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Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton Rally in New Hampshire. Aired 1:30-2p ET

Aired October 24, 2016 - 13:30   ET

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[13:30:00] SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN, (D), MASSACHUSETTS: Yeah get this, Donald, nasty women are tough. Nasty women are smart. And nasty women vote.

(CHEERING)

WARREN: And on November 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives forever.

(CHEERING)

WARREN: Yep. You bet. Yes.

You know, for more than a year, Donald Trump has made headlines almost every day, and where has Senator Kelly Ayotte been? Donald Trump calls Latinos rapist and murders. Kelly stuck with him. Called African-Americans thugs and Kelly stuck with him. Trump attacked a Gold Star family and Kelly stuck with him. Trump compared himself to dictators, and praised Vladimir Putin. Kelly stuck with him. Trump even attacked Kelly Ayotte, and called her weak. And Kelly stuck with him.

(LAUGHTER)

You know, during a debate a couple of weeks ago when she called Donald Trump a role model for kids -- you just can't believe this -- but now, Donald Trump's not doing so well, and Kelly is running as fast as she can away from him. I will say one thing. Donald Trump sure has made Kelly Ayotte dance.

(LAUGHTER)

Day one, she loves him. Day two, hates him. Day three, she's back with him. Boy, spins around and around.

(LAUGHTER)

But one of the things I love about the people from New Hampshire that you value guts. You make the right decision and then you stick with it. Donald Trump is right. Kelly is weak. That's why a tough, smart fighter, like our Governor Maggie Hassan, is going to win on November 8th.

(CHEERING) WARREN: Yeah. I love being here with smart, tough women.

(CHEERING)

WARREN: With Hillary, with Maggie, with Carol, with Annie, and friends of women, Colin.

(APPLAUSE)

WARREN: You know, just look at Hillary's history. She's been on the receiving end of one terrible right-wing attack after another for 25 years. But she has never backed down.

(CHEERING)

WARREN: She doesn't whine. She doesn't run to Twitter at 3:00 a.m. to call her opponents "losers" or "dummies."

(LAUGHTER)

She doesn't even cry that the election is rigged. No. Hillary is the kind who just gets up every day and she keeps on fighting, fighting for children, fighting for women, fighting for families, fighting for health care, fighting for human rights, fighting for level playing fields. Hillary fights for us!

(CHEERING)

WARREN: That's right.

(CHANTING)

WARREN: All right. So we're with her. There are two things we've got to do. First one, we've got to vote. New Hampshire has same-day registration at your polling location. So no excuses, anybody. Go to Iwillvote.com. Make a plan now how you're going toast your vote, and cast your vote for Annie, for Carol, for Colin, for Maggie, and for Hillary. Are you going to do that?

(SHOUTING)

WARREN: Good.

Second, do more than vote. Volunteer. We need you in this. Democracy needs you in this. You can knock on doors. You can make phone calls. You can monitor the polls. Lawyers can help us here. Everybody, if you have any time over the next 15 days, please, volunteer. You can go to HillaryClinton.com. Go to MaggieHassan.com. And I guarantee, we will use your time and we will use it well. Please, make this investment in democracy. Get out there and volunteer. We need you on that. Yes.

(CHEERING)

[13:35:00] WARREN: OK. So it is so good for all of us to be here. This is -- this is fabulous. You know, the way I see it, what elections are about, they ultimately come down to our values. It's not about one person or one candidate. This is a movement. It's about a strong, powerful movement to make real change in this country, the kind of change that we make together. And since we're here together, let us remind ourselves why we get up in the morning, why we work hard all day, and why we're still working late at night, because of what we believe. We believe that every person should be able to get a get education without getting crushed by student loan debt, and that means refinancing our student loans and debt-free college. Yes!

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WARREN: We believe that no one should work full time and live in poverty, and that means raising the minimum wage.

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WARREN: And we will fight for it we believe that workers should be able to organize for better pay, for better working conditions.

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WARREN: Unions built America's middle class, and unions will rebuild America's middle class. Yes. You bet.

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WARREN: We believe that after a lifetime of hard work, people are entitled to retire with dignity, and that means protecting and expanding Social Security, and we will do it.

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WARREN: You know, you may have heard. Wells Fargo --

(BOOING)

WARREN -- cheated tens of thousands of people. Giant banks brought down our economy. Well, we believe in tough rules, real accountability. And if a CEO breaks the law, they ought to be in jail, just like anyone else. Yeah!

