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Thank you, it's great to be here.

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How are we doing Milwaukee?

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There we go.

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So we had an event earlier today, please take a seat, take a seat.

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We had an event earlier today at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee.

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Beautiful place.

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Like, I gotta be honest, I had a little bit of PTSD because the last time that I was in

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that hotel was the 2024 RNC convention.

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And if y'all remember, I flew to Milwaukee the Monday morning that the RNC convention

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starts, and I get there, and I have no idea if I'm the VP nominee or not.

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So I get to my hotel, which is not the Pfister, it's at the other hotel for the RNC convention,

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and I get a phone call.

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Actually, it was a text message from Susie Wiles, who was the campaign manager in 2024,

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and the text message says, J.D., you just missed a very important phone call.

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I'm like, oh no.

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So I call the President of the United States, and I say, sir, I hear I missed an important

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phone call.

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He said, J.D., you did miss a very important phone call, and now I'm gonna have to fix

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somebody else.

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And like, you know, my entire body clenches up, I'm like, is this real?

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And then, at the same time, my seven-year-old, who's now nine, but at the time, my seven-year-old

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boy is talking to me about Pokemon cards.

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So I'm talking to the President of the United States about becoming the vice presidential

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nominee, and meanwhile, my seven-year-old is talking to me about Charmander cards, and

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I have no idea what's going on.

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But so walking through the Pfister Hotel, I've got this, like, moment of remembrance

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of the moment where I almost missed the President's phone call.

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But here I am.

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It worked out.

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I'm the vice president of the United States, thanks to you.

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So we're here to talk about fraud.

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We're here to talk about protecting your taxpayer money, and most importantly, we're here to

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talk about protecting the programs that exist, that are funded by the generosity of

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the people in this room, and that ought to go to the people they're meant for and not

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to make fraudsters rich.

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It's a very, very simple principle.

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Now, there are a lot of people that I have to think and make this work possible.

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And first of all, I've got to thank our great CMS administrator, Dr. Oz.

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It might be backstage, but Dr. Oz and our team at the Fraud Task Force, Kim Brady and

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Scott, excuse me, Kim Brant and Scott Brady, Kim and Scott, please give a round of applause

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to these guys.

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They have protected more of your money than anybody.

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Now, we could not have done what we did were it not for the support of our incredible congressional

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allies.

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We're going to talk a little bit about the fact that we've saved you all, billions and

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billions of dollars that was going to fraudsters.

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That's money in your pocket, which is exactly where it belongs.

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But we couldn't do that without a couple of great congressional representatives, and

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in particular, I've got to give a shout out to Representative Brian Style.

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Where's Brian Style?

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Please stand up, man.

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He has been a phenomenal champion for the state of Wisconsin.

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He has taken the fraud issue more seriously than anybody said, Brian, thank you so much

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for what you're doing.

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I've also got to give a shout out to our great representative, Derek Van Ordon, Derek, please

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stand up.

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Thank you for everything that you're doing.

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And I got to say, it would be so nice to have a governor in this incredible state, one

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of the most beautiful states in the union, especially this time of year.

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I love Wisconsin, or as you guys say, Wisconsin.

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Love Wisconsin.

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But we have got to have a governor who takes fraud as seriously as the president of the

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United States who's trying to save your money as much as we are in Washington.

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And that's Tom Tiffany, Tom Tiffany, who's who we got to elect the next governor.

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And I also want to give a shout out to Representative Glenn Grothman.

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Where's Glenn at?

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Glenn, thank you for everything that you're doing.

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God bless you.

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And then Representative Tony Weed, where's Tony at?

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Tony, thank you so much, man.

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So proud of you.

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And of course, he's a little far away from home, but our representative, or not yet

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a representative from North, look, this, stand up.

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Good looking guy.

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Young guy is going to make the geeks great, Congressman.

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So here's the crazy thing, ladies and gentlemen, we don't have two parties that disagree about

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tax policy or regulatory policy.

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We've got a party that is fighting for fraud in a party that is fighting against fraud.

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And I don't know about you, but how about we give more authority, more power, and more

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influence to the party that is trying to save your money and send the fraudsters to prison.

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That's all we're trying to do.

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Now here's, let me talk about a few of the things that we've been accomplishing here.

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So the very day after the State of Union address, where the president makes me the leader of

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the anti-fraud task force.

