CPAC Wisconsin - An Interview with Governor Scott Walker

You you all are so blessed to have this great man former governor Scott Walker and a fabulous former lieutenant governor Rebecca Clayfish So it's great to be here with you great to be with you, too I saw Becky she was coming out as I was coming in so that's we tagged off She had her state of Wisconsin mask. I have a Wisconsin Badgers mask hoping someday. They'll play football Packers are playing football, so that's right. Yes. Let's talk about college football. What are your thoughts about that they should be playing? I mean, it's just that simple Players for years have had the mask you see a lot of the players that have a shield on anyway There's plenty of ways you can adapt Just like we've adapted for the last few months one of my neighbors early on to manufacture He was deemed essential way back when this all first started And he came to me and said hey you got any ideas and we walked through a whole plan we set it up so that people weren't all coming in and out at the same time and Shut down the the the break room and things like that People in the private sector can think much better than the government can in cases like this And it's time to put our faith back in the people not the government, and you know who else is essential our teachers Absolutely well, and and it's one of those where you know I was thinking about this coming in I saw a couple signs thanking the folks who've been involved in health care Imagine if we had union bosses on behalf of the nurses or doctors other health care professionals who said we're not going to come to work Imagine how horrible things would be and yet I think most teachers want to get back in the classroom with their kids because I think whether they're a public school a private school Charter school most teachers just love their kids and want to want to be involved in educating them and understand It's important to do that in person particularly for our younger kids. Yeah, and as a parent of five girls I mean I we've seen the mental health impact. It's had on these kids I mean they really need to be with their friends and also that they're gonna fall behind So I was talking to Becky where I think her kids are gonna go back to school, but then here in Green Bay They're not going back. I mean what are your thoughts on that well? They to me the easiest answer with all this at the local state and even the federal level is it's time to just give Every parent a stipend and say you get to choose whether you want your kid to go to a public school That's in person Your choice if you want to go to a public school That's online your choice you want to go to a charter or private or whatever the school might be I think parents now more Than ever even far beyond just the traditional school choice debate Understand that they want to be the ones making that decision and for some parents. You know if your kids Got a serious ailment you might want to keep them at home and do it online, but I think for a lot of parents They want them in person plus. I worry not only about being behind in education I worry as I did earlier in the shutdown Sadly that you know the number one place that we find about child abuse is typically at school Because teachers are sometimes the best equipped to see and understand things like that And if our kids across America aren't going to school not only losing out in their education many of them Sadly might be in very difficult situations And I pray there's better ways that we can get them a place where they can get the help and support they need but governor I've got some bad news for you Joe Biden does not agree with it. Can you believe that? He agrees with the teachers unions. He does not believe in charter schools He's making these parents especially these single parents have to choose between their jobs and their child it is absolutely Disgraceful, but let me ask you a question here. We know these Democrat governors these Democrat mayors They're really imposing this government expansion and control in our lives Doesn't this get close to socialism? Oh, I think in many ways. It's past close It's it's right there and I thought you know early on one of the most interesting things particularly because I Love talking to young people about this about the difference not just in politics But the difference between socialism and freedom because it's far greater than just economic policy It is about freedom versus socialism, and I use the example some of you might saw it in California Where one of the local officials there? Was upset that some kids were outdoors out in the open in a skateboard park So they plowed sand into the into the into the area where they did skateboarding and these kids on their own Ended up brushing it together and created a dirt park a dirt bike trail Park out of it and at these are entrepreneurs, but this is This is the essence though of understanding the difference between freedom and socialism, and that's really what's at stake It's not just policy on this and policy on that it is more fundamental as we And I've said all throughout this you can actually be a normal human being and have more than one concern I can be concerned about coronavirus and my health and the health of my wife who's a diabetic and and people in my family I can be concerned about that and yet still be concerned about the economy not shutting down and crippling Particularly a lot of our small business people and most importantly I can be concerned about the government not encroaching on my civil liberties I can be human and have those three things despite what the media tells me I understand I can care about all those things at once So I got to tell you a great story We had an event just recently with Paula white and Nevada was for our evangelicals for Trump And you know they literally closed down the churches limited the amount of people who could go into the church But you could go to the casino So guess where they had the church service in the casino Just how absurd are these policies that these Democrats are pushing forward well I think the other day one of my favorite videos some of you might saw it was the church that met at Walmart That sang and did their things right in the middle of Walmart because that was open, but you're right I hope people start to have their eyes open you think in Michigan where their governor's like the extreme It's part of the reason why she was even considered to be vice president the wicked witch of the West Yeah She is she is just that extreme because remember Joe Biden has outsourced Really his entire agenda to the radical element of his party But that Michigan was a prime example of this where for a while they would close down almost every business But you