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« Reply #475 on: August 26, 2020, 06:13:56 PM »
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Marco Rubio's campaign schedule, Part 4.2

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November 4, 2024
-Campaign in Raleigh, North Carolina with family, Joni Ernst, Eric Cantor, Ivan Rodriguez, Pat McCrory Tim Scott, Nikki Haley and John James
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My opponent repeatedly claimed that this administration lacked a steady hand on the situation in the Middle East and that we have failed to restore peace and stability in that region and that our foreign policy spreaded chaos there. Let me tell you this, Senator Duckworth is just dead wrong just like her party claimed that Jimmy Carter’s pacifism would lead to peace and they were wrong. They claimed that Ronald Reagan’s defense build-up would lead to war, they were wrong. Thanks to the restoration of American leadership, effective diplomacy and a rebuilding of our military, the Middle East is becoming a haven of peace. That wouldn’t have been possible if Senator Duckworth had it her way with her weak and reckless foreign policy that slashes our military, weakens American leadership and makes us an easier target for terrorists.

Eight years ago, the radical Islamic terrorist organization named ISIS was emerging at the point of imposing terror in the Middle East, at the point that they took control of 70 % of Iraq as well as a large territory in Syria, using this large territory as a base to train jihadists, to hide and to launch terrorist attacks on us and our allies like they did twice in Paris as well as in Brussels, Nice and on our national soil as we saw in Garland, San Bernardino, Philadelphia and Orlando. Despite the seriousness of that threat, President Obama described ISIS as a J.V. Team, which indicates the Democrats' fear to be politically incorrect and to describe the enemy as it is : radical Islamic terrorism. Despite the seriousness of the threat represented by ISIS, Senator Duckworth opposed airstrikes against ISIS after she voted against prohibiting combat operations in Iraq. So she changed her position and was for Operation Inherent Resolve before she was against it. You've got to be clear, both to our allies and our enemies, about where you stand and what you mean when you’re the Commander-in-Chief. In addition, Senator Duckworth voted time after time after time in favor of cutting in the military and opposed major defense programs such as the F-15, the F-16 and the Ch-53 Sea Stallion. And despite the important role that the Kurds played in helping us to defeat ISIS, she voted against authorizing aid to the Kurds through the supply of military training and equipment such as fuel, combat vehicles, body armors and ammunition. But because we rebuilt and modernized our military in the last 8 years, built strong coalitions, provided the Kurds in military training and arsenal and went after the terrorists wherever they hide and train, we defeated ISIS, we liberated all the territory that they once occupied and we eliminated their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. And we withdrew our troops from Syria and Iraq in 2021 after providing all the necessary conditions favorable to a restoration of peace and stability in Syria and Iraq. Such reinforcement of peace and stability in the Middle East has also been made possible thanks to my legislation efforts to pass the toughest sanctions on Hezbollah to prevent  Hezbollah  and  associated  entities from  gaining  access  to  international  financial  and  other  institutions and for other purposes; my sponsorship of the Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 that authorized assistance and weapons transfers to Israel and extended defense cooperation with Jordan and my effort to pass the U.S.-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act to provide assistance to our Jordanian allies in the battle against ISIS and in dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis. Senator Duckworth supported Obama’s so-called nuclear deal with the old Iranian regime even though it was the world’s largest state sponsor of global terrorism, lifting the sanctions and handing billions of dollars to Iran that they used in order to continue state-sponsoring terrorism as they did when they allowed the Taliban to open an office in Zahedan, Iran and paid bounties to Taliban for targeting American troops in Afghanistan as it was indicated and reported by US intelligence that Iran paid bounties to the Haqqani network for their attack on Bagram Air Base on December 11 2019, which killed two civilians and injured more than 70 others, including four US personnel. The old Iranian regime also orchestrated the Quds Force's (a special forces unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards) attempt to orchestrate a terrorist attack against the Israeli embassy and the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan; ran a terrorist cell in Bahrain that was planning to carry out a series of dangerous bombings on the kingdom before it was dismantled in 2016 by the Bahraini security forces; and unsuccessfully attempted a bomb plot against the National Council of Resistance of Iran (an opposition group which styled itself as Iran's government-in-exile at the time) at a rally in Paris in 2018 after which France froze the old Iranian regime's financial assets. But because we restored sanctions on the old Iranian regime, we deprived them of the capitals they needed to build nuclear weapons and sponsor terrorist organizations. And Qasem Soleimani, a major general of the old Iranian regime and commander of the Quds Force, represented a serious threat to our national security interests and to the Middle East’s stability as he was a major supporter of terrorism and was selling Iranian weapons to terrorist organizations overseas. He was de facto commander of Iran’s global terrorist proxy network, was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans, including the attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq by Kata'ib Hezbollah (an Iran-backed Iraqi Shia militia) and the terrorist attack on the K-1 Air Base in Iraq, and he continued to plot attacks against U.S. diplomats and American service members. He headed to Iraq to plot a coup there in order to swing Iraq under Iran’s influence, which would have undermined our efforts to combat ISIS by depriving us of a partner hosting U.S. military bases and naval ships to launch counter-terrorist operations in Syria and Iraq and would also have allowed the old Iranian regime to use Iraq as a platform to carry out attacks against the United States and as as a base of operations in combination with Syria and Lebanon to continue their expansionist desires in the region and to drive us out and to threaten our allies. That’s what would have happened if Senator Duckworth was in charge of our security and the world would be more dangerous as she and her party colleagues criticized the drone airstrike that killed Soleimani. But because we eliminated Soleimani through this successful strike we derailed the old Iranian regime’s terrorist plans, saving American and allied lives and guaranteeing stronger stability and peace in the Middle East. And in 2021, the Iranian people expressed their dissatisfaction towards tyranny, terror and increasing inflation by electing a pro-American and pro-freedom President like Arsham Parsi. That same year, I led the diplomatic mission in Tehran that got Parsi’s Iran to join us normalizing the US-Iran relations, to denuclearize, to use their nuclear energy only for domestic purposes, to stop state-sponsored terrorism, to stand up for human rights and freedom in the world. I presided over the Joint Session of Congress with the Speaker of the House during Parsi’s address that officially announced the realization of the measures that I just mentioned. And that’s exactly what they did in the aftermath, depriving terrorist organizations of any form of supply from Iran’s past state-sponsored terrorism, resulting that Israel is no longer in danger of being wiped out of the map by Iran's past military nuclear program and past support to anti-Israel terrorist organizations, strengthening security, freedom and peace in the Middle East. Four years ago, our administration brokered the Abraham Accords that normalized the Israel-UAE relations and suspended Israel’s plans to annex the Jordan Valley and the West Bank, making another major step towards peace and stability in the Middle East.

And last year, we and our allies in the Middle East came together to form the Tehran Pact, an intergovernmental military alliance aimed at maintaining freedom, stability and peace in the Middle East and in the Indian Subcontinent and we and our Tehran Pact allies got there as we successfully countered any attempt by Vladimir Putin to expand his influence in the Middle East by adding new alliances that are key to stability, security and peace in this region. Among our allies there are notably Israel, Iraq, Iran and even India, the 4th military power in the world after the United States, Russia and China, which gave us a clear advantage against any incursion and aggression by Putin’s Russia in the Middle East and to keep this region safe against terrorism. And together with our allies in the Tehran Pact, we also supported Kurdistan on its way to independence during Operation Ceasefire after Erdogan’s Turkey invaded Kurdistan to restrict its freedom. Our Tehran Pact allies as well as other countries such as Greece intervened militarily in Turkey in support to Kurdistan and we, the United States, provided the Kurds in military training and in military arsenal (something Senator Duckworth criticized and opposed), which gave them all the necessary tools to defeat Turkish troops in Kurdistan and all across Turkey at the point that the Kurds and our Middle Eastern allies liberated all of Turkey from Erdogan’s influence without a single American troops deployed or killed and without American airstrikes. And then, our successful peace talks with the Turkish leadership led to the recognition of Kurdistan’s status as an independent and sovereign nation and will restore freedom and democracy in Turkey, thus making Operation Ceasefire a success. In the aftermath of Operation Ceasefire, we settled the crisis caused by Greece’s annexation of Istanbul through a UN vote in favor of the creation of an Independent Municipal Republic named Istantinople. Though nationalist extremist troublemaker organizations such as the Byzantine League (a pro-Greek group which attacked peaceful protesters demanding that the Hagia Sophia remain a museum rather than being converted back into a church or a mosque) and the Istanbul Islamic Coalition (a group associated with several more global Islamist terror organizations and has orchestrated numerous murders of prominent Christians in the city) took on the occasion to surge and impose terror and chaos in this newborn Republic, we managed to restore stability, order and security in Istantinople through the deployment of tens of thousands of UN peacekeeper forces in Istantinople and the courage and vigilance of those peacekeeper forces, including our brave American Blue Berets, provided a dropoff of violence in this new municipal Republic through the arrest of ringleaders of violent troublemaker organizations like Konstantine Ikonopoulos of the Byzantine League and Abdul al-Hajid of the Istanbul Islamic Coalition. Right now, Istantinople has decided, in order to ensure the maintenance of order and justice that no military would be developed until January 1st 2030 until such time as her leaders feel secure in the tolerance of her two key citizen groups toward each other. And the UN peacekeepers will keep their forces in this young country as long as necessary to ensure the preservation of peace, order, stability and justice there. That is the best way to ensure a decent transition. That way, the success we got from our allies' victory in Operation Ceasefire against Turkey, through our efforts to arm and train the Kurds and through our successful talks with Turkey will not be in vain. And when I'm President, we're going to prevent any genocide in Istantinople by ending impunity through judicial action in national and international courts and also gather information and set up an early-warning system. We will also work with our allies to ratify an international treaty recognizing ethnic cleansing as a specific crime because we the United States of America are unapologetic, unconditional and determined defenders of the freedom of all peoples on Earth, including Muslims and non-Greek people and we are defenders of freedom of religion. The election of an isolationist and pro-American President like Sergei Polonsky in Russia put an end to tyranny and fear and to a quarter-century of the Putin regime’s oppression in Russia and also led to strong global peace, liberation of Eastern Europe and restoration of stability, peace and freedom in the Middle East as Polonsky pulled out Russian troops from Turkey, which partly contributed to our Middle Eastern allies' victory over Erdogan's Turkey in Operation Ceasefire and to the recognition of Kurdistan as an independent country.

But throughout this year, including last winter when Polonsky made significant progress in the Russian election at the point of putting an end to Vladimir Putin’s tyranny and terror in Russia, and including when freedom in Russia is being under assault from China's cyber-attacks advocating for the restoration of Putin's regime, Tammy Duckworth and her party colleagues called Sergei Polonsky a puppet of President Trump in the Russian presidential election even though there isn't any evidence of such interference by Washington in that election. And they were so blinded by hatred that they took on the occasion to try to impeach President Trump. That is extreme and that’s not setting you up to have victories in the process of advancing global peace. But Senator Duckworth is more motivated by partisan politics than about an adversary's use of power against us (referring to the Putin regime’s escalation with America in terms of military power, its veto power against America’s national security interests and its invasion of countries like Ukraine and Georgia and to the 2016 attempted coup by Russian nationalists in Montenegro). When I’m President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief, I will treat our allies with respect, work and collaborate with them and expand our alliances for the sake of peace and security. I will hold a summit with Polonsky to normalize our relations with Moscow in the first 100 days of his presidency. Under a Rubio Administration, America and Russia will be strong partners for the maintenance of peace, including in the Middle East, in Europe and in the Pacific and they will work together to ensure the respect of human rights around the world. We will work together to dismantle dangerous Russian nuclear weapons that are representing a threat to global peace, work along with our allies to ratify the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty in order to prohibit the use of fissile material for the purpose of building nuclear weapon and complete our path to a nuclear-free world.

Under my presidency we will work with our allies to maintain stability and peace in the Middle East, support our allies and do whatever it takes to confront any threat to this region's security which is crucial to global peace and to America's security and to a bright and safe future. That requires keeping our military strong and modernizing it as well as an increase of funding for the State Department to ensure the maintenance of peace in the Middle East, strong American leadership and diplomacy and standing up for the maintenance and expansion of freedom and human rights in the region and worldwide. That is the kind of policy that I will provide as Commander-in-Chief and as leader of the free world and that’s why I ask for your support and your vote in order to make sure that our children can grow up in a world of long-term global peace, freedom and security. Thank you! God bless you all and God bless America!


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« Reply #476 on: August 27, 2020, 12:46:55 PM »

Tammy Duckworth November Schedule

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1: Wisconsin

Fly to Milwaukee
Joint rally with Senate candidate Mark Pocan in Milwaukee

“Everywhere I go I hear from people concerned about reproductive rights. It’s understandable, The Supreme Court overturned 50 years of established precedent and bucked public opinion just to score points with the President’s base. Do you know how I know this? It’s an election year and his Vice President is silent on the matter, suddenly Marco Rubio is without words.

Well, I have plenty to say. As your President, I will fight for the Reproductive Bill of Rights on Day One. I will work with Congress to do their job and codify these rights in order to end this judicial injustice. We’re going to work to ensure reproductive health is covered by insurance, and that includes a service very close to my heart, IVF. But, we can’t stop at pregnancy, we’re going to pass universal childcare and paid family leave, ensuring no family has to choose between a job and their child’s care. We have a lot of work to do, so I need each and every one of you to show up and vote, not just for me, but for Mark Pocan for Senate.”

Rally in Madison with President Obama
Attend debate

2-3: North Carolina

Fly to Raleigh
Rally in Raleigh with Governor Roy Cooper
Rally in Durham with Senator Anthony Foxx
Rally in Greensboro with President Obama

“America has a choice, do we want to continue down this road of undoing all the progress we made on healthcare and civil rights, or do we want to move forward. Tammy Duckworth has plans for how to make our union more perfect, whether it’s expanding and protecting voter rights, passing the Equality Act, raising the minimum wage, or investing in education. The other side wants to divide, distract, and scare us into keeping this chaotic status quo. They want us to think that a strong leader is someone who pals around with dictators, throws out long-standing alliances, and who uses our military as a muscle to flex around the world. The truth is, a strong leader is someone who understands the power of the office of the Presidency, and the responsibility that comes with it. We’ve never had a candidate who understands the true gravity of the office like Tammy Duckworth. She is ready for the job on day one with plans to move us forward. She isn’t going to think of what donors want, she’s going to think of what’s best for you and me as Americans. Tammy Duckworth is the best person for the job, that much is clear, and I’m happy to have cast my ballot for her, and I ask you to join me.” - Barack Obama

Townhalls in Winston-Salem and Concord
Rally with running mate Gallego in Charlotte

“As Tammy said, our ticket wants to send your kids to school, not to war. Our ticket has deep experience when it comes to service, we both know the gravity of war, and will not take it as lightly as Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have. Instead, we will make college tuition-free for all Americans, we will give teachers a raise, and we will turn our focus on building an education system that works for every single American, regardless of their ZIP code. Marco Rubio has been misconstruing Tammy’s record and has thrown out some tasteless attacks insinuating that she’s weak. Tammy Duckworth is the strongest person I know. She left part of herself overseas for this country, she came back, recovered, and worked to better the lives of her fellow veterans, and then she got elected to Congress where she has fought for veterans, American families, and for equality for all. That’s strength, that’s leadership, that’s Tammy.” - Ruben Gallego

4-5: Pennsylvania

Fly to Pittsburgh
Joint rally in Pittsburgh with Senator Conor Lamb and Senate candidate Dwight Evans
Townhalls with Dwight Evans in Somerset, Chambersburg, and Lancaster
Joint rally with Senator Jeff Merkley in Harrisburg

“Republicans have long framed the climate change conversation as a choice between the environment and the economy. I completely reject that premise. Tammy has signed on to my plan which would make the United States carbon neutral by 2050, one which addresses our infrastructure and our environment while creating good-paying jobs across the country. While Marco Rubio is talking about putting nuclear waste dumps in sacred Native sites, Tammy Duckworth is committing to weatherizing millions of homes, investing in public transit, and getting us to universal access to broadband. The choice is clear this year.” - Jeff Merkley

Joint rally with Governor Shapiro in Philadelphia
Join volunteers for GOTV in Philadelphia
Speaking events across the Philadelphia suburbs to boost suburban turnout there

“It’s laughable that Marco Rubio wheels out his surrogates to attack my record on national security. However, I left part of myself back in Iraq for his First Amendment right to at best misconstrue my record for political points, at worst, lie to the American people. But, I know this is a distraction to get me away from the issues at hand. The truth is, Marco knows I’m right on this. President Donald Trump has proposed cuts as large as 25% to the State Department, and we wonder why we have so many international problems at hand. What we haven’t heard is if Marco Rubio supports this or not.

I know the costs of war, and its human costs are significantly higher than the monetary costs of peace and diplomacy. I would rather spend billions on a State Department that prioritizes diplomacy and international relationships than send even more troops into the line of fire. When I say I want to send your kids to school, not war, I mean it. We should have a President that understands the consequences of war, and does whatever she can to keep us out of one.”

Gallego Schedule

In the run-up to the election, Gallego will spend the majority of his time in the Southwest, with Tammy Duckworth in the Midwest. The ticket believes their strength in the suburbs and among Latino voters could mean wins in traditionally Republican states in the Southwest. The Governor will hold rallies in his home state, with headlining events in Phoenix, Tucson, and visits to the reservations located in Arizona. He will also travel to Nevada, where he will hold joint events with Senate candidate Zach Conine in Las Vegas, Reno, and Carson City. In Nevada, he will hit Rubio on his nuclear energy plan, which would make Yucca Mountain a nuclear waste zone, and will highlight Tammy’s commitment to infrastructure investment, green energy, and passing the Protect Working Families Act. He will join Tammy Duckworth in North Carolina, before heading to Texas to campaign with Jessica Cisneros and Julian Castro. In Texas, the campaign is counting on a closer than expected race, while a win isn’t part of their necessary path to 270, it’s viewed as a winnable state where a close race could lead to Cisneros winning, and a win could pull Castro up as well. Gallego will hold rallies with Cisneros in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, and with Castro in San Antonio and El Paso, where he will hit Rubio for trying to have it both ways on trade, celebrating unfettered free trade on one hand, while serving with a President who put tariffs on our allies, and will contrast that with Tammy Duckworth’s economic plan to invest in American infrastructure and reframe trade deals with worker’s rights and the environment in mind. Finally, on Election Day, Gallego will work in Phoenix to get out the vote for anyone who hasn’t voted by mail already.
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« Reply #477 on: September 06, 2020, 10:05:46 PM »
« Edited: September 06, 2020, 11:48:31 PM by UWS »

Marco Rubio’s response to the Democrats’ attacks in Levittown, Pennsylvania

It is clear that the Democrats are playing the politics of fear by belittling America because they can’t explain the failures of their failed big government and tax-hike policies that gave us the slowest economy in history and cost America 300 000 manufacturing jobs and of their failed foreign policy that allowed ISIS to emerge and kill Americans. Because they have no argument against the fact that we have the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years as well as the lowest Hispanic and African-American unemployment rates and that we kept America safe by defeating ISIS and denuclearizing North Korea and Iran. Now, we heard President Obama saying that we threw out long-standing alliances, which is not only false but also beyond the pale. That is ironic to hear that from a man who has himself thrown out our long-standing alliance with Israel by treating Israel as a nuisance. In effect, Obama had more respect for the Ayatollah of Iran than for the Prime Minister of Israel. But we have strengthened and expanded our alliances : the Brits, the French, the Canadians, the Australians, etc. joined us in our fight against ISIS, leading airstrikes in Iraq and Syria and sacrificing along with us. Last year, we and our Middle Eastern allies founded the Tehran Pact, an intergovernmental military alliance aimed at maintaining freedom, stability and peace in the Middle East and in the Indian Subcontinent and we and our Tehran Pact allies got there as we successfully countered any attempt by Vladimir Putin to expand his influence in the Middle East by adding new alliances that are key to stability, security and peace in this region. Among our allies there are notably Israel, Iraq, Parsi’s Iran and even India, the 4th military power in the world after the United States, Russia and China, which gave us a clear advantage against any incursion and aggression by Putin’s Russia in the Middle East and to keep this region safe against terrorism. The 2018 inter-Korean summit saw South Korea and its neighbor ratifying the Panmunjom Declaration in which they pledged to end «hostile activities» between each other, for resumption of reunion meetings for divided families, improve connections along the border and cease propaganda broadcasts across it. And they did that. Yet Senator Duckworth has shown absolutely no willingness to recognize the sacrifices and contributions of our allies in the process of preserving peace and she even demeans them. When I’m President, our allies will earn the respect of Americans not the scorn of a politician because that’s the way to preserve and expand global peace. When it comes to President Obama’s attacks on us on health care, we have to understand that these are the words of a man who lied to the American people by telling them that under Obamacare if you like your health insurance plan and your doctor you can keep it while millions of Americans saw their health insurance cancelled against their will. But our healthcare plan will protect pre-existing conditions and allow small employers to offer flexible coverage options using Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) which will be less expensive for employers than group plans, the addition of HRAs to the health care ecosystem will result in 11 million workers seeking coverage from them (which will help millions of hardworking Americans have greater access to affordable health care coverage that best meets their needs) and will also allow people to buy health insurance across state lines, make  the insurance marketplaces and subsidies to help people afford coverage and more competitive and provide tax credits to help people buy insurance among state lines while at the same time providing funding to fix Medicare and Medicaid with no cuts. Obama also claimed that Duckworth isn’t going to think of what donors want. Well then I’d like you to explain me why she's been supported by Super PACs funded by George Soros as well, including J Street (the most anti-Israel Super PAC in the country) and she received $162 372 from Wall Street to fund her senate campaign in addition of receiving more money from the securities and investment industry than all but 22 other House members in the 2016 cycle, more than all but 5 other House Democrats and more than any Democratic House member from Illinois. And that’s also another reason why she voted against the TCJA because it eliminated special interest deduction and closed loopholes, so she voted against that legislation in order not to displease her big special interest donors that are backing her campaign.

