Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Virtual Tele-Rally for New York GOP Candidates - November 2, 2026

Well, thank you very much, Mike, and you've done an amazing job. You're really an amazing leader, and one of the most respected Congresspeople in Washington, easily. I can say that, easily. And I think you've run a fantastic campaign. And I just want to say a very special hello to New York. I love New York.

I hate what's happened to it. I hate what I see, the filth, the dirt, the crime. It's terrible. When I left a while ago -- it seems like yesterday, but it was a while ago in 201 -- it was okay. We had a bad mayor, but it hadn't taken effect yet. But now it's taken effect and some really bad things are happening.

We have to stop it. And we have new people on the phone today that are just total winners. I mean, they're warriors, winners, and -- and we're going to get them in. And I just want to inform everyone that tomorrow is the most important midterm election in the history of our country, I believe, because it's going -- we're doing so well.

We're setting records in every way. We've created $25 trillion in wealth since the election. Think of it, $25 trillion in wealth, never happened -- nothing ever -- even close. Factories being built all over the country, $22 trillion in investment being made in our country, and we have to keep it going. The jobs are at an all time high.

We have stats that are so incredible, individual income as an example. I could just rattle them off one after the other. I sit -- I sit here without papers, unlike Biden. I sit here without papers, I could rattle them off. Individual income is the best. The poverty levels are the best we've ever had. Who wants to talk about poverty in a way?

But it's been the strongest, the best they've ever had, lowest levels. And we've done more. It's such a -- a great thing. I was saying last night, the numbers just came out, we have sent more manufacturing -- manufacturing material out of the United States -- it's called exporting -- than ever at any time in the history of our country.

So, we gotta keep it going. And together, we're going to save New York and we're going to continue to do great for the United States. And we want to elect Bruce Blakeman as your next governor. And Bruce is a fantastic friend of mine. He's -- he's unbelievable, I'm just telling you. I just said, if he gets the nomination, he's going to give her a run.

He really is. He's very close. I don't know, I saw one poll with literally even, and even means he could very much win. And he's -- he's done an incredible job in Nassau County. He's got the best crime stats of any county in America. And he won in a long shot years ago, and after that he's won in literally -- you know, it was -- it was a big shock that he won, because Republicans don't usually win that area.

And then since -- since then, he's won in record fashion. I mean, literally he wins in landslides, like -- like I won the last election, frankly. And we're going to elect -- reelect a truly great congressman, a man who works so hard and loves his area, loves the country, Mike Lawler. And he's really become -- I call him -- I call him lots of different names, but I call him Mr. Salt because he took something that was passed and he had it amended to the benefit of his area and to the benefit of the state, and nobody else could have done it. I don't believe anybody else could have done it. It's amazing.

So, I call him affectionately Mr. Salt, because it was a period of time where that was so important, that that was all he would do until he got it. Now he does other things, and it's all to the benefit -- and I -- I want to send, and we have to send, Mike LiPetri and Jeanine Driscoll to the US House of Representatives, two stars.

They are two stars. They're great. You have to pretend I'm on the ballot because, when I'm on the ballot, we -- I get almost 50 percent more voters out. We've won every time when I'm on the ballot, every single time by a lot. But when I'm not on the ballot, you get 50 percent less. And if we're on the ballot, we win in a landslide.

And if I'm not on the ballot, so just -- and I am actually on the ballot in the true sense, because it's no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. I mean, you know, the whole thing is, like, so important, no tax on overtime. So many people -- we have thousands and thousands of people on the line.

You have police, you have construction people that they have no tax on overtime. It's such a big deal. The Democrats want to end all that. No estate tax when you leave your small farm or you leave your small business to your children, no estate tax, they want to change all that. They want to put it all back where it was and they want to raise -- I've never seen a race running -- run where they want to raise people's taxes by 25, 30 percent.

I've never -- I've never seen a politician suggest it. The whole thing is crazy. But you have to get out and vote. If you -- if you vote and if everybody gets out and vote, we're going to have a tremendous victory tomorrow. And that's what I'm predicting. I think we're going to have a big surprise in store, because I just did 29 rallies over about a 15 day period, and, I mean, we were getting numbers like -- there's never been any midtown -- any midterm election that has the kind of numbers that we've seen over the last short period of time.

So, New York needs to reelect Congressman Mike Lawler. Mike Lawler is special and a warrior for your state, passed over two dozen bills, secured $120 million for his district and fought like no one else, as I said, for SALT and the SALT deduction, getting it from $10,000 to $40,000, four times, and massively lowered your taxes.

