DeSantis visits Iowa as potential presidential bid ...

GOV DESANTIS: THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH CONGRESSMAN. THANK YOU FOR HOSTING CASEY AND I HERE TODAY IN WESTERN IOWA. I WANT TO RECOGNIZE MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL DELEGATION ALONG WITH RANDY, SENATOR ERNST WHO I SAW. THANK YOU. AND DR. MILLER, GOODSON'S SEE YOU AGAIN FOR WHAT YOU WERE DOING, WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU. WHAT A GREAT CADRE OF ELECTED OFFICIALS HERE AND IOWA. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE GREAT WORK YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN DOING INTO THE LEGISLATORS HERE IN IOWA, YOU GUYS ARE THE MOST -- IT IS EASIER TO DO THAT WHEN YOU HAVE STRONG LEADERSHIP IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. WE HAVE A GREAT GOVERNOR, KIM REYNOLDS. PEOPLE WILL SAY TO ME, GOVERNOR WHY AREN'T OTHER REPUBLICANS DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN FLORIDA? I SAY THEY ARE DOING IT. THEY ARE DOING IT IN IOWA. I WAS HERE IN MARCH AND SOMEONE TOOK NOTE AND SAID LOOK AT ALL THE STUFF IOWA IS DOING? THEY SAID IOWA IS THE FLORIDA OF THE MIDWEST. AFTER WATCHING ALL THE GOOD STUFF YOU HAVE DONE IN IOWA. IT MAY BE THAT FLORIDA IS THE IOWA OF THE SOUTHEAST. WE WILL SEE. I THINK WHAT BOTH IOWA AND FLORIDA SHOW REPUBLICANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT REPUBLICANS CAN WIN AGAIN AND WE CAN WIN BIG. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE LEADING WITH PURPOSE AND CONVICTION AND DELIVERING RESULTS TO THE PEOPLE WE REPRESENT. IF YOU LOOK AROUND THE COUNTRY, YOU SEE A LOT OF REASON FOR PESSIMISM. WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FIXING TO STORM ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN BORDER. WE HAVE BIG CITIES THAT HAVE BEEN HOLLOWED OUT BECAUSE OF MASSIVE CRIME WAVES. AS REPUBLICANS, WE HAVE UNDERPERFORMED FOR MANY YEARS NOW. I TELL YOU, IOWA AND FLORIDA SHOULD BE A SOURCE FOR HOPE. HOPE THERE IS A BETTER WAY FORWARD AND WE HAVE IT WITHIN OUR CAPACITY TO GET THAT DONE. AND FLORIDA, THIS WAS NOT PREORDAINED FOR OUR STATES. YOU WERE A PURPLE STATE. BARACK OBAMA WON THE STATE TWICE, SAME WITH MY STATE OF FLORIDA. I GOT ELECTED BY 32,000 VOTES IN 2018. IF YOU LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS DECADE, GOVERNOR AND SENATOR RACES WERE 1% RACES. A LOT OF PEOPLE TOLD ME TO BE MINDFUL OF THE POLITICAL BALANCE. KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN, DON'T ROCK THE BOAT. I REJECTED THAT ADVICE. WE MADE SURE TO LEAD BIG. WE MADE SURE THAT WE WOULD GO ON OFFENSE. SOME REPUBLICANS ARE LIKE POTTED PLANTS IN OFFICE. THEY ARE WORRIED THE MEDIA WILL ATTACK THEM. IF YOU ARE STANDING FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, THE MEDIA WILL ABSOLUTELY ATTACK YOU. IT SHOWS YOU THAT YOU ARE OVER THE TARGET. WE WENT ON OFFENSE AND MADE SURE WE ARE DOING THE BUSINESS WE PROMISED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. FAST-FORWARD FOUR YEARS PAST COVID. WE WANT IT WAS THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF THE VOTER EVER RECEIVED IN FLORIDA HISTORY. WE WERE ABLE TO WIN INDEPENDENT VOTERS BY 18% IT -- PERCENTAGE VOTE MARGIN. WE HAD BIG URBAN AREAS LIKE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY WITH TWO POINT MILLION PEOPLE. WE WERE ABLE TO NOT ONLY WIN IT, WE WANTED BY DOUBLE DIGITS. WE WON UP AND DOWN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, URBAN, SUBURBAN AND RURAL AND BROUGHT A REAL TSUNAMI LIKE IN IOWA WILL BE BROUGHT IN SUPER MAJORITY OF LEGISLATURE AND FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE CIVIL WAR ERA, THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE SOLITARY DEMOCRAT IN STATEWIDE OFFICE IN THE SUNSHINE STATE. THAT IS WHAT YOU CALL WINNING. THE LESSON IS PEOPLE RESPOND TO LEADERSHIP. PEOPLE WERE MOVING TO FLORIDA BECAUSE WE WERE GOING A DIFFERENT