JD Vance Joins Live at CPAC-Wuhan virus, Politicized AG & Blue-Collar GOP

that possible? In government? It's actually you got the joke, all right. I like that. It is a bizarre thing. In the Senate. You have utterly no control over your schedule. The Senate majority leader decides when to call a vote, and look, Chuck Schumer is really bad at it. So you have literally no idea what's happening. He'll come in, decide to have a vote, maybe not decide to have

a vote. So on Thursday nights typically we fly into DC Monday mornings, we fly home thurday nights, but we don't know if we're home or not, so I would call home. I remember, you know, one of my girls were little. I'd call home and and they'd say, well, Daddy, are you going to be home tonight? And I'd say, I have no idea. And actually Caroline referred to Mitch McConnell for years as that mean men, because she would say, she'd ask, Daddy, are you coming home? And I said, well,

it depends on when Mitch calls the vote. She said, is that mean man gonna let you come home tonight? Which I told Mitch that. Into his credit, he last pretty hard. He thinks that's that's funny. But is that not a bizarre aspect of this job? It really is. And so my version of this is, you know, when I first got sworn in early January, and I would go home and do a lot of radio interviews with people, and they'd say, what's what's the most interesting part of

the job. What's the thing you didn't expect? I talk a little bit about the schedule, and I think they wanted me to have some some brilliant policy solution or idea, And what I always just sort of blurn it out, almost accidentally, was these guys don't work very hard, right, So the very first day we're sworn in, were then sent on a three week recess, and that really frustrated me because you know, I'm a new senator. I want to get to work. I want to work with my

good friend Ted here. And then I kind of realized, actually, the Democrats not working very hard for the next two years is maybe not the worst thing in the world. So Mary, that's that's an accurate, accurate statement there. Every day the Schumer Senate is not in session as a day, they're not destroying America, that's right. So you're saying more three vacations and sword are needed. Basically, I like it. I want to get into policy, and JD. You're new

to the Senate. You're in the minority now, not the majority, and that's obviously coming with interesting things. But what we have seen come out is the issue of COVID and the media getting it wrong and having to admit they got it wrong. On the Wuhan Lab Institute, on the fact that we weren't crazy, and on this podcast three years ago we said, you said, Center, this is pretty clear from doubt that we have coming in. There's a very good chance this is we're being lied to by China. Well,

and let's reflect for a second. So three years ago this podcast was here at Spack on the stage, and three years ago, thank god we're finally allowed to gather again by our nation's capital. Yeah yeah, you look at the idiots who had shut the country down and listen. Sepack has an interesting mark to my mind as of really the beginning of the pandemic. Because we did the podcast, it did verdict and here at Spack, I flew home and actually I had a campaign fundraiser at an Eagles concert,

which and I love the Eagles. I will confess that was my idea. It's like, all right, if you got to have people right checks to the campaign, let's at least go to a cool concert enjoy it. And so we're sitting there Saturday, early evening and I get a phone call from match Lap and Matt's like, yeah, Ted, I need to tell you so. So a good friend of ours who was at CEPEC with you has this thing called COVID and yeah, you guys were piddling around

and this is kind of a problem. I'm like, oh really, And so I ended up quarantining for two weeks as a result of Matt's call. Thank you, But I will tell you the worst part was not that it was Heidi coming down the stairs dressed to the nine. She was ready to go to the Eagles concerts, and I'm like, okay, so I love that we have a suity audience because if you didn't hear that in the video on the audio of this, all the ladies are in the audience here. Okay.

She comes down ready to go, and I'm like, okay, sweetheart, we can't go. And she gets mad. She's like, these people paid thousands of dollars to go hang out at this fundraiser. You can't stand them up. And at this point, very few people knew much of anything about what COVID was. But I'm like, look, this is potentially a deadly virus. We don't know, and I promise you they will be happy that we're not exposing them to it at the outset.

So we called and explained it to them, and they had a great time at the concert and we stayed at home and Heidi was mad at me. So it is worth pointing out that three years later, we've discovered that the virus if you're really old, if you're really sick, it can be deadly. But for young, healthy people, we've discovered the health impacts are much lower than we thought.

