1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty six, and this is an election year, 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: and I'm proud to welcome former Special Forces operator Nick Polse, 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: who's running for lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, today on the 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: David Rutherford Show. All Right, Nick, you know, one of 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: the things that I take a lot of crap for 6 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: is not having more Green Berets on the show. And 7 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: you know, I want to make sure that I pay 8 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: tribute to all my Green Beret brothers because I am 9 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: an eighteen Delta officially, right, and so having you on 10 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: is such an incredible opportunity, and I'm really excited to 11 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: hear what you have to say about running for lieutenant governor. 12 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 2: Man, all right, thank you. 13 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 3: I appreciate you having me on, and I'll try to 14 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 3: represent the regiment to the best of my abilities and 15 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 3: not let anybody down. 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: Awesome, Awesome, because we know, we know Big Jay is gonna. 17 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 4: Be watching for sure. 18 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, all right, let's just jump right 19 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: into it. 20 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 4: Obviously. 21 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: You know a lot of people, in particular operators are 22 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: stepping into this battle space. 23 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 4: You know, for many reasons. 24 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: We've had Jared Hudson, who's running for Senate down in Alabama. 25 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 4: Uh, you know, we're we're we're in. 26 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: Talks to have a couple more guys that are are 27 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,199 Speaker 1: are in contention, are going to start throwing their hats 28 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: into run here soon. Let's just ask you, how long 29 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: did you serve and why are you taking that deep 30 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: dedication to serving the nation and continuing it. 31 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 4: To want to serve the great state of Wisconsin. 32 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 2: Sure, great question. 33 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 3: So I spent a lot over a decade in the Army, 34 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 3: a little over eleven years. And my backstory is I 35 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 3: was a senior in college when the towers came down, 36 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 3: and that was a pivotal moment in my life and 37 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 3: much of r we'll call it the gat generations lives, 38 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 3: and it was a pivot point. And so I chose 39 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 3: at that point that I wanted to join. I wanted 40 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 3: to join specifically to get into the Special Operations community 41 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: because I want to go overseas and take the fight 42 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 3: to America's enemies. So from the time that we had 43 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 3: that tragic attack on nine to eleven September, I graduated 44 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: in May, and then I was on my way to 45 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 3: basic training in October, and then from that point I 46 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 3: got the opportunity to serve with some of the best 47 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 3: of the best. Like I said, it's been over a 48 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 3: decade doing that and then that living that, walking that, 49 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 3: watching the decisions that were made by some of the 50 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 3: folks in the political class or some of our elected officials, 51 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 3: and how they affected us on the ground. It prevented 52 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 3: us from doing certain things, It caused unnecessary injuries, some 53 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 3: folks didn't come home that. Carrying that and learning from 54 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 3: that is what I'm caring forward now into my campaign 55 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 3: here for lieutenant governor in Wisconsin. And I decided to 56 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 3: jump in my why is my little guy, my nine 57 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 3: year old He drives me. He's why I'm doing what 58 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 3: I'm doing, and it's because of him. And I don't 59 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 3: want him to grow up in a state that he 60 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 3: cannot afford. I don't want him to grow up in 61 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 3: a country he cannot afford. And I wanted to feel 62 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 3: safe in the United States. And so those are the 63 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: things why I got into the race. 64 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 1: It's so fascinating to me, especially from GWAT guys who 65 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: do feel the continued call to push through and get 66 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: into politics, because you know, we often look at the 67 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: battlefield as you know, hey, that was the most that 68 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: was the place in our lives that always made the 69 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: most sense. 70 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 4: Right there was there was the good. 71 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: Guys and then the bad guys, right and and it 72 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: was pretty linear. You knew where the battle space were, 73 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: you had your mission objective, you had your boys around you, 74 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: and things seem to make sense. But when I take 75 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: a step back and look at the political craziness that's 76 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: going on across the country right now. For me, because 77 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: I actually considered running for Congress down here in South 78 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: Florida and for the twenty two session, and I talked, 79 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: I talked to Brian mast about it at some other people, 80 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: and after doing those discussions, I was like, this is crazy. 81 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: Why would I want to go and subject myself one 82 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: to the whole campaign and running and the assaults and 83 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: the attacks, and then two getting into government and getting 84 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: you know, into what seems to be a greater space 85 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 1: of let's just say, lack of accountability, lack of responsibility. 86 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: Why why do you think that you can go and 87 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: make a difference? 88 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 3: Now, No, it's a great question, and it you do 89 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 3: the research and it sounds like you talk to a 90 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 3: lot of some real knowledgeable people and at some point, 91 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 3: so so for me in Wisconsin, I think a lot 92 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 3: of ways Washington, d C. Is I'm not a lot 93 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 3: cause lost, cause it's so far gone that to me, 94 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 3: the states is where we can we can fight, we 95 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 3: can preserve, we can protect and eventually rebuild and try 96 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 3: to hold the country that we that we had, that 97 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 3: we grew up on, that's given so much, that's given 98 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 3: so much to us. 99 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 2: And at the state level, you have more control. 