WAY DURING COVID JUST AS YOUR GOVERNOR DID PROTECTING PEOPLE'S FREEDOMS AND JOBS. WE HAD A LOT OF FOLKS IN MIAMI WHO HAD BEEN DEMOCRATS AND VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS AND THEY CAME ON OUR SIDE, NOT ONLY VOTING FOR ME BUT REGISTERING AS REPUBLICANS. DO NOT BUY THE IDEA THAT WE CANNOT EXPAND OUR BASE OF SUPPORT. OF COURSE, YOU CAN DO THAT. YOU CANNOT WIN BIG WITH JUST REPUBLICANS AND WE PROVED THAT. WE DID NOT DO IT BY TRIMMING OURSELVES. WE DID NOT CONTORT OURSELVES TO BE ANYTHING THAT WE ARE NOT. WE LEAD BOLDLY. WE LEAD CONSERVATIVELY AND DELIVERED RESULTS AND PEOPLE RESPONDED. THAT IS A LESSON FROM IOWA WITH THE GOVERNOR REYNOLDS AND IN FLORIDA WITH WHAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO. GOVERNING IS NOT ABOUT RETAINING. GOVERNMENT IS NOT ABOUT BUILDING A BRAND OR TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND VIRTUE SIGNALING. IT IS ABOUT WINNING AND PRODUCING RESULTS. IT IS WHAT YOU HAVE DONE IN IOWA AND IT IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN FLORIDA. WE HAVE A HEALTHY COMPETITION. I'M GOING TO LAY OUT STUFF FLORIDA HAS DONE. I KNOW KIM CAN RESPOND IN KIND. WE ARE PROUD TO BE THE FASTEST-GROWING STATE IN U.S. NUMBER ONE IN NET MIGRATION IN U.S. NUMBER ONE IN NEW BUSINESS FORMATION, EDUCATION AND FREEDOM ALTHOUGH IOWA IS CLOSE ON THAT. WE ARE NUMBER ONE FOR PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION AND WE ARE VERY PROUD OF THAT BUT NONE OF THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD WE NOT STOOD UP WHEN IT COUNTED. WHEN THE WORLD LOST HIS MIND DURING COVID, WHEN, SINCE BECAME AN UNCOMMON VIRTUE, FLORIDA STOOD TALL AS A REFUGE OF SANITY, AS A CITADEL OF FREEDOM, NOT ONLY FOR OUR PEOPLE, PEOPLE FROM THE UNITED STATES, WE EVEN HAD PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. WE REFUSE TO LET OUR STATE ASCEND INTO A DYSTOPIA WHERE PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOODS WERE DESTROYED AND VICE CURTAILED. WE CHOSE FREEDOM OVER FAUCISM AND WERE BETTER OFF AS A RESULT OF DOING THAT. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOUR GOVERNOR DID IT RIGHT. WE HAD OTHER REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS DO IT RIGHT. DO NOT LET THEM REWRITE HISTORY ABOUT THE LAST THREE YEARS. FAUCISM WAS WRONG. IT WAS DESTRUCTIVE TO THIS COUNTRY. WE COULD NEVER LET ANYTHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN AGAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. VERY BRIEFLY HERE ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS -- IT IS GREAT TO WIN BIG VICTORIES. KIM WON A LANDSLIDE. WE WON A LANDSLIDE. WINNING A BIG VICTORY IS JUST AN INVITATION TO THE DANCE. YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SOMETHING OF THAT. LET'S MOVE THE BALL FORWARD. HERE'S WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN LAST SIX MONTHS IN FLORIDA. THE -- WE ARE PROHIBITED CCP FROM PURCHASING LAND IN FLORIDA. WE ENACTED UNIVERSAL SCHOOL CHOICE WITH EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, SIMILAR TO IN VALUE. WE NEED CAP ESG IN FLORIDA, ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL GOVERNMENTS. WE PROVIDED 2.5 BILLION IN TAX RELIEF FOR PORTER FAMILIES. WE ENACTED HEARTBEAT PROTECTION ACT TO PROTECT LIFE. WE HAD RECORD SUPPORT FOR CONSERVATION EFFORTS IN FLORIDA, PLACES LIKE FLORIDA EVERGLADES AND OUR BEACHES AND OUR PRECIOUS HABITATS. WE ENACTED THE DEATH PENALTY FOR PEDOPHILES IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. [APPLAUSE] WE SIGNED LEGISLATION BLOCKING THE MENTATION OF CENTRAL-BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY -- IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL-BANK A DIGITAL CURRENCY IN OUR STATE. WE WENT AFTER PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGER MIDDLEMEN CAUSING YOUR DRUG PRICES TO BE HIGHER. THAT ENDED IN FLORIDA. WE INCREASE PAY FOR POLICE OFFICERS AND FIRE FIGHTERS. WE