addressing his supporters in florida.

>>adies and gentlemen, please welcome the next president of the united states, president donald j. trump. >> [video clip] ♪ and i'm proud to be an american where i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died to give that right to me and i'll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today but there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the ukp ♪ ♪

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they call it super tuesday for a reason. this is the big one. [applause] and they tell me, the pungent and otherwise -- pundits another been anything so conclusive. this has been an amazing night, an amazing day. n an incredible per iod of time in our country's history. it is sad and so many ways but i think it will be inspiring because we will do some things that frankly no one has been able to do for a long time. [applause] we have watched our country take a great beating over the last three years. and nobody thought a thing like this would be possible. we wouldn't have russia attacking ukraine. we wouldn't have israel being attacked. iran as you know was broke when i was running things. they did not have money for hamas, for hezbollah.

we had no inflation. inflation is destroying the middle class, it's destroying everything. inflation if you look back over hundreds of years back, it is called a country buster. that is what it is doing to our country. what has happened wi inflation has been unbelievable. a lot of experts have said the stock market is the only thing doing well, and that is because our poll numbers are so much higher than joe biden's. [applause] he's the worst president in the history of our country. there ha our country. today it was announced that 325,000 people were flown in from parts unknown, migrants were flown in, airplane, not

going through borders, not through the great texas barrier where i was with the governor of texas the other day and we were looking at the job they were doing. in the meantime they are pouring into california and arizona, because those governors are doing nothing. but today he was just announced before i came out, it was unbelievable. i said that must be a mistake. they flew borders into our cou. so that really tells you where they are coming from. they want open borders. borders are going to destroy our country. we need borders and free and fair elections or we don't have a country. this is an incredible group of so many celebrities. i will not introduce any because i will just get myself in trouble because i will leave o this is a room chock-full of incredible talented people, like

some of the guys standing in front of me. big, fat beautiful futures. i would love to be your age. i uld pay a lot of money to be your age. we have some tremendously talented people in this room, including talented political people that helped me from the we had the safest border in the history of our country. we built 571 miles of wall. we had mexico supply us with 28,000 soldiers because we wanted them. we said we won't do that. end, they did. it was an easy negotiation. we had the safest border mother best numbers we ever had. now we have the worst numbers probably in the history of the world. it's sad to see what is happening to our cities. our cities are being overrun crime. it is a new category of crime.

and it is violent, where they will stand in the middle of the street and have fistfights with police officers, and if they did that where the came, they would be killed instantly. the world is taking advantage of us. three years ago we were at a level where we were energy independent. we will be shortly energy dominant. today we are getting oilud from venezuela. can you believe it? we are doing numbers on that. we are refining the oil. we have our refinery for that oil. i call it tar. we have real stuff. so for all the environmentals, you want to look at that, because all that tar is going up into the atmosphere. it is the only plant that can do it. we have the only plants that can take tar and turn it intoil is .

we were energy independent. we will be energy dominant. ill be supying oil to europe all over the world. a tragic thing happened during the election, it was a tragedy. all of the problems that you have today, i don't think he would have had any of them. you would only have success. that is what ultimately will unify this country and this party. we have a great republican with tremendous talent. we want to have unity, and we are going toave unity. i have been saying lately, success will bring unity to our country. happened before we had the best economy our country has ever had. people were calling me that i would have said would never happen. they wanted to get together, african-american, asian american, hispanic american, women, men, diplomas

from the best schools in the world, and people that did not graduate from high school, every single group was doing better than before. it was a beautiful thing. our country was coming together. [applause] and now we have a very divided country. we have a country that a political personweaponization as political opponent. it happens in other countries, but they are third world unwe are a third world country t our borders, at our elections, and we have to stop that. we need a fair and free press. the press has not been fair, nor has it been free. maybe someday they will be. they have been beaten up pretty badly. people are not believing them. it is an important fact.

we have to get that confidence back. it is so important for the success of our country. [applause] this has been a day that we have been waiting for. thank my family for being here. i have a great family. [applause] they say thanks a lot, dad, we appreciate it. but they are strong and very capable people. they love the country, really do. we appreciate it. i want to thank everybody, my staff, susie, chris, incredible job you are doing. [applause]

i read an article yesterday where it said this is one of the finest run campaigns that anyone good, right? and we have no choice b is righe corner. november 5 is going to go down as the single most important day in the history of our country. [applause] [crowd chanting "usa"] mr. trump: we are going to take it and we are going to make it like it should be,right now ourn as a joke. it's a joke. other leaders who i speak to

