Michigan Town Hall - Gov. Kristi Noem & Tudor Dixon

and it is a fabulous way to start this night let's all say thank you to Governor Christy gnome for coming to Michigan so I'll just tell you a quick story when you're running for office and God wants to use you it's not easy because generally God doesn't call you to the easy stuff right and when you find out when you get into politics you find out it's nothing like business everybody is not your friend you're not trying to make a deal it is very hard to find friends but one thing I found is that the Republican governors in this country are amazing so many of them would take a moment and take time to sit with me and talk with me and Governor gnome is no exception but I will say that she went above Beyond because we would go to these meetings with the Republican Governor's Association and she said come and sit with me and have lunch with me and let me talk to you and it's so important because she comes from a state that is thriving thriving and when you look at Michigan and you see that the governor here her own Administration put out a report that we will not have population growth through 2050 and you see that South Dakota Kota is growing every day record numbers that's why it's important to have people like Governor gnome sit down and talk to us about what we can do to improve and so we are so grateful to you for being here tonight should our she should have can you even imagine what Michigan would have looked like if she would have been it would have been a whole different state wouldn't have it you'd be growing you'd be thriving you'd have more money in your pockets your kids would be safer they'd have a better future they're uh teenagers and college students would have the careers that they want homes would be cheaper they'd be more affordable because you have more opportunities in South Dakota just since I've been Governor the incomes have gone up 36% we are the only state in the country where our overdoses are going down our mental health challenges are going down our suicides rates are going down and it's because people are happier and the reason they're happier is because we've just let them be free we let them make decisions for themselves that they should be making you know I I think the world of tutor I just think she's fantastic I think she's normal which is so amazing in politics you could find somebody who's normal that just is doing this for all the right reasons she just wants to serve people and I think the conversation we need to have tonight is going to be a family discussion I really want to have a family discussion with all of you about this election what it means what it means for for our future and why I'm going to ask you to do more than you've ever done before I'm going to get you to find figure out a way to be uncomfortable be uncomfortable in your skin knowing that every day you don't have enough hours to go out and talk to enough people because we as people in this country that love America we love our history we've got a lot of faith and hope we have decided that it's more important to be right than to go out and win the hearts and minds of people than to go out there and really talk to people and spend time time having conversations about what it means to their family to bring people a little bit of Hope one of my favorite scripture verses that um I talk about every once in a while is that scripture verse in Deuteronomy that says how lovely are the feet of them that bring good news proclaiming peace announcing news of happiness and it's our god reigns but I always and it says our god reigns several times but what is amazing about that is I would love it if when people saw you coming and you want to talk politics and you want to talk about this election that they would recognize that you're coming as someone who's bringing hope bringing news of peace proclaiming happiness and that's really what our policies that we believe in they bring that they bring a belief in our constitution the opportunity that it provides to grow up in America and have every opportunity in front of you not equal outcomes but equal opportunities to be successful and to go out and do with your life what what you feel called to do and that's really the conversation we need to have with people this election cycle so we'll we'll talk about that in our discussion a little bit I'll talk a little bit about how different it is in South Dakota than maybe what Michigan has gone through the last several years and what we'll talk about is how leadership has consequences it matters who's in elected office it matters who's in that white house I will tell you what I'm here for president Donald J Trump tonight because when I was governor when I was governor he let me do my job when he was in the white house he let me make the best decisions for my people in my state and and we were able to never have a mandate never close a single business I never once even defined what an essential business was because I didn't believe that Governors have the authority to tell you your business is an essential um so we didn't do that we were the only state in the country that never took the elevated unemployment benefit said Thank you Mr President for the flexibility but our people want to work and they did and we broke the nation's lowest unemployment record in the history of the United States of America at 1.9% and we're still at just 2% right now you guys are more than double we are number one in the nation for the lowest unemployment rate still and Michigan's number 41 so when you grow up you can be like us how does that sound all right our people work and they're happy and they're thriving and they're doing better and we're having so many babies it is amazing we are the number one state for birth rate too in the country I think people are having babies cuz they're happy but and and she's right Michigan can be that just so you know Michigan can be that yeah I just don't I don't think you have to be um you know philosophical about this election you don't have to say you know if we did this if we cut taxes if we eased up on regulations if we actually trusted people and let them use personal responsibility which is what our constitution requires of us as leaders that you will be more successful all you have to do is look from state to state and see that it mattered who was in charge and see what happened to their people and their families in those States all we did in South Dakota is what conservatives have always believed we just did it and it worked and it worked historic revenues we paid off all of our debts and bonds even for our universities and our and our technical schools we built roads and bridges and dams and railroads and we did the largest tax cut in South Dakota history and we still have more money and revenues than we ever had in history and we don't have an income tax we don't have a personal property tax all we have is a 4.2% sales tax and we're doing great and and she was able to fix the roads without swearing about it yes yes in fact today somebody actually sent me it's funny somebody sent me a map of the United States of America and I think South Dakota was the state that swar swears the least which I didn't even know that we were ranking how I don't think that's true though I've met enough ranchers met enough ranchers for that but but you know that is I we had the chance when President Trump was in the White House to cut taxes I served on the committee in Congress that that worked on that bill for two and a half years he trusts you with your own money he trusts you with your own money to go out and make the best decisions for your family and let me tell you what this uh vice president Harris her belief has always been has always been that the government makes better decisions than you do she wanted government run health care she wants the government to pay for college uh school loans she wants the government to decide what your taxes are and they all need to be higher she has consistently mandated and dictated to people it would be a whole different world if she gets into that White House than president Trump and your future would be a lot less free you'd have a lot less Liberties and I'm not certain if she's ever read the Constitution because I've heard her Embrace and seen her sign on to enough legislation and support it that uh clearly clearly says that you get less control over your life well I I think the important message here is that if you are in a Republican state the Republican Governor trusts you with your money they don't want to take your money and use it elsewhere and look in Michigan we could have had a much lower income tax but the governor decided to increase it so you could have a lower income tax and we should be moving toward no income tax we should bee and that's the problem with the Harris Administration what she has done as vice president but what she would do as president she's already told you she will take your money and give it to other people because she believes in redistribution of wealth she's telling you when she says she's going to pay off student loans when she says she's going to hand out $25,000 to everybody for a first home down payment she's not telling people she is going to make them more prosperous she's saying the government has to do this for you and you have to beholden be beholden to the government that is how inflation Rises they want to keep us down you know the the average American family since it's been the Harris admin Administration in the White House the last four years is making $33,000 less than they did previous to that in fact their energy costs have gone up by average of $4,900 per family just in the increase in energy cost gas is a dollar more a gallon than it was four years ago and when President Trump came into the White House it went down if you remember