HAVE STIFF PENALTIES FOR ANYBODY DEALING FENTANYL IN OUR CHILDREN. THEY SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE THE MURDEROUS THEY ARE AND THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN FLORIDA. WE ENDED DISNEY'S SELF-GOVERNING STATUS IN FLORIDA. COMPANY DOES NOT GET THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT. NOT ON OUR WATCH. [APPLAUSE] WE PASSED THE STRONGEST MEASURES TO COMBAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. WE DID A RECORD INCREASE FOR TEACHERS SALARIES AND ALSO PARROTED THAT WITH PAYCHECK PROTECTION -- PAIRED THAT WITH PAYCHECK PROTECTION SO THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC DEDUCTION FOR SCHOOL UNIONS TO TAKE MONEY OUT OF THE CHECK. [APPLAUSE] ON MONDAY OR TUESDAY, ONE OF THE DAYS NEXT WEEK I WILL SIGN A BILL TO MAKE FLORIDA, I THINK THE FIRST DAY IN THE COUNTRY, TO LIMITED GEI PROGRAMS FROM OUR STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. THOSE ARE NOT GOOD PROGRAMS. THEY DIVIDE US AND IT IS WRONG. WE ARE ALSO SIGNING LEGISLATION TO MAKES THE PROBLEM THE OLYMPICS IN SCHOOL. WE ARE NOT DOING THE PRONOUNCE STUFF. -- PRONOUNS STUFF. FINALLY, WE ENACTED PROTECTIONS CODIFYING WHAT WE DID DURING COVID BUT EXPANDING PROTECTIONS FOR MEDICAL FREEDOM. YOU SHOULD NOT EVER BE IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY ARE MANDATING THESE JOBS ON YOU -- JABS ON YOU. WE ARE FREEDOMS ZONE PERMANENTLY. WE ARE HAPPY ABOUT THOSE ACHIEVEMENTS. WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENTS IN A YOU WILL. WE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO AHEAD OF US AS A COUNTRY. WE NEED TO RESTORE SANITY IN THIS COUNTRY. IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT IS GOING ON IN WASHINGTON D C, WE WERE SITTING HERE 10 YEARS AGO, AND SOMEONE TOLD YOU IT WILL BE OVER $31 TRILLION IN DEBT, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE LIVED THAT WAS THE CASE YET DEMOCRATS KEEP SPENDING AND BORROWING, LIKE A JUNKIE SAILORS. -- DRUNKEN SAILORS. THEY DISRESPECT THEIR TAXPAYERS. THEY DRY COUGH BUSINESSES. -- DRIVE OFF BUSINESSES. WE HAVE NO INCOME TAX IN FLORIDA. YOU SHOULD TRY IT SOMETIME. ANOTHER GOVERNOR IS WORKING TO GET THERE -- I KNOW THE GOVERNOR IS WORKING TO GET THERE. WE HAVE NO INCOME TAX AND YET WE HAVE MILLIONS OF MORE PEOPLE THE NEW YORK STATE AND YET NEW YORK BUDGET IS TWICE THE SIZE OF OUR BUDGET IN FLORIDA. WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH THE MONEY? THEY'RE NOT PRODUCING BETTER SERVICES. DO NOT PRODUCING BETTER INFRASTRUCTURE. THEY ARE NOT PRODUCING A BETTER EDUCATION SYSTEM. OF COURSE PEOPLE ARE MOVING FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA. BEING ABLE TO GOVERN CONSERVATIVELY IN FISCAL IS ESSENTIAL. WE ARE DOING IT RIGHT IN FLORIDA. KIM IS DOING IT RIGHT IN YOUR LEGISLATURE HERE. IT IS THE SAME WAY -- SAME WAY THE GOVERNMENT IN ECONOMIC MATTER. THE SAME APPLIES TO EDUCATION. THE PARENTS HAVE THE ROLE TO DIRECT THE UPBRINGING IN EDUCATION OF THEIR KIDS. SCHOOL SYSTEMS ARE IMPORTANT BUT IF THEY DID NOT SUPERSEDE THE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARENTS. IN FLORIDA WE BELIEVE IN PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS. IOWA BELIEVES IN THAT. THE SCHOOLS NEED TO BE FOCUS ON THE THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT. WORKING ON MATH AND SCIENCES AND READING. WE SHOULD NOT HAVE PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIAL IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY. WE HAVE EMPOWERED PARENTS TO GET THAT OUT. SOME OF THE MEDIA SAYS IT IS EQUIVALENT TO BANNING BOOKS WHICH IS NOT. I DID AN EVENT IN FLORIDA WHERE WE TALK -- THE BOOK BAN HOAX -- WE SAID WE ARE THE BOOK BAN HOAX. BEFORE WE STARTED THE PRESS CONFERENCE I DID A VIDEO THAT YOU SHOWED DAMAGES THE TAX OF WHAT -- IMAGES OR THE TEXTS ABOUT THE PARENTS HAD OBJECTED TO. IF IT IS TOO GRAPHIC FOR THE 6:00 NEWS, HOW