Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Midterm Political Rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina - October 29, 2026

Thank you. Wow. Wow. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. That's a great group. We got a lot of people outside. The fire marshal was reasonably good to us, not great. Could have been better, but they were reasonably good. I just want to say a very special hello to South Carolina, a special hello. I'm thrilled to be back in this really beautiful state, a state which I won all three times with more votes than any candidate in South Carolina history, all three times.

And five days from now, we're going to elect Darline Graham to the United States Senate. Uh, Lindsey's looking down. He said, I'd love to be here, but it just didn't work out. But he's very proud of you. He was always proud of his sister. He considered her the greatest person he's ever known. He told me that many times.

And honestly, I was quite insulted. I said, what about me, I'm the president? So he didn't get into it really after that, but he -- actually, I think he considered her the best of all and he loved her like crazy. And it was a really a beautiful thing. I've seen brothers and sisters don't get along so well; this was different.

And he was great. He was a great politician and she's got the genes. She's already got one of the biggest bills passed. It was fast. It takes a lot of people in the Senate years, right, Tim? They go years. She already got one passed. But we're going to elect Alan Wilson as your next governor, a friend of mine.

Thank you, Alan. Across the state line in North Carolina, we're going to elect a great man, Michael Whatley. He's not getting -- he's not getting a fair -- he's not getting -- it's not fair what's happening. You know, the governor over there, Roy Cooper, he was governor. [Audience boos]

No, but the press isn't covering it. There's something wrong. You know, Michael Whatley was the head of the North Carolina party and all and he did so good that I said, I'm going to come back after they rig the election and -- the second one. I said, I'm going to come back and we're going to win, and I'm going to take that guy, because they never were able to rig the election on him, because I won North Carolina so easily and he ran it so well.

He was the head of the Republican Party in North Carolina, and he did it with Lara. Did you ever hear of Lara, my -- my daughter-in-law, who's great. And I said, if I ever come back, I'm going to put him as the head of the Republican Party in the whole country and I did that. And he was fantastic, worked with Lara.

They were co-heads and, boy, we won this race, too big to rig, nobody had a chance, right? And -- but I said, I'm going to do it. And then I said, you ought to run for the Senate in North Carolina, and he did. And they don't give him a break. They have a governor who tries to pretend he's a moderate and he's not.

But I'm just going to give you one quick and then I'm -- because I'm really here to talk about Darline, but I have to say, it's so unfair, Roy Cooper was a terrible governor, but nobody knows it. Roy Cooper went, during the hurricane, which was a water cane, because it had more water than anybody -- it was the worst.

He did such a bad job. It was only until I got there on January 20th that things got straightened out. He was a disaster. But more importantly than that, he released 88, 85 or 88 murderers from prison because of COVID. It was the COVID time. He didn't want them -- these are murderers, all of them were murderers.

He released them from prison. I'll tell you, you got a man, Henry McMaster, I don't think he'd be doing this. Henry? Would Henry ever release 88 murderers from prison? You know why he released them? He didn't want them to catch COVID. Who the hell cares if they caught COVID? Who cares, right? Henry would say, I don't care if they catch COVID, do the job.

And first of all, they were mostly young people. They were going to be fine anyway but he released them, 88, and they went on to kill in a short period of time, 25 people. The 88 people got out. Many of them were in solitary confinement. They were vicious. He released them from prison. They went on to kill 25 people.

And I said, congratulations, Michael Whatley you just won the race. You know, and the press doesn't pick it up. Nobody picks it up. So there was a man named Governor George Dukakis, a long time ago, and he had somebody, Willie Horton, they -- he released a killer named Willie Horton. Willie Horton went on to kill -- kill and rape.

He raped and killed three women in, like one day, one short period of time. And Michael Dukakis was running for president. He had a substantial lead, like 12 points. And within one day, the race was over because he released a man who went on to kill. This guy released 88 people who were murderers, and he released them because of COVID. He said he didn't want them to catch COVID, and they went on to kill 25 people.

And one of the killers is Decarlos Brown Jr., and he was the one that cut the beautiful young girl's head right from -- slashed her neck, cut her head off, right standing behind her in that horrible scene a year and a half ago. And a beautiful young girl sat down and she had her head sliced off by this guy.

And that was one of the people he released, and it has no impact on -- but this is where he's coming from. And I just say to North Carolina, you ought to put a great man as your next Senator, Michael Whatley. I cannot believe -- I thought -- when I heard that story -- I'll tell you, Henry, when I heard that story, I said, Whatley is going to win and Whatley should win.

He's -- he's phenomenal. But what are you going to do? I hope he does well, but it's so unfair. Think of it, another man, one killer and he ends up losing an election in a landslide. And he was -- he was an easy win. It was over, that -- he was going to become the next president, but because he did that, here's a guy released 88 people, killed 25, and nothing happens.

He should be excoriated, and it shows where he's coming from, too. It shows that he's a radical left lunatic. He's not a moderate. But today, I'm pleased to report, in breaking news this morning that the US economy is booming at 3.4 percent, which is a historic economic level of [Inaudible] And, you know, this is way higher than they thought.

They don't get it, Tim. They don't -- how good was Tim Scott? I watched his speech today. How good? You're so lucky to have him, and now you have two of them. I like that combination, the two of you. Nobody's going to beat you. But -- so the numbers came out way, way, way above expectation. Oh, you haven't seen anything yet.

And that's despite the fact that they don't want to cut, you know, the -- the politicians that are on the board, Federal Reserve. They hate like hell to cut the interest rates because that would be good for me. And thank you very much. I love you too. He's a guy, but I love him anyway. He's a guy. He's a guy.

He's a good-looking guy but we like him anyway. Never been my thing. I don't know why, but it's all right. It's all right. We love him. But consumer spending is way up, business investment is up at record levels, and investment in new equipment exploded by 21 percent. They've never heard. And you know what that is? That's two things.

It's the tax credit that you get under the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill, the businesses get, but I think even more important, it's because of the tariffs. Because all these companies are coming in, they're flooding America, they're coming in from Europe, from Asia, Canada, Mexico, they're all pouring in. They're leaving and they're coming -- they're all coming here.

We have more car plants being built right now in the United States Senate any time ever before. And very importantly, core inflation is very low. We inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country and we have -- for the last three months, inflation is 1.7 percent. I mean, and that's my time. You know, we inherited a mess from Sleepy Joe Biden.

He was sleeping. He was sleeping all the time. So we're smashing expectations with today's numbers, beating 72 percent of the economists' forecast. They don't know what the hell they're doing, economists. You know, they had with my economy in first, I had the best economy ever, and I predicted and there were 144 economists.

And there were two people that got it right, me, and I think a guy from the Wharton School of Finance, where I happened to go to school, actually. But there were two that got it right out of hundreds of people, the economists. It's like, flip a coin. But our economy is roaring. But if the Democrats win the midterms, they will burn it all down.

It'll all end, all those jobs, all that big -- wait till you hear, your income numbers just came out, record-setting income, individual income at a record-setting level. Nobody's ever seen numbers like this. In fact, I could just read those numbers. I could read the three or four more jobs than we've ever had.

You have the most number of jobs people working than you've ever had. I could read a few of the numbers and just walk right off the stage and say, vote for Darline Graham. I'm leaving now, I don't have to waste a lot of time. Because after you give some of the basic numbers, the rest is just fluff. The rest is just a little entertainment for you.

