Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Midterm Political Rally in Fort Myers, Florida - October 23, 2026

[Audience chants "USA"] Well, I just want to say a very special hello, Florida. We love you, Florida. And I'm thrilled to be back in my home state of Florida, which I won. You know, we won all three times with the most votes, more votes than ever gotten by any political candidate by millions, millions and millions.

Thank you. And I just look at this group of warriors down here.

Special, a special -- you're going to have a great continuation of Senator, and you are going to have a great, great, great governor. I have no doubt about that. He's great. He's been -- he's been great from the day I met him a long time ago, long before politics, right? Long before politics. He presented me with an award, uh, I would say five, six, seven, eight years before he decided to make the plunge.

More, he said even more. And I said, that young man has a lot of -- he made a speech so good that I didn't want to speak after him. He presented me with an award, made a speech, it was so good I didn't want to say much. I just said, thank you very much, everybody. And I left. I said, who the hell was that guy?

And that's where it began, right? That's where it began. But 11 days from now, the people of Florida are going to elect Byron Donalds as your next governor. And we're going to elect Ashley Moody to the United States Senate. And we're going to defeat the radical left Dumocrats all across the country. And we're going to win a Republican House and a Republican Senate, and do things like you wouldn't believe.

And why don't you people sit down? Come on, have all the -- sit down. It's such an honor. You know, it's such an honor. Look, it's such an honor. You know, it's a nice afternoon. We'll take it nice and easy. We have plenty of time. Thank you very much. It's an honor. Thank you. Thank you. Great honor. Thank you very much.

I have to tell you a little secret. Outside, there's a crowd about two or three times this size, and I looked at my people with anger. I said, couldn't you have gotten us a larger arena than this? This is a big arena, but we could have built the biggest arena in the country. You have a lot of people outside.

And if anybody would like to give up their seat to let somebody -- please raise your hand, please. In this election, the Dumocrat Party has nominated the most extreme anti-American radicals ever to seek office, including far-left lunatic -- I mean, I couldn't believe that she got the nomination. It was an upset.

But honestly, I could not stand the guy she beat. I couldn't stand -- you -- most of you probably don't know who it is, but he was a bad guy and she is terrible. I couldn't -- actually, I couldn't believe it, Angie Nixon. I couldn't believe it. [Audience boos]

I couldn't believe it. When I heard her speaking, I said, you got to be kidding. Is she a relationship -- any relationship to the late, great Richard Nixon? I don't know. I don't think so. No, I don't think -- no, the press will say, can you believe he said that? He doesn't -- no, that's why you can't be cute, you can't be funny with the media.

You know, I was telling them the other night, I imitated Biden on the stage where he used to walk off walls and could never find the stairs. No, he could never find the stairs. You have to see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. You have -- and you could always jump off the front if you have to, but he could never find it. So one time I imitated him and I called our great First Lady.

I said, how great was I tonight? How great? And I was walking around all over the stage, hitting walls and bouncing off walls, and everybody was cracking up. They loved it. And then I called our First Lady, was I great, how great? Tell me how great, I want to know. And she said, darling, what was wrong? Are you OK? Because the media is reporting that you couldn't find your way off the stage.

And I never did that again. I've had people say, please do that again, do that again. Yeah, we want it. Please do it again. No, I think I better not. But Nixon is a card carrying member of the Dumocratic Socialists of America, the Communist whose official platform -- [Audience boos]

-- calls for abolishing the US Senate, abolishing the Supreme Court of the United States, giving free health care to all illegal aliens, defunding the police, closing all prisons, releasing thousands of violent criminals to rob, rape and kill. Why can't I have a candidate like that to run against? Why can't I -- Ashley, why can't I have a candidate like that?

Actually, the guy just said -- he said, you did. You did. I did. He said, you did have a candidate like that. No, no, no, this one is the worst. But this is the free state of Florida where people come to escape communists and not to elect them, not to elect them. The Sunshine State is not going to send a Marxist maniac to the Senate.

On November 3rd, you're going to send Ashley Moody to defend your safety, your culture, your country, and your freedom. And Ashley, I know her very well, and she's -- she's a terrific woman, loves your -- loves the state and loves the -- loves the people of this state. Ashley, we're lucky to have you. Angie Nixon was the lead sponsor of a bill to let schools turn children, all of them, transgender if they want, without parental -- without parental consent. [Audience boos]

I would say she's rather radical, wouldn't you say? She voted to release child predators back onto the streets instead of putting them in jail. And she wanted them to stray because they will reform. She voted against tough penalties for savages who murder your police officers. We're calling for the -- we're calling for the death penalty for anyone that murders a -- And Angie Nixon voted to reject Florida values every single time.

And now Florida needs to vote and reject this lunatic, this lunatic. I can't even believe it's serious. Angie Nixon. I can't even believe it. We also need to defeat the radical left Democrat candidate for governor, David Jolly. [Audience boos]

So I never told -- I never told Byron this, but I knew Jolly. I knew him as a Republican. I knew him and used to be a Republican, and he was thrown out of the party like a dog. We threw him the hell out, he was terrible. No, he was terrible. He didn't represent anything that we stood for. He was in the party, didn't represent.

He was also a bad guy, guy had no heart, no soul. Everybody hated this guy so much. He couldn't get him out of there fast enough. He was a bad guy, very disloyal person. And he's changed virtually every position he had, including the fact that he was a staunch defender of the Second Amendment but now he wants to get rid of it. That's a -- that's a minor switch, wouldn't you say?

I defend the Second Amendment, let's get rid of the Second Amendment. Well, no, it shows a person's dishonest, that's all. He wants to pack the Supreme Court. He wants to take away your guns. He wants to open the borders. He wants to have transgender for everybody. [Audience boos]

It's a guy who's gone crazy -- there's something -- actually, if you study him, there is something wrong with him. But at a minimum, the nicest thing I can say about him is that he lies. But actually, I believe he's crazy. So now he's pledging to turn Florida into a sanctuary state so that we can protect illegal aliens.

And right here in Fort Myers earlier this year, an illegal alien released into our county by Crooked Joe Biden. You know who I'm talking about. Strangled and killed a 28-year-old homeless woman, then dropped her body on the side of the road, only to go and beat an innocent mother on the head with a hammer, bludgeoning her to death.

She died also. And that is who David Jolly wants to give sanctuary to. He wants to give sanctuary. He wants to protect people like that, crazy people, killers, mentally -- the mentally insane. Byron Donalds will keep the state a sanctuary for law-abiding Americans, not vicious criminal aliens. Look at these two guys.

Stand up, will you? I haven't seen you guys in a while. I haven't seen these guys. You know, Blacks for Trump. They called -- They are great. Everyone said, did you pay them? I never gave them a dime. I don't know who they are, other than we love each other. And I'll tell you, you guys are great, haven't seen you in a little while.

Good, I'm glad you still like me. That's very nice. Thank you, man. Cool -- cool cats. They have a group of them and they're great and we appreciate it. Thank you very much. It's an honor. It's an honor. Very cool. In this election, I'm asking you to pretend that I'm on the ballot, if you don't mind, because when I'm on the ballot, these are just easy statistics to remember.

So every year I was on the ballot, we killed in the midterm because people-- the equivalent of the midterm, because people went out and they wanted to vote for Trump and they all voted. And if we can get the people out, then we're going to have landslides, the likes of which we've never seen. So, if you would, if you would -- now, every time I'm on the ballot, we do 49 to 50 percent more; people come out and they're all going to vote for us. And if we got just a piece of that, but we get all of them, I want to -- because I've never seen a midterm election with this kind of action.

I mean, when you look outside and you have -- and I have to be careful because the fake news will say if I'm wrong, you know. [Audience boos]

But you have a line that stretches literally 10 miles and, I'm telling you, you have thousands and thousands of people outside. I don't think there's ever been a midterm election that I've ever seen with the kind of spirit that this one has. I don't think I've ever seen it. In fact, they're sort of known as boring, you know, it's like we've gone through a few of them.

It's like -- they're like sleepers, you know. You get home, oh, how did those elections turn out? This time, I mean, I've never seen -- they have countdowns to the midterm. I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen anything like it. And, you know, they talk about the energy -- they talk about the energy, the Democrats, but you know, it's the fake news.

The Republicans have far more energy, I see their energy. We have fun; look at this place. They don't have any -- they've had a lot of rallies and, you know, they'll have like a couple of rows of people. They don't have it -- look at this, as far as the eye can see, you have people outside. They don't have anything like -- they don't have anything like this.

You know what, Bernie Sanders gets 800 people, he's their star, Bernie. Which is good because it means we can continue to fight on. No, I respect him actually, I respect him. His policies are crazy but, you know, he hasn't lost much. Really, he hasn't lost too much, and I respect him, but if he has like 800, 900 people, the fake news goes Bernie Sanders had -- I'll never forget -- he had a crowd once last time when he was running against Crooked Hillary, he had a crowd, 900 people.

It was a damn good crowd. The press, that's all they -- what a crowd, he's got the biggest crowd we've ever seen, baa, baa, baa. It looked good, 900 people. I had 29,000 people down the block, right? They didn't mention it. They didn't. They said did you see the crowd that Bernie Sanders had? It was unbelievable.

Unbelievable, and they didn't mention my 29,000. I had it in Texas where you had the previous opponent -- the previous Democrat and we had -- we filled up the -- both the Dallas and the Houston Arena. And he said he's going to have a contest against us and they had 200 people and 212 people because we count.

We had 29,000 and 30,000, including the basketball. It was Beto; remember Beto -- Beto. Nobody figured out that name yet. Beto -- no, Beto had 200, about 200 people twice. We filled up the basket and the entire court. So, I guess that's like 28,000, 29,000, 30,000 people twice packed, Dallas and Houston, the two big arenas.

And they said Beto had an unbelievable crowd, what a -- they didn't mention, but you know what? The people get it, OK, the people get it. And when you look outside, you can take every Democrat rally that they've had so far put together, and you add this with the thousands and thousands of people that are unfortunately -- we put up those big television screens, those massive television screens.

You know how I know they're massive? Because they cost $1 million each. We had to buy two of them, that's a lot. No, we don't -- we have this at every -- we had it in Iowa, we had --Iowa was fantastic last night. How about me? I come home, get in the building, get in the gorgeous White House that's now fully renovated and beautiful again, beautiful.

And we had -- Byron we had broken stones all over. You'd look at the White House, you'd see a stone broken, a window broken, things -- beautiful, beautiful ornamentation all over and half was falling down, you know, fell down 25 years ago. So, you'd have like a hole and the other half was perfect. So, I got my guys, and we took molds of the good one, and we put it on the bad one.

And we cleaned up everything and we skimmed the entire building, it's so beautiful. We replaced the floor, we replaced the Home Depot 1x1s, you know, little ding, ding, ding, ding. You know, you buy the marble, it's about a half an inch thick like this, bing, bing, bing, and they were all broken. They were all over the place.

So, we replaced it with statuary -- oh, it's statuary -- the white and the black, beautiful. That was Rome that was Greece but we used the beautiful -- and the White House. And they often say -- you just heard -- you saw the new helipad, which, you know, they've been looking to build for -- They've been looking to build that for about -- since helicopters.

I don't know when -- when did helicopters -- since helicopters they've been looking. And it is a beauty, it's beautiful, everyone saw it. They were going to sue us, because I get sued for everything. [Laughter] If I walk outside, somebody sues me for something. So, I get used to it. You know, I have friends that if they get sued, they have almost a nervous breakdown.

Sir, I got sued today, I don't know what to do. But I have hundreds and hundreds of -- I don't give a shit about it, you know. It's crazy. [Audience chants "USA"]

Thank you. No, but we're building some beautiful things and -- but they said, why does he spend time on the White House? First of all, I do it second nature. It's like for me, it is almost like a release, it's good. You know, we took Venezuela quickly. We're doing -- we're doing very well. You have no idea how well we're doing with Iran.

Iran is finished. Iran is finished. But think of it, but I do it almost as a form of relaxation, like 10 minutes a day. The fake news says why does he spend time on the -- well, I don't like having the head of China come into the White House and there's a massive stone that's broken and practically -- I don't like that, I don't like it. You don't think they see that?

So, we made it gorgeous, the outside fully skimmed with exterior plaster. Beautiful, it's like nobody's ever seen it. Even the front door -- I shouldn't say because they'll sue me, but for years -- so, you know the front door of the south entrance, it was -- oh, the door is green, sort of a bad looking green and it's been that way for 100 years.

I don't want to say this because I'm going to get sued, to put it back to green. [Laughter] And the doorknob was sort of broken. You know, it was like a round knob with about 40 knots in it, you know, it's been through the mill -- looks like it went through the war, actually. It did, actually. So, I took the doors off -- I'm a big believer, you know, in all of that, all of the kind of thing, renovations and landmarking I'm a big believer.

But, so, I had the doors removed; I had them redone by total experts and we painted them instead -- the White House, instead of green -- you know why they were green? Because it used to be the entrance to the maintenance room and they never changed the doors. So, instead of green, I painted them beautiful white.

The skin is so beautiful, the doors -- the reason I took them off, because, you know, today when you buy a door, it's called hollow. You buy hollow doors. If you pull too hard, the whole door collapses. [Laughter] You ever see it? You buy a door, oh, isn't that wonderful? You knock on it, it sounds like crap, but you pull a little, huh?

And if you're of average strength, the entire door collapses, right, and somehow, I didn't want that. So, I took the original doors from 100 years ago, and we had them refinished and painted beautiful white with bronze, the most beautiful locks and -- And the whole building is beautiful; replaced the floors with beautiful large pieces of marble, 4x8 -- 4x8, nobody heard of four.