100 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 3: It's it's it's closer to the problem set and usually 101 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 3: those closest to the problem set are best able to 102 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 3: solve the problem. 103 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 2: And so my focus is on the state right now. 104 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: Great, you had you had talked about Republicans losing elections 105 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: in Wisconsin pretty regularly, uh for a while. Now, can 106 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 1: you just give us a brief history of that and 107 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: why do you think now is a good time for 108 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: you to run for lieutenant governor? 109 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 2: Sure? 110 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 3: So, in Wisconsin at the state wide level, you've had 111 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 3: Ron Johnson and President Trump are the only ones that 112 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 3: have won the state since twenty fourteen. Prior to that, 113 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 3: you had Governor Scott Walker, who won in twenty ten 114 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 3: with that Tea Party revolution. He won a recall in 115 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 3: twenty eleven, and then he won for a re election 116 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 3: in twenty fourteen. But since then the GOP here we 117 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 3: haven't run a state wide race that we've won it 118 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 3: with the exception of the two guys that I mentioned. 119 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 3: So the why in my assessment is I look at 120 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 3: the messaging. 121 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 4: One. 122 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 3: I look at the messaging and the messaging that one 123 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 3: in twenty ten, that won in twenty eleven, that President 124 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 3: Sharp ran On Senator Ron Johnson ran On consistently is 125 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 3: one of a populist of one on focusing on the 126 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 3: working class, focusing on the individual American. And when we 127 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 3: run on that messaging here in Wisconsin, we can win, 128 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 3: and we stray from that, we're racking up losses. So 129 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 3: I look at the messaging here as one of the 130 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 3: main reasons why at the state level the Republican Party 131 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 3: has not been able to win since twenty fourteen. 132 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: Awesome, all right, So when I go to your you know, 133 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: your website, which is Nicholaspolls dot com, and look at 134 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: You've got this great list of initiatives, and so the 135 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: number one is unleashing the Wisconsin economy. 136 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 4: What does that look like for you? 137 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: And what would you do as soon as you get 138 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: into office to try and facilitate some of that economic 139 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: growth to take place. 140 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 2: Sure, So let me first talk about the role. 141 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 3: So as a lieutenant governor, there's not very much outlined 142 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 3: in the constitution, the state constitution here for their role. 143 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 2: Essentially, it's a couple of things. 144 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 3: One is, if the governor leaves the state, he or 145 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 3: she can authorize you to with certain powers. If something 146 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 3: happens to the governor, then you step up and you 147 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 3: become the leader of the state and then you're in 148 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 3: charge of the Senate. Short of that, there's not much 149 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 3: outlined in the constitution as to what the lieutenant governor 150 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 3: can do and should be doing daily. So I look 151 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 3: at this role as one of an advocate and one 152 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 3: of being a robust, proactive lieutenant governor because you have 153 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 3: a platform, right as the number two elected official in 154 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 3: the state. You have a platform and you have the 155 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 3: power to convene or what does that mean. You get 156 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 3: the opportunity to bring people together, whether they're business leaders, 157 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 3: whether they're folks in education, whether they're folks at the 158 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 3: lower levels of government, you know, the county or state level. 159 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 3: You can bring people together, you can have conversations, and 160 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 3: you could be an advocate for wisconsinights across the state. 161 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 3: So that's what I look at as my role, all right. 162 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 3: So now specifically as it comes to some of the 163 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 3: economic items, Wisconsin is one of the most over regulated 164 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 3: states in the Midwest. So when you have a whole 165 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 3: bunch of regulations, you're decreasing freedom. Business owners aren't able 166 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 3: to do certain things, employees aren't able to do certain things. 167 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 3: There's less of risk taking in those situations. We also 168 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,439 Speaker 3: have property taxes that are increasing. We had our governor 169 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 3: here that signed a four hundreds a four hundred year 170 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 3: property tax increase, and most recently in December, we've felt 171 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 3: that for the first time since he signed it, and 172 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 3: there was a lot of sticker shock. So when you 173 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 3: combine high regulations, you combine high property taxes. We have 174 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 3: income taxes and a variety of other little regular taxes 175 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 3: and rules regulations. 176 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 2: That creates a lot of restraint. 177 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 3: And so when I talk about unleashing the Wisconsin economy, 178 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 3: I want to create freedom. 179 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 2: I want to talk about freedom. 180 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 3: I want to crisscross the state preaching freedom because in 181 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 3: humans are naturally yearning to be free, and we should 182 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 3: unleash them and allow them to have the economic freedom 183 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 3: here in the state. Much like what President Trump is 184 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,319 Speaker 3: trying to do at the federal level. 