Because once you hear some of the basic numbers, which you'll hear in a second, but I don't have to stay here all day and talk and talk and entertain and wait. You know, I always wait for people to start leaving, but they never leave, so the speeches get a little long. But if you want to keep this growth going, you must vote Republican and you must vote for, really, an amazing person, Darline Graham.

And as I said, the late, great Lindsey Graham passed away unexpectedly. I -- I asked Darline to do this. I said, Darline, why don't you run? We want you to run. Everybody -- Tim liked the idea, everybody liked it. The governor loved it. The governor appointed Darline without hesitation. But I said, I'd love you to run, I think it would be incredible.

And she said, well, that's a big decision, could I think about it? She thought about it. She said, yes. I got you into this thing, Darline, and you're going to go -- you're going to go and your brother's looking down. He's going to be -- Tuesday night, let's make Lindsey really happy and proud, right? It's going to be great.

It's going to be great. And you know, she's leading, but I had to come here to -- we got to make sure we're not taking any politics. Politics, you never you never know, right? So you got to get out and vote. But there are only a few days left until Election Day. Every single person here has to get out and vote.

You have to, because bad things happen, a lot of crazy things happen. People think that she or somebody else -- here we go, paid protester.

[A protester calls out, interrupting the event.]

[Audience chants "USA"] Paid protester. They pop up every once in a while. Don't -- don't worry about it. No, they're all trained, paid. They don't do a good job. But they always hit me right at the punch line. I'm saying, early voting in South Carolina is underway, you must do it immediately, and they, baa, baa, baa, some dope.

He gets -- sloppy, sloppy looking guy, sloppy looking guy. They're all sloppy. They're all losers. They're all losers. Look, the morning Joes, I got these guys they followed me to about 800 rallies over the years, and he just shouted out, they're losers, sir. They are losers. Mr. Wall is here. I love, Mr. Wall, very smart guy.

I'm going to get that suit, I'm telling you. Someday I'm going to. That'll be the end of my political career, when I wear it. I don't care. But I'm asking you to do me one favor, pretend that I'm on the ballot. Because when I'm on the ballot, for whatever reason, 49.2 percent more people show up. So -- and I am on the ballot because all of these things that we've done, all of these incredible successes that we have, there's never been -- we're not even that close to two years.

There's never been two years like this for any other president. We've never had -- look at the numbers. So we're on the ballot because they can destroy it. I'm on the ballot. But people show up. All three times when I was on the ballot, we won all three times, every race. We won everything. We won all. And when I'm not on the ballot, the midterms, we, uh, just -- I don't know what it is. There's something strange, because if you're president, Republican or Democrat, for whatever reason, you don't win the midterms.

I think it's 2 out of 25 races, something like that. And probably, I think it's actually 23 and 2, and it never made sense to me. I'm going to ask Tim Scott to take me back later on and explain what the hell that's all -- because it doesn't make sense. Even if you're a great president, it doesn't matter, you're just -- so the one thing I can say is that no president has ever worked so hard on a midterm.

You know, most presidents, including me the first couple of times. You sort of take it easy, stay home, you don't do that much, you run your race, everything's nice and rosy, sit around. Then you turn on television and you see results and you say, what the hell is that all about? I think this is number 28 stop.

And it's two or three for Darline. We've got to make sure, most important. But we were all working hard, every one of us. Tim has been following me all over the place. He's heard me so much he can't stand it anymore, he's heard -- he's gone to so many rallies he's saying, please. He brought his wife the other day.

She's beautiful, great woman. She's probably saying, Tim, what the hell are you doing? He can't stand my voice anymore. My a little bit more raspy voice than it was two weeks ago, my little voice is a little bit more raspy, but we just power through it. But it's so important; we have to win because what we've done has never been done in history, our first two years.

And we can't let radical left jihadists and other people tear it down, tear it down. I mean, I watched this guy, as an example, in Michigan. I won Michigan by a lot, I won the Arab vote, but I won Michigan and I won the automakers, I won the Teamsters, I won -- won everything. I won the right to workers.

I loved the right to workers; I love them all. But we won it by a lot. And they have a guy running now who's definitely Muslim Brotherhood. He said he's not, but, you know, check his mother, check his sister, check his notes. You know, everything disappeared from his life, Tim. Everything -- Governor, everything in his life has disappeared from one year back.

It's like -- but when we find -- some of the things he said were horrible. If you're black or if you're Jewish, and if you vote for Abdul, you're crazy, OK? You're crazy. You're crazy anyway, but if you're black or Jewish and you vote, the things that this guy has said is -- and you know, one thing about politics, when they come out and they go out and they start campaigning, whatever their first sentence is, it's what it always is, that's what they go back to, they'll change for a campaign.

Oh, he's changed, he's changed. You know, all of a sudden, he loves -- how about the guy in -- how about the guy in Texas, Talafreako, how about him? How about him? He's a vegan. I kept saying vagan. My wife would say, darling, it's not vagan, it's vegan. Oh, well, I wouldn't know because I don't believe in that stuff.

I like meat. See, I legitimately like -- no, she said, darling, please, it's a vegan. So, he's a vegan plus and -- but he said, we will never have meat in Texas. He doesn't want meat, oil or guns. [Audience boos]

Now, if you're running in Texas and you don't like guns and you don't like meat and you don't like oil, you've got yourself problems. But we've got to be careful. We have a good guy running, too. We have the best attorney general in Texas history, so hopefully that's going to be OK. But they change and now, all of a sudden, you see him at barbecues.

You know, when he disappeared for 12 or 14 days, it was either because there was something mentally wrong with him or he had so much meat he couldn't stand it, he was throwing up all over. [Laughter] No, he goes to barbecues now, they force meat down his throat. I think they do it as torture. He said, I'd love to have steak, ahh.

He's puking all over the place. Henry, he goes backstage, he's puking all over the place. I'd love to have a steak. Would you like another portion? Oh, sure, give me some more. Then he goes backstage and throws up. No, but he'll become a vegan again in about -- I would say within 15 minutes after the election results.

If he -- frankly, if he wins or loses, he's going to be a vegan. If he wins, he's a vegan, and if he loses, he's going to be a vegan. But Darline Graham has devoted her entire life to the people of this state and now she's running to save you -- from a radical left lunatic named Tranny Annie Andrews, Tranny Annie.

I didn't come up with that name. That name is -- I'm good with names, I am good, like Dumocrat. That's my new one, Dumocrat, they're dumb because their policies are so. They're dumb. But Tranny Annie is a mutilizer, a rabid advocate for taxpayer funded child sexual mutilation. I mean, how the hell do they pick people like this?

Puberty blockers for young children at will and other sick forms of medical, virtually, I think malpractice against children, in some places it would be. If Tranny Annie does not have the judgment to know that sex changes for children should not be allowed, she's too crazy, too dangerous and too radical to serve in the United States Senate, and certainly -- certainly not from this state.

You know, a lot of these kids, when they have the surgery and they're young ages, in some cases, they just take them and do it, they don't even get parental -- it's not even believable. Tim leaves home, he comes back a few days later as Sarah. And people think, oh, oh, we actually have -- we actually have, I guess five, five states, they're allowed to do whatever the hell they want to do. It's the craziest thing; no parental checks, don't even talk to the parents, it's crazy.

