very important piece of the administration. | ||
| And also, just to conclude with this, the entire Trump team, and that includes my two boys who are really here all the time, whenever we needed them. | ||
| Whenever we needed them. | ||
| They are great. | ||
| Eric and Don. | ||
| And look at all these people. | ||
| Susie, I have to say. | ||
| And Chris. | ||
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Chris. | |
| And they want no accolades. | ||
| They just want a victory and they want to make America great again. | ||
| That's all they want, actually. | ||
| They don't want to be speaking. | ||
| They don't want to have pictures. | ||
| They just want to do their job, right? | ||
| I want to thank you very much. | ||
| Jason, everybody, you're really fantastic. | ||
| What a job you've done. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| So we're going to come together. | ||
| We're going to drill baby drill right away. | ||
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Drill baby drill. | |
| We're going to seal up the border. | ||
| Because right now we have an invasion. | ||
| We have an invasion of millions and millions of people that are coming into our country. | ||
| I can't imagine why they think that's a good thing. | ||
| It's a very bad thing. | ||
| I think it's a group of people that are probably larger in number than New York State. | ||
| And we can't have that. | ||
| We can't have that. | ||
| It's not sustainable as a country. | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| And you know, they're coming from prisons and jails. | ||
| They're coming from... | ||
| All over. | ||
| They're coming from countries that most people have never heard of. | ||
| And they're coming from mental institutions and insane asylums. | ||
| They're being emptied out into our country. | ||
| And they're terrorists. | ||
| Many terrorists are coming in. | ||
| You know, in 2019, I saw just recently on a poll, they had none in 2019, no terrorists. | ||
| Now, I even say there's got to be some, but they have none. | ||
| And then as soon as this group took over... | ||
| They have hundreds and hundreds of terrorists coming in, known terrorists, some of them really bad. | ||
| And many of them are in, and they came in, and nobody knows where they are. | ||
| This is not a good thing. | ||
| And we're going to have to deport. | ||
| We're going to have to have a deportation level that we haven't seen in this country for a long time, since Dwight Eisenhower, actually. | ||
| So I don't want to be overly rough on the president. | ||
| But I have to say that he is the worst president that we've had in the history of our country. | ||
| He's destroying our country. | ||
| And, you know, my wife attended the funeral two months ago of Rosalind Carter, and it was beautiful. | ||
| And Jimmy Carter was there. | ||
| And I thought to myself, Jimmy Carter is happy now because he will go down. | ||
| As being a brilliant president by comparison to Joe Biden. | ||
| He'll be a brilliant president. | ||
| He's going to be known as brilliant by comparison. | ||
| So we have to stop the invasion. | ||
| We have to bring down our energy. | ||
| You know, I say all the time we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other nation anywhere in the world. | ||
| And we have to stop the crime, and we have to help rebuild our cities, and we have to rebuild the capital, Washington, D.C. I was there on one of the Biden indictment trials. | ||
| You know, this is the only person. | ||
| This never happened before. | ||
| But I go to a lot of courthouses because of Biden, because they're using that for election interference. | ||
| And it's on things like election. | ||
| And I don't know if you know, but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020. | ||
| Do you believe it was? | ||
| Honest or not, 82% said it was not. | ||
| And we can't have that, Chairman. | ||
| We can't have that. | ||
| You can't have a situation like that. | ||
| So we're going to straighten out our elections. | ||
| We're going to do a lot of great things. | ||
| We're going to try and go to paper ballots as soon as possible. | ||
| Voter ID. | ||
| One day. | ||
| One day. | ||
| Elections. | ||
| You know, we have these elections that last for 62 days, and if you need some more time, take as much time as you want, and so many bad things happen. | ||
| We have to get rid of mail-in ballots, because once you have mail-in ballots, you have crooked elections. | ||
| Actually, Jimmy Carter's commission said that a long time ago. | ||
| We're going to rescue our economy. | ||
| We're going to save our economy. | ||
| We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. | ||
| There was never a greater economy, and now we don't. | ||
| When you look at what's happened with inflation, inflation is destroying. | ||
| You know, they call it a country killer. | ||
| Going back hundreds of years, Germany, countries that had big inflation are dead. | ||
| They become dead countries. | ||
| We have to stop that immediately. | ||
| And we want peace through strength. | ||
| Russia would have never attacked Ukraine. | ||
| Would have never done it. | ||
| Putin and I get along fine. | ||
| We get along very well. | ||
| That's a good thing, not a bad thing. | ||
| If the fake news would become real and honest news, 90% of our problems in this country would be solved. | ||
| They would be solved. | ||
| So, Russia would have never attacked. | ||
| Israel would have never been attacked. | ||
| The Ukraine situation is so horrible. | ||
| The Israeli situation is so horrible. | ||
| What's happened? | ||
| We're going to get himself. | ||
| We're going to get himself very fast. | ||
| I actually said Ukraine. | ||
| I know President Putin very well. | ||
| I know Zelensky very well. | ||
| I'm going to get him in. | ||
| We're going to get it solved very quickly. | ||
| Should have never happened. | ||
| Would have never happened. | ||
| Now you have all that death far greater than people understand. | ||
| The numbers are far, far greater than anybody would even think possible. | ||
| You're going to find that out in the years to come. | ||
| When they knock down these massive buildings in Ukraine and then you see... | ||
| They announced two people were slightly wounded. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Many people were killed. | ||
| Many people were killed. | ||
| We're going to get it stopped. | ||
| But it's so sad because it should have never started. | ||
| People killed and a culture destroyed. | ||
| You can never replace thousand-year-old buildings with the most beautiful golden domes and churches and everything. | ||
| Just all rubble now. | ||
| And it's so sad. | ||
| It would have never, ever happened. | ||
| And likewise, Israel would have never been attacked. | ||
| It all comes from Iran, and we would have had a deal with Iran very quickly, had the election where we, by the way, got, and I say we because it's all we, we got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country. | ||
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But they say we lost by a whisker, okay? | |
| But regardless, regardless of that, we're going to do incredible things, and we're not going to let... | ||
| China do what they'd like to do. | ||
| I get along great with him also. | ||
| President Xi is a very strong leader. | ||
| And we're going to get things solved. | ||
| We're going to get the Ukraine war solved. | ||
| We're going to get the Israeli situation solved. | ||
| But if you think back to that, Iran was broke. | ||
| I said to every country, anybody does business with Iran, buys oil from Iran. | ||
| They were broke. | ||
| We're not going to let you do business in the United States. | ||
| And that's the way it is. | ||
| They did very little business, almost sold no oil. | ||
| Nobody wanted to do that. | ||
| That's a big penalty. | ||
| And what happened is they had no money to give to Hamas and to give to Hezbollah. | ||
| And in fact, there were a lot of stories at the time. | ||
| They had no money for terror. | ||
| And for four years, we had no terror. | ||
| We had the terror ban. | ||
| We had the terror ban. | ||
| They caught the Trump. | ||
| We don't want people in our country that are going to blow up our shopping centers. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And we want a country of law and order. | ||
| So we're going to rebuild the capital of our country, Washington, D.C. We're going to scrub those beautiful marble columns and get the swastikers off them. | ||
| And we're going to scrub them and get the graffiti off them. | ||
| And we're going to clean the streets and we're going to rebuild the streets. | ||
| And we're not going to have rusted medians through the middle that are falling down into the roads where foreign dignitaries from all over the world come and they look. | ||
| And we're not going to be riding on top of garbage like I did just a month ago, riding on top of garbage. | ||
| We're going to rebuild our beautiful Washington, D.C., and we're going to take control of it, and we're going to make unbelievably harsh penalties for people that go around shooting. | ||
| Last week they shot three people. | ||
| And every night something happens. | ||
| It's so sad. | ||
| And likewise, we're going to rebuild our cities and we'll work with the Democrats to do it. | ||
| I'd be glad to work with the people in New York. | ||
| We're going to work with the people in Chicago and L.A. We're going to rebuild our cities and we're going to make them safe. | ||
| And we're going to give our police officers immunity. | ||
| So every time they do something, they don't get sued and stopped. | ||
| They're going to end crime in our cities. | ||
| In Iowa, you don't know what that means, but I'll tell you, this is a different place. | ||
| You don't know about crime. | ||
| You don't know about getting mugged and getting whacked and getting thrown into subways, and we're going to stop it, and we're going to come down very hard on criminals, and we're going to stop crime in America. | ||
| So I want to just finish by saying that this has been an incredible experience. | ||
| The people have been. | ||
| This is the third time we've won. | ||
| But this is the biggest win. | ||
| They said, well, if you win by 12%, that's a big win. | ||
| That's going to be very hard to do. | ||
| Well, I think we've more than doubled that, I guess. | ||
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Tripled it, maybe. | |
| They said, you'll never get over 50. And I just left and we were at 54. Now, I don't know what's going to happen with it. | ||
| But they said, you can't do that, sir. | ||
| I said, what's about the highest? | ||
| Well, you could get into the 40s, maybe 40, 41. And then I looked up, and you know, it was very interesting. | ||
| I didn't know they called it early. | ||
| I thought that they called it at about 10 o 'clock, my impression. | ||
| See this gentleman? | ||
| We built, he's dressed like a wall. | ||
| I love this guy. | ||
| He goes to, he's been at 150 rallies probably, right? | ||
| He has the most beautiful outfit I've ever seen. | ||
| It's all beautiful brick. | ||
| Will you come up here? | ||
| Just come up here. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| It's so nice to see. | ||
| Come on up here. | ||
| He's emblematic of what we did. | ||
| We built over 500 miles of wall. | ||
| We were going to add another 200 miles. | ||
| It's much more than we promised. | ||
| And we had the safest border in the history of our country. | ||
| Now we have the worst border in the history of the world. | ||
| Look at this man. | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| Nice to see you, man. | ||
| You take care of yourself. | ||
| I love that outfit. | ||
| I love him. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| We love it. | ||
| That's a hot-selling jacket, by the way. | ||
| But that represents what we did. | ||
| No, we built a tremendous... | ||
| That's the reason. | ||
| And we got Mexico to give us 28,000 soldiers free. | ||
| And we had Remain in Mexico, and we had Catch and Release in Mexico. | ||
| And we did a job. | ||
| We had the safest border in our history. | ||
| We had the greatest economy in our history. | ||
| We were a great nation three years ago, and now we're a nation in decline. | ||
| We are going to turn it around so fast. | ||
| It's going to happen so fast. | ||
| We're going to drill. | ||
| We're going to make great. | ||
| We have great wealth. | ||
| We're going to drill. | ||
| We're going to use that money to lower your taxes even further. | ||
| We gave you the biggest tax cut in history. | ||
| And we're going to lower them further. | ||
| And we're also going to pay off national debt. | ||
| It's about time. | ||
| It's about time. | ||
| So it's now off to New Hampshire, a great place. | ||
| We won it last time. | ||
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And we won it both times. | |
| And we love it. | ||
| The people are great. | ||
| But you know, the truth is, the people in our country are great. | ||
| They're all great. | ||
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We love Iowa, but they're all great. | |
| They only want to see one thing. | ||
| They want our country to come back. | ||
| They're embarrassed by what's going on. | ||
| Our country is laughed at. | ||
| All over the world, they're laughing at us. | ||
| And they want our country to come back. | ||
| They want America, you know, they want us to be great again. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| MAGA, make America great again. | ||
| And America first. | ||
| America first is a very important part of America. | ||
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America first! | |
| So we're going to put America first. | ||
| We're going to make America great again. | ||
| Again, Iowa, we love you. | ||
| You are going to... | ||
| Oh, you just go out and buy larger tractors and more land. | ||
| Don't worry about it. | ||
| And to all of the people standing behind me and all of the people in this room and so many great politicians and great dignitaries and friends, I just want to thank you all. | ||
| This is a very special night and this is the first because the big night is going to be in November when we take back our country and truly we do make our country great again. | ||
| Thank you very much everybody. | ||
| Great honor. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Former President Donald Trump speaking here. | |
| Two supporters after... | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Here we go, baby. | ||
| We got lots of breaking news. | ||
| Lots of breaking news. | ||
| Big stuff happening right now. | ||
| Big things happening right now. | ||
| There is, of course, Donald Trump's speech, and we will get to highlights of that in just one moment. | ||
| But there is now reports all across the internet from people that we trust very, very closely that Vivek Ranswamy is dropping out and is endorsing Donald Trump in moments. | ||
| And so while we find that to be quite interesting and assume that that will happen... | ||
| In just a few seconds here, actually, Vivek Ranswamy will be making a statement to the media. | ||
| That statement will be, I am dropping out and I will be endorsing Donald Trump. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is on the heels of the despicable corporate press who did not broadcast. | ||
| This is why these channels are so important. | ||
| They did not broadcast. | ||
| The speech. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says NBC and other mainstream news networks have decided not to show Trump's victory speech. | ||
| CNN had him on briefly and cut away to replace him with Jake Tapper, who says caucus-goers believe the lie. | ||
| How is this objective reporting? | ||
| It's state propaganda. | ||
| It's despicable. | ||
| It is absolutely despicable. | ||
| So what you just saw there was not broadcast on any TV screen. | ||
| Donald Trump winning the most dominant Iowa caucus victory potentially ever. | ||
| I suppose we'd have to go back into the history books. | ||
| Here is Laura Trump tweeting, way to go grandpa, with a photo of her little kids with their grandfather. | ||
| Laura Trump has two beautiful children with her husband Eric. | ||
| Donald Trump on track to win 99 counties in Iowa, every single one. | ||
| So, as an Iowan, I'm not an absolute historian on the Iowa caucus, but as having lived through many Iowa caucuses, I can tell you, I've never seen anybody win 99 counties in Iowa. | ||
| Never. | ||
| Never. | ||
| This has got to be a historic night, and the corporate media did not play it for anyone. | ||
| The corporate media refused to show Donald Trump. | ||
| Refused to show Donald Trump's speech, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| What a disgrace. | ||
| What did Donald Trump have to say about his opponents? | ||
| And again, again, we will cut. | ||
| I think what we will also see a quite interesting moment where Vivek Ranswamy will drop out and then immediately endorse Donald Trump here. | ||
| That is what the report is. | ||
| That is what the reports are. | ||
| Donald Trump congratulating Vivek Ranswamy. | ||
| So did Donald Trump know this was about to happen? | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| I also want to congratulate Vivek, because he did a hell of a job. | ||
| He came from zero, and he's got a big percent, probably 8%, almost 8%, and that's an amazing job. | ||
| They all did. | ||
| They're all very smart, very smart people, very capable people. | ||
| Donald Trump slighting Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, both of which are not dropping out. | ||
| So according to their campaigns, they will be carrying on to New Hampshire. | ||
| So expect DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Donald Trump to move forward to New Hampshire. | ||
| I want to thank some of the great people. | ||
| We have so many senators. | ||
| If I go through every name, we'll be here all night and everybody's going to get angry at me. | ||
| But the senators, the congressmen from Washington, they came down from all different states. | ||
| I want to thank you very much. | ||
| I want to congratulate Ron and Nikki for having a good time together. | ||
| We're all having a good time together. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, my producer is telling me that Vivek is live on Twitter. | ||
| Vivek maybe himself. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| But we talked about it tonight. | ||
| We took a little bit of time in our apartment in Des Moines before coming here to make some hard choices. | ||
| And I wanted to make a couple of announcements tonight to get the business out of the way. | ||
| And then I want to tell you where we're going. | ||
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As of this moment, we are going to suspend this presidential campaign. | |
| And this is going to have to be... | ||
| There's no path... | ||
| For me to be the next president absent things that we don't want to see happen in this country. | ||
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And I think that I am very worried for our country. | |
| I think we are skating on thin ice as a nation. | ||
| We have done everything in our part to make and every one of us in this room has done our part to save this country. | ||
| And I am so proud of every one of you who have lifted us up. | ||
| But we're a campaign founder on the truth. | ||
| And so that's why we made that decision today. | ||
| And I'm also making the decision that this has to be an America first candidate in that White House. | ||
| As I've said since the beginning, there are two America first candidates in this race. | ||
| And earlier tonight, I called Donald Trump to tell him that I congratulate him on his victory. | ||
| And now going forward, he will have my full endorsement. | ||
| For the presidency. | ||
| And I think we're going to do the right thing for this country. | ||
| And so I'm going to ask you to follow me in taking our America First movement to the next level. | ||
| It did not begin in 2016. | ||
| It began in 1776. | ||
| And for the next journey of this race, we are going to make sure that our movement is actually the one that actually leaves and saves this country in the next step. | ||
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And as for this movement, Founded on Truth, America First 2.0. | |
| We're just getting started. | ||
| That doesn't end today. | ||
| That begins today, actually. | ||
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So we're just getting warmed up. | |
| Apoorva and I, we're not going anywhere. | ||
| We are in this for the future of our country. | ||
| We've lived the phase of our life. | ||
| This country has allowed us to live an American dream that my parents, who were here with us earlier and helping to take care of our little boys, they never imagined when they came to this country 40 years ago. | ||
| And now we have lived an American dream that we want to pass on to these kids and their generation. | ||
| And so the phase of our life where we were getting ahead for ourselves, making a good life for our family, this country's already given us that. | ||
| This next chapter of our life and the next chapter of our journey in the next few years, and even the rest of this year, is about giving back to this country to create a country that I am worried for. | ||
| But if we all do our part, and I've been asking that of you at every step of the way, asking patriots across this state and across this country to do their part, I promise you if you did your part and you have that we will do ours. | ||
| And we're going to do our part now going forward to make sure that America First lives on, to make sure that Donald Trump is successful as the next president of the United States, to make sure that it isn't some other puppet. | ||
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They trot out to make sure that they steal this country out from underneath us. | |
| We're not going to let that happen. | ||
| We're going to take this movement to the next level. | ||
| And I think after that, it's another 250 years, and then some still left ahead of us. | ||
| And if you all continue to join us in this journey, I'm going to ask you to do that. | ||
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We're just getting warmed up. | |
| If you all do your part, and we're going to do ours. | ||
| Our best days as a nation still will as yet be ahead of us. | ||
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So thank you, guys. | |
| God bless you and your families, and may God bless our United States of America. | ||
| Appreciate that, guys. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, so we have the best that we can do is broadcast what we have. | ||
| That was the broadcast. | ||
| On Vivek Ranswamy's ex, Vivek Ranswamy did endorse Donald Trump live, and Vivek Ranswamy then suspended his campaign saying, I am not going anywhere. | ||
| So that is the audio from his feed. | ||
| We wish we could get you better audio, but we are searching. | ||
| This clip is only and exclusively being broadcast on his ex, Fox News, C-SPAN. | ||
| I'm shocked, but none of the other outlets. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Let's jump to this. | ||
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To our future, okay? | |
| Now, this is a campaign founded on speaking the truth. | ||
| Not just when it's easy, but when it's hard. | ||
| Not just to the Democrats, but to our own side. | ||
| And not just to other campaigns and candidacies, but to ours. | ||
| And so I will stick to the truth tonight. | ||
| The first hard truth. | ||
| Hard for me. | ||
| I've got to admit this. | ||
| But we've looked at it every which way, and I think it is true that we did not achieve the surprise that we wanted to deliver tonight. | ||
| And I think that that's just a hard fact that we're going to have to accept as a campaign. | ||
| And the question then is, what do we do that is right for our country? | ||
| And so, Porvin and I, we actually... | ||
| Didn't make this contingency plan before everybody told us to. | ||
| We said, no, we're not doing that. | ||
| But we talked about it tonight. | ||
| We took a little bit of time in our apartment in Des Moines before coming here to make some hard choices. | ||
| And I wanted to make a couple of announcements tonight to get the business out of the way. | ||
| And then I want to tell you where we're going. | ||
| As of this moment, we are going to suspend this presidential campaign. | ||
| And this is going to have to be, there is no path for me to be the next president absent things that we don't want to see happen in this country. | ||
| And I think that I am very worried for our country. | ||
| I think we are skating on thin ice as a nation. | ||
| We have done everything in our part to make and done, every one of us in this room has done our part. | ||
| To save this country. | ||
| And I am so proud of every one of you who have lifted us up, but we're a campaign founded on the truth. | ||
| And so that's why we've made that decision today. | ||
| And I'm also making the decision that this has to be an America First candidate in that White House. | ||
| As I've said since the beginning, there are two America First candidates in this race. | ||
| And earlier tonight, I called Donald Trump to tell him that I congratulated him on his victory. | ||
| Now going forward, he will have my full endorsement for the presidency. | ||
| And I think we're going to do the right thing for this country. | ||
| And so I'm going to ask you to follow me in taking our America First movement to the next level. | ||
| It did not begin in 2016. | ||
| It began in 1776. | ||
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All right, Vivek Ramaswamy making a major announcement this evening following the Iowa caucus results, saying that he has decided to suspend his presidential campaign, also deciding here that he has endorsed former President Donald Trump, who won the Iowa caucus this evening. | |
| So some major news there that we wanted to bring you. | ||
| We're going to take a quick commercial break right now. | ||
| It is 1030 Central Time there. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, here we are. | ||
| Um, we are going to mute this clip. | ||
| That was Vivek's, uh, you, what you heard from us, we will always bring you the authentic first. | ||
| What you heard from us was the authentic real time Vivek Ronswami, uh, uh, concession to Donald Trump, uh, his suspension of his campaign, and then his endorsement, full endorsement of Donald Trump. | ||
|
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I told you, I told you. | |
| We've got a lot of hate over the last 24 hours. | ||
| Oh, Benny. | ||
| Oh, Benny. | ||
| You're just in the tank. | ||
| You're getting paid. | ||
| You're a shill. | ||
| No. | ||
| Vivek Ranswami loves his country. | ||
| He's a big fan of Donald Trump. | ||
| He's a big fan of the MAGA movement. | ||
| And he knows this isn't his term. | ||
| But he was wanting to make a statement. | ||
| And I think make a statement he did. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
| 8,000 votes in the Iowa caucus. | ||
| 7%. | ||
| And if you add Vivek's... | ||
| To the total of Donald Trump, well, then you're walking away with 60-plus percent of the votes in the Iowa caucus. | ||
| That's what you're getting. | ||
| So the MAGA movement took 62% of the Iowa caucus vote and had $100 million spent against it twice. | ||
| And this is what you get. | ||
| You're cracking 40%. | ||
| That's what you're getting. | ||
| So there you go. | ||
| That's the power of the MAGA movement. | ||
| This is the power of the MAGA movement. | ||
| 95% of the votes in, this is what the vote totals are going to wind up at. | ||
| Ron DeSantis will come in, save a miracle. | ||
| Ron DeSantis is going to come in at second place, and Nikki Haley will come in at a distant third. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Vivek Ranswamy dropping out of the race, and we have Donald Trump giving a victory speech. | ||
| Roasting Joe Biden during that victory speech, it's worth playing, just a short clip, Trump roasting Biden preparing. | ||
| So I don't want to be overly rough on the president, but I have to say that he is the worst president that we've had in the history of our country. | ||
|
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He's destroying our country. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump is, of course, correct. | ||
| We have a few super chats I certainly want to get to, and I deeply appreciate your support of our show, and I deeply appreciate your super chats, and I thank you for them. | ||
| Royce, let's pull them up, baby, and pop them on screen. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Oh, the work you do, Benny. | ||
| Don't stop for nothing. | ||
| I never will. | ||
| Yeshua is my savior, and Yeshua is, of course, our savior. | ||
| Thank you so very much. | ||
| We will not stop. | ||
| We've been live and hitting the road and doing our best to tell stories. | ||