go to a grocery store or a place like a Walmart But you can only go in the aisles where there were food and so-called essential you couldn't go the aisle over Where they literally taped it off per the state law or state order and the governor where they had seeds so you could grow your own Food that's just how ridiculous all this is and again I think sadly what we've seen is common sense has been Suspended and I hope most Americans whether it's at the local level the state level or with people like Joe Biden and others have realized These people don't believe that we're smart enough to run our lives They believe the government should do that for them. We can never let that happen We don't want to be like the old Soviet Union and we don't want to be like Venezuela today Amen, and I just want to share with you a story from my family. So my dad Grew up in Cuba really worked hard to be an entrepreneur and when Fidel Castro came in power They took away his businesses so he really had to make a decision between Sitting back and just letting the government take control or standing up and fighting And he did fight and he ended up in jail for six years as a political prisoner and The lessons he taught me as a child was we live in the greatest country in the world he came to America became a carpenter and then an accountant raised his three kids and lived the great American story and so I Know my calling has been to protect freedom to protect this great Republic this great democracy How fragile are we right now as a nation? Well, Ronald Reagan had it right and so many levels But one thing in particular he said years ago that freedom Freedom is just one generation away from extinction. It doesn't get passed on through the bloodstream It's something you have to stand up and fight for and defend and then pass on to the next generation to do the same thing And that's really where we're at You know Joe Biden it's interesting Joe Biden is unconventional in many ways in part because he seems to be running his campaign in his basement I joked actually the week of and Harris threw away the key just We can't find the key Joe stuck. That's why he can't come to Wisconsin for the convention Well, that's right. I joked after Super Tuesday I was I was doing a segment out in New York with Fox and I said well if I was the DNC I would put him in the basement and not have him come out till the day before the election I did not I was joking. I took your advice They really did but this is a guy who moved to the the middle so-called the moderate view in the primary normally Any party people move more towards the base in the primary into the in the general election? They come to the middle to show how they might govern Joe Biden's completely mixed up He ran to the middle only because not because he's a moderate but because there was no other place for him to win All the radicals were fighting over the far far far far left of the party He runs For the time being to the middle wins and then basically literally gives his agenda to Bernie to AOC and now to Harris You know the media I couldn't believe the other day when the New York Times called her a practical moderate pragmatic The New York Times who is fake news well and Newsweek was not exactly, you know Fox News Newsweek did a report that showed that same day that her voting record is to the left of Bernie Sanders She is to the left of an avowed admitted socialist This should tell you how crazy things are but Joe Biden who's run multiple times now for president doesn't really care In fact, we saw in 87 He'll make things up if he needs to but he's basically said I'll do whatever you want. Just let me be the president So he's given his entire agenda to the radical left and we know what will happen. They'll ruin the economy They'll raise every one of your taxes Every one of you see your tag every hard-working taxpayer will see their taxes go up and yet Oh, not a one of them has condemned what's happening down in Chicago in Portland in Washington State in Seattle This is the kind of America we would have if we elect this ticket Which is precisely why we've got to make sure that Donald Trump and Mike Pence have four more years and Wisconsin is going to be the key to making that happen Okay governor, let's put your political hat on what's gonna happen here in Wisconsin It's going to be extremely close. So the polls out there show Marquette poll, which is probably Amongst the public polls the most reliable if you believe public polls, we've always seen my races It was always skewed because Republicans are less likely to respond Republican leading voters less likely to respond than Democrats The latest poll has a five-point margin many in the media forget that that's about where we were four years ago In fact Hillary Clinton in the Marquette poll was ahead by six points on November 2nd 2016 so I'm not saying don't believe the polls I'm just saying they're skewed even if they attempt to do them fairly I think that's even more true with Donald Trump And I think it's even more true now because I've heard maybe you some of you here might actually tell me the same thing I've heard people say I'm not gonna respond to a poll because I'm afraid it might be some of these radical Protest rioters who are gonna try and track me down at my home. So I think they're extremely skewed having said that Having said that I think the polls four years might have been close to accurate But what happened was people like us woke up And we said we got to do something. It's not enough just to talk to the people who are here It's not enough to just talk at Republican events We need a 2012 not a 2018 turnout what I mean by that was I wanted to recall first in American history It was because all of you and others across the country. Thank you. Thank you You didn't just turn out and you didn't just get your your political friends We went out and talked to people at work at worship in the neighborhood in the grocery store at the quick trip Wherever it might be we talked to people about why that race was important in 2018 here and across America. I think a lot of us took it for granted. We said things are going pretty well We had the best economy we'd ever had in Wisconsin more people working than ever before I heard a lot of people said there's no way anybody any Republican can lose Well when the left turns people out in Madison and they turn them out in the east side of Milwaukee in record numbers The only way to compensate for that is us to go out and reach out to even more people Not just those who share our beliefs, but who are share our political beliefs But those who share our core beliefs about the individual and belief in the American dream We need to share that now more than ever I might be preaching the