‘I’m Telling You, It’s Everywhere…’: Mike Johnson’s Urgent Warning to GOP Before Crucial Midterms

[00:00:00]I was starting to see many mamanis pop up around the country and people were like, "Oh, that's a New York thing." I said, "No, no, it's I'm telling you, it's everywhere." And you now you see it happening. By our count, there's at least 28 of them that have already either won a primary or in position to win. These are openly avowed communists.

[00:00:16]Okay, listen. This is a midterm year unlike any other. I'm telling you, this is shaping up to be an allout fateful battle for the future of the country.

[00:00:27]Y'all make me feel right at home. Thank you so much. Look, how would you like to follow a Guinness Book of Worlds Records flag? Okay. Thanks a lot, Bob. Thanks a lot, Logan. Did an extraordinary job. What a great investment this is going to be.

[00:00:43]What a testimony. And um I think they might have mentioned it, but we're going to try to get it in the new Grand Ballroom on the White House. How about that?

[00:00:52][applause] >> President Trump's going to love it. Um I I uh I want to really give my heartfelt appreciation to Bob for all that we do at the family leader on the front lines of the culture and trying to engage the church and make a difference in our politics and in policy and all the rest. And you certainly do. I want to thank everybody who had a big part in in making this summit possible. I'm told this is the 15th year of it. Um, in my mind, it's been going on for half a century because I've been hearing about this so much. [snorts] And I've been wanting to attend every year, but we could never make the schedule match up.

[00:01:29]And I'm so grateful that uh God's arranged it so I could be here with you today. And I want to give a special thanks to the great people of the extraordinary state of Iowa because you set an example for the whole country.

[00:01:39]You really do. And what happens here has an impact that reverberates throughout the nation. You know that. And so as a it's a stewardship obligation that comes with that. and you all live out the values of faith and family and freedom as well as anybody in any state. And I'm truly personally grateful for your example and how you do that. So, it's my honor to be with you today. Um, you all know that we're in a spiritual battle right now. I know I'm preaching to the I was going to say the choir. This is the honor choir. Okay, I'm preaching to the honor choir. You know, we're in a spiritual battle and it requires us to walk circumspectly as the scripture says and to stand on that eternal truth that we know will guide our nation through the dire straits. We are having those challenges today. In fact, we're facing challenges right now that are greater than at any time in our lives. And I know I don't have to demonstrate that for you with all the evidence you're watching it. This is the group that's savvy. You know what's happening. Psalm 113 is a is a passage of scripture I think about a lot. It's probably been cited here already today. But if the foundations be destroyed, what will the righteous do? And as I always remind my friends, that is not a rhetorical question. And it's one that we have to answer right now in real time because the foundations are under direct assault. And if you're going to defend the foundations, if we're going to ask everyone to stand in the gap with us and defend and hold those foundations, we understand that they're so important.

[00:02:58]We are we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the greatest nation in the history of the world. And it's not even close. We are the most free, most successful, most powerful, most benevolent nation that has ever been.

[00:03:10]But it is not by happen stance. is because we were built on these very firm foundations and they're under direct assault. Uh about 24 hours ago, I was in Washington and and um I had the occasion to speak to all the summer interns on Capitol Hill. There's about I think it's 7 or 800 students there from universities across the country. They're on six or eight week uh rotations, but they were all there together. And I had them in a big room just like this. And you know that's the the annual event where the speaker of the house talks to the interns and you tell them about success principles and how to be a good intern, how to make the most out of your internship, how to network, all that. I did a little bit of that, but I got right to the to the things that are the most important. I am apt these days not to waste any time and I know that you feel the same because these are serious moments of history that we are living through. And so what I did with these interns is I did a little illustration that I used to do when before I became speaker of the house. uh members of Congress get lots of invitations to go speak at university campuses, college campuses, and the like. And I used to accept every one of those that I could because I think it's so important. See, we have to make sure that we're passing the baton along to the generation that comes behind us. And you all know that many of them have been indoctrinated instead of educated. So, I would go on these university campuses and I would I would do a little exercise. I would usually have a large whiteboard on the on the the stage with me. I'd request that in advance. And I told the students yesterday, I said, I brought a whiteboard and I said, "Let me let me just show you a little illustration that I do on college campuses." And I said, "First of all, raise your hand." I asked the students, "Raise your hand if you agree that you live in the greatest nation in the history of the world." And it would break your hearts in this room that there's only a few hands that go up on every campus. I say, "Well, put your hands down. Would you, if you don't agree that you live in the greatest nation in the history of the world, would you at least agree with me that you live in a great nation?" And you'd get a few more hands go up. I say, "Look, put your hands down. I'm a constitutional law attorney. I am a historian. I could put on my evidence and put on my full case today and prove to you you live in the greatest nation.