| We still have a very cool documentary out on the last 24 hours of Vivek's campaign. | ||
| Now, we have the exclusive rights to it. | ||
| It's going to be very interesting. | ||
| And we got it all. | ||
| So we'll produce that. | ||
| And Vivek's done the right thing. | ||
| Dropped out and endorsed Donald Trump fully. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Awesome-o. | ||
| Trump 2024 to save the world says, I'm not your buddy, guy. | ||
| Thank you very much, and I totally agree. | ||
| Trump to save the world with his two big blue balls. | ||
| God has a plan, and that plan is Trump 2024. | ||
| I do believe that we are living in spiritual times. | ||
| There's a heightened spiritual energy right now, and that Donald Trump is absolutely part of the fabric of America, and part of what God is going to do for this country. | ||
| Benjamin Franklin famously said, if a sparrow cannot fall from the sky without God's notice, How can a country rise without God's aid? | ||
| And so, yes, Donald Trump and the leaders of men have always had the influence of God or the absence of God. | ||
| And so let us pray for God's influence in this election. | ||
| Trump 2024, we need to save America, says Lady Dixon. | ||
| Lady Dixon, those are really cool swords, it looks like, and an arrow. | ||
| And I hope that you own an arrow. | ||
| Donald Trump can save America. | ||
| We can save it all together. | ||
| MAGA had a massive victory tonight. | ||
| Lady Trucker said, salt, salt, salt, and a Donald Trump mugshot. | ||
| I totally agree with you. | ||
| Little wavy flag. | ||
| Mr. Kojak said, salty army is legion. | ||
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Yep, baby. | |
| Lots of salt today. | ||
| So much salt, in fact. | ||
| But I will play you one more clip of a salty, salty Rachel Maddow seething and crying. | ||
| And remember, they wouldn't even play Donald Trump's victory speech. | ||
| Here's the final salt. | ||
| The big picture takeaway from that, and I don't mean to be, again, too dark, as you said, on this, but it is not, if we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, we are worried about potential rise of fascism in this country. | ||
| We're worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government. | ||
| The leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation. | ||
| But people wanting that is a much bigger part of that equation. | ||
| And the American electorate is made up of two major parties. | ||
| One of those parties has been flirting with extremism on the ultra-right for a very long time. | ||
| They've brought them in in a way that they haven't been central to Republican electoral politics ever before. | ||
| One party is dealing with extremism? | ||
| Really? | ||
| You're trying to put Donald Trump in jail for 400 years. | ||
| Shut the fuck up! | ||
| Please. | ||
| I try my very hardest not to swear on the live stream. | ||
| Never know who's watching. | ||
| Let's go, Royce. | ||
| We need our country back, says Mike9652. | ||
| We are going to get our Trumpy country back. | ||
| And Mike, you have a beautiful, beautiful truck there. | ||
| Fine looking vehicle. | ||
| Horsepower. | ||
| Unsilent. | ||
| Trump Vivek, 2024 MAGA. | ||
| Vivek Ranswami dropped out and then fully endorsed Donald Trump for president of the United States. | ||
| Said he had a nice phone call with Donald Trump. | ||
| We spent the day with Vivek and we're very excited about that day. | ||
| Very excited about putting together the documentary for you. | ||
| And we'll have that up by Thursday. | ||
| And what's the right way to say It was made very clear that Vivek was running in order to simply get his... | ||
| Get a piece of the American heart and to get sort of pumped into the bloodstream of MAGA. | ||
| And that there are big things planned for him. | ||
| He says, we're not going away. | ||
| Him and Apoorva, his wife. | ||
| Very cool. | ||
| Very cool stuff. | ||
| Met you in Dubuque last night. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Says XXVandermillen. | ||
| Okay, if you met me in Dubuque last night, were you the guy with the big beard? | ||
| That was like a brewer? | ||
| You look like you were at a brewer because we were at a brew house. | ||
| XXVandermillen. | ||
| Was that you, man? | ||
| Because that was awesome meeting you. | ||
| I got a big, giant bear hug. | ||
| And this guy, we met at this massive brewery at one of the Vivek events. | ||
| He gave me a big hug. | ||
| He's like, I love you on YouTube. | ||
| Anyway, I hope that was you. | ||
| Either way, it was awesome to meet that individual. | ||
| And we wanted to talk after, but the car left immediately. | ||
| I'm sorry that we didn't get to chat. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let's keep doing Super Chats. | ||
| Do you want to hear DeSantis speak or do you want to do Super Chats? | ||
| I want to do Super Chats. | ||
| I love you, ALX, Rolls-Royce, and Benny. | ||
| You gorgeous boys, says LC. | ||
| Oh, I wish we had ALX. | ||
| ALX is at the Trump party right now. | ||
| I wish we had ALX to pop on. | ||
| I wish we had ALX to pop on screen. | ||
| There's Royce. | ||
| That's Royce. | ||
| I had to mute you. | ||
| I had to mute you because of the duplicate mic. | ||
| Royce, say something. | ||
|
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What's up, guys? | |
| I'm here. | ||
| Just in the background. | ||
|
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I'm here. | |
| I'm here. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We're in the same room, actually, in our Benny basement bunker. | ||
| And so the mics get all K-wire. | ||
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It's hard to hear myself. | |
| Yeah, the mics get all haywire. | ||
| But anyway, there's your beautiful boy, Royce. | ||
| God, Trump, Benny. | ||
| Roger Bong. | ||
| Roger Bong? | ||