That's 4 feet long by 8 feet long as opposed to 1 foot long by 6 inches long -- 1x6 and 1x12, they're called crap. And what's good about them is they're so thin, you can just take a little crazy glue, put it on, put it down. But people get it. So, the White House is so beautiful now. So beautiful -- fixed up the Oval Office, made it beautiful.

It was dingy, but it was still the Oval. And what is the fake news saying? Well why does he spend so much time fixing up the White House? So it hasn't been fixed up since 1792. No, because there hasn't been a real estate person, to the best of my knowledge, put into the White House, and there probably won't be again.

But they said -- and by the way, it looks -- you see it, the helicopter has a beautiful helipad with the eagle, all carved granite, beautiful lands. We used to land in the mud. No, it's true. Thank God they're great pilots. They're the best pilots in the world. the nice part about being president, they give you the best pilots in the United States Air Force slash Marines, the best.

So that's one of the advantages. I definitely have good -- I get these guys, they're like central casting. They're like Tom Cruise, but taller. They look like Tom Cruise. And these handsome guys, good morning, sir. They're like perfect human beings. You could put them in a movie right now, you'd make a fortune.

But they say, why does he spend so much time? You know why, because the White House is maybe, to me, the ultimate symbol of America, and it has to look sharp. It has to look sharp, right? So it looks sharp. And we did that whole thing with Washington. Washington, DC, went from a murderous, horrible place two years ago to one of the safest cities in our country, and clean and beautiful.

The statues, the fountains, everything is beautiful. We redid everything. You know, they had 52 fountains, every one of them works. Every one of them, there wasn't one fountain in Washington -- you had to see this, that worked. You had to see, the marble had red graffiti all over it. It's -- and it's tough getting that stuff off.

Honestly, that should be a criminal penalty, when people are allowed to do that stuff. But they're beautiful now, more beautiful than when they put them in. But we had a little breaking news last night. It was just revealed that one of my favorite Congress people, a person I have tremendous respect for, Ilhan Omar -- [Audience boos]

And I was saddened to hear that Ilhan Omar is not her name. It's not. It's not Ilhan Omar. The one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress, that's the one that she used for everything Ilhan Omar, but rather it's an entirely different name, named Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. It's close. It's close, Byron.

It's very close. Not too far away. You got one that's four names, one that's one and every name is extremely different. And the last name is incredibly, and this is going to be a shock to everybody in this room, but the last name is also -- I hate to tell you because you wouldn't even believe this because -- it's the exact name of her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

The person they said she married to come into our country, and the person she had some lovely children with -- thank you very much. So when asked whether or not she married her brother, she said, not to my knowledge. That was her -- No, she didn't know. She didn't know. She wasn't sure. Like, if anybody asked me -- I told the story today to the fake news when I walked out on that beautiful helipad, you know, we have the -- the fake news.

They've never been -- there are hundreds, hundreds. I've never seen so many but they're always -- they're getting worse. That means you're doing really better. When you -- when you get -- when those groups get bigger and bigger and bigger more and more fakers -- and I shouldn't say, because you have -- see all those?

Wow, that's a lot. See all the people back there, six, seven percent are really fine journalists. Six or seven. But -- but they were screaming. They wanted to know so many different things, what about this, what about that? No wonder that poor young woman, she was a perfect, beautiful woman, when she walked into that press room and they started screaming at her, she freaked out.

And I said, you know what, there are nicer ways for you to make a living. You want to deal with these maniacs, you can deal if you want, but there are easier ways for you to live. But because Ilhan used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume that she must immediately resign from Congress. So Byron and Ashley, please inform the Speaker of the House of Representatives, James Michael Johnson.

You didn't know his first name was James, James, right? And we love James Michael Johnson. That the Dumocrat Party has just conceded the seat of the former Ilhan Omar from -- from the lovely country of Somalia, from the lovely country of Somalia, where they have no government, where they have no anything.

All they have is crime. You know what they're number one -- you know what they're number one industry is, being pirates and robbing ships. No, all they have is crime and she sailed -- I don't know how the hell she got in. She sailed -- but no, but sail is so nice she sailed the seven seas and she arrived in our country and the first thing she did coming from a country with no law, no order, no politician -- all they have is people that shoot you all the time.

No anything. They have nothing, probably the worst country on earth. There are a couple of that maybe could be right there, but it's among the worst in the world. And she came into our country and she immediately announced that my constitutional rights allow me to tell you how to run the United States of America. [Audience boos]

She comes -- she comes from a shithouse country and she's telling us -- and she's telling us how to run the United States. And so Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, her real name, has openly admitted to fraud, and she will not be legally allowed to be a member of that August body that sits in Washington so beautifully, of which we have many members here.

We have many, many Congressmen and women here. They're at a slightly different level. The last time the radical Dumocrats had power, they gave us the worst inflation in American history, the highest energy prices in American history. You know, energy was much higher under Sleepy Joe and under Barack Hussein Obama.

And what we did is -- I knew it was going to go up a little bit, small price to pay, but we took out the nuclear power from Iran. Because yours is going to go down. They gave us the worst trade deficit in American history. They allowed 25 million people to pour across our borders from all over the world.

And if they win the midterms, they will do it again. They're going to do it all again. [Audience boos]

And you know, they'll do it all again and we never forget. We can never forget. You go back two years ago, we were living in a dark age. The proud people of Florida will never let that happen. And it's true, less than two years ago, the radical left Dumocrats handed us the true -- I say it all the time, it was like a dark period, wasn't it? It was a dark -- it was a dark age.

It was a Dark Age of America, but we quickly turned it into the Golden Age of America. That's what it is right now. Look. And no other president has ever accomplished so much in such a short period of time. That's what they say. You're going to see a poll later on. They rate the presidents in terms of their greatness.

I'm proud to say -- let's put it this way, let's put it this way, I wouldn't be telling you about that poll if I was doing badly in it. Let me -- and you know who made the poll? CNN. Can you believe it? I'm sure the guy who did it is no longer with them. But -- but we achieved the most secure border in American history in the past 17 months.

Zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States. Zero. Thank you.

I was telling this brilliant team that I have over here, that I feel always sort of foolish when I say -- so, Biden allowed 25 million in. He had no clue; he was sleeping most of the time. But his border czar was Kamala, nobody knows her last name. Does anybody know her last name? [Audience responds "Harris"]

Harris? This one. That's right. No, they call her Kamala, Kamala. They say, what's her last name? I don't know. Well, that's part of the problem she had. When people went in to vote they had no idea who the hell she was. Well, they're trying to do that in Alaska. We have a man named Dan Sullivan. So, the Dumocrats -- maybe here, they're not so dumb -- they put another man also with the name of Dan Sullivan.

So, we have two Dan Sullivan's, how about that? That's not so dumb, actually. It's cheating like hell but it's not the dumbest thing in the world. And it's very confusing to people to put it mildly. They gave people with a very high 188 IQ, and they said, please pick the real Dan Sullivan, and they were right about 50 percent of the time.

The whole thing -- how about that one? Would you like to have somebody with your name running it? This is not good. If that would happen you might even lose to one of the worst candidates in the history of Florida. This jolly guy is bad news. They should have done that, Byron. [Audience boos]

They missed their opportunity, Byron. But record numbers of illegal alien criminals have been taken off the street, and we've achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded. With the murder rate at the lowest level in 125 years, 1990, 1990. So, in much less than two years, we secured commitments for $22.2 trillion of new investments into the United States of America, the greatest amount by far, ever invested in our country.

You know what the record was? Another country 10 years ago, $3 trillion. We had $22 trillion. Think of this, for 15 months -- they call it up to 15; that means we have more now because we're a little longer than that. Thanks to my tariffs, my favorite word I have to tell you -- But no longer, it's number five because the fake news, when I said tariffs and it was my favorite word I'd go around -- tariffs -- because it's made us rich, I hope you know that.

That's the reason you have factories being built. You know, the radical left likes to say, oh, take the tariffs off. Yeah, take the tariffs off, watch every factory leave America. Take them off and watch everybody say bye-bye you stupid people. But the fake news was just killing me because I said tariffs is my favorite word.

I didn't know what I did wrong, and it took me two or three times saying it at big rallies like this. And I'd say tariffs is my favorite word. And then I saw an article written by that person right over there, faker -- [Audience boos]

And she wrote this article and she said, tariff is his favorite word, how bad is the man? What about God? What about wife, family, children, relationship? So, I made it number five word and I'm OK now. I'm okay. [Laughter] It used to be my favorite word. It used to be my favorite word, now it's number five.

But right now, because of tariffs and smart people like Scott and Howard -- And we love Bobby, wow. How about Bobby? I watched him -- what applause Bobby got. I don't know, I've got to be a little worried about him. What applause Bobby got, people love Bobby. All of them, Oz -- your attorney general, by the way, happens to be fantastic.

Fantastic. What a nice group of -- what a good group of people. But thanks to what we've done -- and tariffs, our use of tariffs. Number one, tariffs have helped us end eight wars. Five of the eight, I would say, was because of trade and tariffs that, if you continue to fight, we're going to put a 200 percent tariff on you, both of you.

And amazingly, they stopped the war. Probably should do that immediately with Ukraine and Russia. I never thought of it. I didn't think of it for them. But we don't buy enough to do it for them, so it doesn't work. But we've got more factories right now and plants being built in the United States of America, by far, than we have ever had before.

And the stock market has set 88 all-time record highs since the election less than two years ago, 88. And anybody going to the polls on November 3rd, or if you're writing in, you have to do this. You have to look at your 401(k)s before you leave the house, and just take a look, and you'll see that there are about -- that you've made about 60 percent -- they're about 60 percent higher than they were just a short while ago.

And then go and you can pull the trigger, you can pull the trigger for Byron because they're 60 percent, in some cases much higher than that. A police officer -- I told this story a week ago. The police officer came up to me and said, sir, I want to thank you very much. New York's finest, a great guy, big, strong guy.

He said sir, I want to just thank you because my wife has always considered me a loser. She thinks -- she was nasty; she was always calling me bad names. I'd invest in stocks and things and would lose a lot of money. And this year I'm up 67 percent and she thinks I'm the most brilliant financial genius ever.

And I just want to thank you. I actually asked him a terrible thing, which I shouldn't say in this room because it's Florida. But I said, are you staying with your wife or have you found something? [Laughter] Have you decided to stay or are you going to get rid of her? You know, because honestly, that's not nice.

So, now she likes you. You know, what have you done for me lately, right, I don't like that. I didn't like the end of that story, actually. But now he's OK, he's happy. But income for hard-working Americans has soared to the highest level in the history of our country. Think of this -- ready? I'm going to give you a couple of -- you just said income per individual, highest level in our country.

I'm going to give you a few more and then I'm going to walk off this stage because there's no reason to stay here and waste your time and mine, because these are numbers -- these are numbers that when you give them -- so, ready? I gave you one. Income, your income is the highest level that it's ever been.

All of you, look, you're all nodding, you're right, you're right. The fake news doesn't want -- here's the second one that you can -- more Americans are working today than at any time in the history of the United States of America. Right? So, highest income. Think of it, these are big, beautiful states. These are what it's all about. [Audience member calls out, inaudibly]

I love you, too. You're not my type -- he's not my type but I do love him. Thank you, thank you. OK, here's another one, here's another one. Number three, poverty rate. The poverty rate, people that are having a hard time. The poverty rate has just reached its best level, most successful level in American history, poverty.

So, income poverty, more jobs. Here's another one. African American poverty, Hispanic American poverty, Asian American poverty, Native American poverty rates are at the best levels ever recorded. So, poverty is in great shape. We don't want to be there, but it's in great shape. Think of it, best numbers ever.

Best numbers ever. Income is the best numbers ever. Employment is the best numbers ever. But I'll give you another one and then I'm going home because I'm wasting time -- because when you have numbers like this, why do I have to keep doing this for? I've been doing this now for two weeks. Every week I'm in a different place, but it is my home territory.

I could go home, very quick flight, I could go home to a quaint little place on the ocean and the lake -- it's got -- the only one that's under both -- called Mar-a-Lago, I can go home to Mar-a-Lago instead of doing anything. But I'd actually rather be with you if you want to know the truth; I like being with you.

All right, here's another one. So, I gave you those three. Now, those are big picture. Those are big, right, the most jobs. Exports, remember? Did you ever hear of a man named Barack Hussein Obama? Has anyone? [Audience boos]

Barack Hussein Obama? Did you ever hear of him? Right? Exports have soared to the highest level in American history. And Barack Hussein Obama used to say, we will never be a manufacturing country again. So, that means that we make products and we sell the products. Exports, to me, of all of them, have soared to by far the highest level in the history of our country.

Good afternoon, everybody, I'm leaving. Bye, everybody. Vote for Byron. [Audience chants "USA"]

All right. All right. I'll go over some more, but -- You know, our great chief of staff told me, sir, you got to take it easy. That's sort of something I love doing because I go over these points that are so big, so important and then I say, what do I have to stay here for? You know, it's sort of cool, and I walk off the stage.

She said, you're driving Secret Service crazy. They're running all over the place, running, running, running, because -- I wouldn't leave you. It's too soon. You waited too long. So -- No, it's true. Susie, right? She said, you're driving Secret Service crazy. They think you're leaving and they're rushing with their guns all over the place.

So less than two years ago, our country was dead and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world, hottest in the world. And with our Republican Congress, I signed the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill delivering the largest tax cuts in American history. I did it in my first term also, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.

And we made interest on car loans, something that you'd be -- you haven't seen. You know, very rich people seem to like deductions, but they haven't really given deductions to people that want to borrow money to buy a car. And this was my idea. It's so -- become so successful. The interest on car loans is tax deductible, but only if the car is made in America. [Audience chants "USA"]

We made the largest ever investment in the US Armed Forces, $1 trillion, the largest investment we've ever made. We have the most powerful military in the world, we have the greatest military in the world, and we have the greatest military equipment in the world. You saw that during Venezuela, and you see it now during the national -- Think of it, think of it, the Islamic Republic of Iran will tell you that we have the best equipment.