[00:05:04]But let me show you in a quick summary of just six words on a board. I want to share this with you because it's an easy illustration. I believe the 250th, the semiquincential is a great opportunity for us to turn this into a teachable moment. How do we explain concisely to the generations coming behind us what makes America so different and exceptional and extraordinary? What are the foundations? So I go up on the whiteboard and I did this with the students just yesterday on Capitol Hill.

[00:05:31]I've done it on the university campuses.

[00:05:32]I go up and I say, "Let me show you in just six words. This distinction, just a few words, this distinction of your country or the others." So I go up on this big white board that's on the stage and I write just a few words on the board. I write G O D, God, really big at the top of the board. I go halfway down the board, I wrote I write the word king with a lowercase K. I go to the bottom of the board and I write the people back slash the subjects. I draw a bunch of arrows down from king to the the the people of the subjects. So I stand back and I look at that and I say, "Now what you're seeing here is sort of a word picture. This is a a depiction of a philosophy that was known as the divine right of kings. This is the philosophy that was followed by it was a medieval European notion that there's an almighty that hovers above us. But the king, the earthly king is the sovereign. The king is the boss. Indeed, they recognized they thought that the king was the one that can give you tell you what property you can hold, what what rights you have.

[00:06:23]Often sometimes who you can marry, how many children you can have. the king is the boss. Well, all that changed in 1776 because a group of patriots came along and you all know, everybody in this audience knows 56 of the 56 signers of the declaration, many of them had seminary degrees. Virtually all of them were students of scripture and they understood from God's word that that paradigm is not right.

[00:06:48]They GK Chester is the great British philosopher and statesman. He said one time, "America is the only nation in the world that was founded upon a creed."

[00:06:56]And he said, "It's listed with almost theological lucidity or clarity in the Declaration of Independence." What is the creed? What we just celebrated earlier this month. We hold these truths to be self-evident. Jefferson wrote on behalf of the committee of five, Adams, Franklin, a couple of others were there with them, Sherman, Livingston. They we hold these truths to be self-evident.

[00:07:16]And when I'm reading this to university students, I always pause which with each operative word and I say, "What? But wait just a moment. What is a self-evident truth? And they will ultimately conclude it's something that's obvious. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. Stop. Wait a minute. Do you notice it doesn't say born equal? It says created equal by God. We all these truths be self-evident that all men are created equal and they are endowed by their creator with certain inalable rights. That among those the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That language doesn't seem so revolutionary today, but boy was it in 1776.

[00:07:51]It it was it it was earthshattering. We were the first nation in the history of the world to boldly proclaim the eternal truth that our rights do not come from government. They come from God himself.

[00:08:03]Now, I walked the students through the implications of that. I did this just yesterday on Capitol Hill in my non-seular speech.

[00:08:12]And I told him, I said, "Look, what I'm saying to you is exactly what the founders said. It's what previous generations of leaders said. This is not radical stuff. It seems unfamiliar to you now, but this is the history of your country." You see, they that the the the nation's creed, that statement of faith in the second paragraph of the declaration is the foundational principle that put America on course to become the world's great superpower, to become the most free, successful, most powerful, most benevolent of all time.

[00:08:38]And it has huge implications because if that statement is true, and we know it is, if scripture that informs it is true, and we know it is, it means every single person is made in God's image.

[00:08:51]The men who wrote that document understood that too. And if that's true, I tell the students, think about it. If every single person is made in God's image means every single person has inestimable dignity and value. And your value is not related in any way to the color of your skin, what zip code you live in, where you go to school, what your talents are. Your value is inherent because it's given to you by God. Now, here's the problem. Remember, I have on the whiteboard, God, King, the people, the subjects. So, I take the I take an eraser and I go up to the whiteboard. I did this yesterday. And I erase all the stuff in the middle. I erase king. I erase the arrows that went down to the people. I erase the word the the subjects. All that's left on the board now is God and the people. So I draw all the arrows now down straight from God to the people. And I step back and I say that in a word picture is the essence of your country. And we're the first nation in the history of the world that did that. We erased the middleman. We erased all this. We recognize that we owe our allegiance and our responsibility to a power higher than the civil authorities because it was God who gives us our rights. That is the premise of our nation. Now, the problem I tell university students and on these campuses and I told the kids yesterday, I said, "The problem is you're living in a in an age in a generation in a culture that no longer understands the foundational principles. In fact, I take the eraser again and I go back to the board and I erase G O D. I erase all the arrows that go down to the people because there's nothing in above anymore. And now the only words left on the board are the people. And I say, my friends, this is where we are headed because the dominant forces in the culture, so many of them are trying to convince you that there is no God. That is that violates the foundational principle, the basic building block, the foundation of our country. It's wrong.