It's crazy. But, you know, a lot of these people, they age, when they're 22 years old, 25, and they say, who did this to me? Who did this to me? And now they actually have a lot of hospitals that are working on trying to put the pieces back together. These people that do this are sick people. They think -- maybe they think they're doing the right thing, I don't know, it's hard to believe.

But they say, who did this to me? And they end up, in many cases, committing suicide over this. And in many cases, they commit suicide without that. I mean, they, they -- it's a very sad situation. And she's a big believer in it and she's -- she's a radical left person running against a person that is apple pie.

I'll tell you, you're all apple pie and that's good, that's what we want, we want apple pie. Andrews -- Andrews is also a vicious, anti-gun radical who endorsed a ban on the most popular firearms in America. So, here's a reason why she can't be elected. Forget transgender, which is, I think, just as bad -- I guess, morally maybe worse, but forget that on that basis.

But she received an F rating from the NRA, National Rifle Association. I have an A rating, but -- I have an A+ rating. She received -- Well, I kept it. Along with Tim Scott and some of the others in this room, and your Congressman. We fought -- we fight like hell every year, right? Every time somebody -- every time some deranged person shoots somebody, it's always, here we go again, and we've protected it, we haven't let them even touch it. It's not an easy fight, it's not an easy fight, but it's a right fight, you need protection.

You need it for a lot of reasons, but you need to be able to protect yourself. And we've done a great job, and Darline will be right at the front of the pack, she'll be helping us. But anybody who has an F rating on guns, that means your guns -- they're going to take your guns. F means we want to take your guns away.

How the hell can she be running in just that one thing? Let's assume she was perfect, that would mean you couldn't vote for her, she wants to take your guns. Does anybody in this room own a gun? Yeah, like almost everybody. [Laughter] I don't know; I don't think it's good to have an F, right? That's a lot of people.

I've got to see that again. No, don't bother. No, you can't -- you can't have that. I mean think of it, so she has an F rating and you're going to say, oh, let's vote for Tranny Annie, she's wonderful. You can't do it. You can't just on those two things alone. But on the gun thing she will. And, you know, we have a very small balance, it's a very close.

You have all the Democrats are against guns, all the Republicans -- I think all the Republicans are for them. So, if you lose one or two or three votes, you don't have guns anymore, they outlaw the guns. They could do that. They already started, we just stopped them, ammunition. They're very smart. You know, they cheat like hell, but they are clever.

They couldn't beat us on guns, so they went after the ammunition where it's almost impossible, but we stopped them there, too. This has been a long time fight. Darline Graham and President Trump will always defend your Second Amendment and keep and bear arms. And we're going to have a lot of help from a lot of the people that I'm here to support today.

And Tranny Annie told her supporters to immediately defund and abolish the police. OK, so, she said -- she's a defunder, we call them defunders. That means she's a defunder, you know, she was a year ago here. Then she gets involved in politics and some pollster probably said, this is not good. This is not -- typically -- I would think.

So, I got the highest vote in the history of South Carolina. I think that if I said -- if I even made mention of, hey, let's think about defunding the police, OK, listen, do you know what would happen? I would be beaten in a landslide, the greatest landslide in history. Well, that's where she is. She said defund the police and then she found out she's running for office, she decided.

And a pollster said, ma'am, I'm sorry, you're going to have to change your vote and hide any and all evidence that you said defund the police. But she wants to raise your taxes by trillions of dollars. She wants to ban drilling and send energy costs soaring, wants to put windmills all over the place, ruin your farms, ruin you.

Windmills, let's have windmills all over, the most expensive energy in the world that doesn't even work. It's intermittent; I used to kid people saying -- husband and wife talking. Darling, let's watch the president debate Sleepy Joe Biden tonight. And they say, no, I'm sorry, we can't. The wind isn't blowing, we have no electricity, the wind. [Laughter] We need electricity for our television; we won't be able to watch the debate.

Remember the debate? I was just saying -- a friend of mine was telling me you have to do well in that debate. I said, I do? But this is what we had running the country for -- if we would have lost that election, I don't think we'd even have a country right now, I'll tell you. Nothing -- we couldn't have taken another two days, let alone two years, what they've done to this country.

But we've got it back much faster than we thought, and very soon it'll be -- I think it's the hottest it's ever been, actually. But we can't have Tranny Annie. You know, if you have one or two victories, you're going to have communists in control of the US Senate. The reason is that the other Democrats -- there aren't too many sane ones to start off with, I'll be honest.

Most of them are horrible, their policy is so bad. But you know, if you have two, the others have to come along because they have to appease those two or three people. The whack job from Michigan, Tranny Annie, is one. You have a couple of others that people don't know about, like the guy from North Carolina, he's another one, people just don't know that.

And Talafreako definitely. And now, what happens is in order to keep them, in order to get over 50 percent, they have to be -- they have to do whatever they want. They don't have to have 50 Senators; they have to have three or four or five and they totally control the radical left. A vote for Darline is a vote to cast communists into political oblivion.

And it's not easy because the press is so fake, you know, that's fake news, one of our better terms. We had a lot of good ones, Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren. I don't ever give you the Republican names because they're all friends of mine. We've got some pretty good ones. I will not -- I never say them; I took them out of my mind, but we had some pretty good ones, but fake news.

And, you know, just as an example, I was just thinking Bernie Sanders, whose radical left, but, you know, you've got to hand it to the guy. He's like about 137 years old and he's still -- he's still sharp. He's still crazy. Crazy Bernie -- remember, I used to call him Crazy Bernie. No, he's what, 87, 88? And he's -- you watch him, because I know a lot of people in their high 80s, in their 90s. I know people 95, 96 years old that are sharp, perfectly sharp.

The great Gary Player, he's 90 years old, he's 100 percent sharp, and he can shoot -- he shot a 70 with me the last time we played. A great player, won 168 tournaments and, you know, really amazing a lot of people. And but, you know, we can't allow -- I think that, and I've said it strongly, they say you can't do it, that people that run for president or vice president should be forced to have cognitive tests because we can't go through another four years like we just had.

Let them take cognitive tests. I'm the only -- I took three of them, aced every single one of them, by the way. I aced them. But I think they should have cognitive -- we can't have another four years like this. We were a laughingstock all over the world. The last time -- but think of Bernie Sanders. I was going to say something.

So, Bernie goes out and he has a big crowd, 900 people. The fake news, Bernie's crowd is unbelievable. And I had a rally, and he had his rally near my rally because he wanted to, you know, show how great he is. So, he's up there ranting and raving about all this radical left crap and people are, you know, clapping.

But they had 900 people, that's a lot of people. I had 47,000 people, OK. So, we have the biggest rallies ever in history and you'll never -- I hope you enjoy it because you're never going to see it again. You will never see what we've done, you'll never see it happen again. But we had 47,000, he had 900. So, here's the media that night.

I said to our great First Lady, watch, the rally I had was so great today. The crowd was massive. Bernie Sanders had a massive crowd today on the fairgrounds. It was so many people we don't know what -- it was 901 people. It was unbelievable. Donald Trump was also there, he spoke before a crowd, yes, very good.

They made it sound like he had more people than me. They are fake news. You're fake news, you understand that. And there's not a thing you can do about it. And you know, the other day I was sitting in the Oval Office, and I was saying I get treated very unfairly by the fake news; they treat me very badly.

