but he said he is going to do just listening to him, i cannot believe as many people are backing him. host: i thought you were done, i was going to leave it there because we are done for the eving, what our conversation it will pick up tomorrow morning with all of you on "washington journal," we will get your reaction sunday 7:00 a.m. eastern live forheepublican primary. although all of our camping coverage ifou go to c-span.org or on our free mobile video cap -- app c-span now. we will brg you back to earlier in th evening when former psint donald trump address his supporters in south cali after notching his fourth victory in this republican primary contest. ♪

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god bless the usa ♪ ♪ mr. trump: thank you very much, that is really something. this was a little sooner than we anticipated. an even bigger win than we anticipated, and i was just informed that we got double the number of votes that is ever been received in the great state of south carolina, so that is pretty good. so it is a record times two, and there was something going on in the country. at some really great things are going on. you look outside and you see all of the horror, you see millions of people coming across the

border illegally. we do not know where they come from. they come from jails, they come from prisons, come from all sorts of places we do not want to know of, mental institutions and insane asylums, and we don't want that in our country. we are not going to stand for it. you have terrorists coming in, people coming -- we just cannot do this. no country can sustain what is happening to the united states of america, no country, so we are going to straighten things out. the border is the worst it is ever been. in 2016 we won and we had a bad border, and i talked about the border a lot, and i said we are going to fix it. we fixed it very quickly and in 2020 we could not talk about it, although we got millions of whereabouts the second time, but now there is a spirit i have never seen. we ran two great races, but there is never been ever -- there has never been a spirit like this, and i just want to say i have never seen that

republican party so unified as it is right now. never been like that, and a big part of that is the people standing behind me. these are the biggest officials in south carolina, but i say like the biggest officials in our country as far as i am concerned. they are state figures, but they are national figures, and in a true sense of the word they love our country so much, and they went to see our country succeed and be respected again. right now we are laughing stock all over the world. our country is going to be respected again, respected again like never before. [cheers and applause] so this is a fantastic evening. it is an early evening and fantastic. you can all go down and celebrate or about 15 minutes, that we have to get back to work, because the big day, you know michigan is coming up.

the autoworkers will be with us 100%, because they got sold out by this country, but michigan is up, and we are going to have tremendous success there, and that we have a thing called super tuesday, and i think we are leading 91-7 overall. if you don't mind, may i have the pleasure of introducing some incredible people? because they stuck right from the beginning, from the very moment we announce them, they believe in make america great again. they believe in america first. first of all, my family, melani a, baron, don jr., ivanka and jared, if any, and michael are so supportive of me.

we have a great family, and we have incredible friends, and we are going to be happier on november 5 at we are going to look at joe biden, and we will look him right in the eye, he is destroying our country, and we are going to say, joe, you are fired. get out, joe. you are fired. [cheers and applause] they are destroying our country, and i just wish we could do it quicker. nine months is a long time. i just wish we could do it quicker, mr. governor. is there anything you can do with your vast powers. in certain countries you are allowed to call your election date. if i had the right to do it, i would do it tomorrow. i would say we are having an election tomorrow. is there anything we can do? right from the beginning, henry mcmaster, the governor of this incredible state, and much more importantly his wife, peggy, she

does with him all the way. what a couple, but i would like them to see a few words. he is a very special man and incredible governor, very popular in the state, and to give us a very good advice and is guess right from the beginning. from the day i announced i had the lieutenant governor -- he was the lieutenant governor, and from right at the beginning when i announced, and i said i do not know the gentleman, is he good? they said he is really great, and i set i hope so. within two weeks i sent that guy is unbelievable. i never got the support of the governor, she supported somebody else, that i got the support of someone much better, and henry mcmaster, and we won in a landslide, and i would like to ask the governor to say a few words. >> thank you, mr. president. i would like you want to remember this moment that you were here. this is a great moment in american history.

