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I also want to thank my entire family—Don and Kimberly, Ivanka and Jared, Eric and Lara, Tiffany and Michael, Barron, and of course, my 10 wonderful grandchildren.

I am thrilled to have a new friend and partner fighting by my side: the next Vice President VICE of the United States, the current Senator from Ohio, J.D. Vance, and his incredible wife, Usha.

And a very special thank you to the extraordinary people of Milwaukee and the great state of Wisconsin for hosting this outstanding convention.

I am here tonight to lay out a vision for the whole nation. To every citizen, whether you are young or old, man or woman, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, I extend to you a hand of loyalty and friendship.

Together, we will lead America to new heights of greatness like the world has never seen before.

Under our leadership, the United States will be respected again. No nation will question our power. No enemy will doubt our might. Our borders will be totally secure. Our economy will soar. We will return law and order to our streets, patriotism to our schools, and importantly, we will restore peace, stability, and harmony all throughout the world.

But to achieve this future, we must first rescue our nation from failed leadership. This will be the most important election in the history of our country.

Under the current administration, we are a nation in decline.

We have an inflation crisis that is making life unaffordable, ravaging the incomes of working and low-income families, and crushing our people.

We also have an illegal immigration crisis – a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease, and destruction to communities all across our land.

Then there is an international crisis the likes of which the world has seldom seen. War is now raging in Europe and the Middle East, a growing specter of conflict hangs over Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, and all of Asia, and our planet is teetering on the edge of World War III and this will be a war like no other.

It is time for a change. We simply cannot sustain four more years of this administration. So tonight, I make this pledge to the great people of America.

I will end the devastating inflation crisis immediately, bring down interest rates, and lower the cost of energy—we will drill, baby drill, which will lead to a large-scale decline in prices.

I will end the illegal immigration crisis by closing our border and finishing the wall, most of which I have already built.

I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created—including the horrible war with Russia and Ukraine, and the war caused by the attack on Israel, both of which would never have happened if I were president.

Together, we will restore vision, strength, competence, and common sense to the Oval Office. Just a few short years ago under my presidency, we had the most secure border and the best economy in the history of our country. We had no inflation, soaring incomes, and the world was at peace.

But in less than four years, our opponents have turned incredible success into unparalleled tragedy and failure.

Today, our cities are flooded with illegal aliens. Americans are being squeezed out of the labor force and their jobs taken. Inflation has wiped out the life savings of our citizens and forced the middle class into a state of depression and despair.

We cannot, and will not, let this continue. Less than four years ago, we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again. With proper leadership, every disaster we are now enduring will be fixed—and fixed quickly.

So tonight, whether you’ve supported me in the past or not, I hope you will support me in the future because I will bring back the American Dream. With great humility, I am asking you to be excited about the future of our country.

This week, the entire Republican party has formally adopted an agenda for America’s renewal.

First, we must get economic relief to our citizens. Starting on Day 1, we will drive down prices and Make America affordable again!

Under this administration, groceries are up 50%, gasoline is up 60%, mortgage rates have quadrupled, and you can’t get the money anyway. Total household costs have increased an average of $28,000 per family.

Republicans have a plan to bring down prices, and bring them down fast. By slashing energy costs, we will, in turn, reduce the cost of transportation, manufacturing, and all household goods. We have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country—we as a nation will make a fortune with oil and gas.

Next, we will end the ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars that is fueling the inflation crisis. And all of the trillions of dollars that are sitting there not yet spent, will be redirected for important projects like roads, bridges, dams, and we will not allow it to be spent on the meaningless 'Green New Scam.'

I will end the Electric Vehicle Mandate on Day 1 — thereby saving the U.S. auto industry from complete obliteration, and saving U.S. customers thousands of dollars per car.

I will bring auto jobs back to our country, through the proper use of taxes, tariffs, and incentives, and will not allow massive auto manufacturing plants to be built in Mexico, China, or other countries, where they send the product back to the United States, and steal our jobs, creating a hopeless situation for our companies and autoworkers.

We have long been taken advantage of by other countries, often being considered our allies. We lose jobs and revenue, they gain everything, and wipe out our businesses. I stopped it four years ago, and I will stop it again. We will not let countries come in, take our jobs, and plunder our nation.

The way they will sell their product in America is to build it in America, and only in America. This will create massive jobs and wealth for our country.

At the center of our plan for economic relief are massive tax cuts for workers—and that includes no tax on tips. That means if you are a restaurant worker, bartender, hospitality worker, caddy, barber, mover, driver, or anyone else who relies on tip income, your tips will be 100% yours.

I gave the biggest tax cut in history, bigger than the Reagan tax cuts, but I am going to lower taxes still further.

By contrast, Democrats have promised to end the Trump tax cuts and impose a record-setting $5 trillion tax hike. I am going to lower taxes—Democrats are going to raise taxes.

I am going to protect Social Security and Medicare—Democrats are going to destroy Social Security and Medicare.

