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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: -- but so the polls close, I'm hearing that that Texas is closed. I'm getting all these horrible calls from my kids, from Jared, from everything. Too bad, dad because they had me written off. They said no, the polls. I said, you know, honey, I may have lost.
Because I really -- based on what they were saying it was going an early evening. They didn't realize it was going to be an early evening for us. Even though they refused to call it. It should have been an early evening.
But, I said but I left nothing out there. I felt so good because again, I was getting this news which really sounded like it was sort of over. And I said like a team, I left nothing out there I couldn't have worked harder that month we outworked anybody that ever ran for office. All right?
Nobody ever ran for office that worked harder. So I was OK with it. You know. I wouldn't say I was thrilled but I was OK. And then the polls closed and now we get the real numbers and that's when Ohio came in and that's when -- I love Ohio. They were so great. I know you guys have a little competition. That's all right, but they were so good.
And that's when Iowa came in, 10 points. That never happens. All these counties won almost every single county and ones that weren't won since the 1950s. And then I hear these states that were in play, Texas. We have breaking news, Donald Trump has won the state of Texas.
And I couldn't understand it because when I went to Texas we had these massive auditoriums and these stadiums that were packed with people. Lines 20 blocks long. You couldn't get. Thousands of people left outside.
So I won Texas, but they said it was going to be close and it was a landslide then they have another one. Georgia was going to be, again, they said in play. In play means, you know, could go either way. Donald Trump, breaking news, Donald Trump has won the state of Georgia, right?
This is like in the first two seconds. You know, this is the one that they are saying for two months, oh, Georgia's in play. Texas. Okay. Great states then they had this character that nobody ever heard of before from Utah. I love Utah. And they had him like tied with me, and beating Hillary. And I said who in the hell is this guy?
And as a Republican, you never lose Utah. It's like, you know, I hate to say it but I don't think -- has anyone ever lost Utah? So they said Utah is in play, for months, and they talked about this guy.
I looked at him and I said is he going to beat me that guy? Where does he come from? Who is he? What's he doing, this guy? Anyway, right after Texas, breaking news, Donald Trump has won the state of Utah. Like what, by 25 points.
By the way, in all fairness, Hillary came in second and this guy that nobody ever heard of, he fell off the planet. But then a certain person said to me who I actually got along with very well said when did you think you won? I said no when did you think that you guys lost?
And they said, well, Florida was looking OK and all of a sudden but they hadn't counted on the panhandle, that panhandle, boy, what was that like 91 percent or something. Those are great people, workers.
We are doing well in Florida. They weren't liking those numbers, even, we haven't even gotten to the panhandle. All of a sudden, all of a sudden breaking news, Donald Trump has won the state of Florida by a lot.
By a lot. And then we just went right up that coast line, right? We won South Carolina and then a big one because they put all of their eggs in one basket and they said they were interviewing people on television from the other side.
You just lost Florida. I said, well, we're a little disappointed, but we have no problem because North Carolina is our firewall. He can't win North Carolina, can't happen.
Two minutes later, we have breaking news, Donald Trump has won the state of North Carolina, big league, big. We won it big. And you know, I knew they had problems because they took the convention center and I just took the ballroom.
If I lost, I don't want a big room. I just want to say thanks, everybody. I'll see you next time. I'm out of here. I don't want to have -- but they spent like $7 million on fireworks in the East River.
So they had the ballroom and they spent a tremendous -- millions and millions on this massive fireworks display. The big barges in the river and that was about a month before the election. Three days before the election they cancelled the fireworks. I said that's a good signal.
I said is it supposed to be inclement weather and we checked and they said no, it's actually going to be beautiful. It's a beautiful night. I said why did they cancel the fireworks? They were like 7 million. They spent 2.2 billion. I get no credit for this. They spent 2.2 billion.
What did we spend a little more than 300 million. Mr. Devos will tell you that you know in the old days, you get credit if you spent less. Today, they would say and they used to say she spent more money. He is up by 1 point. Right?