Senator Duckworth and Governor Gallego repeated things they know aren’t true, trying to say that we left our veterans behind and that I don’t know what it looks like to send our troops to war. That is a flat-out lie. I know what it looks like to send our men and women in uniform to war. My brother Mario Rubio too is a veteran and served our country during the Vietnam War. He has known the hell our brave soldiers have suffered, whether it was in jungle warfare, in the enemy's detention camps where they suffered torture and anything else. And my running mate and America’s next Vice-President John James has served our country as an Apache pilot in Operation Iraqi Freedom, combating tyranny and terrorism, including those who committed the deadliest attack on our U.S. soil on 9/11. I have a clear record of commitment towards our veterans. I cosponsored the AGREE Act, a bill that increased tax credits and exemptions for companies investing in R & D, equipment and other capital, gave tax credits for veterans opening a business franchise. And over the objections of Bernie Sanders, I passed the 2014 VA Accountability reform law by introducing a measure empowering the VA secretary to hold managers accountable for incompetence, negligence and corruption and to care more about veterans than bureaucrats. I passed the MilCon-VA bill providing meaningful funding for veterans programs and military construction projects across Florida. Five years ago, I co-sponsored the Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act that helped veterans re-entering the workforce get jobs in STEM-related fields by requiring the Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate programs to train and transition military veterans for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math. Senator James introduced and passed the Veterans Care Financial Protection Act of 2022 making the federal Department of Veterans Affairs work with state and federal agencies to stop con men who are diverting federal aid away from veterans. Meanwhile Senator Duckworth has cut POW/MIA scholarships by $1 million during her time as Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs, depriving our veterans of the services and of the scholarships they need to earn better living conditions and a decent career and to accomplish their American Dream. During his time in the House of Representatives, Governor Gallego voted against the VA Accountability Act of 2015 that authorized the Department of Veterans Affairs to remove or demote a department employee for misconduct and negligence towards veterans. Both Senator Duckworth and Governor Gallego supported President Obama’s decision to shift funds from the VA to Syrian refugees, thus depriving our veterans of the care they needed. As President, I will reduce the income tax on military retirement income, which will reinforce incomes for our veterans; enforce the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act so that returning veterans can promptly return to their former jobs; and invest in the development of new social security and job training programs for our veterans to make sure they will earn the best post-military service they can ever imagine.

Senator Duckworth has no credibility on energy and climate change. She attacks me for supporting oil production but in 2019 she supported Dan Brouillette’s nomination as Secretary of Energy even though Brouillette is a proponent of oil and coal production. That’s just another example of her record of changing positions depending on what the year is and on political pressure in order to try to please her base just like she changed her position on airstrikes, on tax cuts, on the Benghazi Committee, etc. She believes that we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power. But Americans know better than that. Under a Rubio Administration, we’re going to get America to energy independence by producing more energy here at home so we can be more free from foreign energy, including those from unstable countries in throes of anti-American forces, so we can make our country safer and more prosperous. That requires taking advantage of all of our own sources of energy, including oil, gas coal, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, tide, hydroelectric, etc. That is what we’re going to do by encouraging more oil drilling and production, by using a part of the revenues from oil drilling into the development of renewable energies instead of doing so with taxpayers’ money. We're also going to make America number one in nuclear energy export and production by building 40 new nuclear power plants in America by 2050, by approving tax credits for advanced nuclear projects and subsidies for the building of new nuclear power plants to further improve the American people's access to heat, encourage more job creation and improve our ecological footprint. We’re also going to approve renewable energy projects such as the Gemini Solar Project (which would have the capacity to produce 690 megawatts of electricity) in Nevada, the Crimson Solar Project in California (which would have a capacity to produce 350 MW of electricity, or enough to power more than 100,000 homes) and the Haiwee Geothermal Leasing Area (which would have the capacity to produce enough electricity to power about 117,000 homes). So the energy policy that we propose will favor both job creation and a clean environment.

When it comes to Senator Duckworth’s attacks on me on the national security issue, it is clear that her pollsters told her to go on the offense and to hide the truth about her national security record. But let me tell you this, falsely accusing someone of lying as Senator Duckworth is doing is itself a lie and that’s what she does. She’s trying to distance herself from her record on foreign policy. You can run but you can’t hide. And as John Adams said, facts are stubborn things. You can look at the record on Vote Smart, GovTrack, etc. So if you look at Senator Duckworth’s record, she doesn’t display the qualities of somebody who has the conviction to successfully face the national security challenges facing America. Even at a time ISIS was poised to dominate the Middle East, she declared, during an interview with ABC News, that she doesn’t support airstrikes against ISIS just like she voted time and again in favor of slashing our military and voted against authorizing aid to the Kurds. So she voted against supplying them in military training, in military arsenal and in protective armors despite the fact that the Kurds were crucial allies in defeating ISIS. And I got to remind the Senator that we won Operation Ceasefire against Erdogan’s Turkey without a single American trooper deployed or killed there and we did that by providing the Kurds in military training and arsenal and through our Middle Eastern allies’ intervention in Kurdistan and Turkey, which led them to victory in that conflict and led to the recognition of Kurdistan as an independent state. I got to remind the Senator that it was President Obama who entered us in the war against ISIS, not Donald Trump, and we are the administration that successfully ended this war and restored peace through our commitment to unconditional victory against our enemies, not to containment of our enemies like Obama did. I do understand the consequences of war and keeping our military strong and going after the terrorists wherever they hide and train is exactly what helped us to defeat ISIS and to eliminate Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Yet Senator Duckworth has made the wrong call on national security, opposing Operation Inherent Resolve, supporting the Iran nuclear deal that handed billions of dollars to a country that was the world’s largest state-sponsor of terrorism, voting against supporting the Kurds in their fight against ISIS, opposing the F-16, the F-15 and the CH-53 Sea Stallion. She’s even against strategies that will keep us safe while requiring less troops through the development of unmanned weaponry. She’s suggesting that we should combat the enemy with nothing but spitballs, which hasn’t been enough to preserve our safety. If she’s elected, her weak foreign policy will create the conditions favorable to another terrorist attack on America like it happened in Garland, in San Bernardino, in Philadelphia where police officer Jessee Hartnett has been wounded by ISIS jihadist Edward Archer, and in Orlando, in my home state of Florida. She’s suggesting that we should wait until we’ve been attacked before forcefully defending America. My fellow Americans, we have already been attacked. That’s the big difference between Senator Duckworth and myself : she wants peace through surrender and vulnerability, I want peace through strength. My foreign policy will keep us safe while requiring less troops. Under my presidency, we will provide our Western African allies in equipment and training to defeat Boko Haram and lead drone airstrikes on Boko Haram key targets, including their oil refineries, which will reduce the need for ground troops and also cost us less as drones are significantly cheaper to purchase, fuel, and maintain than regular airplanes. As a result, we will keep America safe without putting more American lives in harm's way and help us to save money to be invested in America’s future. Thanks to the development of unmanned vessels and warships equipped with anti-satellite drones such as the ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel and the Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle, we'll be able to track, trail target and intercept hostile submarines threatening our national security interests and our men and women in uniform serving in the Navy without having to put more troops in harm's way. I find that laughable that Senator Duckworth attacks me on State Department budget cuts because President Obama has himself cut State Department funding by $47 billion and that’s why our embassy got attacked in Benghazi, where 4 Americans were killed by radical jihadists because the State Department rejected appeals for more security at diplomatic posts in libya months before the attacks. That’s why they failed to restore Libya’s stability. I’ll increase State Department budget to ensure we’ll normalize US-Russia relations, eliminate the risk of nuclear war, maintain pressure on China and ensure that we maintain and expand peace and stability in the Middle East. The foreign policy of the last 8 years has helped maintain and expand global peace as we saw with the Abraham Accords that we brokered and that normalized Israel-UAE relations and suspended Israel’s plans to annex the Jordan Valley and with the denuclearization of North Korea and Iran. I’m the one who helped brokering such progress with Iran through my 2021 diplomatic trip in the aftermath of which President Parsi declared in a Joint Session of Congress that I presided over that Iran was going to normalize its relations with us, that they were going to denuclearize and use their nuclear energy only for domestic purposes and that they would stop state-sponsoring global terror and that’s what they did. And if Senator Duckworth was so interested in peace, she would have welcomed Sergei Polonsky’s election at the presidency of Russia after 24 years of tyranny and terror by the Putin regime, but she did not. Instead, while Polonsky emerged as the clear frontrunner in the Russian election based on an isolationist agenda, she and her party called Polonsky a puppet of President Trump that they accused of interfering in the Russian election without any evidence and they took on the occasion to try to impeach him instead of focusing on the geopolitical challenges facing America. But when I’m President, we’ll normalize the US-Russia relations in the first 100 days of my presidency, work together with Polonsky’s Russia so we can finally restore stability, peace and territorial integrity in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and to eliminate any risk of nuclear war and ensure the expansion of human rights, freedom and peace in the globe. And he will work with our allies to ratify the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty to prohibit the use of fissile material for the building of WMDs and nuclear weapons, which will make sure that we will complete our path to a nuclear-free world and prevent any nuclear war.

And nothing of what Governor Gallego just said on trade is true. The job of a Vice-President is not to agree with the President on every issue. On tariffs, I have to remind you that we’ve actually seen breakthroughs in trade with the European Union as the EU sat down with America and together we agreed to zero tariffs. As a result, they removed tariffs on imports of U.S. lobsters, for example, strengthening their competitiveness. Similarly, we cut a trade deal with Japan in which we agreed to lower tariffs on Japanese turbines, machine tools, bicycles, green tea, flowers and other goods as well as Japanese barriers to American beef, pork, wheat, cheese, almonds, wine and other products. And in that deal, we honored the commitment not to impose tariffs on Japanese cars. In 2019, in the context of the U.S.-China Trade War, we went on to cut a deal with Xi Jinping, during a joint summit, on that issue as both nations agreed to lift tariffs with China halting to steal IPs and the United States stopping to use Chinese citizens for cheap labor abroad, thus ending the trade war, which helped farmers and workers across this country to recover and to further reinforce their competition. And during my time in the Senate, when South Korea had levied a 54 % tariff on orange products, which was harming Florida orange juice producers, I visited South Korea where he pressed officials there on this harmful tariff. Upon returning home, I helped fast-track a solution by urging South Korean Ambassador Ahn Ho-young and my colleagues to tour Florida facilities and resolve their concerns, which they did a month later. In the aftermath, this dispute between the United States and South Korea over frozen orange juice concentrate was settled and thanks to this free trade agreement, Florida natural juice sales reportedly have gone from $4 million to $40 million in three years and the sale of fresh grapefruit went from $1 million to nearly $5 million over the same period. I made a remarkable contribution to the successful renegotiation of NAFTA by introducing the Defending Domestic Produce Production Act to help Florida fruit and vegetable growers combat Mexico’s unfair trade practices by allowing farmers to petition the Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate illegal subsidies and dumping of Mexican fruits and vegetables in the U.S. market, which eventually led to zero tariffs under the USMCA and benefited all the three members of that deal.  Meanwhile, Senator Duckworth, in her opposition to free trade (which is something she actually has in common with President Trump) and in her belief that we can achieve prosperity by selling to just 5 % of the world economy, is in favor of higher tariffs, which will hurt the economy, kill opportunities for businesses to expand and to create jobs through stronger competition in the world economy. She opposed TPP, which would give China greater authority to dictate the terms of international trade. But my plan, on the other hand, champion free trade with our allies in Europe, Latin America and in Asia-Pacific in order to make America the most competitive nation in the world economy and so it will reduce tariffs, increase exports and imports, reduce the cost of trading, allow American businesses to make direct investments into foreign economies to produce goods at a lower cost in these environments.

So, my fellow Americans, don’t fall into the scare tactics of the Democrats that contributed time and again to such extreme division in America. Don’t let them take away your liberty and freedom. Don’t let them spoil the progress of the last 8 years. I know as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship that America’s prosperity requires making America the best place in the world to do business and keeping taxes low and that’s what we’re going to do and reduce middle-class taxes, make us energy independent, expanding free trade to make us the most competitive nation in the world economy and investing in infrastructures. I know as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee and as Vice-President that America’s security requires a strong military, strong alliances and strong diplomacy and that’s why we’ll modernize our military, stay on offense against terror and accomplish our path to a world ridden of the nightmare of nuclear war. I have the right experience to lead America in these times of challenges and that’s why I need you to vote in a massive number to cast your vote for me and also to Republican candidates in both houses of Congress to make sure that we move America forward, get America to long-term prosperity for all and to long-term global peace. Thank you. God bless you and God bless America!
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« Reply #478 on: September 06, 2020, 11:51:47 PM »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to appeal among voters seeking a candidate of large and proven experience as their President, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad narrating Rubio’s background and experience and accomplishments in order to emphasize on his qualifications and readiness to be President.

Title : So help me God

Airing : Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin

So help me God ad narration :

[The ad features Rubio’s oath to the office of Vice-President of the United States on January 20th 2021]


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Chief Justice of the United States : I, Marco Antonio Rubio, do solemnly swear...

Marco Rubio : I, Marco Antonio Rubio, do solemnly swear...

Narrator : How does a man get to this point in his life? How does one man come so far?

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Maybe for Marco Rubio it began when his family came to America from Cuba in quest in 1956 in quest of better living conditions and better economic opportunities and when the hard work of a bartender and a housekeeper granted their children the opportunities that were closed to themselves.

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Marco Rubio during his inauguration as Vice-President : ...that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...

Chief Justice of the United States : ...that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same...

Marco Rubio during his inauguration as Vice-President : ...that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same...


Own creation; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio#/media/File:Speaker_Rubio_Following_Vote_About_Slavery.jpg
Wherever it began, it continued when he raised a family in Florida. And it will continue when he was elected as city commissioner for West Miami, elected to the Florida House of Representatives where he also served as Speaker and supported the Florida legislature's Black Caucus' request that the legislature apologize for slavery and put forward the "100 Innovative Ideas For Florida's Future", passing items into law such as car registrations, a requirement that high schools provide more vocational courses, and an expanded voucher-like school-choice program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio#/media/File:Speaker-designate_Marco_Rubio_with_a_blank_book_titled_100_Innovative_Ideas_For_Florida's_Future.jpg


Own creation; https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/rubio-tours-eglin-air-force-base
It continued when he was elected to the U.S. Senate where he passed the 2014 VA reform law providing better social services for our veterans; led the way to pass the Girls Count Act that forced countries receiving U.S. aid to give birth certificated to girls at birth in order to combat human trafficking; led the effort to secure federal funding to combat the Zika virus, secured funding for the Central Everglades Planning Project; led the effort to double the Child Tax Credit to pass the largest tax cuts ever contributing to the creation of 7 and-a-half million jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years; passed the toughest sanctions on Hezbollah to diminish this terrorist organization's ability to threat the security of America and our allies; co-sponsored the Let Freedom Reign Act of 2019 providing arsenal and training to the Venezuelan insurgency in the Venezuelan Civil War and contributing to their successful path to democracy; stood up to China's human rights violations by sponsoring the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act.

Source(s) : Own creation; Own creation; https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?sort=relevance&search=Hong+Kong+Protests&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:Voa_hong_kong_protest_16june2019.jpg


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It continued when he chaired the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship when he fought to expand America’s prosperity for all Americans by passing legislation reducing taxes on small businesses and increasing their ability to compete, expand, produce, hire and create jobs.

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The more you learn about how Marco Rubio came this far, the more you realize that no one in this quarter-century is better prepared to be President of the United States.

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Marco Rubio during his inauguration as Vice-President : ...So help me God.

Marco Rubio: I’m Marco Rubio and I approve this message.
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« Reply #479 on: September 07, 2020, 02:25:05 AM »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to label Tammy Duckworth as weak on terrorism and national security and appeal among voters who selected foreign policy and national security as the most important issue, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad attacking Duckworth's weak record on handling terrorism and narrating Marco Rubio's leadership of combating terrorism and his agenda to defeat that threat.

Title : Reckless

Airing : Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin

Reckless ad narration :


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Narrator : Throughout her political career, Tammy Duckworth sided on the wrong side of every national security issue.

Time and again she supported the Obama Administration's deep cuts in our military, which made America an easier target for terrorists.


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In June 2014, in the context of ISIS' rise in the Middle East, she voted against prohibiting combat operations in Iraq before she changed her position and opposed airstrikes against ISIS even at a time they were controlling 70 % of Iraq's territory and used it as a base to launch attacks on us and our allies.

Source : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Coalition_forces_refuel_over_Iraq_between_airstrikes_against_ISIL_150702-F-HA566-553.jpg


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Tammy Duckworth : I don't support boots on the ground and even airstrikes.


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Narrator : Even shortly after ISIS' first attack in America orchestrated in Garland, Texas, Duckworth and her liberal colleagues in Congress voted to slash America’s intelligence operations in June 2015 by supporting a bill prohibiting the bulk collection of data. As a result, six months later, ISIS jihadists attacked us again in San Bernardino (because we did not have access to records, information and other items under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would have allowed us to identify these killers before they attacked) and then in Orlando (where the deadliest terrorist attack on the U.S. soil since 9/11 occured).

Source(s) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack#/media/File:San_Bernardino_shooting_suspect_vehicle.jpg; https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=orlando+pulse+nightclub+shooting&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:Pulse_nightclub_after_shooting.png

She voted against prohibiting the transfer of Guantanamo terrorists to any foreign country even though such transfers could have allowed them to escape, to be on the run once again, to return to terrorism and to orchestrate even more attacks on us and our allies like it happened with Said Ali al-Shiri who returned to terrorism after being set free, co-founded Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in addition of calling upon Somali pirates to increase their attacks on western shipping and leading the Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen before being killed by a drone.

Duckworth supported President Obama's so-called nuclear deal with the old Iranian regime that handed billions of dollars to a country that was the world's largest state-sponsor of global terrorism through a lifting of the sanctions.

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John Kerry during an interview on CNBC : I think that some of it will end up in the hands of the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) or of other entities, some of which are labeled terrorists.

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Narrator : That was state-sponsored terrorism that allowed the Taliban to open an office in Zahedan, Iran; paid bounties to Taliban for targeting American troops in Afghanistan; orchestrated the Quds Force's (a special forces unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards) attempt to orchestrate a terrorist attack against the Israeli embassy and the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan; ran a terrorist cell in Bahrain that was planning to carry out a series of dangerous bombings on the kingdom before it was dismantled in 2016 by the Bahraini security forces; and unsuccessfully attempted a bomb plot against the National Council of Resistance of Iran (an opposition group which styled itself as Iran's government-in-exile at the time) at a rally in Paris in 2018 after which France froze the old Iranian regime's financial assets.

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Even though the Kurds were crucial to defeating ISIS, Duckworth voted against authorizing aid to the Kurds and providing them in military arsenal, training and equipment, including fuel, combat vehicles, ammunition and body armors.


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In 2015, even though it has been reported by a German spy agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, that ISIS jihadists were sneaking within the Syrian refugees to commit terrorist attacks in Europe and here in America and after ISIS used fake Syrian passports to commit the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris and were printing thousands more fake passports, Senator Duckworth, more motivated by partisan politics than national security, voted against the SAFE Act that expanded background checks for Syrian and Iraqi refugees applying for admission to the United States while that bill has been supported by 47 of her fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives (including Kyrsten Sinema, Jared Polis, Gwen Graham, Patrick Murphy, Tulsi Gabbard, Dan Lipinski and Tim Ryan). Duckworth even signed on for 200,000 refugees to America.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/h643; Own creation
Duckworth : I signed on for 200,000 refugees.

Narrator : Which is 20 times more than President Obama suggested and which would have further increased the risk of ISIS jihadists disguising as refugees and thus putting their operatives among the refugees to come to Europe and to America and kill us as the FBI said the refugees can’t be safely screened.

Tammy Duckworth, just too reckless for America.

Marco Rubio : I'm Marco Rubio and I approve this message.
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« Reply #480 on: September 07, 2020, 02:51:20 AM »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to win among voters who selected foreign policy as the most important issue of this election and who want a person of proven foreign policy experience and leadership as their President, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad emphasizing on the Vice-President’s foreign policy experience, accomplishments and agenda to portray him as the most tested and qualified candidate to be Commander-in-Chief and be a great leader and to keep America safe and preserve America’s status as a leader on the world stage.

Title : Commander-in-Chief

Airing : Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin

Commander-in-Chief ad narration :

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Narrator : Being Commander-in-Chief is more than just a job. It’s a job in which you take decisions that can affect the lives of all of us. It’s a sworn duty to keep the American people safe.



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In the last 8 years, we rebuilt our military, took care of our veterans, built strong alliances defeated ISIS, brought Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to justice, denuclearized North Korea and Iran, stood up to Putin’s Russia and established the U.S. Space Force to protect our satellites against hostile anti-satellite weaponry.

