For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 9, 2004
President's Remarks at Colmar, Pennsylvania Rally
Byers Choice
Colmar, Pennsylvania
12:35 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all for coming. Thank you all very
much. (Applause.) Please be seated. Thank you all for coming.
Thanks for the welcome. It's good to be back in Pennsylvania.
(Applause.) Again. It just seems like I was here yesterday.
(Laughter.) I was. (Laughter.) Kind of. But I'm glad to be here. I
really appreciate you coming out. Spirits are high. I'm feeling great
about life. (Applause.)
I really appreciate being here at Byers Choice. (Applause.) Thank
you all for your hospitality. You sure know how to make a President
feel welcome. (Applause.) We're here because I want to talk about the
economy some, and a plan to keep this economy moving forward so people
can realize their dreams. And it's such a wonderful place to come
because the entrepreneurial spirit here is strong.
This is a company that was formed by Bob and Joyce Byers --
(audience interruption) --
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: We are here -- I appreciate you coming to Byers.
(Laughter and applause.) It's such an honor to meet Bob and Joyce
Byers. They are -- they had a dream and they wanted to build a small
company into a large company, and they've done so. They started their
company in the 1960s. They found a good idea -- they thought of the
idea. Government didn't think of the idea, they did. (Applause.)
They decided to take risk. They hired people wisely, they invested
wisely, and their company is growing. And I appreciate the
contribution they made. (Applause.)
They've got a fantastic customer base, because they -- (audience
interruption.)
AUDIENCE: Booo! Four more years! Four more years! Four more
years! (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: We are here because the entrepreneurial spirit is
strong, because there is an optimism in this room that says it can
remain stronger. (Applause.) The Byers have got a significant
customer base, which means they understand how to run a business. And
my mother is one of their customers. (Laughter and applause.)
And so what we're going to talk about today is our economy, and how
to keep it growing, and how to make sure the entrepreneurial spirit is
strong so people can realize their dreams. Today I want to discuss
with you the plan I have to keep us on the path to growth and
opportunity, a plan that I'm convinced that when Americans listen to,
they'll put me and Dick Cheney back in office for four more years.
(Applause.)
So I told Laura I was coming here, and she said, "Give everybody my
best." (Applause.) She's great. She's a fantastic mom and a great
wife. She is a wonderful First Lady. (Applause.) So when I asked her
to marry me, she said, "Fine, just so long as I don't have to give any
political speeches." (Laughter.) I said, okay, you won't have to give
a speech. Fortunately, she didn't hold me to that promise. She gave a
great speech the other night. (Applause.) People got to see her heart
and her compassion.
I appreciate Congressman Jim Greenwood a lot. I must confess to
you that when I heard he was retiring, I got a little mad at him,
because I've enjoyed working with him. He is a good, decent, honorable
man. And I appreciate you. (Applause.) I appreciate the fact that
Arlen Specter is with us today. I hope you put him back into office
for six more years. (Applause.) There he is. I enjoy working with
Arlen. He's a good, independent thinker, and he's a good -- fine
United States senator. And we'll work well together during the next
four years.
I want to thank Pat Toomey for joining us today, as well. He's a
class act. (Applause.) I appreciate -- I told this to Pat on Air
Force One, I said, I appreciate the way he handled himself after a
tough primary. He's coming together, he's working for the ticket, and
that shows what kind of guy he is. And I'm honored you're here, Pat.
(Applause.)
Where is Mayor Joe? Mr. Mayor. Thank you for coming, Mr. Mayor.
I'm proud you're here. (Applause.) Yeah! I always like to stay in
touch with the local power. (Laughter.) Sure enough, there he is.
Thanks for coming, Mayor. I appreciate you being here.
Mike Fitzpatrick is with us today. I appreciate you coming, Mike.
(Applause.) Appreciate you being here. Tom Corbett is with us today.
Appreciate you coming, Tom. Good luck. (Applause.) I want to thank
all the candidates who are here, and the grassroots activists. I'm
traveling your state and traveling the country to ask people not only
for the vote, but for the help. And I hope you go register voters,
find people to show up to the polls. We have a duty in America to vote
and -- (applause.) So thanks for the work you're doing. And when you
get them to the polls, headed to the polls, remind them, if they want a
safer America, a stronger America, and a better America, to put me and
Dick Cheney back in there. (Applause.)