can't believe what happened to us. three years ago we were the most respected country anywhere by far. we were doing things nobody could believe. china was paying us billions of dollars. in 25 years they have paid us nothing. i was getting billions of dollars. they were happy about it, as happy as you can be. maybe there is reasons for things having happened. they were not so happy with certain things i guess based on things that took place. we were getting along with everybody. we were respected by everybody. we had no■ wars, remember? i had the debate with hillary clinton, she said look at that personality, he's going to cause wars. i said my us out of wars and that is what happened. [applause]

for 20 years they were fighting isis. i defeated isis in four weeks. i got rid of isis 100%. 100% of the isis caliphate. we had no wars. we stopped wars. we were not getting along with a lot of countries. all of a sudden, north korea, which is a serious nuclear power, came along. kim jong-un, we got along very well. we got along very well with china until covid, and that was a bit too much as far as i was concerned. we made a trade deal with china that i don't even talk about. $50 billion a year and product that i bought -- in product that they bought from our farmers. covid, i don't even talk about that because covid was such a horrible thing. it started in the

just as i said. and it came out i believe through incompetence. wasn't but i think it was. regardless it caused $60 trillion worth of damage and death all over the world. a fantastic job on that. we never got credit for that. unbelievable job■7■vwe came up t nobody thought was possible. no one had any idea what it was. they did not even use the word pandemic. but we did a fantastic job. we got a lot of credit for the economy, for our foreign policy. i think credit like very few people have gotten. the press was honest about it. they gave us high marks on foreign so many things we did. we never got the kind of d the

covid, or as i call it affectionately, the chinese virus, the china virus, which . [applause] and despite that, the stock e turned it over the stock market was higher prior to covid. we did in amazing job. we had so many people that worked on that, so many of the doctors and scientists. it was really something. but there has never been an administration that had more success in so many different elements. we got the large tax cs historyn cuts in history. we rebuilt our military. and what happened, our entire military. we had jet fighters that were 53 years old. andmj we had all brand-new jet

fighters. after this other group of people that did not know what the doing, they took over and we had that horrible surrender in afghanistan. i call it a surrender. we took the shoulders out first. i dealt with leaders of the taliban in afghanistan. they were the ones causing the trouble. they said why are you calling them? i said that is where the problem is. they asked jesse james, why do you rob banks? because he said that is where the money is. that is where the problem is with the taliban. i spokehe is really the leader f afghanistan and the taliban, a rough group. i say don't ever shoot our )9 soldiers again. what happened, during the obama administration previously, they

were shooting a lot of our soldiers and i let them know, don't ever let that happen. i said it in a rather nasty fashion. for 18 months, we lost nobody in and then we had that horrible withdrawal where we lost 13 soldiers, 38 horribly wounded. behind. you have americans right now still behind, call them hostages if you like. we left 85 billion dollars worth of beautiful equipment behind, jets and tanks and goggles, night goggles. they are good fighters. they did not used to fight at night, but now they do because they have goggles. they have better goggles than we have. i want to tell you that led to a lot of bad things. now the worst things are happening. the things happeningowunthinkabe

unthinkable at the border. we have millions of people invading our country. this is the worst invasion probably -- we have never had anything like it. no country has had anything like it. the number today could be 15 million people. and they are coming from rough and dangerous places. we had that shut down. when joe biden goes to the beach because someone on his staff thinks he looks very good in a bathing suit -- [laughter] until he can't get his feet out of the sand which weighs about nine ounces, joe biden, if he left everything alone he could have had gone to the beach. we are going to take back our country. [applause]

we are going to do it right. we are going to have the greatest economy ever in the history of our country. we will top what we did. a to become an energy center of the world. we are ready to become energy dominant. they stopped that, but we are going to become energy dominant. we will pay off debt. we will do things no one thought was possible. we had not done our second phase of the tax cuts. ocrats fought us very hard. now they say i guess that was pretty good because we took in much more revenues after we cut taxes, and then we did all those regulation cuts and everyone was happy and we were proud of our country. will win this election because we have no choice. if we lose, we will not have a country left. [applause]

and we are going to do something -- thank you very much. we love you too. and we love our country. and we can't let this magnificent -- some people call it an experiment, i don't. i just say this is a magnificent place, a magnificent country. it is so and gone. when you look at the deaths, we cannot let that hapn. will close our borders. we will drill, baby, drill. we will get the inflation down. and we are going to make our country greater than ever before and we will do it quickly. it is going to go fast. we have to get the criminals out. we have many criminals that entered our country. we have people coming in from such bad places and we will have

to get them out. we have murderers being deposited into our country, drug levels coming in to our country. we have people coming in that should not bemany, large perceny come in through the caravans. now we find they come in through this is crazy. we are going to stop them. we will close our borders. we will have to deport lobad pe. our countries cannot live like this. our cities are choking to death. our states are dying and frankly our country is dying. we will make america great again, greater than ever before. thank you very much. been a big night. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪q;:r♪

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