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Friends, delegates and distinguished guests, please. I stand before you tonight, honored by your support. Proud of the extraordinary …
Thank you, thank you very much. Friends, delegates and distinguished guests, please. I stand before you tonight, honored by your support. Proud of the extraordinary progress we have made together over the last four incredible years and brimming with confidence in the bright future, we will build for America over the next four years. We begin this evening. Our thoughts are with the wonderful people who have just come through the wrath of hurricane Laura. We are working closely with state and local officials in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, sparing no effort to save lives while the hurricane was fierce. One of the strongest to make landfall in 150 years, the casualties and damage were far less than thought possible only 24 hours ago. And this is due to the great work of FEMA law enforcement and the individual States. I will be going this weekend and congratulations. Thank you for that great job out there. We really appreciate it. We are one national family and we will always protect love and care for each other. Here tonight are the people who have made my journey possible and filled my life with so much joy. For her incredible service to our nation and its children, I want to thank our magnificent first lady. I also want to thank my amazing daughter Ivanka for that introduction and to all of my children. Ivanka, please stand up. And to all of my children and grandchildren. I love you more than words can express. I know my brother, Robert is looking down on us right now from heaven. He was a great brother and was very proud of the job we are all doing. Thank you. We love you. Robert. Let us also take a moment to show our profound appreciation for a man who has always fought by our side and stood up for our values. A man of deep faith and steadfast conviction. Our vice president, Mike Pence. And Mike is joined by his beloved wife, a teacher and military mom, Karen Pence. Thank you, Karen. My fellow Americans, tonight with a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism, I profoundly accept this nomination for president of the United States. The Republican party. The party of Abraham Lincoln goes forward united, determined, and ready to welcome millions of Democrats, independents, and anyone who believes in the greatness of America and the righteous heart of the American people. In a new term as president, we will again build the greatest economy in history, quickly returning to full employment, soaring, incomes, and record prosperity. We will defend America against all threats and protect America against all dangers. We will lead America into new frontiers of ambition and discovery, and we will reach for new heights of national achievement. We will rekindle new faith in our values, new pride in our history, and a new spirit of unity that can only be realized through love for our great country. Because we understand that America is not a land cloaked in darkness, America is the torch that enlightens the entire world. Gathered here at our beautiful and majestic White House, known all over the world as the People’s House, we cannot help but marvel at the miracle, that is our great American story. This has been the home of larger than life figures like Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson who rallied Americans to bold visions of a bigger and brighter future. Within these walls lived tenacious generals like President Grant and Eisenhower who led our soldiers in the cause of freedom. From these grounds, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on a daring expedition to cross a wild and uncharted continent. In the depths of a bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln looked out these very windows upon a half completed Washington monument and asked God in his Providence to save our nation. Two weeks after Pearl Harbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt welcomed Winston Churchill and just inside, they sent our people on a course to victory in the second world war. In recent months, our nation and the entire planet has been struck by a new and powerful invisible enemy. Like those brave Americans before us, we are meeting this challenge. We are delivering life saving therapies and we’ll produce a vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner. We will defeat the virus and the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before. What united generations passed was an unshakeable confidence in America’s destiny and an unbreakable faith in the American people. They knew that our country is blessed by God and has a special purpose in this world. It is that conviction that inspired the formation of our union, our westward expansion, the abolition of slavery, the passage of civil rights, the space program, and the overthrow of fascism, tyranny, and communism. This towering American spirit has prevailed over every challenge and lifted us to the summit of human endeavor. And yet, despite all of our greatness as a nation, everything we have achieved is now in danger. This is the most important election in the history of our country. At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies, or two agendas. This election will decide whether we save the American dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny. It will decide whether we rapidly create millions of high paying jobs or whether we crush our industries and send millions of these jobs overseas, as has foolishly been done for many decades. Your vote will decide whether we protect law abiding Americans, or whether we give free reign to violent anarchists and agitators and criminals who threatened our citizens. And this election will decide whether we will defend the American way of life or whether we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. It won’t happen. At the Democrat national convention, Joe Biden and his party repeatedly assailed America as a land of racial, economic, and social injustice. So tonight I ask you a simple question, how can the Democrat party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country? In the left’s backward view, they do not see America as the most free, just, and exceptional nation on earth. Instead, they see a wicked nation that must be punished for its sins. Our opponents say that redemption for you can only come from giving power to them. This is a tired Anthem spoken by every repressive movement throughout history. But in this country, we don’t look to career politicians for salvation. In America, we don’t turn to government to restore ourselves. We put our faith