because what did he do he wanted an American Energy Supply just if we had it here we were going to use our own resources and we weren't going to rely on our enemies enemies like the Harris Administration has done so I clearly see that when it comes to our policies we can either put somebody in the White House who loves America believes we should provide for ourselves and rely on ourselves for our future for our energy and our food supply and that is exactly the opposite of what Joe Biden and Camala Harris have done the last four years and if you hear Donald Trump say drill baby drill you've heard that there is a reason for that because everything that moves in this country moves with energy and everything you buy or consume has been moved the idea that we have to do price fixing that we have to go after corporations is completely crazy they've they've created the policies that have hurt us and they want you to believe that it's some big bad Corporation they aren't for capitalism they aren't for Innovation they have crushed innovation in this country in the last four years the the the fact that we were not only energy independent but we were headed toward energy energy dominance there was a point when our gas companies were saying man we can't even make a profit we've got such so much extra energy here because the United States of America is Rich with energy and that means that you have the most Security in the world but they want to take that away from us and what does that do it comes out of everybody's pocket in this room well you remember the Keystone XL pipeline right That was supposed to go through South Dakota so what most people don't remember is that when President Trump was in the white house and then when Joe Biden was being sworn in he canel that on day one but in our state we already had all the equipment set up the pipe was laid out across the state everything was there and prepared all we had to do was put it in the ground and hook it up and get it going in fact most people don't realize it wouldn't it wasn't going to be the first pipeline that came from Canada and hauled resources down to the refinery to supply our country with energy it was the third one we already had two pipelines in the ground that went from the exact same points and delivered our oil this one was going to be more technology advanced it was going to be safer it was going to be the security of having a a pipeline that would carry more capacity it's not like we didn't have pipelines in the ground already this would have been the third one we've already done it it was nothing new but they shut it down because they didn't want to rely on our own Supply and our friends for energy instead what are we doing now we're enriching Iran right and our enemies who are partnering with Russia who are now supplying en or China with their energy Supply correct we literally have countries that hate us partnering in new ways and they're doing it to defeat the United States of America because they see an opportunity because this Harris Administration has been so weak they've been so weak and they've emboldened and enriched our enemies to such a point that they see an opportunity to finally the United States of America and that has long-term been their goal this Administration the Harris Administration went back into the Iran nuclear deal immediately they lifted the sanctions off of Iran they've brought been able to keep billions of dollars and they've used it to to fund Hamas and terrorist activities around the world who just attack Americans in our way of life that weakness on the world stage has huge consequences for us well look at the consequences it has had in this State the way that that has torn this state apart because the Biden Administration the Harris Administration made the decision to take sanctions away from Iran I I think the total is close to hundred billion dollar that Iran was R enriched in the time that they have been in office and do you know where that money went October 7th and that tore the state apart and now we have people that are saying what side are you on what side are you on we love people no matter what and we were on the side of peace and October 6 was fine October 7th was funded by a terrorist country that was helped Along by the Harris Administration and it has torn the lives of American citizens and Israelis and Palestinians apart because of the irresponsibility of the Harris Administration we're going to talk about several topics tonight we're going to talk about inflation in the economy because I think that's what every family is suffering with right now every family right now is struggling to prioritize what their costs will be we'll we'll talk a little bit about our border um we're going to give you guys a chance to ask us some questions so if you want to be talking about something or ask a specific question on a topic you'll get the chance to do that so you can be thinking about it we're going to visit a little bit about this um vice presidential candidate that Kamala has chosen Tim Walls I happen to know him pretty well being my neighboring state and we have taken just this last year the last few months over 7,000 motans and moved them over to South Dakota we've had tens of thousands of motans who' have decided to leave his State and come to South Dakota because of his policies and his dictator type leadership skills that have been so devastating for his State and then we're going to talk about the American dream and what that means what does it look like under the choices that we have on the ballot this fall um but I know that uh with the with the tutor was just talking about our national security and that's one of those issues that I think a lot of Americans need to stop and pause for a minute and really realize the threats that we have and the insecurities that we have I have spent I'm a farmer and a Rancher and have spent my life you know raising food to feed this country and to feed the world we had a very large operation when I was younger my dad was killed in an accident when I was young and I ended up quitting college and taking over our businesses but I've worked on food policy for 30 years and I watched over those last 30 years as China systematically came in and first they started buying up our chemical companies in the United States then they started buying up our seed and fertilizer companies then we saw America for a period of time Embrace selling citizenship to the United States for investment in our processing facilities the vast majority of our processing facilities and meat packing plants are owned by Chinese companies now and and people that are affiliated with the CCP now we have seen them come in they've manipulated their currency they've stolen our genetics and our IP and now we're watching them by our land and and completing that full circle of our food production in the United States China has had a thousand years plan for world domination they've been trying to take out the United States of America for hundreds of years for the last 200 years they we have been a threat to them ever since we are established because we were so different in the experiment that our Founders gave us they gave us the most wonderful experiment in the history of the world by giving us this Republic and it was so different and China has seen us as we Rose to be the world's power as a threat to them and they have a long-term plan to take us out and they will make their people suffer suffer in order to get that plan complete if we think a pandemic was scary wait until they control our food supply and wait until you go to the grocery store and you realize you can't get food to feed your family because China's decided that you can't get your food did you know that they own quite a bit of our ports in the United States the LA Port that you hear Nome bragging about all the time it's 90% owned by Chinese Chinese companies and Chinese officials they have started hoarding their shipping containers in China everything in this world that gets shipped across the ocean goes in a shipping container doesn't it why do you think that they're keeping the shipping containers so that we don't have access to them that's what this election is about that's how important it is to get president Trump back in the white house so that we have a strong leader that stands up for America puts China back in its place separates them between Russia and Iran and when we we can fight any of those enemies and and beat them today if they're all together it gets really tough for us to win that battle if they're partnering together and that's what this election is about is what will America look like if we have a weak leader back in the White House like Camala Harris and can we be protected from the invasion of China with this Administration no we already know that Governor walls is obsessed with China he's lived there he his good grief his wedding anniversary he chose the massacre at tianan Square so it would be memorable this is a man who Idol izes the CCP and I I have a little bit different experience than the governor because I come from the manufacturing world so I saw it from what they did to the manufacturing world and I saw Foundry after Foundry after Foundry close because the Chinese were coming in offering the lowest prices and they were pirating all same thing stealing our technology and we we I will tell you today there are not many people who come out of college and say I would love to start a steel foundry it's kind kind of a generational thing sort of something that gets passed down same as Farms when people come out of college they don't say man I really like to start up a big dairy farm just doesn't happen today they are generational businesses that get passed down from family to family from father to son from mother to daughter these once they're gone they don't come