185 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: Now, I understand that, you know, most states have very 186 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: substantial health care costs, including Wisconsin, i e. Madison and 187 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 1: Milwaukee for sure. And you know, one of the things 188 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: that we're seeing recently is the corruption or manipulation of 189 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: healthcare issues through corruption or federal spending going into the 190 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: wrong places, the Somali population in Minnesota, we've got the 191 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: other illegal immigrant in Maine. We saw Sean Ryan deliver. 192 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: A main reporter's been diving into that. We've seen it 193 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: in California. We've seen it all over. So healthcare obviously 194 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: is probably going to be a big one on the ticket. 195 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: How are you going to address healthcare and what is 196 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: your message to a lot of people that rely on subsidies. 197 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 2: That's a great question. 198 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,079 Speaker 3: So specifically in Wisconsin, there are a couple of things 199 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 3: that the state can do, separate from the federal government 200 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 3: to help drive down costs and then also increase competition. 201 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 3: So one of the things that we have here is 202 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 3: we have a limited amount of health insurance companies that 203 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 3: can sell into Wisconsin. One that doesn't taken any laws changing, 204 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 3: that just comes out of the executive branch and medicine 205 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 3: of the Insurance Commission a changing and allowing other insurance 206 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 3: companies to sell into Wisconsin. So one, you can increase 207 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 3: the amount of insurance companies selling here, which should we 208 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 3: have more supply and demand stays the same, we should 209 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 3: see prices coming down. The second thing we can do 210 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 3: again at the state level. I mean there's many things, 211 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 3: but the second thing that we can do is there's mandates, 212 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 3: meaning that we have a laws here in Wisconsin that 213 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 3: mandate certain health insurance companies have to sell plans, meaning 214 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 3: they're putting a floor in place. So no matter what 215 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 3: I have to buy a certain plan, you have to 216 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 3: buy a certain plan. You can't go to insurance company 217 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 3: and pick and choose, or the insurance company can't sell 218 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 3: you a plan that you may like because of the mandates. 219 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 3: So there's a couple of things we could do right 220 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 3: away to help drive down costs in the state. 221 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 2: Now, as it relates to a lot of the fraud. 222 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 3: One of the things I'd like to do, and I 223 00:11:58,040 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 3: think that we can do it at my level, if 224 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 3: not in different parts of the government. 225 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 2: Here is audit. 226 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 3: Before we talk about raising taxes, and before we talk 227 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 3: about any additional spending is auditing where the money's going, 228 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 3: because I'm pretty sure if we do this audit, we're 229 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 3: going to find money, a lot of money there that's 230 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 3: being misspent. You mentioned a couple of examples across the 231 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 3: country of a lot of fraud that's popping up, and 232 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 3: I'm on the bet that if we audit, we're going 233 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 3: to find a whole lot of money that we then 234 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 3: can decide how to allocate for Americans, for Wisconsin it 235 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 3: to not have it go to fraud, waste, or abuse. 236 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 4: Great answer, all right. 237 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 1: So one of the things that obviously some of I 238 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: think you look at, really what's triggered one of your 239 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: neighbors there in Minnesota and this the craziness that's happened 240 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 1: on the streets in Minneapolis, is the fraud was exposed 241 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: and all that attention came crashing down. I remember seeing 242 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: a video just the other day doctor Oz standing in 243 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: front of an old giant warehouse facility and there were 244 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: over four hundred fraudulent healthcare companies or daycare companies set 245 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: up in that. Obviously, the Nick Shirley investigation to Somali 246 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: daycare centers and all this funny to the tune of 247 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: eight billion was going in. 248 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 4: But the real. 249 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: Problem at problem of that, and I think fraud and 250 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: that is a different thing. 251 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,479 Speaker 4: The other is is illegal immigration. 252 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: When I looked up the statistics on on Wisconsin, and 253 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: I you know, I didn't see Wisconsin ranks twentieth in 254 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 1: total population with approximately five point nine to six million residents. Racial, 255 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: you know, the demographics mostly white, aging seniors overall, you know. 256 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 4: But one of the. 257 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: Interesting thing, you know, was the illegal immigration numbers. It 258 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: said there's an estimated seventy thousand undocumented immigrants as of 259 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: recent data, and that's primarily for twenty twenty three estimates, 260 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 1: representing one point two of the state's population. 261 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 4: You know. 262 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: But I'm sure what's going to emerge is this immigration stance. 263 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: And we'll talk about the main Democratic challenger you have 264 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: and maybe a little bit of a Republican amenute. So 265 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: what's your stance on what's taking place in Minnesota as 266 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: well as the grander context of the immigration issue in 267 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: the United States. 268 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 2: Let's start with Minnesota. 269 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 3: Now, I would separate from the illegal immigration problem, the 270 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 3: fraud that you mentioned there, the fraud that you mentioned 271 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 3: in California, the fraud that they found in hud When 272 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 3: I see we'll come back to immigration just a second. 