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What we do is we go about the business of stopping these companies that are set up to

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provide durable medical equipment.

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You know, this is hospital beds, oxygen tanks, things like that, things that the American

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people need and the Medicare program exist to ensure that our seniors have access to.

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Now, what happens though is that there are people setting up these programs, setting

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up companies that sell durable medical equipment, and they're not selling a single product,

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but they're billing for lots of product.

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Billions and billions of dollars was being billed to you, was being billed to the program

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that exists to ensure that our seniors have health care, and you know what that means.

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Number one, the fraudsters were getting rich, but number two, our seniors who desperately

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needed those resources, who needed the hospital beds and the oxygen tanks, they weren't getting

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them because the fraudsters were getting rich off the generosity of the American taxpayer.

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So you know what we did?

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We came in and we said we are not sanctioning a single one of these companies to defraud

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the American people.

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If you say that you're going to provide medical equipment to our seniors, we're going to confirm

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that you're actually delivering product before we pay a single one of those bills, and we

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say billions of dollars.

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And you know what happened is we had great support from Brian's style and Derek Van Orton

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and all of the other great congressional representatives to keep that money out of the hands of fraudsters

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to ensure that it went to the seniors who needed it.

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And you know what happened?

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Not a single congressional Democrat stood up and said we are going to fight back against

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fraud.

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And that's the problem with modern congressional Democrats.

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You know I was raised by blue collar Democrats.

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They were Christian, patriotic people, union steel workers who loved the United States

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of America.

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But my ma'am on papal, the people who raised me, they supported Democrats because they

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felt like the Democrats of 20, 30, 40 years ago had better policy.

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Now you may agree or disagree with that, but today this is not about better or worse policy.

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This is about who is supporting the fraudsters and who's supporting you.

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And I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if ma'am and papal were alive today they would

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not recognize the modern democratic party in 2026.

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They would not recognize a party that tries to send your money to illegal aliens instead

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of our hard working seniors who earned those benefits and ought to have access to them.

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They would not recognize a party that raises your taxes so that we can give more money

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to the fraudsters and they would not recognize a party that rewards the fraudsters rather

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than sending them to prison.

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So I ask you a very simple question.

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When you come to vote in November, are you going to vote for the pro-fraud party?

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Are you going to vote for the party who is sending your tax money to the fraudsters?

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No, we're going to support the party that is sending the fraudsters to jail and is protecting

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your money.

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We're going to vote for Derek Van Orden and for Brian Style.

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Now I want to talk about another fraud crackdown and this is almost hard to believe.

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But you know we have a program called the H-1B visa program.

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This goes to show how broad-based the fraud tax force is.

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It's worth fighting for your taxpayer money but we're also making sure that fraudsters

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don't take advantage of these visa programs.

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Now why does this program exist?

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This is a visa program that was set up to ensure that if you were a brilliant technology

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person or a brilliant scientist or a brilliant doctor, you could come to the United States

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and get access to this visa program.

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But you know what's happening way too much is that big corporations and fraudsters overseas

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are using this program to undercut the wages of American workers.

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You know what we're doing in the Trump administration?

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We're saying no more.

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If you were trying to take advantage of that visa program, you were not allowed in to

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the United States of America.

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Today I'm proud to announce that the Federal Department of Labor has started dozens of

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subpoenas and investigations into foreign fraudsters who are trying to take advantage

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of the H-1B visa program.

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Here's a simple, here's a simple principle.

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Ladies and gentlemen, American jobs ought to go to American workers and not foreign fraudsters

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and the Department of Labor is fighting back against it.

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Now here I want to talk about something else here.

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To my right to your left, this is a program, again, there is so much fraud, or there was

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so much fraud in the federal government, we're taking it off of the books, but so much fraud,

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I didn't even know this program existed.

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So what is allograss?

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These are the skin grafts that people get when they get a wound or they get a burn,

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a very, very important medical procedure, but a medical procedure that was being radically

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taken advantage of.

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So if you go back to 2019, 2020, 2021, you see less than a billion dollars is paid for

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these skin grafts.

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Again, these are very important procedures for the people who need them.

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What happens under the Biden administration?

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All of a sudden, we go from less than a billion dollars spent on these skin grafts to $15

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billion in 2025.