And I was sitting there with a lot of geniuses. I think I had Scott Bessent. Where the hell is Scott? Is he central? Look at him. No, he said to me, sir, do you think I could go with you today? I said, what the hell do you know about South Carolina? He said I live there. I didn't know that. He lives here; he's Central Casting.

I say to Scott, you know, when we do the movie, we're going to put him in it. You'll never find anybody like him. We're going to make him the Secretary of the Treasury in the movie because you can't find a guy that's more central -- he's also smart, which helps -- it helps. He's doing -- he's doing very well against the beautiful Islamic Republic of Iran.

They're not doing too well. Scott's doing his magic, and we're doing our military magic like nobody's ever seen before. But -- [Audience member calls out "Thank you, Trump"]

hat's OK. That's OK. But, you know, I was sitting in the Oval Office, and I had a group of people, Scott was there. I said, you know, it's really unfair, I don't get treated -- CNN did a poll, I'm at 99 percent approval rating in the Republican Party, 99. And we're looking for the 1 percent, we think it was a rigged poll.

I'm at 99. [Laughter] No, but others do polls. I'm way up in -- I'm the highest ever, higher than anybody, higher than Reagan. And they say, while he's not currying -- you know, they like to say he's not currying favor. Everybody knows we had to attack Iran; we had to make sure they never have a nuclear weapon.

Everybody knows. And it's going to be over very, very soon. He's not currying -- he's not currying -- you know, they use this bullshit. They are so full of it. Donald Trump -- Donald Trump is at 42 percent. 42 percent -- you mean times two and add 20. Boy, they are bad. They're sick people, fake polls. Did you see the poll that came out?

There was a poll that came out. Turned out to be a total phony poll. It was a group that was made up -- what was the name of that group? [Crosstalk] What was it? Oh, yeah Wedgewood, New York Times, Wedgewood. They admitted their polls were phony. They never -- they just put down numbers. They'll say -- I don't know what they did on us, I guess, but the New York Times used them.

Wedgewood Polls, right, Wedgewood? Ridgewood, that's a nice name, beautiful little cabin, right? Have a little cabin. Ridge a woman's telling me. Stand up, darling, I think that -- Ridge, thank you very much, thank you. No, Ridgewood Polls and they have a little cabin right on top, a little beautiful, like a little home, so nice -- total fake and they admit it. I don't know why they did it. They must have been in trouble with the law.

They said I'll give you the Times if you just let me go. But they didn't do polling, they just made up numbers, they were all made up. So, they'd say, yeah, Trump is polling at 42 percent.

He's at an all-time low for him. And I said, where the hell did this fall come from? Let me ask you a question. How many poll -- how many people in this room were ever polled? Has anybody been polled? I mean, seriously, raise your hand, because I'm curious because I've never known one person, as a Republican anyway, I don't -- I don't even know if they do polls.

I -- you know, a lot -- you know, they charge a lot of money. You do a poll, you pay $1 million or something, if you're stupid. I don't pay that much. But -- but you do a poll -- I don't -- I don't even believe in polls because I figure the poll is the election day, you know? What the hell are you going to do? Are you going to change your whole philosophy because some pollster with a phony poll?

But this Ridgewood, they did -- they said, it's totally fake and they went down in flames. And they represented the New York Times and others, and this is what we were reading. But I'm just curious, how many people -- seriously, don't worry about it, nobody's going to take your picture. No, but I see these polls and I believe they don't -- I believe they almost all look -- I mean, I think McLaughlin's a good poll.

I think Fabrizio's a good poll. But, for the most part, I'll bet you that, you know, we have sent a thousand pollsters all over the country. I'll bet you some guy says that, bill's the poor suckers like the Democrat or Republican Party, and they bill them a million. That poll will cost $2 million, we have pollsters all over the country, and there are none.

It's a guy sitting at his desk with a big bank account. That'll cost $1 million, we have pollsters. And I don't even believe they send out pollsters, OK? I think Henry McMaster, you should do an immediate invest -- oh, no, you got the best guy, Alan. Alan Wilson, please do an investigation. I guarantee you.

No, I don't -- and then they say, all right, that'll be $1 million. You know what they do, they sit behind the desk, all right, I'm doing a poll on Trump's popularity, let's see. All right, let's make him 42. That's right, that's right, 42. Breaking news, Donald Trump is polling at 42. And they say, after an exhaustive search all over the country, he's polling at 42. These people don't know.

And then they send them a bill for a million bucks, you know, like it's the craziest thing. How many people in this room have been polled at any time in your life? Has anybody been ever asked? You're -- two hands, OK. I mean, it's amazing. I've never been called about a poll. I mean, maybe I wouldn't be a prime candidate.

I'd vote -- I'd vote for Trump. I'd vote for Darline. No, but how many people -- have you ever had -- have you ever been asked? I've never been asked. You know, I see polls come out, every day, polls, polls, polls. I've never known anybody that was -- so how many people over here have been polled? Yeah, a couple.

Yeah, yeah. And then they only use what they want. Yeah. They use -- they use whatever the hell they want. The last time the radical Democrats had power, they gave us the worst inflation in American history, the highest energy prices in American history, 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, it'll be the beginning of them doing it again. They'll do it again, 100 percent. You know, if they had power right now, they'd open up our borders, let every prisoner from all over the world. You know, people, smart people, I know them sort of all one way or the other, but countries, some small, some big, some -- they're all smart.

They're all very street smart. When I heard that Biden was going to allow the borders to be opened, I said, every jail in the world will be emptied into our country, and that's what happened. From all over the world, they came, from Africa, from Asia, from South America. I mean, Venezuela, which we took over.

Congratulations. Nobody wants to talk about it. Nobody wants to talk about it. No, nobody. Just what I was saying with Scott. He was in the room, and I'm looking around. I'm looking around, I say, nobody wants to talk about all the great things I did. It's not fair. The press doesn't treat me fair. And then I laid back and I look at the ceiling.

I say, oh, is this the Oval Office? Oh, how did I make it to the Oval Office if -- if they treated me -- maybe they treat me fairly. Maybe it's better than I think. Does that make sense? Oh, look at my Congressmen over there. Will you stand up, please? I needed a good Congressman. I needed a good one good speech, good speech, good Congressman.

They're all good. But no, I looked around and I said, maybe they do. They appreciate what we did, safest border, most successful country. This is the most successful a country has ever been by far, and you haven't seen anything yet. You know -- you know, as an example, a few years back, you go back a little ways, they stole our car business, they stole our chip business, they stole everything.

We were like a bunch of dumb people, but they stole everything. So we went 49 years without building a car plant. We have more car plants under construction right now than at any time in the history of our country, many of them here. You're a big car -- you're a big car state. If Andrews wins, tranny, she will vote to open your borders and just in case anyone forgets, that will happen and what will happen, we have a little tape.

I want to just show you what it was like, just a short -- people forget. They have a two week span. They forget. They don't even want me to talk -- my people don't want me to talk about borders. Sir, don't talk about borders, sir. I said, why? Nobody's -- I said, I won on that issue, and others, but largely.