Eunice Sanchez is with us -- where are you, Eunice? There she is.
Thanks. And you've got your son and daughter -- thanks for coming. I
met Eunice. She works for the Amachi mentoring program in
Philadelphia. I don't know if you've heard of Amachi. I have been
fortunate enough to be briefed by the people that run that program.
Amachi is a mentoring program for children with incarcerated parents.
I want you to think about what this good American citizen does. She
takes time out of her life to mentor a child to show there's love, the
possibility of love. I tell the people of this country that the great
strength of our country is the hearts and souls of the American
citizens. That's really the true strength of America. And the reason
I've asked -- (applause.) And the reason that Eunice has kindly come
today is for me to hold her up as an example for others -- for others
to recognize that they can help change America, one heart and one soul
at a time, as well; that our society is a compassionate society because
people from all walks of life put their arm around somebody who hurts
and says, I love you, and what can I do to help you. (Applause.)
I appreciate you coming, Eunice. God bless you, and thanks for
coming. (Applause.)
I'm looking forward to this -- I'm looking forward to the
campaign. I'm -- there's some things I want to do for the next four
years. (Laughter.) And I'm looking forward to telling the people of
the country where I stand and where I believe and where I'm going to
lead the country. I'm running with a clear and positive plan to build
a safer world and a more hopeful America. (Applause.) I'm running
with what I call a compassionate conservative philosophy, that
government should help people improve their lives, not try to run their
lives. (Applause.)
I believe it's the job of a President to confront problems, not to
pass them on to future Presidents and future generations. (Applause.)
In the last four years we have confronted economic problems. We have
got some short-term challenges that came from an economic downturn and
a national emergency. We've got some long-term challenges because our
economy is changing. In all these areas, we've acted, and we're moving
forward. Today I want to talk to you about some of the plans we have.
Remember the history. When you're out rounding up the vote, remind
the people what we have been through. When Dick Cheney and I took
office in January -- on January 20th of 2001, our economy was heading
into a recession, and the stock market had been declining for five
months prior to our arrival. Our nation faced some corporate scandals
that cost people jobs and savings and shook our confidence. Today, it
is absolutely clear that we're not going to tolerate dishonesty in the
board rooms of America. (Applause.)
America was attacked. Our economy lost nearly a million jobs after
that attack in just three months. We acted with a clear strategy. We
unleashed the energy and innovative spirit of America with the largest
tax relief in a generation. (Applause.) The tax relief provided small
business owners the resources and incentives they need to expand and
grow and hire more workers. The entrepreneurial spirit is strong, the
small business sector of our economy is strong, and the tax relief
helped strengthen it. (Applause.)
We encouraged savings and investment by cutting taxes on dividends
and capital gains. (Applause.) Tax relief put money in the hands of
American workers, so they could save for their retirement or for their
home, or for the education of their children. My philosophy is,
government sets priorities, funds its priorities, and lets the people
keep as much money as possible. I think you can spend your money
better than the federal government can. (Applause.)
We increased the child credit and reduced the marriage penalty.
The tax code ought to encourage marriage, not discourage marriage.
(Applause.) And the results are clear. Our country has now seen 12
straight months of job gains. Over the past year, we've added 1.7
million jobs. That is more than Germany, Japan, Great Britain, Canada
and France combined. (Applause.) Unemployment is down to 5.4
percent. That is nearly a full point below the rate in the summer of
2003, and it is below the average of the 1970s, the 1980s and the
1990s. (Applause.)
Interest rates and mortgage rates are near historic lows. Our
economy is growing at rates as fast as any in the last 20 years. The
manufacturing sector is improving. When I took office, manufacturing
employment had been declining for almost three years. In the last six
months of the prior administration, more than 200,000 manufacturing
jobs were lost. We're turning that around. (Applause.) Since January,
America has added 107,000 manufacturing jobs, including 22,000 last
month alone. We are making steady progress for American workers.
(Applause.)
Because of tax relief, the middle class is paying less in federal
taxes. The average family of four with an income of $40,000 got nearly
a $2,000 tax cut. (Applause.) Real after-tax incomes are up almost 10
percent since December of 2000. (Applause.) People have got more
money in their pockets because of the tax relief. (Applause.) Our
economy is stronger because people are keeping more of what they earn.