273 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 3: What I see is incentives when it comes to government 274 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 3: programs are all wrong. Meaning the incentive when you're in 275 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 3: charge of a government program or when you're running a 276 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 3: government program is to. 277 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 2: Spend all the money. 278 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 3: Because you go back at the end of the year 279 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 3: to whether it's at Congress or whether it's at the 280 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 3: state house, and go to that assembly and say, hey, 281 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 3: I spend all my money, so you need to give 282 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 3: you more money. What happens if you go back and 283 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 3: you don't spend all your money, then the representatives say, hey, 284 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 3: oh you got extra money. Great, We're going to give 285 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 3: it to the people that spent all the money. So 286 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 3: within government programs, there is an incentive to not really 287 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 3: watch or anything's going, to not really care much about 288 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 3: the accountability because your incentive is to spend all your money. 289 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 3: So that is a problem that I would like to 290 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 3: see addressed, and that's one of the things that I 291 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 3: will be working on addressing when we win, is working 292 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 3: on how we can change that incentive model period to 293 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 3: get at the fraud, to get at the focus on 294 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 3: being frugal and being accountable with our money. In Wisconsin 295 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 3: money across the United States. Now backing up to the 296 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 3: illegal immigration here in Wisconsin, we had Fort McCoy was 297 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 3: one of the bases that the Biden administration and brought 298 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 3: a whole bunch of Afghany folks in. I remember that 299 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 3: several years ago, but for macloy in Wisconsin, right yep. 300 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 3: So that was one of the major staging grounds when 301 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 3: they would bringing folks in. And then there was all 302 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 3: kinds of news articles and there were different accounts of 303 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 3: walking off the bays, having problems with destruction, variety of things, 304 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 3: and then wherever they went after that. Minneapolis large Somali population, 305 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 3: and we saw the results of that was American intervention 306 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 3: in Somalia made famous by the blackhawk Down movie and 307 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 3: how those those great Americans, so many of them gave 308 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 3: their lives or came home injured. We a lot of 309 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 3: our intervention in Somalia caused that part of the immigration 310 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 3: lead people leaving Somalia. 311 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 2: A lot of them settled in Minneapolis. 312 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 3: There's also some communities in Wisconsin on the western side 313 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 3: of the state, specifically in Barron County and there and 314 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 3: they're here and it doesn't appear based off of their actions. 315 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 3: It doesn't appear that there's a whole lot of assimilation. 316 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 3: It doesn't appear like there's a whole lot of wanting 317 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 3: to be Americans, of wanting to join America for our 318 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 3: values and for why we're living here. And it doesn't 319 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 3: appear that's happening, all right. 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I think it 353 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: is an incentive circle, right, I absolutely agree, you know, 354 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: and then I think the asylum programs were really interesting. 355 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,479 Speaker 1: And if you look at where the distribution took place, 356 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: a lot of the distribution of asylum seeking immigrants were 357 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: distributed to purple states, right swing states, and I and 358 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 1: I think, you know, that makes sense when when when 359 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: you're struggling with your core base, uh and I think 360 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party has struggled, started to fractionalize its core base. 361 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: We saw that with with Democratic males in particular Hispanic 362 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: and African American males started you know, going more independent 363 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 1: and actually voted uh in for Republicans the last time 364 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: around because of I think the the opportunity, the economic 365 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: opportunity that has been diminished as a result of probably 366 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,679 Speaker 1: government handouts or however you wanted the incentives, right, that 367 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: incentive structure, and and you know, I think for all 368 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: NGOs that have exploded over that they're also incentivized, right, 369 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 1: They're incentivized to continue to keep that circle going. And 370 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: then now there's you know, there's a couple of people 371 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: I'm following on x who are talking about how that 372 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: structure works. Right, you import a large number of asylum 373 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,920 Speaker 1: seekers immigrants right coming over you put them in a 374 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: purple state, you put them on state funds, right that 375 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: are fostered through NGOs that are also getting state funds 376 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,919 Speaker 1: and federal funds, and then you just you know, recycle 377 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: those people and then you know they help devise economic 378 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: incentives too, and then they fund the politicians that keep 379 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: them keep the money trained going. So it is it 380 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: is an interesting cycle of corruption. 381 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 4: We go back to that. 382 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: You know you have listed on your initiatives about government 383 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: spending itself. What about Wisconsin, Wisconsin government spending do you 384 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: want to try and address with that advocacy as Lieutenant 385 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: governor and to get a better discussion going on? 386 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 4: Sure? 387 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 3: Well, and just in the last eight years, we've seen 388 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 3: the spending at the federal or the state level here 389 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 3: go up about fifty percent, and we haven't gotten fifty 390 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 3: percent better services. We haven't gotten the fifty cent better 391 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 3: fifty percent better quality of life. Right, So the spending 392 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 3: is continued increasing. And the thing about government spending is 393 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 3: at the state level, it only comes they can't print 394 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 3: money like they can't at the federal level, like the can't. 395 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 3: There's no federal reserve in Wisconsin thats can just turn 396 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 3: on the printing press. So it either comes from taxes 397 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 3: or fees, or or there's borrowing or the state's borrowing. 