(CHEERING)

WARREN: Some beliefs are controversial. I want to throw this one out there. We believe in science.

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WARREN: We believe that climate change is real, and that we have a moral obligation to protect this earth for our children and our grandchildren and our grandchildren's grandchildren. Yes.

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WARREN: Boy, and I can't believe I have to say this in 2016. We believe in equal pay for equal work (CHEERING)

WARREN: -- and a woman's right to decisions over her own body. Yes.

(CHEERING)

WARREN: We believe that equal means equal, and that's true in marriage. It's true in the workplace. It's true for every place. And we will fight for equality for all of our people.

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WARREN: You know, Donald Trump calls African-Americans thugs. He calls Muslims terrorists. He calls Latinos criminals. He brags about sexual assaulting women. Well, we believe that racism and sexism and bigotry have no place in our country.

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WARREN: We believe that Black Lives Matter, and that we won't build Donald Trump's stupid wall.

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WARREN: We believe diversity makes us strong. Yes. Yes.

(CHEERING)

WARREN: You do know I could do this all day.

(LAUGHTER)

But we've got a great speaker here. So I'm going to do one more, and then I'm going to quit. We believe that millionaires and billionaires and giant corporations should not be able to buy our elections and our politicians. Corporations are not people. We will overturn Citizens United and bring democracy back to the people. Yes.

(CHEERING)

WARREN: This is Hillary's agenda. This is Maggie's agenda. This is Colin and Carol and Annie's agenda. It is a progressive agenda. It is New Hampshire's agenda. It is an American agenda. Yes.

(CHEERING)

WARREN: Hillary is ready to fight for us. Are you ready to fight for Hillary?

(CHEERING)

WARREN: Then let's welcome to the stage Hillary Clinton, our next president of the United States!

(CHEERING)

[13:40:03] HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: That was great. That was great! Thank you!

(CHANTING)

CLINTON: Thank you! Wow.

I don't know about you, but I could listen to Elizabeth go on all day.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: It is so great being here back in New Hampshire.

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CLINTON: I -- I have a significant unruly group of women I went to Wellesley with back here.

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CLINTON: Oh, and it's wonderful to be on this college campus and to see so many young people here. As Maggie and Elizabeth and I were walking out to the stage, a lot of folks were hanging out of the windows. And we're glad that you've got the best view of what we're doing here.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: It's exciting to be here with two weeks left, because this is the most consequential election of our lifetime. And to see the energy and the enthusiasm that this crowd displays -- I saw it yesterday in North Carolina. I saw it the day before in Ohio.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: It really does demonstrate that Americans are looking at what's at stake, and are coming to the conclusion that we all have to be involved, involved in the remaining days of the campaign, and then everyone needs to turn out to vote.

And here in New Hampshire you have a lot of reasons to vote. You've got great candidates for the Congress, Annie Custer and Carol Shaye Porter (ph) who deserve your support.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: And you've got a great candidate for governor, Colin van Ostrin (ph). Thank you.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: I know Maggie and Elizabeth and I have been out here giving the full dose, but I hope you'll also make sure people know what's at stake in the governor's race and in sending these two extraordinary women to the House.

And, boy, it is exciting to be here with Maggie and Elizabeth, because they are people who fight for you every single day. I know both of these women, and it is a privilege to be on this stage with them.

Now, Elizabeth Warren has a track record of making it her mission to stands up against Wall Street. And she's going to make sure that Wall Street never wrecks Main Street again.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: But you may not know that she was the person behind setting up the agency that protects consumers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And --

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: -- it was set up to stand against and do something about the kinds of fraud and abuse we've seen from Wells Fargo. And they are on the front lines of returning billions of dollars to Americans who have been cheated and defrauded by big companies, by banks, and others.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: You know, in fact, I think it's fair to say some of the best TV that you can see is on C-Span when Elizabeth is going after a bank executive or a regulator. She --

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CLINTON: She's refusing, refusing to let them off the hook, and she's not just speaking for herself, is she? She is speaking for every single American who is frustrated and fed up. And I am so looking forward to working with her, to rewrite the rules of our economy, to make sure we both grow it and make it fairer for every single person, working hard, here in America.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: I don't know. We're up here without our phones. So, you know, we can't check Tweets.