(Applause.)
Listen, we also face long-term challenges in this economy. The
workers of our parents' generation typically had one job, one skill,
one career, often with one company that provided health care and a
pension. That's the way it used to be. This world of ours is
changing. By the way, most of those workers were men. Today, workers
change jobs, even careers, many times during their lives. And in one
of the most dramatic shifts our society has seen, two-thirds of all
moms also work outside the home. This world of ours has changed. And
yet, the institutions of government haven't changed.
Let me tell you what else has changed. Productivity has grown
faster over the last three years than any time in more than 40 years --
in part because technology is changing the way we do things. You'd
rather use a computer than a typewriter. You'd rather use a backhoe
than a shovel. (Laughter.) That's productivity. But it also means
that the same work can be done by fewer workers. And that creates a
problem for someone looking for a job. That's why manufacturing still
produces roughly the same share of our GDP, but with a smaller share of
the work force. So these are some long-term challenges we face.
But it's a time of great opportunity. A time of change creates
great opportunity -- so long as the government takes the side of the
workers and the families here in America; so long as government --
(applause) -- so long as government recognizes this: our fundamental
systems -- the tax code, health coverage, pension plans, and worker
training -- were created for the world of yesterday -- think about that
-- not for tomorrow. I believe in the next four years, we've got to
transform these systems to help our citizens, to help prepare our
citizens, to help free citizens so they can realize the great dream of
our country.
And so you'll hear me talk a lot about changing systems to help
people -- not increasing government to stifle dreams. (Applause.)
Obviously -- obviously, in order for people to realize their dreams,
there has to be robust economic growth. In order to make sure that the
productivity increases don't cause people not to be able to find a job,
we got to grow this economy. And that's what I want to talk to you
about right quick, a plan to make sure we continue to create jobs here
in America.
First of all, in order to have jobs here, America must be the best
place in the world to do business. (Applause.) If you want people
working here, it's got to be the best -- the best place to risk
capital, the best place to expand, the best place to realize dreams.
One way to make sure it's the best place to do business is to reduce
the regulatory burden on small businesses. (Applause.) You fill out a
lot of paperwork if you're a small business owner in America. I can't
promise you anybody in government ever reads it. (Laughter.)
We want jobs here in the Philadelphia area. We want to make sure
the manufacturing sector is robust. Congress needs to get an energy
plan to my desk now. I submitted a plan two years ago. It's a plan
that encourages conservation, expands renewables, uses clean coal
technologies. Listen, we must become less dependent on foreign sources
of energy if we want jobs to remain in America. (Applause.)
In order to keep jobs here, so people can realize their dreams, we
must open up markets for U.S. products. Listen, we've opened up our
markets. And it's good for consumers we've opened up our markets. If
you have more choices in the marketplace, you're likely to get the
product you want at a better price and better quality. And so what I'm
saying to countries like China is, treat us the way we treat you. I
believe American farmers and manufacturers and business owners can
compete with anybody, anywhere, anytime -- so long as the rules are
fair. (Applause.) What we will do is reject economic isolationism.
Economic isolationism will hurt America's workers.
In order to make sure we create jobs here, we've got to do
something about these junk lawsuits that threaten employers.
(Applause.) I believe strongly in legal reform, because I understand
personal injury lawyers should not get richer at the expense of
hardworking Americans and American entrepreneurs. (Applause.)
Finally, in order to keep jobs here, we've got to be wise about how
we spend your money and keep your taxes low. Running up the taxes on
the entrepreneurs in America is bad economic policy. (Applause.) I
told you there's some systems that need to change. One system that
needs to change is the federal tax code. (Applause.) It is too
cumbersome. I tried to hold it the other day -- (laughter) -- when I
was campaigning in Missouri. I'm in pretty good shape. It was hard to
hold it. (Laughter.) It's got a million words in it. It takes the
American people six billion hours a year, every year, to file these
forms. It is full of special interest loopholes. For the sake of
economic growth and for the sake of fairness, we need to change the tax
code. We need to make it simple and easy to understand. (Applause.)