back no one starts them up again and so when you hear her talking about food security and making sure that we have enough food to feed this country what do you think the Chinese are doing buying up our land they're weakening us and a weak America cannot take o cannot protect ourselves from a Chinese takeover these are serious subjects we're here folks the people who think this is out way out in the future this 100-year plan of China we're on year like 85 they've already gotten this far they have the largest Navy in the world a lot of people don't know that that's right China is very powerful our president decided to sit down and address the nation and tell the nation that he was stepping out of the presidential race didn't mention that he was doing it because he's cognitively declining but he did go he did announce that he was going to sit down and tell the world this at the same time China and Russia flew together off the coast of Alaska first time they've ever flown together it's here it is and that's the challenges we have in front of us internationally but we have challenges here at home too I think every person that I talk to is challenged by the policies that are happening in their communities and their cities um the violence the crime we're living with what we have going on at the border The Invasion that we're seeing of dangerous illegal immigrants some of them are criminals just in 2023 we saw almost 170 of them that are on the terrorist watch list that came into this country that we know about we don't know about the ones that we haven't caught that we haven't found and everybody has seen our communities change because of this we know that there's about 10 million that have come into this country uh over the Border we don't know how many millions have come that we don't know about there's been estimates as high as 15 to 16 to 20 million they're fundamentally remaking this country by what they're doing and allowing dangerous individuals to come in and rape and murder our children and our sons and our daughters and our women and take advantage of them and then killing our population with a drug overdose epidemic that is now the number one fentanyl is the number one killer of adults 18 to 45 years old now in the United States of America in the someone dies every seven minutes so we will have almost nine or 10 people in this country will die while we just have this meeting here while we sit here today and talk about this election and that wasn't happening it was just in 2019 it was 93% less so it's almost doubled gone up 93% in the last four to 5 years in the amount of deaths that we're seeing from drug overdoses and where is fentanyl manufactured and made in China is it on purpose absolutely absolutely you want to take out a whole generation of Americans you poison them you poison them so they will do anything to defeat us because of the threat that we face and and that is the challenge we have in front of us and we need a president that recognizes that border needs to be closed that we need to make sure that those dangerous individuals are removed from our country and that when you break the law in the United States of America there's just consequences there's just consequences when you break the law and and let's remember this was something that Bill Clinton said this was something that Barack Obama said this was something that old Joe Biden said oh now he's old previous Joe Biden said not President Joe Biden this is a whole new situation that we're dealing with and it's not something that they feel in their hearts when they tell you this oh gosh this is just such a loving thing this is purely political they have they have seized on an opportunity to create a divide but the reality is we are now the second largest country in the world for human trafficking and sex trafficking and the majority of that is kids this Administration lost three 300,000 children 300,000 children are either enslaved labor and and I know you're going to say not in America yes yes in this country they are either enslave labor or they are being trafficked or they are dead and the problem is that they are all tracked by the cartel so when people tell you we have an open border that border brings in hundreds of millions of dollars every year for the cartel it's not open it is full and completely controlled by a criminal element so there is no Beauty in people coming across there is no safety in people coming across there is no salvation for those people coming that way across the border they are never free they do not enjoy the freedoms that we enjoy because they are controlled by a criminal element they are marked for life it is a terrible tragic situation especially for the little girls and boys that are used every single day because our president and our vice president decided politics was more important than people we have a situation in South Dakota where we have nine Native American tribes and most people don't realize that a Native American tribe and their reservation boundaries are they're a Sovereign Nation so I as Governor have no jurisdiction there um who has jurisdiction there for Law and Order is the tribal government and the federal government they're the ones who come in and make sure that Tribal Law is upheld that there isn't crimes being committed and that communities are safe well our federal government has dramatically failed our tribes in this country in fact my tribes are suing the federal government right now for lack of law enforcement in their areas and in their communities I have some of the poorest communities in the country in South Dakota in fact out of the top 11 poorest counties in the nation I have five of them in our state and they're all in tribal areas so these folks have 80 to 90% unemployment they struggle with addiction and challenges and alcohol alcoholism and what has happened since this border has been opened during this Administration and and it started you know a few years before that but what has happened recently is that we have seen cartel Affiliates in our tribal reservations operating unchecked there is nobody there making sure that those cartel aren't they're they're trafficking people right through South Dakota they're trafficking drugs through the Midwest protected there and isolated from me because I have no jurisdiction there I can't go there and arrest anybody for rape or murder or trafficking or drugs or being dealers the only people who can do it is either the Tribal Law Enforcement who is dramatically underfunded um they need 10 times the amount of dollars to have the law enforcement officers that they need and the federal government refuses to come in so people always think about the Border being at the southern part of the United States we've got the border right in South Dakota the cartel have figured out where they're protected in this country and where they can use as a home base to distribute their drugs and their trafficking and it's happening right in South Dakota I was the first governor in the country to send my national guard down to the border to help when Texas asked for it because I recognized it was a war zone back then since then we have deployed National Guard seven times to assist down there we have gone down there on a security Mission we've gone down there and sent our helicopters to help do surveillance we've sent an engineering unit down there that built fence and barrier we built over 5 m five miles of barrier cleared 46 miles of barrier cleared in fixed patches that have been broken um But continuing to do all we can to support what Texas is doing what governor Abbott is doing but also doing what we can because of the failure of this Administration just to enforce our border and to make sure that we can protect our kids as much as possible and protect their future by not allowing that type of invasion to continue and and it it affects us too I mean obviously we are a border state we have a border with Canada and the scary thing is you may not realize the majority of people who have come through on the terror watch list are coming from Canada we have a very dangerous situation here so every state is a border state I mean we genuinely are but every state is a border state and if you I mean even if you just talked to sheriff bushard you would understand the drugs that are coming into the country and and you know it's crazy when I was campaigning I went to their crime lab and they pull out this just came today and you know I think of fentel as like these little pills and you're going to see it and you're going to know and it's this giant brick and I was just flabbergasted I'm like this you just find this in someone's house yeah just we did a raid today found this in someone's house the tech has to be extraordinarily careful because even the tiniest Speck will kill you this is just traveling around our community in people's homes going to our kids they want to get that that to our kids this is so dangerous now and we have people who are duping you when they say they care about Law and Order they don't care about Law and Order look we had three police officers killed in one month's time in this state I don't think the governor went to a single funeral oh my goodness really we had the largest just mass shooting the state has ever seen what a month ago the governor's never spoken about it you've never seen so much as a tweet but Rochester had a shooting she tweeted about that but the people of Detroit she didn't tweet about they don't care about the areas that are hit hardest with crime my goodness she's a wreck somebody should run against [Applause] her oh I thought she was a mess last night too or was it two nights ago that she spoke she I will say I think she looked beautiful though I give her that she had a the dress was stunning this is what I think I I think [Laughter] that this is what I wish we