Sir, nobody cares. You've solved that problem. Nobody's come in in 17 months, don't talk about it. Let's take a look at what it looked like. [Begin Videotape]

[Begin video clip]

[Video clip] There is a growing problem at the border, a record 1.7 million undocumented immigrants were apprehended last year. The numbers so far this year are dramatically higher. 12,000 people in a single day crossing the border illegally, that's an all-time record. It is quite a remarkable moment to see the DHS secretary insisting that the border is closed.

[Video clip] This is killing us and it's destroying our country. They've turned their back on not only the Border Patrol agents, but they've sent a clear message to us in to law enforcement, they're not interested in solving this. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, the Biden administration has the blood of Rachel Morin on their hands.

[Video clip] Rafael [Inaudible] Romero, he's accused of attacking 16 year old Lizbeth Medina by repeatedly hitting her head and stabbing her. A Honduran migrant accused of raping at knifepoint, a 14 year old teenage girl. Nelson Granados Trejo accused of murdering killing a two year old infant. They confirmed MS-13 gang member, a registered sex offender, and he's got a lengthy criminal history, including kidnapping, abduction and sexually violent crimes.

[Video clip] Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, he brutally attacked nine year old girl and her mother. The tragic murder of Laken Riley killed at the hands of Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan who crossed in El Paso in 2022 and was released. Two men injured, one died. The two suspects, who authorities say are both in the country illegally.

[Video clip] Migrants believe there's an open border. It's open, not closed. The border is open. There was people there that traveled 8,000 miles with no water because they're hearing that the border is open. They believed that when the administration changed, that the law changed and policy changed. We heard the sheriff say it, the governor say it, and the migrants I spoke to say it, they're coming across because they believe they will be welcome under the Biden administration.

[End video clip]

That's what it was. That's what we had two years ago. Think of it, that's what we had. It was living in hell. People in -- people in Texas, what they had to have and what they went through. They interviewed a woman, a young woman about two weeks ago, from Texas on the border, and they asked her, what was the difference between the Biden administration and the Trump administration.

She said, in one, we were living in hell and in the other, we're living in paradise. She said people would come through our house by the hundreds every week, by the hundreds, and we were living in fear, we were living in hell. She said, now we're living in paradise. She said, we haven't seen an illegal come up -- we don't know who they are, that come knocking at the door.

These people, some of them were really dangerous-looking. She said, I've never seen anything like it. It's like we lived in a different country. For Darline, and you go with her and you go with this group of incredible people right here, you never have to worry about that. You'll never have to see that scene again.

You never have to see it again. And her opponent will vote for open borders. She's an open borders person. Her opponent is going to vote for that and we can never, ever allow. Numerous things we can't allow, can't allow Iran to have nuclear weapons or other people too, but Iran in particular, number one state sponsor of terror.

But we can't allow that scene to happen again. We can never allow it. We want people to come into our country, but they have to come in legally, right? They have to come in legally. And in breaking news yesterday, it was just determined that the Dumocrats in Alaska, despite their sworn statements to the contrary in front of a court, put a man named Dan Sullivan on the ballot in order To confuse the public with respect to another man named Dan Sullivan, highly esteemed, highly respected Senator Dan Sullivan.

So, they got a guy named Dan Sullivan to go up against on a ballot. Dan said so you split -- it's called splitting the vote, totally wrong, totally illegal. This is voter fraud at the highest level. And the Democrat candidate who was involved in the scheme, Mary Peltola, who treats her staff horribly, by the way.

So badly that they -- they think she's abusive, actually, should be removed from the ballot and prosecuted and so should the fake Dan Sullivan. This is a guy that never ran for office; he never had anything to do with politics. He just happened to have the name Dan Sullivan. Not even that, he even looks a little bit like him.

Did you ever see the pictures? It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And they also put a second person on, which was also bad, but this was -- this was beyond anything that anyone's ever seen before. And this behavior in our elections cannot be allowed to continue, it's just terrible. So, it's being looked at very strongly.

I think it's a criminal act, what they did, because it was a conspiracy, it wasn't just -- it didn't just happen. They said, no, it just happened by coincidence he happened to be. He never ran for office, he never voted, and he even tried to have -- you know, one is Daniel S., I'll call him the real one.

The other one is Daniel J. Well, Daniel J. tried to have his middle initial -- he said no, it had nothing to do, but he tried to change his middle initial, had nothing to do. But they lied in front of courts under oath. So, let's see what happens. That's terrible. But you can't win; you know, you're splitting up the vote with one Democrat.

Lousy Democrat, but you can't have -- people go in there, they have no idea who to vote for. Also, just last week, it was revealed that my favorite Congressperson, Ilhan Omar. [Audience boos]

That her name is not Ilhan Omar, the one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress with. That was the name she used. But rather, it's an entirely different name, Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. And that last name is incredibly also the exact name of her wonderful brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the person they said she married and had beautiful children with, beautiful, beautiful wedding, beautiful event.

When asked whether or not she married her brother, she said, not to my knowledge. [Laughter] That's what she said. That's what she said, Mr. Congressman, I just -- you know, they'll say, well, she's just having fun. I'm not having fun. This stuff that I'm giving you is all -- I mean, I know it sounds funny.

It's not funny, it's terrible. But it's -- so, you get punch drunk listening to so much stuff in our country. Who would think, let's say 15 years ago, that I would be sitting where you are and watching a politician say, there will be no men in women's sports, there will be no transgender mutilation of your children.

We will have, think of it, their fight for open borders so the entire world can pour into our country from every prison in the world. So, who would think if you ever heard somebody say that, like I say routinely now, there will be no men playing in women's sports? Let's say I said that 15 years ago, those exact words, you'd think I was crazy.

You'd say, this guy's crazy, this guy's crazy. And my wife goes nuts when I do that with the weightlifting stuff. Darling, it's not presidential. I said I just won in a frickin' landslide, honey, leave me alone. She hates when I dance, she hates it. She hates when I dance. I said, darling, look, the crowd likes it, they seem to. I'm not saying I'm Fred Astaire.

Do you remember the late, great Fred? He was like rubber. He would dance; the guy was great. No, but she hates it. She hates when I do the swimming routine, you know. This young lady looks left, she looks right, she sees all people she's competed with all her life. And then standing right next to her is a giant, he's a giant with the wingspan of -- you don't remember, you're too young, Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain.

He had a serious -- I would say he had a serious wingspan. No, she hates when I do that stuff, she said it's not presidential. With the weightlifting where the young woman can lift 211 pounds. That's a lot, right? Most people couldn't -- I refuse to say whether or not I could or not. I don't want to try. 211, that's pretty good, right?

And the record stood for 19 -- think of it, it stood for 19 years. Go home to mom.

[A protester calls out, interrupting the event.]

[Audience chants "USA"] Say hi to mom. Mom voted for us. No, mom is going to -- mom's going to -- I hate to say it. I shouldn't say this -- mom's going to go smack her around. She's going to say I was watching him. Is that my daughter? Isn't this stupid, though? You know, just -- always at my damn punch line?

No, they're trained. No, they're professional. I mean, they're not very good professionals, I've seen better. I've seen better, but they always hit me right in the middle of my damn punch line. [Laughter] And, you know, if you blow a punch line, it doesn't work the second time. So, let's go on to the next subject. [Laughter] No, so, Ilhan, what she did was use a fake name and other things that are fake.

There are a lot of it -- well, she comes from a lovely, lovely country, Somalia, where they have no government, they have -- all they have is crime, murder. They have the worst -- it's considered maybe the worst country. There are a couple of them equal, I think. But I would put Somalia right up there. They came here; they ripped off Minnesota for billions of dollars, billions and billions of dollars.

We should -- no, we should send her back, just send her back. Who the hell wants her? But because she used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume she must immediately resign from Congress. And please inform our great Speaker of the House of Representatives, James Michael Johnson, that the Dumocrat Party has just conceded her seat.

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 of politicians. She won't be able to. My Congressional members are extremely upset. You know what I hated about her? I don't -- you know, look, life is life and you do -- you do your thing.

But she comes from this horrible, horrible place. It's a shithouse country, you remember that. Remember when the Democrats were going to have a meeting on immigration? I said, how come we always take people from shithouse countries? Why can't we take people from good countries? And they said, well, it's all -- and it was supposed to be a very, very private meeting.

You know, we were going to try and work on a little immigration stuff, and they left and had a news conference they said Trump used that name. I said, well, that was the end of that. So much for silence. But it's true. You know, it's like this is one of the worst countries. And she comes over from Somalia, got no government, got -- all they do is shoot people and kill people all day long, right?

And then she goes, my constitutional rights have been disobeyed. I am entitled constitutionally to time in court. You know, she's always throwing around the Constitution, and she wants to tell us how to run the United States of America. I don't think so. I don't think so. My constitution. Less than two years ago, the radical left Democrats handed us the Dark Age of America.

But we quickly turned it around into the Golden Age of America. We're in the Golden Age. And no other president has ever accomplished so much in such -- I don't want to brag, but there is -- there has -- you know, that was a line -- I said, man, that's hard to say that line. I'm going to lose all these beautiful women up here.

Oh, wait a minute -- I have the women from North Carolina. Look at them over there. They've been great. They've been to 300 or 400. There are like 40 of them. Their husbands must be going crazy. They travel all over. At least this is South Carolina; you don't have to travel so far. No, from North Carolina, they're great.

But I don't want to lose them and by bragging like that. But who's done more than we've done in less than two years? I mean, look at what we've done. 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. We've achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded, with the murder rate at the lowest level in 125 years, not since 1900. And that's with all of these people that came in that were not the nicest, OK? They weren't the best.

And much less than two years, we secured commitments for $22.2 trillion in new investments into the United States of America, the greatest amount of money ever invested in any country in -- is that right, Scott? In the history of the world, there's never been $22.2, just let's round it off at $22 trillion invested in China or any other country.

And that's times about four. It's much higher than ever before. There's never been anything like it. It's all being built right now. That's why your numbers are through the roof. That's why the equipment number is up 21, 28, 32 percent last week, last month. Right here in Rock Hill, Octapharma is investing $1.5 billion to build a new, massive factory and create 1,500 jobs for -- for a place called South Carolina.

A place called South Carolina, have you heard of it? And earlier this month, the engineering company, Re:Build announced that it is tripling its Rock Hill facilities and creating 150 jobs in the community. It's a good company. And thanks to my tariffs on steel and aluminum -- you know, we had almost -- our steel industry was wiped out, our aluminum, everything was wiped out.

They were all leaving our country. Now they're all pouring back in because they don't want to pay tariffs. It's very simple, you build here, you don't pay tariffs. You want to build outside, that's fine, send your stuff in, you pay tariffs. Guess what, they come in. So it's not only the money that we're taking in, it's also the fact that none of our businesses are ever going to leave unless you have a stupid president.

If you have a stupid president, and we had a lot of them, to be honest, because we got killed on trade. Canada is learning their lesson. They took advantage of us for many, many years. We lost $90 billion last year with Canada, $90 billion in the good old times, and we're not going to -- we don't mind helping them out, but we're not going to subsidize Canada to the tune, $90 billion.

And now we put tariffs on them, and they're treating us extremely nicely lately. Mexico also. I mean, they're not happy that I change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. They're not thrilled. The president of Mexico, please, please, sir, please. A really nice woman, beautiful voice. You're not allowed to say that, you know, woman has a beautiful -- if you call a woman beautiful today, it's the end of your political career, so I never do that.

You can think it, barely, but you're not allowed to say, what a beautiful woman. But she is a beautiful woman and she's got a beautiful voice, and she called me, no, no, President, please, please tell me it's not so. I said, what? You changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf -- it was named the Gulf of Mexico 350 years ago.

They're 100 years older. They're 350, we're 250. I said, yes, yes, it's so. It is so. Oh, no. Oh, yes. This was not a pleasant conversation. This was a tough conversation, but now it's the Gulf of America, everybody's happy. Well, I just -- and I just named a beautiful lake that fronts on O Canada. It's called Lake America, Lake America.

So we have a gulf and we have a lake, now I need an ocean and a river, so -- and maybe a strait. I'm thinking about calling the Hormuz Strait, the Trump Strait. I'm going to take -- How do you think the Arabs will feel about that, not too good. The Arab population, no, I did well with them in Michigan. I get along with them good.

They're good. But, uh, think of that, so just think of that. So we have now a strait, Trump Strait. Now I need a river and an ocean. So I like to think big. So the only two oceans that qualify are the Pacific and the Atlantic. So I was thinking about maybe I'll go with the Atlantic because it's closer to Washington.

I was going to call it the American Ocean, and I was thinking about the Hudson River or the Mississippi River. And the other night I was in Mississippi with Tim and great, great people, Barrasso, all these guys. I don't know, they follow me around and they want to be helpful. But we're together and I was in Mississippi.

We had 25,000 people, Mississippi. They were all standing outside because the room was not nearly big enough. And I said, I'm thinking about changing -- I was telling this little story, I was thinking about changing the name of a river, and the only two I could think of that would qualify were the Hudson River and the Mississippi.

And I said, and I'm in Mississippi tonight, I guarantee you, I will never be changing the name of the Mississippi. I'm never changing the name. I said, get that out of your heads right now. No, they're great, they're great. Century Aluminum Company is bringing its idle plant, Berkeley County, back to full speed.

It's going to bring a plant to Berkeley and it's going to be a -- it was -- it was decimated, as you know. Now it's going to be back up to full speed. They're investing a lot of money. And less than two years ago, our country was, by all accounts, by every leader -- Scott can tell you, every leader would talk to us, they said, you know, a short while ago, sir, we thought your country was dead.

Now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. It's true, we do. We're the hottest country in the world. And since the election, the stock market has set 88 all-time record highs, think of it, in much less than two years. 88 all-time highs. Your 401(k)s are higher than they've ever been in history.

Think of this one, 67 percent, 60 percent, 65 percent. Your 401(k)s are at the highest level. So when you go to vote, maybe it's Tuesday, maybe you do a little early voting, who the hell -- I don't care, as long as you vote. You got to vote for Darline, you got to vote for the group. But when you go to vote, before you do, pick up your 401(k), take a look at it and you'll see it's up numbers.

If it's your wife looking at it, I've had wives tell me that they love their husband again. They thought -- no, they consider him a great, great investor. My husband is a great investor, he's up 67 percent. That's me that did it. But when you go to vote, remember, just in case you have any thoughts of going with Tranny Annie, which I can't imagine.

You saw that scene just a minute ago on the border. She'll open up the border like that and you'll have -- you'll have it worse. You do that again, you'll never bring it back, I'll tell you right now. You'll never bring it back, it'll never happen. But you go, you got to look at your 401(k) and you got to see that you're setting records.