A changing world means that the skills necessary to fill the jobs
of the 21st century are changing, and it's something we've got to
recognize. And a changing economy is one that creates new
opportunities. But sometimes there's a skills gap. And that's why I
believe we ought to expand access to our community college systems, to
make sure that the workers have the skills necessary to fill the jobs
of the 21st century.
As well, most new jobs in a changing -- this changing world,
require two years of college. Yet only one in four of our students
gets there. And so we need early intervention programs in our high
schools to solve problems early, before they're too late. We need to
have new focus on math and science. As the No Child Left Behind Act
begins to fill the education pipeline with good readers, we will
require a rigorous exam before graduation from high school. See, what
I'm telling you is, by raising performance in high schools and
expanding Pell grants for low- and middle-income families, we will help
more Americans start their career with a college diploma. (Applause.)
These are changing times, and our economy is changing. And there
are communities around where manufacturing, textiles and other jobs no
longer exist. There are poor communities in our country that need
help, as well. And that's why, the other night at the convention, I
announced American opportunity zones. These zones will provide tax
relief and other incentives for new businesses to be created, and to
improve housing and job training and bringing hope. In other words, in
changing times, there are ways to help communities that have suffered
during changing times, with good tax policy, good regulation policy and
good housing policy. (Applause.)
Listen, in order to make sure jobs stay here, we've got to do
something about health care. We need to make sure health care is
available and affordable. Do you realize more than half the uninsured
are employees of small businesses? Small businesses are having trouble
affording health care. One way to help small businesses afford health
care is to allow small firms to join together to purchase insurance at
the discounts available to big companies. (Applause.)
We will offer tax credits to encourage small businesses and their
employees to set up health savings accounts. We'll provide direct help
for low-income Americans to purchase health savings accounts. These
accounts give workers the security of insurance against major illness,
the opportunity to save tax-free for routine health expenses, and the
freedom of knowing you can take your account with you whenever you
change jobs or careers. (Applause.) I'm a big believer in community
and rural health centers. These are facilities where low-income
Americans can get primary care. I believe every poor country in
America ought to have one of these facilities in order to take the
pressure off emergency rooms around the United States. (Applause.)
In order to make sure health care is available and affordable,
we've got to do something about the frivolous lawsuits that are running
good doctors out of practice and running up your health care costs.
(Applause.) I appreciate working with Jim Greenwood on this issue. He
figured it out, and I hope the people of this country figure it out.
These frivolous lawsuits are making it awfully hard for a lot of docs
to practice medicine. You're losing good docs. Greenwood was telling
me about the doctor that saved his dad's life had to leave practice
because his premiums were too high. Many doctors, in order to avoid
litigation, practice defensive medicine. In other words, they run up
the costs of health care so if the ever get caught -- pulled in front
of a court of law, they've got a defense. It's costing the taxpayers
about $28 billion a year, the defensive practice of medicine costs $28
billion a year. We have a national problem, and it requires a national
solution. (Applause.) I've submitted legislation that Greenwood got
passed in the House. It's stuck in the Senate because the trial
lawyers are powerful in the United States Senate.
AUDIENCE: Booo!
THE PRESIDENT: See, I don't think -- I don't think you can be
pro-doctor, pro-patient, and pro-trial lawyer at the same time. I
think you have to choose. My opponent made his choice, and he put him
on the ticket. (Applause.) I made my choice -- I made my choice: I
am for medical liability reform -- now. (Applause.)
I'm looking forward to the debate on health care. I'm looking
forward to it. In all we do to improve health care in America, we'll
make sure that health decisions are made by doctors and patients, not
by bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. (Applause.)
Our labor laws need to change. We got a lot of moms who are now in
the workplace. And yet, it's really hard for moms to find enough time
to do their duty as moms, see, because the rules -- the labor laws are
stuck in the past. I think we need to have flex-time and comp-time to
allow families to be able to have more quality time. (Applause.)
In a changing world, ownership can bring stability to your life.
One of the most hopeful statistics of the last year or two has been
that the home ownership rate is at an all-time high in America.
There's more minority families who are opening up the door where they
live, and say, welcome to my home; come in to my house. (Applause.)
It's a really important part of a future, when more and more people can
own their home. We've got a plan to encourage home ownership in this
country.