IS IT OK FOR A 10 YEAR OLD SCHOOL CHILD? [APPLAUSE] WE ARE PURSUING AN APPROACH EDUCATION THAT HAVE ELIMINATED CONCEPTS LIKE CRITICAL RACE THEORY FROM HER K-12 SCHOOL SYSTEM -- OUR K-12 SYSTEM. WE ARE NOT TEACHING KIDS TO HATE THEIR COUNTRY WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS. WE TEACH KIDS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AMERICANS. WE TEACH THEM ABOUT THE PRESENTATION OF THIS COUNTRY. WE TEACH THEM ABOUT WHY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WILLING TO DIE AND FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY AND PART OF THAT MEANS TELLING THE TRUTH OF OTHER PARTS OF THE SYSTEM. WE SET ASIDE ONE DAY EVERY YEAR TO TEACH OUR SCHOOLCHILDREN ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF COMMUNIST REGIMES THROUGHOUT HISTORY. WHERE TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT MARXISM AND LENINISM AND OUR STUDENTS ARE BETTER OFF AS A RESULT OF THAT. WE'RE MAKING SURE OUR HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM IS MORE TO PRINCIPLE AND UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION. PURPOSE OF UNIVERSITIES ARE NOT SAME IMPOSE LEFTIST IDEOLOGY ON THE STUDENTS, IT IS NOT TO FOMENT POLITICAL OR SOCIAL ACTIVISM, IT IS ABOUT THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH. IT IS ABOUT ACADEMIC INTEGRITY. IT IS ABOUT GIVING STUDENTS FOUNDATION SO THEY CAN THINK FOR THEMSELVES AND BE CITIZENS OF OUR REPUBLIC. TO THAT END, WE HAVE DONE THINGS IN FLORIDA, ALL TENURE PROFESSORS MUST UNDERGO REVIEW EVERY FIVE YEARS AND CAN BE LET GO FOR POOR PERFORMANCE. WE ARE ELIMINATING THE IDEA OF D.E.I, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION, IN PRACTICE IT IS TRYING TO IMPOSE IDEOLOGICALLY. D.E.I AS IT IS PRACTICE THIS DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION, AND INDOCTRINATION AND HAS NO PLACE IN OUR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS [APPLAUSE] . ANOTHER POLICY WOULD BE TO RECOGNIZE OUR ECONOMY AND NATIONAL SECURITY ARE TIED TO BEING ENERGY INDEPENDENT. WE HAD TO REJECT WITH THE BIKE ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO DO BY KNEE CAPPING DOMESTIC INDUSTRY PRODUCTION ENFORCE USE OF ENERGY THAT WILL REQUIRE CHINA SO ENERGY INDEPENDENT IS COMMON SENSE AND WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THAT AND I THINK WE CAN QUICKLY CREATE THE NEED TO RESTORE A SENSE OF NORMALCY IN THIS COUNTRY. THERE USED TO BE SOMEONE COMMITTED A CRIME, THEY WERE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND PAID THE PRICE. THAT'S WHAT WE DO IN FLORIDA. THAT'S WHAT YOU DO IN IOWA. OUR CRIME RATE IN FLORIDA IS AT A 50 YEAR LOW YET YOU LOOK AROUND THE COUNTRY IN LEFT-WING CITIES AND HAVE BEEN HOLLOWED OUT BY PRO-CRIMINAL POLICIES LETTING THE INMATES RUN THE ASYLUM. YOU DO NOT DEFUND THE POLICE, YOU SUPPORT THE POLICE TO KEEP US SAFE. YOU DO NOT ALLOW PEOPLE TO WRITE IN MOOD. YOU -- YOU DO NOT ALLOW PEOPLE TO RIOT AND LOOT. YOU HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. HE DID NOT SUPPORT POLICIES THAT RELEASE DANGEROUS CRIMINALS EARLY FROM PRISON. WHEN YOU HAVE PROSECUTORS GETTING ELECTED IN CITIES LIKE CHICAGO, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES USUALLY WITH BIG FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE LIKE GEORGE SOROS THEY GET ELECTED PLEDGING THEY ARE NOT GOING TO ENFORCE LAWS THEY DO NOT LIKE. THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS AND MAKE THEM THE ENEMY AND SIDE OF THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENS? THE WHOLE SOCIETY STARTS THE FRAY, CRIME STARTS TO GO UP AND I CAN TELL YOU THIS, IT IS NOT THE PROSECUTOR JOB TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHICH LAWS THEY WANT TO ENFORCE. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE SOME LAW, RESIGN YOUR OFFICE, RUN FOR LEGISLATURE AND TRY TO CHANGE THE LAW WE ARE NOT A LAW UNTO YOURSELF AND WE HAVE SOMEONE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN TAMPA SAY HE WOULD ONLY ENFORCE LAWS HE AGREED WITH AND HE WAS NOT GOING TO ENFORCE LAWS LEGISLATURE ENACTED, I REMOVED HIM FROM HIS POSITION. HE IS GONE AND THAT IS THE TYPE OF ACCOUNTABILITY WE NEED. [APPLAUSE] WE NEED TO RESTORE THE IDEA THAT CRIMINALS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CONDUCT. IT IS NOT SOCIETY'S FAULT. YOU DO THE CRIME, YOU DO THE TIME. THAT IS WHY OUR CRIME RATE IS LOWER. WE NEED TO RESTORE A SENSE OF NORMALCY ABOUT -- WE ARE A NATION THAT HAS BORDERS. OUR SOVEREIGNTY AS A PEOPLE MATTERS. DID NOT TELL ME FOREIGNERS CAN JUST DECIDE TO COME ACROSS THE BORDER WHEN THEY WANT TO. WE DECIDE WHO COMES INTO THIS COUNTRY AS AMERICANS. WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO HAVE THAT BORDER SECURE AND NOT HAVE THIS DISASTER UNFOLDING. SOMEONE IS LIKE WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I WOULD SHUT DOWN THE BORDER IMMEDIATELY. WHY ARE WE HAPPEN TO OUR COUNTRY? IT IS HURTING PEOPLE. THE DRUGS ARE POURING IN TO THE COUNTRY. AMERICANS ARE DYING FOR WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE BORDER. CRIMINAL ALIENS GETTING INTO THE COUNTRY, EVEN PEOPLE -- YOU DESERVE TO HAVE A SECURE BORDER. YOU DESERVE TO HAVE THE RULE OF LAW. SOME COMES ACROSS THE BORDER, STOPPED THEM AND SEND THEM BACK TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER. DO NOT GIVE THEM A PIECE OF PAPER ESTATE YOU COME BACK FOR A COURT DATE IN FOUR YEARS -- AN ESSAY YOU COME BACK TO FOR QUITE A IN FOUR YEARS. THE DRUG CARTELS ARE KILLING A LOT OF AMERICANS. WE NEED TO BE HOLDING THE CARTELS ACCOUNTABLE AND HOLDING THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE THEY ARE ALLOWING A LOT OF THIS TO HAPPEN. WE ARE IN THIS ISSUE. WE VAN SANCTUARY CITIES. -- BANNED SANCTUARY CITIES. WE HAVE FORCES IN PLACE TO HELP THE COAST GUARD IN LIMINE -- AND WE HAD A VESSELS. WE APPRECIATED ILLEGAL ALIENS BACK TO SOME OF THESE COUNTRIES AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENS? WHEN THEY SEE THAT THEY WILL BE STOPPED, TURNED BACK AND REPATRIATED THEY STOPPED COMING. WE DON'T HAVE AS MANY VOTES COMING AS WE DID BEFORE WE STARTED THE OPERATIONS -- BOATS COMING AS WE DID BEFORE WE STARTED THE OPERATIONS. SEE THE CARNAGE WITH THE DRUGS AND COMMUNITIES -- MOTHERS THROUGHOUT FLORIDA HAVE LOST CHILDREN BECAUSE OF FENTANYL OVERDOSES AND IF WE HAD A SECURE BORDER, A LOT OF THAT WOULD NOT HAPPEN. THE MEDIA DOES NOT CARE ABOUT IT. THE LEFT TRY TO IGNORE IT. A LOT OF THEM WILL COMMIT. THEY ONLY SEEM TO CARE WHEN FLORIDA BROUGHT LEGAL ALIENS TO LOVELY MARTHA'S VINEYARD. THEN THEY GOT REALLY UPSET ABOUT THAT. [APPLAUSE] I DO THINK AS BIG AS THE BORDER IS, EVEN IF YOU HAVE GOOD POLICY WHICH WE DO NOT, YOU CANNOT DO IT WITH PERSONNEL ALONE. YOU NEED A WALL CONSTRUCTED ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER. I SUPPORT DURING THAT. WE SUPPORTED DOING THAT. WHAT I TOLD THE ADMINISTRATION IS, WE HAD HURRICANE INCOME THROUGH -- IAN COME THROUGH AND THERE WAS A MONSTER STORM. IT RIPPED OUT A BRIDGE GOING FROM THE MAINLAND TO THE ISLAND AND IS SEVERED BECAUSE WEIGHT GOING TO SANIBEL ISLAND IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. THESE ARE NOT STATE A BRIDGES BUT THE LOCALS ARE BEING TOLD IT HAS TO BE SIX MONTHS BEFORE WE RESTORE. THEY CAME TO ME, THE GOVERNOR, WE CANNOT WAIT SIX MONTHS AND I AGREE. I GOT MY GUYS AND SAID NO BUREAUCRACY, NO REDTAPE, AND NO EXCUSES. I WANT THESE BRIDGES BACK UP AND RUNNING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE ACCEPTED THE JOB. RE-RESTORED IN THREE DAYS. THE SANIBEL CAUSEWAY IT BACK TWO WEEKS LATER AFTER THAT. I RAISE THAT BECAUSE I AM WILLING TO SEND MY FOR THE FOLKS WHO BUILT THE BRIDGES, I WILL SEND THEM TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER. WE WILL GET CRACKING ON THIS WALL, JOE. AS IN, WOULD GET IT DONE -- PUT US IN. WE WILL GET IT DONE. NEED TO