83 posts from Monday, January 22, 2024

My question is this, why would the people who have bankrolled Jill Biden's past campaign and are bankrolling this campaign, and the people who voted for Jill Biden last time and tend to vote for him again this time, why would they be encouraged to support Nikki Haley? Why would they be encouraged to go into a Republican primary in order to get her to be the nominee or have a strong showing? I would just ask people, given what's going on in this country around the world, what kind of a Republican do you want to nominate to take on Biden and to take on this horror story? Is it a person who relies on the same elements, the money people, the party leaders, and the voters in the Democrat Party? and sounds so smart to me. I'll see you next time on Life For Liberty.

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continue to hear about these attacks by Iran proxies all over the Middle East. Now you've got Pakistan hitting Iran. Do you think that something is about to really be accelerated? You mean like World War III? Absolutely. We have a man as our president who is grossly incompetent. He can't put two sentences together. He can't walk off the stage. He can't find the stairs. And he's negotiating with Putin, with President Xi of China. Very, whether you like it or not, very intelligent men, very powerful men, and very vicious men, too. They love their country or they want their country to succeed. And we have a man that is not capable, in my opinion, of doing it. Look, take a look at the Middle East. Take a look at the whole world. When I left, there was no problem. I defeated ISIS. There was never going to be an attack on Israel. There was never going to be an attack on Ukraine. Putin would have never done that. Never. For two reasons. I'm one who would have never done it because of me. But he also wouldn't have done it because oil was at $40 a barrel as opposed to $100 a barrel. And, you know, gasoline was under $2. Now it's very high. Coming down because they're doing, they're throwing everything they possibly can to get at it. But right after the election, if that ever happened, and you just been a hope to God it doesn't happen where he gets in because he's destroying this country. So would you hit Iran? Would you would you be aggressive against Iran would have never done it. Look, when I had things go, I had things go with the greatest economy ever. But also, I told China, I told every country if you do if you buy one barrel of oil from if you one barrel of oil from Iran, if you buy anything, you're not you are not doing business in the United States. And Iran was broke. And they said, I watched a congressman, a Democrat congressman, two weeks ago, three weeks ago, on one of the shows, I think it was to face the nation. And he said that whether you like Trump or not, Iran was broke. They had no money to, you know, to sell outfit for terror because they are the primary source of terror. They were totally stone cold broke and Hamas wasn't getting money and Hezbollah wasn't getting money. Nobody was getting money. And we had no terror attacks during mine. And you know, Victor Orban, whether people like him or not, he was he's tough and smart. Well, he's tough. He's smart and tough and and amazing in many ways. He's the prime minister of Hungary. And they asked him the other day, three weeks ago, to be exact, they asked him what what's going on, the whole world is collapsing. There's so many, you know, the Middle East. And now you have all of this and what's happening over the last two days with Yemen. He said, bring Trump back. When Trump was here, everybody was afraid of him. I don't want to use that word afraid, but that's the word he used. Everybody was afraid of Trump. China was afraid of him. Russia was afraid of him. Everybody. Look, I ended the Russia pipeline. You never heard of Nord Stream 2 until I came along. I terminated it. And then for some reason, Biden allowed it to be built. We have a man who's grossly incompetent and we have to win this next election or we're not going to have a country left. Do you think Biden will drop out? Personally, I think so. I think so.