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And actually in 2026, the number was supposed to be $25 billion, but because we cut down

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on fraudulent payments and fraudulent billing, we saved you $25 billion.

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That number is now well below a billion dollars today.

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That's a simple good government action.

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And again, my friends, we want the people who deserve these treatments, who need these

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treatments to have access to them.

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If we spend all your money, given these treatments to fraudsters instead of giving them to the

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people who need them, then those programs aren't going to exist anymore.

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And I just have this, look, we're a generous country.

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I love that we're a generous country.

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My family sometimes benefited from these programs that ensured that poor children would

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have a bite to eat or would be able to see a doctor.

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I sometimes had a meal because the American people were generous enough to say that we're

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not going to let our young American kids go hungry because their parents can't afford

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a bite to eat.

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I think that's an amazing, amazing thing about our great country is we're generous enough

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to lend a helping hand to our fellow citizens in need.

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But when we allow, when your government allows, whether in the state or the federal level,

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when we allow that money that ought by rights go to feed poor children but instead goes

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to fraudsters, we destroy the social fabric of the United States of America.

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So what I take very seriously as your vice president, what Derek Van Orden and Brian

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Styl take very seriously as your congressional representatives, and what Donald Trump takes

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seriously as the president of the United States is this sacred promise that it exists

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between the government of the United States and its citizens.

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That when you pay your tax dollars, it goes to the people who need it, not to the fraudsters,

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which is why we're throwing those fraudsters in prison, it's exactly where they belong.

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Let me talk about another program.

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So we have, again, these things that I didn't even know existed until I got into politics,

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we have a program, an amazing program to help young mothers, and I, you know, I care about

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this very personally.

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Usha is currently pregnant with baby number four, she is 37 weeks pregnant and I appreciate

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your prayers.

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I love you, honey, if you're watching at home.

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But we have a program to ensure that at-risk moms can get the prenatal care that they need.

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Now, you may not know this, but one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the world

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is actually not what happens when the baby is born, it's what happens before the baby

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is born.

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When the mom can't get the medical treatment she needs, when the mom can't get access

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to the resources that she needs, okay, we try to solve that problem.

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And again, we are able to do so in part because of the generosity of the American taxpayer.

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But you know what?

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In Milwaukee, with the government of this state looking the other way, we had people

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who were allowing fraudsters to get rich off of that prenatal care without providing

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a dime of services to the young moms who need it.

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And I want to point to this woman, now, I want to be clear that the woman in the back

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didn't nothing wrong.

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But look at this woman in the front, with the smug look in the Louis Vuitton bag.

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A woman who quite literally stole from young mothers who needed prenatal care and the state

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of Wisconsin, ladies and gentlemen, had to scale down that program because of insufficient

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funds so that this woman could go and buy a Louis Vuitton bag.

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There were young mothers in Wisconsin who did not get access to the prenatal care that

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they needed, that endangers the moms, that endangers the babies.

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And you know what?

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Derek Van Ordon and Brian Style fought against it and the congressional Democrats that they

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go to work with every single day fought for it.

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So here's a simple question.

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Here's a simple principle.

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If you fight to take money away from needy moms and give it to this woman and her Louis

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Vuitton bags, you should have your ass thrown the hell out of Washington, D.C.

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You don't belong there, you don't belong anywhere in a position of influence.

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And I'm sorry, excuse my language, I know we got a couple of kids in the audience.

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My wife, I love her, she gets on me all the time because I've got, I was raised by a gun

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toting F bomb, F bomb dropping grandmother and we've got an F bomb dropping grandmother

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right over here.

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And you know, old habits die hard, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I'll say, even

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as vice president, old habits die hard, but I try to work on it, I try to work on it.

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And here's what I want to close with and we'll take some questions from the reporters.

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We have an opportunity to keep the momentum of the last couple of years and particularly

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the last few months.

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We can keep on fighting fraud or we can reward the fraudsters.

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We can kick criminal illegal aliens out of our country or we can reward people for stealing

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your tax money.

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We can protect those moms who need that prenatal care or we can give it away to people who

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are trying to take advantage of you and take advantage of the system.

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This is not a normal election because we're not running against people who maybe have

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different ideas about tax policy or regulatory policy.

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To the people watching at home, I understand, you're of course not going to agree with

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the president and the vice president about every single issue.