RESTORE INTEGRITY TO OUR MAJOR INSTITUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY. I AM A NAVY VETERAN. I VOLUNTEERED. IT IS SOMETHING I WANTED TO DO. VOLUNTEER TO SERVE IN IRAQ AND I GOT TO MEET A LOT OF PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY AND EVE IN THE WORST DAYS IN IRAQ YOU HAD PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO SIGN UP AND COME KNOWING THEY WOULD GET SENT TO IRAQ BECAUSE IT MEANT A LOT FOR THEM TO WEAR THE UNIFORM OF OUR COUNTRY AND THEY WANTED TO SERVE. NOW YOU HAVE DIFFICULT TIMES RECRUITING PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SERVE. WHY? THE MILITARY HAS LOST ITS WAY OF SOME OF THIS STUFF. THEY ARE PUBLICIZING WITH THAT BEING -- PUBLICIZING -- POLITICI ZAING -- POLITICIZING BEING IN THE MILITARY. THEY ARE USING PEI. THAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG. I THINK WE NEED TO GET THE MILITARY FOCUS ON WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE. I DID NOT WANT TO RUN IN ANYMORE VETERAN SAYING I DO NOT THINK I WOULD WANT MY SON OR DAUGHTER TO JOIN THE MILITARY ANYMORE. HOW SAD IS THAT. WE SHOULD BE SUCH A PROUD TRADITION FOR SO MANY AMERICANS FAMILIES. I WAS ALWAYS PROUD OF WEARING THAT UNIFORM. I COULD HAVE MADE A BOAT LOAD OF MONEY. I CHOSE -- I TELL YOU, THE SATISFACTION OF KNOWING YOU ARE WEARING THE CLOTH OF YOUR COUNTRY WAS BETTER THAN IN THE CAN BUY. WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THAT IN THE UNITED STATES. [APPLAUSE] WE NEED TO RESTORE INTEGRITY TO THE OPERATION OF OUR BUSINESSES, PARTICULARLY LARGE CORPORATIONS. THEY HAVE ENDORSED IN THE IDEA OF WOKE IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY. THEY HAVE INDULGED IN CONCEPTS LIKE ESG. MAKE NO MISTAKE, WHEN THEY ARE TRYING TO DO, THEY ARE TRYING TO CHANGE POLICY IN THE COUNTRY. THEY TRY TO CHANGE OUR SOCIETY WITHOUT EVER HAVING TO STAND FOR AN ELECTION. THE POLICIES THEY ARE PROPOSING THROUGH THESE THINGS CANNOT WIN AT THE BALLOT BOX IN IOWA OR FLORIDA. THEY'RE TRYING TO DO AN END RHYME AROUND OUR SYSTEM AND IMPOSE A LEFTIST AGENDA THROUGH CORPORATE POWER. I THINK WE NEED TO STAY CLEARLY, NO SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. WERE NOT LETTING YOU GO AROUND OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM TO IMPOSE THIS ON OUR COUNTRY. HOW MUCH BETTER WILL OUR ECONOMY DO IF THEY FOCUS ON THE BASICS AND SERVING CUSTOMERS AND SERVING SHAREHOLDERS AND SERVING SHAREHOLDERS SET UP GOING ON IDEOLOGICAL JOY RIDE? I AM TELLING YOU THEY WOULD DO BETTER. WE NEED TO RESTORE INTEGRITY TO OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM. WE HAVE A BUREAUCRACY THAT IS OUT OF CONTROL. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A COUNTRY THAT HAS A CONSTITUTION WITH THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL. NOW WE HAVE FOUR. YOU HAVE THIS FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT THAT DEMONSTRATE OF STATE THAT DOES WHAT IT WANTS WITHOUT CONGRESS ENACTING ANYTHING THAT WOULD DO FAR-REACHING ROSE TRYING TO IMPOSE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO VIOLATE YOUR FREEDOM, HARM YOUR LIVELIHOOD, BUT THESE ARE PURE BECAUSE THAT WOULD NEVER STAND FOR ELECTION AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE -- BUREAUCRATS THAT WERE NEVER STAND FOR ELECTION AND BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. THESE AGENCIES SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ISSUE THESE ROLES. THEY SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TARGET DISFAVORED INDUSTRIES. THIS NOT BE ABLE TO GO AFTER YOUR FREEDOM. IT IS TO UNACCOUNTABLE. IT IS ABOUT TIME WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE COMPLAINED FOR A LONG TIME. [APPLAUSE] I ALSO THINK WE NEED TO RESTORE TRUTH AS THE FOUNDATION TO OUR SOCIETY AND TO OUR REPUBLIC. AS A LEADER, ARE MET OUT FOR ADULATION OR FANFARE I'M LOOKING TO PURSUE THE TRUTH. TRUTH IS A FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG EMILY LIFE, STRONG COMMUNITY AND A SUCCESSFUL COUNTRY. TRUTH IS ENDURING. THEY CAN COVER IT WITHOUT -- THEY CAN COVER IT UP BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY THE LIES AND -- FADEAWAY INTEREST REMAINS. I BELIEVE THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE. THIS ADVENT OF WOKE IDEOLOGY REALLY REPRESENTS A CHALLENGE TO THIS. I THINK IT IS A WAR ON TRUTH AND BECAUSE IT IS A WAR ON TRUTH WE MUST WAGE A WAR ON WOKE. IT IS WRONG FOR A TEACHER TO INSTRUCT THE A STUDENT THAT THEY WERE BORN IN WRONG BODY. WE SHOULD HAVE HAVE TRANS GENDER IDEOLOGY IN OUR SCHOOL. WE HAVE ELIMINATED IT. THAT MEANS WE HAVE TO SEND IT, HERE I STAND. I'M SENDING FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND WERE DOING WHAT IS RIGHT. [APPLAUSE] IT IS WRONG FOR A SUMMER TO COMPETE FOR THREE YEARS ON THE MEN'S TEAM AND THEN SWITCH TO THE WOMEN'S TEAM AND THEN WHEN WILL MISS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. I'M SORRY. THAT IS A FRAUD THEY ARE TRYING TO PERPETUATE ILLNESS. WE SHOULD NOT -- PERPETUATE ON US AND WE SHOULD NOT ACCEPT IT AS A TRUE. IT IS ALSO WRONG FOR PHYSICIANS TO PERFORM SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS ON MINORS. THIS A BARBARIC PRACTICE AND IN FLORIDA WE PUT A STOP TO IT. POSITIONS THAT TRY TO DO IT -- PHYSICIANS WILL LOSE THEIR MEDICAL LICENSE IN OUR STATE AND IT IS APPROPRIATE. OUR COUNTRY IS FLOUNDERING IN PART BECAUSE SO MANY OF OUR INSTITUTIONS HAVE BECOME ONBOARD FROM THE TRUTH. THEY HAVE BEEN LOST IN A CFO -- AC WERE IN A CROSSROAD OF A COUNTRY. AS BAD AS THINGS ARE GOING RIGHT NOW, THINGS DID NOT GO WELL IN 2024 WILL GET WORSE. THE LEFT IS PLAYING FOR KEEPS. THEY ARE MORE AGGRESSIVE THE ANY TIME IN MY LIFETIME. I GOT INTO POLITICS IN 2012 BECAUSE I WAS MOTIVATED TO IMPOSE POLICIES -- A BARACK OBAMA. -- OPPOSE THE POLICIES OF BARACK OBAMA. I BELIEVED THAT IT THEN AND I BELIEVE IT NOW. AS A LOOK BACK TO SEE SOME OF THE BATTLES AS CLAIMED. THE THREATS TO FREEDOM MUCH MORE PROFOUND TODAY. THERE MUCH MORE PERVASIVE. THE DEMOCRATS ARE ABLE TO SWEEP IN 2024, THEY KEEP THE WHITE HOUSE, AGAIN IN THE SENATE AND TAKE BACK THE HOUSE, THEY WOULD TRY TO PACK THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. GO TRY TO ELIMINATE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. THERE WERE TRY TO MAKE WASHINGTON, D.C. ESTATE AND ELIMINATE -- A STATE AND ELIMINATE VOTER ID. THAT IS NOT AN INTERNET THAT APPEALS TO US BUT I THINK EFFECTIVELY -- AN IDEA THAT PROCESS AS REPUBLICANS. THAT IS AN AGENDA OF THE LEFT WING MOVEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY THAT WANTS TO MAKE THE CONSERVATIVE HALF OF THE COUNTRY SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS. WHAT TO CALL THE SHAH'S AND THEY DID NOT WANT US TO HAVE A VOICE IN THIS GOVERNMENT. THEY WILL HAVE PROFOUND APPLICATIONS FOR US OUR KIDS AND OUR GRANDKIDS. THE HOPE IS BOTH FLORIDA AND IOWA SHOW STRONG LEADERSHIP IN A BOLD AGENDA CAN DEFEAT THE LEFT IN THE COUNTRY. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR VICTORY. WE MUST REJECT THE CULTURE OF LOSING THAT IS AFFECTED OUR PARTY IN RECENT YEARS. THE TEMPORARY EXCUSES IS OVER. GOT TO DEMONSTRATE COURAGE TO LEAD AND WHEN. IF WE DO THAT AND MAKE 2020 FOUR REFERENDUM ON JOE BIDEN AND HIS FAILURES AND IF WE PROVIDE A POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY, REPUBLICANS WILL WIN ACROSS THE BOARD. IF WE DO NOT DO THAT, IF YOU GET DISTRACTED, WE FOCUSED ELECTION ON THE PAST OR ON OTHER SIDE ISSUES, THE DEMOCRATS WILL BEAT US AGAIN. I THINK IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO RECOVER FROM THAT DEFEAT. I USED TO THINK OUR COUNTRY WAS LOCKED AND LOADED AND NOTHING CAN GO WRONG IN A FREE SOCIETY. YOUR FREEDOM IS FRAGILE -- BUT FREEDOM IS FRAGILE AND YOU KNOW THAT. THERE WERE STATES IN THIS COUNTRY THAT SHUTTER C HURCHES WHILE ALLOWING LIQUOR STORES TO OPERATE. OUR