And what's interesting is the breaking news that we all know now that now two different cabinet agency in the Biden administration, Department of Energy and the FBI, have both concluded that it is likely that the COVID virus came from a Chinese government lab. Now, as everyone here knows, finally these two departments are doing some good workout. It

is shocking. But as everyone here knows, for two years that was derided as a conspiracy theory, tinfoil hat wearing, nutty theory that you weren't allowed to say, that you'd get banned on social media for saying. And I have to point out this podcast three years ago, in March of twenty twenty, and in April of twenty twenty, we did two extended pods laying out the evidence then three years ago that this came from a Chinese government lab.

And in fact we walked through what convinced these guys today. Yeah, almost all of it you knew three years ago, but politics wouldn't let them say it. And so I will say, and miraculously they didn't censor our podcast. They sensor just about everything else, but they didn't try to sense their verdicts. I do think it's only appropriate we're back in DC that we remind the amazing media of what they were saying to the American people. I want to play clip to take a look at this. This is your media

not pushing any narrative at all. Tomcott, in a couple of days ago, spouting a conspiracy theory that the Chinese made this virus up in a lab, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh with zero proof, suggesting a Chinese bioweapon lab is to blame. We know that it's been debunked that this virus was manmade or modified or anything like that.

Doctor Anthony Fauci rejected the conspiracy that coronavirus was man made in a lab in Wulan, China, And yet this week, Donald Trump is still pushing the debunked bunkum, despite his own intelligence community's findings that that is simply not true. If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now is a very very strongly leaning towards this could not have been artificially or

deliberately manipulating. Oh, bred, I'm really sorry that the lab bleak has become such a distraction for so many people because frankly, we still don't know. There is no evidence really to say most of the scientific community, myself included, I think that is a possibility, but far more likely this was a natural way in which a virus left. So so the first few hosts there were actually trying out for dumbest cable television host. That's that's that's what

that was said. So sorry, I have my own COVID ruined my wife's life story, so I would tell that briefly. So we're in the heat of the the primary campaign and what turned into a very very intense campaign, and you know, my wife was thirty nine weeks pregnant, so we're, you know, very bad at family planning. So my wife, my wife gets a COVID and she actually I got for me, it was like a mild cold for her. She got actually pretty sick, which maybe has something to do with

the facts she was thirty nine weeks pregnant. Um nine days afterwards, she starts going into labor and we called the hospital and they said, I'd await another few hours because if you come in now, you're gonna have to wear the full mask, body gear setup, complete quarantine your husband can't be in the room with you, but if you wait a few hours, then you've reached the quarantine period. This was in December of twenty one, So we ruined. I mean, all of us have a crazy COVID story.

I think mine is better, better than most in other words, And there were a lot of people, of course, who were prevented seeing loved ones in their final moments, and that is heartbreaking. But the failure to be honest about this virus with the American people ruined a lot of lives. And the fact that they called us conspiracy theorists for stating the obvious. I mean, credit to you guys for talking about this, credit to Tom Cotton for talking about this.

But it was I mean, look, there were always two options, right, Like, one was a bat that had COVID flew into a guy's soup and it sort of wafted into his nose and he got human COVID. Or it was possible by the way, or it was made two miles down the road. In the Wuhan Institute of Virology studied bat coronaviruses. It was always the most reasonable baseline assumption. And the fact you were censored for it is crazy. And by the way, the good news is that cpack is serving bat soup

for lunch. It's it's it's delicious. So look what JD said is exactly right. What are the facts that we knew within a couple of months of this pandemic beginning. What are the facts we laid out on this podcast? Number one, the Wuhan Institute Verbology, which studies viruses, not just viruses, studies coronaviruses, not just coronaviruses, studies coronaviruses derived from bats. By the way, the bats in question that carry these coronaviruses do not occur naturally in Wuhan, China.

The closest you can find these bats to Wuhan are in caves that are nine hundred miles away. Now where is the Wuhana Institute Verbology. It is literally a couple hundred yards from the wet market where the first outbreak occurred. You could drive a golf ball, Well, I couldn't. I would not say I could drive the golf ball. You could drive it in the golf cart. Yes, through the spot of the crime. That's fact number one. Fact number two.