No, Cuba, he wants to know what about Cuba. Give me a break. Give me a break. Don't worry, we'll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran. We'll just -- We'll do a little stopover. No, we'll do a little stopover. Actually, what we're going to do with Cuba is we're going to come back from Iran. Those beautiful ships will pass Cuba.

We'll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast, they'll raise up their hands and then we're going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal. We'll have Marco. Marco. We don't even have to stop, we could just put him in there and he'll figure it out. He's a -- he's a great guy. We captured and brought to justice the outlaw dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who is now awaiting trial.

And we won the war in Venezuela in one day and now we're working with them to produce millions and millions of barrels of oil a week. And in Iran, I terminated the Barack Hussein Obama's JCPOA or the Iran nuclear deal, one of the worst deals ever made, which was a road to a nuclear weapon for Iran. It was a horrible deal.

We obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer. You remember that, late at night, one in the morning. And then did the rest with Operation Epic Fury, which it was. We may do another little Epic Fury, or they'll agree. If they're smart, they'll just say, let's get down to business.

But, you know, I doubt they'll do that because perhaps they're not smart. But we're -- we're -- we did a number on them. You know, they have the worst -- it's called the worst economy anywhere in the world and they have the highest -- Scott, they have the highest inflation anywhere in the world. Stand up, Scott Bassett.

So, you know, if I do a movie and if I have to pick a Secretary of the Treasury, this guy is central casting, right? I'll use him. I'll have to use the original. I'm going to have to use the original. We're going to use Scott to play himself. We defeated them militarily, financially and otherwise and now we are ensuring it's done.

Done a while ago, that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. It's all about that. It's all about that. Oil prices will plummet and oil prices are coming down very substantially. they're coming down much faster. You know, when I did this, I -- we hit the all-time high, but actually, the market, you know, if you look back seven months, eight months, the market's much higher now than it was then.

So at the beginning, but I came in and I saw Scott, I saw Howard, I saw all my guys, I saw Marco, I saw JD, I saw everybody. We had a meeting and I said, we got to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon, because if they have a nuclear weapon, the whole world would be hostage. And this was -- this was right during a trip to Iowa.

I had meetings and a speech, and I made the speech and I was riding in and back and I'm looking at -- I'm looking at the gas pumps. And I'm looking at the top. It said $1.85 a gallon. The second station said $1.95. We had hit the all-time low, our all-time low. You think Biden looked at the top of gas pumps?

I don't know. Do you think Sleepy Joe would say, let's look at the gas pumps, I want to see how oil is doing? I don't think so. I don't think he did. I don't think Obama did. I didn't think -- I don't think anybody does but me, but I did. And we had $1.85 and $1.95, and that was our low -- we were at the lowest point in years.

And I said, I'm sorry to tell you this, fellas, the following day, but we have to stop these lunatics from having nuclear weapons, and we have done that, and it's something that's very important. Something very important. And this last week, you probably read, it was in the Wall Street Journal, not that that means anything.

It's a terrible paper, but -- terrible. It's become a scandal sheet. But no, it was in the Wall Street Journal, and it was an article that more oil is coming out of the Hormuz Strait today than came out before this war started. Think of that. Think of that. And you know why, because of our Navy, because we have a blockade where Iran can't come in or go out, but everybody else can.

Our Navy is unbelievable and our military is unbelievable. The naval blockade, right? And I settled eight raging wars, or soon to be wars, and we're close to ending, I hope, the Russia-Ukraine catastrophe. I hope we're ending that. You know that in the Russia-Ukraine war, 25 -- on average, 25,000 soldiers are killed a month.

Think of that, 25,000 young soldiers, mostly soldiers, killed a month. Got to get it stopped. And the other one, of course, is Iran, but we've settled -- I've settled eight wars. Think of that. Did I get the Nobel Prize? No. Did I get the Nobel Prize? Excuse me, Byron, did you see the Nobel Prize being sent to the office, please?

Did it come through Florida? I don't think so. No, I settled -- well, you know, Norway is very liberal and, you know, the person that got the Nobel Prize, the first one, said, you have to be kidding, I got it, Trump deserves it. He deserves it more than any person that has ever gotten the Nobel Prize. And she gave me her Nobel Prize, which I won't forget, Maria.

Maria. And the one that got it this time, last week, is a woman I never heard of. You will never hear of again. What she did, everyone's trying to figure that out. Think of it. I'm not talking -- I'm talking about, let's say, for our country. You settle eight wars, you stop India and Pakistan, two nuclear -- you stop them.

There I did on trade. I said, fellas, if you guys are going to do that, you're not going to trade with the United States. They make a lot of money. And I'm going to put massive tariffs on both of you, 250 percent, so you won't be able to do any business. And they got very upset, very angry, and they stopped shooting and the war was over.

I stopped it. 11 planes -- think of it, 11 planes were shot down.

I stopped all these wars, and it's really an honor to do so. I had no help from the United Nations. I never made one phone call to the United Nations. But we got them all stopped and a couple of more left. I had no idea -- when I was running, I had no idea that they had so many wars. And to be honest with you, you know, it's promises made, promises kept and a very -- a very nice -- A very nice anchor, thank you, sitting up here, said that whether you like Trump or not, he has a phrase, promises made, promises kept.

He really fulfilled more promises than he even made -- I did, many, many more of them. And we got all of the 28 Hamas hostages returned to their families, both living and dead, and hundreds before that. We got it. Everybody said that was impossible, living and dead. You know, I spoke to some of the parents, their son was dead, they knew he was dead, but they wanted him back.

As much as the parents where the son -- mostly sons in almost all cases, but as much as those were, the son was alive and they would call me, I'd talk to them, I had meetings. They wanted their son who was dead back as much as the people -- maybe -- almost it seemed like more than the people whose son was alive, they wanted the body back.

And we got them all back, and nobody thought that was possible. And just yesterday, we got Stephen Hubbard back from Russia, which should have been done by the Biden administration. No. I saw Stephen Hubbard's son; he made a great impression. He really wanted to get his father; he was in Russia for years.

It was under Biden that they took him, he should have gotten him back that night, the night they took him. He lived a tough life for years. And I called Vladimir Putin on Friday and I said, will you do me a favor? Give me the person you have named Stephen Hubbard, give him back to me, would you, please? And he said, I will do that.

And he gave him back to us. And he just arrived in our country and it's great, it's great. His family is very happy. I wonder if they're going to vote for Trump. Probably not. Probably not; they'll probably find a way to vote for somebody else. Let's vote for -- that's happened to me before. I got Most Favored Nation agreements to reduce the cost of prescription drugs from the highest drug price in the history of our country to the lowest drug price in the history of our country.

