Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Senator Ted Cruz is hosting a rally in Evansville at the Old National Events Plaza. 4/24/2016
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:32:23 -0700

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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Senator Ted Cruz is hosting a rally in Evansville at the Old National Events Plaza. 4/24/2016

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TO: PRES Tracking

FROM: Colin J Smith; Daniel Schiller

Location: Evansville, IN

Date: 4/24/16

RE: Senator Ted Cruz is hosting a rally in Evansville at the Old National Events Plaza - 2016-04-24
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Event Details: http://www.14news.com/category/249934/new-streaming-on-14newscom-encoder-1?clienttype=generic

Attendees/Audience: Cruz and a few hundred attendees

Press: NBC 14

Summary of Event: Cruz gave a very standard speech to supports, pausing to nod in agreement to what he said after every sentence. He talked bathroom bill, tax reform, support for coal, viability of the campaign, and general Reagan worship.

Key Points: Clip A:

0:00 Intro speaker stumps for Cruz, invocation, pledge

8:00 Cruz taking his sweet time walking to the podium

11:40 God bless IN. Let me say about my best friend, isn’t she going to make an amazing first lady? Thanks for your leadership in inspiring conservatives in IN. The patriots who came here, I’m blessed to be with you. Poly Ticks joke. We’re here because our country is in crisis, we’re bankrupting our kids, constitutional rights under assault, America no longer leading the world. I come to bring hope, people are waking up and help is on the way. The next election will focus on Jobs, Freedom, Security. I want to speak to the single moms working multiple jobs, with hours being reduced due to ACA. To the truck drivers, plumber, mechanics, coal miners, steel workers, union members, calloused hands who see wages stagnating annually as cost of living keeps going up. To the young people who come out of school in debt with no job prospects. Media tries to tell us this is new normal, that’s a lie.

15:40 It’s easy to talk about making America great again, you could print it on a baseball cap, but do you understand what made America great in the first place? Heart of economy isn’t DC it’s small businesses all over US. If you want to see the economy take off, just lift the government’s regulatory boot off small businesses. Reagan and JFK understood that cutting taxes and regulations leads to millions of new jobs. I intend to continue down that same path. If elected, we’ll repeal ACA. ACA is biggest job killer in US, we’ll get common sense reform that makes it personal and affordable healthcare without getting in way of us and doctors. Simple flat tax, so everyone can fill out taxes on postcard. Then we should abolish the IRS. We’re going to rein in the EPA and the federal regulators who descend like locusts killing jobs. I like the movie “Hoosiers” I googled some of the better lines from it. After 7 years of Obama Clinton economy, they’ve become the guy naked barking in our living room and we’re going to deal with it

20:15 Obama promised to bankrupt coal power plants, that might be the only campaign promise he came close to meeting. When I meet with coal miners, the look in their eyes, their govt is trying to destroy their livelihoods and communities, that’s wrong. I give you my word, in 2017 the war on coal will end. America is the Saudi Arabia of coal and natural gas, we’re going to develop our energy resources. We’re going to stop amnesty, secure borders, end sanctuary cities, stop welfare for illegal immigrants. We’re going to see millions of new high paying jobs, coming back from overseas, wages rising, young people coming out of schools with up to 5 job offers. We’ll see morning in America again. Second is freedom. Passing of Scalia underscored the stakes of this election, two branches in peril. If you believe in religious liberty, without govt getting in the way; if you value 2nd Amendment, right to defend families(crowd chants USA); we’re one liberal justice away from endangering those rights. A couple debates ago we were asked about religious liberty. Trump claimed to know more politicians than me, and he’s right. He’s supported liberals for 40 years, I have no such experience.

25:00 Trump continued and said that we need to learn to compromise on religious liberty, to go along to get along. I will not compromise you religious liberty. I will not compromise your right to keep and bear arms. This week Trump went on Today Show and came out supporting Clinton and Obama in the position that grown men should be able to use same bathroom as little girls, have we gone mad? This isn’t a partisan issue, I’m the father of two young girls, this is common sense. It is a bad idea to allow adult grown men, strangers, to use bathroom with little girls. This is political correctness on steroids. If Trump is so eager to join PC police, normally politicians wait until they’re elected to betray us, he started early. The PC police fired Curt Schilling for speaking common sense. If Trump dresses like HRC he can’t use little girls room. Sorry to plague you with that image. Americans are tired of giving into political correctness, they want truth. Third issue is security, 7 years of president abandoning friends and allies, appeases enemies. Trump said he would be neutral on Israeli issues, I will not.

30:00 America will stand with Israel. Anyone who can’t tell difference between our friends and enemies, between Israel and Islamic terrorists, that raises questions about their ability to be commander in chief. We’ve seen military weakened, not the first time. We saw Carter do the same, then Reagan came to power. Reagan cut taxes, pulled back regulations, new jobs, stimulating revenue, funded military, and bankrupted USSR, won Cold War. I will do the same with Radical Islamic Terrorism. We’re going to repeal ACA, put in flat tax and get new high paying jobs, that will generate new revenue to rebuild the military. To ISIS and Al Qaeda and every jihadist, a day of reckoning is coming. We’re coming to get you, not to negotiate, but to kill you.(crowd chanting USA) It’s sad to see this president send our troops to fight with rules of engagement that preclude victory, in 2017 it will end. To every soldier and every first responder, the days of being held up for ridicule are over and you’ll have the thanks of a grateful nation.

35:00 So let’s talk politics. We started with a huge, diverse field in the GOP, what a contrast to the Dems. Dem field is a wild eyed socialist and Bernie Sanders. We’ve done our job narrowing the field, and now the only viable candidates are me and Trump. All across the country a majority of GOP voters know Trump isn’t the best candidate to go against HRC, if he goes against her she wins by double digits. We’ll lose all branches of govt, our kids will be trapped in debt and the economy will be stagnant. They did a general election poll in UT, she beats him in conservative UT. This would be a Mondale level blowout. But I can beat HRC. We’re winning in key swing states, we’re beating HRC with young people by double digits. Do we want to see two NY liberals debating the general election? I want to debate HRC. Trump is terrified to debate. It’s been 45 days since the last GOP debate, the Dems debated. How about we do a debate in the next 10 days in IN, you deserve a debate. Trump is obsessed with talking about his big hands, maybe he could show them off in a debate. IN has a choice

40:00 This state has a platform and we’re choosing which course to take. We’re choosing to nominate a campaign of yelling, cursing and insults or do we want a positive, forward looking campaign with solutions? Trump doesn’t want to debate because he doesn’t have an answer of how to create jobs. We have 5 former candidates supporting us, also Mike Lee, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck. We have the full spectrum of the GOP speaking with one voice. Come out and vote for me ten times. Our focus is on unity, if we keep on that we will win the primary and the general. It took Carter to give us Reagan, I’m convinced the legacy of Obama will be a new generation of conservatives who stand and fight for liberty.

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