Donald Trump Campaign Rally Speech at Rochester (Full Transcript)

Full text of Donald Trump’s campaign rally speech at Rochester, Minnesota on October 30, 2020.

TRANSCRIPT:

Donald Trump – President, USA

All right. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

And hello, Rochester! Great to be with you. Four days from now, we’re going to win the state of Minnesota.

I did not forget you because we were given a very, very hard time by your so-called leaders, but they’re not very good leaders as you found out during the riots. And we’re going to win four more years at our great White House. Thank you.

As you know, there are at least 25,000 people who wanted to be here tonight. We just saw a lot of them. Wanted to pay our respects. They were here for a long time. They waited and waited, and then the governor did bad things.

Your far-left Democrat Attorney General, Keith Ellison, and your Democrat governor tried to shut down our rally, silence the people of Minnesota and take away your freedom and your rights. They thought he would cancel… a word they are very familiar with, cancel. Cancel culture.

But I said, “No way, I will never abandon the people of Minnesota. I will come up. I will come up.”

Thousands and thousands of people over there with cars. We flew over cars that go miles long. What a shame. They waited here for a long time.

I want to thank the thousands of people outside who were barred from entry by radical Democrats. You are American patriots. Thank you very much.

When large numbers of rioters and vandals sacked the city of Minneapolis earlier this year, Keith Ellison did not ask them to submit a permit. He told the throngs of violent demonstrators, “By all means, exercise your first amendment rights.” He said that prior to them ripping down your city.

Keith Ellison sided with flag-burning extremists over law-abiding Americans. He treats you like second class citizens. He believes that the pro-American voters have fewer rights than anti-American demonstrators. Keith Ellison and Joe Biden want to imprison you in your homes while letting anarchists, agitators and vandals roam free as they destroy your cities and states.

The Democrat party wants you to be banned from peaceful assembly while they allow their supporters to burn down a police precinct right here. Biden and the far left incite violence with their vile anti-police rhetoric, and the fact that they’re weak people, very, very weak people. They allow rioters to lay waste to the public streets that financed… and they were financed by you with your hard-earned taxpayer dollars.

The radical left is determined to obliterate the middle-class. They think they can take your money, attack your values, indoctrinate your children and silence your voices.

But on November 3rd, I hope you’re listening, Minnesota, because this is what you’ve had to put up with for a long time. The people of our nation are going to be heard like never before. It’s already begun. People are already starting to find out what’s happening because they’re going to show up and vote in record numbers.

And you have already started to see what’s going on. They’re getting very concerned. We’re not just running against Sleepy Joe Biden. We’re running against the arrogant far-left political class. They want one set of rules for you and no rules for themselves.

Biden and the left-wing Democrats treat law enforcement like criminals, and they treat criminals like heroes. They lecture you on morality while they support sanctuary cities that get innocent Americans robbed, raped, maimed, and murdered. They ban you from going to church while they let left wing extremists burned down the church.

They support crippling shutdowns that crush blue collar jobs while their own jobs remain totally exempt. They keep your kids out of school while their families hire private tutors. They flood your cities with illegal drugs and gangs while they live inside walled off compounds.

They want to destroy and work hard to destroy the suburbs, which I’m protecting, and terminating horrible rules and regulations that only pertain to the suburbs while they move into gated communities with armed guards.

These wealthy liberal hypocrites want to defund the police and take your guns while they are protected by armed guards. There’s only one way to defend your dignity. There’s only one way to defend your family and your country. There’s only one way to preserve, protect, and defend the American way of life. You must show up and vote on November 3rd.