She spent more money. Like it's good. No, it's bad. If you can spend less money and win that's good. We have got to remember. That's good. Not bad. So when I heard they spent 7 million on the fireworks and I didn't know if we were going to win or lose but I was feeling really good.
We sent them over just a nice verbal statement. We will offer you 5 cents on the dollar for the fireworks, right? Because it was only a few days Lafayette they never responded. I thought I could buy the fireworks cheap. Just like I don't want to buy an airplane for $4 billion. I don't want to buy it.
Even if I don't get to use it. Who the hell cares, right? I'm not paying 4 billion for an airplane. So we had an amazing night -- thank you. They forgot about you people. By the way, in four years, they are not going to forget, but it's not going to work. You're not going to forget.
We just went up and it was amazing. And then on top of it, we won Michigan which these folks have done such an unbelievable job. Rona McDaniels, what a great job, you and your people have done an incredible job.
And then we won Wisconsin, which was so incredible. That one we weren't expecting, necessarily and it came in. They were incredible people. Hard working, wonderful people and it was over. It was an amazing experience and winning Pennsylvania.
You know, Pennsylvania for 38 years they didn't win it and it was always the one that got away. Every Republican said, every Republican, we're going to win Pennsylvania and it never happened. They say the bride that got away. Right?
It never ever happened. Everybody said they are going to win it and not only did they not win it, they lost it big. So I felt so good in Pennsylvania, every time, we would have these massive crowds, signs on everybody's lawn. You know the Trump/Pence sign.
By the way how good is Governor Mike Pence soon-to-be Vice President Mike Pence? How good is he? What a good choice. What a good choice. He's been great. He is a great guy, but I want to just say thank you to Mike Pence. He has been amazing.
So, it's been an incredible experience, I must say, but Pennsylvania, when we won that that was, you know, now they could have called it around 12:00 or 11:30 or 11:00. Remember the screen? Remember the states? And boy, the red, we're starting to get big. Now it's getting to be really a lot of red.
Remember when they were saying at the beginning before tonight. There is no path to 270. And you know the amazing thing about the Electoral College is that you stop at all these states. I was going all over the place. I was stop and many ways I would rather have it the other way it's easier.
You campaign in New York and you campaign in California, you stop in Florida and Texas and it's it would be easy, but this does get you. I was never as much a fan. This gets you to stop at states that you not going to stop in and that's what our founders had in mind and that's what people had in mind. It's an amazing thing, really is.
I went to Maine four times, four times to Maine. For what? I needed one because they all said maybe I could get to 269. They didn't know that we were going to break that beautiful, beautiful blue wall. We were going to shatter that wall.
So I went to Maine four times for one. Now, under the other system you wouldn't do that. So it was an amazing evening. We ended up with 306 and which was a landslide.
And some states, some states, we won by 30 and 40 points throughout. It was an amazing thing. We're going to work really, really hard for you. We're going to work really hard to justify what you did. And so we're doing our little tour.
One of the places I had to stop is Michigan and we're going to bring our Michigan jobs and Michigan workers back to work. We're going to bring them back to work. And I have been here many times and even before I was running.
Before I officially announced, I didn't know if I was running. I got an award about four years ago the man of the year and I talked about the cars. They can't keep taking your car manufacturers, Ford and the others. They can't keep taking them out.
And I was talking about it long before I ever thought I was going to do this and the people in Michigan remembered I had been talking about this for years. We're going to stop it and Ford has made a promise to me and hopefully at the beginning of this year they're going to honor that promise about something they're going to do that's very big.
And they're going to do it in Michigan, not in Mexico. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. So we want to thank you. But on taxes, we're going to undertake one of the great tax reforms and simplifications in American history.
At the center of this plan is a massive middle class tax cut, middle class tax cut. We're also going to lower our business tax rate from 35 percent all the way down to 15 percent bringing new companies to our country and to your state.
So we go from the highest tax nation in the world to one of the lower, not the lowest yet. OK, don't get greedy, OK, but to one of the lowest.
On regulations we're going to eliminate wasteful job killing regulations that undermine the ability of our workers and countries to compete with the rest of the world, big thing. Bigger than the taxes. I think it's bigger than the taxes.