Source(s) : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Death_of_Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi#/media/File:US_SOF_Al_Baghdadi_raid.png; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force#/media/File:Seal_of_the_United_States_Space_Force.svg


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America is now safer and stronger than ever. There’s no candidate better prepared to be Commander-in-Chief than Marco Rubio. In the U.S. Senate, he wrote and passed the toughest sanctions on Hezbollah to prevent  Hezbollah  and  associated  entities from  gaining  access  to  international  financial  and  other  institutions and for other purposes; sponsored the Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 (that authorized assistance and weapons transfers to Israel and extended defense cooperation with Jordan) and the U.S.-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act to provide assistance to our Jordanian allies in the battle against ISIS and in dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis; co-sponsored the Let Freedom Reign Act of 2019 providing arsenal and training to the Venezuelan insurgency in the Venezuelan Civil War and contributing to their successful path to democracy;  stood up to China's human rights violations by sponsoring the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act.

Source(s) : https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s1; https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?sort=relevance&search=Hong+Kong+Protests&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:Voa_hong_kong_protest_16june2019.jpg


Source : https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/rubio-tours-eglin-air-force-base;
He introduced the single largest VA reform legislation, empowering the VA secretary to hold managers accountable for incompetence, negligence and corruption and to care more about veterans than bureaucrats; co-sponsored the Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act that helped veterans re-entering the workforce get jobs in STEM-related fields by requiring the Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate programs to train and transition military veterans for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math; and passed the MilCon-VA bill providing meaningful funding for veterans programs and military construction projects across Florida.


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As Vice-President, he helped President Trump to defeat ISIS, led the diplomatic mission that got Arsham Parsi's Iran to officially denuclearize and stop state-sponsoring terrorism and advocated the provision of arsenal and training to the Kurds in the context of Operation Ceasefire, which led them to victory and to Kurdistan acceding to independence.

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As President and Commander-in-Chief, Marco Rubio will modernize our military, keep it strong, stay on offense against terrorists wherever they train and hide and provide our Western African allies in arsenal and military training to help them defeat Boko Haram, destroy Boko Haram key targets like their infrastructure and oil refineries through drone strikes to deny them war effort, which will keep us safe without needing to send additional troops.

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Thanks to the development of unmanned vessels and warships equipped with anti-satellite drones such as the ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel and the Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle, we'll be able to track, trail target and intercept hostile submarines threatening our national security interests and our men and women in uniform serving in the Navy without having to put more troops in harm's way.

As President, Marco Rubio will support the ZZJ through the provision of food, clothing and fuel to give them the necessary means to subsist and persist and he will cut-off China’s crude oil supply by halting crude oil exports to China it in order to weaken their military so that freedom and democracy will triumph in China.


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Marco Rubio will normalize our relations with Polonsky’s Russia in the first 100 days of his presidency so we can ensure long-term global peace and work together for the maintenance and expansion of peace, freedom, human rights, stability and territorial integrity in the world, including in Europe and in the Middle East.


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And to accomplish our path to a nuclear-free world and to eliminate the risk of nuclear war, he will bring America and allies together to ratify the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty to prohibit the use of fissile material in the purpose of building nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction.

If you want a candidate ready to be Commander-in-Chief on Day One, a leader who can be trusted to keep America safe and get us to a world of long-term peace, stability, freedom and security, the choice is clear, Marco Rubio.

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« Reply #481 on: September 07, 2020, 03:10:41 AM »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to expose Duckworth as a flip-flopper and inconsistent, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad featuring a balance scale whose two scales level off depending on pressure (just like Duckworth succumbs to pressure and changes positions).

Title : Balance Scale

Airing : Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin

Balance Scale ad narration :

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Narrator : Tammy Duckworth is a follower, not a leader. Throughout her career, she changed her positions based on political pressure.


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While running for Congress, she said she supported lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth...

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...but then repeatedly voted against every tax-cut legislation and advocated higher taxes.


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Duckworth voted against prohibiting US combat operations in Iraq to fight ISIS...

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...before she declared her opposition to airstrikes on ISIS even when they were controlling 70 % of Iraq's territory.


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She originally supported the Benghazi Committee, touted her place in this committee and promised to hold Hillary Clinton accountable for her use of a private email server as SoS and her move to delete 30 000 emails, which compromised our national security...

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...before she opposed and criticized the Benghazi Committee and suggested to wrap up the work aimed at finding out the truth and keeping America safe.


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She pretends to be an assailant of special interests and Wall Street...

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...but she's been supported by Super PACs funded by George Soros as well, including J Street (the most anti-Israel Super PAC in the country) and she received $162 372 from Wall Street to fund her senate campaign in addition of receiving more money from the securities and investment industry than all but 22 other House members in the 2016 cycle, more than all but 5 other House Democrats and more than any Democratic House member from Illinois. And she also voted against the TCJA that also eliminated special interest deduction and closed loopholes.


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She brags about advocating clean energy and gutting our energy industry through higher regulations on energy production and businesses and attacks the Republicans for supporting oil production...

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...but she supported Dan Brouillette's nomination as Secretary of Energy even though Brouillette is a proponent of oil drilling and coal production.

Tammy Duckworth, wherever the political pressures and the moment requires.

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« Reply #482 on: September 07, 2020, 03:20:47 AM »

John James’ VP campaign schedule :

November 4, Part 1 : Michigan Senator and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee John James campaigned for Marco Rubio in Michigan where he holds a rally in Pontiac, Michigan, in the morning, where he attacks his senate rival Gary Peters for violating the Federal Election Campaign Act by being illegally coordinated with dark money group; for spending 20 years as a Wall Street insider himself and taking more than $2 million of campaign donations from Wall Street bankers and the financial industry in addition of helping to make too big to fail Wall Street firms even bigger; and for his record at the Michigan Lottery in which he allowed outsourcing a state contract to China in addition of having supported a half billion dollar taxpayer funded loan to a company that built cars overseas then went bankrupt, before being sold to Chinese owners. He calls on the people of Michigan voters to come out and elect Marco Rubio and expand the Republican majority in both houses of Congress for the sake of integrity and to fight for jobs, growth and prosperity for all Americans through the promotion of tax reform, free enterprise, middle-class tax cut and energy independence. He also holds a campaign in Flint, Michigan where he touts the benefits of the ratification of the USMCA on Michigan as it avoided a minimum of $1.1 billion to $5.2 billion in extra taxes for Michigan’s manufactured goods exported to Canada and Mexico (compared to zero tariffs today), supported for 117 443 Michigan manufacturing jobs, contributed to the revival of the U.S. manufacturing industry through the creation of 500 000 manufacturing jobs (including 18 000 in Michigan, 13 000 in Pennsylvania, 25 000 in Ohio and 11 000 in Wisconsin), boosted auto manufacturing by requiring 75% of a vehicle's parts to be made in one of the 3 signatory countries in order to remain free from tariffs when moving between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, by strengthening labor laws (which helps level the playing field for American workers and improve wages and labor conditions in North America), by keeping tariffs at zero while further opening up the Canadian market to US dairy, poultry, turkey and eggs and allowing more Canadian dairy, peanuts and peanut products to cross the border. He also reminded voters that the new customs and trade rules included in the USMCA customs and trade rules cut red tape and made it easier for small businesses to tap into foreign markets and participate in cross-border trade and that modernized, high-standard Intellectual Property (IP) chapter of that deal provided strong and effective protection and enforcement of IP rights that are critical to driving innovation, creating economic growth, and supporting American jobs. He takes on the occasion to praise Marco Rubio’s free trade plan that will promote free trade with America’s allies in Europe, Latin America and Asia, thus counter-balancing China's trade power and ensuring strong job creation by lowering tariffs, increasing exports and imports, reducing the cost of trading, allowing American businesses to make direct investments into foreign economies to produce goods at a lower cost in these environments and making us number one in auto production again. He calls on voters to mobilize at the highest possible number and elect Marco Rubio as the next President to ensure strong and long-term economic prosperity through competitiveness, free enterprise and tax reform.


In the afternoon, he holds a rally in Scranton, PA where he talks about the differences benefits of the tax cut and free enterprise of the last 8 years, blasting Duckworth on her big government tax hike job-killing agenda and touting the Republican ticket’s experience in economic issues and agenda for the sake of prosperity :

Hi, Scranton! This election is the most important election of our lifetime. This is a battle for the way of life of all the American people. That’s why we need all of you to come out and vote because the stakes of this election are too high for you to stay home because your future and your children’s future depend on it. And I can tell you, there is clearly no better candidate to fight for you, to manage our economy and guarantee prosperity and opportunity for all Americans than Marco Rubio. He understands that free enterprise is the right solution to the problem, not the government. He displayed strong leadership in fighting to improve the conditions of everyday Americans. In the Senate, he co-sponsored the Regulation Costs to Small Businesses Act which required the Small Business Administration to conduct an annual study to estimate the total cost of regulations on small businesses. And he led the legislative effort to double the Child Tax Credit from $1000 to $2000, which helped pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, thus favoring the adoption of the largest tax cuts in American history reducing taxes for all Americans, making America the best place in the world to do business, helping create almost 8 million jobs in the last 8 years, reducing our unemployment rate at its lowest in 50-plus years and giving us the lowest Hispanic, African-American, Asian-American and youth unemployment rates in history, and reducing the middle-class’ fiscal burden through a 58 percent reduction in federal taxes for a family of four with annual income of $73,000 (median family income), through a 73 percent reduction in federal taxes for a single parent with one child earning $41 000 a year, an average federal tax cut of $1400 for 9 out of 10 taxpayers with annual income between $64,000 and $108,000, an average federal tax cut of $810 for 90 % of taxpayers winning between $40,000 and $64,000 and a double of the standard deduction for an individual from $6,000 to $12,000 and for a family from $12,000 to $24,000 by the TCJA. Yet Tammy Duckworth voted against the TCJA, voting against higher wages and more jobs for the American people, including the middle-class. She is just dramatically out of touch with the middle-class. Her answer to everything is higher taxes. She wants to take us backwards to the times of liberal economic misery that gave us the slowest economic growth in our history, cost us 300,000 manufacturing jobs, brought our youth unemployment rate at its highest rate ever (almost 20 %) and led to a downgrade of America’s credit rating for the first time in our country’s history. No wonder that Senator Duckworth voted against Permanently Extending The Federal Tax Deduction For State And Local Sales Taxes despite the fact that it would create 150,000 jobs and would increase federal tax receipts by $8 billion, voted against extending tax deductions, against the America's Small Business Tax Relief Act, opposed the elimination of the inheritance tax and voting in favor of the death tax and the marriage penalty tax. She doesn’t understand that the American people don't want mobs, they want jobs. Now she wants to raise taxes by trillions of dollars, crushing the middle-class, making America a harder place to do business and costing your jobs, your wages and your house. No wonder that she has not created a single job in her entire life except her own job. She doesn’t have the experience to manage the economy and doesn’t know what it looks like to start a business and create jobs. But our ticket does.

When I came back home after my military service in Iraq, I ran my family business named the James Group International, a supply-chain business that created jobs by managing and optimizing the company's customer’s supply chain infrastructures and processes through designing and implementing complex supply chain solutions and leveraging information technology. As CEO, I grew the company into a major trading partner with Michigan’s auto industry. And Marco Rubio chaired the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, making strong contributions to America's prosperity by passing legislation protecting the interests of American small businesses and reducing taxes on them, thus reinforcing their competitiveness, productivity and their ability to expand, to innovate, to sell and to create good-paying jobs. No wonder that small businesses such as Industrial Weldors & Machinists in Minnesota, Guy Chemical Company here in Pennsylvania, Hinee Gourmet Coffee in Texas, Deckscapes in Virginia, Advanced Superabrasives in North Carolina, Rockford Ball Screw in Illinois, Northwest Motor Services in Washington, WebHobby Shop in Michigan and Junk King in Nevada are expanding operations, increasing wages, providing new benefits, and hiring more employees. And if you elect Marco Rubio as America’s next President, our country will see even more progress through unprecedented economic growth and prosperity for all Americans and through getting us to full-employment, which we are going to do by preserving America’s status as the best place in the world to do business, reducing middle-class taxes from 22 % to 15 % while indexing capital gains for inflation and creating a tax-preferred savings vehicle for the sake of a stronger American middle-class, which is key to a strong economy. We're going to get America to energy independence by taking advantage of our oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, tide, hydroelectric energies, invest a part of oil drilling revenues into the development of renewable energies instead of doing so by taking away taxpayers' money like Senator Duckworth wants to do in her willingness to sacrifice the jobs and wages of hardworking Americans and embolden our enemies by making us more dependent on foreign energy and energy exports from countries in throes of tyranny and/or terrorism. We're also going to make America number one in nuclear energy export and production by building 40 new nuclear power plants in America by 2050, by approving tax credits for advanced nuclear projects and subsidies for the building of new nuclear power plants to further improve the American people's access to heat, encourage more job creation and improve our ecological footprint. We’re also going to approve renewable energy projects such as the Gemini Solar Project (which would have the capacity to produce 690 megawatts of electricity) in Nevada, the Crimson Solar Project in California (which would have a capacity to produce 350 MW of electricity, or enough to power more than 100,000 homes) and the Haiwee Geothermal Leasing Area (which would have the capacity to produce enough electricity to power about 117,000 homes). Our energy policy will favor both job creation and a clean environment. We'll promote free trade with our allies to make our country the most competitive nation in the world economy and to make sure that American businesses will be able to make direct investments into foreign economies to produce goods at a lower cost in these environments, which will also make us number one again in automobile production. We will make infrastructure development a top priority by investing into it as well as by reducing the federal gasoline tax rate by 80 %; vetoing any gas-tax increase; turning back control of the highways to the states; stopping special interests in Washington from building “Bridges to Nowhere” and engaging in other wasteful spending; freeing states from the strings that come attached to federal funding; removing barriers to public-private partnerships; repealing the Davis-Bacon Act that inflates government costs by billions every year and is a giveaway of taxpayer dollars to labor unions and phasing out the Mass Transit Account, which loots the Highway Trust Fund. That way, thanks to new infrastructures, we will facilitate economic activities and encourage the implementation of new businesses here in America as well as further job creation.

Here’s the big choice of this election : either we move back to economic sluggishness through job-killing tax-hike and big government policies or we pursue America’s progress through the promotion of tax reform and free enterprise. Either we chose fear or we chose hope. We believe in hope. And that's why the Rubio/James ticket is the clear choice for this election in the process of moving America forward and guaranteeing prosperity for all through our proven and steady leadership. That’s why we need your vote to make sure that we get this country to long-term prosperity, full-employment and energy independence, that we preserve and expand the American Dream by making it more accessible for all Americans, that we preserve and expand America’s status as the land of opportunity and that our children and grandchildren will be the most prosperous and freest generations of Americans that ever lived. That’s why we need Marco Rubio and that’s why we need all of you to stand together for opportunity and cast your votes for him to make him our next President so we can keep moving this country forward. Thank you! God bless you all and God bless the United States of America!
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« Reply #483 on: September 07, 2020, 03:36:14 AM »
« Edited: September 19, 2023, 08:51:01 PM by UWS »

John James’ VP campaign schedule :

November 4, Part 2 : Later in the afternoon, he holds rallies for Senate candidate Pat Toomey in addition of giving another speech about foreign policy and counter-terrorism in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania :

Pennsylvania, just like all America, can’t afford Tammy Duckworth’s national security recklessness and weakness. That kind of policy gutting our military, slashing our intelligence and outsourcing our national security is the kind of policy that resulted that the Keystone State suffered 3 major terrorist incidents within a period of 15 years. Throughout the years preceding the 9/11 attacks, the Clinton Administration has gutted America’s intelligence budget as well as the intelligence-gathering budget of the CIA by 30 %. By the mid 1990s the intelligence community was operating with a significant erosion in resources and people, and was unable to keep pace with technological change. No wonder that the CIA lost close to 25 percent of its people and billions of dollars in capital investment, which former CIA Director George Tenet described as a disaster. As a result, our servicemen, law enforcement and intelligence services were deprived of the tools needed to help stop terrorism and combat the threat represented by Al Qaeda which had already attacked two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania at the time as well as the USS Cole, thus contributing to the deadliest terrorist attack ever orchestrated on the U.S. national soil on September 11th 2001. On that day, Flight 93 was also hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists with the plan to hit either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. However, the passengers and crew revolted against the terrorists and sacrificed their lives in derailing that terror plot by crashing in Stonycreek, Pennsylvania. But in the aftermath, we didn’t back down, we stood together and went after Al Qaeda and eventually  eliminated their core leadership. But then, because of the Obama Administration’s deep cuts in America’s intelligence budget (cuts by $13.3 billion from 2010 to 2015) and in the military, all policies supported by Senator Duckworth, America has been made vulnerable and deprived of the tools needed to keep America safe and prevent terrorist attacks, thus allowing ISIS to emerge, to conquer a large territory in Iraq and Syria and use it as a springboard to launch terrorist attacks against us and our allies as we saw twice in Paris, Brussels, Nice and our national soil when ISIS attacked us in Garland, San Bernardino, Orlando (where the deadliest terrorist attack since 9/11 perpetrated on our national soil occured) and Philadelphia where ISIS jihadist Edward Archer shot and wounded police officer Jesse Hartnett in his patrol car and was also planning to kill more police officers and military service members but Officer Hartnett managed to stop Archer by shooting three bullets in this terrorist’s buttstocks, thus leading to Archer’s arrest. In addition, on March 2015,  the website of Trickling Springs Creamery in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania has been targeted by ISIS cyberattacks. Despite the seriousness of the threat represented by ISIS, Senator Duckworth headed on the wrong side of every national security issue and calls for even more military cuts, which will make us vulnerable against terrorists. In June 2014, even at a time ISIS was controlling 70 % of Iraq’s territory and used it as a base to train jihadists and launch attacks on us and our allies, Senator Duckworth opposed airstrikes that were aimed at defeating ISIS so she opposed Operation Inherent Resolve. Even though the Kurds were crucial in helping us to defeat ISIS, Tammy Duckworth voted against authorizing aid to the Kurds through the provision of military training and arsenal to them, including fuel, combat vehicles, body armors and ammunition. She supported an anti-American deal with the old Iranian regime that handed billions of dollars to a country that was the world’s largest state-sponsor of terrorism at the time, which handed this regime the necessary capitals to provide funding and weapons to terrorist organizations as they did by allowing the Taliban to open an office in Zahedan; by paying bounties to Taliban for targeting American troops in Afghanistan as it was indicated and reported by US intelligence that Iran paid bounties to the Haqqani network for their attack on Bagram Air Base on December 11 2019, which killed 2 civilians and injured more than 70 others, including four US personnel; by orchestrating the Quds Force's (a special forces unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards) attempt to orchestrate a terrorist attack against the Israeli embassy and the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan; by running a terrorist cell in Bahrain that was planning to carry out a series of dangerous bombings on the kingdom before it was dismantled in 2016 by the Bahraini security forces; and by unsuccessfully attempting a bomb plot against the National Council of Resistance of Iran (an opposition group which styled itself as Iran's government-in-exile at the time) at a rally in Paris in 2018 after which France froze the old Iranian regime's financial assets. Senator Duckworth also opposed the operation that killed Qasem Soleimani even though he represented a unique threat as he was a major supporter of terrorism and was selling Iranian weapons to terrorist organizations overseas. He was de facto commander of Iran’s global terrorist proxy network, was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans, including the attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq by Kata'ib Hezbollah (an Iran-backed Iraqi Shia militia) and the terrorist attack on the K-1 Air Base in Iraq, and he continued to plot attacks against U.S. diplomats and American service members. He headed to Iraq to plot a coup there in order to swing Iraq under Iran’s influence, which would have undermined our efforts to combat ISIS by depriving us of a partner hosting U.S. military bases and naval ships to launch counter-terrorist operations in Syria and Iraq and would also have allowed the old Iranian regime to use Iraq as a platform to carry out attacks against the United States and as as a base of operations in combination with Syria and Lebanon to continue their expansionist desires in the region and to drive us out and to threaten our allies. That’s what would have happened if Senator Duckworth was in charge of our security and thus the world would be much more dangerous and unstable. And even after ISIS' first attack on America in Garland, Texas, Senator Duckworth and her liberal colleagues in Congress supported, in June 2015, a bill prohibiting the bulk collection of data, thus slashing America’s defenses and intelligence operations, which allowed ISIS terrorists to attack us in San Bernardino, six months later because we did not have access to records, information and other items under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would have allowed us to identify these killers before they attacked. Senator Duckworth opposed major defense programs such as the F-15, the F-16 and the Ch-53 Sea Stallion. She’s even against the idea of developing unmanned arsenal that will reduce the need for more ground troops to keep America safe against our enemies. So make no mistake, if Senator Duckworth is elected, America will be at risk of another terror attack. America can’t afford that risk. America is now much safer than ever before thanks to the restoration of American leadership and our efforts to rebuild and modernize our military, to build strong coalitions and alliances and to go after terrorists wherever they train and hide. As a result, we defeated ISIS, liberated all the territory they occupied in the Middle-East and eliminated their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Because we restored sanctions on the old Iranian regime, we deprived them of the capitals they needed to build nuclear weapons and sponsor terrorist organizations. We led the successful strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, thus derailing the old Iranian regime’s terrorist plans in the Middle East. And in 2021, the Iranian people expressed their dissatisfaction towards tyranny, terror and increasing inflation by electing a pro-American and pro-freedom President like Arsham Parsi, which cleared the way to the denuclearization of Iran. The creation of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office allowed us to counter any attempts by terrorists or other threat actors to carry out an attack against the United States or its interests using a weapon of mass destruction by supporting operational partners in closing capability gaps along adversary pathways and by investing and developing innovative technologies to meet partner requirements and improve operations. That will prevent terrorists like Boko Haram from using Niger’s uranium to build nuclear weapons to launch nuclear terrorist attacks on us and our allies. Our ticket has the right experience, leadership and judgment to keep America safe. At the age of 17, I enrolled into the United States Military and became an Army Ranger-qualified aviator before I served eight years in the military as an Apache pilot during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Like many Americans, I was ready to put my life and body on the line to serve and keep terrorists and the forces of evil at bay to make sure that they will never attack America again. And Marco Rubio made remarkable contributions in keeping America safe by introducing the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 to block the terrorist organization’s financing and limit the group’s access to logistical support; by passing the Terror Intelligence Improvement Act in the aftermath of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando which allowed the U.S. attorney general to delay a firearms' purchase for up to three days and filed an emergency court petition if someone previously investigated for terrorism tried to buy a gun, ensuring that if any gun purchaser has been suspected for terror in the last decade like Mateen, the FBI would be notifying that he or she has gone in to buy a gun and would have the chance to stop that sale and to investigate what you’re up to. He also sponsored the Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 that authorized assistance and weapons transfers to Israel and extended defense cooperation with Jordan through our successful effort to pass the U.S.-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act to provide assistance to our Jordanian allies in the battle against ISIS and in dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis. As Vice-President he helped President Trump to defeat ISIS and he led the 2021 diplomatic trip in Tehran that got Parsi’s Iran to join us normalizing the US-Iran relations, to denuclearize, to use their nuclear energy only for domestic purposes, to stop state-sponsored terrorism, to stand up for human rights and freedom in the world. And that’s exactly what they did in the aftermath, depriving terrorist organizations of any form of supply from Iran’s past state-sponsored terrorism, resulting that Israel is no longer in danger of being wiped out of the map by Iran's past military nuclear program and past support to anti-Israel terrorist organizations, strengthening security, freedom and peace. Marco Rubio knows as a member of Foreign Relations Committee, Chairman of the Intelligence Committee and VP that America’s security requires strong military and strong leadership. His foreign policy plan will keep us safe by keeping our military strong and modernizing it and by staying on offense against terror while requiring less ground troops to be deployed. Our plan will provide military arsenal and training to our Western African allies to help them defeat Boko Haram and also lead drone airstrikes on Boko Haram’s key targets, especially their controlled oil refineries, to deprive them of any means to obtain revenues for their war effort through the exploitation of these refineries, which will not only require less troops in harm’s way but also cost our country less as drones are significantly cheaper to purchase, fuel, and maintain than regular airplanes. As Commander-in-Chief, Marco Rubio will accomplish our path to a nuclear-free world by working with our allies to sign the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty to prohibit the use of fissile material to build nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, which will reinforce global peace and eliminate any risk of nuclear war. We can’t afford to move backwards to the policies of weakness that cost the lives of so many Americans. That’s why we need all of you to go to the polls at the highest possible number and cast your vote for the Rubio/James ticket to guarantee that the U.S. doesn’t again get attacked by the likes of ISIS, that we keep America safe against terrorism and defeat that evil, keep American leadership strong, get us to a nuclear-free world and make sure that our children and grandchildren will grow up in a world of long-term peace, security, stability and freedom. Thank you! God bless all of you and God bless the United States of America!

