Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Ted Cruz Indianapolis Rally 4/27/2016
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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Ted Cruz Indianapolis Rally 4/27/2016

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TO: Presidential

FROM: Luke McDonald

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Date: 4/27/16

RE: Ted Cruz/Carly Fiorina- Rally- Indianapolis, IN

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Event Details: Ted Cruz announces Carly Fiorina as VP running mate at a Rally in Indiana.

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/indianapolis-in-rally-with-ted-cruz-tickets-24976337899

Press: MSNBC, ABC, Politico

Attendee’s: Ted Cruz

Carly Fiorina

Summary of Event:

Key Points:

Ted Cruz:

Elections are about choices, the republican party faces a choice today.  Indiana and America, I believe want unite behind an optimistic campaign.  The American people deserve a real choice in Nov. and not an echo.

If we come to Nov. and the American people have a choice between two big government liberals, two Washington insiders, then we as the Republican party have failed.  When you run for President one of the most solemn choices is selecting who is VP.  This is a choice that you are telling the American people that this is who I trust.  And more importantly who you can trust to lead this country no matter what might happen.

Any candidate would have spent much time assessing this, praying about it, and examining the potential candidates.  The characteristics you look for in a VP are the same you look for in a President.

First of all knowledge, do they know where jobs come from? Do they understand why job are being driven overseas? Do they understand?

Do they understand Government

Security, do they understand the threats facing this country?

Secondly you look to judgement, do they have the judgment and wisdom to bear the responsibility to hold this job.  Do they think through decisions, or pop off at any moment?  Do they assemble a team around them who are smarter than they are?  If you see a leader who surrounds themselves with people who are not capable or skilled and would never stand up to that leader it tells you they are not a leader.

00:30 I have come to the conclusion that I will run on a ticket with my VP nominee Carly Fiorina.

1:15 Born in Texas the first thing I liked about her.  She is an extraordinary leader, she started working as a Secretary at a small firm and worked to climb the corporate ladder to become the first female CEO of a Fortune 20 company.  A graduate of Stanford and MIT, she is experienced and capable.  But experience in the business world as a women.

3:10 Over and over again Carly has shattered glass ceilings.  She has studied the threats facing our national security.

4:00 She knows from having spent a lifetime from having to produce jobs, expand jobs, and expand wages.  She know that the key to economic growth is not more government it is less.  My opponent in this race, Trump, like Hillary looks to government for every problem.  Carly knows from decades of running one of the largest companies in the US where jobs come from.  She respects the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

6:00 Carly understands the threats facing American, she understands this is a dangerous world.  By naming her my VP candidate I am telling you she is someone you can trust if she had to become our Commander in Chief.  We need a President who isn’t neutral between Israel and the Palestinians.  We need a President who will rip the Iran deal to shreds.

7:10 When Carly initially endorsed us, we sat down and talked.  She said I have a condition for endorsing, she said I don’t do anything halfway, I want to be all in campaigning and working.  Since that time I have seen her day in and day out, she is careful and measured and serious.  We all saw that in one of the earliest debates, Carly confronted Trump.  A man who said in his statement look at that face.  Everyone remembers the class with which Carly responded.  She responded that she knew what he was saying and every women knew what he was saying.  Bully’s feed off fear, people who will cower in the corner.  They don’t know what to do when a strong woman stands up and says I am not afraid.

10:00 At the end of the day it’s all about character.  If the President is a narcissist, is abusive and angry, they will not be a good President.  For anyone who doubt that we need only look at the last 7 years to see what happens.  A good President must have known struggle.  Must be able to understand those who are struggling.  If you have always lived a life of privilege and that you are the chosen one that will have real impacts on what you can do as President.  Carly started as a Secretary in a business environment that is not always nice to women, but she was also diagnosed with cancer, and survived cancer.

12:40 Carly lost her step-daughter to a drug overdose.  There is no pain commensurate with the pain of a parent losing a child. Everyone here has face personal struggle, but it is when you are facing the abyss that you find your faith and grounding.  Heidi and I have become friends with Carly. We have laughed, we have watched basketball games together.  Our girls have come to adore Carly.  On the bus on the campaign trail, Carly makes up songs and sings them to our girls.  They both regularly text Carly.

15:00 Some might ask why now.  It is unusual to make the announcement this early.  Where we are now, the mainstream media are all trying to tell the American people the race is over.  Nobody is getting to 1237 delegates.  Indiana is going to have a powerful voice in making that clear.

17:00 If we are to win, we must unite to win the general election.  Carly is a VP nominee who is skilled in uniting this party and bring us together.  Secondly I make this announcement today so that you the voters will know what you will get.  The voters deserve to know, you deserve a candidate who doesn’t change as the wind blows.  Elections are about choices, millions are struggling with this Obama/Clinton economy.  A SC hanging in the balance, civil rights under attack, President unwilling to stand up and defeat ISIS.  Some in the media will say wouldn’t it be easier to give up and say Trump has won some of the races so we should step back and let him go.  If we nominate a candidate who is a big government NY liberal, a DC insider, who’s lobbyist campaign manager said he is lying, the Republican party has failed the American people.

20:30 The difference me and Carly on the one side and Hillary and Trump on the other couldn’t be starker.  If you want someone to fight for the working people, single moms, young people, then do not go with the DC insiders who have sold us down the river.  This ticket is about the future, it is about our grandchildren.  We are involved in a fight to save the greatest country in the world.

Carly

23:25 Today I am very proud and honored to announce I have accepted Cruz offer to be VP.  Cruz could not be more right in what he said, this is a fight for the future of our nation.  I have had tough fights all my life and this is a fight worth fighting and winning.  This is a fight for all of us.  Last night was clear, everyone in the media said it is over, Trump won.  It isn’t over because you and the people all across this state know Trump and Hillary will be disastrous for the nation.  They are two sides of the same coin, they are both liberal.  Clinton has made her millions selling access from inside the system and Trump has made his millions from buying people like Hillary.  They aren’t going to challenge or change the system, they are the system.

26:30 Ted mentioned it has been 7 weeks since I endorsed him.  But we have been traveling around the country with his family.  Cruz is a fighter too, he has been in lots of fights.  He has fought for religious liberty, right to bear arms.  Fought in front of the SC and won them all.  He has made enemies but he has challenged the status quo just like I did.  You do more than rock the boat and ruffle feathers, you make enemies when challenging the status quo.  I am proud of some of the enemies he has made.

30:30 I have been asked if I will support Trump, he doesn’t represent me and he doesn’t represent my party.  Tough times reveal character.  Character is revealed over one’s life, the character of Ted Cruz has been revealed in tough times and pressure.

36:30 The reality is for the last decades too much power and money are concentrated in the hands of too few.  We must restore power and liberty in the hands of small business, community and states.  The President must restore our constitutional balance of power.  Our system works if you are a big company but not if you are a small one.  It works if you are rich and powerful but it doesn’t work for the rest of us.  Cruz will restore power back where it belongs.

38:30 The future and potential are at stake now. Our country is being taken away from us by the elites.  They are taking away what has made this nation great and a possibility for so many people.  It is time we must take our country back.  This is the fight of our time and I believe Cruz is the man to lead that fight.

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