In November of twenty nineteen, not one, not two. Three scientists employees at the Wuhan Institute for Viology checked themselves into the hospital with serious illnesses that may well have big been the beginning of the pandemic. Fact number three. When the pandemic erupted, we discovered that China had been stockpiling protective medical equipment several months before the pandemic, and

China ordered the Wuhan Institute for Viology to destroy the samples. Now, look at a court of law, and I'm sorry you have two lawyers here. You did something really wrong. In a court of law, in a civil case or a criminal case, if someone destroys evidence, a judge will instruct the jury. You are entitled to draw an inference from the destruction of evidence that that evidence was incriminating, that

there's a reason they destroyed the evidence. In this case, it ain't complicated what the reason was that the Chinese government said destroy all the samples, we don't want any evidence.

I think now and then, it was overwhelmingly likely that COVID escaped from a Chinese government lab, and I think it is significantly more likely than not that it was in fact altered in that lab through gain a function research that it was a natural virus that they made more dangerous, more deadly, and that's why China doesn't want culpability for it. And I will say this, if you want to know the facts on what's going on on this issue and everything else, I want to encourage everyone here,

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getting easier and easier. I kind of like that. I got it's just says Ted Cruise is awesome again and again I wrote that this is propaganda. It's one of those earlier today that's automatic. Now all right, I want to ask you, guys, that's you and I've talked about this on the pot before center, But I want to know, and I think most people at Seapack would agree. You want some accountability, specifically with doctor Fauci. I think there's a lot of people believe you lied to Congress. Is

there going to be any accountability? And you can keep it short, but is there gonna be any accountability for him looking saying I did not we did not fund getting function research. It was not this wuhan, this was it was not the Instuite of orology. He's gone all in on this. Will there be any acoonomy because you were on the house side as well, he was looking and in my opinion, lying to the American people. Look,

there there should be accountability. It's that simple. I mean, look, he clearly Tony Fauci lied under oath, He lied to the American people, and it's not just that, he compelled and persuaded the FBI to censor information about the pandemic as it was unfolding. Yep, he tried to shut down. He used his government power to shut down the functioning of the First Amendment so that we could not have an honest and open debate about where COVID came from and what to do about it. And I think it's

absolutely disgraceful what Tony Fauci did. Now, the question, and Ted is a much smarter lawyer than I am, is if we actually want to say he committed perjury, is that Merritt Garland who has to make that decision, which I know you met him yesterday. I'm not optimistic that Merritt Garland is going to do the right thing here. Let's go to Merrick, go ahead, but let's go to Bret Garlin after that. So look, amen, that's right, That's exactly right. So someone just called out, follow the money

and the money. Look, doctor Fauci is the most has done more damage than any bureaucrat in the history of our nation, that's right, and was the highest paid. He led policies that destroyed people's lives, that hurt tens of millions of kids across this country that destroyed businesses, and he lied repeatedly, over and over and over again. Now one of the consequences is he elevated politics above science

and medicine. There has been no person who has done more to destroy trust in the scientific and medical community than doctor Anthony Fauci, who told millions of Americans lies willingly, knowingly, glibly, supremely, arrogantly. Should there be an accountability in any sane system, he would be prosecuted for lying under oath, and he would

go to jail for lying under oath to Congress. Now, unfortunately, I can quantify with mathematic medical precision the likelihood that the Biden Department of Justice will prosecute him, and the odds are zero point zero zero zero percent. They will not do it. This is a lawless department of Justice. Will there be accountability. There will be accountability. Number one.

We have a majority in the House, and I am confident in the House that we're going to use that majority and use it to hold doctor Fauci and the others who lied accountable. And we need to have hearings on the origins of COVID. We need to have hearings to follow the money. We need to have hearings examining and laying out the facts about how Fauci misled the American people and the corruption that drove that. You mentioned

Garling a second ago. There are some fireworks yesterday on Capitol Hill, and I want to play a clip of you talking with the AG and I'm going to call for clip five. Because this was about two systems of justice in this country. I think it's very queer. There are two systems of justice. You asked them about this. Take a look seventy United States marshals. Try again, Has the Department of Justice brought even a single case under this statute? So, yes, no question. It's not a give

a speech on the other things you did. The job of the United States Marshals, it's to defend the lives. The answers No, is to defend the lives of the justices, and that's our number one priority. They aser, are you unwilling to say no? The answers no. You know it's no. I know it's no. Everyone in this in this hearing room knows it's no. You're not willing to answer a question. Have you brought a case under this statute, yes or no. Far as I know, we haven't and what we have

done is defended to the lives of the justices. Marshals, how do you decide which criminal statutes the DOJ enforces and which one it doesn't? The United States marshals know that they have full I recognize you want to give a separate speech. Oh, I don't want How do you decide which statute you enforce in which ones you don't it? Marshals on scene make that determination in light of the priority of the marshals do not make a determined nation

over whether to prosecute you. The Attorney General will make a determination. And you spent twenty years of a job, and you're perfectly content with justices being afraid for their children's lives, and you did nothing to prosecute it. Let's can I answer the question? No, you can refuse to answer. I am answering your question. General does not decide whether to work. How did you choose not to not to enforce the statute? The marshals on scene don't make that decision.