On energy, we will cancel the restrictions on the production of American energy, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. We're going to put our miners back to work. Miners, we love our miners. Wyoming, I think it was my highest percentage the opponent almost didn't register in the state of Wyoming. Almost didn't register in the state of West Virginia, when we love. We love our miners.
On infrastructure, I will ask Congress to pass legislation that produces $1 trillion of new investment in America's crumbling infrastructure. That includes major new projects for both our rural communities and our inner cities and our inner cities are like the forgotten man and the forgotten woman.
We have forgotten about our inner cities. No longer. The African-American community was great to us. They came through big league. Big league. And frankly, if they had any doubt, they didn't vote.
And that was almost as good because a lot of people didn't show up because they felt good about me and the Hispanic community great, great. Really great.
And women, thank goodness women, oh, man, women that was the other thing at the polls. I go to these rallies and pink signs like crazy. We did great with women. So I want to thank the women.
So we're going to put our people back to work. It's time to help get Americans off of welfare rolls and back in to the labor market, we're going to do that.
Rebuilding our country with American hands and American workers they're going to be so thrilled. They will make so much money than they ever made. They're going to love getting up in the morning and love what they do.
My administration will follow two simple rules, buy American and hire American, because from now on it's going to be America first, America first. Our trade deficit is now nearly $800 billion a year. You can believe that?
Any business people in the room? Raise your hand. Do you think you can do slightly better than that? I think so. It's a chronic drag on growth and it's a destroyer of our country's wealth and our country's jobs, $800 billion a year.
You actually say who is making these deals? Who is making them? You look at deals that Mexico and other countries have with other countries, and the deals they have with us are always the worst deal, but that's going to change. That's going to change.
We have got the professionals lined up and these professionals, they know what they're doing. America has lost 1/3 of our manufacturing jobs since NAFTA. We've lost 70,000 factories.
During the last month, I have been talking about it. I always say it's a typo. You mean, 700 factories. You mean, 70 factories, 70,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization. Think of what 70,000 factories is. It's the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world.
No state has been hurt worse by our trade deals than the state of Michigan. That's why I knew I was going to win Michigan. That's why I knew I was going to win, the car industry, the automobile industry.
But you watch, they will come roaring back. They will come roaring back and you're going to be happy. You have lost more than 40 percent of your automobile jobs since NAFTA -- think of it, 40 percent.
And I will tell you what, if I wasn't elected, 40 percent, you wish you had 40 percent two years from now. It would have gotten much worse. Plenty of deals are going on. You know, we did a great job for Carrier with the help of Mike Pence. We did a great job.
But, but, you have got to understand, we got to that table a little bit late. They already had built their factory in Mexico and lots of other things and, yet, we saved a tremendous number of jobs. And the rest of those jobs, I mean, look, they have to be prepared.
Carrier and everybody else that when they make those air conditioners or whatever they're making, I think they are going to make pumps, not air conditioners, air conditioners we left them back there.
Whatever they make and other companies, they're going to have to pay a tremendous tax to get that product back in to this country. The point is, the jobs that are gone, I think they will be coming back soon, too.
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 water in Flint. We're going to change that.
It would have been nice if I would have had a little help from your governor. It would have been real nice. It would have been nice if we had a little help from your governor.
We're going to withdraw from the Transpacific Partnership. Renegotiate NAFTA, stand up to foreign cheating and fight for every last American job and every last job that belongs in Michigan.
If a company wants to fire their workers and leave Michigan for another country or anywhere else and ship their product back into our country, there will be consequences. It's no longer to be like we're people we don't know what we're doing.
We don't know what we're doing. Go ahead fire everybody in Michigan or Indiana or Pennsylvania, fire everybody, build someplace else and sell back. No, no more. Not going to happen. Not going to happen.
If we, it's not me, I'm a messenger, if we didn't come along, our country is going to be totally drained. There are thousands and thousands of companies right now that are negotiating to get out of our country.
Because, well, for one reason the taxes are too high. For another reason the regulation. So even without doing what I'm doing at the border and there is no 35 percent tax. You understand that, it's only if you leave is there a tax. There is no tax. We are lowering taxes.
