Republican Party of Texas Chairman Allen West discusses the 2020 presidential election on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Pete welcome back in less than
PETE welcome back in less than
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President Trump is expected to
cast his early ballot in
Florida.
The president casting his vote
after rallying supporters
yesterday in the state
David Spunt joins us live in
West Palm Beach with more
David Good Morning
good morning to you three
well, the rules be quiet at the
library, obviously do not apply.
Today.
I want to show you this scene.
This started at 600 this
morning.
It almost looks like a political
rally out here,
a lot of trump supporters.
A lot of Trump Pence supporter,
also Biden, Harris supporters
here as well.
Music has been playing
people dancing the Congo line
about an hour and a half ago
this morning, waiting on
President Trump to arrive here
to cast his ballot.
Now for months, the president
has been talking about mail in
voting and issues that he has
had with mail in voting.
He has made a distinguished that
if you get a ballot in the mail
thats a solicited ballot versus
unsolicited ballot thats his
problem,
but he will show up here in just
about an hour to cast his
ballot.
The first lady will not be with
him
heres what he said about
mail in voting and showing up to
vote
yesterday at another rally in
Florida.
Listen
voting here as opposed to
sending it in
I like being able to vote
im old Fashioned. I guess
I like to get online and if I
have to stand there for two
hours, maybe they will move you
up a little bit,
but I like to vote
so im coming
im going to be voting here
tomorrow.
Now, the president, after
leaving West Palm Beach, will
head to North Carolina where he
has a rally.
He will also head to Ohio and
Wisconsin.
Of course the clock is ticking
until election day,
several more trips, possibly
several throughout the day until
election day, according to
Trump Pence advisers.
Back to you guys,
something tells me is not
going to have to wait in line
two hours.
Jedediah, probably not
a lot of attention on the
state of Florida,
bring in somebody who knows
something about Florida,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen, West
retired, chairman,
Texas, g dot, op, not retired from
that, but he is also former: U Dot S
congressman from Florida,
so Lieutenant Colonel
President Trump is in Florida.
Former president Obama is in
Florida
campaigning for Joe Biden
that race in the Sunshine state
seems to be tightening up very
close. What will have the bigger
impact
president trump? There today,
President Obama, stepping up for
Joe Biden
without a doubt
great to be with you:
greetings from El Paso Texas,
President Trump being here in
Florida casting his ballots once
again, creating a lot of energy
and excitement
his rally. Yesterday you saw it
there, President Obama and Vice
President Biden, going down to
Florida going to remind people
of the failures.
One of the great lines President
Trump had in the debate is that
he has been there in office forty seven
months and done more than Jeekd
in forty seven years.
You think about the failures of
the Obama Biden, administration
and the eight years that they had
there.
One of the things that the
people in South Florida,
especially are going to see is
the cuban community.
They are going to remember that
President Obama was the one
doing the wave with Ral Castro
at a baseball game and taking a
picture with Rabara. In the
background
they dont want to see a return
to that type of foreign policy.
They dont want to see us
coddling up to dictators like
Chavez or Maduro
PETE. A lot of cool titles,
Colonel Chairman
early voting in Texas. Well,
traditionally, Democrats have had
a bit of an advantage on
registering voters.
You feel like that dynamic has
changed,
talk to us about what
Republicans are doing to gain an
advantage on early voting.
Absolutely
we have seen incredible success
out here in the Lone STAR state.
We had a get out the vote
program that is going very well,
but before that we set the
conditions with the voter
registration program, and we had
a record number of voter
registrations for Republicans
here in this election cycle
were also seeing a lot of the
independents and disaffected
Democrats coming over
Texas right now. If im correct
still leads the nation with
early voting numbers
a little over six million,
I think six point two million.
We are seeing an advantage
toward the Republicans in early
voting, which rarely happens in
this national election cycle.
We know we are going to do very
well on election day,
so we expect a very strong
victory out here in the great
state of Texas
Jedediah. You know lieutenant
colonel because of what is going
on in the country these last few
months.
Foreign policy has not been an
issue that has been as front and
center as it normally would,
particularly in the debase.
Some recent develops have been
usheredushered in where Presiden
played a row.
The president weighed in on that
talking about the countries that
could join,
take a listen to what he had to
say.
This is from the White House. I
believe this week
take a listen
in Sudan. They wanted to do a
deal,
and that was in particular
nice because they essentially
have been at war with Israel for
a long time, and now its not
only deal was signed, but its
peace
thats official,
its nice
yeah. We have at least five that
want to come in
and well have many more than
that very soon
Jedediah, that is from the White
House yesterday.
Is he talking about Sudan in
this case, but also broadening
that out to say there could be
more countries that could be
involved in the normalization
and betterment relations?
Your take on whether or not this
is an issue on peoples minds
right now, as they vote
well, one of the things that
vice President Biden said in the
debate that he would look to end
oil and gas industry.
Think about that
the oil and gas industry here in
the great state of Texas is the
reasonable. Why we are you know:
energy, independent and net
exporter of our energy
resources.
We are not dependent upon Middle
EAST countries or Venezuela or
to include Russia.
We can undermine them with the
liquified national guard that we
are producing
when you have a strong energy
security policy and plan that we
have now can t does not just
help your economic policy,
foreign policy and national
security.
We are not operating from a
position of weakness in the
Middle EAST.
We are operating from a position
of strength
and we dont want to go back to
the Obama Biden Way where we saw
ourselves giving billions of
dollars to IRAN and also being
subservient to the Middle
Eastern Oil Barrons. The OPEC
countries
thats why the energy security,
our oil and gas industry here in
Texas is so important
and Texas is a leader in wind
energy.
We are already doing what is
necessary with renewable energy
as well
Jedediah, Lieutenant Colonel
Allen. West.
Thank you for being here and.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-24.