| Well, Roger, I am not in favor of marijuana or bongs, but maybe that's your name. | ||
| And I would never judge you for that. | ||
| And good for you, Roger Bong. | ||
| You sound like a great guy that has your priorities in order. | ||
| God, Trump, Benny. | ||
| I doubt I will get selected as Trump's vice president. | ||
| Nor do I want to be Donald Trump's vice president. | ||
| I don't think I'm mature enough yet. | ||
| Or would ever be ready. | ||
| Would be ready at this point in time. | ||
| But I do know some people that are in the running. | ||
| And their name rhymes with sucker Marlson. | ||
| And I hope that that's his pick. | ||
| Although a lot of people say Vivek would be a great pick. | ||
| Either way. | ||
| God, Trump, Benny. | ||
| What a great list to be on. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Love you, Benny, says KK, who is also a white tiger. | ||
| KK, that is awesome, and we love you back, and we are out here hustling, grinding, and we'll never stop. | ||
| It's going to be a wild year. | ||
| We're going to drive all night, actually, to catch a flight back so we can do more content, and we can be here for you. | ||
| We will not let you down. | ||
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God bless you. | |
| Trump ALX 2024 says, I am Bane. | ||
| Trump, ALX, screenshot it, send it to ALX, Trump 2024, ALX. | ||
| Everyone follow ALX on X. His account is amazing and blowing up almost 700,000 followers and having a great, great old time. | ||
| What is your prediction in New Hampshire? | ||
| Says RascalDog57. | ||
| Now, this is what's interesting. | ||
| Of course, I would never try and handicap against Donald Trump, but New Hampshire's governor, who's quite powerful, Nikki Haley is polling at around 30%, which is the best anyone's polled against Trump in any state, you know, from a Republican standpoint in the race. | ||
| So it might be more interesting than Iowa. | ||
| You're seeing the results from Iowa right now, less than 95%. | ||
| So more than 95% of the votes in Donald Trump, 51%. | ||
| And Vivek's endorsement then gives him, you know, if you want to add to that. | ||
| Vivek's endorsement percentage-wise gives him almost 60%. | ||
| It gives him well over 60,000 votes. | ||
| So, that's my prediction in New Hampshire. | ||
| I mean, that's just the data, right? | ||
| I don't like Nikki Haley. | ||
| I think she's awful. | ||
| And I think she's our Hillary Clinton. | ||
| Trump 2024. | ||
| I'll see Vivek in four years. | ||
| There's a ton of people that said that. | ||
| I was on the road with Vivek and there's like a ton of people that were saying that to him. | ||
| Hey man, look forward to voting for you in 2028. | ||
| So there you go. | ||
| Should Donald Trump pick Vivek as his vice president? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe him switching to Trump now. | ||
| We'll change that. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| I think it's going to be Trump Patel in 2024. | ||
| Love you guys. | ||
| All the brigade. | ||
| From Laguna Berry. | ||
|
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Patel? | |
| Kach Patel? | ||
| Is that who you're talking about? | ||
| That would be based. | ||
| Kach Patel would be awesome. | ||
| We love Kach Patel, front of the show, and totally, totally rad dude. | ||
| One of the few guests that I've actually hung out with, he's just great. | ||
| He's just great. | ||
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Kach Patel is just solid, solid, sound as a pound dude. | |
| Greg Baum says, hold my beard, Dominion Voting Systems. | ||
| The thing you've got to be careful about is what are they going to do in 2024? | ||
| What are they going to do in 2024? | ||
| They've already reached into that little grab bag of tricks. | ||
| And for 2020, they pulled on every liver they could. | ||
| What are they going to do in 2024? | ||
| You've got to keep your head on a swivel. | ||
| That's why we will be live all of 2024. | ||
| That's why we're going to be spitting fire in 2024. | ||
| Thank you, Greg Boehm. | ||
| The Devil's Rebellion. | ||
| Watching from Cedar Falls, Iowa. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| We love you back. | ||
| Cedar Falls, Iowa. | ||
| Just a great place. | ||
| We were in Waterloo earlier today, and we say thank you. | ||
| What was the last account? | ||
| What was the name of the last account? | ||
| The Devil's Rebellion. | ||
| Yes, Devil's Rebellion. | ||
| Let's rebel against the devil, shall we? | ||
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Yes, I will join you. | |
| Trump, the Great Awakening is happening. | ||
| God, keep him safe. | ||
| Love from Pittsburgh. | ||
| Thank you, baseball king. | ||
| Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball king? | ||
| Is that your team? | ||
| Cool. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| God, keep Donald Trump safe. | ||
| This is the point that Vivek was making all day, is like, hey, he's like talking to Dan Bongino and Alex Jones on the phone, and he's like, you guys keep talking about a Trump assassination. | ||
| Tucker Carlson talks about this all the time. | ||
| Like, what happens next? | ||
| What happens if they decide to go through with that? | ||
| Well, I mean... | ||
| God forbid. | ||
| It's truly just God forbid. | ||
| Pray for protection for our president. | ||
| Drill, baby drill. | ||
| Trump 2024 says Sandy Muntz. | ||
| Agree. | ||
| Who likes their gas prices right now? | ||
| Gas prices in Tampa? | ||
| Like $3.50 a gallon. | ||
| It's awful. | ||
|
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Awful. | |
| Drill, baby drill. | ||
| Trump picked MTG long ago. | ||
| Remember, I told you. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
| It says Alan Testosterone. | ||
| Alien testosterone. | ||
| I don't think you're an alien. | ||