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But what I hope we can all agree on is the simple principle that the people's government

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exists to fight for the people and not the fraudsters.

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So thank you.

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So please help us out by sending Derek Van Orden and Brian Style back to Washington, D.C.

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Keep the pro fraud party out of Washington.

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Keep these guys fighting for you.

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Thank you ladies and gentlemen.

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It's an honor to be here.

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I'm going to take some questions here, but it's funny, you know, sometimes people call

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I got to make sure it's not the president.

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He's over at NATO right now.

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Okay, it's not the president.

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But let me let me start with the local reporters here and go ahead guys and fire away.

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I'm an open book.

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I'll answer any question.

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Mr. Vice President, welcome to Milwaukee.

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Welcome to Wisconsin.

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Welcome back.

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I'm Julia fellow with 620 WTMJ.

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You've been overseas.

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The president is just coming back from Turkey.

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Remember, I'm understanding we're looking at gas prices.

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What's going on with the straight from Hormuz?

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The president was saying that he was going to strike tonight, like now.

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So can you tell us what is going on right now?

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Where are we with the war in Iran?

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Yeah, so look, we made a deal with the Iranians and we had to step back a little bit before

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you even get to the deal.

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The simple fact is that thanks to the incredible efforts of our amazing U.S. military to Pete

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Heg Seth and Dan Kane, the president of the United States, just amazing people.

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But most of all, thanks to the troops, we came into the situation with maximum leverage

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and maximum strength.

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Their nuclear program was destroyed.

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Their conventional military was destroyed.

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And you've got some people within the Iranian system who are saying, you know what?

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We want to change our relationship with the United States, we want to turn over a

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new leaf.

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And the president said, okay, we will sit down at the table and negotiate and see if the

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smart people in that system can take over from the crazy people.

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Well, here's the basic deal that we cut.

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The basic deal that we cut was we'll lift our blockade if you stop shooting at ships.

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But if you shoot at ships, we are going to punch back and we're going to punch back harder

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than ever before.

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That was the deal.

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They said they would stop shooting at ships and what happened 24 hours ago, they started

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shooting at ships again.

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Now, they were good, they were well behaved for about a week, but then they started shooting

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at ships.

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So the deal is very simple.

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If they shoot at ships, we're going to knock the hell out of them and it's that simple

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and that's the basic way it's going to work.

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Now the president maintains a lot of options.

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I'm obviously not going to tell you exactly what's going to happen tonight, but the president

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has said to them very simply, the Strait of Hormuz is going to be open.

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That means oil and gas is going to flow to the American people.

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That's why we see gas prices starting to come down.

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That's why we see the oil prices so low is because the president said that crucial artery

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through which we ship a lot of the world's energy, that artery has got to remain open.

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And that is what the Iranians have to know.

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If they try to close it down, there's going to be a response for the American military.

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It's that simple.

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That's the deal.

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They can either follow it or they can have exactly what happened to them last night.

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It's just going to keep on happening until they open up that lane and stop shooting at

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ships.

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It's simple.

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Thank you, Mr. Vice President Matt Smith from WISN TV in Milwaukee.

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The president has talked about election fraud as well a lot.

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It's yesterday, Milwaukee's mayor sent your office a letter saying he would love to meet

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with you and some election officials here in the city after agents started asking questions

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and interviewing people about 2020 again.

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So I'm curious, what can you tell us about the FBI investigation here in Milwaukee into

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2020 and why are they re looking at that election here in the city?

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Well, first of all, if I did get the letter from the mayor of Milwaukee and he wants to

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meet and he's welcome to come to Washington DC, I'll sit down and meet with him.

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We don't have time to meet with him today because we got to get back to Washington.

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But I'm happy to meet with him.

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I will say it was a little bit of a he doth protest too much because I came here to talk

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about financial fraud.

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I came here to talk about the fraud against our prenatal program for our young moms and

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some guy sends me a letter, the mayor of Milwaukee and says, we don't do any election

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fraud.

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We don't do any election fraud.

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We don't do any election fraud.

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My response to that is, you know what, it kind of reminds me of like a couple of weeks

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ago, I get home to the Naval Observatory, the nicest public housing anywhere in the United

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States of America and my six year old greets me and I love my little boy, but he's a little

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mischievous and he gives me a big hug, he says, Daddy, I'm glad you're home.

