Benny Johnson

God.

Only God.

Because, you know, God, Charlie, and you.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it up for all the organizers tonight for putting this together, for all the people who have been here.

And from the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you to all the people that have said prayers for us, that have been there for us, and who have spent that time to say, you know what?

I am not going to let these terrorist tactics scare me, that the people of New Jersey are not gonna be scared to go down to the seaport pier and to come out and say, you know something, if you want New Jersey, you gotta come through us.

And I say that as a guy who's not a son of New Jersey.

I'm a son of Pennsylvania.

Yes, I am.

But I'll tell you something right now.

I spent almost every single summer of my life going down to shore right here in Wildwood or Ocean City or Avalon or Cape May or Seattle going down to their surf mall.

I saw the very first humpback whale I ever saw in my life was going off at a Cape May ferry down to Luz.

Look.

I spent my entire summer coming down to New Jersey, my entire childhood, and I'll tell you something I know about New Jersey.

New Jerseyans are tough.

New Jerseyans are some of the toughest people on the face of the entire planet, on the face of the entire Earth.

And my friend Charlie Kirk knew that.

My friend Charlie Kirk knew that in spades.

New Jersey, this is the state of Thomas Edison.

New Jersey, New Jersey is the state of Frank Sinatra.