| You look like a human. | ||
| But if you have alien testosterone, sounds kind of rad. | ||
| I don't know if I want any. | ||
| I don't think I want any. | ||
|
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But it probably gets you jacked. | |
| We have Ron DeSantis speaking right now. | ||
| Is Ron DeSantis still speaking? | ||
| We'll do... | ||
| It's now Nikki. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Roger Bong says, this is my name, Bong. | ||
| And Richard... | ||
| Bong is my family. | ||
| Richard was top American fighter ace in World War II. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| Vivek or Tucker for VP. | ||
| Roger Bong is an awesome name. | ||
| Sorry, I didn't mean to make a Bong joke about that. | ||
| But a Happy New Year to you. | ||
| Bing Bong! | ||
| Bing Bong! | ||
| Bing! | ||
| That's what Donald Trump says. | ||
| Bing Bong! | ||
| Bing Bong! | ||
| Let's listen to Birdbrain in her concession speech. | ||
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Ersin Reyes. | |
| *crowd cheers* | ||
| Tonight, tonight, I will be back in the great state of New Hampshire. | ||
| And the question before Americans is now very clear. | ||
| Do you want more of the same? | ||
| Or do you want a new generation of conservative leadership? | ||
| I've spoken a lot of hard truths to America. | ||
| And here's another one. | ||
| I voted for Donald Trump twice. | ||
| I was proud to serve in his administration. | ||
| But when I say more of the same, you know what I'm talking about. | ||
| It's both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. | ||
| They have more in common than you think. | ||
| 70% of Americans don't want another Trump-Biden rematch. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| A majority disprove of both of them. | ||
| Trump and Biden are both about 80 years old. | ||
| Trump and Biden Both put our country trillions of dollars deeper in debt and our kids will never forgive them for it. | ||
| Trump and Biden both lack a vision for our country's future because both are consumed by the past, by investigations, by vendettas, by grievances. | ||
| America deserves better. | ||
| We deserve a new direction under | ||
| new conservative leadership. | ||
| We deserve a president who will focus on the needs of our people, not on themselves. | ||
| A president who will rebuild our economy, close our border, and stand up to our enemies. | ||
| Most importantly, we deserve a president. | ||
| who will stop our self-loathing and division and fear and make america strong and proud Our campaign is the last best hope of stopping the Trump-Biden nightmare. | ||
| But it's more than that. | ||
| Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. | ||
| That's nothing to be proud of. | ||
| We should want to earn the support of a majority of Americans. | ||
| All the evidence says that if it's a Trump-Biden rematch, it's gonna be another toss-up election. | ||
| It could go either way. | ||
| We could have more disputes over election interference. | ||
| And Joe Biden could win again. | ||
| With Kamala Harris waiting in the wings. | ||
| Lord help us if that happens. | ||
| And then look at what happens when I go head to head against Biden. | ||
| We win in a landslide. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| Okay, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We have Nikki Haley going on as though she had won the Iowa caucus. | ||
| In fact, she actually has come in a distant third. | ||
| Kind of unbelievable. | ||
| The delusion for her. | ||
| In Ron DeSantis' speech that I did not want to pain you with, Ron DeSantis said that he will be carrying on to New Hampshire and he has his marching orders. | ||
| Like, what? | ||
| So, so much delusion, okay? | ||
| Nikki Haley talking as though she won the Iowa caucuses, the Babylon Bee, up with this article after lackluster showing Nikki Haley orders the bombing of Iowa. | ||
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So there you go. | |
| Always count on the Babylon Bee. | ||
| This is actually what happened. | ||
| Donald Trump won all 99 counties, and I want you to think about this, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| As we close the show, Donald Trump may win all 50 states. | ||
| Donald Trump may be on his path to winning all 50 states. | ||
| All of them. | ||
| So there you go. | ||
| What else do you want? | ||
| You're going to have to present to me somewhere where Donald Trump doesn't win all 50 states. | ||
| You really think South Carolina is going to vote for Nikki Haley? | ||
| Please. | ||
| So it goes New Hampshire, South Carolina. | ||
| That's the only time when somebody can gain momentum, right? | ||
| Donald Trump. | ||
| Could win all 50 states. | ||
| And then what? | ||
| Is Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley just going to run and get distant second and third for the next 50 states? | ||
| For the next 20 states? | ||
| No. | ||
| Not going to happen. | ||
| Not going to happen. | ||
| What you are seeing right now is, of course, the ascendancy of MAGA. | ||
| It's stronger than ever. | ||
| I saw that on the ground here in Iowa. | ||
| I cannot wait to share with you our production and the exciting products that we've made here and we've done a lot of work. | ||
| Anyway, you can expect that this show and this program will always be there for you. | ||
| We will go to where the action is. | ||
| We will report the news. | ||
| And we will never, ever, ever let you down. | ||
| It's your boy, Benny. | ||
| We have a meme to carry you out. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| God bless Iowa. | ||
| Let's go win, baby. | ||
| Let's go win. | ||
| Get that energy. | ||
| I got that energy. | ||
| Let's go win. | ||
| And it starts right here. | ||
| It's your boy Benny. |
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