we will probably never see another one like it. every time a rocket launch because of slow and it is climbing, and that next stage comes out. we just said that, which is it maximum velocity, and we are going all of the way. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: he came on board and lindsay wanted him and the lieutenant governor wanted him and everybody wanted him. so i thought he was ok, but he did not love speaking about himself, because he is a good person. see i have no problem, what a personality, i don't know, but he endorsed me and then we asked them to go and do a few shows. they are not often nice shows. they are often hostile. what he did, is this the same

man? he has a high quality person, when he was supporting, is that correct, lindsay, senator tim scott, he went out and he was ripping it. i said what happened to tim scott, what a dynamo, and he has been one of our great advocates. he has been doing things that are unbelievable, and i am very happy he did not have that same energy, drive, because i think i probably would have been out of the race a long time ago, but i went to say a very special man. as so many people have such great respect for them, and you were lucky to have him in this state. tim, please say a few words. sen. scott: hello, south carolina. the longer i speak, the less you hear of him, so let me ask one

survey question, and you better answer it loud and clear. is south carolina trump country? [cheers and applause] mr. trump: really great job, amazing. another man, not a lot of people know him. he does not do too much elevation. he happens to be a little further left than some of the people on this stage, but i would say when i am in trouble on the left i called up lindsey graham and he straightens it out so fast. and i will tell you -- no, no, remember --[booing] i love them, he is a good man. come up here, lindsay.

come here. sen. graham: ok, are you already? america, the nightmare you are facing is just about over. help is on the way. this is the most qualified man to be president of the united states, and let it be said that south carolina created the biggest political comeback in american history. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: thank you, lindsey. so i have a son it was a very talented guy who work so hard, and his wife is very good. and i want to thank eric and laura for doing such a fantastic job. really amazing, they are amazing people.

let's go down a little list of some of the people there were up here tonight, because every one of them is a star in their own right, and your lieutenant governor is going places. you do know that, right? really going places, and speaker of the house, merle smith. he is running to get over here, but we want to thank you speaker of the house, fantastic person doing a great job for the state. and attorney general was been in the news late leon lott winning cases. i wish we had such a good attorney general like that in new york. [laughter] he is a great attorney general. allen wilson. thank you, alan. his father happens to be appear too. remember his famous you lied.

he has been loved ever since. the treasurer, thank you very much wherever you may be. thank you, curtis. mark hammett, secretary of state. thank you, mark. ambassador -- and this is a great ambassador, one of the best. anytime we had a problem i would just call evan mcmullin, and he would solve the problem very quickly. thank you very much. we have a band quizzed done a really good job at the state, your south carolina gop chair, drew mckissick. thank you. [booing] we have a highly opinionated group of people. they turned very positive on you quickly.

so you have a beautiful, full state right next to you, north carolina -- we love north carolina. they named her daughter carolina, and i said which state? she said both. they have the most beautiful daughter named carolina. we love them both very much and we won them very easily and one of the reasons we won north carolina is a man named michael whatley. we gave him our endorsement, and it looks to me like he is going to be going on to the national republican party as the boss. thank you very much, and he will be working with laura. and we may be putting kelly in -- kellyanne in the group two.

you will do a fantastic job, what a job biggest in north carolina. that evening of 2020 with those votes coming in, we are leading in pennsylvania, and all of the sudden something happened. it went -- and that we are leading all over the place, and we were leaving, but north carolina -- where is that going to go? when are they going to drop lots of ballots into that one? do you know what we did, he just kept that thing and we never had a problem, and i said that is my kind of guy. he had hundreds of lawyers. how many lawyers? he had 500 lawyers to make sure they did not cheat, and they did not cheat in north carolina, and i said that is my kind of guy, so i appreciate it, great job, we are very proud of you and you were going to do a fantastic job. can't the election period, we

use 12 election night, now we have election period because some of these elections go on for 48 days, 61 days, and they get all this equipment and say they will be announcing the three weeks from now, can you imagine? they do not know what they're doing, but i can tell you you're doing a fantastic job, and we appreciate appreciated. thank you, michael. we also have a lot of members of congress and the audience. this room is full of energy, and are part it is full of energy like never before, and i mean it. there has never been unity in our party. at just the fact -- think of it, we have got a lot of primaries in this state. the fact that we got double the number of votes in history, there is never been anything like that. she was ever heard of that? so we have members of congress with us who are very proud of us, because that god would be great. we had some guy who did about that i was not exactly happy

with. she voted to impeach your favorite president, he would love to have that blowback i can tell you, but until then he was a man that could not be beaten. i said, really, let's see. who do we have that is good. the best we have is a man named russell fry, and russell fry got out there and beat him so that in the primaries, he had of my support, and he has been a fantastic congressman, so wherever you may be, hi, russell. the great job. thank you very much. we got rid of that one. we got rid of a lot of them, almost every one of them -- now they are gone. the impeachers are all gone. nancy mace is here, a noncontroversial person, but you get the real advocate, and she just become a real advocate. i appreciated, thank you very much.