In the evening, he holds a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania aimed at appealing among independent voters by accusing Duckworth of being taken over by the radical left, citing notably Duckworth’s record of changing her positions depending on political pressure in order to please her base instead of being consistent on issues as Duckworth first said, during her 2012 run for Congress, that she’s in favor of lowering taxes as a means to encourage economic growth but then voted against every tax-cut legislation put forward and repeatedly advocated higher taxes, including her call to increase taxes by trillions of dollars, which will not only kill jobs but also crush the middle-class. Senator James then mentioned Duckworth’s flip-flop from her 2014 NAY vote to prohibiting combat operations in Iraq as she opposed Operation Inherent Resolve and airstrikes aimed at defeating ISIS; her call to slash America’s military spending while she supported the creation of the Space Force; and her attacks against Marco Rubio for promoting oil production while in 2019 Duckworth supported Dan Brouillette’s nomination as Secretary of Energy though Brouillette is a proponent of oil and coal production. He takes on the occasion to declare that without such a record of changing positions, Duckworth would not have won the Democratic nomination against Jeff Merkley who started to gain on her based on a progressive record so she decided to move further to the left and concluded with the following sentence : « If Senator Duckworth couldn’t stand up to the pressures that Jeff Merkley represented, how can we expect her to stand up to ISIS, to unemployment, to America’s energy dependence, to China? » Senator James also exposes Duckworth’s radicalism by noting that she’s been endorsed by the Communist Party USA and by far-leftist communist Frank Lumpkin throughout her political career and that last winter when isolationist candidate Sergei Polonsky made strong progress in the most recent Russian presidential election at the point of putting an end to Vladimir Putin’s terror and oppression, Duckworth and her party colleagues wrongly called Polonsky President Trump’s puppet without any evidence of interference by Washington in that election and took on that occasion to attempt to impeach President Trump instead of welcoming the restoration of freedom and justice in Russia and focusing on advancing policies guaranteeing global peace, declaring that Duckworth was more interested in impeaching the President and partisan politics than about global peace and America’s national security concerns. He takes on the occasion to tout Marco Rubio’s record of bi-partisanship, noting that he’s been endorsed by Democrats such as Joe Manchin, Jim Webb, Joe Lieberman, etc. In enlisting Rubio’s record of bi-partisanship, he mentions that after the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando while the Democrats called for stricter gun control, Rubio introduced the Terror Intelligence Improvement Act that allowed the U.S. attorney general to delay a firearms' purchase for up to three days and filed an emergency court petition if someone previously investigated for terrorism tried to buy a gun, ensuring that if any gun purchaser has been suspected for terror in the last decade like Omar Mateen, the FBI would be notifying that he or she has gone in to buy a gun and would have the chance to stop that sale and to investigate what you’re up to; that he was among the 22 Republican senators who broke party lines to approve emergency funding worth 2 billion to combat Zika virus; that Rubio worked with Jeanne Shaheen to sponsor the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 toughening sanctions on Hezbollah to diminish their ability to attack America and its allies; that he succesfully fought to convince Jim Inhofe, former Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman, to commit to authorizing the Central Everglades Planning Project in the water resources bill after years of opposition for the sake of the restoration of the Everglades; that he sponsored the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 that requires the Department of State to assess whether political developments in Hong Kong justify changing Hong Kong's unique treatment under US law as well as the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act that established sanctions on foreign individuals responsible for human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region and requires certain reports on the topic and that both of these bills received unanimous support from both Republicans and Democrats. He reiterated that as President of the United States, Marco Rubio will bring strong unity through working with both parties in order to get things done by reducing  middle-class taxes to 15 % and to index capital gains for inflation and create a tax-preferred savings vehicle so the economy can keep growing and make small businesses even more competitive; by getting America to energy independence through taking advantage of all of America’s sources of energy, by investing a part of the revenues from oil drilling into the development of renewable energies instead of doing it through higher taxes and regulations on energy and on hardworking families and taxpayers and by making us number one in nuclear energy production and export through the building of 40 new nuclear power plants in the U.S. by 2050 and through tax credits for advanced nuclear projects and subsidies for building new nuclear power plants; by providing massive infrastructure development in America through a reduction of the federal gasoline tax rate by 80 %, a veto on any gas-tax increase, more control of the highways to the states, preventing Washington special interests  from building “Bridges to Nowhere” and engaging in other wasteful spending, removal of barriers to public-private partnerships, abolition of the Davis-Bacon Act that inflates government costs by billions annually and is a giveaway of taxpayer dollars to labor unions and phasing out the Mass Transit Account, which loots the Highway Trust Fund and investment in infrastructures, which will favor massive economic growth. And finally, Senator James reiterates Rubio’s promise that as President, he will bring both parties together in advancing policies guaranteeing global peace by holding, in the first 100 days of his presidency, a summit with Polonsky’s Russia to normalize the US-Russia relations, thus ensuring long-term global peace and the maintenance and expansion of peace, freedom, human rights, stability and territorial integrity in the world, including in Europe and in Middle East and by bringing both parties and our allies to accomplish our path to a nuclear free world through ratifying the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty to prohibit the use of fissile material from being used for the construction of nuclear weapons or WMDs, which will provide steady peace through strength. Senator James calls on voters to come together, to massively come out and mobilize and to elect Marco Rubio as the 46th President of the United States to make sure that we bring the country together for the sake of America’s progress by getting things done.
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« Reply #484 on: September 07, 2020, 03:47:31 AM »

John James’ VP campaign schedule :

November 5 : In the morning, Senator John James holds a GOTV rally in Troy, Michigan where he calls on the people of Michigan and all the American people to come out and vote at the highest possible number in order to stop Tammy Duckworth from undoing the progress of the last 8 years (including strong economic prosperity marked by the creation of almost 8 million new jobs through tax reform and free enterprise and the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years and a stronger and safer America thanks to a strong military and restoration of American leadership, which helped defeating ISIS, eliminating Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and denuclearizing North Korea and Iran) through higher taxes and regulations that will kill jobs, make America a harder place to do business, ship jobs and businesses overseas and make us more dependent on foreign energy and through deep cuts in the military and outsourcing of America’s national security which will make this country an easier target for terrorists. He calls on the American people to mobilize and vote for Marco Rubio for President and to expand the Republican in both houses of Congress in order to keep moving America forward through the preservation of America’s status as the best place in the world to do business, a middle-class tax cut, taking advantage of all America’s sources of energy for the sake of energy independence, promotion of free trade and investment in infrastructure, protection of the American people’s constitutional rights, preservation of America’s status as the most powerful military in the world and of American leadership, modernization of our military, strong and effective diplomacy, strong coalitions, staying on offense against terror and accomplishment of our path to a nuclear-free world, which will lead America to permanent economic prosperity for all Americans, full-employment and long-term global peace through strength and expand the American Dream as well as America’s status as the land of opportunity, as the shining city on the hill and as the hope of the Earth. He then went to the polls in Michigan where he casts his vote for himself for Senate and for Marco Rubio for President.

In the afternoon, the Michigan Senator holds a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to appeal among Hispanic and African-American voters, reminding them that thanks to the tax cut and free enterprise policies of the last 8 years, America now has the lowest Hispanic, African-American and Asian-American unemployment rates ever in history; that Latino-owned businesses now make up more than 10 % of all businesses in the United States, providing jobs for more than 2 million American workers; that Latino-owned businesses contributed nearly half a trillion dollars to our economy in 2018 alone; that the Republican Party is the party that abolished slavery under Abraham Lincoln and made remarkable contributions in abolishing Jim Crow laws; that as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Marco Rubio supported the state legislature's Black Caucus' request that the legislature apologize for slavery because he knows as a member of the party of Lincoln that every human being, regardless of your ethnicity, your origins or your religious beliefs, is a creation of God that our Constitution as well as all the freedoms offered by this great country protects; that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act created Opportunity Zones that offered tax incentives for businesses to invest in economically distressed communities, making them a powerful vehicle for economic growth and job creation, jumpstart our American communities, create momentum for economic recovery, and attract investment to diverse areas across our nation; and an increase of Federal funding to American communities, create momentum for economic recovery, and attract investment to diverse areas across our Nation; that the Trump Administration made supporting our Nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities a top priority through an increase of funding for HBCU programs by more than 14 percent and the ratification of a legislation forgiving more than $322 million in Hurricane Katrina related debt that threatened New Orleans area HBCUs. James takes on the occasion to blast Tammy Duckworth for voting against the TCJA that provided the lowest Hispanic, African-American and Asian-American unemployment rates ever recorded (3.9 % for Hispanics, 5.5 % for African-Americans and 2.5 % for Asian-Americans) and for her support to Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2020 while Biden said that any African-American voting Republican is not African-American and also worked with segregationists, opposed school busing for decades and helped write the 1994 crime bill that contributed to mass incarceration and led to more prison sentences, more prison cells, and more aggressive policing — especially hurting black and brown Americans, who are disproportionately likely to be incarcerated. Senator James calls on African-American and Hispanic voters to mobilize in November and to cast their vote for the Rubio-James ticket to pursue the promotion of opportunity for all Americans, including ethnic communities, for the sake of the preservation and expansion of the American Dream and of America's status as the land of opportunity thanks to the promotion of middle-class tax cuts and free enterprise.

Later in the afternoon, he holds a rally in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where he appeals among farmers, ranchers and rural voters for the Rubio/James ticket by reminding voters that agriculture and family farms constitute an element of the backbone of Pennsylvania’s economy and describing Senator Duckworth’s positions are dramatically out of touch with farmers as she voted in favor of the death tax, wants to expand it, which will suck farmers, ranchers and small businesses into it, punishing family farms and forces them to sell off instead of passing on to the next generation. He takes on the occasion to remind voters that thanks to the abolition of the death tax, family farms are thriving and America’s agriculture is stronger than it was 8 years ago, which has also been possible thanks to the ratification of the USMCA that kept tariffs at zero while further opening up the Canadian market to US dairy, poultry and eggs and allowing more Canadian dairy, peanuts and peanut products to cross the border, reinforcing Pennsylvania’s status as a leader in agriculture as it ranks 19th overall in agricultural production, but first in mushrooms, third in Christmas trees and laying chickens, fourth in nursery and sod, milk, corn for silage, and horse production. He then touts the Republican ticket’s plan to expand prosperity through an even stronger American agriculture industry and stronger farm families : tax reductions and regulation cuts for businesses across this nation, including for agricultural businesses, to help them to innovate and to manufacture more tractors and seeds and other farm products, which will boost job creation, improve agricultural technologies, ensure America's subsistence, reduce the food prices through the reduction of inflation and reduce Americans' dependence on food stamps, which will reinforce their purchasing power and give them more access to food; approve agricultural subsidies in order to help agricultural communities to recover from the trade war and to strengthen farm businesses’ ability to compete and produce; promotion of free trade, which will lower tariffs and increase exports and imports and increase access to our products, including farm and agricultural products, for 95 % of the world market (as we represent 5 % of the world market); and reduction of ag property taxes in order to grant farmers the opportunity to earn the property of farm lands and to pursue their activities for the sake of their food needs and their quest for the American Dream. Senator James concludes his speech by telling voters that if they want leaders who know how to get us to such a competitive, dynamic and soaring economy for the sake of permanent prosperity, then Marco Rubio is their candidate.

He joins Marco Rubio and the rest of his campaign team at the Four Seasons Hotel & Tower in Miami, Florida to watch the coverage of Election Night 2024
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« Reply #485 on: September 07, 2020, 04:05:27 AM »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to win among voters who selected education and other domestic issues as the most important issue of this election as well as among young voters, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad narrating his education plan to create opportunity, ensure that America has the best education system in the world and ensure the creation of the jobs of tomorrow.

Title : Build the Future

Airing : Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin

Build the Future ad narration :

Student 1 : I want to be an entrepreneur.

Student 2 : Firefighter

Student 3 : Surgeon

Student 4 : Astronaut

Student 5 : Director

Student 6 : Airline pilot

Student 7 : Teacher

Student 8 : Football player


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Narrator : That’s why opportunity is the most important element of Marco Rubio’s agenda. And expanding opportunity notably requires a decent education system and supporting our students for their future.


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That will be done by promoting school choice, which will cost families, including these immigrant families living paycheck to paycheck, less and produce higher outcomes compared to public education. It will grant parents the power to orientate their children out of poorly-performing schools assigned by zip code and look for better education elsewhere. It will expand opportunities for low-income students—especially minorities—to attend high-quality schools that would otherwise be accessible only to higher-income families, thus increasing their chances of success and of entry into the workforce.


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Rubio’s plan will also allow tax breaks for individuals and companies that donate to school scholarship funds or help parents who home-school their children, which will expand elementary, secondary, and vocational education opportunities for students in addition of provide training for postsecondary students and workers seeking to gain new skills and advance their career through career and technical education, apprenticeships, certifications and other forms of workforce training. We’re going to remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers. We will provide tax encouragement to help parents pay for the school of their choice and also create federal tax credit to a qualifying, non-profit 501(c)(3) Education Scholarship Organization, so that students from low-income families can receive a scholarship to pay for the cost of a private education of their parents’ choosing.


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Student 9 : I want to find the cure for AIDS.

Narrator : Marco Rubio, the leader we need to build a bridge to the future.

Source : https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/home
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« Reply #486 on: September 07, 2020, 04:32:21 AM »
« Edited: August 10, 2023, 03:15:27 PM by UWS »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to appeal among voters who selected the economy as the most important issue and to keep the key Midwestern states in November, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad narrating the benefits of the USMCA on the U.S. economy and Rubio’s free trade plan to make America the most competitive nation in the world economy for the sake of soaring economic growth and job creation in America.

Title : Prosperity through Competition

Airing : Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin

Prosperity through Competition ad narration :

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Narrator : After years of suffering for American workers, we worked tirelessly to improve trade deals. The renegotiation of NAFTA and the ratification of the USMCA is a major victory for America.


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Without such a trade deal, manufactured goods exports to Canada and Mexico from states like Pennsylvania could have faced a minimum of $244 million to $1.7 billion in extra taxes (compared to zero tariffs today), a minimum of $1.1 billion to $5.2 billion in extra taxes for Michigan’s manufactured good exports, $218 million to $1.3 billion for Wisconsin’s, $124 million to $778 million for Minnesota’s.


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Thanks to the USMCA that Marco Rubio and John James supported in the U.S. Senate, we turned things around : this new deal boosted auto manufacturing by requiring 75% of a vehicle's parts to be made in one of the 3 signatory countries in order to remain free from tariffs when moving between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, by strengthening labor laws, by keeping tariffs at zero while further opening up the Canadian market to US dairy, poultry and eggs and allowing more Canadian dairy, peanuts and peanut products to cross the border. The ratification of that deal guaranteed support for 43 000 Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs, 117 443 Michigan manufacturing jobs, 44 362 Wisconsin manufacturing jobs and 21 632 Minnestota manufacturing jobs that depend on manufacturing exports to Canada and Mexico.

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And as a result, we added 76 000 auto jobs in the last 5 years, increased exports and imports and strengthened our competitiveness in the world economy, contributing to the strong economic prosperity America is now living through the creation of 7 million jobs, including 500 000 in the manufacturing sector - 13 000 in Pennsylvania, 25 000 in Ohio, 18 000 in Michigan, 11,000 in Wisconsin, 50,000 in North Carolina, etc. -, and brought our unemployment rate to its lowest rate in 50 years.


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Similarly, the new customs and trade rules included in the USMCA customs and trade rules cut red tape and made it easier for small businesses to tap into foreign markets and participate in cross-border trade. The modernized, high-standard Intellectual Property (IP) chapter of that deal provided strong and effective protection and enforcement of IP rights that are critical to driving innovation, creating economic growth, and supporting American jobs. The new Digital Trade chapter contains the strongest disciplines on digital trade of any international agreement, providing a firm foundation for the expansion of trade and investment in innovative products and services.


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Under a Rubio Administration, we're going to trade with our allies in the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Europe, thus counter-balancing China's trade power and ensuring strong job creation by lowering tariffs, increasing exports and imports, reducing the cost of trading, allowing American businesses to make direct investments into foreign economies to produce goods at a lower cost in these environments and making us number one in auto production again.

Source : https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/miami-office-opening
A vote for Marco Rubio is a vote for strong trade deals favorable for American workers economic growth and job creation and for a  competitive, dynamic and soaring economy for the sake of permanent prosperity.

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« Reply #487 on: September 07, 2020, 05:00:14 AM »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to rebuke Tammy Duckworth’s attacks claiming that Marco Rubio is running for Trump’s third term, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad narrating the how much the Vice-President is different from Trump and also blasting Duckworth on her flip-flops as she once embraced political positions embraced by Trump before changing her positions due to political pressure.

Title : Real Change

Airing : Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin

Real Change ad narration :

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Narrator : In her inability to explain the failures of her big government and tax-hike policies and of her weak foreign policy and in her lack of argument against the progress of the last 8 years, Tammy Duckworth wants you to believe and that this election is about change vs more of the same and that Marco Rubio is nothing different from President Trump.

But Tammy Duckworth displays a propensity to change her positions depending on what the year is and based on political pressure for political gains just to please her base and confuse the American people. She claims to be running as the candidate of change but the only thing she changes is her positions.

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Because Tammy Duckworth has herself embraced positions adopted by President Trump before she changes her positions. When she ran for Congress in 2012, she said she supported lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth but then voted time and time again against every tax-cut legislation and advocated higher taxes. In June 2014, Duckworth voted against prohibiting combat operations in Iraq to fight ISIS and then shortly after that on the very same day she declared her opposition to airstrikes on ISIS even when they were controlling 70 % of Iraq's territory. She complains that we somehow « spend too much » on defense spending and yet she supported the creation of the U.S. Space Force (that ensured the protection of our satellites against Chinese anti-satellite weaponry) but now she criticizes it and wants to impose deep cuts in the military, which will make America an easier target for our enemies, which is exactly what made America vulnerable and gave us ISIS' attacks on our national soil. She attacks the Republicans for promoting oil production but in 2019 she supported Dan Brouillette's nomination as Secretary of Energy even though Brouillette is an advocate of oil, coal and fossil energy production. Tammy Duckworth claims she wants to change Washington, but it’s rather Washington that changed Tammy Duckworth.



