Former President Donald Trump spoke to a packed foyer at the South Carolina Statehouse Saturday afternoon, speaking on everything from energy to gender politics
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COLUMBIA, S.C. —
Former President Donald Trump spoke to a packed foyer at the South Carolina Statehouse Saturday afternoon, speaking on everything from energy to gender politics.
The 45th president started his campaign trail in New Hampshire on Saturday, making his way to Columbia soon after. In his speech, he renewed economic promises to the state.
"Unlike Biden, who is wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on the Green New Deal," he said, "I will send South Carolina the world-class infrastructure that you truly need, just as I ensured that Charleston was the deepest water port on the East Coast."
Hundreds watched and cheered after waiting in line outside and standing in the foyer for hours. Trump announced his South Carolina Leadership Team, which included Gov. Henry McMaster, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette. All members of the team had spoken out on the U.S. border with Mexico and illegal border crossing.
"And they're coming from prisons, and they're coming from mental institutions, and they're coming from a lot of bad places, that's going to cause us a lot of problems," Trump said.
Trump laid blame on the Biden administration for weak borders and the collapse of Afghanistan to Taliban forces. He continued and said he wanted to drill for oil here and make the U.S. independent of Middle Eastern countries.
"I call it liquid gold. It's right under our feet," he said. "And we decide to stop drilling oil right at its all-time high."
Trump said that by lowering the price of oil and not relying on other countries, inflation of other products would decrease. He then pivoted to education and gender politics, stating he would not allow men to play in women's sports and will keep certain ideologies out of the classroom.
"As I announced this week, we will cut federal funding for any school pushing far-left sexual or political content on our children," he said. "We're going to defeat the cult of gender ideology and reaffirm that God created two genders, called men and women."
The packed foyer of red cheered as Trump's South Carolina Leadership Team stood behind him. McMaster echoed what many in the crowd felt.
"We believe in common sense, we believe in the Declaration of Independence, we believe in the Constitution, we believe in the Bible, and we believe in you," he said.
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