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President Trump, good to be with you tonight here in Rochester at the Opera House in New Hampshire. Obviously, very big news today. Governor Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race. What's your reaction? Well, look, he worked very hard. It's a tough go. And he worked hard. His wife is a terrific woman. They both work very hard. And he endorsed me in dropping out. He endorsed me. So I appreciate that very much. And I think we'll do very well. I think we were headed to a very big victory on Tuesday, just like in Iowa. And I think maybe now it even gets to be bigger because most of those people are going to go with me, I suspect. So he was supposed to come here to New Hampshire tonight, but he stayed in Florida. Did you speak with him? No, I didn't. I didn't. Somebody wanted to have a call, but I wasn't able to because, you know, I'm doing you. And then I go and make a big speech or a lot of people waiting right now. But he, you know, look, he fought a very good, he fought very hard. It's a very tough thing to do. Well, you guys traded a lot of tough words during the course of the campaign. You called him to sanctimonious. And then in the statement tonight, he brought up covid and your elevation of Fauci. Did you see his statement as embracing and really endorsing in a full-throated way? Look, it's very hard for him. He's going out and it's not like you feel wonderful when you do it. So he said, I think we did a fantastic job on covid. Nobody knew. You know, I've been given tremendous credit for the economy, for the military, for foreign policy. The one thing I've never been given credit for was the job we did in covid. We did a fantastic job with all of the all of the medicines. And if you look at Regeneron, all of the things that we did, we did a fantastic job, have never been given the credit for that. And basically, I allowed the governors to do their states and people like Henry McMaster, who was here yesterday, who, by the way, endorsed me. He's the governor of South Carolina. Almost every politician in South Carolina endorsed me, which is a little bit tough for Nikki. But when you go and you do a job like that, I relied very little on Fauci. By comparison, Fauci became much more important for Joe Biden. He liked Fauci. But he was there for like 40 years. And he was out there every day in all of the news. But if you listen to Fauci, I mean, many of the things that Fauci recommended, as you know, you know, he wanted to keep it open to China. And I said, no way, we're not going to keep it open. We he actually admitted after that, that I saved hundreds of thousands of lives. I closed it immediately to China. And everybody said, what are you doing? There was a room of 11 people. He was one of them. And they all said, no, and now they give me credit for having closed it. It would have been far worse. So no, but when Ron goes out, I thought he was actually pretty gracious, to be honest, because I think the fact that he endorsed was a big factor. But if you think about it, he wants low taxes. And I gave the largest tax decrease or cut in the history of our country bigger than Ronald Reagan. Would you do larger cuts, corporate? Yeah, I was planning on doing it. In fact, had the result been different, the result was just fine, by the way. You'll probably cut that out. But that's okay. But the more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country. But had had I been president at the time, we would have had a lower debt we were going to pay off. We were going to drill baby drill, you know, we were going to drill and get our inflation down. The inflation has been killing our country. No matter what you're making, the inflation just wiped it out and just ate it up. And we were going to do some phenomenal things for the country. And then, you know, the result of the election was not did not make a lot of people very happy, frankly. Let me ask you about Ron DeSantis. You said you didn't speak. Did he reach out to you? And I'd rather not comment would maybe ask Ron that question. But I'd rather not comment. But he was very nice. Look, he left. It's a very hard thing to do. He left. Somebody said, what are you going to do with the name to sanctimonious? I said that name is officially retired as of this moment. We are retiring that name. So would you can you see him potentially in your administration? I mean, how much do you think you could work together after the race? It's so raw right now when you ask me that question. I heard about this two hours ago. So this is just something that just took place as I was coming here. And we have a tremendous audience outside. So I haven't thought in terms of that. But look, I got along with him very well until this happened. And he ran against me. I got him elected. I actually got him elected. That was not even a question. And he ran. So I was insulted by that. I didn't think it was appropriate. And now I guess it doesn't matter to me much anymore. So Nikki Haley says now she has the two person race that she's always wanted. She has been coming after you strongly in the past few days. It's worked both ways. And you've come after her as well. She she keeps bringing up your age lately. What do you say about that? Well, I think I'm a lot sharper than her. I would do this. I would sit down right now and take an aptitude test and it would be my result against her result. And she's not going to win. Not going to even come close to winning. In fact, when I heard the word cognitive, you know, I've taken two of them now. I took one with Doc Ronnie, who's now a fantastic, you know, White House doctor and a fantastic congressman from Texas, Admiral, the White House doctor, Jackson, Ronnie Jackson. And he's now a great congressman from Texas. I took one then and I took one recently. I think the result was announced and it was I aced it twice. I aced it. But I would say that, you know, I've actually called for a cognitive test for anybody running for president because I actually think that's a good idea. It'd be nice to have an intelligent person be president. But Kelly has two, I believe. So how do you see the race between the two of you? And in the coming days, as this close, you know what the number is. She's getting killed. She's she's being destroyed in that race. And when she when we get to South Carolina, I'm up 40 or 50 points on her. I saw a poll today that 51 point I'm up 51 points and she was governor. You saw last night, we had a tremendous crowd. We had a record setting crowd last night. And almost the entire delegation of politicians, the governor, the lieutenant, everybody, all people that worked with her, they were there endorsing me. And the entire state has practically endorsed me. But we're way up. We're up anywhere from 40 to 50 points in South Carolina. We're up in Nevada. Don't forget we go to Nevada. Nobody mentions this. We go to Nevada before we go to South Carolina. And in going to Nevada, I have 100 percent of the vote because they looked at the polls both run to they looked at the polls and they withdrew. You know, it's a caucus state. Right. And they look on a ballot and you're on a caucus. It's very confusing. No, no, no, no, no. It's the delegates. Yeah, there's no reason to be on a ballot because you don't get any delegates. That's just a sham. No, it's a caucus state. And I'm the only one in the game. So we get 100 percent. And that's, you know, relatively big state. And nobody mentions that. But when we go to South Carolina, we're very strong in South Carolina. So in terms of Nikki Haley and the future and what happens, there's always this discussion about potentially a third candidate, a no labels candidate. Chris Christie's name has been mentioned. Nikki Haley's name has been mentioned. I'm not sure if she would be eligible with the sore loser laws. But what do you think about that? What would your message be to candidates who might consider doing that? Well, they usually they pick candidates that failed in other parties. I mean, look, you have two parties. It really is a two party system. It was designed for that. And usually when you see no labels or you see third party candidates, the one that had an impact was Ross Perot, I would say more so than anybody even close. But generally speaking, it's people that have been losers in their own party. And that's what they do. Some of these third parties, many of them helped me a lot. The Democrats are not happy with it. I like a two party system.

