Sen. Ron Johnson says he gave the wrong speech at the RNC. Here’s the one he meant to give

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson’s speech on the first night of the 2024 Republican National Convention was not the speech he intended to deliver.

Johnson provided PBS News with the text of the speech he said he wanted to give on Monday.

Read the full speech below.

Johnson told PBS News Hour co-anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett that he had rewritten his speech in the wake of the assassination attempt against former

President Donald Trump on Saturday.

“They literally loaded the wrong speech” on the teleprompter, Johnson told PBS News.

Read Senator Ron Johnson’s speech:

Welcome to Wisconsin!

We meet at a somber moment in history. We should all heed President Trump’s call for unity, strength, and determination.

170 years ago, the Republican Party was born here, founded on the principle of freedom and dedicated to the fight to end slavery.

It’s an honor and privilege to represent the good, decent, hardworking, and very nice people of Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate.

Like most Americans, they believe the purpose of government is to help improve lives, not make them more difficult. Unfortunately, President Biden and Vice President Harris have made our lives less safe and far more expensive – in other words, a lot MORE difficult.

Back in 2008, Joe Biden ran on a ticket promising to “fundamentally transform America.” They weren’t joking. That was the Democrats’ new, radical, far left mission.

Today’s Democrat party is not the party of our parents and grandparents. That party cared about workers and people struggling to get by.

Now they are the party of open borders, reckless spending, and weakness on the world stage. Their fringe agenda includes biological males competing against girls and the sexualization and indoctrination of our children.

Democrats have forgotten American families.

They have abandoned the hard-working middle class.

But with President Trump and Republicans, those forgotten Americans are forgotten no more.

Republicans are the party of opportunity, liberty, and prosperity for all.

We proved we know how to make life better for all Americans, and we can do it again—with a secure border, smaller government, less regulation and lower taxes.

Republicans understand that Americans don’t want welfare, they want work.

They don’t want woke “equity;” they want God-given equality.

They want the promise of our founding documents: The right to pursue happiness.

That’s what Republicans will deliver.

We’ve repaired the damage caused by Democrats before, and we will do it again. We will complete the mission President Trump first articulated in 2016.

To Make America Great Again!!!

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