Mike is running against a radical Dumocrat who's not at all respected named Cait Conley, who supports the transgender mutilization of your children and chemical castration of children. Are you -- it's not even believable. You know, I -- some of these candidates that are running, the chemical castration, can you believe it? You wouldn't even think there's a race.

But they -- you know, they're radical people. And they do have an ability to raise money and fight, but their -- their policy is so crazy. Think of that. I'm just looking at the notes. This is all right out of her book, Transgender Mutilization and Chemical Castration of Children -- can you imagine I have to even say this -- and wants to mass release illegal alien criminals all over New York State.

And the vote against radical pro-crime child mutilizer Caitie Conley is an absolute necessity. She also wants open border. She wants to terminate your Second Amendment. She wants sanctuary cities. So, think of it. She wants all these things that are going to cause crime, but you're not allowed to have a gun to protect yourself, which you'll need -- you'll really need if they ever had their way.

And you just -- you know, I don't have to talk about it too much because if you look, go back two years and take a look. They allowed 25 million people, many of them criminals -- 11,888 were murderers and we got most of them out -- but they were murderers and they were allowed to be in our country. And they did damage too.

They did a lot of damage. So, New York needs to fire crooked Congressman Tom Suozzi. He's always been a third rate politician, who made a bigger profit while trading stock as a member of Congress than even Nancy Pelosi, who's crooked as hell, and said his number one goal is to pass mass amnesty for tens of millions of people that were allowed to come into our country.

That's why -- so, they allowed 25 million people into our country, and the reason they did it is they want to give them amnesty and they want to give them citizenship and the right to vote so that it gets harder and harder to win elections for us. And the only way they can win elections, because their policy's so bad, is to cheat.

That's why they don't want to have voter ID or -- or any other form of identification, including citizenship. They don't want to show proof of citizenship. Tom Suozzi even sponsored a bill that would give American citizenship to illegal aliens found guilty of sexually abusing children and other crimes. So, this is a new one because nobody's there.

He's out there. Nobody -- nobody has said that. Even Democrats don't want to do that. But -- but many of them do. You need to throw out the radical left losers and elect State Representative Mike LiPetri, who's phenomenal. I know Mike for a long time. The guy's a winner. He's a young, attractive guy who's going to -- he's going to help guys like Mike Lawler and me, frankly, achieve what we have to do. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world right now.

We were a dead country two years ago. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world, and Mike LiPetri will be in there with -- with the whole group, and Jeanine and Mike. I mean, you take a look at this -- this group of people, we need them. So, he voted against every single -- if you take a look at what was going -- his opponents, they voted against every single tax hike.

They voted against everything that you have in Albany and voted against all of these -- all of these things that took place. Mike LiPetri voted very strongly when he was in Albany against lifting your taxes. Everyone else, they want to -- they want to do tax increases. I've never seen anything like it. It's the first time -- I've actually asked people to study, go back many years, first time ever where a group is running on tax hikes.

Anyway, LiPetri fought them all the way. And when Mike gets to Congress, he will do the same thing. It's going to be basically the same thing. You know, a lot of what we talk about is common sense. It's nothing other than common sense. It's -- we can be conservative. You can be whatever you want to be. But ultimately, it's about common sense.

We want a wall. We want low taxes. We want a strong military. And by the way, speaking of military, so we won the war in Venezuela and we won it in, to be exact, 48 minutes. It was done in less than an hour. We won. Let's say we -- let's be nice and say it took a day. And we've taken in billions and billions and billions of dollars worth of oil and everything else.

And we're -- the war in Iran is going very well. They have no money. They have no military. Their navy's gone. Their air force is gone. Everything's gone. Their leaders are gone. And that's part of the problem. We don't know -- we don't know who to deal with. Their leaders are mostly gone. And they are -- they cannot have a nuclear weapon.

Obama gave them the right to have a nuclear weapon with a crazy JCPOA deal that he made, one of the worst deals ever made. And we're not going to give them -- they're never going to have a nuclear weapon. We bombed out their sites. They'll never have -- and we'll -- as soon as that gets either settled or ended one way or the other -- do it either way very quickly.

But as soon as that happened, gas and -- oil and gas will be pouring down. It'll be coming -- it'll be coming down. And -- and you have to remember we did something that other presidents should have done, because you had no choice. Otherwise, if you gave them -- the number one state sponsor of terror, if you gave them a nuclear weapon, they would use it and it would be -- oh, you're talking about high gas prices, that would be the least of your problems.