And we've got to make sure that our pension systems work, the
Social Security system works. If you're an older American, nothing
will change -- the Social Security trust will fulfill its promise to
you. If you're a baby boomer, we're in pretty good shape when it comes
to receiving the promise of Social Security. But we need to worry
about our children and grandchildren when it comes to Social Security.
I believe younger workers ought to be able to take some of their taxes
and set up a personal savings account, to make sure the Social Security
promise that's made to them -- (applause) -- an account that they can
call their own, an account that government cannot take away, and an
account that they can pass on from one generation to the next.
(Applause.)
In these proposals, we seek not to provide a government program,
but a greater path to opportunity, and more freedom for you to decide
what's best for your life, and therefore, I believe, more opportunity
for every citizen. And we got a choice in this race. I mean, it's a
clear choice. See, I believe our opponent's philosophy is very
different from ours. If you carefully listen, he wants to expand
government. Listen to the proposals. That's what he wants to do.
What we want to do is expand opportunity. He wants to give more power
to Washington by raising taxes and spending more money. And he's got a
record to match his promises. (Laughter.)
Over two decades in Washington, he has voted for higher income
taxes, higher taxes on Social Security benefits. That's part of his
record. He repeatedly voted for higher taxes on small businesses,
higher taxes on gasoline. He voted against tax relief for married
couples, for increasing the child credit, and against expanding
tax-free retirement savings. We have a difference of opinion when it
comes to taxation. If you drive a car, Senator Kerry has voted for
higher taxes on you. If you have a job, he's voted for higher taxes on
you. If you're married, or have children, he's voted for higher taxes
on you. The good news is, on the 2nd of November, you have a chance to
vote. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: There is a reason for supporting higher taxes --
because he wants to dramatically increase government spending. It's
part of his platform. On the campaign trail, he's proposed more than
$2 trillion in new federal spending, so far. (Laughter.) And we still
have 54 more days to go. Now, he says he's going to pay for all that
by raising taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of the population.
There's just one problem with that. My opponent's tax increases would
bring only about $650 billion in revenue over the next 10 years, see.
And he wants to spend over $2 trillion. So you do the math.
(Laughter.) The plan leaves him more than $1.4 trillion short. And
guess who would wind up paying the bill?
Now, one of his key economic advisors -- one of my opponent's key
economic advisors is saying they won't give the details on how they
would raise spending and lower the deficit until after the election.
(Laughter.) Well, if they want to hold back information until the
people vote, you can bet it won't be good news for the taxpayers. But
America will reject the hidden Kerry tax plan. (Applause.)
Raising taxes will be bad for our economy. Raising taxes will be
bad for the small business sector of America. And I'll tell you why --
90 percent of small business owners pay tax at the individual income
tax level. Ninety percent of small business owners are sub-chapter S
corporations or sole proprietorship. Byers Choice is a sub-chapter S
corporation. Now, if you're organized as a sub-chapter S or sole
proprietorship, when you pay your tax, you fill out the individual
income tax forms. And so when you talk about raising the top two
brackets in the individual taxes, you're talking about taxing companies
like Byers Choice. I don't see -- and by the way, 70 percent of new
jobs in America are created by small businesses. Why does it make
sense to tax the job creators? It doesn't make sense to tax the job
creators. (Applause.)
Bob said this -- he said, "that would hurt my company." When he
heard the plan to raise taxes to pay for promises, political promises,
he said, "That would hurt my company. It would cut off jobs I plan to
create." My opponent, by making political promises and by promising to
tax small businesses such as Byers Choice, would hurt our economy. I
believe in order to continue economic growth, we need an energy plan,
good trade policy, good regulatory policy, good legal policy, good
health policy, and we need to make the tax relief permanent.
(Applause.)
In order to make sure we have sustained economic growth, we will
also continue to protect the homeland over the next four years.
(Applause.) A lot of good people working hard on your behalf. And we
reorganized the department -- departments to create the Department of
Homeland Security so we can better talk to each other, better respond
to crisis, better deal with emergency, better share intelligence. And
we're getting better in Washington, D.C. about doing what is necessary
to protect you. And there's a lot of good people working hard to do
so. (Applause.) And I appreciate it.
As the 9/11 Commission said, America is safer, but not yet safe. I
agree. And so you just got to know there's some fine people at all
levels of government working hard. But the best way to protect the
homeland is to stay on the offensive, is to find the terrorists --
(applause.) You cannot talk sense to these people. You've seen how
they behave. You saw the attacks of September the 11th. You saw what
happened to those Russian schoolchildren. America must continue to
lead the world. We will find them overseas so we do not have to face
them here at home. (Applause.)
We're making progress. We're making progress. Three-quarters of
al Qaeda's known leadership has been brought to justice. Because we
upheld doctrine that said if you harbor a terrorist, you're equally as
guilty as the terrorists, the Taliban are no longer in power in
Afghanistan. Think about the progress in Afghanistan. It wasn't all
that long ago that young girls weren't allow to go to school, and their
moms would be pulled in a public square and whipped if they didn't toe
the line of these barbaric people. And today, Afghanistan is an ally
in the war on terror. Over 10 million citizens have registered to vote
in the upcoming presidential election. (Applause.) Amazing, isn't
it? Freedom is on the march in Afghanistan, and that's good for
America.
In Iraq, we removed a sworn enemy of America who had ties to terror
and used weapons of mass destruction. Listen, I recognize we didn't
find the stockpiles we all thought were there -- all of us thought were
there. (Applause.) But -- but remember Saddam Hussein had the
capability of making weapons. He could have passed that capability on
to the enemy. And that's not a risk we could afford to take after
September the 11th. (Applause.) Knowing what I know today, I would
have made the same decision. (Applause.) America -- America and the
world are safer with Saddam in a prison cell.
We're making progress there. I'm impressed -- I'm impressed by
Prime Minister Allawi. He's a strong guy who believes that democracy
is the future of Iraq, and he's got hard work to do. It wasn't all
that long ago that people were brutalized by Saddam Hussein. But we're
making progress. There will be elections in January of next year.
It's amazing when you think about it -- they've gone from tyranny to
elections in a brief period of time. (Applause.)
Our goal -- our goal in Iraq is to -- like it is in Afghanistan, is
to help provide enough stability so the political process can move
forward; is to train Iraqis and Afghan citizens so they can do the hard
work of defending their country against the few who want to thwart the
desires of the many; is to put those countries on the path to stability
and democracy as quickly as possible, and then bring our troops home.
(Applause.)
I'm oftentimes asked what I tell those who -- the loved ones of
those who lost their life in combat. I tell them this: I say, your
son or daughter or wife or husband is serving during historic times.
These are times that will help make this world a more peaceful place.
It's a time for little children to be able to -- when we get it right
-- for children to grow up in a peaceful world. I tell them that in
order to honor their memory, we will complete the mission. (Applause.)
I say this -- I believe in the power of liberty to transform
lives. That's what I believe. The core of my belief is that liberty
has got the incredible capacity to convert enemies to friends,
tyrannical societies to free societies. And that makes the world more
peaceful, a peace we all want.
You know, I tell people about my meetings with Prime Minister
Koizumi, the Prime Minister of Japan, who is the Prime Minister of a
country that my dad fought against, your dads and grandfathers fought
against. They were the sworn enemy of America some 60 years ago. And
today I sit down at the table with him to discuss peace. He's an ally
in peace. And I'm able to do so because my predecessor, Harry Truman,
and other American citizens believed that the enemy could become a
friend if democracy took hold in Japan.
Now, there was a lot of skeptics and doubters during those days,
and you can understand why -- we'd just been fighting these people.
But because they believed in the power of liberty to transform lives,
they helped Japan develop a self-governing democracy. And today Japan
is an ally when it comes to keeping the peace. The Prime Minister and
I talk about North Korea, we talk about Iraq, we talk about
humanitarian needs around the world. Someday an American President
will be sitting down with a duly elected leader of Iraq, and they're
going to be talking about the peace, and they're going to look back in
history, and say, thank goodness America never forgot the power of
liberty -- (applause) -- the power of liberty to change lives.
(Applause.)
I want to thank you all for giving me a chance to come by today.
As you can see, I've got a plan to continue growing this economy, so
people can realize their hopes and dreams; that I know what needs to be
done when
it comes to securing this homeland and winning the war on terror;
that I believe strongly in the values that make us a great nation; and
that, with your help, we're going to win Pennsylvania and win a great
election in November. (Applause.)
God bless. Thank you all for coming. Thank you all. (Applause.)
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