Under Biden, you had 25 percent down. Under Trump, in one year, you're 67 percent up. That's a big difference. And under my leadership, income for hard working Americans has soared to the highest level ever recorded. These are the couple of points where I just leave. I just leave, because they're so good that it's -- the rest is just, we're wasting freaking time.

I'd rather have you just go out, if you haven't voted, vote for her, otherwise, come back on Tuesday. But think of it, so your income has risen -- has risen to the highest level in the history of -- that's one. Number two, more Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country. These are big picture deals, OK? That's number two.

Number three, the poverty rate has just reached its best and lowest level. In other words, poverty, bad thing, but it's at the best number by far in the history of our country, African American poverty, Hispanic American poverty, Asian American poverty, Native American poverty. They're all at the lowest levels ever recorded.

Number four, remember when Barack Hussein Obama said, we are not a manufacturing country anymore? You will never manufacture. Exports have just soared to the highest level in American history, manufacturing. So I gave you those four stats. Those are what they call big picture, right? The best numbers, best individual, best poverty in terms of poor people are doing better than they've ever done and so it was a tough thing.

But think of it, think of it, best numbers, most people working. And then on top of it all, we're exporting more things. In other words, we're creating things and we're manufacturing again. It's never happened -- in 40 years, they never thought it would be back. Barack Hussein Obama said, we will never manufacture, and they're the best jobs you can get.

They're great jobs. So with those four points, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, I'm leaving. Vote for that lady. No, it's a hell of a way to end. No, I could. I could end it, but -- so the rest is -- the rest is just -- but -- but, no, look, the people started to leave. That's all right, you can come back, darling.

No, I did it the other day, and I walked off and what happened, the Secret Service was running all over. They said, he's leaving early, he's -- guns all over the place, so I can't play it -- you know, I walk -- usually, I walk right up to this, I walk down, everyone starts applauding. They didn't know what the hell happened.

Secret service is all over the place, going crazy, so I'm not doing it for -- it's a much better routine when you do it that way, you know? Right, front row Joes, isn't it better when I walk down the stairs, then come back, finish up? But with our Republican Congress, I signed the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill, delivering the largest tax cuts in American history, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.

And we made interest on car loans tax deductible, but only if you buy a car that's made in South Carolina, OK, in America. We made the largest ever investments in the United States armed forces, over $1 trillion, and it's a good thing we did. We're doing it again. And we captured and brought to justice the outlaw dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who is now awaiting trial for lots of bad things.

And we won the war in Venezuela in one day, and we are now working with them to produce millions and millions of barrels of oil, which is pouring into our country. And to protect family farms, we eliminated the unfair estate tax or death tax, terrible thing. You'd leave your farm to your children, and your children would have to pay a tax.

And they'd borrow money from a banker that they thought was friendly. Turned out to be not friendly when they didn't pay interest, they'd lose the farm. And many, many of those kids had a terrible life and many of them committed suicide. There's no more estate tax on your family farms and small businesses.

I think it's great. And Darline's opponent wants to put it all back, and all the people I mentioned, the Democrats, they want to put it back. They don't want you to be given a break on estate taxes. They don't want you to have no tax on Social Security, tips and overtime, etc. They want to put it -- they'll put it all back and they'll end up killing the economy, for worse than that too.

We gave our farmers $12 billion of relief to protect them from unfair trade practices. In my first term, I gave our farmers, out of tariffs that I took from China, $28 billion my first term, and they remember it. Because we're not going to let our farmers get hurt in any way, shape or form, and the Democrats couldn't care less about our farmers.

And three weeks ago, I also signed an order waiving the off road requirement for red dye diesel, allowing farmers, truckers and anyone else to fill up with red dye diesel totally tax free, saving hundreds of dollars a fill up. And last week, I also announced the Harvest Fuel Relief Program, providing our farmers with $8 billion to offset diesel costs in this harvest season.

We're offsetting all of those costs, by the way, because it's all going to come back to us. It's all coming back. Soon -- oh, you're going to see, you're going to see the price of oil, the price of gasoline drop like a rock very soon, and we're going to have a safe world. That's important, maybe most important.

That's most important. And I got most favored nations agreements to reduce the cost of prescription drugs from the highest drug price anywhere in the world to the lowest drug price. So we had the highest drug price one year ago anywhere in the world than we have for 40 years, and now we have the lowest drug price anywhere in the world.

And I won't bore you by telling you how I did it, but nobody else could have done it. And we achieved the largest drug price reduction in history, with price differences of 300, 400, 500 and even 600 percent. Nobody can even believe. It's the biggest drug price drop. So we went from the highest price for drugs to the lowest price in the world for drugs.

And I tell you the story of how I did it, but you may get bored. The bottom line is, that's what we got you. Nobody else would have done it, nobody else could have done it. Nobody else even knew how to do it. We should win the midterm elections on just that alone. Darline should win her election just -- I mean, I could name all of these things.

On -- on individual points alone, you should win the election. Starting on day one of my administration, we abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion policies throughout the federal government. 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 our country is doing so well under Republican leadership that only I can make this promise to you. If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the US Senate, I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000, very easily. And only Republicans can do that because we're taking in massive amounts of money through tariffs and record-setting economic success.

But the Democrat policies won't allow this to happen. In fact, the opposite. If Democrats win, you will have a 1929 style economic depression because that's how bad their policies are. You'll end up in a depression. If that happens, that will happen. If the Republicans win, you'll each have $5,000 in your pocket and economic success for our country like we have never seen before, like what's going on. And remember, just recently I gave all members of the military $1,776. Remember that, the military?

Less than a year ago. And everyone said, oh, it can't be done. It was $1,775. I said, $1 more and we made it $1,776. Can you believe it? $1 more. I said, that's a strange number, let's do a dollar more. The $5,000 Trump dividend is approximately $1 trillion, but we have a record-setting 22.2 trillion, as I've told you, that's being invested in our country.

The only caveat is that this $5,000, you have to spend the money in the United States of America. We don't want you spending it elsewhere. You got to spend it here. We don't want you to take a trip, as an example, to France. Darling, let's go to France, it's such an exciting place, France, let's go. France is so exciting, please, let's go, darling.

I've always wanted to go and see the Eiffel Tower. The choice in this election is very simple. You can vote for the radical left Dumocrat Communists to loot your wealth, raise your taxes by $5 trillion, annihilate your borders, decimate South Carolina farms and factories, mutilate your children and give 25 million illegal aliens amnesty and the right to vote.

Or you can defeat the Democrat Communists and vote for more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your family, lower taxes, less crime, a booming South Carolina economy, no amnesty for illegal aliens, but to get that, you have to vote Republican. So every single Dumocrat in Congress voted against our tax cuts.

Every single Democrat, it's hard to believe, Tim, they voted against no tax on tips, they voted against no tax on overtime, they voted against no tax on Social Security for our seniors. They voted against voter ID because they want to cheat. They voted against proof of citizenship because they want to cheat.

They voted against securing our border. They voted in favor of the worst inflation and highest energy costs in American history, in favor of transgender mutilization of your children, and in favor of men playing in women's sports. On election night, South Carolina is going to prove that America does not belong to those who hate it, they hate it, America belongs to those who love it. And the only choice for the proud patriots of South Carolina, a state that I -- I really love, is the incredible Senator Darline Graham, who's going to be -- who's going to make you so proud.

