President-Elect Marco Rubio's Victory Speech
Own creation
Location : TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida
Date : November 5, 2024
Thank you! Thank you all! Thank you! Thank you all very much, my friends! Thank you so very, very much! Gracias! Gracias a todos!
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We had a great, long and historic night. This victory is a special and historic victory. This is your victory. This is America's victory.
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A few moments ago, I received a phone call from Senator Duckworth who has congratulated me for this victory. I congratulate her for the campaign she led for America's cause. Though we were opponents, I continue to have respect for her service to our country. We may have campaigned against each other but it's only because we love this country deeply and we care so strongly about its future and we all understand that the most important thing about this country is what unites us together as Americans, including our common goal which is to keep the American Dream alive and making it available for all Americans.
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I want to thank my running mate, my friend and partner and the next Vice-President of the United States John James for his military service to our country protecting it from terrorism and forces of tyranny and opression as well as for the efforts and assistance he gave to me in spreading our message of unity, hope and opportunity for America to move our country in the right direction.
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I want to thank my wife and the love of my life and America's next First Lady Jeanette Rubio for her strong and wonderful efforts to our victory. Jeanette, my life got better every single day since you accepted to marry me and to share your life with me. I love you, Jeanette!
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Though they are not around with us, I want to thank my parents who are watching us from haven, for the support they have given to me all of my life whether it's on the campaign trail or during the time they worked as a housekeeper and bartender during a time they were living paycheck to paycheck but succeeded, thanks to the hard work of 2 Cuban immigrants who were not speaking a single word of English, to hand their children all the opportunities they couldn't have.
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And I want to thank my four children for being with me on the road and on the campaign trail and for their support and their contributions, because this is about our children’s future, about America’s future.
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Amanda, Daniella, Anthony and Dominick, before our eyes, you're growing up to become four strong, smart and beautiful women and men like your mom and I.
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Our four children as well as all of our children across this country are growing up in a rising shining America that is now more prosperous, safer, fairer and stronger than ever before.
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Thanks to tax reform, free enterprise, progress in exploiting our own sources of energy and promotion of free trade, our economy is now stronger than ever before, recovering from a era of sluggish through the creation of 7 and-a-half million new jobs, the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years, the lowest Hispanic, African-American, Asian-American and youth unemployment rates ever and a revival of our country’s auto industry and manufacturing sector. It is our duty to work to make sure that every American has a bright future and that we maintain and expand America’s status as the land of opportunity, possibility, liberty and justice for all. And as your President, I will fight each and everyday to make sure we get there.
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Just like President John F. Kennedy said, we should not ask what our country can do for us, but what we can do for our country. Tonight, you have chosen the continuity of progress, greatness, prosperity and security and you have also chosen unity and collaboration because we understand that it is only together that we can overcome our challenges, because what makes America a special nation is what holds us together as a diverse, great, free and united nation.
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As Abraham Lincoln once said, a house divided against itself cannot stand. We are Americans first, we are Americans last, we are Americans always. Tonight, we're answering this question about what we can do for our country : we, the people - Republicans, Democrats, independents and libertarians - will work together to ensure economic growth and progress, to unite this country, to stand with our allies and to defeat our enemies. I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together and accomplish the common goals we can only accomplish together to make sure we will guarantee prosperity, freedom and success for all Americans and that includes making government work for the people not for the government itself; reducing taxes for the middle-class and lower-income Americans; making America the best place in the world to do business; freeing us from our dependence on foreign energy by taking advantage of all of America’s sources of energy and exploiting them here at home for the sake of America’s energy independence to encourage job creation and a clean environment through the development and use of more solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric energies, which will also deprive anti-American forces of revenues from our energy dependence; reducing our deficit; protecting the American people’s constitutional rights and freedoms; fixing our immigration system; and focusing on infrastructure development here in America to facilitate economic activity through this country and ensure the implementation of new businesses, favoring further job creation for all Americans. That is the way we can get this country to long-term economic prosperity, to a balanced budget and to full-employment.
