Wisconsin,
thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank
you.
Hello, Wisconsin. Wisconsin. Wisconsin.
I got to thank somebody.
Gaylord Nelson, I'm back.
He first introduced me to Wisconsin a long time ago
when I was a kid.
I'm only 40 now, but I was a kid.
Sabrina, thank you for introduction,
for the introduction and for the volunteering for our campaign.
And a special thanks to one of the best governors
I've ever worked with in my life.
Tony,
you've got a former governor,
Jim Doyle. I work for Madison,
No
mayor,
mayor of this city. Look,
we got a guy who has a tough time when
the election only gets 70%
of the vote, Congressman Mark Pocan.
There's so many local leaders who are there,
including the chair of Wisconsin Democratic Party,
Ben Wickler. Ben.
Ben,
folks, did you have a good 4th of July?
By the way, if you wonder whether Trump has it
all together,
did you ever hear how he explained the 4th of
July
when he was president? No,
I'm serious. This is true.
His explanation how America won the Revolutionary War.
I'm not making this up,
he said in his 4th of July speech five years
ago.
He said George Washington's army won the Revolution by taking
control of the airports from the British.
We'll talk about me Miss speaking
airports on the British in
1776.
It's true he is a stable genius This year.
My friends, I'm in Wisconsin for one reason,
because we're going to win Wisconsin now.
I'm going to
win it.
And let me tell you how we're going to do
it.
You know the reason we're going to do it because
of you all in this room to start with.
But we're going to stand up for women in America.
We're
going to restore Roe V.
Wade to all the land.
We're going to stand up for the right to vote
again.
We're
going to fight for Medicare and Social Security and childcare,
elder care. Paid leave
always grows economies. We're going to keep lowering the cost
of restriction drugs and expanding health care for everyone,
not you. Look, we're going to
protect our children from getting weapons of war off our
streets.
That's what we're going to do.
The idea the more children die from gunshot wounds in
America
is so wrong. It's sick.
It really is sick.
We're going to keep confronting climate change,
the memorial
the most important. We're going to save our democracy.
Now, you've probably heard you
had a little debate last week.
Can't say it's my best performance.
But ever since then, there's been a lot of speculation.
What's Joe going to do?
Is he going to stay in the race?
Is he going to drop out?
What's he going to do?
Well, here's my answer. I am running and going to
win again
because because
folks,
I'm the city president of the United States of America
in no small part because of you
knocked out a joke in 2020,
you came through for me.
I'm the nominee of the Democratic Party.
I'm nominating this party because millions of Democrats like you
just voted for me in primaries all across America.
You voted for me to be your nominee.
No one else. You, the votes,
the voters did that. And despite,
Despite that, some folks don't seem to care who you
voted for.
Well, guess what? They're trying to push me out on
the race.
Well, let me say this clearly as I can.
I'm staying in a race.
I'll beat Donald Trump. I will beat him again in
2020.
And
by the way, we're going to do it again in
2024.
I learned long ago when you get knocked down,
you get back off.
I'm letting, I'm not letting 190 minute debate wipe out
3 1/2 years of work.
As the governor said, I've LED the station to the
depths of the depths of pandemic,
to the strongest economy in the world.
And that's literally true.
And I and you are not finished yet.
And you probably also noticed
a lot of discussion about my age.
I know I look 40.
I keep seeing all those stories about I'm being too
old.
Let me say something.
I was too old.
I wasn't too old. I wasn't too old to create
over 15,000,000 new jobs
to make sure 21 million Americans are insured under the
Affordable Care Act.
To be big farmer. The first one to ever do
that and lower the cost of this is
$35 a season.
Was that too old to relieve student debt for nearly
five million Americans in growing economy?
Too old to put the first black woman on the
Supreme Court in the United States of America
to sign the Respect for Marriage Act?
Was that too old to sign the most significant gun
safety law in 30 years?
The past? The biggest climate build in the history of
the world?
Not here. The history of the world.
But then my critics say,
sure. But he did all that.
But that was in the past.
What about now? Well, how about the
200,000 jobs we announced yesterday?
So let me ask you,
what do you think? You think I'm too old to
restore Roe V Wade to all the land?
I think I'm too old to ban assault weapons again?
To protect Social Security and Medicare?
To get child care, elder care for working families in
needed nation?
To make billionaires finally start to pay something beyond
8.2% of it? Is that great?
What are you asking?
You think I'm too old to beat Donald Trump?
I can hardly wait. Anyway,
folks, let's focus on what really matters.
Running against the biggest liar
and the biggest threat. Oh,
really? The biggest liar, the biggest threat to our democracy
in American history?
That's not hyperbole.
Over 150 presidential historians voted him the worst president in
American history.
No, the worst.
As I've said before, he has the morals of an
alley cat.
He lies about the economy.
He created the truth. He's one of only two American
presidents who left office with fewer jobs than when he
came into office.
You know, the other one was Herbert Hoover.
Fact. That's why I call him Donald Herbert Hoover Trump.
He lies about the pandemic.
He totally botched. The truth is over a million people
went on to die.
He told us what to inject bleach in our arm.
It wasn't serious. He lied about how great
he was for veterans in his administration.
The truth. He called veterans who gave their lives serving
America.