live in a country that's addicted to being offended right don't we all just love to be offended by each other like oh my gosh I can't believe they said that that they it's horrible I'm so offended and they they quit talking to each other and she's really good at offending people cuz I think she tries to do it on purpose like some of the things that she says and does some people do it without really realizing it but I had a pastor years ago say something to me that Christy people are going to throw offenses out at you all the time but you're the one who decides if you want to pick it up and carry it around with you and then you're the one who's carrying the burden so you have the opportunity every day to just make a decision that when people offend you and politics does it it really does and some of the things she said offended me so I've got to take my own sermon here but we have the chance to when people offend us and we're talking to them about this election and when they're talking about President Trump versus Vice President Harris that they're going to say things to us and we're going to have to decide not to be offended and to keep the relationship to keep the relationship because I truly believe we tell our kids and our high schoolers and our college students that your education is the most important thing for your life your your education is or where you grew up is the most important thing and I just disagree I think the most important thing in your life is relationships the relationships that you have in your life will determine the opportunities that you get what you learn from each other maybe the person that you meet at that meeting or you have a conversation with at that gas station is somebody that will change your life forever words have consequences words have power how many of you have somebody that said something to you at some point in life that you still remember today an off-handed comment something they said but it changed the way you thought about yourself or it changed your perspective so remember that your words have power and when you leave here and you speak choose not to be offended by political conversations you're having with people choose instead to recognize that the words that you speak will impact somebody and try to speak different words that change their perspective help them think about this election different than they had before help have them at a grocery store start talking about the price of pickles do something like that that's what I go a couple times a month and just run a checkout line at a grocery store I had I did that when I was in college but it is the most eye-opening experience anybody could have and I would say every elected official should just go do it they will let you do it because they can't hire enough people who want to run checkout lines at grocery stores and no nobody can count money anymore um but anyways but you will be shocked I bet two out of five people that come through the checkout line they get to where the total comes and they don't have enough money and they have to sit there and decide what they're going to put back and it's amazing to me the amount of people that don't have enough money to get their groceries anymore or they come through with 10 or 15 items and they're like but I got this last month and I had enough money this month I don't and they're trying to decide should they put back the the mustard or the olives and they wrestle with it and then they decide they're going to go put it back I had a mom the other day tell me I saw her in a Walmart and she told me she was trying to decide if she could buy her 10-year-old son the backpack or the new shoes he wanted for for school this year she couldn't get both of them and that's that's the discussion families are having so we need to let them know that it's the policies of the leaders that are deciding what those costs are the reason that families can't buy a home anymore is because somebody in power made a decision that drove up interest rates put more debt on this country cryp red our economy your gas costs more because somebody in Washington DC decided it was more important to Outsource our energy rather than to to reply rely on ourselves those are all conversations you can have in your day-to-day life with people who aren't used to talking about that with somebody so I think we probably should go to questions it looks like there's quite a few people back there standing go did you want to I I just want to add really quickly to your point of finding joy in the trials if you've been listening to this past week which I'm sure none of you were but on the off chance um in case you didn't hear it there was a kind of common theme of I've been held back by gender and race and discriminated against and so we heard that from Michelle Obama and she was first lady in case you didn't know um and we heard that from Oprah and she's just like you know everybody wants to be Oprah you know um and and we heard that from kamla Harris and I think that the overwhelming message from that is wow and look what they were able to do in America look what they were able to become in this country despite that because God doesn't tell you it's going to be easy he doesn't call you to the easy things and he doesn't tell you you're not going to be discriminated against you're not going to be offended because every day I can tell you you will be and people will tell you there's a reason no matter what color you are no matter what gender you are no matter what your preferences are people will tell you there is a reason you can't do what you're going out to do and yet in this country you can so don't listen to the people who say oppression is real you can break through every day because you live here and this is a special place okay should we go to questions yes Miss Katherine great hi everyone thank you right now we have a question from Joe and he'd like to ask it specifically just hi Joe hi just real quick obviously we've lost our moral compass in this nation it seems my question I am a huge Republican and I'm disappointed in the Republican partly deeply because the squeaky wheel gets the most grease why isn't any Republican truly going out there screaming every day if it takes every week to stop or say something about what's happening that goes for both the state and the the national the Statewide that's that's the only question I have that's got to start making fuss on a daily basis I've seen you done some of it God bless you help this country before we lose it so are you talking about standing for what's right and wrong standing for Faith or are you talking about all of it it all encompasses everything there's a right and a wrong child this deal that this thing going on with children we have schools that the teachers are not telling the they're telling kids and they can tell their kids that they can get gender trans all this stuff why isn't the Republican party in Michigan because that's what or nationally stand up every day and say what are you doing with my children what do you every day they should be up there the squeaky wheel I'm done I'm sorry thank you well I'll tell you what I think no the media doesn't cover it and it's not just the people in elected office's responsibility I feel like it's all of our responsibility we will never change this country if you just point at somebody else and tell them to go do their job and I get your heart because you're not saying that you just want us to be bold you want us to be bold and stand for truth and that doesn't mean we have to be ugly yes that is correct and that's why we see too many people that get elected to office and then they forget their moral compass they want to be popular and they want to make sure they can get reelected the next time so they forget to stand listen when I was the only state in the country that never shut down a single business and never shut down a single event do you remember when we held the sturis motorcycle bike rally I mean when we held the July third event at Mount Rushmore I mean I was getting killed every night on the night on the national news like Rachel mattow and Elizabeth Warren they called me dangerous and Reckless I mean I literally just didn't even I still don't really watch the news cuz it's just too hard on me you guys don't know this about my personality but I tend to be an introvert I mean I love people I love people and I like to be around them but walking into a room full of strangers is still something I have to go all right Christie you can do this you know this is not my nature I still get nervous for every interview every speech but I'll tell you what I had a dad every day when I was growing up that said we don't complain about things we fix them M and so there's something he built into us kids that we don't ever get to sit home and just complain you have to go do something go fix it go be somebody who's a part of the solution I told one of my staffers one day he was exhausted I was just getting killed over something and especially when more people in the country started to know who I was I got more and more attacks from everybody it was liberals who didn't like what I was standing for it was Republicans who thought I was competition I mean you'd be surprised how much you get attacked by your own party half the time just because they think that maybe you're going to get to be a big deal and they want to be the big deal but anyways I just remember I was looking at one of the people that worked in my press shop and he just was like exhausted and I said Ian when you die you will be able to say you lived a life of significance and he went okay but but but that's the only way we change this country is we have to decide it's not about us I've got three kids and my two girls are married I've got three grandbabies and one on the way I look at little Miss Addie who's three she's the oldest so they're all three under three but I just think what kind of a country am I giving her I mean I can't even look at how this world has changed in the last five to six years can you imagine what it's going to look like in the next 15 to 20 I can't so that I don't sleep at night cuz I think about that and I had I got to grow up in the most amazing country in the world and if we lose the United States of America where will we go where will we go that's better than what we have right now so my hope is that you encourage every person that's elected to office walk alongside them and hold them accountable to stand for truth and tell them when they get attacked for it you're going to hug them and you're going to write them a note and you're going to write something nice on their Facebook page so they read 10 ugly things they see one nice thing and they get encouraged by it but but every elected official needs to stand for truth but we change people's hearts by you building relationships with them too and being bold enough to speak to them and to speak the truth to them listen I married into my husband's family they were all Democrats and then I take their name and I run for Congress as a republican can you imagine I mean it really what a horrible thing to do to them and then it was one of the top five races in the nation but you know what I I'd say 80% of them are Republicans now and we love we loved each other then we still love each other now but they just figured out that I was right and but we didn't do it by screaming at each other we did it by loving each other and talking and having conversations and that's really it's it's harder and it takes more discipline um and then but I think that that is what is going to be powerful we had we had a moment after this assassin assassination attempt on President Trump didn't you feel it where you're like we have a moment here like we could have a Revival that's what I felt like I felt like for five or six days there we were like oh my goodness and we I don't want to I don't want to wake up anymore and feel like we might have missed it I don't I'm I'm going to choose to believe we didn't miss a chance for us to remember what's special about this country it was a country founded on right and wrong on faith and people who relied on themselves and their freedoms to make sure that they were a country that was had rights given to us by our creator that we can go out and live a life of freedom of religion freedom of speech and and live and operate under a constitution that gave us everything every other country didn't give okay I'm sorry go ahead next question I have a question question from Judy regarding education Judy well mine was actually on the border what can we do to strengthen our borders well I think it's fairly obvious that we can actually enforce stopping people at the border and I think that's very important and I think technology plays a key role in that and just as she was talking about the Keystone Pipeline all of the equipment being left there and and just abandoned let's remember that that same thing happened at the border when Joe Biden took over and said we're not going to continue building the wall and when you have just people down there fighting against people you have a war you don't have security this is not fair to put our border patrol in this position we have a gentleman here in the state of Michigan who just found out that his brother's killer his conviction was overturned on a technicality his brother was a b border patrol agent down south and now they have to go through this all over again after this happened in uh what 10 years ago to this family this is outrageous that we continually allow this to just be like oh how could we possibly do it it's really not that hard it's a and and Kamala is saying she's going to hide her all these new border patrol agents it goes beyond that it goes beyond that there is so much more involved and that's why I encourage all of you to force the Democrats on your local level to tell you how how are you going to do that don't just accept that oh the other side is bad don't accept if you don't vote for me you're under threat ask them how because it has to be a strategic plan and and it has to go beyond an executive order it would be lovely if we could get Congress together to pass a bill but do not be deceived by this oh Donald Trump is better at whipping votes than we are and he was able to get people to vote against the bill I mean how pathetic first of all why would you admit that secondly this was there was bipartisan disapproval of this bill there were there was by there were people on both sides who said you are going to make it legal to have thousands of people come across this border every day and put children in danger continue to do this yes you are going to enshrine this in law no that is not the answer the answer is to make sure you have a strong border and a strong immigration plan and that's not coming from the Harris Administration yeah that bill codified illegal immigration if that illegal immigration was now going to be law it would be allowed going forward all we have to do right now is to enforce our federal law we just have to follow the law if we had a president that followed the law we'd have a secure border now obviously president Trump has said build a wall I'm all in favor of building a wall I've seen walls work they work and we need to continue to do that they worked last week in Chicago I heard they had a wall that's right that's right yeah but it's it's not rocket science I mean we you follow the law you build a barrier where you need it where you know where the vulnerable places on our border are and and you make sure that people have the opportunity to come to the United States of America they just have to follow the law when they come good thank you thank you fight for kids how can you how can you even look away from that fight for kids good great thank Youk we have a question now from Joe and he'd like to talk about V voter fraud and election Integrity um that's one of the things I'd like to address to I guess Christie we you've been in a Republican I want to thank uh tutor for for bringing all these great Republican women to Detroit because you had tsy Gabbert here last year I didn't get the email until the next day and I missed it but I'm glad you brought her here but now you brought uh Christie and that's great and I'm really one of my biggest concerns this year is not to get everybody to run out and vote for Trump because we all voted for Trump last time the problem is what's be done to prevent them from stealing election I went to bed at midnight or a little after I think it was like 1:00 in the morning and Google said Trump was leading by well over 40 something percent and only 0.1% of the precincts had not reported in I'm think well that's overwhelming you can't overcome that and when I woke up the next day and I found out they had literally flipped the numbers now Joe Biden had beat Trump by the exact same margin it's like they just moved his name from one come on now no not only has nothing I haven't they kept us so busy worrying about Trump in court for three years that we haven't been focusing on protecting the election doing anything to the machines that are able they have internet access the uh the process itself um in Michigan and and I don't want to blame you tror it's not your fault but they changed our constitution where not allowed to have voter ID and we must have stuffable mailboxes you can go up with just stuff ballots in there no monitoring nothing just go ahead and and it's required in our constitution now what is requir what are they doing to fix that well you you have to under I know this question is for you I'll just say really quickly second this is a Rancher and so I know you know about the farm you brought up the farm situation China's in here buying up all our farms and ranches and and your email tutor alerted me to the fact that they actually built a battery Factory in Michigan that you have to declare your loyalty to the CCP to have it do any business with them these are huge issues that people not been mentioned anywhere not even in Republicans per absolutely I mean the the elections issues are very strong here in the state of Michigan that's why you've seen the RNC Sue Joselyn Benson and there's been um five lawsuits that she's lost I think the most significant is on absentee ballots when she removed the signature requirement which makes absolutely no sense why would you do that and so this the signature requirement was removed in 2020 and 2022 and that that lawsuit was just recently won by the RNC but you have to remember that the RNC couldn't get involved in elections before 2020 and that was that lawsuit and that ruing was recently changed and so the RNC is heavily involved now and I know that you probably aren't seeing things every day but they are fighting it and we do have to continue to be vigilant because I'm just hearing this story in the last couple days that in the primary Detroit had 2,000 more than 2,000 additional pole Watchers for Democrats than Republicans not legal not how it's supposed to be run and why is this happening we have to go back con consistently to the Secretary of State and we have Secretary of State across this country that are very radical every remember when a Democrat says something they're actually doing it so when she says she's fighting for democracy she's actually breaking the rules and you have to be very careful of what she says and remember she's saying clearly she's running for governor she's been traveling this country with Hillary Clinton they've been lifting her up she's the Katie Hobbs of Michigan Secretary of State running her own election becoming Governor be careful because these people change the rules so they can win and