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Final Rally in Michigan; Clinton Holds Final Rally in North Carolina.
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LEMON: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. So you know we added this stop about 12 minutes ago and look at this place. This is incredible. And we don't need -- we don't need Jay Z or Beyonce.
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We don't need Jon Bon Jovi. We don't need Lady Gaga.
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All we need is great ideas to make America great again. That's all we need. That's all we need.
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So it's now officially Tuesday, November 8th. Did you ever think you'd be hearing a major speech like around close to 1:00 in the morning? Are we crazy? Is this crazy? It's crazy. But, you know, we just left New Hampshire, where we are doing fantastically well. We're up in New Hampshire. We're up in Ohio. We're up in Iowa. We're up in North Carolina. We're doing great there.
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We're up in Florida.
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We're doing really, really well in Pennsylvania. I mean, we are doing well. These people, the world's most dishonest people, the media, they are not happy.
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No, no. They're not happy. They're saying what's going on? Today, we're going to win the great state of Michigan and we are going to win back the White House.
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We're hours away from a once-in-a-lifetime change. We're going to have real change, not Obama change. I want to begin tonight by thanking all of you and all of the people in this incredible movement. You know it's a movement like it has never happened in this country before. It's a movement that nobody's ever seen before even these people. They talk about it. It's one of the great political phenomena, many of them have said it, even some of them who truly, truly dislike me. They've said this is one of the great phenomenon.
I mean, look at this place at almost 1:00 in the morning.
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So I love Michigan. And I was the man of the year or something like four or five years ago. And I came here and I have so many friends in Michigan, but I came here to get the award. They asked me to make a speech. I made a speech and I talked about how Michigan, they are ripping your auto companies apart, they are taking your jobs, they are closing your plants and then moving them to Mexico and other places but mostly to Mexico in this case.
[00:35:20] And I talked about that and everybody liked me in Michigan. And I said, but you know, we have to do something about it, but I wasn't a politician. But I talked about it and I kept talking about it and talking about it and talking. And then I see Ford moving a big plant and then Ford just two weeks ago announcing their small cars are going to be produced and made entirely in Mexico.
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And it's getting worse and worse. And I developed a great relationship with the people of Michigan. So the reason I'm here is that I thought New Hampshire was going to be my last speech. And I heard that crooked Hillary Clinton was coming to Michigan, and I said let's follow it up. Let's follow it up.
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And I said there's no place I'd rather be for my last rally right here in Michigan. Late at night and full of energy and life.
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Boy, do we have energy and life! Wow!
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Although this is our last rally of this campaign, it's almost hard to believe. We started a year and a half ago. We started with 17 very talented people, governors, senators, Dr. Ben Carson, great guy.
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A lot of talented people. And one by one by one, and most of them have been terrific and give us great support. Ben Carson is one of them as you know.
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But who would have thought, and now we have one flawed candidate left to beat. One flawed candidate.
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It's going to be the very beginning of a new adventure. Because the new adventure, we have to win. We have to go out and vote. But the new adventure is making America great again. We're going to do it.
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After we win, I'm going to be coming back to Michigan a lot. I'm going to be coming back every time we open a new factory or a new automobile plant and we will do it. We'll do a lot of expansion. We're going to do a lot of expansion. I know exactly what to do, folks. We're not going to lose your jobs anymore. We're not going to lose your jobs anymore.
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We are going to bring back the automobile industry to Michigan. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. You've been mistreated. Michigan now stands at the crossroads of history. If we win Michigan, we will win this historic election. And then we truly will be able to do all of the things we want to do.
They won't be taking our jobs any longer. They won't be doing the things they've been doing to us. We'll end up having great health care, strong borders. We'll build up our military. We have no choice. We have a depleted military. We'll be able to do the things we want to do.
When you step into that voting booth today, it's now today. There is one core question for you to consider. Do you want America to be ruled by the corrupt political class? Or do you want America to be ruled by you, the people? That's what it is, by the people.
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The way it was supposed to have been for a long time. We've lost track.
And for Michigan, we will bring back your automobile production. And we will bring back your industry. Wait until you see what we do for Michigan. I've been talking about it for a long time.
Crooked Hillary has not talked about it, folks. She doesn't know where to begin. She talks about bringing industry back to New York state, when she was a New York state senator.
Let me tell you, not only didn't it come back, look at upstate New York. It's a disaster. It got worse. People fled, companies fled. It's a disaster.
[00:40:00] The corrupt politicians and their special interests have ruled over this country for a very long time. Today is our independence day.
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Today, the American working-class is going to strike back finally. Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as Obamacare.
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It's just been announced that the residents of Michigan are going to experience a massive double-digit premium hike like you wouldn't believe. It's not going to matter that much, honestly, because we're going to terminate it. You're not going to have to worry about it, OK? Don't worry.