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The right choice of this election is between good change and bad change. As President, Marco Rubio will bring the change that will create growth, jobs and prosperity. He will reduce middle-class taxes from 22 % to 15 % while indexing capital gains for inflation and creating a tax-preferred savings vehicle so our economy can grow through a stronger middle-class. He will expand free trade with our allies around the world so we can make America the most competitive nation in the world economy, counter-balance China's trade power, allow American businesses to make direct investments into foreign economies to produce goods at a lower cost in these environments and make America number one in auto production again. He will finally lead our country to energy independence so we can become free from foreign oil and he will do so by taking advantage of all of America’s sources of energy, encouraging oil drilling and production, invest a part of the revenues from oil drilling into the development of renewable energies so we can produce more solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric energies which will also be done through tax credits for advanced nuclear projects and subsidies for building new nuclear power plants, which will make us number one in nuclear energy production and export, a goal that will also be done through the building 40 new nuclear power plants by 2050. He will also approve renewable energy projects such as the Gemini Solar Project (which would have the capacity to produce 690 megawatts of electricity) in Nevada, the Crimson Solar Project in California (which would have a capacity to produce 350 MW of electricity, or enough to power more than 100,000 homes) and the Haiwee Geothermal Leasing Area (which would have the capacity to produce enough electricity to power about 117,000 homes).

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Marco Rubio will bring the change that will increasingly require less troops in harm's way to defeat our enemies and keep America safe. To face the threat represented by Boko Haram, America will, under a Rubio Administration, provide military training and material support to our allies in Western Africa so they will have the necessary tools to defeat terrorism and we will lead drone airstrikes against Boko Haram key targets, including their infrastructure and their controlled oil refineries in order to deprive them of any means to boost their war effort and their plans for terrorist attacks, which will reduce the need for additional ground troops there and it will cost our country less as drones are significantly cheaper to purchase, fuel, and maintain than regular airplanes. And with the development of unmanned vessels and warships equipped with anti-satellite drones (referring notably to the ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel and the Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle), we'll be able to track, trail target and intercept hostile submarines threatening our national security interests and our men and women in uniform serving in the Navy without having to put more troops in harm's way, thus saving American lives.

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Marco Rubio will bring the change that will give us long term global peace by normalizing our relations with Sergei Polonsky’s Russia n the first 100 days of his presidency so we can finally restore stability, peace and territorial integrity in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and to eliminate any risk of nuclear war and ensure the expansion of human rights, freedom and peace in the globe. And he will work with our allies to ratify the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty to prohibit the use of fissile material for the building of WMDs and nuclear weapons, which will make sure that we will complete our path to a nuclear-free world and prevent any nuclear war.

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That is the kind of change that will provide growth, jobs, prosperity as well as long-term global peace and security, not what Tammy Duckworth wants to do, which is to increase taxes on hard working Americans, increase the size of government, make us more dependent on foreign energy, increase tariffs, send jobs overseas, retreat from our duty to keep America safe.

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A vote for Marco Rubio is a vote for real change that will get America to full-employment, permanent prosperity, long-term and strong security and steady global peace and that’s how our country will keep moving forward and strengthen America’s status as the greatest nation in the history of mankind.

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« Reply #488 on: September 07, 2020, 05:12:55 AM »
« Edited: October 25, 2023, 02:12:41 PM by UWS »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to appeal among middle-class voters and among voters who selected the economy as the most important issue, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad featuring middle-class voters and attacking Duckworth’s record of voting to raise taxes on the middle-class, narrating the benefits of the tax reform policies of the last 8 years.

Title : Opportunity

Airing : Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin

Opportunity ad narration :

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Middle-class voter #1 : Obama’s big government and tax hike liberal policies supported by Tammy Duckworth have left the middle-class, including my family, behind and did nothing to protect it. Under the previous administration, with all its tax hikes, regulations, mandates and bailouts, median household income has fallen by more than 5 percent and corporate profits kept hitting record highs, resulting in the rich getting richer and leaving the middle-class and working class Americans to struggle and hurting small businesses. No wonder that those big government regulations spelled bankruptcy at Trig’s Supermarkets, in Wisconsin.


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Middle-class voter #2 : But because the largest tax cuts in American history have been adopted, reducing regulations for all Americans, the middle-class is thriving. Thanks to the TCJA, a family of four with annual income of $73,000 (median family income) saw a tax cut of more than $2,058, a 58 percent reduction in federal taxes. A single parent with one child earning $41 000 a year saw a tax cut of $1,304, a 73 percent reduction in federal taxes. Nine out of ten taxpayers with annual income between $64,000 and $108,000 earned an average federal tax cut of $1400 in 2018. Similarly, 90 % of taxpayers winning between $40,000 and $64,000 got an average federal tax cut of $810, while 87 percent of taxpayers with annual income between $108,000 and $232,000 saw an average federal tax cut of $2,710. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act doubled the standard deduction for an individual from $6,000 to $12,000 and for a family from $12,000 to $24,000. 105 million Americans took the standard deduction in 2015 according to the IRS statistics of income (SOI) database.


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Middle-class voter #3 : Despite those positive results provided by those tax reform policies for middle-class families, Tammy Duckworth voted against this legislation, standing in the way of more jobs and higher wages for middle-class families like mine.


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Middle-class voter #4 : No wonder that she voted against Permanently Extending The Federal Tax Deduction For State And Local Sales Taxes despite the fact that it would create 150,000 jobs and would increase federal tax receipts by $8 billion, voted against extending tax deductions, against the America's Small Business Tax Relief Act, opposed the elimination of the inheritance tax and voting in favor of the death tax and the marriage penalty tax. And now she wants to raise taxes by trillions of dollars, crushing the middle-class, making America a harder place to do business and costing your jobs, your wages and your house. Tammy Duckworth is just out of touch with the middle-class and working class Americans like me.


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Middle-class voter #5 : We need a President who cares about the fate of all Americans, including the middle-class and lower income Americans, and who knows what it takes to encourage job creation and economic growth for all Americans. That kind of leader is Marco Rubio. He has the right experience, vision and agenda to fight for the middle-class and working class Americans and to keep this economy growing. He chaired the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and fought to pass legislation that reduced taxes on small businesses that create 70 % of the jobs in America and that's why small businesses such as Industrial Weldors & Machinists in Minnesota, Guy Chemical Company in Pennsylvania, Hinee Gourmet Coffee in Texas, Deckscapes in Virginia, Advanced Superabrasives here in North Carolina, Rockford Ball Screw in Senator Duckworth's home state of Illinois, Northwest Motor Services in Washington, WebHobby Shop in Michigan and Junk King in Nevada are expanding operations, increasing wages, providing new benefits, and hiring more employees.


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Middle-class voter #6 : As President, he will reduce middle-class taxes from 22 % to 15 % while indexing capital gains for inflation and creating a tax-preferred savings vehicle for the sake of a stronger American middle-class, which is key to a strong economy. He will reduce income taxes for lower-income families to give them a fair chance to prosper.

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Middle-class voter #7 : He will make America energy independent by taking advantage of our oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, tide, hydroelectric energies, invest a part of oil drilling revenues into the development of renewable energies instead of doing so by taking away taxpayers' money. That will also be done by encouraging the building of new nuclear power plants here in this country with the objective of building 40 new nuclear power plants by 2050 in order to reach to a total number of 100 nuclear power plants on the U.S. soil by the end of the first half of this century with the ultimate goal of building 100 new nuclear power plants; and by approving renewable energy projects on federal lands such as the Gemini Solar Project in Nevada (which would have the capacity to produce 690 megawatts of electricity), the Crimson Solar Project in California (which would have a capacity to produce 350 MW of electricity, or enough to power more than 100,000 homes) and the Haiwee Geothermal Leasing Area (which would offer more than 21,000 acres in California for utility-scale geothermal power development and would be capable of producing enough electricity to power about 117,000 homes).


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Middle-class voter #8 : He will make infrastructure development a top priority by investing into it as well as by reducing the federal gasoline tax rate by 80 %; vetoing any gas-tax increase; turning back control of the highways to the states; stopping special interests in Washington from building “Bridges to Nowhere” and engaging in other wasteful spending; freeing states from the strings that come attached to federal funding; removing barriers to public-private partnerships; repealing the Davis-Bacon Act that inflates government costs by billions every year and is a giveaway of taxpayer dollars to labor unions and phasing out the Mass Transit Account, which loots the Highway Trust Fund. That way, thanks to new infrastructures, we will facilitate economic activities and encourage the implementation of new businesses here in America as well as further job creation.


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Middle-class voter #9 : The choice of this election is either inexperienced and untested leadership and risky big government tax-hike job killing policies hurting the middle-class or proven leadership that gave us the largest economic prosperity in modern history and will lead us to long-term prosperity for all Amercans and full-employment.

Middle-class voter #10 : That’s why me and my family will vote for Marco Rubio because we need him for the sake of a strong and prosperous economy that will work for all Americans, including the middle-class and lower-income Americans, and expand the American Dream as well as America’s status as the land of opportunity.

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« Reply #489 on: September 07, 2020, 05:50:29 AM »
« Edited: February 09, 2022, 07:55:20 PM by UWS »

Marco Rubio's campaign schedule, Part 5

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November 5 :
-Campaign in Erie, Pennsylvania with family, Nikki Haley, Joni Ernst, Jim Jordan, Joe Manchin, Paige Cognetti, Jesse Hartnett, Tom Ridge, John James and Senate candidate Pat Toomey
-Free enterprise policy speech in Erie, PA
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Free enterprise is the right solution to combat poverty, not tax hikes, big government and job-killing regulations like Senator Duckworth wants you to believe. These are the policies that gave us the slowest economy in our country’s history, cost America 300 000 manufacturing jobs, including 45 000 here in Pennsylvania, made America a harder place to do business and therefore increased poverty. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that reduced taxes for all Americans and helped create almost 8 million jobs in the last 8 years and got us to the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years through the promotion of free enterprise and small government and which Senator Duckworth opposed has provided the creation of Opportunity Zones that offered tax incentives for businesses to invest in economically distressed communities, making them a powerful vehicle for economic growth and job creation, jumpstart our American communities, create momentum for economic recovery, and attract investment to diverse areas across our nation. As a result, 8,800 disadvantaged communities, home to approximately 35 million low-income individuals, are already seeing billions of dollars in new investments due to their status as “opportunity zones. Qualified opportunity funds have attracted over $75 billion in new capital investments in just two years, creating wealth and jobs in the places that need them most, which lifted more than 2.5 million Americans out of poverty and caused the values of single-family homes to rise by 1.1 percent relative to values in comparable communities which is enjoyed through greater amenities and economic opportunity and represent an estimated $11 billion in new wealth for opportunity zone residents who own their homes. Despite those positive results for lower-income Americans, Senator Duckworth voted against the TCJA, voting against Opportunity Zones that made remarkable progress in getting lower-income Americans out of poverty in addition of benefiting the middle-class through a 58 % reduction in federal taxes for a family of four with annual income of $73,000 (median family income), through a 73 % reduction in federal taxes for a single parent with one child earning $41 000 a year, through, through an average federal tax cut of $1400 for 9 out of 10 taxpayers with annual income between $64,000 and $108,000, through an average federal tax cut of $810 for 90 %  taxpayers winning between $40,000 and $64,000, through an average federal tax cut of $2,710 for 87 percent of taxpayers with annual income between $108,000 and $232,000 and through a double of the the standard deduction for an individual from $6,000 to $12,000 and for a family from $12,000 to $24,000. If it wasn’t for that tax reform legislation, if Senator Duckworth had it her way with her agenda that would increase taxes by trillions of dollars, punish success and small businesses and make us more dependent on foreign energy, the middle-class and lower income Americans would still be struggling and worse would get crushed. Let me remind you that opportunity zones constitute one of the reasons why Pennsylvania’s economy prospered under Governor Tom Ridge who is standing right here in the crowd. In effect, during his time as Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge signed into law Keystone Opportunity Zones that reduced or eliminated tax burden for property owners, residents and businesses throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, re-establishing and creating industrial and commercial centers and newly zoned industrial parks throughout the state. Similarly, he cut the state income tax on lower-income families, which resulted that no family of four with income under $25,000 had to carry the burden of a state income tax. He increased the Rainy Day fund from $30 million to $700 million. And he reduced taxes by $2.6 billion, making Pennsylvania a place open for business, encouraging free enterprise, job creation, higher wages and investment here in the Keystone State. These policies are among the main reasons why Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate has been reduced from 6 % to 4.1 % during his time as Governor. That’s why free enterprise and tax reform is the right antidote to poverty and unemployment. I know this through my experience as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. That’s why in order to make sure that this economy works for all Americans and that economic prosperity reaches all Americans, we’re going to reduce middle-class taxes from 22 % to 15 % while indexing capital gains for inflation and creating a tax-preferred savings vehicle for the sake of a stronger American middle-class and reduce the income tax on lower-income families. And we’re going to expand this economic prosperity through soaring infrastructure development that will be provided through a reduction of the federal gasoline tax rate by 80 %; through a veto on any gas-tax increase; a turn back control of the highways to the states; stopping special interests in Washington from building “Bridges to Nowhere” and engaging in other wasteful spending; a liberation of states from the strings that come attached to federal funding; a removal of barriers to public-private partnerships; a repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act that inflates government costs by billions every year and is a giveaway of taxpayer dollars to labor unions and phasing out the Mass Transit Account, which loots the Highway Trust Fund. That infrastructure plan along with the investment of a part of future budget surpluses in infrastructures will encourage economic activities all across this country favor the implementation of new businesses here in America, thus favoring further job creation, growth, opportunity and prosperity. That’s why we need all of you my friends to come out today and vote at the highest number not only for me but also for Pat Toomey so we can make sure that this economy will work for all Americans thanks to the promotion of free enterprise and tax reform by rewarding the hard work of everyday Americans, not punishing it, by expanding America’s status as the land of opportunity where the impossible becomes possible so we can get this country to unprecedented long-term prosperity and full-employment and ensure that the American Dream will be achievable for all Americans. Thank you! God bless you all and God bless the United States of America!

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Pat Toomey is by far the best man to represent the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate and it's not even close. This is a man of strength and proven leadership. Unlike his opponent Dwight Evans as well as Senator Duckworth who believe that America's prosperity comes from higher taxes and big size of government, Senator Toomey and I understand that America's prosperity comes from from the hard work, ingenuity and entrepreneurship of the American people. Pat Toomey opened Rookie's Restaurant in Allentown, Pennsylvania along with his 2 younger brothers. In the Senate, he sponsored and passed the JOBS Act helping small- and medium-sized businesses grow and hire more workers, reducing costs for businesses that go public by phasing in SEC regulations for "emerging growth companies" and helping startup companies raise capital by reducing some SEC regulations. To help protect our children, Pat introduced the Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act that requires State educational agencies that receive funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to have in effect policies and procedures on background checks for school employees, keeping predators out of our schools. He fought to eliminate wasteful subsidies and corporate welfare, and lower energy prices for Pennsylvanians. This is a man who deeply cares about people and he is a life savior. Eleven years ago, Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old girl from Newton Square, Pennsylvania, had 1 week to live and she needed a new lung, but government rules denied it. Sarah's parents tried everything and Pat Toomey went to work and fought for new organ transplant rules and he won, ensuring a successful surgery and adult lung transplant for Sarah. As a result, all children across this great country have a better chance at life. That is the kind of common-sense leadership we need in the Senate. The truth is that Pat is an independent voice for Pennsylvania and fight for what's right and that's exactly what we need. If you elect him in the Senate, he will fight each and every day for you, fight for jobs, growth, opportunity, freedom and security. We need all of you to come out and cast your vote for me for President but also for Pat Toomey for Senate in order to expand our majority in both houses of Congress to make sure that we can move America forward and get things done by expanding prosperity for all Americans through the preservation of our status as the best business-friendly environment in the world, a middle-class tax cut, energy independence, free trade and infrastructure development, by protecting our people's constitutional rights and freedoms and by keeping America safe through a strong and modernized military, strong American leadership and strong diplomacy. That's why we need you to mobilize and fight for your future so we can preserve America's status as the land of the free and the home of the brave. Thank you! God bless Pennsylvania and God bless the United States of America!

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« Reply #490 on: September 07, 2020, 11:10:23 AM »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to counter Tammy Duckworth’s phony attacks about program cuts, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad attacking Duckworth on her record of cutting funding programs.

Title : Hypocrite

Airing : Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin

Hypocrite ad narration :

Tammy Duckworth during the debate : The GOP under the leadership of Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have been intent on cutting essential programs.

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Narrator : That statement just displays another example of Tammy Duckworth’s hypocrisy. She attacks Republicans, claiming they are intent to cut programs but she has herself a record of cutting funding for programs.


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Under Duckworth’s tenure as director, the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs cut funding for POW/MIA scholarships by $1 million, depriving veterans of services and of the scholarships they need to earn a decent career and to accomplish their American Dream. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio introduced and passed the MilCon-VA bill providing meaningful funding for veterans programs and military construction projects across Florida. He also co-sponsored the Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act that helped veterans re-entering the workforce get jobs in STEM-related fields by requiring the Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate programs to train and transition military veterans for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math

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Duckworth is selling the same false Obamacare promise that says « if you like your health insurance plan you can keep it, if you like your doctor you can keep it ». Left-leaning organization Politifact rated that 2013’s lie of the year as millions of Americans saw their health insurance cancelled against their will under Obamacare. Duckworth is in favor of cutting $716 billion in Medicare, which will deprive seniors as well as younger people with disability status and people with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis of their Medicare coverage and of their health insurance. Meanwhile, we reduced the cost of insulin for Medicare enrolling to $35 a month. And Marco Rubio will provide decent health insurance for all Americans by protecting pre-existing conditions and allowing small employers to offer flexible coverage options using Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) which typically cost less for employers than group plans and as a result, the addition of HRAs to the health care ecosystem will result in 11 million workers seeking coverage from them (which will help millions of hardworking Americans have greater access to affordable health care coverage that best meets their needs) and will also allow people to buy health insurance across state lines, make  the insurance marketplaces and subsidies to help people afford coverage and more competitive and provide tax credits to help people buy insurance among state lines while at the same time providing funding to fix Medicare and Medicaid with no cuts.



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Duckworth also supported for the Democratic presidential nomination a man who tried to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and veterans benefits for decades.

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Joe Biden on the Senate floor in 1995 : When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid. I meant veterans benefits. I meant every single solitary thing in the government. And I not only tried it once, I tried it twice, I tried it a third time, and I tried it a fourth time.


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Narrator : And during the first presidential debate Tammy Duckworth claimed that Marco Rubio is against paid family leave. That is a lie. In the Senate, Marco Rubio worked with Mitt Romney as well as with Dan Crenshaw and Ann Wagner, on the House side, to sponsor and pass the New Parents Act that created a voluntary option for paid parental leave by allowing parents to use a portion of their Social Security after the birth or adoption of a child.

Tammy Duckworth, just untrustworthy and ready to say or do anything or lie about anything to win votes.

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« Reply #491 on: September 07, 2020, 11:10:37 AM »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to appeal among voters who selected the economy as the most important issue and to question the credibility of Duckworth’s rhetoric on economic issues, the Rubio campaign broadcasts an ad attacking Duckworth’s record of advocating higher taxes as well as on her story of improperly trying to claim two homeowner tax exemptions over a period of several years in order to avoid paying taxes .

Title : Credibility Problem

Airing : Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin

Credibility Problem ad narration :

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Narrator : Even though Tammy Duckworth voted against the TCJA that doubled the Child Tax Credit, reduced taxes for all Americans, including the middle-class, created Opportunity Zones, made America the best place in the world to do business, helped create 7 and-a-half million new jobs, resulted to the lowest unemployment rate in 50-plus years and to the lowest Hispanic, African-American, Asian-American and youth unemployment rates ever in history; repeatedly voted in favor of raising taxes and is advocating tax hikes by trillions of dollars; and voted against Permanently Extending The Federal Tax Deduction For State And Local Sales Taxes despite the fact that it would create 150,000 jobs and would increase federal tax receipts by $8 billion, voted against extending tax deductions, against the America's Small Business Tax Relief Act even though small businesses create 70 % of the jobs in America, she opposed the elimination of the inheritance tax and voting in favor of the death tax and the marriage penalty tax, Duckworth has improperly tried to claim two homeowner tax exemptions in order to avoid paying taxes herself.

Following a Daily Herald investigation in 2012, she has been forced to pay over $2000 in owed taxes and penalties. Duckworth has already burdened the taxpayer enough by having them bankroll her legal defense fund; her attempts to improve her award-winning ineffectiveness in Washington shouldn’t entail taxing and spending more of their paychecks.

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The more you learn about Tammy Duckworth, the more questions you have. She just can’t be trusted to fight for hard-working American taxpayers and working-class Americans.