you shouldn't be allowed that's why we have to constantly be vigilant and make sure the RNC is on top of it because somebody has to be watching it's a shame that you have partisan secretaries of State it's a shame it shouldn't be yeah they're the top election official in every state so the Secretary of State position is extremely powerful and if we don't trust our election system I'm not certain if we trust anything in this country anymore my concern has always been that we can't just make sure that President Trump wins he has to win big he has to win big so that there is no question on election results the other thing is in South Dakota we you have to vote on Election Day with an ID you have to identify yourself we only vote on paper ballots where we do vote on machines in a couple of counties um our machines are not attached to the internet at all and so we trust our elections in South Dakota but we also hold our secretary of state very accountable and we have a problem across the country where we don't have enough people that are volunteering to be pole Watchers we don't have enough people who are there willing to make sure that they elections are WR written correctly what I've been concerned about all year is that they would do what they did in 2020 remember when we had that emergency declaration that happened in the country it allowed every Governor to decide how to run their elections however they wanted to so I was in 27 states that year campaigning for president Trump and I saw from state to state well how Governors decided to run their elections how they collected ballots they maybe were collecting it in dropboxes they might some states in Minnesota was one of them they had the unions collecting ballots in parking lots and then they didn't have any supervision sometimes they would keep a box full of ballots in the trunk of their car and not deliver it back to the Secretary of State's office or the auditor's office until the next day or they would hold the ballots for two or three days there was no accountability no supervision no Integrity whatsoever I had one lady in one state walk up to me with four different ballot in her hand she said listen one of them is made out they mailed them all to me one of them is in my maiden name one of them is my first married name when I was married to my first husband but I got divorced one has a middle initial on it has my middle initial on it so that one is different as well and then the other ones in my new married name so she had four ballots that she could vote on and just mail them back in and all four would have been counted because the secretary of state had never cleaned up the voter roles had never once when she changed her name gone back and deleted her other name too so that happened in some of the states so I always tell people they always ask me about that election I said it's not that they cheated it's that they did they didn't do one thing they did everything they did every state was different what they did and how they did it and that's what I've been concerned about is there'd be another event another reason for the Democrats the White House this Administration Harris to say listen we need to do an emergency order for something it could be a national security reason it could be another pandemic it could be a financial reason I don't we have learned we always say oh they'll do anything and then we're shocked when they do it right don't we we need to really realize they literally will do anything they replaced their candidate a sitting President right didn't they then they picked the craziest most socialist governor in the country the most radical extreme governor who destroyed his State and made him the Vice Presidential nominee so the Democratic party that used to be here is now so left they've fallen off the page they're off the stage they're clear over living in China that's that's who they've put up and and shame on us if we don't tell the world that they will do anything and we have to help open America's eyes so that they don't do everything to take this election but if you call one coach and you call the other mamala then you're in good shape I mean that's what they think it's scary next question okay I have a question from Jason he look he's looking for some advice first um I'm a Marine Corps veteran my wife's a marine my daughter Serv in the Marine Corps right now I say that to say you're both incredible awesome women and uh we're so proud of you as as a family and uh but my question is uh I just won a heavily contested U race uh for the Michigan State House of Representatives for the 50th district and uh I won it and it's a 7030 District so I'm going to be the next Michigan State House of Representatives for that area but yeah so my question is uh what advice would you give to get more people uh engaged uh for those that may have a more difficult race uh but getting our voters out uh we saw that uh with this early voting it hasn't been a success in the state of Michigan as a matter of fact less people voted in this primary than the one before so that's my one question then the other is outside of obviously the the obvious reason why you're having baby booms in in your state uh what do you attribute that to when other states are are not having that and thank you and God bless you both yeah do you want to talk to the advice for him running his race and helping other candidates win first and foremost don't read the comments on social media but seriously I think I mean to her Point earlier don't be offended keep going through I mean it's going to be tough but you the difference I think between what I see when we have the RNC Convention as compared to the DNC convention is that this is a heart and soul Mission and sometimes I think it's harder when it's deep in your soul that you want to be serving people and that can make it that can discourage a lot of people and I think it's hard to get people involved from that standpoint right now we are so viciously attacked I mean you you've seen for months that they've called Donald Trump a threat and then of course when people are called a threat someone wants to eliminate the threat so you end up with a really bad guy and boy does that discourage people from running as Republicans right now and so I would say there are so many people out there that love you that respect you there are people who are afraid to run and you have to pray about it and you have to ask God if this is what God is calling you to do and sometimes it is really easy When God says no you're doing this to be like no I'm good trust me I've been there listen to God pray sit with your family if you so I will say when I started running someone said pick the 10 people you trust the most and have them on your campaign and by the end you'll have five and go into it knowing that thank you appreciate that's fantastic uh I would just say continue to be genuine and normal I me that's why Donald Trump resonates with people is cu he's just normal he doesn't give a debate perfect speech or you know he he's himself he I tell people all the time that that he doesn't think he's better than anybody else he he really truly doesn't you talk to anybody who's worked for that man anybody who's been close to him he treats them like gold he asks about their families he asks about how they're doing how their business is he asks them you know what he can do to make their job better if they work for him anywhere they love him because he cares about people truly and he's normal and he's genuine and he has his flaws and that's fine and when people attack him he punches back so I'd say there might be a time where you got to punch back and you got to stand up and show that you're strong yep yeah we have time for two more questions don't be don't be afraid to do that because people do respect strength they want you to know that you love people but they also know that you're going to be strong enough to withstand the headwinds that we've got from the media from the left from all this woke that's going on around the country you you can be strong enough to do that and still care about people all right we have time for two more questions gentlemen here well we'll go fast if you want to ask them fast we can do three or four and I can quit talking so much I'll be brief thank you my name is Tommy I'm from mome County here uh my question is for governor Christy Nome uh Governor what kinds of things have you seen worked in your state to combat human trafficking and keep in mind obviously in the room here everyone here knows that we're a border state but in the state of Michigan we cannot depend on our governor so what kinds of things can the populace do to help combat human trafficking that you have seen work thank you well first of all you have to you have to call it out where it's happening it was very controversial when I pointed out that the cartels and their Affiliates were operating in our tribal lands because the only way they can operate there is if somebody in tribal government gives them protection right if somebody on that Tribal Council or somebody it lets them be there without making sure that the Tribal Police are there stopping them so it was very controversial in South Dakota when I boldly said listen they are operating trafficking out of our reservations so be bold enough to call it out when you see it and then educate people what it looks like a lot of people don't know what trafficking looks like it can be sexual trafficking it also can be labor it can look so many different ways whether it's children whether it's adults there are so many adult even males that I know that have been come out of situations where they were being trafficked and used whether it was for labor or for other purposes in this country and they it's a slavery a modern-day slavery that happens so and then spend your time making