FOUNDING FATHERS UNDERSTOOD THE FRAGILITY OF FREEDOM VERY WELL. WHEN THEY MET IN PHILADELPHIA TO CRACK THE CONSTITUTION BECAME ARMED WITH HAVING STUDIED THE HISTORY OF EVERY REPUBLIC IN HISTORY OF MANKIND. THEY WANTED LESSONS FROM WHAT HAPPENED IN THOSE REPUBLICANS AND WHAT THEY LOOK THERE IS ONLY ONE THING THEY ALL HAD IN COMMON AND IT WAS THIS: EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM HAD FAILED. SO THEY UNDERSTOOD IT FAILED -- PEOPLE REALLY GOVERN THEMSELVES? COULD YOU HAVE IN A SOCIETY BASED ON THE IDEA OF RICE DOWN FROM THE CREATOR NOT PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT? JEFF SOCIETY BASED ON THE RULE OF LAW? OR WAS SOCIETY DESTINED TO BE UNDER VARIOUS FORMS OF DESPOTISM AND THEY EXPECTED THIS AMERICAN EXPERIMENT WOULD ULTIMATELY ANSWER THAT QUESTION FOR THE REST OF MANKIND. WHEN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LEFT THAT CONVENTION HE WAS ASKED, DR. FRANKLIN WHAT HAVE YOU GIVEN US A REPUBLIC OR A MONARCHY? HE SAID HE REPUBLIC -- A REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT. PHOTO AND IOWA PROVE IT CAN BE DONE. OUR STATES OFFER I HOPE THAT BETTER DAYS -- A HOPE THAT BETTER DAYS MAY LIVE AHEAD. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE BATTLE OF HEAD BUT IT IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY. THE LEFT IS NOT GOING TO JUST GIVE THIS TO US. IT IS GOING TO REQUIRE HARD WORK AND REQUIRE A LOT OF SACRIFICE AND SOMETIMES WE ARE IN THIS POSITION, YOU TAKE A LOT OF SHOTS. DON'T YOU GET TIRED OF THIS? PEOPLE ALL SHOOTING AT YOU, LYING. THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT I GIVEN UP A LOT MORE THAN WHAT I AM CALLED UPON TO DO AS GOVERNOR. I SO THINK ABOUT THIS WHEN I WOULD FLY INTO D.C. WE GOING TO REAGAN AIRPORT, YOU COMPLY PARALLEL TO THE NATIONAL -- YOU CAN FLY PARALLEL TO THE WASHINGTON MALL AND YOU SEE BEAUTIFUL VIEWS OF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, THERE REFLECTING POOL, WASHINGTON MONUMENT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE HILL AND CAPITOL BUILDING ON CAPITOL HILL AND YOU THINK TO YOURSELF, THIS IS WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT. THIS SHOWS THE IDEA AND PRINCIPLES THAT MAKE US UNIQUE. THE TOURISTS LOVE IT. BUT I REALIZE WAS THE BEST MONUMENT TO FREEDOM IN THE COUNTRY WAS NOT THE PLANE BECAUSE HE LOOKED TO THE RIGHT SIDE YOU WILL LOOK OVER THE POTOMAC RIVER YOU SAW VERY SMALL NONDESCRIPT MONUMENTS ARRANGED NEATLY OVER ROLLING HILLS IN A PLACE CALLED ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. [APPLAUSE] IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE BEST DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN THE WORLD, AND THE BEST CONSTITUTION IN THE WORLD, BUT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE PEOPLE WILLING TO STAND UP, PUT ON THE UNIFORM, RISK THEIR LIVES AND GIVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION, THEN IT IS NOT GOING TO AMOUNT TO VERY MUCH. WERE NOT CALLED UPON TO MAKE SACRIFICE OF THAT MAGNITUDE BUT WE ARE CALLED UPON TO DO BATTLE IN THE POLITICAL ARENA. BUT I SAY TO YOU IS PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD, TAKE YOUR STAND, STAND FIRM FOR TRUTH. WE MUST FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. WE MUST FINISHED THE RACE AND WE MUST KEEP THE FAITH. I'M PROUD OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN FLORIDA. I'M THANKFUL FOR WHAT GOVERNOR REYNOLDS AND THE TEAM HAVE DONE IN IOWA. BUT I ONLY HAVE BEGUN TO FIGHT. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.


Trump forced to cancel outdoor Iowa rally due to tornado warnings
05/13/23 5:40 PM ET Unfortunately, due to the Tornado Warnings in Des Moines, President Trump was forced to cancel the outdoor Rally at the Lauridsen Amphitheater
      

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Peace to you, Peace to your home, and to all that belongs to you – Peace!