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to these people.

Fifty-five thousand factories

and manufacturing plants--

55,000!

Who would think

that's even possible?

They'll leave here

and they'll move to Europe

or they'll move to Asia.

It's a real bad scene.

And it's gonna continue if you

put any of these other people--

It's not gonna continue

with me.

With me, it's real simple.

I'm gonna do

what's right for you.

- [crowd cheering]

- And you.

And we're gonna bring

those jobs back from China.

I love China!

But we're gonna

bring them back from China.

And by the way,

we will build a wall.

- We will build a wall!

- [crowd cheering]

We will build a wall.

We're going to win

at every single level.

We're gonna win so much,

you're gonna beg me.

You're gonna say,

"Mr. President,

we're so tired of winning,

we can't take it anymore.

Please, don't win anymore.

Mr. President, please,

have one or two losses."

And I'll say,

"No, I won't do that."

The American dream is dead,

but we're going to make it

bigger and better

and stronger than ever before.

And I love you.

Thank you very much, everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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[McKinnon] Hold on one second.

Where's the volume on this?

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[woman] Whoo!

[woman]

Trump speaks the truth!

Mr. Halperin,

are you miked?

[Heilemann] We haven't really

seen anything like this

in American politics

in this millennium.

Make America great again.

[Heilemann]

This has got the flavor of

- a music festival, right?

- [McKinnon] Yeah.

eilemann] They're fans as much

they are voters, right?

[McKinnon] There's a movement

psychology for sure.

- Yeah.

- [McKinnon] They feel like

they're part of something

special and unique

and they want to be there

to experience it.

[Heilemann] Donald Trump,

love him or hate him,

he said some things that people

think are vile and offensive.

Whatever you think about Trump,

though, ideologically,

he's such a big figure.

There's a lot

of charisma there.

There's a lot of just

confidence.

I understand why that guy's

a front-runner.

You got this huge

Republican field.

You got chaos

in the establishment.

[Fiorina]

Mismanaged going into Iraq.

[Hewitt] Dr. Carson,

is the Middle East--

[Fiorina]

We mismanaged going out.

- [Hewitt] Dr. Carson.

- [Cruz] The question of

- whether we can...

- Hold on, hold on.

- The problem with defeat...

- [Blitzer] Senator. Senator.

We're gonna get to you.

[Fiorina] Hope at some point,

you're gonna ask me my strategy

- for defeating ISIS.

- [Blitzer] We will get--we--

we have a lot of time.

Donald is great

at the, uh, one-liners.

But he's a chaos candidate.

- And he'd be a chaos president.

- [applause]

We need toughness.

Honestly, I think Jeb

is a very nice person.

You said in September 30th

that ISIS was not a, uh...

- Am I talking...

- ...not a factor.

- ...or are you talking, Jeb?

- I'm talking right now.

- You can go back.

- I'm talking right now.

- You can go back.

- I'm talking.

You're not talking.

You interrupted me, Jeb.

- September 30th, you said it.

- Are you gonna apologize, Jeb?

No.

Am I allowed to finish?

[Heilemann] There's no

establishment front-runner.

And there's no sign that

that's gonna change in any way.

Brilliant. Prompter, thank you.

That was fantastic.

- As you wish.

- [McKinnon] Okay, we need

to run through the-the C, D,

E, F, G, H, I, J pages.

[Heilemann] Oh, my God.

Jesus.

Our brand-new Bloomberg Politics

Des Moines Register

Iowa Poll is out today,

shows Ted Cruz and Donald Trump

leading the pack

in the Hawkeye State.

They are basically tied.

We know there are

deep cleavages in the party.

And that's why the party

is in so much trouble.

- This foreshadows--

- Deep and passionate.

This foreshadows

the fight we will see

if Donald Trump wins

some combination

of Iowa, New Hampshire,

South Carolina,

three of three

or two of three.

We will see a titanic fight

within the party

unlike I can recall seeing

in my career.

- [church bell tolls on radio]

- [man on radio] It's time

for Iowa Christians

to honor God

by attending your Iowa caucus

on February 1st.

[man on radio]

If you are currently in

an early primary

or a caucus state,

you certainly don't need

the likes of me to tell you

that we're in the heat

of election season.

- This is crunch time...

- [crowd cheering]

...so the candidates

are all out there,

trying to get their messages

to the public.

- [Cruz] Two weeks ago...

- [camera shutters clicking]

...just about every candidate

in the field

was attacking Donald Trump.

Now just about every candidate

in the Republican field

is attacking me.

I-I guess something has changed.

[camera shutters clicking]

[Trump] You know, Ted Cruz,

you know, the Canadian,

he's like a nervous wreck.

He is dropping like a rock

in the ratings.

We're number one in every poll.

It's almost embarrassing,

but let's keep it that way.

- [crowd cheering]

- Let's keep it that way.

All of my people

and all of the experts say,

"Mr. Trump, don't say

you want to win.

Just say you want to do well.

Because that way,

you can't lose."

I can't do that.

I want to win, Iowa.

[woman] So the question for

him, above all others, is,

can you turn these big crowds

into big turnouts

and into support

at the ballot box?

[crowd cheering]

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[indistinct chatter]

[man] It's a very good night

for Ted Cruz.

He has won in Iowa,

defeating Donald Trump.

[crowd chanting] We want Ted!

We want Ted! We want Ted!

[Cruz] Tonight Iowa

has sent notice

that the Republican nominee

and the next president

of the United States

will not be chosen

by the Washington

establishment.

[crowd cheering]

To God be the glory.

[crowd cheering]

You ready?

Just--

- Here, hold on, let's flip.

- Okay, yup.

[indistinct chatter]

Good?

Close that door so--

yeah, so we don't get...

Just-just walk me

through your day.

You woke up and how'd you feel

about what's gonna happen?

You know, last night,

as you were watching

the TV news,

every pundit on every station

was saying, "Cruz can't win.

Cruz can't win.

There's no way Cruz can win.

Trump's gonna win."

I heard it on every station

from every political pundit.

And yet what happened today

is, the grassroots

proved them wrong.

Congratulations.

Off to New Hampshire.

Ah, indeed.

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[man] But Donald Trump,

who many, many people predicted

was going to win

at the Iowa caucuses...

It looks like a lot of people

did switch their vote,

uh, people who were

supporting, uh, Donald Trump.

Thank you.

[Halperin] So Iowa ends

and it's seven days of hell

in New Hampshire.

The stakes are higher

than they are in Iowa.

You have a chance to come back.

If you don't do well in Iowa,

you can come back

in New Hampshire.

If you don't come back

in New Hampshire

after failing in Iowa,

you're done, generally.

- [camera shutters clicking]

- [indistinct chatter]

- [woman] Mr. Trump?

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