[00:10:37]Historically wrong, empirically wrong.

[00:10:40]It is wrong in every way and it is unamerican.

[00:10:42]I said, ' Because if this is the reality, and I get I get this big black marker and I obviously circle just the people alone themselves on the board, right? I step back and I say, if that's our reality, we're in serious trouble.

[00:10:53]And if you think that's a good uh idea, you are not a student of history because you know what that describes right there? That is the basis of Marxism, communism, socialism.

[00:11:05]You see, Marxism, communism, and socialism begin with the premise that there is no God. And there's a whole different set of implications that follow that because if there is no God, it means all that thing about having everybody having inestimable dignity and value doesn't apply anymore, right? In fact, you don't have any individual dignity or liberty or value that's inherent. You're just another social animal. You're just part of the herd. By the way, that is the basis of socialism.

[00:11:31]Okay? And you know what happens to the to the social animals and the herd? They got to be directed, controlled, coralled. They might provide for them a little bit, give them some free stuff, but they're certainly going to take away their freedom. And ultimately, it leads to death. I told the students with their eyes getting a little wider. I said, "Let me tell you something. This idea of socialism, it's a Marxist idea. Marxism has led to the murder of tens of millions of innocent people in the 20th century alone. It is a trail to death. Then I'm here to tell you it's wrong because it begins with the wrong premise. You cannot reject the founding ideal, the creed of America, and be able to defend your freedom. Th those are those are mutually exclusive pursuits. Ronald Reagan used to say, you know, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not passed along in the bloodstream. He said, it's got to be fought for, protected. It's got to be defended. It's going to be taught, pass it along to the next generation, or they will not have the same liberty, opportunity, and security that we have known, and for too long take it for granted. And right now, my friends, we are in an allout battle for those basic principles. It would have been unthinkable if somebody had told me 10 years ago, on the 250th anniversary year, you guys are going to be engaged in a fight to keep a constitutional republic. I wouldn't have believed it. I mean, 30 years ago in in Washington, the Republicans and Democrats were arguing over marginal tax rates and shades of regulation. That that's not the contest right now. Right now, we're in a battle, an all-out battle to determine if we were going to remain one nation under God. If we're going to remain and keep a constitutional republic or trade it in, dismantle the foundations, and go down this dark, dangerous, deadly road of communism.

[00:13:13]Not on our watch. Okay? Not on our watch. [applause] Now, let me tell you what's happening right now. The speaker of the house has a unique job. We do the, you know, the speaker's in charge of the legislative agenda. The in charge of the campaigns, the political side of everything. Also, the fundraising. I have to raise $400 million by the end of October. And no press, no pressure. Uh, it's fine. By God's grace, we're on track to do it.

[00:13:41]But I can't take my foot off the gas for one second. So, every day, we're not in session. And I'm out on the road and I'm traveling to states, the blue states, swing districts, and we go to all over the place. And I've been noticing a trend for quite some time. And I've been trying to raise the alarms to everybody.

[00:13:54]Listen, this is a midterm year unlike any other. I'm telling you, this is shaping up to be an allout fateful battle for the future of the country.

[00:14:02]And I started saying weeks ago that I was starting to see many mamanis pop up around the country. And people were like, "Oh, that's a New York thing." I said, "No, no, it's I'm telling you, it's everywhere." And you [snorts] now you see it happening. By our count, there's at least 28 of them that have already either won a primary or in position to win. These are openly avowed communists. Okay? They call themselves sweet little names. Democratic Socialist. Nuh-uh.