They do make the decision of whether to make them arrestcute someone know they don't if they make them, if they make it. Marshals do not have prosecutions. They make an arrest. Change topics because our time is limited. Yeah, it's coffee. How many? How many? So so getting the host of podcasts and it's fun for me because I know your habits. How many diet doctor peppers did you have before you got into that question? Yesterday? Eleven eleven? Okay,

there we go. So you look at that moment and I think it was all encompassing of what the American I think, especially conservatives fact you're up against, which is there's two systems of justice here. If you're a conservative, will come after you with a full strength of all. We'll break down doors, will bring people to come after you.

You know the story of a man and you can pick it up from here and remind people of how they treat conservatives compared to when you're intimidating judges of the Supreme Court over issues like Rovway where they're trying to flip votes. So look, Merrick Garland, I believe is the most partisan and politicized Attorney general our nation has

ever seen. And what is happening if the Department of Justices is heartbreaking because it is turned into the political weapon for the Democrats to attack their enemies and protect their friends. And it is astonishing. Look Garland, he spent all day before the Judiciary Committee in testimony. He will not answer a straight question at all. And he looks at you, number one. You know we were talking about Fauci and supreme arrogance. You know Merrick Garland can compete

in that category with Fauci and that's impressive. You're going pro Garland looks at you like, how dare you ask me a question? And the guy was a judge for twenty four years and you look at that hearing. So for example, what we were talking about, as you guys know, when the Dabs opinion was released. When it was leaked, hundreds of left wing protesters, radical left wing protesters went to the homes of six Supreme Court justices and engaged

in angry, violent protests. And by the way, left wing groups were not only giving out the home addresses of justices, they were giving where the justices worshiped, what churches they went to. They were giving where their kids went to school. An angry protesters at your home when your kids are sleeping in their bedroom is inherently threatening. There is a

statute in eighteen USC. Fifteen seventy one that makes it a crime, a federal crime, to protest at the home of a judge in an effort to influence the outcome of a case. It's the same. It's similar to jury temper. You can't go to a juror's house and protest to try to get a not guilty verdict. This Department of Justice refuses to enforce the law. And it was clear for that hearing that Merrick Garland's political staff had written one sentence, this is your political talking point. The marshals

decide whether or not to arrest someone. That's true. There were marshals there and the marshals didn't arrest someone. But under our system of justice, marshals are essentially police officers. They have zero prosecution authority. The only prosecution authority in the federal law is in the Department of Justice with the prosecutors. Merrick Garland is the one who made the

decision we're not going to prosecute here. And by the way, these numb nuts put up pictures of themselves on social media, we're not talking master criminals that they've confessed to the crime. They could be found easily. But Merrick Garland agrees with the protesters. He doesn't like the dab's decision. He supports

ro versus Wade. And what is shocking for someone who spent twenty four years as a judge as that he's perfectly willing to be complicit with a left wing violent mob threatening the lives and families of the justices because he supports their political agenda. That is incredibly dangerous. Yeah, let's let's take stocks for just a second of who Merrick Garland has gone after and who he's refused to

go after. He's gone after a pro life father of seven at his home, arrested him like a hardened criminal. He's gone after parents peacefully protesting at their children's school board meetings. He's had the FBI investigate traditional Catholics as being domestic terrorists. And he won't use the Department of Justice to go after people who are harassing the children of Supreme Court justice. The guy is a disgrace. He

needs to go. How much you just ran. You're out there with the voters, you're talking to them, How how concerned and tell a little bit about your story. Matt, You're you're what I would refer to as blue car conservative.