So, this will reduce drug prices by 50 to 90 percent. Think of that, right? And that alone should give us a win in the midterms. If you just did that alone, because other presidents have tried, but they never had a shot, they never even came close. It was tough; I had to be very tough on -- Oz will tell you I had to be very tough on foreign nations, right, Oz? I call up France, I say you have to double and triple your drug price.

That wasn't -- they weren't easy. How's France doing, by the way? Not too good. That's what would happen to your country if you turned left and you let millions of people in without getting them the hell out like we've done? That's what would happen. That's not going to happen to our country. You know, they blame it on schools.

They say it's schools; it's schools. I'm looking at some of these guys, these thugs, they're not students. It's illegal immigration is what it is. It's people coming into a country that hate the country, they hate the leadership, they hate the people, they hate the buildings, they hate the art. They hate France, and they're letting them come into the country unchecked, unvetted.

That's what it is, it's not schools. Oh, the floor of the school is a little dirty, let's riot. No, it's not that. They didn't look like schoolchildren when they're ripping the hell out of buildings and tearing apart brick walls, burning down a building from 1840 that was one of the great buildings of France.

You see that burned down? Starting on day one of my administration, we abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion policies throughout the federal government. Right? We got critical race theory and transgender insanity out of our schools. We made English the official language of the United States of America.

And today I have breaking news for the benefit of American seniors. So, if you're not a senior, don't listen too much because I don't want to bore you, actually. But I'm pleased to announce that the Trump administration is investing $250 million to hire at least 5,000 new nurses in elder care facilities all across America.

And, in particular, including the great state of Florida, you need them. And today, we're also taking historic action to support an important industry here on the shores of the Gulf of America. How do we like the Gulf of America? The Gulf -- that's the seafood industry. We're doing things for the seafood industry that they can't even believe.

Did you like the change of the name Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America? You know, it never made sense to me because 93 percent of the shoreline, Florida, all the way around up to Mexico, 93 percent was America and 7 percent was Mexico. And I've always thought about it and I said, let's see if we can get it done.

And we got it done in very rapid fashion. And I also changed a beautiful lake that's quite near Canada into Lake America. Lake America, what a beautiful lake. Some people aren't -- I'm trying to change New Mexico. It's true, I'm trying to change New Mexico. You know, it's a good state that went wayward. They have crooked elections in New Mexico, very crooked elections.

But if you call New Mexico -- so, a friend of mine lives there and he says every time he goes on a plane, they want to see his passport. Because -- no, he says all the time, it's such a pain. And frankly, and I'm playing with this, you know, this is tricky. It's called New Mexico, but it's not Mexico. I want to change it to New America, right?

The value of their homes will double. I'll tell you, it's like -- it's like with -- seriously, it's like the Gulf of America. You know, the Gulf of America now, the whole shoreline is booming. They're selling T-shirts, they're selling everything. They never sold anything and it's booming. All right, so, I have a Gulf of America; I have an unbelievable -- one of the great five lakes.

Canada is not thrilled with that one. I called up Google Map, this is after Gulf of -- I called up Google Map and I said yeah, change it please. Again? So, I did that with Gulf of America. I called up -- you know who I called up there, fellas, our friend, right? The top guy, I don't want to give his name because he'll be met with anger.

No, he'll be met with love, actually, I think. And I called him up I said, I want to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. He goes, wow, that's big. [Laughter] He said, that's a big one. Then I changed the lake last week. So, now I call him again and I send him a picture of the Atlantic Ocean. [Laughter] And -- it's true, true.

Sundar, I said Sundar -- he's incredible, he's a genius -- look, you know, look what they did, Sergey, Sundar, look what they did. But the Google map is a big deal. You know, I did all the legal filings. So, we have a lake, we have a gulf, we need a river, an ocean and a strait. [Laughter] So, I've got the strait, that's the Strait of Hormuz; we're going to call it the Trump Strait.

Right? And I like big things, so there's only two oceans that qualify for the name change, one is the Pacific Ocean, and one is the Atlantic Ocean. And so, I said, let's go with the Atlantic, you know, it's closer to home.

So I sent a little note to Sundar from Google. He's the boss, the whole thing, but Google Map is one of many things they've done so well. I said, Sundar, I want to change the name of the Atlantic Ocean to the American Ocean. And while you're at it, I want to change the name of the Strait of Hormuz to the Trump Strait.

And he called up, he said, sir, I've had it, I've had it, I can't do it anymore. What you've done here, I cannot do oceans, sir. I could do a gulf, barely. I could do a lake, barely, but I'm not doing the damn Atlantic Ocean, OK? Did you know that? He -- he put his foot -- he put his foot down, and I was only kidding.

I said, Sundar, I'm only kidding. We are looking also though, for a river. So we have two that I like. Mississippi, I don't have the courage because we want Mississippi and all those states that have massive -- so then you have the Hudson River, but I don't think. So I think we're going to lay off -- we're going to lay off rivers.

Anyway, I'm just kidding. We're having fun. See, the problem with this kind of fun is these fake news is going to report it as serious news. Watch, there'll be a story -- [Audience boos]

There'll be a story tomorrow on the front page of the failing New York Times that says, Donald Trump wants to change the name of the Atlantic Ocean. And he was -- and he was met with bitter criticism. So remember how I'm just kidding, but when you read it tomorrow, they will give it as breaking news. We have breaking news.

I'll go out tonight, breaking news. But with the help of Secretary of Health and Human Services -- how much do we like this guy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? What a great guy. What a great guy. I'd get him up, except I watched him for a half an hour on the plane. I don't know, do you want to come up and announce it yourself, Bobby?

Come on up, Bobby. Come up. Come up.

I'm very grateful to President Trump. I spent 40 years working for the commercial fishermen in this country. And commercial fishermen in this country have the strongest environmental regulations. They have the greatest sustainability regulations but it puts them at a disadvantage to all the other fishermen in the world.

I'm going to give you one quick example, Vietnam and Cambodia. They have companies that go in there, they fence off a mangrove swamp, they poison the fish in it, they grow shrimp. They can do that for five seasons and all the mangroves are dead. They destroy the environment. The shrimp are so loaded with antibiotics and disinfectants that no European country will take them.

So they ship them all over here and they put our shrimpers here, Fort Myers, the greatest shrimporee in Florida, pink shrimp, and they have to compete against criminal enterprise abroad. President Trump is rebuilding the infrastructure, he's reopening the markets for our commercial fisherman. And today he's announcing a label for all American made seafood that says it's American made, so Americans can make a good choice. [Audience chants "USA"]

Thank you, Bobby. By the way, seriously, did anybody ever see the build, the body on -- did anybody ever see this? He's got the body -- he's got the body of a 30 year old. He's -- but he has done an amazing job. He's actually just like an amazing guy. Think of it, think of it, he's a Republican and he's the most important Kennedy in the Kennedy family by far.

I mean, is that good? See, now with that statement, I just caused him a little more problem but we can handle problems, right? No, he's a great guy. Our country is doing so well under Republican leadership that only I can make this promise to you. It's a promise. If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000. And only Republicans can do it because Democrats aren't able to, because we're taking in massive amounts of money through tariffs and record-setting economic success.

