Nov 06, 2026, 20:01

And as your next governor, it gets talked about a lot. There will be no Sharia law here in Florida. My opponent, he said the other day that my agenda was anti-black. Breaking news, your next governor has been black his entire life. The only choice for the proud patriots of Florida for governor is a man who I really have known long before he went into politics. I actually suggested he... When I knew him, he was so young, and I was given an award by a group of people, and he was given the honors of presenting the award. And he got up, and he was rapping, and this, he's the greatest. And I said, as a young man, I said, you know what? You should run for politics someday. And four or five years later, I heard he was running. But it was a bad thing because he was running against like a senator, I guess, a senator who could not be beaten, except you beat him. And that was the beginning. You beat a guy. He beat a guy, an incumbent, incumbent senator. When they say the word incumbent, you remember when they think of Sullivan, they say the incumbent republic. What a joke that is. But Byron beat a man that was not beatable. That stuff happens when, you know, when you're talented and his career has been. Amazing. And it's an honor. And I want to ask Byron to come up and say a few words. And he's a very special guy. Thank you. Well, Mr. President, thank you for coming home to Florida. And listen, earlier I got on Jolly. I don't want to talk about him. We have to win in four days. And it means everybody in our state has to get out and vote. Go vote. We have several of our colleagues who need to get back to the House of Representatives. Some of them are here. But we have some new guys in Florida that need to win, too. In the Panhandle, we have Austin Rogers in Congressional District 2. In the Villages, Florida's friendliest hometown, we have Joe Strada in Congressional District 11. Not too far from here, we got Dan Green in Congressional District 9, somebody who has served this nation with honor and respect and dignity. We have Sidney Gruters in Congressional District 16, Mike Beltran in Congressional District 14, and down south, we have Casey Asghar in Congressional District 22 and Scott Singer in Congressional District 25. They all need to get to Washington. That happens with you guys getting out and you voting. But a couple of things I want to talk about what we're for. Number one, and Mr. President, we thank you for being one of the greatest presidents when it comes to foreign policy in this nation's history. But I know that the people down in Miami-Dade County and even some of them around Orlando and other parts of Florida, we want to see a free Cuba. And as your next governor, it gets talked about a lot. There will be no Sharia law here in Florida. We got to get out and vote. We got to get out and win. We got to keep Florida free. I said this line in a rally similar to this one in Madison Square Garden about two years ago. And I'm going to repeat it for all of you tonight. My mom is a single mom, a strong mom. My mom was a school choice mom before school choice was even a thing. And I promise you this. If the schools tried to tell my mom that her son could be a girl, she would have burned that school to the ground. We are a state that when the chips are down, we step up and we back everybody. In the panhandle of Florida, Hurricane Isaias just went through. I figured out how to pronounce the thing. Had to figure it out. It was a tough one. In the panhandle, they're still recovering, specifically in Santa Rosa County. In Milton, Florida, and in Jay, Florida, they're still recovering. There are people that lost their roofs, totally, seniors. People who have loved and lived in this state for a long time, a lot of them their entire lives. As governor, we don't leave any Floridian behind when it comes to rebuilding our communities. The president of the United States called me yesterday morning. He said, Byron, are you seeing the lines in Daytona Beach? I said, yes, sir. He goes, what else do you think we need? I said, well, sir, we need the sign off for individual assistance from FEMA for the people in the panhandle. And the president said to me, it's done. Make sure people get it to me. And it was signed off two hours later for the people in the panhandle. You see, Governor DeSantis has done a great job in helping our communities get back on their feet as quickly as they can. As your next governor, we are going to build on that standard because no communities will be left behind. Not in Florida. Not on my watch. You see these are the things that we believe and by the way right here around Daytona not too far from here while we're protecting our agriculture lands which are critical to our state while we make sure that our waterways are clean for the future of our state and the people who live here now while we make sure we have the fresh water for the future of Florida we are also going to continue to expand our economies. Florida is the 14th largest economy in the world 14th We are on our way to being a top 10 global economy. But we're not going to do economic growth the way they do it in those crazy blue states. We are going to maintain common sense and conservative principles while we build an economic powerhouse here in the great state of Florida. And not too far from here, Florida is going to lead the Western Hemisphere in commercial space. We are going to launch more rockets to lower Earth orbit, more rockets to the moon, more rockets to Mars, and more rockets beyond. And it's all coming right here in the great state of Florida. And when we talk about launching all these rockets, this isn't just about Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin. This isn't just about SpaceX and Elon. This isn't just about the engineers and the scientists who will be working in these industries throughout the state of Florida. This is about the welder and the electrician. It's about the HVAC specialist and the contractor. It'll be about the hardworking men and women of our states with the jobs that put food on the table or roof over their head so they can build that Florida dream for themselves. You see, my opponent, he said the other day that my agenda was anti-Black. Can you believe the stupidness that comes out of that fraud David Jolly's mouth? Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you know this. Breaking news, your next governor has been black his entire life. But the color of my skin is not what qualifies me to be your governor. The vision for a great Florida. The vision for a free Florida. The vision for a Florida where it doesn't matter what the color of your skin is. A Florida, whether you live in Miami, the Panhandle, or the Heartland, that we fight for all of Florida, that is what qualifies me to be your next governor. You see, David Jolly may be a jolly come lately to the Democrat party, but he's already figured out some of the tricks. I am sick and tired of the Democrats trying to lecture us on race. It is the Republican Party that was formed to free the slaves. It is the Republican Party that has always fought for civil rights here in the United States of America. It is the Republican Party that when the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act was passed, it was Republicans who made sure it got through Congress while Democrat senators were filibustering the Civil Rights Act. And it is Republicans today who believe in the merit, the talent, and the ability of all of God's children. And as your next governor, they will succeed here in the great state of Florida. So, Daytona, we're four days away. In four days, we are going to keep Florida as the free state of Florida. In four days, you are going to go to the polls and you are going to make sure that Florida remains red. In four days, we're going to do in our state what we've grown accustomed to in Florida. We are going to beat the Democrats one more time here in the great state of Florida. And in four days, we're going to tell America that they can have that craziness in California. They can keep the idiocy in New York. Mamdani stays up there with it, but it's not coming to Florida. God bless you, Daytona. God bless America, and God bless the great state of Florida.