sure that that you're aware and observing every situation that you're in and that when you see it that you take action we are people who do a lot of talking we do a lot of talk and then we walk out of this door and we put our head down and we only worry about our own lives I would ask you be people who lift up your chins look ahead and look around and see the people around you see what's really happening around you and teach your kids that too teach your kids to be people who I have a two girls and a boy but when Booker was a little boy he was four or five years old and I could tell from the time he was that age he was probably going to be a pastor or teacher or something because I could we could walk into a restaurant when he was 4 or 5 years old and we would lose him because he was always chatting with somebody but he'd be sitting at a table in the corner with one little old man who was sitting by himself or he would always be with somebody who was all by themselves knew the kid in class that didn't have any friends or somebody but empathy and compassion is the best thing that you can instill in your children I always tell people that if they haven't gone through anything hard then that's too bad that's that's hard because the the things that my parents gave me by giving us hard things to do created us to be problem solvers but they also when you go through something hard you have more compassion for for people around you that are going through challenging things so stop doing everything for your kids all right you are crippling our children when you do everything for them let them figure it out let them face some challenges and and do that because you will give them confidence to take on the next bigger challenge that they have and you'll create them to be problem solvers they'll figure stuff out and they'll get more confidence and recognize I guess I can handle tough stuff thank you thank you all right one question from Matthew he has a question on Mental Health yeah what are we going to do to improve mental health and Housing Services for people on low income disability because right now it's just horrible yeah it's horrible yeah I think in the state of Michigan uh we definitely don't have enough Services we don't have them across the state we have a significant issue even I mean as I traveled across the state I had so many Corrections Officers say to us we have people that shouldn't be in the jails we have people that need mental health help and we don't have it and that was there was an opportunity for the governor to increase one of our facilities and that didn't get increased to the extent that it should have so we definitely need to look at how we can improve that across the state and also really there's there's so many things that need to be done in Michigan even in the jails we don't have enough Corrections Officers they even asked the governor if she could send in the National Guard and they were declined so we have a significant problem here in the state of Michigan and and this is where I think that the collaboration between Republican Governors is so great because I know that as Republican governors in other states have come across issues they they've gotten together on calls and even during covid got together on calls and said how do we come around our the people in our states and make it better so I I will I'll defer to you on what you've done no that's what happens when people have a mental health challenge in their lives a lot of times right now today they're ending up in an emergency room or in jail right because something has happened in their life and they've hit a crisis and they may end up with an addiction issue or something that puts them in one of those two and neither one of them is appropriate for that situation so we and our state in the last couple of years have built and funded five Crisis Care Centers regionally across our state that's a shortterm when somebody's in a crisis situation they come into that Crisis Care Center and we detox them we we start the counseling process and we start the referrals to getting them a support system and counseling services that they need it's made all the difference in the world and we've engaged our churches because so many times people ask the government to do things that churches and people should be doing yeah they ask people to walk alongside people and they ask the government to raise our children they ask the government to educate our children they ask the government to to feed people and so much of that and and the responsibility for being a community is is the community the churches the faith organizations that we were created to serve each other and that's a that's a point of it the one thing that I would say about um you know the situation that we have going on is that in South Dakota we have just developed and it'll be coming out in the next couple of weeks in our elementary schools a resiliency program we're going to teach our kids how to have resiliency from the time that they're elementary students and it is it's an amazing curriculum that we will give free of charge to all of our school district if the counselors and the elementary teachers want to use it but it's called South Dakota sturdy and it's using our historical figures to teach them about how they took hard things in their life challenges and used them to be stronger and to have the resiliency and to make decisions better and to do it because a lot of times we're asking parents right now to be parents that never had good parents they don't know what it's like to be a good parent CU they never had one and somebody's got to give them an example and and that's what this curriculum we'll do we should we should have we start with we start with Teddy Roosevelt who you all know the challenges Teddy Roosevelt went through goodness sakes the man was sick and then lost his wife and his mother on the same day and decided he was going to change his life but some of those skill sets we can build into our children too how about one more one more okay Grand Finale Grand Finale oh no pressure that looks fantastic yeah thank you ladies for coming to Detroit to the area because this doesn't count Detroit whether you know it or not I'm Minister barielle Alman I am a candidate for house district 7 here in Michigan that is Detroit Highland Park and ham trami and uh one of the things I think about because the governor just said it was that President Trump was able to connect with a lot of people by his authenticity and in Detroit right now it's just it's hard to get help with the election it's hard to get help with money resources anything most people consider Detroit uh an unwinable district for conservative so that's the the mentality of most of our leadership now before Pete hoer came and and uh was voted in as chair of the party Detroit absolutely got no Focus absolutely nothing but and and uh to Ambassador hoster's credit he has done what he can but he's only one one guy he's only one guy and we need money I have credibility in Detroit I'm connected in Detroit I've been in trouble with the law I've turned my life around I've been I'm a businessman I've had some success I have some educational success I need help with money I couldn't go to a good uh a good event last night because of the ticket price I just couldn't afford to go because I'm spending all of my money my campaign stuff it's it's all coming out of my pocket and uh I wanted to thank you I wanted to ask you if you guys can be of any help in that regard getting money to candidates who have districts in Detroit the the second thing um I really hope that we get a chance to to follow up because this is what I'm also one of the problems I'm finding and one of the things I think hurts credibility candidates is getting access to them God gives you a card at a at a function you call the number he never answers never returns the call never never any of that I'm going to ask for contact information from you guys at the end of this so I can follow up with you please so what are you running for you're running for House of Representatives Michigan House of Representatives district 7 okay and I'm Barry Alman uh and uh one one more thing because Detroit who do they make the check out to you make out to the elect Barry Alman that's who you elect Barry Alman that is the name my my campaign Detroit is the poorest city in the country it's hard to even get volunteer help because everybody there is in survival mode it's hard to get help I need money that's what that uh and I got pledge cards if anybody wants one I got to tell you the hardest part you can clap for him he put his name on a ballot that's [Applause] hard I tell people the hardest part of this job is asking people for their money because you know how hard they work for it and you know that they have other responsibilities other things they have to take over I always tell people every time I go in and have to ask them I also know I can't win without if I'm running for office you can't win unless you have the resources because you got to fight the media you're not going to have them telling your story you're going to have to have the resources to tell the truth to people so I always tell them listen I hate asking for your money I also know I can't win without it but I promise you this I will be a good investment and that's that's one thing that I would encourage you Barry to say is say I will be a good investment what I tell you I am today when I win I will be exactly what I said I would be I will I will go there I will learn I will do the research I will work hard and I will be a good investment and and people appreciate that because they know that you recognize that their dollars they were work hard for and that they're trusting you to be a good Steward of it yeah and I I would just say that I think that Republicans are changing