[00:14:26]That that it's dangerous stuff. The DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America is their is their the banner under which they're working right now. But you should go on and see what their published platform is. I'm sure it's been covered here already, but but I they about two weeks ago they came out with the they put in writing what their objectives are. You know, you've seen this, I'm sure. They want no borders for the United States. No borders means anybody who can claw their way across that border gets automatic amnesty without any exclusions for hardened criminals or terrorists. They don't want prisons. They call that the carceral state and they just think it's too oppressive. No prisons. They want to get rid of the United States Senate. They want to abolish the US Senate. Now, I'm frustrated with the Senate sometimes, but I don't want to abolish it. Okay? Uh they want to remove the presidency. They want one unicameal body, the House, to run the entire government because they're planning to have Marxists take over the majority in the House. They don't want the allowance of private property. They don't want, this is all in writing, my friends. They don't want corporations, private, they don't want the free market. They want the government to take over the means of production and control. This is real time stuff. This is what we're facing right now. We're not having a debate about marginal tax rates anymore. We're we're trying to determine whether we're going to stay on course. And I'm telling you, Iowa is in the center of this battle. You are literally tip of the spear on the front lines. What happens in Iowa has a big influence around the country. And we're going to we're going to do our part here. We're in critically important races in in in Iowa here. I'm honored to work with your congressional delegation. They're small by number, but they are mighty and they punch way above their weight limit. You've got great representatives and we got a couple more going to be joining them in the fall.

[00:16:10]And and sadly, many of them are running against candidates this cycle right here in Iowa who, for example, have criticized Iowa as being too Christian.

[00:16:21]Um, they support teaching sex education to kindergarteners. They voted to make it easier for sex offenders to remove their names from the registry. They want to allow biological men and women's sports. They support taxpayer funded gender transition surgeries.

[00:16:37]One of these candidates running against one of our incumbents, the the the lady running against Zach Nun performed a Satanist wedding not long ago. These people are running for Congress. Okay.

[00:16:48]Radical views like this combined with this open embrace of communism. This is what we're up against right now. In the history of America, there have only been a handful of times when the actual experiment of self-governance was on the ballot. And it just so happens that this November is that time. It's not just left or right. We're we're we're trying to maintain the very foundations. If the foundations be destroyed, what will the righteous do? This is a spiritual battle. Now, right now, we need clarity, conviction, and consistency more than we have ever had. We we have to be able to explain and and again pass along to the people coming behind us what it is we are defending and and and people are often asked these days like what what does it mean to be a a conservative?

[00:17:33]What is what is American conservatism?

[00:17:35]In fact, I I I asked this question intentionally of my own colleagues certainly of candidates that we're recruiting to run for Congress. I'm trying to do a worldview evaluation of people. I don't want to elect show ponies. I need workh horses and people who understand the foundational truths, what the stakes are and what we're doing and what we're trying to defend.

[00:17:54]This this is in summary, you can define American conservatism a lot of ways, but I I want to posit to you what I call the seven core principles of American conservatism. I think it boils down if you had to say it simplest simplest summary I would say it's individual freedom limited government the rule of law peace through strength fiscal responsibility free markets and human dignity and under each of those or subcategories for example under human dignity is the sanctity of all human life we believe these principles okay yeah that's Bob thank you Bob I know [applause] we the these principles are so essential. They're the they're the principles of American conservatism, but honestly, more foundationally than that, they are the principles of America itself. Each one of those principles comes out of an eternal truth that derived straight from scripture. These are the ideas that informed the founders. These are ideas that have been handed down to us. And by the way, they're admonitions echoed down through the generations to you and me. The father of our country, George Washington. Have y'all seen the new movie Young Washington? You should. I I Okay, it's awesome. Good. Yes. Amazing.

[00:19:06]By the way, I was with one of the producers just two nights ago and he said, "We're already working on the sequel." So, hey, there's going to be more. [snorts] >> We need more of that. Um, but Washington was the father of our country and and he famously said in his farewell address, he was giving all the advice to us, everybody who would follow. You know, they created this grand experiment in self-governance. They didn't know how long it would last because no one had ever done this before, but they believed they were divinely inspired to set it up this way. And they were. We have a matchless constitution. It's the oldest surviving one as you know and everybody has tried to emulate what we've been able to create because ours is based on the truth of scripture. But Washington in his farewell address he tried to give us the advice of how to keep a republic.

[00:19:45]And he gave lots of advice. He said for example you know watch out for a large national debt. Well we failed that one.

[00:19:51]Uh he said watch out for too many foreign alliances. Okay. Uh watch out for political parties and factionalism.