(LAUGHTER)

I expect if Donald heard what she said, he's tweeting away. She gets under his thin skin like nobody else.

(LAUGHTER)

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: Whether she's calling him out about his mysterious tax returns, she exposes him for what he is, temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States.

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CLINTON: And Maggie is going to be a great United States Senator for New Hampshire.

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[13:45:11] CLINTON: You know, you don't have to take my word or Elizabeth's word. Look at what she's already done. Under Maggie's leadership, New Hampshire has the lowest unemployment rate in the entire country.

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CLINTON: During her governorship, it was ranked as the best state in the country for business. And --

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: -- and she's done it the New Hampshire way. She has brought people together, Democrats, Republicans and Independents. I think she has the biggest legislature probably in the world that she has to deal with. So she has really honed her skills about listening and then trying to work with people. And she's taken on issues that really do keep families up and night, from the skyrocketing costs of college and prescription drugs to helping students figure out ways to afford to get their education, to helping those suffering from addiction or mental health, to raising wages for hard-working families. What I love about Maggie is that she's independent. She knows how to find common ground and how to stand her ground, and that is exactly the kind of leader we need in the United States Senate.

(APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: Because we've got to break through the gridlock and the dysfunction that has unfortunately marred Washington. We've got to get back to listening respectfully. We can disagree without being disagreeable, and that's why we need leaders like Maggie. And unlike her opponent, she has never been afraid to stand up to Donald Trump.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: She knows he shouldn't be a role model for our kids or for anybody else, for that matter. So I hope in these next 14 days you do everything you can to support her.

And I want to say a word about Colin, who I've also known for a number of years now, and Maggie's leaving some big shoes. She doesn't look like it, but she is. She's leaving some big shoes to fill at governor. And Colin is the person for that job. You know, as a member of the executive council, and I remember this, because it took a lot of guts, he helped lead the fight to protect funding for Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire.

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CLINTON: Against his opponent, by the way, and he has shown that he will stand up for women's health 100 percent of the time. Not just when is politically convenient. He also worked with Maggie to cross party lines to help expand Medicaid to more than 50,000 Granite Stators.

(APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: And Colin wants to do more to invest in clean energy, like wind and solar, to hold down costs, to create more good jobs here in New Hampshire and to protect the beautiful environment of this state. And he will fight to put into action the promise of higher education within reach for more families. So, please, during these next days, make sure you're doing everything you can for Colin, for Carol and Annie.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: Now, did anybody see the last debate?

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: You know, I stood next to Donald Trump in three debates for four and a half hours, proving once again I have the stamina to be president.

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CLINTON: I tried to use the time I had in all three to talk about what people talk to me about. Starting here in New Hampshire and going across the country, because I take it really seriously. I think the problems that keep you up at night, that stand in the way of your getting ahead and staying ahead, of providing the best opportunity of a good middle-class job with a rising income for you and your kids, those are the problems that the president should actually listen to, pay attention to, and come up with solutions for.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: So, you know, I do have a lot of plans. I do. And I get criticized for having so many plans.

(LAUGHTER)

Tim Kaine and I have actually written a book. Oops. There's one copy right there. It's called -- oh, another copy. It's called "Stronger Together" and we lay out all of our plans for what we want to the do if we're so honored to be president and vice president.

[13:50:08] You know, I do have this old-fashioned idea that if I'm asking for your vote to be president, I should tell you what I'm going to do. Maybe as said yesterday in North Carolina, maybe it is a bit of a woman's thing, because we make lists.

(LAUGHTER)

We do. We make lists. And we try to write down what we're supposed to do and then cross them off as we go through the day and the week.

(LAUGHTER)

And so, I want you to think about our plans as our lists, our lists as a country. We are going to get the economy working for everybody. Not just those at the top. We are going to make college affordable. We are going to lower prescription drug costs. And we're going to do everything we can to keep faith with what we have said we're going to do. What a novel idea. We're actually going to try to deliver results for you.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: But I got to tell you, during that debate, Donald said something -- well, he said a lot of things that were troubling --

(LAUGHTER)

But he said something truly horrifying. He became the first person running for president, Republican or Democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election.

(BOOING)

CLINTON: Now that is a direct threat to our democracy. I'm not going to try to call it anything else because that's what it is. All this talk about the election being rigged, trying to stir up people who are supporting him at his rallies, that is a direct threat to our democracy.