398 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 3: And when we're looking at the constant increase of spending spending, 399 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 3: it means we're taking or extracting more and more money 400 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 3: from our citizens here. And my focus is on keeping 401 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,719 Speaker 3: more of your money in your pocket because you know 402 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 3: best how to spend your money for your family, for yourself, 403 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 3: for your community, rather than somebody a bureaucrat in Madison 404 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 3: who just has a budget and their incentivized to spend 405 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 3: it all. 406 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense, all right, at the 407 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 1: bottom of your initiatives. You talk about election integrity. Now, 408 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: I don't know where you stand. I'm I've been doing 409 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 1: a lot of shows on election integrity in particularly about 410 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty elections. And you know, there's there's you know, 411 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: Scott Presser, who does the amazing you know, voter registration 412 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: for Republicans. He you know, he helped New Jersey out 413 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania he flipped in twenty twenty four, which was an 414 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: unbelievable flip. You know, he's he's brought some attention to 415 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 1: the Wisconsin twenty twenty elections. You know, Obviously, there were 416 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: a couple reports about the printing of additional ballots. John 417 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: Solomon reported on some of that. There was a guy 418 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: that was a whistleblower for the United States Posts Or Office. 419 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: His name was Ethan Peace, but he saw some substantial 420 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: abnormalities in terms of ballots that came in. You know, 421 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: as a part of your duties as Lieutenant governor, you 422 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: will be assisting in the implementation of elections in Wisconsin. 423 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about voter rolls, future elections and 424 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: reinstilling confidence, you know, in a state that was considered 425 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: to have some abnormalities in twenty twenty. 426 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's still a big issue here here today, and 427 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 3: there's a lot of items that haven't been resolved yet. 428 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 3: One of the main issues we have here is the 429 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 3: way that our elections are run. We have a it's 430 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 3: called elect the Wisconsin Election Commission, and so rather than 431 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 3: elections run out of a constitution elected office like a 432 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 3: Secretary of State, the Wisconsin Election Commission, which is bureaucrats 433 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 3: that are appointed by party. So there's a couple of Republicans, 434 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 3: a couple of Democrats, and they've been run the election. 435 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 3: So I am not in favor of that system, I'd 436 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 3: like to abolish the Wisconsin Election Commission. I'd like to 437 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 3: return the power to run a elections to the Secretary 438 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 3: of State, constitutionally elected official. That's one thing. The second 439 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 3: thing is verifiable. We want verifiable elections and verifiable ballots. 440 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 3: We had a problem in twenty twenty and it was 441 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,719 Speaker 3: less of a problem in twenty twenty four with absentee ballots. Right, 442 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 3: So in Wisconsin, for a long time, it was very 443 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 3: few people that were requesting absentee ballots. It was only 444 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 3: if you couldn't leave the house, if you really small 445 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 3: circumstances where you would absentee. 446 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 2: COVID changed all that. 447 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 3: The rules got expanded, there was a lot of relaxation 448 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 3: in some of the rules, and so there was a 449 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 3: transition to a lot of absentee ballots. And as you 450 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 3: know if you've been studying it, when you have a 451 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,719 Speaker 3: lot of absentee ballots flooding the system, it makes it 452 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 3: easier to be able to get the outcome that you 453 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 3: want in an election, because once the ballot is separated 454 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 3: from the envelope, it's near impossible to figure out if 455 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 3: that is a legitimate and verifiable verifiable out tied to 456 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,679 Speaker 3: a person. So the verifiable election is another thing that 457 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 3: I'd be working on here in the state. And you 458 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 3: mentioned voter roles, So voter rolls back to the the DOJ. 459 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 3: Trump's DOJ issued Wisconsin to get a look at the 460 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 3: voter roles to help clean up Wisconsin's fighting that. Well, 461 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 3: why would you fight trying to clean up voter roles. 462 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense unless there's something that you 463 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 3: potentially are trying to tie or you're trying to make 464 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,959 Speaker 3: it easier to get the outcome that you want in 465 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 3: an election. So we have to back to the advocacycpiece 466 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 3: right is talking about that, talking about solutions that I 467 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 3: just gave you a couple of them here, and clean 468 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 3: up the voter roles as a high priority as well. 469 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: So I've been paying attention to a guy on x 470 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,439 Speaker 1: right now who's been posting constantly about voter roles and 471 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: the additions to voter roles being able to register online. 472 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 4: No proof of ID. 473 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: Is that a part of Wisconsin elections is no voter ID. 474 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 1: And if it is, I mean obviously a grand majority 475 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 1: of the population nationwide, like seventy eight percent believe voter 476 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: IDAs are accurate, how would you try and bring that 477 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: back to the state. 478 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 2: So we do have a voter ID here. 479 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,159 Speaker 3: We have a pretty robust system in place to allow 480 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 3: people to vote, also to have some security in place 481 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 3: related to voter i D. One of the things that 482 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 3: I would change and I would push for a change 483 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 3: is the way that the Wisconsin elections focus on college 484 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 3: kids or people that move here from out of state. 485 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 3: So within about thirty days, if you moved to the 486 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 3: state within thirty I think it's thirty days of the election, 487 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 3: then you can vote in this state. And so there 488 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,360 Speaker 3: I would change that because what happens is if you're, say, 489 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 3: living in Iowa, you move to Wisconsin within thirty days 490 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 3: of the election, then you can vote here in Wisconsin. 491 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 3: College kid or or something like that. I would change that. 492 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 3: I would I would make that a longer time. Or 493 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 3: if somebody does move in here within the thirty days, 494 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 3: they have to vote and the state that they came from, 495 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 3: rather than change their residency and voting within thirty days 496 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 3: of the general election. So that's one of the things 497 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 3: I would change. In addition, we have the voter I D. 498 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,199 Speaker 3: We have a variety of different not just driver's license. 499 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 3: There's there's the passport, and there's several other ones. I 500 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,719 Speaker 3: did work a couple of elections in Milwaukee County and 501 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 3: so got to see it firsthand as a pole observer, 502 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 3: the whole process. 503 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 2: From the beginning to the end, on how that works. 504 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: That's good news. Sorry I made that mistake to my listeners. 505 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: All right, let's shift now to who you're running against. 506 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: The woman you're running against is I'm going to butcher. 507 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: Last name Sarah Godolowski. Is that correct? 508 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 4: Garilowski? Now, she's seems to be a. 509 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: Person that has been kind of, you know, moving towards 510 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: politics and political activism for a long time. 511 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 4: Give me a. 512 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: Little bit of a description about why you think her 513 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: policies don't get in line with what Wisconsin, the people 514 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: Wisconsin want or need. 515 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 3: Sure, so she's been she prior to running for lieutenant governor, 516 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 3: she was secretary of State, and then she also has 517 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 3: ran or she did almost run for I believe, was 518 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 3: Senate in twenty twenty two as well. So her vision 519 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 3: and her policies align what I'll call the collectivist mindset, 520 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 3: which is increasing government control of your life, increasing government spending, 521 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 3: which means taxes have to go up, increasing regulations. They 522 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 3: want to turn Wisconsin into a sanctuary state. One of 523 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 3: the lieutenant governor, the current lieutenant governor who's running for governor, 524 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 3: she's already come out and said, I don't want to 525 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 3: have ICE enforcement. I don't want to be sharing with ICE, 526 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 3: and that would be absolutely terrible if we if Wisconsin 527 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 3: turned into a sanctuary state. And so those are a 528 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 3: few of her positions and her policies that she would 529 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 3: support and then with the next Democrat governor as lieutenant 530 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 3: governor and those of me are exactly the opposite of 531 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 3: what we need for Wisconsin. 532 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: What do you think people in Wisconsin, not outside of 533 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: Madison and Milwaukee, out out where the farms are, out 534 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: where you know the people that I mean, because you know, 535 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: my aunt and uncle lived in Wisconsin for forty years. 536 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: My cousins went to university. Wisconsin's a great, big ten school, 537 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 1: and man, I just remember going there as a kid 538 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: and it seeming like it was just the state where 539 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: people like to be left alone and nice people and 540 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: they just want their liberty and their freedom. Why do 541 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: you think the state has pushed so hard to the left. 542 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: Is it really because of the focal centers of Madison 543 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: and Milwaukee. And why don't you know people in rural 544 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: areas recognize kind of this collectivist mentality to kind of 545 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: really jump in terms of their voter turnout. 546 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 2: Well, I think that we do. 547 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 3: That's pretty that's pretty neat that you got the history 548 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 3: here with Wisconsin. As I've been getting out chriss crossing 549 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 3: state talking going all over the place, urban areas or 550 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 3: rural areas, I think that there is that mentality that 551 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 3: you mentioned, which is want to be left alone, want 552 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 3: to live our live. We have a lot of freedom here, 553 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 3: history of freedom in the state. The two counties that 554 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 3: are the largest voting block for Democrats are Dane County 555 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 3: and then Milwaukee County, and there's a little bit up 556 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 3: in Green Bay County. Those are the two, really two 557 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 3: and a half where they drive the most turnout, and 558 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 3: those are the highest population centers, and those are the 559 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 3: areas that you see the most radical ideas, the most 560 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 3: the hard and herder pushed into collectivism, the attempts to 561 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 3: try to disrupt I iced to see most of the 562 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 3: protests there and as those in my opinion, as those 563 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 3: urban centers have grown, when they turn out they can 564 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 3: offset a lot of the voting in some of the 565 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 3: rural counties and some of the more counties that I focus. 566 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 2: More on freedom. 