[00:19:58]That'll really be divisive and dangerous. Yeah. Fail, fail, fail. Okay.

[00:20:01]Well, he had this this this provision in his farewell address that we read every year on the anniversary of his birthday in the House and Senate. And he said sort of in a summary statement. But you know what? Of quote, of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.

[00:20:21]They are the supports of a free republic. John Adams said, "Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Lincoln said in the Gettysburg address many years later, he said, "We are dedicated to this proposition that we are one nation under God." Remember the whiteboard, and that a government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

[00:20:43]If you were all with me on a spiritual heritage tour, which I which I do around the capital when I have time, I would take y'all onto the house chamber into the house chamber and on the floor. And if you walk in with eye level, what you see, the first thing you see, it's unmistakable is in God we trust.

[00:20:58]emlazing right there on the marble right above the head of the speaker. This this the rostrum, the big podium. It's right there in the center. And if if I would show you if we were there tonight, I would show you uh open up the book.

[00:21:10]There's a visitor's guide. It says visitors guide to the people's house. If you go down to page 20, about 34 way down the page, it explains why how that got there and when. You know what it says in the book? This is instructive.

[00:21:20]It says in 1962, Congress voted to place in God we trust above the speaker's rostrm as a rebuke to the Soviets philosophy during the cold war.

[00:21:33]What was the Soviets philosophy during the cold war? Marxism.

[00:21:37]Communism. You know, socialism is just a step to communism, which is the utopia that Markx envisioned.

[00:21:43]Congress saw fit in the 60s at the height of the cold war to put that right there above the speaker's roster because they wanted every member of Congress who was elected to serve in posterity in future to come in and have to look at that. You have you can't miss it. You got to look right up there the whole the whole time. They wanted a constant reminder that that is what is distinguishes us from the the communist and communism all these other isms. Our philosophy is based on our Judeo-Christian heritage. The scripture that was given to us by God. We set ourselves up according in accordance with that and we are one nation under him. And if we ever forget that, we're in big trouble. It's it's unthinkable.

[00:22:20]Would have been unthinkable to the members of Congress in 1962 that people would run on a platform of communism to be elected into the body. We are here to stop that. Okay? And we must. We got to do that.

[00:22:35][applause] Listen, this is a philosophical battle.

[00:22:42]Of course, it's a political battle, but ultimately it's a battle for the human heart. And it is. And and God has called us to engage, contend for the faith once and for all that was given to the saints. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love and of sound mind. It is our duty today not to drive fear into the hearts of our neighbors. No, the opposite. We are to love them and to show them the truth in love. There's a way to win these battles and win hearts at the same time. And that is what we are called to do. So while I hate the philosophy, I love the people who are espousing it because they're misled.

[00:23:17]They're lost. And we're supposed to go right into the center of that without fear because we know who we serve. If I was taking you on that tour of the capital, I would also after we went through the House chamber, I'd walk you back towards the rotunda, uh, which is that the capital dome is one of the most recognized symbols in all the world cuz everybody knows that because it represents freedom and liberty, the great nation of the United States of America. But on the way to the rotunda, between the house chamber and the rotunda, we would walk through that that section of the capital is called now called Statuary Hall. That used to be where Congress met from 1807 to 1857 until we outgrew it. We built the large existing chamber now. The House met in in what is now Statuary Hall and it's filled with statues. Every every state, as you know, gets two statues to display in the capital and there's statues all around Statuary Hall. It's a beautiful room. And I would walk you through and we'd stop at a at a bronze plate that is on the floor. There are lots of bronze plates. Anyone who served in the House and later became president has one of those plates. famous names on the floor, but I go to one in particular with the groups I'm I'm walking through and I I stand there to tell them the following.

[00:24:25]This is the plate, as you see, of John Quincy Adams. I know I've got a bunch of historians in here, and you know, John Quincy Adams, the the son of John Adams and Abigail Adams. He was our sixth president. He's the only person in the history of America that that ran for the House of Representatives for Congress after serving as president because who would do that, right?

[00:24:46]But he but he was on a mission. That's why he did it. John Quincy Adams had a deep burning conviction in his heart that slavery was wrong and evil and he wanted to eradicate it. So he ran for Congress from his home state of Massachusetts after serving as president and he served 17 years in the House. He brought the resolution over and over and over to end slavery. But sadly America was not ready for it. They imposed a gag rule. You remember from history class?

