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What a great night.
God is so good on anything.
Thank you, New Hampshire, for the love,
the kindness, the support and a great night here tonight.
Thank you so much.
I want to first say
thank you to my husband, who I know is watching right now.
I love you.
We're excited to have.
Oh, I want to thank my kids who are here, Reena Neylon and Josh,
who have really kind of stepped up and just given me the support I need.
You know, you really pull on your family when something like this happens.
And I am incredibly blessed by their support.
I have my parents at home
and I will always say that the way
they raised me to know that we lived in the best country in the world.
But you also know that the best way you appreciate your blessings is to give back.
Thank you, Mom and Dad, I love you so much.
To my siblings, to my in-laws,
to everybody back at home, to Vicki for helping me take care of Mom and Dad.
Thank you for that.
You know, I will tell you, it has been it feels like it's been a lifetime,
but it has been almost a year
that we've been campaigning in New Hampshire, touching every hand,
answering every question, being the last person to leave.
And we had the most amazing thing happen
is the second that we got the endorsement
from Governor Chris Sununu,
I mean, a
true governor that doesn't stand behind a podium.
He shows up at a diner, he shows up at the brewery.
He loves the people of New Hampshire.
He was been with me every single day at every single event.
Chris, I couldn't have done it without him.
And I want to thank
someone who was with me on day one.
He's a patriot.
He's a hard core conservative.
And he is my friend.
General Don Bolduc and Sharon, thank you so
I want to congratulate Donald Trump on his victory tonight.
He earned it.
And I want to acknowledge that.
Now, you've all heard the chatter among the political class.
They're falling all over themselves saying this race is over.
It's not.
Well, I have news for all of them.
New Hampshire is first in the nation.
It is not the last in the nation.
This race is far from over.
There are dozens of states left to go.
And the next one is my sweet
state of South Carolina.
At one point in this campaign,
there were 14 of us running
and we were at 2% in the polls.
Well, I'm a fighter
and I'm scrappy.
And now we're the last one
standing next to Donald Trump.
And today, we got close to half of the vote.
We still have a ways to go,
but we keep moving up.
For a lot of people.
Politics is way too personal.
It's not personal for me.
I voted for Trump twice.
I was proud to serve America in his cabinet.
I agree with many of his policies.
I decided to run because I'm worried about the future of our country
and because it's time to put the negativity and chaos behind us.
We have an economy that's crushing middle class Americans.
We have a border that is totally open and dangerous,
creating a disaster in our country.
We have schools.
We have schools that are failing too many of our children.
And we have a world on fire.
With the war in Europe
and the Middle East and a huge and growing threat from China.
And then you look at Washington, D.C.,
and we have a Congress
that fights about everything and accomplishes
nothing that way.
And we have Joe Biden in the White House making one bad decision after another
when he's making any decisions at all.
Our country's in a real mess.
We need to calm down.
And the question is, who's going to fix it
with Donald Trump?
Republicans have lost almost every competitive election.
We lost the Senate.
We lost the House.
We lost the White House.
We lost in 2018.
We lost in 2020 and we lost in 2020.
To the worst kept secret in politics
is how badly the Democrats want to run against Donald Trump.
And that's the issue.
They know Trump is the only Republican in the country who Joe Biden can defeat.
You can't fix you
can't fix the mess if you don't win an election.
We want to win a Trump nomination is a Biden win
and a Kamala Harris presidency.
Donald Trump loses.
I defeat Biden handily.
I imagine with Donald Trump
you have one bout of chaos after another.
This court case, that controversy, this tweet, that senior moment.
You can't fix Joe Biden's chaos
with Republican chaos.
The other day, Donald Trump accused me
of not providing security at the Capitol on January six.
I know I've long called for mental competency
tests for politicians over the age of 75.
Trump claims
he'd do better than me in one of those tests.
Maybe he would.
Maybe he wouldn't.
But if he thinks that, then
he should have no problem standing on a debate stage with me.
Most Americans
do not want a rematch between Biden
and Trump.
The first party to retire its 80 year old
candidate is going to be the party that wins this election.
And I think it should be the Republicans
that win this election.
So our fight is not over
because we have a country to save.
And in the next two months,
millions of voters in over 20
states will have their say, yes, we should honor them
and allow them to vote.
And guess what?
In the next two months, Joe Biden
isn't going to get any younger or any better.
We'll have all the time
we need to defeat Joe Biden
when we get to South Carolina.
Donald Trump is going to have a harder time falsely attacking me.
The great people of South Carolina know I cut their taxes.
They know that.
They know I signed the toughest illegal immigration bill in the country.
They know we passed voter I.D.
and tort reform and ethics reform.
And they know we moved 35,000 people from welfare to work. Yes.
Every
time I've run for office in South Carolina,
I've beaten the political establishment.
Yes, they're lined up against me again.
That's no surprise.
But South Carolina voters don't want a coronation.
They want an election.
And we're going to give them one
because we are just getting started.
Thank you for the energy
and thank you.
Thank you for the love.
New Hampshire.
We're going home to South Carolina.