But the Dumocrats policies are so bad that they won't allow this to happen. It's the exact opposite. If -- I mean this, but I would hope it would be wrong if such a thing should ever happen, which I don't think it will. If the Democrats win, you will have a 1929-style economic depression. I believe that, because they're so stupid.

They're so stupid. Don't forget, they're the ones that want transgender mutilization of your children. [Audience boos]

They want open borders. They want -- they want men playing in women's sports. So their financial policies are just as stupid as their regular policies. If the Republicans win, you will each have $5,000 in your pocket and economic success for our country like we have never seen before. And remember, just sort of as a little example, because the Dumocrats are going, oh, he'll never be able to pull that off.

Oh, I will. I always pull it off. Because you remember, just recently I gave all members of our military $1,776, everyone. And they all got it. It's all done, got it one year ago, $1,776. And I asked generals, I said, what could we give as a little bonus to our military, they've done so great? And they came in, these three guys came in, handsome, big, strong guys, four stars, four stars and three stars.

Sir, I think you can do $1,775. I said, wait a minute, $1,775. You mean if I add $1, it's $1,776? That's an important name, important term, 1776. They said, yes, sir, we can -- can you scrounge up, general, one extra dollar? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. These guys were so good looking, I wanted to -- I wanted to go out immediately and make a movie because I have -- now I have my Secretary of the Treasury and I have my generals, all proud.

But I said, so if we do $1 more at $1,776, that's right. So we did $1,776. And each one of those people, every time I get greeted -- every time I get greeted by somebody in the military, they thank me for the $1,776. That's a cool -- such a cool thing. But we got it done. I got it done less than a year ago and the $5,000 I'll get done too, because the $5,000 Trump dividend is approximately $1 trillion.

That's what it's going to cost, but we have a record setting $22.2 trillion that's being invested in the country in just 15 months. But the only caveat on the Trump -- let's call it the Trump dividend, is that you have to spend the money in the United States of America. You can't go to a foreign country.

And your wife would get it and you would get it and that's $10,000. You cannot go to Japan. You can't spend the money, darling, darling, I love you so much, let's go to China, it's such a beautiful place. You can't go to France. This is not a good time to spend your money. You can go to France if you'd like.

We'll open it up. No, I don't think it's a good time to go to France. Does anybody like revolution? If you like revolution -- but you can't. You have to spend the money here. So it's going to be -- Scott would call that recycling, right, Scott, recycling. It's not going to cost us so much. You spend the money in the United States.

So the choice of this election is really a very simple one. You can vote for the radical left Dumocrat communists, dilute your wealth, raise your taxes by $5 trillion, annihilate your borders, decimate Florida jobs, mutilate your children, and give 25 million illegal aliens amnesty and the right to vote. [Audience boos]

That doesn't seem to be too popular. Or you can defeat the Dumocrat communists and vote for more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your families, lower taxes, less crime, a booming Florida economy, and no amnesty for illegal aliens. But for that, you must vote Republican. And remember that every single Dumocrat in Congress voted against our tax cuts, they voted against no tax on tips, they voted against no tax on overtime, they voted against no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.

They voted against voter ID, they voted against proof of citizenship, they voted against securing our borders. Remember this, if they ever did win, I can't even imagine it, your borders would be open, you'd have no voter integrity. Think of it, why do they want no voter ID? They want to cheat. Why do they want a man not to come up to them and say, sir, may I see your proof of citizenship, sir?

I'm not giving you my citizenship; I demand -- you know why? Because they want to cheat, because it's the only way they can win because their policies are so bad they have to cheat. They voted in favor of the worst inflation and the highest energy costs in American history. The worst inflation I inherited and last -- for the last three months inflation was at 1.7 percent.

Can you imagine? They voted in favor of transgender mutilation of your children, and they voted in favor of men playing in women's sports. [Audience boos]

On election night, Florida is going to prove that America does not belong to those who hate it; America belongs to those who love it. [Audience chants "USA"]

So, let's get down to business. David Jolly is a vicious, anti-gun radical who wants to take away your firearms. He has an F rating from the NRA. I've never even heard of an F rating. You know what an F rating means? Get rid of all guns. And he said, quote, we must crush the culture of guns. Not a good thing to say to Florida.

I wonder if he knew he was running for office, Byron. I don't think so. But he said he does not agree with the Second Amendment, the ability for anybody to buy a gun is foolish. These are his quotes. Byron Donalds will always defend your right to keep and bear arms, just like I do. And Byron was one of the first people to endorse me in 2025. I'm telling you, when I announced, he was like, right at the beginning, maybe the first -- boy, you were right there.

You were early. Thank you very much. I don't know if I've ever thanked you for that. I don't know, I thank you, but not for the speed, the speed was pretty good. But now Byron is endorsed by 36 Florida sheriffs, the Florida Farm Bureau -- Most of regular law enforcement, Moms for America and he has endorsed by me at the strongest and highest level.

He's an incredible guy. He will be one of your greatest governors in history, and he's a special person and a nice person with an unbelievable wife and family. Byron, please come up, please. [Audience chants "Byron"]

We're going to win in 11 days. This election is very simple -- this election is very simple. As your next governor, we're going to make sure that our government is accountable to you. As your next governor, we're going to make sure our children can achieve their Florida dream. And as your next governor, this state is going to be affordable.

We're going to lower insurance; we're going to lower taxes; Florida will always be the greatest state in America. And, Mr. President, it was my honor to back you to be the 47th president of the United States, because the Autopen Joe Biden was terrible, he was terrible. By the way, did you hear they brought Bill Clinton into Florida? [Audience boos]

And before that, they had crazy Bernie in here for a couple of events. [Audience boos]

You came in one time. This is the biggest event that's happened in Florida all year. Thank you, Mr. President. God bless you, Florida. Thank you.

Thank you, Byron, great job. And again, he's a great person. I've known him for a long time. He's going to go down as a great man. We also have to defeat deranged Angie Nixon, who voted in favor of deadly sanctuary cities, and she even voted against punishing illegal aliens who vote in Florida's elections.

They tried. Ashley Moody fought to defend your elections as Florida attorney general. She fought like nobody. Nobody else fought like her. She protected your children, supported our police, and put dangerous criminals behind bars. And in the Senate, Ashley was the pivotal vote to give you the largest tax cuts in history and much more than that.

She's been a great Senator, and she will continue to be. She needs your support and she has my endorsement and complete support. Ashley, please come up.

When I was attorney general, I had to sit there and watch radicals running the White House, tearing down our border, letting people flood in. I had to listen to sheriffs who called me around the state that said that the Biden administration was forcing them to let out people who were committing crimes against our citizens and were here illegally.

I had to listen as drug traffickers gained more and more control because of Biden's policies, and our people died from fentanyl. I had to listen to that, but we didn't just listen, we fought back and we won. It was my honor to be the only attorney general in the nation to be on President Trump's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, to fight for this nation and to fight for you.