567 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense, you know, I as 568 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 1: I've watched this, I mean from you know, my my 569 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 1: last deployment was in twenty eleven. I spent a lot 570 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: of that year in Pakistan with the agency, you know, 571 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: and I got home it really I saw this kind 572 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: of collectivist mentality as you describe it, I call it 573 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 1: straight out Marxism. You know, I've I've noticed that a 574 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: lot of this has led you know, in these you know, 575 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: blue city centers or in college towns, right, and it 576 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,959 Speaker 1: is really kind of taking hold of I think, you know, 577 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: the thirty five and younger generation, and those generations are 578 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: considerable now, you know in terms of size, i e. 579 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 4: The you know, the Gen Z is going to be 580 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 4: bigger than the boomers. 581 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: And you know, as as you're leading into the primaries, 582 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 1: what do you want to say to those younger voters now, 583 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: Like those people that have been since you know, they 584 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: were in middle school, junior high, and high school and 585 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: in college, they've been you know, there's been this bombardment 586 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: of you know, I don't want to call it anti 587 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: American sentiment because I believe they love their country. 588 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,719 Speaker 4: I just believe they think a socialist. 589 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: Formula is the way we get out of whatever they 590 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: perceive this unbridled oppressive, fascist, imperialism, or whatever you want 591 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: to describe. Right, there's a new word for it every day. 592 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: One day you're Nazi, the next day you're a fascist, 593 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: next day, you know, whatever it is. So you know, 594 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: what do you have to say to those young voters 595 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:12,839 Speaker 1: that are looking to you know, and again, I don't 596 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,319 Speaker 1: want to come across as presumptuous, but you know what 597 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: I see with friends of mine that have served and 598 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,720 Speaker 1: do have legitimate voices, whether in politics or in podcasting 599 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, you you see there's a gravitational 600 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: pull towards young people within that because there's a I 601 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,400 Speaker 1: think there's a respect that takes place from your service, 602 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: right obviously, ten years going down range in the GWATT 603 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: and at the level that you do it at the 604 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 1: highest level, you know, there's a built in respect. But 605 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: the language that these kids are used to is very 606 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: different than the things that inspired you in that senior 607 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,359 Speaker 1: year of college to go out raise your right hand, 608 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 1: join and go serve for ten years going down range 609 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,120 Speaker 1: in the g WATT. So what how are you you 610 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 1: gonna approach those young people and what message do you 611 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: want to tell them? No? 612 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,880 Speaker 3: So here's so here's where I hear a lot in 613 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 3: that in that demographic, in that generation is is a 614 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,840 Speaker 3: feeling like they're they're not able to chase the American 615 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 3: dream for whatever reason, whether it's housing kosts are out 616 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 3: of control, whether I've graduated college and I have this 617 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:23,320 Speaker 3: this weight of debt that's hanging around my neck. Job 618 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 3: h one B V sus right, that that whole process 619 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,319 Speaker 3: where we're not hiring Americans. 620 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,480 Speaker 2: Those are a couple of the core issues. 621 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 3: So as I approach it, I share my story and 622 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,879 Speaker 3: I share that I want to be your voice. I'm 623 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 3: running for my nine year old and I want him 624 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,279 Speaker 3: to have a be able to chase the dream that 625 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 3: I was able to chase because I stood on my 626 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,840 Speaker 3: dad's shoulders and like he stood on his father's shoulders. 627 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,440 Speaker 3: And so that when I talk about my son in 628 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,880 Speaker 3: this race, I'm talking about the next generation, and it 629 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 3: comes to millennials and it comes to Gen Z and 630 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 3: a feeling like they're heard, like I hear you, I 631 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:02,240 Speaker 3: hear you on some of your challenges, and frank quite frankly, 632 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 3: we as not just us and then are you know 633 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,839 Speaker 3: maybe the generation above us. They've taken action, and they've 634 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 3: taken made choices that are affecting you know, are affecting 635 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,799 Speaker 3: our kids, in our in our grandkids, and we got 636 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 3: to turn that around. And the last thing I'll say, 637 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 3: you know what mentioned socialism and that it sounds so good, right, 638 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 3: And I see this election as a very start contrast 639 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,279 Speaker 3: between on the one hand, you got the collective is 640 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 3: and the socialist, the Marxist whatever, like I said, whatever 641 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,360 Speaker 3: label uh that we want they want to call themselves 642 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 3: that day, and the folks that believe in freedom and 643 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 3: we're seeing they got an election in New York. They 644 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,280 Speaker 3: had a Seattle elect a mayor that got elected in Seattle. 645 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,120 Speaker 3: Uh here in the state of Wisconsin at the governor 646 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 3: candidate level and at the lieutenant governor cannate level on 647 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 3: the left a Democrat side, their policies and their positions 648 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,880 Speaker 3: are pushing harder and harder left into that socialist mindset. 649 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 3: And that's going to be terrible for any genera unless 650 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,920 Speaker 3: you're the small percentage of people that's in charge, right, 651 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 3: because in socialism, the small percent of people that are 652 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,359 Speaker 3: in charge, they are the ones that get paid, they're 653 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 3: the ones that have all kinds of wealth and the 654 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,400 Speaker 3: rest of us don't. And so that is that's what 655 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,600 Speaker 3: I talked earlier about wanting to preach freedom and wanting 656 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 3: to take that on head on. 657 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:19,560 Speaker 2: That has to happen. 