the way they're looking at things you know we've historically been told you're not welcome here you're not welcome here and I will say that when I was running we had an event and some gentleman came from Dearborn and they said you know we were told that if we came to this event we would be kicked out and they said but then we sat here and we heard a lot of things that mean something to our community and I think that's it's a shame on us but it's also a new world where we are realizing that it's time for us to reach everybody it's time for us to go the places that everybody told us well you'll never be accepted there and I'm so glad that you're doing this I mean it means so much to us that you are stepping up and doing this and that that falls on all of us who have run before to answer your call and I mean it to answer your call and say we know someone I know someone let me help you let me introduce you let me move you along because this is a group effort and the Democrats do it they they don't lack for money they and they have like a pile I I think they do have a money tree like where does this money tree grow for the Democrats apparently somewhere in Soros land but we need to step up so that's on us and I will answer your call [Applause] well I know we're out of time uh but I does anybody have something burning they want to pop up and ask quick before they're done because I want to say he didn't get an opportunity I see one here real Qui shout it out quick where's your telepromter tutor where is it gutfeld's little like like 41 or something no I'm kidding now he oh man anybody else [Applause] yeah Democrats are away and the rep are not is that they say baby woman you can walk in any Hospital months months months and see a baby that has born premature and walking like crazy this lie and FKS Hospital lie only Li look at what they yeah well and and let's remember that they also pull funding from pregnancy centers for people who need health care so this idea that they provide Health Care they pull healthare from women who need it these three ladies are gonna be the last ones just because they're so adorable bills based of election do you know anything about this yeah she I I think it's County ERS cannot investigate suspected fraud right now um so yeah they just signed that well so so that is something that you can also do yes I know somebody said you don't have to oh oh I was like okay yeah um no but but so you heard a gentleman say you don't have to have ID anymore well you were supposed to come with ID if you don't have one you sign an affidavit this is me well certainly it it is a concern and that is why you know this is a bill that just passed and that's why elections matter got a lot of Representatives here and some state senators so that's why we need to win the house back we can fix that when you win the house back [Applause] yep yes okay we're going to go to the lady right behind you because then we right we don't know and that's the house back why you need to win the house back and they can make sure that there's some Integrity there yes ma'am are I well I I think that I I think that anytime you any community that you live in you have to be involved in your community and and one of the things that I've heard when you talk about schools one of the things that I've heard about parents and I think this is very encouraging is that when parents go to their local school and they say hey you know what I don't love this their teachers are like let's work it out so we don't and to your point of not being angry all the time not being automatically offended and assuming everybody is against you and there's a right and a wrong sit down and talk about it find out the story it happens it's locally is the most important that's where everything happens in your life in your heart with your kids so it is important to get involved locally now I I would say that a prayer group is also so important because one of the consistent messages that I heard over the last week was that the Democrat Party is inclusive unless you're Christian and so we need to we need to be prepared for for the attack against Christians and we need we need to make sure that we're all praying for one another and the world is still moved by people who show up so just show up the fact that you show up at all those meetings is powerful bring a friend with you the next time all of you show up at a meeting you've never gone to before you're going to be the grand finale you ready no the Constitution did the vast majority of the power goes to the people and then the the states they they didn't it's just if the if the federal government respects the states that's what it is is literally what happened to me and is that listen when I ran for governor I wasn't supposed to win people don't know this about South Dakota everybody thinks it's so conservative it's really populist when I won Governor I only I only won by three points against a guy who was a Bernie Sanders guy yes so nobody really knows how tough of a race that was and it was it was hard he was a cowboy who had had a tragic accident was in a wheelchair and talked like he was a conservative but that that was like a knife fight in a ditch a big factor in South Dakota was that I was a woman South Dakota was not ready to see a woman they were okay electing them to office and sending them to Congress but they weren't quite ready for a woman to be the CEO to be the boss of the state and so that was a huge factor in my polling and so I ran on building stronger families and growing our state our state was dying people were leaving um and I didn't really think about being a woman I never talked about it until the day I was being sworn in it was my inauguration and there was hundreds and hundreds and maybe thousands of people filling the Capitol building and all the balconies were filled with people and then when the ceremon started they started to talk about how historical this event was and it was historical because I was being sworn in as the first female governor of the state on the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote in our state and all the songs were picked out to honor that occasion all the previous speakers talked about that and I was standing there thinking man this is a big deal and I got really nervous and I thought I better not screw this up you know I was like this is like going to be in a history book somewhere someday and I better make sure I do a good job and as I was getting sworn in and I had my hand on my dad's Bible and I was thinking you know how am I going to do this it was for the first time I thought I don't know if I can do this and I remember I made two promises and one was to uphold the constitution of the state of South Dakota and the second one was to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America Two promises and I thought to myself I can do that I can two promises that's not hard at all so that's one that from day one I have a form that everyone of my staff has to fill out on every idea they bring to me every bill and it's the first the first thing is when it's this bill this idea this change we're going to do our first question is is this constitutional do I have the authority to do this why do I not have the authority to do this what happens if this bill becomes law what happens if it doesn't become law and the last question is what does this mean to our next generation I don't want people thinking about what happens in 6 months for the political purposes what happens 20 years from now if we do this what happens what do we open the door to what's the precedent we set in court cases if this gets challenged you know what is I want people thinking longterm the question and the problem is is that we don't have a president in the White House that respects the Constitution that gets up in the morning and says is this constitutional do I have this Authority president Trump did he did he followed the Constitution and he said during the pandemic during everything that I brought to him that I asked him to let me do he would recognize yes Christie go make the best decisions for your people go make that is not my authority to do that this is your authority to do that that's what we need in the white house again that's why we need him back he respects our history respects our country and you lose perspective if you're somebody who doesn't appreciate the Constitution and follow it that way that is what we need to get back in the White House and that's why we need president Donald J Trump back so that we can resp respect our constitution to make sure the states have the power the federal government doesn't have the [Applause] power I want to tell you all we are so grateful that you're here I mean think about this look at this room this on a Friday night and I know we have a convention tomorrow so I know a lot of you are giving up your Friday night to be here this is Meaningful this is from the heart so again don't be offended talk about it have a hug hug it out I my kids watch trolls all the time it's hug time so make sure you make time for hug time and let's say thank you to this wonderful lady the governor of South Dakota who came here to talk to us we are so grateful to you but we are so grateful to you and I and I hope that it's okay that I speak for these people we are so grateful that you came and shared this story with us because you were very vulnerable you told us about your state and I think that so many of us need to hear what success looks like cuz we haven't seen it in a very long time but it gives us all hope and I think right now we're living on fumes of Hope and we know that that comes in every one of us stepping up so thank you for stepping up and thank you for being here go be happy and go talk to people thank [Applause] you break down me up I want to be the slip slip word upon your lip