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Now on the other hand, if something horrible happens tomorrow, get ready to pay a lot more than you're even paying now, but that's not going to happen. I'm looking at that fantastic young lady right there. She's shaking her head, no way, no way.
Not going to happen, right? Good. It's not going to happen.
No, I don't think you're going to have to worry about the premiums. But with Obamacare, premiums are surging, companies are leaving, insurers are fleeing, doctors are quitting and deductibles are going right through the roof.
Yet Hillary Clinton wants to double down on Obamacare, making it even more expensive and it doesn't work. It's no good. I'm asking for your vote so we can repeal and replace Obamacare and save health care for every family in Michigan and throughout the United States of America. We have to do it. We don't have a choice.
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Real change also means restoring honesty to our government. So the first thing we should do, let's get rid of Hillary, OK?
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That's probably -- that would be a very good first step. That's a good first step.
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Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the presidency of the United States. She is being protected by a totally rigged system that I've been talking about for a long time. It's a rigged system.
Now it's up to the American people to deliver justice at the ballot box. I don't have to say do it tomorrow, do it in a week, you're going to do it today.
You're going to sleep for a couple of hours, right?
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Go to sleep. You go to sleep for a couple of hours, you wake up and you cast your vote. Then you can go back to sleep or go to work. You people don't go to sleep, you go back to work. I know my people. You'll get up after about two hours, you'll vote, and you'll go to work.
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I know my Michigan people. I know. I have so many friends here. They work. They don't stop.
We are finally going to close the history books on the Clintons and their lies and schemes and corruption.
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We will open a bright new chapter, focused on you, the American people. My contract with the American voter begins with a plan to end government corruption and to take our country back from the special interests. I want the entire corrupt Washington establishment to hear our words, our words!
When we say you know what we're going to say? We're going to win today and we're going to Washington, D.C. to drain the swamp!
Absolutely. Absolutely.
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You probably heard me say it. Drain the swamp.
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LEMON: OK. There is Hillary Clinton now taking stage in North Carolina. We've been listening to Donald Trump, but as soon as Hillary Clinton speaks, we will listen to her remarks as well. Back in to Donald Trump.
[00:45:00] TRUMP: Almost 1:00 in the morning. I think they said 18,000 people here. Every corner. Look at this. Every corner.
And you know what they'll say? Donald Trump is speaking before a crowd of people. These people are the worst.
He's speaking in front of a few thousand people.
At the core of my contract is my plan to bring back our jobs. The trade policies of Hillary Clinton from NAFTA to China to Korea to the transpacific partnership which by the way is a disaster.
Have raided your factories, crushed your auto industry, and gutted your communities. You know it. And she's not -- look, folks, honestly, you can give her a shot. You're wasting your time. You're wasting your time.
She's not going to be able to do the job. She's not going to be able to do the job. Just look at her record. But forget her record. She's not going to be able to the job. She doesn't have a clue.
Michigan has lost more than one in four of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA, a deal signed by Bill Clinton and supported by his lovely wife, Hillary. Right? Right?
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By the way, you know who I spotted in the audience? Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
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Rudy Giuliani. He's got energy, that guy. He's all over the place. He's going from place to place to place. Got a lot of energy and a lot of this up here, too.
America has lost -- listen to this -- 70,000 factories. 70,000. Not 700, not 7,000, 70,000 factories since China entered the world trade organization, another Bill and Hillary backed disaster.
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TRUMP: We are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. There's never been anything like this. Our jobs are being stolen like candy from a baby. Not going to happen any more, folks. There are going to be consequences.
There are going to be -- when they fire our people, our great people, who have been working for 25, 30 years at these companies. They fire our people, there are going to be consequences. It doesn't work that way, not anymore. And the politicians have been working on this problem for 15 years, for 20 years and it's so simple to solve.
Delphi laid off 3,627 workers and moved their jobs to Mexico and other countries.
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FT automotive laid off 166 workers in Auburn Hills, beautiful place, and moved their jobs to Mexico. Chrysler laid off 5,300 workers and moved their jobs to Mexico, China, and to other countries.
Ford laid off 2,155 workers and moved their jobs to Mexico and many other countries. Now Ford is moving all of its small car production to Mexico. Isn't that wonderful?
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It used to be the cars were made in Flint and you couldn't drink the water in Mexico. Now the cars are made in Mexico and you can't drink the damn water in Flint! What the hell?
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Man. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Is that true, though, or what? Unbelievable.
You know I have a friend, he's the biggest in the world at building plants. That's what he does. He builds plants. He said build an apartment, he wouldn't know what to do. He builds plants. The biggest plants in the world. Most sophisticated plants. All kinds of plants.
I said how are you doing? He's from this country. Loves this country. Loves this whole area. Loves you people. He wants to do them here. So I said, let me ask you, how are you doing? He said unbelievable. And I said, oh, that's good, that's good. Where are you doing well? Mexico.
