Second Republican Debate Transcript: Doug Burgum

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I'm sorry. I have to jump in, because we're missing the point. And every other network is missing the point.

The reason why people are striking in Detroit is because Joe Biden's interference, with capital markets, and with free markets. The subsidies, we're subsidizing the automakers, and we're subsidizing the cars, and a particular kind of car, not every car. We're particularly we're subsidizing electric vehicles. And when you decide that we're going to take all of your taxpayer monies, take a billion dollars, subsidize a certain type of vehicle, and the batteries come from China?

China controls 85 percent of the Rare Earth minerals. They're called Rare Earth, because they're measured in parts per million. China is moving 100,000 pounds of Earth, in Indonesia, in Africa. They're literally destroying the planet, so that we can make a battery that's in a car, subsidized here.

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That's why they're striking, because they need two-thirds less workers to build an electric car. Joe Biden, this strike is at Joe Biden's feet.

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Well, first, we need to know and understand is, I think that the liberal left is -- seems to be just completely bent on prosecuting law-abiding citizens that are gun owners, because every solution they have to this is take away the Second Amendment rights of Americans and somehow that's going to solve the problem.

But all these cities that we're talking about, that showed the videos of tonight, they have some of the strictest gun laws in the country. So we know that that's not what's working. What we have to do is get back to the core issues about the family. We have to get back to behavioral health and mental health.

We have got to get back to actually enforcing the laws these people talked about, and like we have done in North Dakota, where we're -- we have got the goal and we're on the track to be the most military-friendly state in the nation. We have got the most military and the most support of what we're doing in terms of law enforcement, because the -- the morale is down because we have been defunding the police, because they have been attacked in the press.

The police have become the bad guys, when they're the one -- they -- there's all these jobs available in America. Why would you be a policeman if people don't even respect them?

Every time I see a policeman, the first thing I say is, thank you. And so does everybody else in my family and most of the people in our state, because they know we have to respect the people that are out there defending us every single day.

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or now, the auto industry, things get more expensive, and less competitive.

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Yes. And that's why we have 50 platforms of innovation. That's why we have states. There are certain things the federal government is supposed to do. It's not the Department of Education that needs to be assembled. We got to move it back to states. Do what we did in North Dakota, instead of like, oh, here's the choice school and here's an old -- here's an old school, the old way with the Teachers Union, the kids are trapped. We made every school in North Dakota and innovation school. Every school got out from under the red tape and the things that helped teach the values that we're trying to get, like 4H like FFA -

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and by the way, North Dakota is now at the top of the median LSAT scores in the country right now.

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You have tech questions, you didn't ask the only guy that's been in tech. You have energy questions, you don't ask anything, but I'm just going to say right now -- when you say nobody else has done it, the energy plans that have all been announced in the last month by these other folks on stage, we're already doing it in North Dakota.

The border plans that they all talk about, we've got troops down at the border flying helicopter missions from North Dakota, from San Diego to the Gulf Coast trying to stop transnational criminal organizations from inflicting the invasion and the mass casualties in our state.

And on the energy policy, we're already doing it. It's not saying, nobody else done the big fights. North Dakota was leading the charge. We've won the battle to get -- the Biden administration was ignoring the law. They were the first administration since Truman that wasn't holding the quarterly required lease sales, and we won that in federal court.

WOTUS, we won that in federal court. We're fighting the Biden administration on 20 fronts.

To say that nobody's fighting the big fights, just look at the record of what we're doing right now. Energy, economy, national security, been talking about it since day one and now finally, good, we're having the conversation about it, but we've got the answer in North Dakota.

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