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Thanks to a restoration of American leadership as well as by rebuilding our military, building strong alliances and coalitions and by going after the terrorists wherever they hide, we made strong progress in preserving peace around the world : we defeated ISIS, eliminated their core leadership, got the world to the denuclearization of North Korea and Iran, supported Kurdistan on its way to independence, liberated Turkey from Erdogan’s tyranny, derailed Vladimir Putin’s vicious expansionist policies. As a result, our troops are increasingly coming back home, we’ve been taking care of our veterans and we’ll continue to do so, the Middle East is now a haven for peace and we’re witnessing a remarkable transition towards a nuclear-free world. We now have an opportunity for long-term global peace, an opportunity that we can’t afford to miss. So as President and Commander-in-Chief, I will work with both parties to put forward creative policies that will bring us together to advance policies that will keep America safe, guarantee unprecedented and steady peace through strength because that is a goal shared by all Americans. Only together, we can achieve that goal. Time after time, throughout history, in the face of great danger, Republicans and Democrats worked together to ensure that freedom would not falter, from World War I to liberating Europe from fascism and Nazi terror, opression and anti-Jewish persecution during World War II; from pushing the Red Army out of Iran to aiding Western European nations in their economic recovery after World War II and preventing them from falling under communist influence (referring to the Marshall Plan that received bipartisan support from both Republicans and Democrats); from standing up to the Soviet Union to liberating Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq; from taking out the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks to helping restore democracy and justice in Venezuela. And every time, we succeeded because we worked together to preserve and expand freedom and democracy, to keep America’s status as the most powerful military in the world and to preserve America’s status as a leader on the world stage. By staying on offense against terror and through a modernization of our military through the development of unmanned arsenal, we will finally defeat radical Islamic terrorism without requiring the deployment of more troops. As President, I will bring both parties together to get ethnic cleansing recognized as a specific crime to help prevent any genocide in Istantinople and to defend the freedom of all peoples on Earth, including Muslims and non-Greek people and we are defenders of freedom of religion; to normalize our relations with Sergei Polonsky’s Russia to turn the page to a quarter-century of escalation, dismantle dangerous Russian nuclear weapons that are representing a threat to global peace, maintain and strengthen peace and stability in the Middle East and Europe, ensure the respect of human rights around the world; and to work with our allies to ratify the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty to prohibit the use of fissile material for the purpose of building nuclear weapons and WMDs, which will finally eliminate the risk of nuclear war and accomplish our path to a nuclear-free world. That way we will grant our children and grandchildren the opportunity to live and grow up in a world of freedom and peace.
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Meanwhile, we will take care of our veterans who sacrificed so much for our country’s freedom and security by investing into the development of social security and job training programs for our men and women in uniform to make sure they will earn the best post-military service careers they can ever imagine. We will focus on giving our children decent, fair and equal access to education by giving them the tools and the skills they need to succeed in the best schools in the world so we can help create the jobs of tomorrow.
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As my father always told 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.”
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Today it is now possible for our children and grandchildren to accomplish all the things that previous generations couldn’t have and as President of the United States, I will fight to make sure that they will be the most prosperous, freest and safest generation of Americans that ever lived. Accomplishing all those goals and fulfilling America’s promise requires the broad support of Americans and so today I want to speak to every person no matter who you voted for : to make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support and I will work to earn it whether or not you voted for me. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. Because when we come together and work together, there is no limit to America’s greatness. And together, we the people of the United States of America, we will, with God’s grace, fight for what is right and work together, no matter our beliefs and no matter who you voted for, to preserve America's status as the greatest nation in the history of mankind and as the hope of the Earth, to secure our future and to keep moving America forward.
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Thank you! Thank you all! God bless you all, my fellow Americans and God bless the United States of America!
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Own creation; Own creation