I said what about our country? Not so good. He said, Donald, you have to see what we're doing in Mexico. We're building some of the greatest plants anywhere in the world. And I said isn't this sad? Isn't this pathetic? We're going to change it around.
[00:50:00] I want Mexico to build great plants, but we're going to build great plants also. It's got to be a two-way street, folks. It's got to be a two-way street.
And right now it's a one-lane highway right into these other countries. They take our money. They take our jobs. They build their plants. They build their factories. We end up with unemployment and drugs. That's what we end up with. Not going to happen any longer.
A Trump administration will stop the jobs from leaving America and we will stop the jobs from leaving Michigan. That I can tell you, 100 percent.
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If ford or another company wants to fire their workers in Michigan and move to another country and ship their products back into the United States, I will pick up the phone, myself, if I can -- because I love it. They don't want me to do that, folks. I want to do it. It's so easy. I love doing it. It's like I'm a natural, but I'll have plenty of great representatives.
But we -- we -- I'm going to do it every once in a while, I don't care, because I love it. We'll be calling the executives at Ford or whatever company is and we'll tell them very nicely that if they want to move their factory or their plant to another country, they will have to pay a 35 percent tax when they sell their cars or their product back into the United States through what will soon be a very, very powerful border.
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So they'll pay a tax and here's what -- LEMON: All right, everyone. Hillary Clinton now speaking in Raleigh, North Carolina, introduced by the former president, her husband, Bill Clinton.
Let's listen in.
HILLARY CLINTON, DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you, all!
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Thank you! Thank you!
Well, I got to tell you, this is sure worth staying up for.
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It is so great to be here in Raleigh, here at North Carolina State University!
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And I cannot imagine a better way of ending this campaign than having the opportunity to see all of you and to watch and listen to Lady Gaga...
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...One of the most inventive, creative, and passionate performers, whose range goes from "A" to "Z" and beyond. And I was watching on the screen not only her perform, but all of you jumping and singing and waving. It was great!
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Because you know what? That's what I want for America and the young people of America, the joy, the passion, the intensity.
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And you know our long-time friend, Jon Bon Jovi was with us --
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He was with us up in Philadelphia where he and Bruce Springsteen sang. And Jon said, well, hey, I want to go down to Raleigh and so here he is.
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And you know, between now and the time the poll closes tomorrow, we are going to be living on a prayer.
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I was really impressed when everybody's hand went up saying you'd already vote. Well, go find somebody else who hasn't voted, OK?
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[00:55:10] Bring out your friends, your roommates, strangers on the street. Just stop and talk to them about what's at stake in this election because North Carolina is key. And it's not only important for our election. Are you ready to elect Roy Cooper as your next --
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Well, I sure hope so. I sure hope so. And I hope you're ready to elect Linda Coleman, your lieutenant governor.
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And how about Dan Blue III for state treasurer?
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And I really, really hope you will send Debra Ross to Washington!
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Now we are all fired up! When we were with the president and Michelle in Philadelphia --
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You know, the president was talking about how absolutely consequential this election is, and of course, it is. I really believe it's the most important election of our lifetimes because we've never had a clearer choice. Never.
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It is a choice between division or unity, between strong, steady leadership or a loose cannon, who could risk everything.
It's a choice between an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. And it --
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It is a choice that really goes to the heart of who we are as Americans. What I saw before I came in and what I see now is a sense of potential, of joy. There is no reason, my friends, why America's best days are not ahead of us if we reach for them together.
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We don't have to accept a dark and divisive vision for America. Tomorrow, you can vote for a hopeful inclusive, big-hearted America.
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Our core values -- our core values are being tested in this election. But my faith in our future has never been stronger. I love our country and I believe in the American people. And I know if we bring everyone together we can set goals and we can move toward them and we can feel that sense of accomplishment that comes with being part of something bigger than ourselves.
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You know, one of the great, one of the great privileges of crisscrossing the country as I have in this campaign is meeting remarkable people. People who stand up against the odds. People who, like my late mother, people who understand that everybody gets knocked down. What matters is whether you get back up, whether you believe you can keep going.
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Last night in Manchester, New Hampshire, I had the honor of being introduced by an extraordinary man, Khizr Khan whose son Captain Khan was killed serving our country in Iraq.
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You may remember Mr. Khan's speech at the Democratic convention, and again last night he reminded us of the responsibility we all share to protect and defend our constitution.
(Byline: Rachel Crane, Don Lemon, Mark Preston, Margaret Hoover, Hilary Rosen, Maria Cardona, Jim Acosta, Jeff Zeleny, Bakari Selelrs)
(Guest: Ryan Lizza, David Swerdlick, Michael Nutter, Andre Bauer)
(High: Coverage of 2016 U.S. presidential election. Trump Holds Final Rally in Michigan; Clinton Holds Final Rally in North Carolina))
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