Transcript - Speech: Donald Trump in Las Vegas, NV - February 23, 2016 | Factba.se

Donald Trump

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We love Nevada. We love Nevada. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Oh. This is a great place.

Audience

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Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump.

Donald Trump

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Audience

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Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Thank you very much. Great evening. We will be celebrating for a long time tonight. Have a good time. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Have a good time. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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You know, we weren't expected -- a couple of months ago we weren't expected to win this one. You know that, right? We weren't.

Donald Trump

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Of course if you listen to the pundits we weren't expected to win too much and now we're winning, winning, winning the country. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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And soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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So I want to thank the volunteers. They've been unbelievable. These people, they work like endlessly, endlessly. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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We're not going to forget it. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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And we've had some great numbers coming out of Texas. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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And amazing numbers coming out of Tennessee and Georgia and Arkansas. And then a couple of weeks later Florida. We love Florida. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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We're going to do very well in Ohio. We're beating the governor. That's good. It's always nice to be beating the governor. And Michigan. I mean the whole thing. It's going to be an amazing two months. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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We might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest, all right? [Applause]

Donald Trump

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So tonight we had 45-46 percent. And tomorrow you'll be hearing, you know, if they could just take the other candidates and add them up. And if you could add them up, because you know the other candidates amount to 55 percent. So if they could just add.

Donald Trump

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They keep forgetting that when people drop out we're going to get a lot of votes. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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They keep forgetting. They don't say it. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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So I want to begin by thanking my boys. Eric has been all over the place making speeches. He's getting better than me, so I'm a little jealous. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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And Don went up to Elko. And you were all over, right? And he loves the rifle stuff. This is serious rifle. This is serious NRA. Both of them. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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So -- both of them. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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We love the Second Amendment, folks. Nobody loves it more than us. So just remember that. [Applause].

Donald Trump

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And Cory and Hope, the staff, the whole group, and Charles and Dan. And what a group we have. It's just been amazing.

Donald Trump

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I want to just thank a couple of friends of mine that are here. The owner of this incredible hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ruffin. Stand up. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Great guy. Phil said, Donald --"like for the last three months he's driving me crazy. He said

Donald Trump

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Now -- I'll tell you what we're going to do right. We get greedy, right? Now we're going to get greedy for the United States. We're going to grab and grab and grab. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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We're going to bring in so much money and so much everything. We're going to make America great again, folks. I'm telling you. We're going to make America great again. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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And another great friend of mine, somebody respected by everybody, a great friend of Phil too, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Wynn. Stand up, Steve. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Stand up. Two great people. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Steve is always calling. He's always got advice. Right, Steve? Donald

Donald Trump

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So Phil and Steve and families, we appreciate it. You've been great friends. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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So, this was very exciting tonight. But I'll tell you. It looks like we won by a lot Evangelicals. I love the Evangelicals. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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And I have to tell you, Pastor Jeffress has been so incredible on television and elsewhere. He has been great. And as you know, Liberty University. Do we love Liberty University? [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Jerry Falwell Junior, an unbelievable guy. And he has been with us and with us from the beginning. And I want to thank Jerry and his family. It's been amazing, the relationship.

Donald Trump

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So we won the Evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.

Donald Trump

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We're the smartest people. We're the most loyal people. And you know what I really am happy about because I've been saying it for a long time, 46 percent with the Hispanics, 46 percent. [Cheering]

Donald Trump

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Number one with Hispanics. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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I'm really happy about that.

Audience

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Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump...

Donald Trump

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Donald Trump

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So I'm very proud of you. This is an amazing night. And you know I love the country. I love the country.

Audience

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We love you too. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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We're going... [Applause]

Donald Trump

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We're going in the wrong direction. We're going to keep, as you know get -- [Inaudible] keeping that open. And we're going to load it up with bad dudes. We're going to load it up with a lot of bad dudes out there. We're going to have our borders nice and strong. We're going to build the wall. You know that. Going to build the wall. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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And I have a lot of respect for Mexico. And you just heard we won Hispanics. But let me tell you. Mexico is going to pay for the wall. Right? [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Going to happen. Going to happen. They know it. I know it. We all know it.

Donald Trump

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We have a tremendous deficit. We have a trade deficit with Mexico. They'll pay for the wall. They'll be very happy about it. Believe me. I'll talk to them. They'll be very, very thrilled. They're going to be thrilled to be paying for the wall.

Donald Trump

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We're going to be the smart people. We're not going to be the people that get pushed around all over the place. We're going to be the smart people.

Donald Trump

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You're going to be proud of your president. And you're going to be even prouder of your country. OK? [Applause]

Donald Trump

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So tonight, folks, this was a great evening. I love this place. I love this state. I love Las Vegas. I have spent and invested so much money over here. Trump International Hotel. I keep telling Steve we have the best hotel in Las Vegas. He's fighting me all the time. But that's... [Laughter]

Donald Trump

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But I just want to say it's a great state. And they have great people. And I was so proud.

Donald Trump

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You know I went to caucus. I was all over the place tonight. The people are amazing. The enthusiasm, it was unbelievable to see.

Donald Trump

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The people of this country are absolutely amazing. I love you folks very much. Remember, make America great again. We're going to do it. And it's going to happen fast.

Donald Trump

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Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Thank you very much. We love you. We love you. [Applause]

Donald Trump

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Thank you. Thank you.

Audience

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USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA... [Applause] [Chanting]...

Donald Trump

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Thank you, everybody. I love you. Thank you. [Applause]