[00:25:13]gag rule to to shut him up so nobody would talk about slavery again. They he they couldn't stop him. He had two nicknames. They called him the hellhound of slavery and old man eloquent. He was very well read. He's a man of deep faith and conviction and a man of great principle. Served his country from the age of about 13 when he was an assistant to a to an ambassador overseas. But John Quitzy Adams was serving here in the latter part of his life, serving in the house. and he stood where that brass plate is on the floor that I point out to my friends as I'm taking him through and I say this is where he did that great work and he brought the resolution over and over and over to end slavery and he failed over and over and over.

[00:25:48]Didn't have the votes. Country wasn't ready for it yet. On about his 14th failed attempt a younger member of Congress went up to him on the floor and he said, "Mr. President, can I ask a respectful question? Why are you doing this? You know this resolution is going to fail again?" And he looked at him without hesitation. He said, "Young man, duty is ours. Results are gods.

[00:26:08]And I love that so much. I was telling President Trump this story the other day in the oval and I said, "Sir, you know, I don't have any tattoos, but if I did, I'd do that right there."

[00:26:19]That's great, Mike. No tattoos. I know.

[00:26:25]That's one of his three rules. You know that. He gives advice. Told he's told my sons three or four times, no alcohol, no drugs, no tattoos.

[00:26:35]It's a good start.

[00:26:38]>> Why did I just tell I digress. Okay, so John Quincy Adams tells the younger member of Congress, "Duty is ours.

[00:26:44]Results are God's." Here's the here's the point. Um, he kept faithful to his duty. He knew what his calling was. He knew his deep conviction. He spoke with clarity, conviction, consistency, and he had a big impact, but he he didn't get it done. When he was 80 years old, he was standing on the floor right where that brass plate is. He had his hand on the desk as historians record and he was making an impassion plea standing up to not push slavery into the new western territories. We had just won the America Mexican-American War. We took in all this new land of the West and there was a move to make slavery legal out there and he wasn't going to. John Quincy Adams was not having it and old man Elegant was standing up and he veins were popping out of his neck. He was giving this impassion speech why we could not do this. Why this is not who we are as Americans. It does not fulfill the promise of the declaration. And he was so into the speech he had a stroke and fell to the floor. And members went up and they they picked up John Quincy Adams and they took him across the floor into what is now the women's reading room. Used to be the speaker room. They laid him laid him on a couch there. The couch is still there. I could show it to you if we were there tonight.

[00:27:45]Reapholstered, but it's still there.

[00:27:48]They they laid John Quincy Adams, the former president, on the couch. He fell into a coma and he died there two days later. He's the only person only president in history to die in the capital and his wife was with him and family and he passed away. Now the story is even more remarkable because 5 days later they had his funeral and there were six pawbears chosen to carry the casket of the great John Quincy Adams.

[00:28:12]One of them was a freshman member of Congress from the state of Illinois. His name was Abraham Lincoln.

[00:28:19]Now, when I tell the story, I walk over about 25 ft and I show them another brass plate that is in the spot where Abraham Lincoln's desk was. They served at the same time. Lincoln only did one term. He did two years in the House, but it had a profound impact upon his life.

[00:28:35]He watched from about 25 ft directly watched John Quincy Adams with such conviction and moral clarity stand up and say slavery was wrong. And I'm going to tell you the truth of the story and you know the history. The sixth president was not able to eradicate slavery, but the 16th president finished the job. Okay, that's right.

[00:28:58][applause] In the 90 seconds I have left, let me tell you the moral of that story is very obvious.

[00:29:06]Duty is ours. Results are God's. We don't know when the the fruit will be born from the seeds that we are planted.

[00:29:15]And God does not hold us responsible for the results, but he does hold us responsible to be faithful in our duty.

[00:29:22]What I love about the family leader is you are faithful. And all the supporters, the friends, the encouragers, everybody in this battle together, locked arms, you're faithful every single day. The country has never needed that faithfulness more than it needs right now. That is not campaign rhetoric. It is not hyperbole. We are in the battle of our lives right now to preserve the greatest nation in the history of the world. I want to encourage you to keep praying for this country. Pray that this land and its people will never be separated from his love and his favor. Keep inspiring love and piety for our country where whether we agree with our fellow citizens or not. And keep faith in America. Reagan said another thing about America used to quote Lincoln. We are the last best hope of man on the earth. There is no better plan. We got to preserve this great land. We have to remain one nation under God. And we have to ensure that the generations come behind us understand and share that conviction.

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