she is a strong woman, and we like strong women. congressman william timmons who has been a fantastic warrior for our country. joe wilson, i spoke to you about him before. he is tough and smart, and he and his beautiful wife produced a wonderful attorney general, so thank you very much, and you have done a fantastic job. loves our country. michael waltz knows more about the military than probably anybody, and we see him on a lot, and always want his opinion, and to get very strong opinions that he hates to see what is happening with our country. that i can tell you. we will all straighten it out together. mike collins, michael collins, thank you, michael, great job. a very noncontroversial person, but a very good person.

people do not understand this is a very good person, antic is a very capable man, matt gaetz. [cheers and applause] thank you, matt. [cheers and applause] that is not bad, matt. wow. wow. i am very impressed, right? [chanting "gaetz"] what is going on? how many people did you put up here? before i forget, we have a group of people, and i know this is ok with you from north carolina. it is about 60 women that trouble all over the country with me. every time i am out, we do a rally.

it at least has to be of significance, they are usually rallies, but they are up to 121. they are all beautiful women. obviously they are very wealthy, they look so wealthy and beautiful, look at them over here. but they travel all over the country, we over 100, and i am trying to figure out the husbands. they are all happily married, and one of the husbands is standing right there. he is the smartest one of all. i want to thank you. your support is so incredible. i get out and it is like a breath of fresh air. i look at these incredible people, and at least year we are having one that is very close. you do not have to travel out to california and texas and all the other places. we very much appreciated, thank you. a woman out campaigning today. she is the hardest worker, marjorie, marjorie taylor greene.

i said, marjorie, you do not have to -- [cheers and applause] she went to a polling sector and she had the trump flag and is waving it and screaming. i said, marjorie, it is 4:30, it is just about over for the votes . this is the hardest working wherever you are -- the most incredible woman. she is respected by everybody. she has very smart, and i am very happy she is on our side, right eric? i am very happy that she is on our side. so it has been an incredible period of time. we have a country that is a failing nation, but we are not going to other billing day shoot long. we are not going to allow -- we are not going to allow this to happen. we love our country, we love you dearly. we will fight for our country. we will fight for our rights. we will not let this go on,

because it is not sustainable by any country. i believe the number by the time we get him out, and remember the date, november 5, it will be the most important date perhaps in the history of our country. the election is on november 5, so we have michigan coming next week, super tuesday. we set a record so far in every single -- in iowa we got the most votes in history times two is like this, the biggest margin ever. we then went to new hampshire. new hampshire and iowa, you know, they have been around a long time politically, and we went to new hampshire to get the most votes in history. that is like the most home runs or the most is a baseball or who through the most touchdowns or most points in basketball. it is very simple. we got the most votes in their history at the new hampshire

primary. that is tremendous, and that goes back so many decades. you have john f. kennedy, you have a lot of good people, and we beat them by not a little bit, but by a lot. and then we went virgin islands. i want to thank the virgin islands, because they made a very strong play for the virgin islands, and we got 100% of the virgin islands, and of course nevada as you know. we got 99.6% of the vote, then they had a primary. this is no candidate. various forms, unknown candidate, but this was no candidate got 65% of the vote, and they think i was the no candidate because it was a caucus, it was not a primary, and you have to know what you were doing, but without going into it i think we won by 50 points or something like that.

then we come here, and what an honor it is. you know, in south carolina i have won every primary by our record and we have won every election by a record, and people like these two in this great governor and your great lieutenant governor, and i have to say thank you very much. [applause] they make it really easy, and to many of them as i was announcing -- it seems like a long time ago, but as i was announcing before i finish the speech, they said we are endorsing trump. those are friends. those are great friends, and we had some strong competitors. these were real friends. south carolina, thank you very much. go home, get rest. we have a lot of work ahead of us. we love you all. god bless you all. thank you very