658 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 3: We have to be able to take that mentality head 659 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,360 Speaker 3: on and explain why it's no good, not only in 660 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:26,719 Speaker 3: the heart, but we have to take it. We have 661 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,960 Speaker 3: to focus on the emotional level too when we're battling 662 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 3: against socialism, because they try to capture the moral high ground, 663 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 3: and we cannot let them capture more high ground because 664 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,440 Speaker 3: nowhere and socialism do they ever get to capture the 665 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 3: moral high ground? 666 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:41,800 Speaker 2: Never works. 667 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:47,719 Speaker 1: Well, that's the greatest illusion of how people are professing 668 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,040 Speaker 1: all of this to young kids, right, who do you 669 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,560 Speaker 1: go after you go to that disenfranchised twenty two year 670 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: old kid, who, like you said, has got a mountain 671 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,360 Speaker 1: of debt because they said, if you go to college, 672 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,560 Speaker 1: you'll you'll you know your annual income and you know 673 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 1: it'll it'll do this, and you know and and then 674 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,919 Speaker 1: you know they when they get out, they realize, Man, 675 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 1: they've been lied to a lot by these same people 676 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,360 Speaker 1: that are then projecting the socialistic views. Right, vote for 677 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 1: people that will give you free stuff, and uh, I 678 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,759 Speaker 1: just think it's it's kind of comical that they, you know, 679 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,359 Speaker 1: young people get get caught in that kind of propaganda 680 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:26,520 Speaker 1: trap over and over. 681 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:32,360 Speaker 4: So I appreciate your answer there, Nick, All right, give. 682 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 1: Me some final thoughts on kind of where we're at 683 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 1: with the temperatures in America right now, in the vitriol 684 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:46,160 Speaker 1: amongst people. What do you hope to see in your campaign, 685 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: not only in your primary against other Republicans, but then 686 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,560 Speaker 1: when you win that you go on to campaign against uh, 687 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,960 Speaker 1: you know, your your Democratic opponent, and at the end, 688 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,799 Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the year for the 689 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,680 Speaker 1: lieutenant governorship. What do you hope to see? 690 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 3: Well, I like to see a dialing down of the rhetoric. 691 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 3: I'd like to see a dialing down of the of 692 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,239 Speaker 3: the what appears to be a march towards more and 693 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,879 Speaker 3: more aggression, more and more violence. And I would hope 694 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,400 Speaker 3: and I pray that that is not the case. It 695 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,680 Speaker 3: does appear like we talked a little earlier about Minnesota, 696 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,960 Speaker 3: and some of the actions there appear to be insurgency 697 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 3: based or folks that have studied manuals on how to 698 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,239 Speaker 3: develop an insurgency, and it appears to be that they're 699 00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,840 Speaker 3: employing it there, which is which is, which is is 700 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 3: no good at all. So I would love to see 701 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,759 Speaker 3: a dialing down of the rehtic. I'd love to see 702 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 3: a dialing down of the of the conversation, and a 703 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,880 Speaker 3: dialing down of the demonization of people on different issues. 704 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,160 Speaker 3: And you call them names so you can demonize them, 705 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,879 Speaker 3: and then once you demonize them, or once you dehumanize them, 706 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,360 Speaker 3: then it becomes easier to do other things. That's another 707 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 3: lesson of history. So I'd like to see us focus 708 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 3: on how do we solve problems, what's going to be 709 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 3: the best for in my stay here in Wisconsin, and 710 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,719 Speaker 3: then how do we execute on those items to make 711 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,400 Speaker 3: it better for Wisconsin. I here and that's what I 712 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,960 Speaker 3: keep talking about. We talk about solutions, we talk about 713 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,000 Speaker 3: the hows to get things done as we're Chris crossing 714 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,359 Speaker 3: the state, and try to avoid any type of that 715 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:22,279 Speaker 3: dehumanization and that that anger focus on individual because it's 716 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,120 Speaker 3: very hard to talk to somebody when you're when you're 717 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,799 Speaker 3: calling them names, or when you've decided that they're not 718 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:26,719 Speaker 3: worth a conversation. 719 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,359 Speaker 1: Outstanding, outstanding? All right, Nick, where can people find you? 720 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 4: Follow? 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Absolutely donate if you 726 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,200 Speaker 3: believe in me, if you believe in our team, if 727 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,680 Speaker 3: you believe in our mission, donate as so that we 728 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,960 Speaker 3: can continue to spread the word across the state as 729 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 3: he pushed towards the primary in August and then ultimately 730 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 3: the election general election November. 731 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:12,359 Speaker 1: Nick, I just there's a part of me that's like, man, 732 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,239 Speaker 1: you're crazy. I can't believe you fought ten years into 733 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,480 Speaker 1: g WATT at the level you did and now you 734 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,000 Speaker 1: want to go into this battle. But then there's a 735 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,319 Speaker 1: part of me that says, shut up, wus he's doing 736 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,680 Speaker 1: the right thing. You don't have the courage to do it. 737 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:30,120 Speaker 1: So I just want to offer you, you know, I'm 738 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 1: you know, it's just cool to see another operator step 739 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,799 Speaker 1: it onto the battle the new battlefield which is for 740 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,239 Speaker 1: the Battle of America and the Soul of America. 741 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,839 Speaker 4: And I just wish you the best man. 742 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,359 Speaker 3: Good luck to you right, thanks again, thanks for having 743 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,440 Speaker 3: me on and I appreciate that support.