And I was just in Normandy and on on the
beaches of Normandy and all through that area.
And he he said, I have trouble saying this because
my son died as a consequence of Iraq.
Who gave their lives? He called them quote,
suckers and losers.
By the way,
I'll be damned. I'm glad I went with him because
I'll be damned.
Let him talk about my son that way.
But how do we know he said,
how do we know he said this,
that I'm not making himself
a four-star Marine general. His own former chief of staff
was with him
and he told us that's what he said.
He's not the only former Trump Trump official warning us
about how bad Trump is,
including the former secretaries of defense
and even his own vice president.
They refused to endorse him.
Says a lot about who Trump is
and says a lot about what he isn't.
By the way, I couldn't ponder.
I guess I shouldn't say
it. By the way, I
couldn't be prouder to have your support
and the support of our great vice president of the
United States,
Kamala Harris.
Trump is a convicted felon
found guilty 34 felonies trying to hide hush money payments
to a porn star.
Another jury found Trump sexually assaulted a woman in a
public place,
and he's been fined $90 million for defending her
$90 million. They've only been banked about 20 times,
but I don't know, this so-called great businessman owes over
$400 million in fines after being convicted in New York
State of business fraud.
Already convicted, fined $400 million.
Donald Trump is just a convicted criminal.
He's a one man crime wave.
But Trump's biggest lie of all?
Because he had nothing to do with the insurrection of
January 6th,
we all saw with our own eyes.
We saw. We sent thousands to attack the capital.
We saw police being attacked,
capital being ransacked, the mob hunting for Nancy Pelosi,
gallows set up
to hang Mike Pence. Let me ask you something.
After it trumped in on January 6th,
why would anyone ever let him be near the Oval
Office again?
Folks,
the issue in this election is
what kind of America do we want to be?
What kind of America do we want to be?
We want to be a country of anger,
befriend, revenge and retribution, or country of hope and optimism
and possibilities as we've always been.
I want a country where women have a right to
make their own health care decisions.
Trump wants an America where abortion is banned and women
are punished.
I want an America where health care is a right,
not a privilege.
Trump wants to throw 10s of millions of people who
couldn't get insurance any other way than Obamacare off of
Obamacare.
I want America where the very wealthy began to pay
their fair share.
Trump wants to give the very wealthy initial.
Last time out when he was president,
he gave him a $2 trillion tax cut,
creating the largest deficit any president has in one term.
Now he has announced he wants another 5 billion trillion
trillion,
not billion, $5 trillion tax cut
after already leaving the largest deficit
if this. I mean, it's hard to make this up.
I want to protect Social Security Medicare.
He wants to cut Social Security Medicare
so he can cut taxes for the very wealthy.
I want to ban assault weapons,
require universal background checks.
Y'all heard of promise? The NRA,
He promised the National Rights Association.
I will do nothing about guns.
That's what he said. I will do nothing about guns.
And he means it.
I want January 16th. Direction is to serve.
They're false prison terms.
Trump wants to pardon you
folks. You can't be pro insurrectionist and pro American at
the same time.
This is so damn serious.
You can't love your country only when you win.
Look, you've been standing a long time.
Let me close at this.
All of me. Ultimately, the American presidency is about character,
the character of the president who holds the job.
Because with the immunities he's talking,
the Supreme Court just talked about,
it gets down to that.
It
gets down to that.
It's about honesty. It's
about the president's decency, integrity.
Do they respect people or do they incite violence and
hate?
Can they honor their oath of the Constitution and uphold
their oath of office?
Well, I don't think it's an exaggeration.
Yes, Trump has failed on every one of these character
tests.
Everyone. And
what's worse, the Supreme Court has just ruled.
But there are virtually no limits on the power of
the presidency.
I know it sounds bizarre,
but that's what they ruled.
A frightening decision.
According to the extreme majority of the Supreme Court,
the president is now above the law.
We just celebrated the 4th of July
saying we will not be ruled by a king.
And this Supreme Court he appointed
prove this new law.
It's in a dangerous precedent,
especially if Donald Trump has returned to the president.
Just think about it,
the second term, this next term,
whoever is the president is going to appoint at least
two new appointees.
The second Trump term where there are no limits.
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor warned us about that and her
dissent
in that case. This is it,
she noted. But based on the majority decision,
Trump can take out his opponents.
I mean, physically take them out,
take bribes, lead a coup
and be immune to ever being held accountable for it.
If he did it while he was president,
according to the Supreme Court,
I mean, where the hell are we?
So he really could become a dictator that he promised
to be on day one.
For over 2 centuries,
America's been a free democratic nation.
And
I'll be dating the year
2024, just two years before our
250th anniversary of as a nation.
I'll let Donald Trump take this away.
Folks,
This is not hyperbole.
This race is about our freedom.
It's about our democracy.
It's about the very soul of America.
Are we prepared to fight for that?
I know I am and I will.
And
folks,
I have never been more optimistic about America's future because
the American people are decent,
good, honourable. You just remember who in God's name we
are.
We're the United States of America.
I mean, think about it.
Think about it, a little term
and there's nothing, nothing beyond our capacity when we stand
together.
So let's stand together with this election and exile Donald
Trump politically.
God bless you all.
May God protect our troops.
Thank you. Thank you.