I don't think we are going to have to use that 35 percent very much because when we lower our taxes down to 15 percent or thereabouts, I hope I can get it down to that level, but nobody is going to leave.
When we lower our regulations by probably 80 percent, 85 percent, these are regulations that don't -- they're a disaster for farmers for manufacturers, for everybody.
I also have an important announcement and I'm going to make it tonight, do you mind? We will keep it low key. We'll keep it very low key. They are turning off some of the cameras because they are so honorable.
We have a great, great business leader with us tonight. One of the foremost leaders in manufacturing and one of the foremost leaders in the world of business, a man who cares greatly about this state and this country, even though he does happen to come from Australia, he is here with us this evening.
He has done an incredible job. He has helped to build unbelievable company. He has been the chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical for 13 years. One of the truly great companies and it's based right here in Michigan and he is staying here.
He is staying. He is proud of Michigan. He is also a fantastic family man, just met his son and someone committed to returning jobs to the United States of America. His name is Andrew Liveris, one of the most respected businessmen in the world.
I'm asking him to come up and head up our American Manufacturing Council and he has agreed to do it. They will be tasked with finding ways to bring industry back to America, industry, and manufacturing back to America. Nobody can do it like Andrew. So Andrew, please come up to the stage -- Andrew.
ANDREW LIVERIS, CEO, DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY: Doesn't the president-elect sing music? It's music. It's Kid Rock. It's the Detroit city motor music. It's Michigan music. It's American music. I'm very proud to be here. We love him, too, and we're very proud as a Michigan-based company - - were founded here in Michigan just up the road in Midland in the bay communities.
We're global but we have been expanding our operations here in Michigan. We have been expanding our operations in the United States. Over 7,000 jobs, factory jobs, construction jobs, technicians, engineers, service jobs, invested over $7 billion in the last four or five years.
And we aren't stopping there. We aren't stopping there. We're going to add value by getting this incredible workforce in front of me. This incredible American worker, this incredible Michigan worker and we're going to put you all to work.
We've got ideas and we have got plans. And tonight in honor of the president-elect and his being here to thank you all, we have made a decision we're going to invest a new state of the art innovation center in Michigan. We're going to put an R and D Center in place.
This decision, this decision -- this decision this man and these policies, we could have waited. We could have put it anywhere in the world. Several hundred jobs on top of the thousands we aren't waiting.
We're going ahead. We're going to use American hard work American brains and we're going to fight for the Dow Company out of the USA. President- elect Trump, I can't tell you, I tingle with pride listening to you.
But to honor me, to help you chair America manufacturing council, to put in place, to put in place the investments that you talk about. You are paving the way with your administration, with your policies to make it easier to do business in this country.
Not a red tape country but a red carpet country for American businesses (inaudible), America first as you said that's what we have to do. And you can count on me and the business leaders that we'll put on this team.
This will be America's finest and brightest to help us solve these problems that you all have. We need to employ our youth. We need to help all of our citizens. We need to give you hope. We need to find a way back to believing ourselves again.
As you rightly said, I may have a funny accent. We Aussies love America a lot. I bleed America and I bleed Michigan. That's what I bleed. Thank you, sir. It's an honor. Let's make America great again by building great things in America.
TRUMP: Wow, so great. Thank you, Andrew. Isn't that great? That's what's going to happen, folks. We're getting jobs. They're going to come back to Michigan. We're going to come back to Pennsylvania, all these places, New York State. You see what's happened in New York State. We're going to bring them back.
So I want to thank Andrew. And Andrew is going to announce the names of the great business manufacturers, the best in the world. And he is setting up his council next week and he will announce them next week. They will be like him, the greatest leaders there are. I want to thank Andrew and Dow Chemical. And that's really good news for Michigan.
On the military, we will show the whole world that America is strong again. We will rebuild our badly depleted military and ensure our service members have the equipment, training, technology and resources that they need to get the job done and done correctly.
But I always add we're going to have the strongest military in the world, the most updated military in the world. And there has rarely been a time where we have needed it like this. I always like to add, we will never have to use that power, I hope, we're building tremendous power and hopefully we will never have to use that power.
