BREAKING: Ron DeSantis Rails Against Biden's 'Weekend At Bernie's Presidency' At The 2024 RNC

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During his remarks on Night Two of the 2024 Republican National Convention, Gov.

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00:00My fellow Republicans, let's send Joe Biden back to his basement and let's send Donald

00:16Trump back to the White House.

00:23Life was more affordable when Donald Trump was president.

00:27Our border was safer under the Trump administration.

00:31And our country was respected when Donald Trump was our commander in chief.

00:38Joe Biden has failed this nation.

00:41As a veteran, I was appalled when 13 of our service members were killed in Afghanistan

00:49due to Joe Biden's dereliction of duty.

00:53As a citizen, as a husband, and as a father, I am alarmed that the current President of

01:00the United States lacks the capability to discharge the duties of his office.

01:07Our enemies do not confine their designs to between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

01:13We need a commander in chief who can lead 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

01:24America cannot afford four more years of a weekend at Bernie's presidency.

01:33But let's be honest.

01:39Let's be honest here.

01:41Biden is just a figurehead.

01:43He's a tool for imposing a leftist agenda on the American people.

01:48They support open borders, allowing millions and millions of illegal aliens to pour into

01:53our country and to burden our communities.

01:57But just don't send any to Martha's Vineyard, then they get really upset.

02:11They have unleashed progressive prosecutors across our nation who care more about coddling

02:17criminals than about protecting their own communities.

02:21They use the unelected bureaucracy to impose their will on us without our consent, and

02:27they weaponize political power to target their political opponents, like they've done to

02:32our own nominee.

02:34They want to ban gas automobiles, eliminate Second Amendment rights, and impose gender

02:39ideology on everyone from our infantrymen to kindergartners.

02:49They stand for DEI, which really means division, exclusion, and indoctrination, and it is wrong.

03:05They mandated that you show proof of a COVID vaccine to go to a restaurant, but they opposed

03:12requiring proof of citizenship to cast a vote.

03:21They can't even define what a woman is.

03:27Now Donald Trump stands in their way, and he stands up for America.

03:32Donald Trump has been demonized.

03:35He's been sued.

03:36He's been prosecuted, and he nearly lost his life.

03:40We cannot let him down, and we cannot let America down.

03:53It is the values of this Republican Party that reflect our nation's founding principles.

04:00We believe schools should educate, not indoctrinate.

04:06We stand for parents' rights, including universal school choice.

04:15We support law and order, not rioting and disorder.

04:19We seek a strong, focused United States military, not one distracted by a social agenda.

04:26We reject entrenched political class, and we demand term limits for members of Congress.

04:40We stand for fiscal sanity, for low taxes, and for reduced debt.

04:45We seek to reclaim the constitutional government as envisioned by our founding fathers by bringing

04:51the administrative state to heel once and for all.

05:00We believe that you must be a citizen in order to vote, and that photo ID should be required

05:06before casting a ballot.

05:13We stand for strong borders and believe that our nation must have a shared civic culture,

05:20and we oppose any immigration that stands apart or in contrast to our American values.

05:30We believe in the principles articulated in the Declaration of Independence that our rights

05:35come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of the Almighty, including

05:41the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

05:51None of this is easy, but it can be done.

05:54For decades, my home state saw elections determined by razor-thin margins.

06:01Today, due to bold leadership, the Democratic Party lies in ruins.

06:06The left is in retreat.

06:08Freedom reigns supreme.

06:10The woke mind virus is dead, and Florida is a solid Republican state.

06:27Now electing Donald Trump gives us the chance to do this all across America.

06:34And we have a responsibility to step up and make it happen.

06:37We have a responsibility to preserve what George Washington called the sacred fire

06:43of liberty.

06:44This was a fire that burned in Independence Hall in 1776, when 56 men pledged their lives,

06:51their fortunes, and their sacred honor to establish this nation.

06:55It's a fire that burned at a cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, when our nation's first Republican

07:01president pledged this nation to a new birth of freedom.

07:05It's a fire that burned at the foot of the Berlin Wall in 1987, when our nation's 40th

07:11president stood in front of that wall and said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

07:25This is not a responsibility we should fear.

07:28It's a responsibility we should welcome.

07:31After all, if not us, who?

07:33And if not now, when?

07:36Let's make the 45th president of the United States the 47th president of the United States.

07:48Let's elect Republicans up and down the ballot.

07:52And let's heed the call of our party's nominee to fight, fight, fight for these United States.

08:01God bless you.

08:02Let's win in November.

08:03Thank you so much.

BREAKING: Ron DeSantis Rails Against Biden's 'Weekend At Bernie's Presidency' At The 2024 RNC

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