in almighty God. Joe Biden is not a savior of America’s soul. He is the destroyer of America’s jobs. And if given the chance, he will be the destroyer of American greatness. For 47 years, Joe Biden took the donations of blue collar workers, gave them hugs and even kisses and told them he felt their pain. And then he flew back to Washington and voted to ship our jobs to China and many other distant lands. Joe Biden has spent his entire career outsourcing their dreams and the dreams of American workers, offshoring their jobs, opening their borders and sending their sons and daughters to fight in endless foreign wars, wars that never ended. Four years ago, I ran for president because I could not watch this betrayal of our country any longer. I could not sit by as career politicians let other countries take advantage of us on trade, borders, foreign policy, and national defense. Our NATO partners, as an example, were very far behind in their defense payments. But at my strong urging, they agreed to pay $130 billion more a year, the first time in over 20 years that they upped their payments. And there’s $130 billion will ultimately go to $400 billion a year. And Secretary General Stoltenberg who heads NATO was amazed after watching for so many years and said that President Trump did what no one else was able to do. From the moment I left my former life behind, and it was a good life, I have done nothing but fight for you. I did what our political establishment never expected and could never forgive breaking the Cardinal rule of Washington politics—I kept my promise. Together, we have ended the rule of the failed political class and they are desperate to get their power back by any means necessary. You’ve seen that. They are angry at me because instead of putting them first, I very simply said, “America First.” Days after taking office, we shocked the Washington establishment and withdrew from the last administration’s job-killing transpacific partnership. I then immediately approved the Keystone XL and Dakota access pipelines, ended the unfair and very costly Paris climate accord, and secured for the first time American energy independence. We passed record setting tax and regulation cuts at a rate nobody had ever seen before. Within three short years, we built the strongest economy in the history of the world. Washington insiders asked me not to stand up to China. They pleaded with me to let China continue stealing our jobs, ripping us off, and robbing our country blind. But I kept my word to the American people. We took the toughest, boldest, strongest, and hardest hitting action against China in American history by far. They said that it would be impossible to terminate and replace NAFTA, but again, they were wrong. Earlier this year, I ended the NAFTA nightmare and signed the brand new U. S., Mexico, Canada agreement into law. And right now, auto companies and others are building their plants and factories in America, not firing their employees, and not deserting us for other countries. In perhaps no area did the Washington special interests try harder to stop us then on my policy of pro-American immigration. But I refused to back down and today, America’s borders are more secure than ever before. We ended catch and release, stopped asylum fraud, took down human traffickers who prey on women and children, and we have deported 20,000 gang members and 500,000 criminal aliens. We have already built 300 miles of border wall, and we are adding 10 new miles every single week. The wall will soon be complete, and it is working beyond our wildest expectations. We are joined this evening by members of the border patrol union representing our country’s courageous border agents. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you. Brave, brave people. You see this country loves our law enforcement. They do it. They really do, love and respect. When I learned that the Tennessee Valley authority laid off hundreds of American workers and forced them to train their lower paid foreign replacement, I promptly removed the chairman of the board. And now those talented American workers have been rehired and are back providing power to Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia. They have their old jobs back and some are here with us this evening. Please stand. You went through a lot, please stand. Thank you. Thank you very much. Last month I took on big pharma—you think that’s easy, it’s not—and signed orders that will massively lower the cost of your prescription drugs. And give critically ill patients access to life saving cures, we passed the decades long awaited “Right to Try.” We also pass VA accountability and VA choice. Our great veterans, we’re taking care of our veterans,91 percent approval rating this month, the VA, given by our veterans, first time anything like that’s ever happened. By the end of my first term, we will have approved more than 300 federal judges, including two great new Supreme court justices. And to bring prosperity to our forgotten inner cities, we worked hard to pass historic criminal justice reform, prison reform, opportunities zones, and long-term funding of historically black colleges and universities. And before the China virus came in, produced the best unemployment numbers for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans ever recorded. And I say very modestly that I have done more for the African American community than any president since Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president. And I have done more in three years for the black community than Joe Biden has done in 47 years. And when I’m reelected, the best is yet to come. When I took office, the Middle East was in total chaos. ISIS was rampaging, Iran was on the rise, and the war in Afghanistan had no end in sight. I withdrew from the terrible one-sided Iran nuclear deal. Unlike many presidents before me, I kept my promise, recognized Israel’s true capital, and moved our embassy to Jerusalem. But not only did we talk about it as a future site, we got it built. Rather than spending $1 billion on a new building, as planned, we took an already-owned, existing building at a better location—real estate deal, right—and opened it at a cost of less than $500,000. Many things like that, the government is doing right now. We also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. And this month, we achieved the first middle East peace deal in 25 years. Thank you to UAE, thank you to Israel. In addition, we obliterated 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate and killed its founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Then in a separate operation, we eliminated the world’s number one terrorists, by far, Qassem Soleimani.