We believe in peace through strength. We will, however, get rid of ISIS, I'm sorry. We will get rid of ISIS. ISIS has to go. At the same time, we will ensure our veterans have the best medical care in the world. It's about time.
And on healthcare, we will repeal and replace Obamacare. We're going to have healthcare that's much less expensive. They will be much better, much stronger.
The murder rate our country has experienced is the largest increase in 45 years. You don't hear that. We are going to support the incredible men and women of law enforcement and we are going to bring this crime wave to an end.
On immigration, we will build a great wall and we will put an end to illegal immigration and stop the drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth and many other people. Got to stop the drugs.
And we're going to have people come into our country, hundreds of thousands of people. We want them to come in because we're going to have big, beautiful doors in that wall, but they're going to come in legally through a process legally.
During this campaign, I had a chance to meet the amazing families of the Remembrance Project. Parents whose children were killed by illegal immigrants. A Trump administration will end this long and horrible nightmare of violence.
We will fight to protect every American life. During the campaign, I also spent time with American workers laid off and forced to train the foreign workers that were brought in to replace them. That's not going to happen anymore.
The company that's out there right now, they say you're going to train the people that are going to replace you, and if you don't do it, you're not getting your severance pay, OK, not going to happen to our people anymore. OK?
One of my first executive orders will ask the Department of Labor to investigate all visa abuses that undermine jobs and wages for the American worker. To protect our country from terrorism and extremism, I will suspend immigration and refugee admissions from regions where they cannot be safely processed or vetted.
We're going to have extreme vetting. We have no choice. We have enough problems, folks. We have enough problems. We will do everything in our power to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. We have no choice. Thank you.
Ethics reform will be a crucial part of our 100-day plan as well. We're going to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. You will see. I will impose a five-year ban on executive branch officials becoming lobbyists and a lifetime ban on officials becoming lobbyists for a foreign government.
And since I become sort of involved with costs and as business people, we sort of understand that, I think that these people that give out these billions and billions of dollars of contracts to companies should never ever be allowed to leave and go to work with any of these companies, OK?
No more. Got to be a lifetime ban. Then you wonder why is it costing so much? Why are the cost overruns so high? And I could name so many different. You look at some of the fighter jets that are being built and things that are happening.
I'm not just talking about the military. I'm talking about so many other purchases. When they purchase and when they are in charge of purchasing, they should never ever during their lifetime be allowed to go to work for those companies.
They just shouldn't be allowed to do it and they're not going to be allowed to do it. All of a sudden they will start negotiating a little bit harder, right? You know the game. Come to work with us. Come to work with us.
He is going to negotiate that, right? We face many challenges, but this is truly an exciting time to be alive and there has been anything like what we have done. The script is not yet written we do not know what the page will read tomorrow.
But for the first time in many, many years, what we do know is that the pages will be authored by each and every one of you. The American people will be in charge. Your voice, your desires, your hopes and aspirations, you will never again fall on deaf ears. It won't happen.
You saw what happened three weeks ago. It's not going to happen. People are paying attention to you now. They are paying attention. These people are talking about you every night. They never talked about you. They said they are not going to show up. They are talking about you again.
We have sanity back. We have sanity back. You will be the captain of your destiny once more. Together we will raise incomes and create millions and millions of new jobs. You watch Andrew and watch his friends. You watch what's going to happen.
We will lower taxes. Unleash American energy and bring new companies to our shores and stop the companies already here from viciously leaving. We will re-establish the rule of law and appoint justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, who will uphold and defend our constitution.
We will heal our divisions and unify our country and when Americans are unified there is nothing we cannot do. No task too great. No dream too large. No goal beyond our reach.
My message tonight is for all Americans from all parties, all beliefs, all walks of life, no matter your age, your income, your background, your race. I am asking you to join this incredible movement, this movement that nobody has ever seen anything like it before.
I am asking you to dream big and bold and daring for your country and for yourself. I am asking you to believe in yourself and I am asking you to believe once again in America.