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I didn't steal any of the cookies.

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I said, huh, that's interesting that you volunteered that when I wasn't even talking about that,

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well, of course, he stole the cookies.

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So when I hear a guy protesting out of nowhere, I did not do any election fraud.

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I did not do any election fraud.

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It makes me wonder, why is that guy protesting so aggressively?

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It's a little odd.

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The second thing I'll say is, look, there's, of course, this big debate about how much

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election fraud happens in the United States of America.

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You guys know my views.

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We're not going to settle this here.

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First of all, any election fraud is too much election fraud in the world's greatest

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and oldest constitutional republic.

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And number two, if Democrats want us to stop talking about election fraud, I make them

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a simple deal.

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Pass the Save America Act and get voter ID and we'll stop talking about election fraud.

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We're the only advanced democracy anywhere in the entire world that doesn't require

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you to show a voter ID to vote.

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It's simple.

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Just give us election integrity laws, give us voter ID, and then we will have the confidence

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to say the American people, there's no cheating.

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But when they say, number one, we don't want voter ID, and number two, there's not that

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much cheating in our elections, it's natural for all of us to say, not much cheating is

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still way too much cheating to stop it and give the American people voter ID.

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Thank you.

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Next question.

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Thank you, Mr. Vice President, Vanessa Kelson, Gray Media.

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What will happen if Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers does not hand over the SNAP rolls or

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the Medicaid enrollment data to your administration?

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Well, look, we're going to look at what we can do to force him to give her that data

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and just to give some context to the question for those of you who don't know.

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So the SNAP program, which is one of the most important programs that exist in the

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federal government, it ensures that low-income families have enough food to eat when they're

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down on their luck.

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Would you be shocked to know that most states do not do eligibility checks for the SNAP rolls

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anywhere?

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It doesn't happen in California, it doesn't happen in a lot of other places.

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I'm the Vice President of the United States, and I could not tell you, not because I don't

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want to, but I cannot tell you whether the state of Wisconsin has illegal aliens who

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are ineligible who are receiving food stamp benefits paid for by your tax dollars.

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And the reason why I don't know the answer is because the governor of this state will

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not give us the data that allows us to say, well, this person is eligible, this person

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is a legal alien, scratch them off the list.

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Now ask yourself.

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Ladies and gentlemen, that is, in my view, borderline criminal.

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If you are administering a program collecting billions and billions of dollars and you don't

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check whether the people you're giving that money to are actually entitled to it, that

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is a complete scam that's being perpetrated on every single person in this room.

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So what we've asked the governor to do is just give us the data so that we can check whether

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you've got illegal aliens on your food stamp rolls, and he's saying absolutely not.

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And I think the only plausible explanation for that is that he cares more about protecting

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illegal aliens than he does the good citizens of Wisconsin.

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It's a scam and it has to stop.

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Let's do a couple more questions.

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Go ahead.

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Hi, Mr. Vice President, L.E.L.

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Liberty, channel three out of Madison.

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Now, last month, the Wisconsin Department of Justice joined a multi-suit lawsuit against

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the Trump administration over its implementation of new Medicaid work requirements.

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Our Attorney General wrote, quote, the Trump administration is lawlessly trying to restrict

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access to Medicaid coverage.

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What's your response?

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Well, my response is, again, we have what you might call a social contract in the United

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States of America.

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It exists between all of us fellow citizens, between those citizens and their government.

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And the basic idea is, when I hand over a dollar to the federal government, I expect

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my government officials to spend it wisely, to make sure it's not going to fraud.

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And if you have somebody who is receiving those benefits, to make sure that they're

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at least looking for a job before they get a lot of free money from the federal government.

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So when I hear the Attorney General of this state saying that we don't want to confirm

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that people are looking for work before they receive federal benefits, my natural question

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is, why are you so against people looking for a job?

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That's it.

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We're not saying that we want anybody to go without medical benefits.

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What we're saying is that we want you, if you're going to receive these benefits, we

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want you at least to try to find a job.

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And I think in the same way that every single person in this room, and every single tax

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paying citizen of Wisconsin, hands their money over to the government, it's totally reasonable

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for them to expect the beneficiaries of that money to at least be looking for work.

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That's the contract.

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And if you violate that contract, you shouldn't get a dime of federal money.