You come in, you run for this thing. How concerned are the American people about these type of issues when you were talking to them that, Hey, this government that I'm supposed to trust, it's supposed to protect me for SUPs, tect my rights where I'm supposed to be innocent until proven guilty or now being accused of things just because of politics, and can they can ruin your life? They

can come in and literally ruin your life. Ye. Look, one of the things Ted said when he was out on the campaign treol campaigning with me to this blue collar conservatism point that I Stoleton. I hope you won't mind it, but I'll give you credit though. So borrowing. He would talk about how if you look at who's voting Republicans, I mean we're the party of soldiers and sailors, of nurses, of construction workers, of people who go to work, pay their taxes, raise their children, and just want to

live in safe communities. That is our base right now. And I love that right We should be proud of that base, and we should be working hard to serve that base. And you know, I got to say a lot of our elites a lot of the leaders I think of the establishment of the Republican Party, they're ashamed of our new base. I know, Ted and I are, and that's something that's very, very good that's happening in

our party. It's a great thing. But look, if you think about those people, middle class people who go to work, they do their thing, They try to just live a good life in the country that their parents and grandparents built. They know that when the Department of Justice acts unfairly,

they're the very kind of people who suffer. They know that the very thing that makes this country special is that whether you're powerful or not, whether you're rich or poor, we all have equal justice under law, or at least we did until Joe Biden's getting of thugs moved into the White House. And let me let me say something on that, which is, you know, JD is a brand new senator and he's one of the people I am incredibly excited that is now a member of the US

Senate because thank you. As JD mentioned, I campaigned with him all over the state of Ohio. He's a hell of a candidate. He was powerful and effective on the stump. He worked his tail off. But you know, JD's personal story is a story that describes who the Republican Party is. I mean, JD grew up an apple Lasia, grew up in working class environments, in rough working class environments, was

a marine who went to Yale Law School. And I will tell you there's a long history of on verdict of making fun of Yale University deserved for a long time. I did it together, and I tried to make fun of Yale on a regular basis. So we're just continuing that trend. But as you guys all know, JD wrote a New York Times number one bestseller, Hillbilly Elogy, which is a fantastic book. It is, actually it's it's probably

the best explanation. You can combine them at checkout at Amazon dot com, just so you know, Justice corrupted this book. You can literally put them together. That's yeah. For the record, I wasn't hockey my own book, right, And while Ted talks about how great I am, let's extend the clock a little bit. We're running a little time to make

sure Ted has has plenty of time to go on. Yeah, but look what JD did so powerfully because I am going to go on is described the pathologies that have been just hammering working men and women in this country, not even working men and women, people who are not working. And whether the the opioid crisis and addiction, the destruction of manufacturing jobs, the the the loss of of of fathers and at home raising kids. And it is a powerful explanation of the damage that's been done. And and

and it's a really clarion call. I gotta tell you, you know, this is no longer the party of the country clubs. And there's some of our colleagues in the Republican Conference who are really confused who this guy is. And that's why I'm so excited that he's come. Give us your your thoughts on all right, you've been in the Senate two months, yep, vacation for three so let's

you know half of it. We've been on vacation. But what do you see as the future of the Republican Party as it concerns How are we different from the Republican Party of twenty years ago? Yeah, I mean that's a that's a that's a big question. I guess the way that I think about it is we're the party of wage earners, were the party of taxpayers, and we're the party of the people who fight and hopefully win

America's wars. That's really how I think about it, and what that means is because because we have a different coalition than maybe we had thirty years ago, we got to think a little bit about about different issues differently. I think the old Republican Party would have maybe seen Merritt Garland applying equal justice in our country on equally and would have said, well, you know, they're in power. The Democrats get to do what they want to do.

I think you and I are attitude is, Look, if we don't stop this, Dennis Tracks, we're gonna lose the very thing that makes life livable for our own voters and for our own people. It's unacceptable, I think for too long. I mean, look, even going back twenty thirty years, the Republican Party was okay with trade deals and with

negotiations with China, most favored nation status with China. That destroyed the manufacturing base that, by the way, hollowed out our ability to make our own weapons on the national security side, but also destroyed a lot of good middle class jobs in the state that I came from. We're not doing that anymore. We're not playing that game anymore. We are the pro America Party, not the pro China party.