Under my plan, incomes will skyrocket, inflation will vanish, jobs will come roaring back, and the middle class will prosper like never before.

But no hope or dream we have for America can succeed unless we stop the illegal immigrant invasion at our southern border.

At the heart of the Republican platform is our pledge to end this border nightmare and to fully restore the sacred and sovereign borders of the United States of America—on Day 1.

Less than four years ago, I handed this administration the strongest border in American history.

We ended all catch-and-release. Shut down asylum fraud. Stopped human trafficking and forged historic agreements to keep illegal aliens on foreign soil.

Under the Trump Administration, if you came in illegally, you were apprehended immediately and deported.

The current administration terminated every single one of those great Trump policies that I put in place to seal the border.

They suspended wall construction, ended 'remain in Mexico,' canceled our 'Safe Third' agreements, demolished Title 42, implemented nationwide catch-and-release, and took 93 executive actions to throw open our border to the world.

The greatest invasion in history is taking place right here in our country—they are coming in from every corner of the earth, not just from South America, but from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—they’re coming from everywhere, and this administration does nothing to stop them.

They are coming from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums, and terrorists at levels never seen before.

Meanwhile, our crime rate is going up, while crime statistics all over the world are plunging. That’s because they’re delivering their murderers, drug dealers, terrorists, and criminals of all shapes and forms, into the United States.

We have become a dumping ground for the world, which is laughing at us. They think we’re stupid. They can’t believe what they’re getting away with, but getting away with it they are.

In Venezuela, crime is down 72%. In El Salvador, murders are down 70%. The world’s criminals are coming here, to a town near you—and are being sent by their governments because their governments are smarter than ours.

Tonight, America, this is my vow: I will not let these killers and criminals into our country. I will keep our sons and daughters safe.

As we bring security to our streets, we will help bring stability to the world. I was the first president in modern times to start no new wars.

There was peace in Europe and the Middle East. Under President Bush, Russia invaded Georgia. Under President Obama, Russia took Crimea. Under the current administration, Russia is after all of Ukraine. Under President Trump, Russia took nothing.

We defeated 100% of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, something that was going to take five years, and I did it in two months. I stopped the missile launches from North Korea.

Iran was weak, broke, and wanted to make a deal—they were not spending money on Hamas, Hezbollah or other carriers of terror, and Iran was never going to have a nuclear weapon. Now, they can have one within 90 days, and they have $300 billion dollars to spread terror across the region.

Our opponents inherited a world at peace and turned it into a planet of war.

It began to unravel with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the worst humiliation in the history of our country. Thirteen heroic U.S. servicemembers were tragically and needlessly killed, 45 others were horrifically wounded, and $85 billion dollars’ worth of military equipment was left behind, along with many American citizens.

Emboldened by that disaster, Russia invaded Ukraine. Israel endured the worst attack in its history. Now China is circling Taiwan, and Russian warships and nuclear submarines are operating 60 miles off our coasts in Cuba, and the media doesn’t want to talk about it.

And to the entire world, we want our hostages back—and they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price. With our victory in November, the years of war -  weakness and chaos will be over.

We will replenish our military, and build an iron dome missile defense system to ensure that no enemy can strike our homeland—and this great iron dome will all be made in the U.S.

We will unleash the power of American innovation—and as we do, we will soon be on the verge of finding the cures to cancer, Alzheimer’s, and many other diseases.

We will restore and renovate our nation’s once-great cities, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again–and that includes our nation’s capital in Washington D.C. We will be proud of our capital again.

America is on the cusp of a new Golden Age, but we must have the courage to seize it.

Just a few short days ago, my journey with you nearly ended. And yet here we are tonight, all gathered together, talking about the future, promise, and renewal of America. We live in a world of miracles.

None of us knows God’s plan or where life’s adventure will take us. But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on earth is a gift from God. We have to make the most of every day for the people and country we love.

For too long, our nation has settled for too little. You have been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families.

I am here tonight with the opposite message: Your expectations are not big enough. It is time to start expecting and demanding the best leadership in the world, leadership that is bold, dynamic, relentless, and fearless.

We are Americans. Ambition is our heritage. Greatness is our birthright. 

But as long as our energies are spent fighting each other, our destiny will remain out of reach. We must instead take that energy and use it to realize our country’s true potential—and write our own thrilling chapter of the American story.

Tonight, I ask for your partnership, for your support, and I am humbly asking for your vote. Every day, I will strive to honor the trust you have placed in me, and I will never let you down.

To all of the forgotten men and women who have been neglected, abandoned, and left behind, you will be forgotten no longer. We will press forward, and together, we will win, win, win.

Nothing will sway us. Nothing will slow us. And no one will stop us.
No matter what dangers come our way, no matter what obstacles lie in our path, we will keep striving toward our shared and glorious destiny—and we will not fail.

Together, we will save this country, we will restore the Republic, and we will usher in the rich and wonderful tomorrows that our people truly deserve.

America’s future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, freer, greater, and more united than ever before.