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« Reply #492 on: September 07, 2020, 11:11:33 AM »
« Edited: August 15, 2023, 05:45:20 AM by UWS »

Marco Rubio’s Debate Answers

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Opening statement : I’m proud to have lived the American Dream and I’ve been blessed by it. I’m the son of Cuban immigrants who came to this country with nothing, in quest of opportunity but couldn’t come back to Cuba because of Castro’s takeover and they obtained U.S. citizenship when I was four. I know what it looks like to lose the gift of freedom. They lived paycheck to paycheck, had no higher access to education but the hard work of a bartender and a housekeeper ensured their children can earn opportunities they couldn’t have. That has been possible thanks to free enterprise, the only economic system that can give everyday Americans, including middle-class, a fair chance to prosper thanks to promotion of tax reform and small government, which created 7 and-a-half million jobs, brought unemployment rate at its lowest rate in 50 years, policies opposed by Senator Duckworth who wants to raise taxes by trillions, killing jobs, crushing the middle-class, dismantling free enterprise. On program cuts, Senator, you’re one to talk, you cut POW/MIA scholarships by $1 million. She’s selling the same Obamacare lie that says if you like your health insurance plan and doctor you can keep it while Obamacare cancelled health insurance for millions of Americans against their will. She believes it’s okay to cut $716 billion in Medicare, I don’t. But our plan will provide health insurance for the American people by protecting pre-existing conditions and promoting HRAs, reducing healthcare costs, costing less for employers and facilitating their access to it, allowing 11 million workers to seek coverage from them and allowing people to buy health insurance across state lines. We defended freedom and opportunity by rebuilding our military that Senator Duckworth voted to slash and by restoring American leadership and working with allies, which defeated ISIS, eliminated their core leadership and denuclearized North Korea and Iran. I’m the only one on this stage who knows how to defend the American Dream and promote opportunity and we’ll do so through middle-class tax relief, investment in infrastructure, preserve our status as best business-friendly environment, taking care of veterans, providing decent health insurance for the people, keeping our military strong, standing up for freedom and accomplishing our path to a nuclear-free world.

General 1 : Once again, Senator Duckworth displays her misunderstanding of what it looks like to feel traumatized from authoritarian years to feel safe voting for any party that wasn’t approved of by old powers which is why the ruling party maintained power. And she’s neglecting the fact that Social Democrats started the process of independence from Workers’ Party after winning 100 seats for the first time, which will counterweight the ruling party’s influence and make them able to stand up to any human right violation. So freedom’s on the march. That’s the kind of situation we saw in Poland in 1989 when Walesa almost won legislative elections, breaking the communist majority at the Sejm, leading to Poland’s liberation from the Soviets.

And what’s damaging for our relations in the world is Senator Duckworth’s unwillingness to recognize the contributions of our allies in order to claim that we’re acting alone. The 2018 inter-Korean summit saw South Korea and its neighbor ratifying Panmunjom Declaration in which they pledged to end «hostile activities» between each other, for resumption of reunion meetings for divided families, improve connections along border and cease propaganda broadcasts across it. And they did. Our allies deserve better than Senator Duckworth’s scorn. They deserve the respect of Americans and that’s what they will earn when I’m President.

Nowhere in her answer did she give any plan to prevent war between ZZJ and North Korea. Under my presidency, we’ll work with the UN Security Council to establish a no-fly zone in Manchuria to prevent attacks and tensions between ZZJ and North Korea, ensuring stability in the region just like no-fly zone in Libya prevented attacks on civilian targets in the civil war. Yet, along with President Obama, Senator Duckworth opposed no-fly zones in Syria, thus allowing Assad regime to attack the Kurds who were crucial to defeat ISIS. So a no-fly zone in Manchuria will stop the risk of war, allowing us to advance democracy in China by supporting ZZJ by ensuring they have the means to subsist and prevail in the unrest and through an oversee by the UN Elections Officials of fair elections in China to make sure we get a democratic China protecting its people’s liberties.

General 2 : As President, I will leave it to individual states to make decisions about this critical issue because unlike Senator Duckworth, I respect state powers and rights. Because I understand that it is the role of a government to protect the American people’s constitutional rights, which includes interpreting the Constitution the way it’s written, including respecting the 10th amendment that Senator Duckworth wants to see the Supreme Court abolishing in order to give more power to Washington and to the lobbies supporting her campaign, including Planned Parenthood that funds abortions with taxpayers’ money. The Court has spoken and if/when, depending on your choice, I’m elected President, it will be a proof that the people agree with its decision. And I agree that abortion should be treated as a health care issue and that’s why it is important to note that the risk of breast cancer increases comes with an increase of the number of abortions. These aren’t my words, I’m quoting the Causes of Control’s study on that subject. A peer-reviewed study published in BMC Medicine found that women who underwent an abortion had «significantly higher» anxiety scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale up to five years after the pregnancy termination. A study from the Southern Medical Journal of more than 173,000 American women found that women who aborted were 154% more likely to commit suicide than women who carried to term. So if we promote adoption as an alternative to abortion, fund and promote maternity group homes and abstinence programs, we’ll prevent any danger for the mother’s health and life and avoid an increase of psychological damage, depression and suicide among women. That will also protect every child in law and ensure they will be welcomed into life and give them the right to appreciate life.

General 3 : Absolutely. Putin must be tried by the Russian people for all the crimes he committed like human rights violations, free press restriction, etc. This is a gangster who represented a threat to peace and freedom as Putin’s Russia used its veto power against us and our allies in the UN, invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea, sponsored a Russian nationalist coup in Montenegro and engaged in arms race against us. That’s why we stood up to Putin by providing military training and material to Ukrainian troops to help them defeat the pro-Russian insurgency, creating US Space Force protecting our satellites against Russian anti-satellite weaponry, reinforcing our Navy’s presence in Kuril Islands to counter Russia’s aggression against Japan and ensure Japan’s sovereignty on these islands and increasing sanctions on Russia. The Russian people put an end to Putin’s tyranny by electing Sergei Polonsky, a man of compassion fighting for what’s right.

Yet, last winter, when Polonsky was doing progress in the Russian election at the point of ending Putin’s insanity, Senator Duckworth and her party called Polonsky a puppet of President Trump in that election even without evidence of interference by Washington and they seized this opportunity to try to impeach President Trump. So Senator Duckworth is more worried about impeaching the President and partisan politics than about an adversary’s use of power against us. Wendell Wilkie, the 1940 GOP nominee, who supported FDR’s effort for a peacetime draft in a time of war, said he’d rather lose an election than making national security a partisan campaign issue. That’s not the kind of bi-partisan rhetoric we see in today’s Democratic Party. We need to work together to preserve freedom and advance policies that will guarantee long-term global peace and that’s what I’ll do as Commander-in-Chief by normalizing our relations with Polonsky’s Russia in the first 100 days of my presidency, fighting for maintenance of peace and respect of human rights around the world, forming a US-Russia Cybersecurity Unit countering China’s cyber-attacks against democracy and ratifying the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty prohibiting fissile material from being used to build WMDs. That’s how we’ll make sure our children can grow up in a world of freedom and peace.

Rubio 1 : It is indeed a viable solution because this method resulted overdose deaths down 50 %, HIV infections down 65 % and new heroin users down 80 % between 1991 and 2010. Every year, 70 000 people across the country are dying of drug overdoses. My home state of Florida accounted 25.0 per 100,000 overdose deaths in 2016. Here, Wisconsin accounted for 21.0 per 100,000 overdose deaths, New Hampshire 39.0 per 100,000 deaths, Michigan 21.1 per 100,000 deaths and Pennsylvania 37.9 per 100,000 overdose deaths and with the 11th highest rating of children affected by the opioid epidemic. It was time for actions and that’s why I co-introduced the Fentanyl Sanctions of 2019, a bipartisan anti-opioid measure to impose sanctions against Chinese and other foreign traffickers of fentanyl.

And in 2018, I championed provisions to the SUPPORT Act, the single largest legislative package addressing a single drug crisis in history, to help stop payments to middlemen referring patients to illicit sober homes and treatment centers; an amendment to improve the quality of care provided to newborn babies suffering from opioid withdrawal by providing states additional funding to research babies born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome; the Hospice Safe Drug Disposal Act to allow hospice providers to safely dispose of unused opioids so they do not end up in the wrong hands; the Sober Home Fraud Detection Act to help states, law enforcement, private insurers and patients identify potentially illicit sober homes to make sure those who need care are able to find reputable legitimate facilities. And under a Rubio Administration, we’ll also combat the Opioid crisis by reducing demand over-prescription, including educating Americans about the dangers of opioid misuse and by cutting down on the supply of illicit drugs by cracking down on the international and domestic drug supply chains that devastate American communities. Our security, our people’s health and our children’s future are worth fighting for and with your support I will keep America safe from the Opioid crisis.

Rubio 2 : To settle relations between ZZJ and Taiwan, I will hold a diplomatic summit with these entities, make it clear with ZZJ that Taiwan too suffered Chinese communist oppression for too long and that they will, along with us, provide ZZJ in non-military aid like food, clothing and fuel, giving them the means they need to persist and subsist in the unrest because we all have a common adversary in this unrest. And we’ll also work with our regional allies to watch over the unrest and avoid a worsening of the situation and we’ll cut-off China’s crude-oil supply by halting crude-oil exports to China, weakening their military power since every modern military mostly functions through oil. That way, we’ll make sure that the regime’s forces won’t stand a chance against ZZJ and the Chinese people’s desire of freedom, democracy and justice and that we’ll achieve China’s democratization through freedom’s victory over tyranny. Meanwhile, my opponent made it clear that she has no plans to support ZZJ and stand up for freedom in China, using the words of the Chinese regime and far-leftist organizations labeling ZZJ as an extremist terrorist organization like the Nazis did for French Resistants. That’s another example of her record of foreign policy weakness that is second to none, in which she opposed Operation Inherent Resolve aimed at defeating ISIS, opposed the F-16, the F-15 and the CH-53 Sea Stallion, voted against authorizing aid to the Kurds in the context the fight against ISIS, criticized our support to pro-freedom hacker groups that shut down the Social Credit system, indicating her preference to allow Beijing to keep that system that controlled every facet of human life, gave Xi Jinping total control over the Chinese people through mass surveillance and advocated Putin’s return to power. Like Ronald Reagan said, if we don’t accept the responsibilities of leadership, who will? If my opponent doesn’t accept the responsibilities of leadership, who will? As a leader, I accept those responsibilities and under my tenure as Commander-in-Chief, America will remain unconditionally committed to preserve freedom, peace and prosperity, which requires strong American leadership, strong military, strong alliances and strong diplomacy.

Duckworth 1 : If what Senator Duckworth just said about lobbying was true, she would not be supported by Planned Parenthood and her justices wouldn’t be lobbied by it. First Senator, I don’t much like your methods trying to put pressure on me. I’m not your student. You’re not my teacher, but only my opponent. I’ve already answered that I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman, and also that gays and lesbians should have the same rights as other Americans. And I won’t make it a priority to bring down Obergefell v. Hodges and instead focus on issues that unite us like economy, opportunity, foreign policy, education, infrastructure. But once again, Senator Duckworth is using abortion issue in order to divide the American people for the sake of political gains. Instead of doing that, we should be bringing people together just like when both parties worked across the aisle to vote to overwhelmingly ban partial birth abortion, a brutal practice. One of the biggest roles of a President is reaching across the aisle to get things done, which Senator Duckworth has repeatedly failed to do. A study by the Causes and Control reported that abortion is significantly associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and that the risk of breast cancer increases as the number of abortions increases. That’s why under my presidency, we’ll work together to put forward adoption laws aimed at promoting adoption, which is a clear and viable alternative to abortion, fund and promote maternity group homes and abstinence programs. That way, we’ll avoid any risk for the mother’s health and life, allow couples who won’t want a baby or aren’t ready to have a baby not to have one without ending his/her life before it even begins. That way, that baby will have the privilege to live and be loved. That’s how every child will be protected in law and welcomed into life. Unlike Senator Duckworth who wants to appoint judges who would write the Second Amendment out of the Bill of Rights, overturn the 10th amendment, take away state powers, my appointed judges will protect your rights and defend the Constitution the way it’s written.

Duckworth 2 : It’s strange Senator Duckworth talks about refunding the State Department because President Obama cut State Department budget by $47 billion, that’s why our embassy got attacked in Benghazi where 4 Americans were killed by radical jihadists because the State Department rejected appeals for more security at diplomatic posts in libya months before the attacks. That’s why they failed to restore Libya’s stability. I’ll increase State Department budget to ensure we’ll normalize US-Russia relations, eliminate the risk of nuclear war, maintain pressure on China.

Unlike what the Senator keeps claiming, we’re working with allies. We worked with South Korea, Japan, Australia to denuclearize North Korea. The Brits, the French, Germans, Canadians and Australians led airstrikes on ISIS and sacrificed with us. For Senator Duckworth to demean our allies’ sacrifices is beyond the pale. I’ll keep working with allies, expand alliances to preserve peace and keep us safe.

And we’re ensuring peace in the world thanks to strong diplomacy and we did that through my diplomatic trip to Tehran getting Parsi’s Iran to denuclearize and stop state-sponsoring terror and through our material, weaponry support to the Kurds in Operation Ceasefire, which led our regional allies to victory against Turkey and to Kurdistan’s independence without any U.S. troops deployed. We also did so through a strong military that Senator Duckworth voted to gut in addition to opposing airstrikes on ISIS when they were controlling 70 % of Iraq and voted against arming and training the Kurds to fight ISIS. If elected, she’ll leave our troops and allies with nothing but spitballs to combat challenges facing us, making us vulnerable against geopolitical threats. We’ll keep our military strong which is exactly what helped us defeat ISIS and eliminated Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which was also allowed by strong American leadership denuclearizing Iran and North Korea, brokered the Abraham Accords normalizing Israel-UAE relations and suspending Israel’s plans to annex the Jordan Valley. We’ll expand global peace through signing the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty, providing Western African allies in equipment and training to defeat Boko Haram, leading drone airstrikes on Boko Haram key targets, reducing the need for ground troops. We must preserve America’s status as a leader on world stage. That’s what I will do as Commander-in-Chief.

Closing statement : The question of this election couldn’t be more clear : either we move back to the policies of weakness and economic misery or we keep moving America forward to prosperity, strength, security and preservation of freedoms offered by America. The last 8 years saw remarkable progress : we created 7 and-a-half million jobs, including 500,000 manufacturing jobs, recorded the lowest unemployment in 55 years and lowest Hispanic and African-American unemployment rates ever, took care of veterans, rebuilt our military, defeated ISIS, eliminated Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, denuclearized North Korea and Iran. Senator Duckworth wants to take us back to reckless foreign policy weakening American leadership and gutting our military, costing many lives in the hands of terrorists and to tax-hike big government policies that gave us the slowest economy ever and highest youth unemployment rate ever, cost 300,000 manufacturing jobs.

We’re in a time in history in which we can’t afford any on-the-job training. I have the right experience to lead America in these times of challenges. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I know America’s prosperity requires making America the best business-friendly environment and we’ll do that and reduce middle-class taxes, make us energy independent, promote free trade for our economic competitiveness, invest in infrastructure. I know as a member of Foreign Relations Committee, Chairman of Intelligence Committee and VP that America’s security requires strong military and strong leadership, which will be done by modernizing our military, expanding alliances, normalizing relations with Russia for the Middle East’s and Europe’s stability, supporting pro-freedom groups like ZZJ to restore China’s freedom, ratifying Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty to provide a nuclear-free world, staying on offense against terrorists and providing decent services for our veterans who sacrificed so much for freedom.

I’m running for President because I want to give every American a fair chance to live the American Dream. That requires working together to get things done so we can get our country to full-employment and long-term global peace. As President, I will fight for you and your families every single day, protect your rights and ensure America continues to be the greatest nation on Earth and the hope of the Earth. That’s why I ask for your vote to move America forward. Thank you.
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Marco Rubio's GOTV speech, Part 1

Date : November 5, 2024
Location : Allentown, Pennsylvania

Thank you! Thank you Allentown! Jeanette and I are humbled by your wonderful hospitality. Today is a very important day that will determine which path America takes. The choice of this election is absolutely clear : do we move back to the times of big government tax-hike policies and economic misery and to reckless and weak foreign policy that made our country an easy target for our enemies or we keep moving America forward to long-term prosperity, strength, security and preservation of our constitutional rights and all the freedoms offered by this great country. This campaign is about protecting the American Dream and expanding it to make sure that it will reach every single American, regardless of your income, your ethnicity, your origins or your religious beliefs so we can preserve and expand America’s status as the land of opportunity and as the greatest nation on Earth.

I’ve been blessed by the American Dream. I’m the son of Cuban immigrants who came here in America in 1956 in quest of better living conditions and better economic opportunities. They were not speaking English, had no higher education and were living paycheck to paycheck. But the hard work of a bartender and a housekeeper created better living conditions for their children and granted opportunities that were closed to my parents. When they came to America, ellos no tenía nada, pero tenían corazón. They had nothing, but they had heart, a heart for freedom and opportunity. Es una historia fabulosa del Sueño Americano que representa un ejemplo de nuestro deber para nuestro país : garantizar que nuestro niños dos estarán la más próspera y la más libre generación de estadounidenses. My wife Jeanette, America’s next First Lady, has lived a similar background as mine. Her parents emigrated here in America from Columbia. Her mother struggled a lot and it was very difficult for her when she became a single mom because she had to figure out how to put food on the table, how to make sure they have electricity. It's difficult because it makes everything so much harder.  Just seeing the impact that our parents made for their sacrifices of being able to give their kids education, a stable environment, a home, this country gives you a chance to give your kids a fair chance of being able to give your kids what you wouldn't be able to get there and in other places. Nos reunimos para celebrar los las esperanzas y sueños de cada estadounidense. That is what this election is all about. And that’s why it is important for you to make the right choice for America’s future.

