Mike rogers post primary remarks
Mike rogers post primary remarks
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So when you look when you vote for me, it's like a twofer.
1:05:141 hour, 5 minutes, 14 seconds She's been crisscrossing the state and I tell you is doing really an exceptional job bringing the fight across the state of Michigan. It's been uh exciting to
1:05:231 hour, 5 minutes, 23 secondswatch. You know, people said don't do a unity dinner. You'll never get more than 12 people in a room. Look at this room.
1:05:311 hour, 5 minutes, 31 secondsWe believe. Yeah, you bet. I think the last big unity uh event of any sort was
1:05:381 hour, 5 minutes, 38 secondswhen Bobby Showstack back in 2011 uh got people in a room to get excited about the future. And we've been well, we've been not so unified.
1:05:491 hour, 5 minutes, 49 secondsThink about what you see in this room.
1:05:511 hour, 5 minutes, 51 secondsThink about the ticket that just came up here and talked about crisscrossing the state with a bo a better positive proman
1:05:581 hour, 5 minutes, 58 secondsmessage. I'm telling you, if we do our work, we will win in November.
1:06:041 hour, 6 minutes, 4 secondsKind of exciting.
1:06:071 hour, 6 minutes, 7 secondsYou know, Christy and I were in a neighborhood doing a we do door launches quite a bit. And by the way, thanks to all of you, we have crossed 1.1
1:06:161 hour, 6 minutes, 16 secondsmillion doors already. Yeah.
1:06:231 hour, 6 minutes, 23 secondsWe were in her neighborhood. It was actually her old neighborhood. We ran into uh a woman, 80 years old, Fran was her name, who talked about growing up in
1:06:311 hour, 6 minutes, 31 secondsChristy's neighborhood and their kids played together. And then with tears in her eyes, she started telling that story about, "Well, the sad part is my kids
1:06:401 hour, 6 minutes, 40 secondsaren't even in this neighborhood anymore, and my grandkids aren't even in this state."
1:06:481 hour, 6 minutes, 48 secondsAnd why does that happen? Why are kids walking in every single day and saying, "Got to go, got to leave?"
1:06:551 hour, 6 minutes, 55 secondsBecause for a quarter century, we've had two Democrats representing the United State, us and here in Michigan, who
1:07:021 hour, 7 minutes, 2 secondsdidn't care about families and working people in this state. I don't care what
1:07:071 hour, 7 minutes, 7 secondsthey told you. Yeah, you bet. [applause] But here's the good news.
1:07:171 hour, 7 minutes, 17 secondsWe are going to make sure that we point out what happened while Democrats have been in charge better part of a decade, quarter century in the United States
1:07:241 hour, 7 minutes, 24 secondsSenate. They lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs in Michigan. We have the highest utility rates in the
1:07:321 hour, 7 minutes, 32 secondsMidwest. We have the highest auto insurance in the nation. You have to be 40 years old to buy a hose practically
1:07:401 hour, 7 minutes, 40 secondsanymore in this state. And our education is 45th in the nation. Mississippi has surpassed
1:07:491 hour, 7 minutes, 49 secondsMichigan in its education ranking. I'm telling you, it just doesn't have to be that way. You know, we were the state
1:07:571 hour, 7 minutes, 57 secondsthat won World War II. We were the arsenal of democracy. We created the middle class. We got Rosie the Riveter
1:08:041 hour, 8 minutes, 4 secondsstarted right here in Michigan. We built airplanes and tanks and components for submarines. We built ships. Guess what?
1:08:141 hour, 8 minutes, 14 secondsNone of that happens in Michigan anymore. But it happens everywhere else in the country. And why? Because we've
1:08:201 hour, 8 minutes, 20 secondshad a quarter century of two Democrat senators who didn't care about Michigan manufacturing. They didn't care about
1:08:281 hour, 8 minutes, 28 secondsyou and your future and our middle class. They walked away from it.
1:08:351 hour, 8 minutes, 35 secondsThis is our chance. This is a change election. Don't let the pundits in DC, they all want to convince you this is about Donald Trump.
1:08:441 hour, 8 minutes, 44 secondsThis is a change election for Michigan.
1:08:481 hour, 8 minutes, 48 secondsThis is our chance to change it up, to send a governor who understands our pain and understands the leadership it's
1:08:551 hour, 8 minutes, 55 secondsgoing to take to go into our future. And John, I cannot wait to stand with you when we get up here on the cantra. It's
1:09:021 hour, 9 minutes, 2 secondsgoing to be great. I love it. [applause] You know, I I worked at a car plant to
1:09:101 hour, 9 minutes, 10 secondsgo through college to go to Adrian College, and those manufacturing jobs are important. And think of those 200,000 jobs. That's a middle class family with attached to each one gone.
1:09:231 hour, 9 minutes, 23 secondsWe can change this, but none of this will change. None of this will change if we don't fix education here in the great
1:09:301 hour, 9 minutes, 30 secondsstate of Michigan. you realize that uh almost twothirds of our fourth graders cannot read at the fourth grade level.
1:09:381 hour, 9 minutes, 38 secondsIf you can't read at the fourth grade level, you have a 70% chance of going to prison or being on welfare.
1:09:471 hour, 9 minutes, 47 secondsThink of what I just said. Twothirds of our fourth graders can't read.