That's changed. And you know, I guess I think the final way I think about this is the Democrats approach to people who are struggling in the heartland is it's fine, if you lose your job, we'll just give you well fair. But we believe in the dignity of work and of moms and dads supporting their families, and what policies are going to make that easier to happen. And I'll tell you we're seeing that divide play out. There are lots of issues on which the blue collars shift in the

party is playing out. Immigration is front and center. There used to be Chamber of Commerce Republicans that were all four open borders because they looked at it and saw cheap labor. It's exactly right, and that's not where the American people are. That's not where the Republican Party should be,

and that change matters. Look, we saw recently we almost had a massive rail strike, and we're almost a massive rail strike, and there was a dispute between management and the unions and it ended up coming to an impass because Biden and Pete Buddha Jedge screwed it all up right, and it came to an impass that a lot these days. But the assumptions was kick it to Congress and Congress will rule with management and that'll be it. And I got to tell you, and it was the Biden administration

that was pressing to overturn what the unions wanted. The unions wanted paid sickly. Actually, the rule and the railroads was if you wanted sick leave, you had to put in for it several days in advance, which is really helpful if you know, hey, I'm planning to get sick next Wednesday. Like, I'm not sure exactly how that works. And so I looked at it, and my first view is, why is Congress getting in the middle of it. This ought to be freely negotiative between management and the unions.

We have no business getting in the middle and resolving it. And so initially we had a vote to delay and give them more time to negotiate a mutually agreed upon solution. That vote was rejected, and so at the end of the day there were a handful of us that said the heck with us and voted with the workers because I thought the workers demands were We're really reasonable, and I said, look, we're not a rubber stamp for what

management wants. That is a new dynamic in the Republican Party and I think JD being there is a big part of getting it viscerally, which is something we need going forward. And I got to say also, everyone here is is horrified at the derailment and niece Palastine and j D has been fantastic going back there on leadership. Yeah,

like thank you going back there. You know, he went and did a video of him poking water with a stick and all sorts of crazy scary crap game up And by the way, Joe Biden completely a wall Pete buddhagg What the hell does this guy gotta do to get fired? Like like at this point, it's it's it's a bar game, Like what else could he do? And I gotta say, JD standing up. And the Democrats don't give a damn about East Palestine because it's it's a blue collar, red, red place and they're like, to hell

with you. If you were a bunch of transgender tech workers, you'd have the entire Biden cabinet down there for a listening session and sit in to feel their pain. But Jad, and by the way, Jad alongside Donald Trump, came there and guilted the administration and that was powerful assent. I've never said this, by the way, in the podcast before you guys have a vote coming up that you're about to head off to see. The nice thing is Ben

being a radio guys. He's very docile, so that we have screens up here that say please rest wrop up. We're just accoring it. Look right, we're having fun. I like that you're raised for this. All right. I will ask last question, and I'm sure Matt's not gonna fire me over this. I will ask one last question. I think it's important one. What does the Republican Party need to do over the next two years to unify and find good candidates? And the reason why I say this

is the Democratic Party is very unified right now. Yeah, they are so unified they will elect a dead guy in Pennsylvania on purpose, and they will elect Fetterman, who clearly they took advantage of. I think that's evil what they did to him, in my opinion. And you look at what where Biden is right now. If he is their guy, which I have every I expect him to be their guy. As long as he has a heartbeat, they'll vote him in. That's how unify the Air as a party right now, which is scary. But what does

the Concerted Movement need to do for the next two years? Quickly? Let me offer five views, because I just came off an election, and look, the thing that I was really caught off guard by when I won my primaria is that, yes, some arms of the establishment said, maybe this wasn't our number one choice, but look he won, and we need to keep the seat red, and so we're going to

support JD. Vans. There are a lot of folks in the establishment win when they don't get their preferred candidate, who whine, who will not help, who will not lift a finger to help candidates, And look, they're gonna be a lot of candidates that win Republican primaries that aren't going to be my first choice, that maybe you know, a little bit more moderate than I am, a little bit more established than I am, who cares when you have a candidate win the primary, we've all got to

get on board and support him from the president on down. No more whining from the establishment, Let's help our candidates win and look. To be very clear, the DC establishment basically abandoned the Senate candidate in Arizona, basically abandoned the Senate candidate in New Hampshire, and that was disgraceful. We need to win and that means getting behind people who are ready to fight and taking it seriously. I support the strongest Conservative who can win, and we need to win.

We need to take back the Senate, we need to grow our majority in the House, and we need to send Joe Biden back to his beach house in Della Amen that there it is. Thank you guys for being here at Seapac being all verdict. Make sure you down woant it will see you soon.