Now, the previous administration’s big government and tax-hike job-killing policies supported by my opponent Tammy Duckworth gave us the slowest economy in our history, resulted in our GDP annual growth rate was stuck under 2 % in the last months preceding President Trump’s arrival to office and cost America 300,000 manufacturing jobs, including 45,000 in here in Pennsylvania, 38,000 in Michigan, 37,000 on Ohio and 18,000 in Wisconsin. The Hispanic unemployment rate has hit one of its highest rates in history and the youth unemployment rate its highest level in our nation’s history. But in the last 8 years, we turned things around : we passed the largest tax cuts in American history, thus reducing taxes on all Americans and making America the best place in the world to do business. As a result, our economy is prospering, our GDP Annual Growth rate consistently reached above 2 % and even reached 3 %. we created almost 8 million new jobs, including 500,000 manufacturing jobs (including 13 000 here in the great state of Pennsylvania, 25 000 in Ohio, 18 000 in Michigan, 11,000 in Wisconsin, 50,000 in North Carolina, etc.), we brought our nation’s unemployment at its lowest rate in 55 years, brought the youth unemployment rate at its lowest rate in 58 years, recorded the lowest African-American and Hispanic unemployment rates ever. In addition, Latino-owned businesses now make up more than 10 % of all businesses in the United States, providing jobs for more than 2 million American workers. These businesses contributed nearly half a trillion dollars to our economy in 2018 alone. Latinos are also starting new businesses at three times the national average. Why? Because we cut taxes and regulations, passed policies encouraging energy production. Thanks to the tax-cut and free enterprise policies of the last 8 years, the middle-class is now stronger than ever before and they now have more money in their pocket. The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy reports that a family of four with annual income of $73,000 (median family income) saw a tax cut of more than $2,058, a 58 percent reduction in federal taxes. A single parent with one child earning $41 000 a year saw a tax cut of $1,304, a 73 percent reduction in federal taxes. Nine out of ten taxpayers with annual income between $64,000 and $108,000 earned an average federal tax cut of $1400 in 2018. And 90 % of those taxpayers winning between $40,000 and $64,000 got an average federal tax cut of $810, while 87 percent of taxpayers with annual income between $108,000 and $232,000 saw an average federal tax cut of $2,710. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act doubled the standard deduction for an individual from $6,000 to $12,000 and for a family from $12,000 to $24,000. 105 million Americans took the standard deduction according to the IRS statistics of income (SOI) database. And the tax cuts passed in the last 8 years helped low-income communities through the creation of Opportunity Zones that offered tax incentives for businesses to invest in economically distressed communities, making them a powerful vehicle for economic growth and job creation, jumpstart our American communities, create momentum for economic recovery, and attract investment to diverse areas across our nation. And the successful renegotiation of NAFTA as well as the ratification of the USMCA that I supported in the U.S. Senate, we boosted auto manufacturing by requiring 75% of a vehicle's parts to be made in one of the 3 signatory countries in order to remain free from tariffs when moving between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, by strengthening labor laws, by keeping tariffs at zero while further opening up the Canadian market to US dairy, poultry and eggs and allowing more Canadian dairy, peanuts and peanut products to cross the border. As a result, we added 76 000 auto jobs in the last 5 years, increased exports and imports and strengthened our competitiveness in the world economy, contributing to the strong economic prosperity America is now living. Why would we want to screw up all that progress and move back to the way things were 8 years ago? Pennsylvania is a remarkable example of the fact that free enterprise and tax reform is the best way to grow this economy and create jobs and that is a philosophy that Tammy Duckworth doesn't believe in her quest to raise taxes and to punish success instead of celebrating it like we do in a free democratic republic like America. Pennsylvania is home to fifty Fortune 500 companies, including six in Philadelphia and eight in Pittsburgh (including U.S. Steel, PPG Industries, and H.J. Heinz). Hershey is home to The Hershey Company, one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world. And GE Transportation's main manufacturing facility is located in Erie. We understand that free enterprise and businesses create jobs. But despite the effectiveness of free enterprise and of the positive effects of those pro-growth policies on the American people, including middle-class and hard working Americans, Tammy Duckworth opposed the tax cuts and free enterprise policies adopted in that period of time. She voted against Permanently Extending The Federal Tax Deduction For State And Local Sales Taxes even though the Tax Foundation reported that it would lead to the creation of 150,000 jobs and would increase federal tax receipts by $8 billion. My opponent also voted against extending tax deductions, against the America's Small Business Tax Relief Act even though small businesses create 70 % of the jobs in America. She opposed the elimination of the inheritance tax and voting in favor of the death tax and the marriage penalty tax and she voted against the TCJA that provided the strong economy that our country is now living thanks to the promotion of tax reform, middle-class tax reductions and free enterprise. She forgot that even Democrats, including even her former rival in the Democratic primaries Colorado Governor Jared Polis advocated an income tax cut, just like President Kennedy, a Democrat, cut taxes during his presidency. And guess what happened : the economy boomed. The Kennedy tax cuts encouraged job creation and increased wages for American workers through an expansion of the GDP by an average of 5.5 % from early 1961 to late 1963, through a decline of inflation to 1 %, through a decline of the unemployment rate from 6.6 % to below 4 % from 1961 to 1967, through a rise of industrial production by 15 % and a rise of motor vehicle sales by 40 %. Former Georgia Governor Zell Miller, a Democrat, reduced taxes for Georgians, cutting the income tax 3 times and abolishing the sales tax on groceries, which represented a $1 billion in tax relief for Georgia families. He cut income taxes by 15 % and he supported the elimination of the marriage penalty and the estate tax and he understood that the best tax cut we could give to our children is to use the budget surplus to pay down the national debt. As a result, Georgia’s economy boomed and the state’s unemployment rate under Zell Miller’s governorship has been reduced from 6.9 % to 3.6 %. Governor Joe Manchin, a Democrat, who is endorsing my campaign, cut taxes throughout his time as Governor of West Virginia and advocated the repeal of the Death Tax, which reduced West Virginia's unemployment rate to below 4.5 %. But in her obsession to undo the progress accomplished in the last 8 years, Senator Duckworth wants to raise your taxes and regulations by trillions of dollars, crushing the middle-class, small businesses and seniors, killing jobs and shipping American jobs and businesses overseas, making us more dependent on foreign energy through higher taxes and regulations on our energy industry, making America a harder place to do business and punishing success. She simply doesn’t understand the economy and she doesn’t have the experience to manage it. On the other hand, I know what it takes to keep this economy growing and make sure that it will work for all Americans, including the middle-class and lower income Americans. In the Senate, I've co-sponsored the Regulation Costs to Small Businesses Act which required the Small Business Administration to conduct an annual study to estimate the total cost of regulations on small businesses. I led the effort to double the Child Tax Credit from $1000 to $2000, which helped pass the TCJA and provide the results coming from that pro-growth legislation. I chaired the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, passing legislation that reduced taxes on small businesses for the sake of their competitiveness, productivity and to reinforce their ability to expand, to innovate, to sell and to create good-paying jobs. No wonder that small businesses all across the country, including Industrial Weldors & Machinists in Minnesota, Guy Chemical Company in Pennsylvania, Hinee Gourmet Coffee in Texas, Deckscapes in Virginia, Advanced Superabrasives in North Carolina, Rockford Ball Screw in Senator Duckworth’s home state of Illinois, Northwest Motor Services in Washington, WebHobby Shop in Michigan and Junk King in Nevada are expanding operations, increasing wages, providing new benefits, and hiring more employees. My running mate Senator John James, the next Vice-President of the United States, ran businesses such as the James Group International and created jobs by managing and optimizing the company's customer’s supply chain infrastructures and processes through designing and implementing complex supply chain solutions and leveraging information technology. As CEO, he grew the company into a major trading partner with Michigan’s auto industry. And as a U.S. Senator, he fought every single day for the promotion of economic opportunity through lower taxes and free enterprise. And together, we will pursue America’s prosperity and expand it by cutting taxes for the middle-class from 22 % to 15 % while indexing capital gains for inflation and creating a tax-preferred savings vehicle for the sake of a stronger American middle-class. We’re going to get America to energy independence by producing more energy here at home so we can be more free from foreign energy, including those from unstable countries in throes of anti-American forces, so we can make our country safer and more prosperous. That requires taking advantage of all of our own sources of energy, including oil, gas coal, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, tide, hydroelectric, etc. That is what we’re going to do by encouraging more oil drilling and production, by using a part of the revenues from oil drilling into the development of renewable energies instead of doing so with taxpayers’ money, like Senator Duckworth wants to do. We're also going to make America number one in nuclear energy export and production by building 40 new nuclear power plants in America by 2050, by approving tax credits for advanced nuclear projects and subsidies for the building of new nuclear power plants to further improve the American people's access to heat, encourage more job creation and improve our ecological footprint.We're also going to make America number one in nuclear energy export and production by building 40 new nuclear power plants in America by 2050, by approving tax credits for advanced nuclear projects and subsidies for the building of new nuclear power plants to further improve the American people's access to heat, encourage more job creation and improve our ecological footprint.We're also going to make America number one in nuclear energy export and production by building 40 new nuclear power plants in America by 2050, by approving tax credits for advanced nuclear projects and subsidies for the building of new nuclear power plants to further improve the American people's access to heat, encourage more job creation and improve our ecological footprint. We’re also going to approve renewable energy projects such as the Gemini Solar Project (which would have the capacity to produce 690 megawatts of electricity) in Nevada, the Crimson Solar Project in California (which would have a capacity to produce 350 MW of electricity, or enough to power more than 100,000 homes) and the Haiwee Geothermal Leasing Area (which would have the capacity to produce enough electricity to power about 117,000 homes). So the energy policy that we propose will favor both job creation and a clean environment. We're going to promote free trade for the sake to make sure we’ll make America the most competitive nation in the world economy through the ratification of free trade agreements with our allies and friends in Europe, Latin America and in the Asia-Pacific region in order to counter-balance China's trade power and to ensure strong job creation by lowering tariffs, increasing exports and imports, reducing the cost of trading and allowing American businesses to make direct investments into foreign economies to produce goods at a lower cost in these environments. We're going to advance the development of infrastructures here in America by reducing the federal gasoline tax rate by 80 %; vetoing any gas-tax increase; turning back control of the highways to the states; stopping special interests in Washington from building “Bridges to Nowhere” and engaging in other wasteful spending; freeing states from the strings that come attached to federal funding; removing barriers to public-private partnerships; repealing the Davis-Bacon Act that inflates government costs by billions every year and is a giveaway of taxpayer dollars to labor unions and phasing out the Mass Transit Account, which loots the Highway Trust Fund. That infrastructure plan along with the investment of a part of future budget surpluses in infrastructures will encourage economic activities all across this country favor the implementation of new businesses here in America, thus favoring further job creation, growth, opportunity and prosperity. Me and Senator James are forming the best economic team America has ever known and we are without the shadow of a doubt the most qualified team to manage the economy, encourage job creation for all Americans, protect and expand the American Dream and get America to long-term prosperity and to full-employment.

A strong economy and a fair society also requires making sure that America has the best education system on Earth. And my youngest son Dominick started his final year in high school just two months ago. So I want to make sure that all of our children across this country, including my four children, have access to all the tools needed to succeed in the best schools of the world. And that’s why we’re going to make it a top priority under a Rubio Administration to ensure that every child, every student, every American, including my four children, has decent access to education. We’re going to do that by promoting school choice, which will cost families, including these immigrant families living paycheck to paycheck, less and produce higher outcomes compared to public education, thus granting parents the power to orientate their children out of poorly-performing schools assigned by zip code and look for better education elsewhere. It will expand opportunities for low-income students—especially minorities—to attend high-quality schools that would otherwise be accessible only to higher-income families, thus increasing their chances of success and of entry into the workforce. Our education plan will also allow tax breaks for individuals and companies that donate to school scholarship funds or help parents who home-school their children, which will expand elementary, secondary, and vocational education opportunities for students in addition of provide training for postsecondary students and workers seeking to gain new skills and advance their career through career and technical education, apprenticeships, certifications and other forms of workforce training. We’re going to remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers. We will provide tax encouragement to help parents pay for the school of their choice and also create federal tax credit to a qualifying, non-profit 501(c)(3) Education Scholarship Organization, so that students from low-income families can receive a scholarship to pay for the cost of a private education of their parents’ choosing.

In the last 8 years, we finally secured our borders. We can now increase any sort of immigration program like green cards and various visas while emphasizing the strictness of background checks and keeping borders secured and that’s what I’m going to do as President.

On health care, Senator Duckworth just doesn't get it. She supports Obamacare's failures that cut $716 billion in Medicare, was bailing out big private insurance companies (that are making millions of dollars in profits) with hardworking families' money and thus deprived them of their health care coverage and cancelled the health insurance of millions of Americans against their will. But our healthcare plan will protect pre-existing conditions and allow small employers to offer flexible coverage options using Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) which will be less expensive for employers than group plans, the addition of HRAs to the health care ecosystem will result in 11 million workers seeking coverage from them (which will help millions of hardworking Americans have greater access to affordable health care coverage that best meets their needs) and will also allow people to buy health insurance across state lines, make the insurance marketplaces and subsidies to help people afford coverage and more competitive and provide tax credits to help people buy insurance among state lines while at the same time providing funding to fix Medicare and Medicaid with no cuts.
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Marco Rubio's GOTV speech, Part 2

Date : November 5, 2024
Location : Allentown, Pennsylvania

Our veterans who sacrificed so much for our country, our security and our freedom have been left behind for too long. While Governor Gallego voted against the VA Accountability Act of 2015 that authorized the Department of Veterans Affairs to remove or demote a department employee for misconduct and negligence towards veterans and while Senator Duckworth cut POW/MIA scholarships by $1 million as Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs, depriving our veterans of the services and of the scholarships they need to earn better living conditions and a decent career and to accomplish their American Dream, I passed the single largest VA reform legislation, a bill empowering the VA secretary to hold managers accountable for incompetence, negligence and corruption and to care more about veterans than bureaucrats. I also co-sponsored the Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act that helped veterans re-entering the workforce get jobs in STEM-related fields by requiring the Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate programs to train and transition military veterans for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math. I passed the MilCon-VA bill providing meaningful funding for veterans programs and military construction projects across Florida. And John James, who courageously served our country as an Apache pilot in the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom, has co-sponsored and passed the Veterans Care Financial Protection Act of 2022 has been adopted after the withdrawal of our troops from Syria and Iraq in 2021, making the federal Department of Veterans Affairs work with state and federal agencies to stop con men who are diverting federal aid away from veterans. As President, I will reduce the income tax on military retirement income, which will reinforce incomes for our veterans; enforce the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act so that returning veterans can promptly return to their former jobs; and invest in the development of new social security and job training programs for our veterans to make sure they will earn the best post-military service they can ever imagine.

Eight years ago, America was facing increasing serious terrorist threat because of the Obama Administration’s deep cuts in the military, policies supported by Senator Duckworth, which deprived us of the tools needed to keep America safe and allowed ISIS to rise and conquer a large territory in Iraq and Syria, using that territory as a base to train jihadists and launch terrorist attacks on us and our allies like they did twice in Paris and also in Brussels and Nice and on our national soil, including in Garland, San Bernardino, Orlando, and Philadelphia. Yet, despite seriousness of the threat represented by radical Islamic terrorism, Senator Duckworth has, throughout her political career, stood on the wrong side of national defense and national security issues, calling for even deeper cuts in the military and in homeland security, which will leave us with the smallest military since World War II, make us vulnerable again against our enemies and make America a much easier target for our enemies. No wonder that in June 2014, even at a time ISIS was controlling 70 % of Iraq’s territory, Tammy Duckworth opposed Operation Inherent Resolve, opposing airstrikes aimed at combating ISIS. In her effort to outsource our national defense and national security, she opposed defense systems such as the F-16, the F-15 and the CH-53 Sea Stallion. Even though the Kurds were crucial to defeating ISIS, Duckworth voted to deny aid, military arsenal, training and equipment – including fuel, combat vehicles, ammunition and body armors - for the Kurds. Then in June 2015, even after ISIS' attack orchestrated in Garland, Texas, Senator Duckworth and her fellow Democrats in Congress voted in favor of a bill prohibiting the bulk collection of data and as a result, six months later, ISIS jihadists attacked us in San Bernardino, killed 14 people and wounded 24 people because we did not have access to records, information and other items under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would have allowed us to identify these killers before they attacked. Senator Duckworth also voted against prohibiting the transfer of Guantanamo terrorists to any foreign country even though such transfers could have allowed them to escape, to be on the run once again, to return to terrorism and to orchestrate even more attacks on us and our allies like it happened with Said Ali al-Shiri who returned to terrorism after being set free, co-founded Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in addition of calling upon Somali pirates to increase their attacks on western shipping and leading the Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen before we eliminated him through a drone strike. She supported Obama’s so-called deal with the old Iranian regime that handed billions of dollars to a country that was the world's largest state-sponsor of global terrorism through a lifting of the sanctions even though Iran allowed the Taliban to open an office in Zahedan, Iran and paid bounties to Taliban for targeting American troops in Afghanistan as it was indicated and reported by US intelligence that Iran paid bounties to the Haqqani network for their attack on Bagram Air Base on December 11 2019, which killed two civilians and injured more than 70 others, including four US personnel. The old Iranian regime also orchestrated the Quds Force's (a special forces unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards) attempt to orchestrate a terrorist attack against the Israeli embassy and the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan; ran a terrorist cell in Bahrain that was planning to carry out a series of dangerous bombings on the kingdom before it was dismantled in 2016 by the Bahraini security forces; and unsuccessfully attempted a bomb plot against the National Council of Resistance of Iran (an opposition group which styled itself as Iran's government-in-exile at the time) at a rally in Paris in 2018 after which France froze the old Iranian regime's financial assets. Yet Senator Duckworth, supported that deal, thus displaying her recklessness. In 2015, even though it has been reported by a German spy agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, that ISIS jihadists were sneaking within the Syrian refugees to commit terrorist attacks in Europe and here in America and after ISIS used fake Syrian passports to commit the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris and were printing thousands more fake passports, Senator Duckworth, more motivated by partisan politics than national security, voted against the SAFE Act that expanded background checks for Syrian and Iraqi refugees applying for admission to the United States while that bill has been supported by 47 of her fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives, including notably Kyrsten Sinema, Jared Polis, Gwen Graham, Patrick Murphy, Tulsi Gabbard, Dan Lipinski and Tim Ryan. Duckworth even signed on for 200,000 refugees to America, which is 20 times more than President Obama suggested and which would have further increased the risk of ISIS jihadists disguising as refugees and thus putting their operatives among the refugees to come to Europe and to America and kill us as the FBI said the refugees can’t be safely screened. She is suggesting that we should defend America only after we’ve been attacked. My fellow Americans, we have already been attacked. In the last 8 years, we made remarkable and strong progress in keeping America safe. Under this President, we rebuilt our military and modernized it, built strong coalitions, restored American leadership and went after the terrorists wherever they train and hide. And here are the results:we defeated ISIS, we liberated all the territory they occupied in the Middle East, we eliminated Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force and de facto commander of Iran’s global terrorist proxy network, represented a serious threat to our national security interests and to the Middle East’s stability as he was a major supporter of terrorism and was selling Iranian weapons to terrorist organizations overseas. And Soleimani was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans, including the attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq by Kata'ib Hezbollah (an Iran-backed Iraqi Shia militia) and the terrorist attack on the K-1 Air Base in Iraq, and he continued to plot attacks against U.S. diplomats and American service members. He headed to Iraq to plot a coup there in order to swing Iraq under Iran’s influence, which would have undermined our efforts to combat ISIS by depriving us of a partner hosting U.S. military bases and naval ships to launch counter-terrorist operations in Syria and Iraq and would also have allowed the old Iranian regime to use Iraq as a platform to carry out attacks against the United States and as as a base of operations in combination with Syria and Lebanon to continue their expansionist desires in the region and to drive us out and to threaten our allies. That’s what would have happened if Senator Duckworth was in charge of our security and the world would be more dangerous as she and her party colleagues criticized the drone airstrike that killed Soleimani. But because we eliminated Soleimani through this successful strike we derailed the old Iranian regime’s terrorist plans, saving American and allied lives and guaranteeing stronger stability and peace in the Middle East. Thanks to strong diplomacy and American leadership and support to our allies, we went on to get the world to the denuclearization of North Korea and Iran. Four years ago, we reinforced peace and stability in the Middle East by brokering the Abraham Accords that normalized the Israel-United Arab Emirates relations and suspended Israel’s plans for annexing the Jordan Valley, including the West Bank. And this year, while Operation Ceasefire was inflaming in Kurdistan, we and our allies supported the Kurds by supplying them in military training as well as in equipment and military arsenal, which led them and our Middle Eastern allies and our Tehran Pact allies to victory against Turkey in Operation Ceasefire and to the recognition of Kurdistan’s independence by Turkey without a single American trooper deployed or killed in that conflict. So Senator Duckworth got it all wrong when she claimed that this administration lacked a steady hand on the situation in the Middle East and that our foreign policy spreaded chaos there. Because we restored American leadership, rebuilt our military, went after the terrorists wherever they hide, stood up to state-sponsored terrorism, supported our allies and displayed strong and effective diplomacy, the Middle East is becoming a haven for peace. Vladimir Putin is a gangster who represented a unique threat to our national security interests and to freedom. He restricted freedom of press and imprisoned peaceful protesters and political opponents for speaking out against oppression and terror. Putin’s Russia used its veto power against us to threaten our national security interests, invaded Georgia and Ukraine, annexed Crimea, supplied the pro-Russian insurgency in Ukraine in order to destabilize Eastern Europe and sponsored a pro-Russian nationalist coup in Montenegro in 2016. They also spreaded their incursion in the Pacific by increasing their military’s presence in the Kuril Islands that they contested with Japan and they engaged in an arms race with us. That’s why we stood up to Putin’s Russia by toughening sanctions on Moscow, keeping our military strong, provided our Ukrainian allies in military material and training to help them combat this pro-Russian insurgency, created the US Space Force as the 6th branch of our military this ensuring protection of the US and allied satellites against Russian anti-satellite weaponry and supported Japan in their territorial feud with Russia in the Kuril Islands by reinforcing our navy’s presence there and recognizing Japan’s sovereignty over these islands. And seven months ago, the Russian people expressed its dissatisfaction towards tyranny, oppression and terror by electing isolationist candidate Sergei Polonsky as their new President. They now have a leader of compassion and empathy who’s fighting for what’s right, restored freedom, democracy and integrity in Russia, restored peace and stability in Eastern Europe by ending escalation with us and helped our Kurdish and Middle Eastern allies to win Operation Ceasefire by withdrawing Russian troops from Turkey that were assisting Erdogan’s troops, thus giving the advantage to our allies who went on to defeat Erdogan’s forces and to lead successful peace talks with the Turkish leadership resulting to the recognition of Kurdistan an independent and sovereign country and to the restoration and expansion of peace, stability, freedom and security in the Middle East. Yet, last winter, when Polonsky made strong progress in the polls in the Russian presidential election and emerging as the frontrunner at the point of ending Putin’s tyranny and insanity, Tammy Duckworth and her party colleagues described Sergei Polonsky as a puppet of President Trump even without any evidence of interference by Washington in the Russian election. In their obsession to bring down the President and undo the progress of the last 8 years, they were so blinded by hatred that they took on the occasion to attempt to impeach President Trump. In doing so, Senator Duckworth made it clear that she’s more concerned about impeaching the President than about advancing global peace, more motivated by partisan politics than by the national security and geopolitical challenges facing this country. In 1940, Wendell Wilkie, this year’s GOP nominee, declared in his support to Franklin Roosevelt’s effort for a peacetime draft in a time of global war that he would rather lose an election than making national security a partisan campaign issue. Shortly before he died, Wilkie told a friend, that if he could write his own epitaph and had to choose between "Here lies a President" or "Here lies one who contributed to saving freedom", he would prefer the latter. That is not the kind of bipartisan rhetoric we see in Tammy Duckworth and in today’s Democratic Party. When you're leading the extreme left wing wanting to attack and impeach the President, that doesn’t set you up to have wins for the American people, including in the process of advancing global peace and security. That is not the way leadership works. Instead, we should be bringing people together, Republicans and Democrats, to put forward policies that will make sure we guarantee long term global peace and stability through strong American leadership. That’s what I will do as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief because my priority as leader of the free world will be, as it has always been, to keep the American people safe, not divide it through irresponsible and hateful rhetoric like Senator Duckworth is doing. America is now stronger and safer than ever before. We’re still living in a world of challenges. We’re facing a threat represented by Boko Haram that has attacked us on our soil in San Francisco through a suicide car bomb attack on a tramway and a shooting on September 2022, killing 42 people and wounding 76 before being killed by the San Francisco police. We’re seeing unrest in China caused by Beijing’s cyberattacks against Russia, cyberattacks that were aimed at attacking Russia’s democracy and restoring the Putin regime in Russia. In this unrest, a group of brave freedom fighters formed the ZZJ in order to combat tyranny, oppression, corruption and injustice in China and restore freedom and democracy there and they are already making strong progress in that process as they seized control of an important part of Shanghai and as pro-freedom hacker groups shut down China’s Social Credit System, an Orwellian system controlling every facet of human life, gave Xi Jinping total control over the Chinese people through mass surveillance, served as propaganda tool and advocated Vladimir Putin’s return to power in Russia and as those cyber strikes on Chinese nuclear sites made the Chinese military lose control of its nuclear weapons. But in her criticism of our support to those pro-freedom hacker groups, Tammy Duckworth made it clear that she would rather have allowed China to maintain that Orwellian system rather than doing whatever it takes to stand up for freedom, which would have made the world more dangerous, which is another example of her foreign policy weakness that is second to none. This would be a serious mistake. In addition, she hasn’t given any plan to support the ZZJ, using the same cuss words of the Chinese regime and far-leftist groups disgracing those brave freedom fighters and labeling them as terrorists as the Nazis did for the French Resistance even though the ZZJ is standing up to the Communist regime’s tyranny and fighting for the restoration of freedom in China after 75 years of communist oppression. It is our role to stand up for the preservation and expansion of freedom. And I have the right foreign policy experience, qualifications and proven leadership needed to keep America safe and preserve our freedom. I served as a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and as Vice-President of the United States. In the U.S. Senate, I passed the toughest sanctions on Hezbollah to prevent  Hezbollah and  associated  entities  from gaining  access  to  international  financial  and  other  institutions and for other purposes; sponsored the Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 (that authorized assistance and weapons transfers to Israel and extended defense cooperation with Jordan) and the U.S.-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act to provide assistance to our Jordanian allies in the battle against ISIS and in dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis. I co-sponsored the Let Freedom Reign Act of 2019 providing arsenal and training to the Venezuelan insurgency in the Venezuelan Civil War and contributing to their successful path to democracy;  stood up to China's human rights violations by sponsoring the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act. As Vice-President, I helped President Trump to defeat ISIS, led the diplomatic mission that got Arsham Parsi's Iran to officially denuclearize, normalize the US-Iran relations and stop state-sponsoring terrorism. Parsi reiterated that promise in a joint session of Congress that I presided over along with the Speaker of the House and he fulfilled all of these engagements, thus reinforcing peace and stability in the Middle East. As President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief, I will preserve America’s status as a leader on the world stage, work with our allies and do whatever it takes to keep America safe. Under my presidential leadership, we will keep our military strong and modernize it, stay on offense against terrorists and provide our Western African allies in arsenal and military training to help them defeat Boko Haram, destroy Boko Haram key targets like their infrastructure and oil refineries through drone strikes to deny them war effort, which will keep us safe without needing to send additional troops. I will support the ZZJ through the provision of food, clothing and fuel to give them the necessary means to subsist and persist and I will cut-off China’s crude oil supply by halting crude oil exports to China in order to weaken their military, giving the advantage to the ZZJ so that freedom and democracy will triumph in China. In the first 100 days of my presidency, I will hold a summit with Russian President Sergei Polonsky to normalize the US-Russia relations so we can ensure long-term global peace and work together for the maintenance and expansion of peace, freedom, human rights, stability and territorial integrity in the world, including in Europe and in the Middle East. And together, we’ll work to develop decent trade relations between the United States and Russia for the sake of our prosperity and peaceful collaboration. Under my presidential leadership, we will bring America and our allies together to ratify the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty to prohibit the use of fissile material in the purpose of building nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, which will accomplish our path to a nuclear-free world and eliminate the risk of nuclear war.
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« Reply #495 on: September 07, 2020, 11:13:29 AM »

