Trump Praises NC Senate Candidate Michael Whatley After Lara Trump Dropped Her Senate Bid

During a press gaggle on Friday, President Trump was asked about Republican North Carolina Senate Candidate Michael Whatley.

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00:00The sad part is that no other country other than us gives anything.

00:03Have you spoken to Michael Watley about running for that North Carolina?

00:07I have, yeah.

00:08And will he run, do you think?

00:09I think he will.

00:10Teacher shortages, sir, what can be done to get...

00:12Are you from North Carolina?

00:14My father lives there.

00:15He'll be a good candidate.

00:18What can be done to bring more teachers, more educators into the classroom

00:22to alleviate the teacher shortage across the country?

00:24We're doing that, and we're doing it strongly.

00:26What we're doing is moving education back to the states.

00:29The states will run education.

00:31When they do it, you're going to have the best education in the world.

00:34We'll have 35 or 40 states where it will be as good as Sweden, Norway, Denmark,

00:40you know, the top five or six countries.

00:42How do you attract the top talent, the top talent, the top teachers to get in the past?

00:46We're going to get them.

00:47We already have them.

00:48When we bring, when we go back to the states with education, you're going to see a big difference.

00:52Mr. President, just want me to go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead.