Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) spoke at a Trump-Vance 2024 campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday.
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00:00And hello, Georgia. Holy cow. What a crowd. Man, I'll tell you what. It is
00:10great to see so many beautiful Trump supporters packing this place out.
00:16Now, you know, the media made such a big deal about the twerk concert that went on
00:30earlier this week. Yeah, they, uh, they said we'd be real nervous about packing this joint
00:41out. So I told the campaign y'all I did. I told the campaign. I said, I can get out there
00:46and twerk for these folks. They said, Not only do we not need you to twerk. Let me tell
00:54you something. Donald Trump has never needed a gimmick to draw a crowd. Trump.
01:10Y'all. I am Congressman Mike Collins. I'm just a good old boy that's made a living in
01:25the trucking business. There we go. We got some truckers in this crowd today. Thank you
01:31for what you do. Like Trump, I spent the majority of my career in the private sector until getting
01:40elected to Congress. Just says pass out. But what I want to tell you is I'm proud of
01:46something y'all way back in 2016 before Trump was a nominee. By God, I jumped on that Trump
01:55train. I bought me a ticket on the Trump train and I've been shoveling coal ever since. And
02:08y'all, man, after nine years and one heck of a ride, you couldn't drag me off this train for
02:14the last for the next 94 days. I don't care what you do. And I need if I need to, I'm going to get
02:20out there and push this thing across the line in first place. And I'm going to need you to be
02:24standing right there with me. So, so do not under any circumstances let anything get between you
02:39and getting your vote counted. Go vote early. If you got a vote absentee, get it in early.
02:47Do not wait, y'all. I don't care if you're a long haul trucker, a long distance runner,
02:54or an all night hunter. You make sure you go vote, you get that ballot in,
02:59you get it mailed in way before the deadline. We need you on this.
03:08Now, listen, listen to me, y'all. I know we got problems at the post office.
03:14We do. I've been over there trying to help improve that thing. And I'm going to tell
03:20you something else. I like my mail carrier. But every once in a while, that management
03:26and them bureaucrats up there, y'all, they need to see what a size 12 boot looks like.
03:36And let's talk about some problems. Because boy, I tell you what, Kamala Harris,
03:41man, that woman's a mess.
03:46The world is blowing up. Our country is going down the toilet.
03:51And y'all, she makes Joe Biden look like a steady hand at the wheel.
04:00You know, Kamala Harris is like the Stacey Abrams of California.
04:05And here's what's so ironic. Stacey Abrams is the Kamala Harris of California also.
04:20And if all that don't make sense, here's all you got to remember.
04:24Georgia didn't want Stacey, and we don't want Kamala.
04:36There we go.
04:52Y'all, our country's been screaming, screaming to get back to the number one thing Donald Trump
05:00said you'd never get tired of winning. That's right. That's right.
05:08Buying cars, going on vacation, buying houses. Y'all, every American, black, brown, white,
05:16two college degrees, no college degrees. Donald Trump's economy lifted all boats.
05:23Everybody was doing better then.
05:29Let me ask you something. If you're under the age of 35 trying to buy your first house,
05:35man, it's terrible out there. It's a mess. I don't know what's harder,
05:41figuring out who left the cocaine in the White House or getting a mortgage under seven and a half
05:46percent. Hey, y'all, here's the thing now. The other side, they're not going to run on issues.
05:58With liberal policies like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have, you can't. But this is what they are
06:04going to do. They're going to run on lies, smears, hate. The media and the left, they've spent 10
06:13years trying to brainwash the American people into hating Donald Trump. A man,
06:20a man, y'all, that literally took a bullet for this country.
06:32We do. And I'm going to tell you something. Trump, y'all, Trump's not running against Kamala Harris.
06:40And it won't matter how many times they change the nominee through this little soft coup process.
06:48It's not an election. It wasn't an election. As a matter of fact, I think we ought to change
06:52your name to the undemocratic party. Trump, Trump's running against the regime, y'all.
07:02That's right. A socialistic, big government, control everything about you, power hungry,
07:09woke regime. They hate him. But y'all, Trump loves you.
07:20Now, y'all, real quick, I got to say something about my buddy OJD. Y'all, I was trying to get
07:27J.D. to let me write a sequel. I was going to call it The Redneck Elegy.
07:34But I was told there was already a movie made like that. It's called Smoking the Bandit.
07:42No, I'm kidding. Listen, J.D. was a bold pick and a fantastic addition to this ticket. I've had the
07:49opportunity to work with J.D. some in Congress on the Hill. And this guy is a sharp tactician,
07:55America first policy. He can help push that policy on the Hill.
08:00And we're going to need him come January 1st next year.
08:09Now, let's talk about Congress for a second, real quick. Congress, y'all, is made up with
08:16around 65 percent of the time is a Republican conference is made up about 65 percent of
08:23America first Republicans. That's why I'm going to spend my time between now and November out
08:30there growing that majority. That's right. So when we get our captain back on the ship,
08:36he's going to have the largest majority of America first members in Congress that we have ever had.
08:46Y'all, we're going to do some things. We're going to secure that border.
08:49We're going to stop American families from losing sons and daughters
08:53to these illegal. That's right. Illegal aliens that are out there invading our country.
09:01We're going to stop the gangs. We're going to stop the fentanyl. We're going to stop the
09:06sex trafficking, everything that these outside invaders are doing to destroy America. We're
09:12going to stop the destruction of this country. We put Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in the White House
09:18and we have a Congress that is actually going to have his back this time.
09:26Now, I got to hurry, but I got one more thing I want to say.
09:35I was very proud to sponsor the Lake and Riley Act.
09:41You know, we dropped that bill on a Friday, got it out of rules on Tuesday,
09:50and we passed that thing through the House on Thursday.
09:57And y'all, we had 37 Democrats go with us on that bill. That's how freaking bad that border is down
10:04there. But our border czar, Kamala Harris, stood right here. Stood right here, y'all, earlier this
10:15week. And y'all, she never even mentioned her name. Never mentioned her. That's a disgrace.
10:28Let me tell you something. If Kamala Harris really, really wanted to win Georgia,
10:34she'd get right over there and she'd tell those two U.S. Senators Warnock and Ossoff
10:38to get off their butt, pass this commonsensical legislation out of the Senate.
10:48Now, here's the last words, I promise. Last words. Y'all, I was there in 2016. Man,
10:57whoo, I could feel the energy. You could feel it. And I've been out there with Trump, Iowa,
11:04New Hampshire, South Carolina, doing whatever we can to make sure that Donald Trump gets back in
11:10that White House. And I want to tell y'all something. Freaking lines are longer this time.
11:16The crowds, the crowds are larger this time.
11:20Y'all, we have learned our lesson. We are back with a vengeance.
11:27We're going to win and we're going to take our country back.