Marco Rubio's GOTV speech, Part 3

Date : November 5, 2024
Location : Allentown, Pennsylvania

One of the main duties of a President is to unite this country and bring people together regardless of their differences and political beliefs and reaching across the aisle in order to get things done. Unfortunately, Senator Duckworth hasn’t given any indication, based on her record, of being willing to do so and sees the other party as an enemy rather than colleagues. No wonder that she voted 80 % of the time with her party leaders in favor of higher taxes, strict regulations on energy production, stricter gun control and cuts in funding for our military. That’s why the Lugar Center ranked her as the 80th most bipartisan Senator on 100 at the point that even Elizabeth Warren, one of the main leaders of the radical left-wing of the Democratic Party, is even more bi-partisan than my opponent (as Warren is ranked 66th most bipartisan Senator by the Lugar Center). The truth is we don’t need a party-line leader. We need a leader who is willing to bring parties together and treats colleagues from the other party with respect. If you want such kind of leader, then I am your candidate. After the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando while the Democrats politicized that tragedy to promote gun control, I introduced the Terror Intelligence Improvement Act and brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass it, which allowed the U.S. attorney general to delay a firearms' purchase for up to three days and filed an emergency court petition if someone previously investigated for terrorism tried to buy a gun, ensuring that if any gun purchaser has been suspected for terror in the last decade like Omar Mateen (until he was no longer under investigation, which made him able to buy a gun), the FBI would be notifying that he or she has gone in to buy a gun and would have the chance to stop that sale and to investigate what you’re up to. I brought both parties together to unanimously pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 and the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act. I fought for immigration reform, an objective that is now possible to accomplish now that our borders are secured. I fought to convince Jim Inhofe to commit to authorizing the Central Everglades Planning Project in the water resources bill for the sake of the restoration of the Everglades, called for a ban offshore oil drilling off the Florida coast. I was among the 22 Republican senators who broke with their party majority in their support to the approval of a $2 billion emergency funding to combat the Zika virus while Florida accounted for 20 % of the recorded cases of Zika in the U.S. I worked with Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen to pass the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 to block the terrorist organization’s financing and limit the group’s access to logistical support through sanctions on international financial institutions that knowingly engage in business with Hezbollah and its enablers and through the identification of the organization’s satellite and internet providers that facilitate its messages to the al-Manar Hezbollah television station. No wonder that the Lugar Center ranked me the 9th most bipartisan Senator. And as President, I will bring parties together to pass a middle-class tax cut for the sake of a stronger middle-class, make us energy independent through an investment from a part of oil drilling revenues instead of doing it through burdensome taxes, provide soaring development of our country’s infrastructures and lead us to steady global peace through a normalization of the US-Russia relations and of the ratification of the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty. Because I’m running to be President for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, your origins, your ethnicity, your incomes, your religious beliefs, etc. Because we are Americans first, we are Americans last and we are Americans always.

My friends, my fellow Americans, the stakes of this election are too high for you to stay home. America’s freedom is at stake, America’s future is at stake, your future is at stake, your children’s future is at stake. We can’t afford to move this country backwards to the times of economic misery, insecurity and foreign policy weakness. That’s why we chose progress over decline, leadership over weakness, unity over division, collaboration over hatred, hope over fear. We need to make sure that every American will earn a fair chance to enjoy opportunity, opportunity to prosper, opportunity to succeed, opportunity to live free, opportunity to live safe. As my father used to tell me, « en este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos. » In this country, you will achieve all the things we never could. President Abraham Lincoln called this country the last best hope of man on Earth. He was right then and we still are the last best hope of man on Earth and tonight is our chance to prove President Lincoln right again. That’s why we need all of you, my fellow Americans, to come out today and vote because if you do I will invest all my energy and fight each and every day to make sure that our children and grandchildren can do all the things that previous generations couldn’t have, so we can keep moving this country forward by getting this country to full employment and long term economic prosperity, to permanent protection of the American people’s freedoms and rights and of the Constitution and to long-term security global peace through strength to grant our children the opportunity to grow up in a world of peace, freedom and stability. That way we will preserve and expand the American Dream as well as America’s status as the land of opportunity where everything is possible, as the hope of the Earth and as the Shining City on the Hill. And that’s why I ask for your vote and your support so we can keep moving America forward, build such a bright future for all the American people and preserve America’s status as the freest and greatest nation on Earth and in mankind’s history. Thank you. God bless all of you and God bless the United States of America.
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« Reply #496 on: September 07, 2020, 11:14:08 AM »
« Edited: November 04, 2023, 06:47:49 PM by UWS »

Marco Rubio's TV Ad

In an effort to get as many people as possible to come out and vote for Marco Rubio, the Rubio campaign broadcasts a GOTV ad narrating the progress of the last 8 years (strong and prosperous economy, safer America through our victory over ISIS and denuclearization of North Korea and Iran, etc.), warning about the consequences of the eventuality of Duckworth’s election which would move America backwards through higher taxes and slashing of the military, emphasizing on Rubio’s experience and promoting his agenda for America’s future to keep moving America forward and build the brightest future the American people could imagine.

Title : Forward

Airing : In all the 50 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin

Forward ad narration :


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Marco Rubio : This election is the most important in our lifetime. It’s about preserving the American Dream and America’s greatness that has been made possible by working together as Americans from abolishing slavery to sending a man on the Moon. It's about whether our children, including my four children, will be the first generation of Americans to inherit a country in decline or will be the most prosperous generation of Americans that ever lived or. Today, the American people have a choice between two paths.

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We passed the largest tax cuts in American history and adopted trade deals protecting the interests of American workers, thus benefiting all Americans, including the middle-class, making America the best place in the world to do business and helped create almost 8 million new jobs, including 500 000 manufacturing jobs reduced our unemployment rate at its lowest in more than 50 years, brought the Hispanic and African-American unemployment rates at their lowest ever and the youth unemployment rate at its lowest rate in 58 years. The middle-class is thriving through a reduction of middle-class taxes and Opportunity Zones are getting lower-income Americans out of poverty through tax incentives for businesses to invest in economically distressed communities. Thanks to the renegotiation of NAFTA and the ratification of the USMCA, we boosted auto manufacturing by requiring 75% of a vehicle's parts to be made in one of the 3 signatory countries in order to remain free from tariffs when moving between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, by strengthening labor laws, by keeping tariffs at zero while further opening up the Canadian market to US dairy, poultry and eggs and allowing more Canadian dairy, peanuts and peanut products to cross the border. As a result, we added 76 000 auto jobs in the last 5 years, increased exports and imports and strengthened our competitiveness in the world economy.

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In addition to taking care of our veterans, we stood up to the national security challenges facing our country. After ISIS killed Americans on our national soil and repeatedly assaulted freedom, justice and democracy through terrorist attacks on our allies, we rebuilt and modernized our military, built strong and large coalitions, restored American leadership and went after the terrorists wherever they hide and train. Through airstrikes led by America and our allies and the supply of arsenal and training to the Kurds, we defeated ISIS, liberated all the large territory they occupied and eliminated Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Strong American leadership and strong diplomacy contributed to the denuclearization of North Korea and Iran, providing major progress in eliminating the risk of nuclear war. We supported Kurdistan on its way to independence through the provision of training and arsenal to their troops, which helped them as well as our Middle Eastern to win Operation Ceasefire without a single U.S. trooper deployed or killed in Turkey and in Kurdistan and led to the recognition of this new republic as an independent state. The Abraham Accords suspended Israel’s plans to annex the Jordan Valley and normalized Israel-UAE relations, thus accelerating the Middle East’s transition into a haven of peace.

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Why going back to the way things were 8 years ago as Senator Duckworth, who voted against every of the tax reform policies that gave us the strongest economy in this century and gave us a stronger and thriving middle-class, is suggesting by raising taxes by trillions of dollars, punishing success and businesses and making us more dependent on foreign energy, which will crush the middle-class, make America a harder place to do business, kill jobs and ship jobs and businesses overseas? These are the same failed policies of the previous administration that gave us the slowest economy in our history, cost America 300 000 manufacturing jobs and stuck our GDP Annual Growth rate under 2 % and contributed to a downgrade of America’s credit rating for the first time in our history 13 years ago. Why going back to the way things were 8 years ago as Senator Duckworth, who opposed airstrkikes that defeated ISIS as well as our efforts to provide the Kurds in weapons and training to help them defeat ISIS, is suggesting by going back to the weak foreign policy that slashed our military and our homeland security and undermined American leadership, which are the same policies that made America an easier target for terrorists? We can’t afford that risk.

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[Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. starts playing]


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As the son of Cuban immigrants who lived paycheck to paycheck, had no access to higher education and came to this country in quest of better economic opportunities and handed to their children opportunities that were closed to them thanks to the hard work of a bartender and a housekeeper, I know what it looks like to lose the gift of freedom. Just seeing the impact that our parents made for their sacrifices of being able to give their kids education, a stable environment, a home, this country gives you a chance to give your kids a fair chance of being able to give your kids what you wouldn't be able to get there and in other places. That’s why we need to make the right choice to make sure that we pursue America’s progress in order to live the American Dream and I have the right experience to do so.

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As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I know that America’s prosperity requires keeping taxes low for all Americans and making America the best place in the world to do business and that free enterprise is the right solution to encourage economic growth and make this economy work for all Americans. We’re going to do that by reducing middle-class taxes from 22 % to 15 % while indexing capital gains for inflation and creating a tax-preferred savings vehicle for the sake of a stronger American middle-class. Under my presidency, we will make America energy independent by taking advantage of all of our own sources of energy. We'll use a part of revenues from oil drilling into the development of renewable energies instead of doing so with taxpayers’ money. We're going to promote free trade for the sake to make sure we’ll make America the most competitive nation in the world economy through the ratification of free trade agreements with our allies and friends in Europe, Latin America and in the Asia-Pacific region, increasing exports and imports, reducing the cost of trading and allowing American businesses to make direct investments into foreign economies to produce goods at a lower cost in these environments. We will make invest in infrastructure development in order to facilitate economic activities and favor the implementation of new businesses here in America, thus favoring further job creation.

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[Our education plan will guarantee decent access to education to all Americans and success for all of our children by promoting school choice, which will cost families less and produce higher outcomes compared to public education, thus granting parents the power to orientate their children out of poorly-performing schools assigned by zip code and look for better education elsewhere, expanding opportunities for low-income students to attend high-quality schools that would otherwise be accessible only to higher-income families. We'll allow tax breaks for individuals and companies that donate to school scholarship funds or help parents who home-school their children, which will expand elementary, secondary, and vocational education opportunities for students in addition of provide training for postsecondary students and workers seeking to gain new skills and advance their career through career and technical education, apprenticeships, certifications and other forms of workforce training. We’re going to remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers.


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Me and my running mate John James, who ran his family business James Group International and created jobs by managing and optimizing customer’s supply chain infrastructures and processes through a design and implementation of complex supply chain solutions and leveraging information technology, are forming the best economic team America has ever known and we are without the shadow of a doubt the most qualified team to manage the economy, encourage job creation for all Americans, protect and expand the American Dream and get America to long-term prosperity and to full-employment.


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Under a Rubio Administration, our veterans will have our full backing just like when I passed the 2014 VA reform law empowering the VA secretary to hold managers accountable for incompetence, negligence and corruption and to care more about veterans than bureaucrats; when I co-sponsored the Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act that helped veterans re-entering the workforce get jobs in STEM-related fields by requiring the Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate programs to train and transition military veterans for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math; and when John James, who fought for our country as an Apache pilot in the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom, co-sponsored and passed the Veterans Care Financial Protection Act of 2022 has been adopted after the withdrawal of our troops from Syria and Iraq in 2021, making the federal Department of Veterans Affairs work with state and federal agencies to stop con men who are diverting federal aid away from veterans. And as President, I will reduce the income tax on military retirement income, which will reinforce incomes for our veterans; enforce the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act so that returning veterans can promptly return to their former jobs; and invest in the development of new social security and job training programs for our veterans to make sure they will earn the best post-military service they can ever imagine.



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As a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the Intelligence Committee and Vice-President, I know that America’s security and global peace requires keeping our military strong, working with our allies and preserving America’s status as a leader on the world stage. Under my leadership as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief, we will keep our military strong and modernize it, stay on offense against terrorists and provide our Western African allies in arsenal and military training to help them defeat Boko Haram, destroy Boko Haram key targets like their infrastructure and oil refineries through drone strikes to deny them war effort, which will keep us safe without needing to send additional troops. I will support the ZZJ through the provision of food, clothing and fuel to give them the necessary means to subsist and persist and I will cut-off China’s crude oil supply by halting crude oil exports to China in order to weaken their military so that freedom and democracy will triumph in China. In the first 100 days of my presidency, I will hold a summit with Russian President Sergei Polonsky to normalize the US-Russia relations so we can ensure long-term global peace and work together for the maintenance and expansion of peace, freedom, human rights, stability and territorial integrity in the world, including in Europe and in the Middle East. We will bring America and our allies together to ratify the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty to prohibit the use of fissile material in the purpose of building nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, which will accomplish our path to a nuclear-free world and make sure that our children can grow up in a world of freedom, security, stability and peace.

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The stakes of this election are too high for you to stay home on Election Day. This election is about you and our children and what kind of future they will inherit. America’s future depends on your vote. Your vote will decide whether we move back to the policies of big government and tax-hike policies that cost your jobs, your purchasing power and your home and to the reckless and weak foreign policy that slashed our military and cost the lives of so many of our fellow Americans or we keep moving America forward, preserve America’s greatness, build the brightest future and make the next four years better still by getting us to full-employment and unprecedented long term economic prosperity through the promotion of tax reform, free enterprise, competition in the world economy and energy independence; by guaranteeing long term global peace and security through the preservation of our status as the strongest military in the world and through the preservation of American leadership; by protecting our people’s constitutional rights; by strengthening America’s status as the leader in space exploration; and by working with both parties in order to get things done for the good of the country. So my fellow Americans, for the sake of your future, of America's future, of our prosperity, of our security and of the promise to make our children and grandchildren the most prosperous generation of Americans that ever lived, I call on all of you to come out today and cast your vote for me and for Republican candidates for both houses of Congress. Let’s stand together for opportunity to make sure that we preserve and expand America’s status as the greatest nation in mankind’s history, as the land of opportunity where everything is possible.

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As President, I will fight for you and your families every single day, protect your rights and ensure America continues to be the greatest nation on Earth and the hope of the Earth My friends, my fellow Americans, don’t forget to come out and vote for the Rubio/James ticket and we will invest all our energy to make sure America’s best days are still ahead and that the best is yet to come. Thank you God bless you all and God bless the United States of America.

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« Reply #497 on: September 07, 2020, 02:42:50 PM »


Brett Baier : "Good evening, and welcome to Fox News's coverage of the 2024 presidential election between Vice President Marco Rubio and Senator Tammy Duckworth from Illinois. I'm Brett Baier."

Martha MacCullum : "And I'm Martha MacCullum, and we can now call the first few races in perhaps the most tumultuous election cycle in American history."

MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN INDIANA
MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN KENTUCKY
MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Martha MacCullum : "As well, we have a call for Senator Duckworth."

TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN VERMONT

Brett Baier : "This leaves the electoral map as follows:"



Vice President Marco Rubio - 28 electoral votes
Senator Tammy Duckworth - 3 electoral votes

Martha MacCullum : "In the Senate, meanwhile, we can call two races:"

ANDY BARR WINS THE SENATORIAL RACE IN KENTUCKY

MARK BURNS WINS THE SENATORIAL RACE IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Martha MacCullum : "This will give the Republicans 23 Senate seats to Democrats' 19 as the night kicks off."



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Martha MacCullum : "And that will be all for right now. Stay tuned."
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« Reply #498 on: September 07, 2020, 02:50:00 PM »


Brett Baier : "Good evening, and welcome back to Fox News's coverage of the 2024 presidential election between Vice President Marco Rubio and Senator Tammy Duckworth from Illinois. I'm Brett Baier."

Martha MacCullum : "And I'm Martha MacCullum, and we can now call more races in perhaps the most tumultuous election cycle in American history."

MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN WEST VIRGINIA
MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN GEORGIA

Martha MacCullum : "As well, we have a call for Senator Duckworth."

TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN VIRGINIA

Brett Baier : "This leaves the electoral map as follows:"



Vice President Marco Rubio - 49 electoral votes
Senator Tammy Duckworth - 16 electoral votes

Martha MacCullum : "In the Senate, meanwhile, we can call no more races at this time."

Martha MacCullum : "This gives the Republicans 23 Senate seats to Democrats' 19 as the night continues."



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Martha MacCullum : "And that will be all for right now. Stay tuned."
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« Reply #499 on: September 07, 2020, 03:22:58 PM »
« Edited: September 07, 2020, 03:32:39 PM by Cabbage »


Brett Baier : "Good evening, and welcome to Fox News's coverage of the 2024 presidential election between Vice President Marco Rubio and Senator Tammy Duckworth from Illinois. I'm Brett Baier."

Martha MacCullum : "And I'm Martha MacCullum, and we can now call the first few races in perhaps the most tumultuous election cycle in American history."

MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN FLORIDA
MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN ALABAMA
MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN MISSISSIPPI
MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN TENNESSEE
MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN MISSOURI
MARCO RUBIO WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN OKLAHOMA

Martha MacCullum : "As well, we have several calls for Senator Duckworth."

TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN MASSACHUSETTS
TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN RHODE ISLAND
TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN CONNECTICUT
TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN NEW JERSEY
TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN DELAWARE
TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN MARYLAND
TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
TAMMY DUCKWORTH WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN ILLINOIS

Brett Baier : "This leaves the electoral map as follows:"



Vice President Marco Rubio - 121 electoral votes
Senator Tammy Duckworth - 86 electoral votes

Martha MacCullum : "Also, we apologize, as we appear to have been using the electoral college map for 2020, which is not accurate for this election. This has been updated in the values you see on your screen now. In the Senate, meanwhile, we can call seven races:"

WILL DISMUKES WINS THE SENATORIAL RACE IN ALABAMA


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MARKWAYNE MULLIN WINS THE SENATORIAL RACE IN OKLAHOMA

KYLE HUPFER WINS THE SENATORIAL RACE IN INDIANA
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LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER WINS THE SENATORIAL RACE IN DELAWARE

RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI WINS THE SENATORIAL RACE IN ILLINOIS

BEN JEALOUS WINS THE GENERAL SENATORIAL RACE IN MARYLAND

TIM KAINE WINS THE GENERAL SENATORIAL RACE IN VIRGINIA

Martha MacCullum : "This will give the Republicans 26 Senate seats to Democrats' 23 as the night continues."



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Martha MacCullum : "And that will be all for right now. Stay tuned."
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