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Carolyn Levitt is the National Press Secretary for the Trump Campaign and joins us now. Carolyn, great to see you again. It's been a while. Good to have you on board. Great to see you too, John. Thanks so much for having me. So tonight on the eve of the primary, the former president will be joined on stage by Tim Scott of South Carolina, Vivek Ramaswamy and Doug Burgum for a big Get Out the Vote rally. You know what Nikki Haley would say. He's being backed by people who had no chance of becoming the nominee. And even your governor on Friday with Martha McAllen went so far as to say, "Nobody cares what Tim Scott thinks." What do you say? Well, first of all, Nikki Haley does not have a chance at becoming the nominee either. It's welcome news that Governor DeSantis dropped out of this race. He did the right thing by endorsing President Trump. And as you mentioned, we have Doug Burgum and Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy joining the president in Laconia, New Hampshire tonight, a great place to show that the Republican Party is unified around Donald Trump. The majority, vast majority of Republican voters want to see him reelected back to the White House. And tomorrow we'll send another suffering blow to Nikki Haley's campaign. Republican voters here in New Hampshire are realizing that Nikki Haley is more of a liberal than she is a conservative. She was opposed to President Trump's border wall in 2016. She supports amnesty for illegal immigrants. She also supports implementing a 23% national federal sales tax. For the people here of New Hampshire, that's unfathomable, considering we don't have a state sales tax at all. Nikki Haley is also backed by Democrat donors. Her campaign is targeting Democrat voters. Tomorrow she doesn't have a chance and hopefully she too will unify so we can take this fight to Joe Biden. Well, she would respectfully disagree with you. She thinks she's got a great chance tomorrow and that a lot of Ron DeSantis voters will come her way in the Granite State. Listen to what she told Bill and Dana earlier today. What I'll tell you is I know that the DeSantis voters, they love America and they wanted a new generational leader and they wanted a conservative that was going to go in there and clean up government. And that's what we're going to do. So there's some analysis that maybe about 62% of Ron DeSantis voters would go to President Trump, which leaves potentially 38 for her. And New Hampshire's got a way, historically speaking, of surprising us. Do you think we might be in for a surprise tomorrow? I think we'll be in for a surprise and that surprise will be a devastating blow to Nikki Haley's campaign and another historic victory for President Trump, as we saw in Iowa, which was a great surprise. He breached that 50% margin. He won every single demographic across the board, winning 98 of 99 counties. And I think we'll see that same great victory for him here tomorrow. I will tell you the Trump campaign, we have the most organized and robust army of active volunteers on the ground. We have 10 county chairs for all 10 counties, 2,000 great patriots knocking on doors, getting out the vote for President Trump tomorrow. These are not paid political actors, John. These are great granite stators who love this state, love this country, believe in President Trump's vision for the next four years. So one of the big talking points that the former president is using in New Hampshire against Nikki Haley is that Democrats are going to come out for her. Listen to what he said. Independents and Democrats are allowed to vote. So in order to try and stop Trump, they go out and they sign up and they can sign up very easily. And Sununu should have stopped it. All right. As a native New Hampshireite, you know that that is not fully true and is misleading. Yes, it's true that Democrats could play in the GOP primary, but they would have to be undeclared. And the deadline for becoming undeclared if you were a registered Democrat was back on October 6. So you could have some Democratic leading undeclareds that play in the primary. But to say that Democrats are going to vote for Nikki Haley tomorrow, I think would be a little bit misleading. The secretary of state said about 4,000 Democrats did change before the October 6 deadline from registered Democrat to undeclared. But would you allow what the president is saying is a little misleading? No, I think he's absolutely right. And you just said it too, John. You said Democrats will be playing in tomorrow's primary. And you cited the data from our secretary of state, nearly 5,000 formerly registered Democrats did switch parties so that they could infiltrate this Republican primary tomorrow and specifically vote for Nikki Haley. And her campaign has been very vocal about targeting those voters. She is taking money from big Democrat donors, such as Reed Hoffman, who is also funding the witch hunts and the lawsuits against President Trump right now in New York and other states across this country. In fact, we just found out that some of her campaign staffers are former Democrat lobbyists. And she and Chris Sununu have both been very vocal about getting those formerly registered Democrats out to vote in tomorrow's primary. That is not welcome news to the hundreds of thousands of great patriots, Republican voters who want to have the right to vote in tomorrow's primary. And they certainly do. We encourage them to get out and vote. But it just goes to show you who Nikki Haley really is, the fact that she's targeting these former Democrats. And by the way, nearly 50 percent of Nikki Haley supporters say that they will vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in a general election. That tells you everything you need to know about where she stands on policy. Well, if registered Democrats switched their affiliation four months ago just to play in the Republican primary, they were playing the long game. No question about that. Carolyn, good to talk to you. We'll be watching for the results tomorrow. Thanks, John. Good to see you. All right, good.

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