1:09:521 hour, 9 minutes, 52 secondsIf we don't change this, we are in serious, serious trouble. The Democrats have decided it's okay to sentence these kids to poverty and maybe even prison.
1:10:051 hour, 10 minutes, 5 secondsWe can't be for that. This is the civil rights issue of our lifetime. This is the party with your help that will stand up and will get our kids reading again.
1:10:151 hour, 10 minutes, 15 secondsYeah, you bet. [applause] It's got to be education, not
1:10:231 hour, 10 minutes, 23 secondsindoctrination. We ha we can no longer uh outsource our learning to big tech.
1:10:291 hour, 10 minutes, 29 secondsWe're going to get phones out of schools. We're going to put shop back in every high school. Yeah, you bet.
1:10:371 hour, 10 minutes, 37 seconds[applause]
1:10:401 hour, 10 minutes, 40 secondsThose are jobs that AI can't steal and China can't steal them either. And we have a huge need. And what we found is
1:10:491 hour, 10 minutes, 49 secondsthe more we expose kids to skilled trades, the more interested they are.
1:10:531 hour, 10 minutes, 53 secondsBut we if they can't read in the fourth grade, guess what? None of that good stuff's going to happen. We're going to fix that for sure. And I just want to say this for a second.
1:11:031 hour, 11 minutes, 3 secondsUh I you know, I've had the great privilege to serve in the United States military. I wore that uniform proudly. Yeah, you bet.
1:11:101 hour, 11 minutes, 10 seconds[applause]
1:11:121 hour, 11 minutes, 12 secondsI know on the trail Mike Cox and I would, you know, scrum in the back about the United States Marine or the Army. Which was better?
1:11:201 hour, 11 minutes, 20 seconds[laughter]
1:11:201 hour, 11 minutes, 20 secondsGo Army. Thanks. Yeah. And then a couple of navies in there, too. Thanks. And we're proud of that. Our son is fourth generation military service. But you
1:11:291 hour, 11 minutes, 29 secondsthink about that and the fact that I was an FBI, kicked in doors, arrested drug dealers, and human traffickers, gangsters.
1:11:381 hour, 11 minutes, 38 secondsI never in my lifetime, never in my lifetime thought I would be running against a guy
1:11:461 hour, 11 minutes, 46 secondswho believed that America deserved 911.
1:11:521 hour, 11 minutes, 52 secondsI'm telling you, this is about the heart and soul of our country. The whole country is looking at us here in
1:11:591 hour, 11 minutes, 59 secondsMichigan. They're looking at you, and they're hoping we do everything that we can do together to make sure that we
1:12:071 hour, 12 minutes, 7 secondsstop this in its tracks. You cannot have an anti-American 911 America's fault candidate win an
1:12:161 hour, 12 minutes, 16 secondselection. And I don't care where it is, but we're not going to let it happen here in Michigan.
1:12:221 hour, 12 minutes, 22 seconds[applause]
1:12:261 hour, 12 minutes, 26 secondsYou know, Christy and I decided to do this because we just believe that Michigan deserves better. My dad built our house literally around us five boys.
1:12:361 hour, 12 minutes, 36 secondsUh he was a shop teacher from Redford Union High School. and he passionately believed that was our start as the
1:12:441 hour, 12 minutes, 44 secondsfamily of five five boys that could make their way in the world and get to their on their journey to the American dream.
1:12:531 hour, 12 minutes, 53 secondsIn November, we're going to have a choice.
1:12:561 hour, 12 minutes, 56 secondsDo we decide that we can make that American dream happen again for working families in Michigan? I say passionately, absolutely. on our watch.
1:13:081 hour, 13 minutes, 8 secondsWe're going to make sure that those kids are reading, that we're bringing back defense industrialbased work, that we are making sure your utility rates
1:13:161 hour, 13 minutes, 16 secondsaren't bigger than your paycheck, that your auto insurance rates are going to get slashed. We're going to cut regulation. We're going to provide
1:13:231 hour, 13 minutes, 23 secondsopportunities for new homeowners to save tax-free, to get that down payment, to get in a new house so they stay in this great state of Michigan.
1:13:361 hour, 13 minutes, 36 seconds[applause]
1:13:371 hour, 13 minutes, 37 secondsI tell you, this really is about that heart and soul of a country. Who do we want to be in November when this is over?
1:13:481 hour, 13 minutes, 48 secondsI say that we're going to be that state that still passionately believes in the future of America, that believes that our kids are going to say have the same
1:13:571 hour, 13 minutes, 57 secondsopportunities that we do. and we're going to have a new generation of great patriots who will stand up, salute the
1:14:041 hour, 14 minutes, 4 secondsflag, and be proud of who we are and our heritage in this great country.
1:14:121 hour, 14 minutes, 12 secondsSo, let me just say with this, thanks for being here. Uh we I couldn't tell you, we we're just couldn't be more excited about how many people decide to
1:14:201 hour, 14 minutes, 20 secondsshow up today. And what it does is cause cuts off this uh media narrative uh that we're just not excited as Republicans
1:14:271 hour, 14 minutes, 27 secondshere. We just don't really care about the outcome here. We're going to be sleeping through now and November. What this tells me is exactly the opposite.
1:14:371 hour, 14 minutes, 37 secondsThose Democrats are not going to know what hit him thanks to you. Hey guys, we have a state to save. Let's get out there, Michigan, and get to work.