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While we do one more question.

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Hi, I'm Mary Spakuzza with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper.

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My coworker and I started investigating prenatal fraud here in Milwaukee almost a decade ago.

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And we noticed that state officials started investigating federal officials, federal prosecutors.

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So two-part question, do you think because all those people came together, is that an

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example of people working together and doing what they're supposed to do?

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And what do you do now to make sure that the women and babies who are supposed to be getting

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help are actually getting help?

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Yeah, so first of all, the most important way to ensure that the people who deserve the

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help who need the help actually get it is to cut down on the fraud.

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Because money doesn't go on trees and there are limited resources.

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This is one of the reasons why I personally care so much about fraud.

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I want to save every single one of you money, but I also want to ensure that when a young

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mom goes in to get some prenatal vitamins and she can't afford them, she's able to get access

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to them because a fraudster hasn't taken advantage of that program.

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Part of what we're trying to do is to ensure that these programs exist for the next generation.

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Look, just take one of the biggest federal programs out there, Social Security.

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People pay into Social Security for their entire working lives.

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Every single day, or every two weeks I should say, we get a paycheck and we see on that

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paycheck the amount of money that is going to Social Security.

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I am worried that if Winnold stops sending Social Security checks to illegal immigrants,

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the people who paid into it for their entire lives are never going to have access to that

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money.

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That's a scam and it's totally unacceptable.

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So the most important thing we can do to ensure those benefits exist for the people who earned

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them is to make sure that the fraudsters don't get them that the American people do.

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But you also asked about this mail fraud investigation and absolutely the answer to your question

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is yes.

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I think that's a great example of the federal government and the state government working

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together to cut down on fraud and we want to see that model replayed and replicated

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on a number of programs.

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The problem is there are certain programs that for whatever reason, most, not all, by

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the way, because I'll give great credit to the blue state governors who are working

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with us.

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But most blue state governors, if you want to check, for example, whether illegal aliens

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are getting food stamps, most of them are saying we're not going to do that.

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If you want to check if illegal aliens are getting access to Medicaid health benefits,

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most of the blue state governors are not willing to do that.

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And I think it's just sad that this should be a bipartisan issue.

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If you're a Democrat and you believe that Medicaid should exist to provide good health

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benefits to people who can't afford them, then why don't you want to cut down on the

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fraud?

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If you care more about fraud than you do about these health benefits, it starts to make it

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look that you care more about illegal aliens than you do about the citizens of Wisconsin.

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That's what it looks like to me.

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So I'll say to the governor of this state, even though he's not a my political party,

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the attorney general, anybody else, you have a open offer to come into the White House

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and to talk about how we can combat fraud together.

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I will work with you.

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I will make it easier.

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I will give you federal resources.

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I will do whatever I need to do.

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But it's got to be a two-way street.

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If you're hiding the food stamp rolls because you don't want to tell us whether illegal

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aliens are getting food stamp, that's not cooperation.

468
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That is you hiding criminal conduct from the American people and it's a scandal and it

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absolutely has to stop.

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So let me just close here with an observation and that's that we're getting into election

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season and you all obviously care a lot about politics and sometimes in election season

472
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it starts to feel a little bit like red team and blue team.

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People look at the fundraising numbers, they read the media stories, they read the scandals

474
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particularly in Maine if you're into political scandals.

475
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Might I recommend a Google search on Graham Plattner?

476
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,600
We ought to remember that this is not red team versus blue team.

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This is about whether the American people get wise and honest political leadership or

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whether they are represented by a bunch of crazy people in their Congress.

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Every two years the American people get to vote on who represents them in the United

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States Congress and the United States Senate.

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Every two years we come together as a country and make this determination together.

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My pitch to the voters out there especially the voters who haven't made up their minds

483
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:29,120
on Derek Van Orden on Brian's style on all of our great congressional representatives.

484
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It's not that you're going to agree with us every single time because nobody even a committed

485
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Republican is not going to agree with me on every single issue.

486
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It's not that we're always going to see eye to eye.

487
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What I will tell you is that what separates Derek Van Orden, Brian's style and all these

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great congressional representatives from their Democrat counterparts is that right

489
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now the Democrats don't even pretend to be fighting for you.

490
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Now we could disagree for example about what should the police department's budget be.

