Trump Says If There's A Government Shutdown, 'It's Only Because Of The Democrats'

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump put the blame for a potential government shutdown on Democrats.

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00:00Why?

00:01Go ahead.

00:02And one more.

00:03There's some new internal Democrat polling that doesn't look great for Democrats, but

00:05it also has 54 percent unfavorability for Republicans in swing states and battlegrounds

00:11for the midterms.

00:12Do you consider those voters capturable for for Republicans?

00:15Yeah, well, we did.

00:16You know, I won every swing state, as you know, by a lot.

00:19And I won the popular vote by a lot.

00:22And we won the counties.

00:23If you look at the counties and district plan, we had 2725 and they had 501.

00:32That's a real.

00:33That's why the map is all red.

00:35So we had a great thing.

00:36Yeah, I think I think winning from the Democrats.

00:39I saw if you look the other night, I made a speech and I introduced two young ladies

00:44who were killed, two killed, viciously, violently killed young, unbelievable, both outstanding

00:52people.

00:53They were killed by illegal aliens and the Democrats wouldn't get up and applaud.

00:58The mothers were, I mean, inconsolable.

01:02They were crying and everybody was crying.

01:05The Democrats sat there with stone faces.

01:07They didn't clap.

01:08They didn't stand.

01:09They didn't do anything.

01:10We had a young man with very serious cancer.

01:14His dream is to be with the police department someday.

01:17And he was introduced.

01:18They didn't even clap.

01:19I mean, they they were disgusting, frankly.

01:23They were disgusting.

01:24There's something wrong with them.

01:27They're deranged.

01:28They're deranged.

01:29Like Jack Smith, they're deranged people.

01:33And I never saw anything like it.

01:34I'm standing up and I introduced the mother and the parents of these two young girls that

01:41were just just recently essentially killed, violently killed.

01:46And the Democrats are like this.

01:50It's so sad.

01:53And I saw this morning with one of them is pretty well known when is arguing, fighting

01:58like crazy over men being able to play in women's sports.

02:02I said, yeah, I thought that was tried.

02:04I thought that was about a ninety five.

02:05I think it's a ninety five percent issue.

02:08But in a way, I want him to keep doing it because I don't think they can win a race.

02:12I tell the Republicans, I said, don't bring that subject up because there's no election

02:16right now.

02:18But about a week before the election, bring it up because you can't lose.

02:22And everything's transgender, this transgender, that, you know, it's they have bad politics.

02:29But one thing they stick together, you know, I wish the Republicans stick together mostly.

02:35But we have a couple that are grandstanders.

02:37You know, you always have grandstanders in life.

02:40But the Democrats, they don't seem they have grandstanders.

02:43But when it comes to a vote, they do stick together.

02:45Right, sir.

02:46When you say they'll stick together on the shutdown, will that hurt Democrats going into

02:49midterms?

02:50Well, if they do a shutdown and ultimately that might lead to very, very high taxes,

02:55because we're talking about a shutdown.

02:57We're talking about getting to work immediately on the greatest tax bill ever passed.

03:02That was the one we did.

03:03It was a renewal and it's an addition to it.

03:06And we're going to cut people's taxes.

03:09And if the if we don't open, the Democrats are stopping all of these good things that

03:15we're providing.

03:16We're providing the greatest package of benefits that this country has ever provided.

03:22The biggest part of that is going to be tax cuts for the middle class and for businesses,

03:26small businesses, employers, people that hire people and jobs.

03:32And if it's shut down, it's only going to be if there's a shutdown.

03:35It's only because of the Democrats.

03:37And they would really be taken away a lot from our country and from the people of our

03:41country.

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