choir My dad was a preacher used to say you preach to the choir because you want the choir to sing so get out there and sing We got to get the choir to sing and vote that's for sure But do you ever encounter those individuals who come up to you quietly and say? We call them the Trump whispers. Do you have those encounters? Well, I used to have that when I'd go to schools in the middle of the protest I'd get teachers who would actually go an extra step. They'd turn and look and then they'd whisper. I think you're doing the right thing Because they'd get all sorts of abuse from their colleagues I think exactly the same thing is true with the president and remember And here's a bit of advice if you got friends family co-workers neighbors who were on the bubble who maybe it Occasionally say they don't like something the president tweeted or or comment. I said, Washington DC And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are two examples this Washington DC is filled With people who like to say they they know how to speak that they see all the right things at least to the media But they don't do squat Don't do squat for the everyday American out there Donald Trump may not always talk or tweet the way I would or you would hear in Wisconsin across the country But he gets the job done if I got to pick between a talker and a doer. I'm gonna pick a doer every single time so Governor share with us, you know, you've met with the president multiple times. Tell us a story. I Should tell you great one that we're in the shadow almost a Lambeau Field So September about this time September 2016 I'd been with the president quite a bit gearing up after he became the nominee spoke for him at the convention He's up just over in Eau Claire. We're at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire. We're having a big rally We're backstage Reince Priebus is with this Jared came along with I think Sean Duffy was with us at the time and we're back waiting for the crowd to fill in and the president chit-chat me and then candidate and he says He's how your Packers gonna do and I said remember back then four years ago Aaron who I love but who should by the way Never play for the Chicago Bears ever. I don't care what we have to do He's gonna retire as a Green Bay Packer, but but Aaron back then member was on this weird No dairy diet. In fact, he actually said publicly wasn't gonna eat any cheese And I said, so I'm grumbling to the candidate Trump. I'm saying, you know, I I don't get this makes no sense Aaron's normally pretty smart And so we go on we have the rally that's September January I'm over here at Lambeau that January before he's sworn in as president. I'm there for the New York Giants game We played them in the playoffs Aaron through one of those Hail Marys. It was a great game. So afterwards I come downstairs I'm going to get in the truck with the troopers. I look on my phone and the president-elect it called So I call him right back. I'm like, hey, mr. President elect. Sorry. I missed you. I was at a Packers playoff game This is January Remember I talked about since September. He says to me. Oh, I saw the game your boy Meaning Rogers your boy must he did pretty well. He must be eating cheese again. I Mean for all the stuff the media knocks him on the bottom line is this is a guy and Mike Pence and I've been Friends for years was just with him the other day. I Said the best way I described the president is attentive He's attentive he really pays attention to things that nobody in the media gives him credit for But he pays not just the fun things like that, but when people tell them about their worries, you know Ron Johnson had a great bill called the The right to try bill that said we're gonna push back all the FDA requirements if someone's terminally ill I remember a couple years ago the president who signed it Months after was talking at an event and he didn't just talk about signing this bill He like got it because he talked to the families. He said when you're terminally ill, you've got no hope You won't try anything. You want to stay in this earth not for yourself, but for your loved ones President said that you know the guy that the media thinks has no empathy. He totally has empathy They just hide he's just strong. But the guy when you you see him one-on-one as you have mercy You've seen him He's incredibly empathetic because he's attentive to the needs of the American people and he realizes Washington is not the place that's going to get it done We need leaders like him and Mike Pence to push through all that not to be talkers, but to be doers So we're gonna do a quick rapid-fire with the governor and you know, I think we Understand that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. It's so hard to say her name. I have to practice it like ten times Kamala Kamala Kamala Harris I don't think even Joe Biden said it, right? No, he said it wrong What this means when you're we're talking about socialism this whole conference is about America versus socialism So I'm gonna throw a topic at you and then you tell me What it would mean in a socialist country what the impact would be so on cultural and social issues. I Conformity there's a massive push. We saw the old Soviet Union I've got friends who came out of those those old parts of the Soviet Republic who talked about the massive push to conform And that just squeezes the individual right out natural national security in our place in the world I think when it comes to socialism again, that's just bowing to the rest of the world It's it's taken a knee for all the wrong reasons We saw it start under Barack Obama. It would only continue with Joe Biden took us down that path economic strength and individual prosperity Well, the reason we've been such a successful Republic Is because again, we believe in the individual and part of that means property rights I mean you have socialism that takes that incentive away. So final thoughts What do you want to leave with this wonderful crowd that we have here in Green Bay? Well, don't just sit here today and get inspired go out and inspire others and remind them again This race is not about red or blue. It's not about Republican or Democrat. It's not even about liberal conservative It's really about the future of this country The future of our families and future generations and whether or not our kids and our kids kids Are going to live in a society based on freedom or one based on socialism where the government dictates those terms I for one I'm gonna do everything I can Encourage you to do the same to make sure those future generations and yellows yet to be born live in a free society God bless you. Amen. Y'all are so blessed to have such a great leader in Governor Scott Walker. Thank you so much