491
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That's a reasonable rational conversation for Republicans and Democrats to have.

492
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That's not the conversation that we're having.

493
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We're having the conversation about whether we support our police officers which is what

494
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Republicans want to do or whether we abolish police departments which is what the Democrats

495
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are proposing to do.

496
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We can talk about what our exact immigration level should be.

497
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Of course reasonable minds are going to disagree.

498
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But that's not the debate that we're having.

499
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The Democrats that are running today are running on abolishing ICE and opening up the American

500
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Southern border.

501
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,320
We can disagree.

502
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,520
We can disagree about tax policy and what the optimal tax rate should be.

503
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That's not what they're doing.

504
00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:51,080
The Democrats are running on confiscating your money and giving it to fraudsters and

505
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illegal aliens.

506
00:34:52,240 --> 00:34:58,760
They openly brag about fighting not for you but fighting for some of the worst human beings

507
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that exist anywhere in the world.

508
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:07,800
This is not a normal election and so my request to you is not that you say that the vice president

509
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is right about every issue.

510
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:15,120
My request to you is that you send people to Washington who are of good character and

511
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recognize that you are their boss.

512
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Not the fraudsters, not the illegal aliens, and not the bosses of the 21st century Democratic

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00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:25,400
party.

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There are a lot of Democrats out there, a lot of independents and of course a lot of Republicans

515
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who look to Washington and don't recognize the congressional leadership of the Democratic

516
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party in 2026.

517
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I'd say to you, if you don't recognize that congressional leadership, you can join this

518
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:43,520
movement.

519
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:49,600
If you want an American political party that fights for the police instead of against them,

520
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:58,280
vote for Derek Van Orden and Brian Stiles.

521
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:04,360
If you want an American political party that cuts your taxes instead of raising your taxes

522
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:14,920
to give it to fraudsters, then you got to support Glenn Grothman and Tony Weed.

523
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:20,640
If you want somebody who ensures that whether you're rich or poor or black or white, public

524
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safety should be the God-given right of every single American, that you ought to be able

525
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to walk down the street without the fear of being mugged, that you ought to be able to

526
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,720
take your family to a nice dinner downtown without having your carjacked.

527
00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:39,080
If you believe in basic public safety for all of us, rich or poor, then send Michael

528
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:46,920
Alfonso to Congress, don't send the crazy person running against them.

529
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:51,920
My point is that this is not a normal election of people who disagree about this or that

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00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:52,920
issue.

531
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By and large, there are exceptions of course, but by and large, the Democrats have thrown

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00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:02,560
their lot in with the people who want to abolish the police, who want to open the border and

533
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:07,080
want to give your money to fraudsters instead of moms who need it.

534
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,840
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a simple request.

535
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When you go to the ballot in November, when you cast your vote, send us people to Washington,

536
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:21,080
D.C., who fight for you and send the crazy people back home where they belong.

537
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,720
God bless you and thank you for having me here in Milwaukee.

538
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:28,720
He tried all the workers, let me thank you for your time.

539
00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:36,720
You work the poor here, we are living just to send it on down the line.

540
00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:42,720
Hello Pittsburgh, still little workers, let me thank you for your time.

541
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:50,720
You work the poor here, we are living just to send it on down the line.

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This is for the one who wins the hammer.

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Ride on it.

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Ride on it.

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Ride on it.

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Ride on it.

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00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:41,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

705
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:42,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

706
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:43,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

707
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:44,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

708
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:45,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

709
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:46,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

710
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:47,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

711
00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:48,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

712
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:49,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

713
00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:50,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

714
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:51,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

715
00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:52,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

716
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:53,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

717
00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:54,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

718
00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:55,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

719
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:56,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

720
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:57,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

721
00:40:57,720 --> 00:40:58,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

722
00:40:58,720 --> 00:40:59,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

723
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:00,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

724
00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:01,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

725
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:02,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

726
00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:03,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

727
00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:04,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

728
00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:05,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

729
00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:06,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

730
00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:07,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

731
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:08,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

732
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:09,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

733
00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:10,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

734
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:11,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

735
00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:12,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

736
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:13,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

737
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:14,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

738
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:15,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

739
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:16,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

740
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:17,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

741
00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:18,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

742
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:19,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.

743
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:20,720
This is for the one who wins the hammer.