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FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump’s ‘Believers and Ballots Faith’ Town Hall in Georgia

Read the full transcript of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s Believers and Ballots Faith Town Hall with Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Zebulon, Georgia on Wednesday, October 23, 204.

Listen to the audio version here:

TRANSCRIPT:

DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much. You know, he’s been my friend for a long time. I didn’t know he was such a good football player. That’s a good player. That’s a real team in the championship. See, you learn, every day you learn something about people.

BURT JONES: It was for NIL. It was for NIL, Mr. President.

DONALD TRUMP: Not bad. Yeah, not bad. Not bad, but —

BURT JONES: Well, welcome to Zebulon, Georgia, Mr. President.

DONALD TRUMP: Thank you. What a beautiful place. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Importance of the Upcoming Election

BURT JONES: It is — wow, there’s a — this is a packed house here, Mr. President, and there’s thousands more outside, too.

DONALD TRUMP: A lot of people all along the highways, we’re driving up, and there’s a lot of love. We’re going to have a big election.

We’re going to have a — November 5th, and you’ll probably — many of you have — who’s already voted? It’s going to be a big one. I think it’s the most important election in the history of our country. I really believe that. I think most of the people here do, too. And we don’t say that lightly, but it’s a big one. We have some people that are not doing a good job. They’re not doing a good job for our country. So thank you all for being here. It’s a great honor. Thank you.

Trump’s Closing Strategy

BURT JONES: It is a — it is a huge honor to have you here in Middle Georgia, Mr. President. And I know you have another — a big event tonight in Duluth, Georgia. Obviously Georgia’s going to play a pivotal role. I was on an interview earlier this morning, and they were asking me about the closing next 12 days, next 12 to 13 days.

And I told them that while your opponent is doing programs like The View and Howard Stern to try to close out the event — And taking vacations. You —

DONALD TRUMP: She took off. She took off yesterday. Who takes off when you have 13, 14 days for the — she took off. She needed to — she needed to rest. She needed to rest.

BURT JONES: You have chosen to close out the deal by going around the country and speaking to religious leaders, talking in places of worship like here in Zebulon, Georgia. And I — and we have a saying here in our state that people who show up for church on Sundays go to the polls on Tuesdays.

Trump’s Rally in Miami

BURT JONES: And I think that’s — I think that’s true all over. So we — I talk about — a little bit about the event you had yesterday in Miami with the Latino pastors and all of that.

DONALD TRUMP: Well, we did. We had a tremendous thing at Doral in Miami. And it was a beautiful day. And we had pastors. We had a lot of Hispanics. And we’re setting every record with Hispanics. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. Great people, very industrious, hardworking, smart, beautiful people. And we’ve really — I guess we’re setting the record already. It’s going to be set.

And we have actually something — a couple of polls just came out. We’re at 56 percent. You know, normally, like, guys like Romney — anybody like Romney? Guys like Romney were getting just a few points, and we’re getting — here we are with the potential to actually win, which hasn’t been done maybe forever, almost forever, with the Republican Party.

Border Security

DONALD TRUMP: All along the border and all along in Texas and other places, along the line where — by the way, they’re working very hard to keep some very bad people out of our country, some — if you take a look at what they’ve done with our border, it’s so bad. I think it’s the biggest — actually, just to skip over to it, I think it’s the single biggest problem we have. We talk about inflation, and it’s horrible, and the economy. But if you take a look at inflation — and the biggest problem to me is the border, where they allow murderers into our country, they allow prisoners into our country, they empty out their prisons from all over the world.

And to me, it’s the biggest problem that we have. I think it’s the number one thing. And we’re going to do something. We’re going to do something to stop it very quickly. We built hundreds of miles of wall. We were doing great, and we had the greatest. We had the most successful. The day I left office — you’ve seen that very famous chart. I love that chart. I love it. I love that. But — well, there it is.

But if you take a look. Look at that. That’s pretty good. They do a very good job back there. They never know when I’m going to introduce it. But — and usually, I don’t. You know, usually I don’t introduce it. But I did that one day, and I turned to the right to look. And I’m glad I turned. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be with you right now. But —

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Trump’s Accomplishments on Border Security

DONALD TRUMP: But if you look at the arrow in the bottom — the arrow in the bottom, that was the day I left office, and that was the lowest day we’ve had in terms of illegals coming into our country. And that included drugs and human trafficking and — usually — mostly in women, by the way.

And that was — we had it really going.