Doug Burgum’s Highlights ― Second Primary Republican Debate

I have to jump in because we're missing the point, and every other network is missing the point. The reason why people are striking in Detroit is because Joe Biden's interference with capital markets and with free markets. The subsidies—we're subsidizing the automakers, and we're subsidizing the cars, and a particular kind of car. Not every car. Particularly, we're subsidizing electric vehicles. And when you decide that we're going to take all of your taxpayer monies, take a billion dollars, subsidize a certain type of vehicle, and the batteries come from China—China controls 85 percent of the rare earth minerals. They're called rare earth because they're measured in parts per million. China is moving 100,000 pounds of earth in Indonesia, in Africa. They're literally destroying the planet so that we can make—they can make a battery that's in a car subsidized here. That's why they're striking, because they need two-thirds less workers to build an electric car. Joe Biden—this strike is at Joe Biden's feet. We're going to—we're going to—we're going to keep the topic of economy, but allow me to follow— We're going to come back to you. There's a lot of time. You asked about childcare, and nobody answered the question. In North Dakota, we knew that— Sir? We knew that the cliff was coming. We knew that there was going to be millions of people without it. And so, guess what? We planned. OK. And when we—we passed legislation— Sir, we will get— Childcare is— We will get you some questions, but you're going to have to let us move on. We are going to the border next. They're not administrative. No. You guys are illegitimate. Childcare is workforce infrastructure. I'm going to say it again.