Darline, please come up, please.

Thank you. Mr. President, you know, I've mentioned to you before that Lindsey considered you one of his dearest friends, and you will always be part of the Graham family. And I want to -- yep. And thank you so much for coming to the great state of South Carolina. Thank you for your endorsement. This man worked so hard.

He goes around the whole country helping candidates. Do you know why he came here? Because he loves our great state. And he loves our Republican team. Guys, all of y'all, he's here for you, too. [Audience member calls out "We love him"]

And we are so proud of you, Mr. President, because you have worked so hard to make our country better, stronger, and greater. We love you, Mr. President. Our borders are more secure. Is he the greatest president ever? Yes. USA, USA, USA, USA. [Audience chants "USA"]

Wow. She is a natural and she's a great woman, so get out and vote, make sure -- we've got to make sure everything works out good. You also need to get out and vote for a very special guy. I just watched him speak coming in on Air Force One, and he was fantastic and he's going to make a tremendous governor, Alan Wilson.

Alan, thank you very much. And a man who's been my friend from day one I mean, really from day -- he was a lieutenant governor. I won't say this -- look, this is just within the confines of this room and for the massive amounts of cameras. But I gave somebody else a job because I wanted to make sure he became governor, Henry McMaster, he was lieutenant governor.

And I gave a certain person that wasn't as good as him, because I thought he'd be an amazing governor and that was the way to do it, and I put her in a different position, and he took over. And boy, you have become a popular governor, Henry McMaster. Thank you, Henry. Great job. Great job, Henry. You've been a really great governor, so respected.

And Congressman Russell Fry, my friend who's been -- how's the highway coming? Is it good? Henry, is that highway going to get done or do we have to rely on Alan? Everybody wants that highway. They'll get it done. And vote for Wes Climer for Congress, Wes Climer, he's got a -- doing great in the polls. And you have my total, as you know, endorsement, you know that.

And David Stumbo. David, where are you? David, you have my complete and total endorsement, OK? You know that and you're doing -- you're doing great. I hear your poll numbers are great. Get David out there, he's got my endorsement. Mark Hammond has my endorsement, Secretary of State. Thank you. Complete and total endorsement.

Thank you. And Cody Simpson for Agricultural Commission. He's endorsed by Trump. Where's Cody? Good. Thank you, Cody. Great job. And Secretary of the Treasury, I introduced him, he's unbelievable. I didn't know he was -- I sort of heard rumors; I didn't really care to be honest with you. But he happens to be from these parts, as you would say.

And Scott Bessent has been unbelievable. And our great Chief of Staff I see is here, Susie Wiles, she runs it tight. She's great. She's great. And one of the greatest people I know, one of the greatest Senators, one of the most respected people in Washington. All I know is Trey Gowdy loves this guy, man.

He's the greatest man, Trey Gowdy. Trey Gowdy loves you. Tim Scott, Senator Tim Scott. And the Chief of the Catawba Tribe, Brian Harris. Brian? Thank you, Brian. Good to see you. And Director of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Tom Mullikin. Thank you. Great, good. A man -- I grew up watching this guy and he was great.

He still looks fantastic, Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider. John, great job. You look good. And country music star Lee Brice. Thank you. Thank you, Lee. Good, good, great voice. I also in coming in, I was watching and I saw this group of very handsome young men, and they were on the golf team of Winthrop University.

Where is that guy? Get up here, I want to see. They were like Central Casting people. No, I was watching coming in and I saw these guys interviewed. I said, that's a good-looking group. So, I heard you have a very good team. How's the team?

Good, we're good.

Who's the -- who's the best player in the group?

This guy right here.

Is that true? Is that right? So, would you be a plus three.

Plus two/plus three.

Plus two/plus three, pretty good.

Yes, sir. I'm shaking, man, I'm shaking. [Laughter]

Should I give him a match? I don't know. But the team is doing great, huh?

Yes, sir.

Well, I watched them when they were interviewed. I said these guys, look at them, the future of America, handsome, beautiful guys. They were so into whatever President Trump wants, he's got America, he loves this country. And I said, isn't it nice, really? Isn't it nice as opposed to all the negative stuff you hear?

These -- this is the future; this is the future. So, go out, win the national championship. Fellas, go out -- we expect them now to win the national championship, right?

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you. [Inaudible]

Well, if they can play as good as they look, they're going to win a lot of tournaments. Good looking people. But everyone here today is part of the greatest movement in the history of our country, it really is. This is the greatest movement, political movement there's ever been, not even close. You know, over the years, you'd see one guy get hit and he'd be -- he'd be doing well, and he'd come in second or third in a primary somewhere, and then he'd come in fourth and then he'd get off the charts, but he'd make a big living doing it for the rest of his life.

You'd see so much. We wouldn't think of it, we won 50 primaries. We ended up winning every primary. We did it twice. We did it, uh, almost that number the first time. We did, just from day one, it's been a love affair. It's the greatest movement. It's not me, it's us, it's us. It's all together. It's the greatest movement in the history of our country.

It's called Make America Great Again. That's all it is. So I thought what I do just very briefly before -- before signing off, I hate to leave, in a way, and -- you know, a friend of mine, a good friend of mine said to me, he said to me -- he's a very smart guy, a brilliant guy, a Wall Street guy, makes a lot of money, brilliant, but he wanted to be in politics.

He wanted to be like Tim Scott. He had one problem, Tim does not have this problem, he developed lockjaw. He couldn't speak in front of crowds, right? He was afraid to speak. He kills people for a living, financially, but he couldn't speak. And he asked me, how do you do that in front of so many people? You speak and you -- so, you know, amazing, thousands and thousands.

And then you have all these television cameras. I said, it's really easy because there's such love in the room. It really is true. I mean it, there's love in the room. There's love in the room, Henry, right? And when there's love in the room, it's really not hard. But here's something that CNN did and it's important because CNN doesn't treat us very well as a group, but, uh, check it out, 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 very much. That's an honor. That's a nice honor. Thank you very much. So 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. We will do that. We will win the war on corruption and fraud, led by our great Vice President JD Vance, doing a great job.

We will pass the No Invasion of Our Country Act, which is right there for us, prohibiting any future president from ever opening our borders to illegal immigrants again. 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 a 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's sports and no transgender mutilization of your children. So ladies and gentlemen of South Carolina, the golden Age of America is upon us, but you must get out and vote.

You have to vote Republican and vote for a very, very special, really a special person, Darline Graham. Vote for Alan Wilson. Got to get them in. And I'm sure they will, but got to vote. We got to keep it going there's never been a time like this. We have to keep it going. Early voting ends Saturday, October 31st, so go out, vote as soon as possible.

Vote on Election Day, just get out. You got to vote. We've already made unbelievable progress and now we'll reach new levels of greatness. We had a tremendous first term, the best economy in history. Now this is going to blow it away. It already is, I believe. It's my honor to be your president during such an exciting time in the life of our country.

We've been doing this for 11 years together, and there's never been anything like it, and there probably never will be anything like it. So let's get out and do what we do best, which is to win, win, win on November 3rd. And let's make the next two years bigger, better, and stronger than ever before, because together, 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, South Carolina. God bless you. God bless you. Thank you.