It would be a problem. So, they will never have a nuclear weapon. You can let -- can't let them have -- they're sick. You can't let them have a nuclear weapon, and we didn't. We bombed their site a year ago, and it's -- it was -- they hit -- every -- every one of those bombs hit every chute right down into the location.

They have hundreds of thousands of tons of rock sitting on top of them, but we want to make sure it stays that way. And so, we'll get it finished very soon. As soon as it is, oil's going to come way down, to a level that we had it before the -- before we had to make that detour and go to the Middle East. I had -- really, I had an obligation to do it. I had to do it, or -- I did it for us. I did it for the world.

So, Mike LiPetri is fantastic, and he will do so many things. And he's going to help me and he's going to help all -- you know, one of the things that these other candidates want to do is destroy your Second Amendment. And Mike will be one of, frankly, many people that will not let that happen. I've -- it's one of the toughest fights.

They really want to -- they want to get rid of the Second Amendment. They want to take away your ammunition. They want to do everything. You also need to elect Jeanine Driscoll, the Hempstead Town Receiver, highly respected. She saved taxpayers millions and millions of dollars and has been given great credit for doing so. She's running to defeat a far left lunatic named Laura Gillen, who voted against the largest tax cuts in American history.

She voted against the tax cuts. They're all voting against the tax -- well, they all voted against no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security for our seniors and no tax on overtime. They all -- everybody -- everybody here either voted that way or talked that way, in other words, if they were in a position.

She voted against all of the things that -- that you hold dear. And she voted against, as an example, SALT. She wanted to keep it the way it was. And people like Mike Lawler, it -- it was a passion to make sure, because the SALT deduction is a very, very big deal and puts the state at a tremendous disadvantage.

So, in other words, she wants to have you pay thousands and thousands of dollars more per year than you're paying right now. And she's a big -- they call her a big tax hiker. So, Laura Gillen is also an anti-gun radical who has an F rating -- it just came in -- she has an F rating, which is hard to get from the NRA. When you get an F rating, you gotta really be bad.

But an F rating doesn't mean Second Amendment. It means -- it means you literally can obliterate it. You -- they literally will come in and take away your guns. Very rare that you see an F rating, and she's got one. So I would say, Jeanine, you just have to run on that. You'll be in good shape. But these are people -- one other thing we did, and Mike knows because he helped a lot on it, was the favored nations drug -- drug deal we cut.

We'll -- drugs, as you know, are starting to come down now. We had the highest drug prices in the United States, and we had the highest drug prices in the world. We had the highest drug prices we've ever had, and we had the highest drug prices anywhere in the world, and now we have the lowest drug prices in the world.

Drugs are going down by 60, 70, 80 percent. I did that through favored nations. I did that through the use of tariffs, that if the countries -- the various countries didn't agree to do it, basically they had to -- they had to raise their prices and we lowered ours. And so, now we get the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world.

We went from the highest to the lowest, and that alone's another thing. That alone should be an automatic win. And we have to keep it, because they will raise it. All of these things that we've talked about, like the estate tax which you don't pay, all of these things are going to be reversed if the Democrats get into power.

So, Laura Gillen is a disgrace to New York and she should be defeated, and Jeanine is fantastic. So, get out and vote for Mike Lawler, Mike LiPetri, and Jeanine Driscoll. They're fantastic people. I think they're going to do great. I think I hear -- I see pretty good polls, too. And I think with maybe the help -- these tele town halls are amazing.

The impact they have is just amazing. That's why -- that's why I do them. They are really -- you know, I just told you I just did all these big rallies, but the town halls are very important. And this was in honor of Mike in particular because I worked so hard with him. But I wanted to make this one the first one so that I could do it before I blow the voice entirely, ok? Because by the time I get to the end of the day, I may have no voice left.

But they've got my complete and total endorsement. And for more information on the election -- and normally I would have said you can send it in but no longer. You gotta really -- just go November 3rd and vote. And you could go to SwamptheVoteUSA.com, but -- if you have any information that you need. But just get out and vote on November 3rd. It's Tuesday and day after tomorrow, so it's going to be -- which is now tomorrow.

It's going to be a tremendous day, and I think we're going to have tremendous victories. But these three people are special. And so, Mike, I'll hand it back to you, and good luck. And I hope that I'm going to speak to you on Tuesday night and congratulate you. You deserve it. And good luck, everybody. And I want to thank the people of New York.

You've been fantastic to me. It's my -- a place I grew up. I guess nobody knows it quite as well. We're going to turn it around. We're going to make it great again. Bruce Blakeman is phenomenal. He'll be a phenomenal governor. He'll get it done. Thank you, everybody, very much. And I'll turn it back to you, Mike.