And when I got to the US Senate, I took that same fight. And with this administration, within one year, we had the largest ever drop in violent crime in the history of this nation. Together, we shut the border, fentanyl deaths are decreasing by the day. Those are real lives saved. So, I can tell you this -- if you elect Republicans back into the Senate, back into the House, we will continue that fight for you because we know who we stand for, we know who we're protecting.

We're protecting Americans, we're protecting this nation, we're protecting your security. It's like a UFC fight on the White House lawn. Thank you so much. God bless you.

Thank you, Ashley. What a great job. So, Florida also needs to elect Jim Schwartzel. Where's Jim? Where's Jim? You're going to get in -- very important to the House of Representatives, very important, Jim. And I looked at the numbers; you're doing fantastically and you're really -- nice to see you and your family.

Good luck. Very important. And reelect all of my friends and their warriors, Greg Steube. Where's Greg? Where's Greg?

The only man to hit a home run ever in the -- in the game between the Democrats and the Republicans. That's the only -- look at him. Stand up. Look at the build on this guy. No wonder. He's the only man ever to hit it over the fence, right? And he's a great pitcher. Another -- thank you very much. Great job.

And Mrs., thank you very much. I love her because every time I'm with her, she prays for me. Who does that? Who does that? Right? Who does that? Great. Great couple. Another person who's incredible is Anna Paulina Luna. Anna. Great. It's a great person -- these are great people, warriors, by the way. Scott Franklin, Scott.

Thank you, Scott. Great job. Brian Mast. Thank you, Brian. Brian, we love Brian. Thank you, Brian. Thank you. Brave guy and a fantastic Congressman, fantastic politician. Laura Lee, thank you. Laura, hi, Laura. Thank you. Gus Bilirakis. Where are you? Thank you. Thank you, Gus. Another great guy. Carlos Jimenez.

Carlos, thank you. Thank you very much, Carlos. Along with a man who I really think is one of the greats, he's one of the best, your attorney general, James Uthmeier, one of the best. He's great, great man, great guy. And your agricultural commissioner respected by everybody, Wilton Simpson. And again, thanks as well to Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent.

Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. CMS administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, a great character. What a great job he does. His show was very successful for a long time and -- and this is much bigger than any show. This is much bigger. What he's doing is incredible, between the two of them.

Senator Rick Scott. Thank you, Rick. Thank you. Thank you, Rick. Very good, good speech. Congressman Vern Buchanan. Thank you. Thank you, Vern. And Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins. Thank you. Thank you, Jay. RNC Chairman Joe Gruters, who's doing a fantastic job. And Florida GOP Chair Evan Power. Thank you.

RNC National Committeewoman, Kathleen King. Thank you, Kathleen. Good, good job. And legendary Tampa Bay Buccaneers fullback and Super Bowl champion, the "A-Train" Mike Alstott. The "A-Train". He was tough. Good job, Mike. He was -- he was tough. Everyone here today is part of the greatest movement in the history of our country.

It's the greatest movement. And our spirit, I will tell you, and I can say because I've been going, I've been in a different state virtually every day for the last couple of weeks. It's stronger than ever. It's stronger than ever before, because they don't want to have the wrong people take over our country.

They don't want to have it. They're not going -- it's not acceptable. So in conclusion, I just want to tell you that we have some incredible things happening. Before I give my final statement, I do -- I do want you to take a look. CNN did a video and they did a poll and I appreciate CNN's honesty in this case, because I fight them all the time.

And I think you'll see this and I think you'll like it very much. Please.

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[Video clip] Okay. MAGA GOP on Trump. In the 2024 election versus Kamala Harris, he got 99% of the MAGA GOP vote. Perhaps surprisingly, I might have thought it'd be 100%, but it was 99%. Compare that to his approval rating now with the MAGA GOP. It's 98%. That is, there's been no real decline in MAGA support.

[Video clip] These folks say that they're gonna vote for congressional Republicans come the midterm elections. Again, that's the 99% that Trump got against Kamala Harris. Look now, in terms of the congressional vote, 98% of them say they're gonna be voting for House Republican candidates. So that support is actually really holding up strong.

[Video clip] It's really, really strong when it comes to MAGA GOP and the Republicans holding onto that vote. This one. Okay, the president Republicans most admire, it's Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say, 53% say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan, who traditionally has won that much, Donald Trump nearly triples up on this, Reagan at just 18%, and then Abraham Lincoln, who, by most historic accounts, is the greatest president of all time.

[Video clip] But Republicans say that the president that they most admire by, what is this, is this is six, seven times as many, Donald John Trump at 53%, easily crushing Abe Lincoln at 8%. And the Elon Poll showed that he was the greatest president as well, Donald Trump.

[Video clip] I feel like this slide might end up on a printout on his desk.

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Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, everybody. It's been so much fun, a lot of fun. A lot of -- a lot of love, a lot of love. Thank you. It's actually, a friend of mine asked me, how do you do this all the time? And how do you do this in front of these crowds? You talk like you're not at all nervous, you don't care, it's -- how do you do it? He wanted to run for politics, but he developed lockjaw.

He's a very successful guy, but he had stage fright. He had a little problem. If you're going to be a politician, it's best not to have stage fright. He had a little stage -- he said, how do you do it? I said, it's easy because there's such love in the room. It's true, such love. But in conclusion, if you elect a Republican House and a Republican Senate on November 3rd, we will continue to put America first every single day.

That's what we're going to do. We will win the war on corruption and fraud, led by our great Vice President JD Vance. And we will pass the No Invasion of Our Country Act, prohibiting any future president from ever opening our borders to illegal immigrants again. And we will ban sanctuary cities and pass the death penalty for large scale drug dealers, human traffickers, and anyone who kills a police officer or member of law enforcement.

And we will pass voter identification, proof of citizenship, and the SAVE America Act to defend our sacred American elections. and we will enshrine in permanent law no men in women sports and no transgender mutilization of your children. So, ladies and gentlemen of Florida, the Golden Age of America is upon us. You must go out, you must vote Republican.

You do that, you're going to be very, very happy. Our country will reach new levels of greatness. You will reach new levels of greatness like nobody has ever seen before. It's really my honor to be your president during this exciting time in the history of our country. And we've been doing this together for 11 years, and there's never been anything like it. There never will be anything like it. There's never been anything so consequential as what we're doing together, and I want to thank you for it. It's been my honor to do it with you.

Because there will never be another time like this, the crowds, the people, the love, the size of the rallies. It's never going to happen again. You know, when a president comes, a respected president, they come to a place and they'll have 100, 150, 200 people. We have 25,000, 40,000, 75,000. Our record -- our record is 117,000 in New Jersey, 117,000. There's never been anything like it. And the love has also been, there's never been anything like that either.

So let's go out and do what we do best, which is to win. We win, win, win on November 3rd, win. And let's make the next two years bigger, better, and stronger than ever before, because we will make America powerful again, wealthy again, healthy again, strong again, proud again, safe again and, most importantly, we will make America great again.

Thank you very much, Florida. Thank you.