And I got to tell you, as your secretary of state, I went to 112 countries. I went to countries where people were jailed for being political opponents, where they were exiled, where they were killed. I take this really seriously. And for me, the peaceful transfer of power is one of the things that makes our country great. Something that --

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: Something we can't lose. Something we shouldn't even doubt. We cannot give in to cynicism. And I don't think we are.

I'll tell you what's exciting to me, is across this country, the very moment when Donald Trump is making this unprecedented attack on our fundamental values, our institutions, billions of people are standing up store democracy, registering, volunteering, voting early.

(APPLAUSE)

So, when you get a little discouraged or get frustrated by what you see in this campaign, think of this, we have just reached an historic milestone. More than 200 million Americans are now registered to vote.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: And most exciting, that includes more than 50 million young people, the biggest number ever.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: Now, you only see numbers like this when people are standing up for what they believe in. And I'm proud to see Americans coming together, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, to reject hate and division.

And, you know, we're seeing that in New Hampshire, too. We are more than our disagreements, we Americans. There is so much more that unites us than divides us. I'm proud to have the support of more than 150 Republican leaders in this state, who put country before party.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: But this energy we're seeing is not just because of what we're against, as important as that is, but it's because of what we're for. It's about fighting for a future where everyone counts, where everyone has a place, and no one is left out or left behind. Because, to me, and I hope to you as well, this is about more than winning an election. It's about the kind of country we want for our kids and our grandkids. That's what this has to be about.

(CHEERING)

[13:55:09] CLINTON: It's about the lessons we want to pass on to our sons and our daughters. We believe we should honor the men and women who fight for our safer when we work with our allies to lead the world with strength and intelligence. Yet my opponent attacked a grieving Gold Star family whose son died in Iraq. He has no plan to defeat ISIS. And just last night, he tweeted that the new effort under way to push the terrorists out of the key city of Mosul is already, and I quote, "a total disaster." And that our country is, quote, "looking so dumb."

Imagine, imagine, this is a person who says he knows more about is than the generals. I don't think so.

He's basically declaring defeat before the battle has even started. He's proving to the world what it means to have an unqualified commander-in-chief. It's not only wrong, it's dangerous. And it needs to be repudiated on November 8th, here in New Hampshire and across America.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: But just in case you think this is new for Donald, it shouldn't surprise you or surprise anybody else. And I'll tell you why. He has been denigrating America for decades. It started before he ran against me. It started before President Obama took office. In fact, back in 1987, he spent $100,000 on an ad in "The New York Times" criticizing President Reagan. He said, and I quote, "The world is laughing at America." Does that sound familiar?

This is someone who roots for failure and takes glee in mocking our no matter who our president is. Now, that may be who Donald Trump is, but this election is about who we are. And I want us --

(APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: And I want us to remember, America is great because America is good. Right?

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: First Lady Michelle Obama said right here in New Hampshire, when they go low, we go high!

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: This election poses a very clear choice on the economy. When the middle class thrives, America thrives. As Elizabeth said, she is a perfect example of how that works in America. So am I. So are every one of you here. That's what I want for every single person, especially young person in America. With your help, we're going to not only have Elizabeth back in the Senate, but send Maggie, send Carol, send Annie and make the biggest investment in new jobs since World War II.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: What does that mean? That means jobs in infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our ports, our mass transit, our water systems. There is a lot of great work to be done here. And guess what? Those are jobs that can't be exported. They've got to be done right here in New Hampshire and across America. I want us to --

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: -- invest in advanced manufacturing. And there are I know a lot of skeptics about that. They say, well, we can't compete in manufacturing anymore. I'll tell you what, I don't want us competing with low-wage jobs. I want us competing for the high-wage jobs. Germany is a major exporter in advanced manufacturing products. I want to compete with Germany and countries like that, precision machining, 3-D printing.

(APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: I want us to invest more in technology, innovation and research and, yes, clean energy, because we're going to make America the clean energy super power of the 21st century.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: I think we can deploy half a billion more solar panels within the first four years and enough clean energy to power every home by the end of 10 years. That's what I want people to be working on and thinking about and striving to achieve.

(CHEERING)

CLINTON: And I am really excited about what we can do to make sure every young American is prepared. I want to start in the early years of life, in early education --