A New Look America with Senator Rick Scott
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Rick Scott has been all over the news recently for his hopeful role as the new Senate majority leader in Florida. In this episode, we talk with Rick Scott about his path to becoming the next majority leader of the Florida Senate.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Gains for Girls podcast. Still on this election high. I
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don't think it will end until 2025 Inauguration Day when it is sealed, done, and we know that
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is what our nation's future holds. Very excited for today's guest. His name has been all over
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the news, all over social media, with this buzzing surrounding it. We are talking today
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to Senator Rick Scott. He's been in the news recently for his hopeful role as the new Senate
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majority leader. They are to vote actually today, this week. So I'm hopeful. I think people
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were tired. We're tired of leadership, weak leadership from those in the Senate like Mitch
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McConnell. And so I wholeheartedly support Rick Scott for Senate majority leader. Very
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majority leader, now Senator Rick Scott. Well, Senator Scott, thank you so much for joining the
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Gains for Girls podcast. Before we get into anything, this week was we had Veterans Day. And
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so I wanted to thank you for your service. We are people like me. We are indebted to people like you
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who fought for our freedoms. So thank you, number one. But I've got to ask you, we're coming off a big
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election, both presidential and the Senate, the House. It was a blowout on all accounts. And so I've
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got to ask you, how are you feeling? It's exciting. Election night was exciting. We know that Trump
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hasn't had, you know, his agenda, he got a man, he clearly got a mandate, right? He, so it was,
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it was exciting. It was an exciting night. So we won in my, in my state, we won Miami-Dade by 10 points.
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We won Osceola County, which is primarily Puerto Rican, by two points. We won the county that Tampa's in,
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the county that St. Pete's in, the county that Jacksonville's in. We won 61 to 67 counties. It was a
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blowout. You know why we won? Because people want a different agenda than Democrats. I tell people,
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my, what my, you know, why I'm doing this is I want every kid to have the same opportunity to live
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the dream that I had. Born to a single mom, lived in public housing growing up, and my mom could
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legitimately tell me there was no limitation if I worked my butt off. And so I've tried a lot of things in my
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life. I've built companies, ran for governor, now ran for the Senate. So everything's doable. If
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that's true for every little boy and girl in this country, what a hell of a country it is.
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Yeah, it's interesting to see Florida's progression over the past 10, 12 years or so,
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which I live in Tennessee, a very red state. But what I've noticed in my home state is we have an
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influx of people who have moved in from places like California or New York or Michigan or Illinois.
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And I know Florida is the same. And so I don't know if you've had the opportunity to talk with some of
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these people who have moved to Florida. But I mean, again, my experience is it almost appears as if
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they're refugees, right? And they acknowledge themselves as such. Yeah, I think it's positive
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selection. People are coming to Tennessee because of their freedom, their rights, and because it's a
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Republican state. They're coming to Florida because it's, you know, because of our freedom. We don't have,
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we don't have big government mandates. You know, we understand your individual rights.
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We believe in your individual rights. And so I think that's why people are moving to places like
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Tennessee and to Florida. So it's exciting. Think about this. When I got elected in 2010 as governor,
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there are 568,000 more registered Democrats. This election, there are over a million more registered
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Republicans. So people have come in and they said the Republican way of life is better for their
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families. It's better for their kids. It's better for their grandkids. Because I think here's what
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people care about. They care about their job. They care about their kids' education. And they care
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about public safety. Guess what? Tennessee is a great state for that. I actually lived in Tennessee a
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lot. I lived in Nashville for a while. It's a great, great city. And Florida is like that. We're
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number one in higher education, top five in K-12 education. When I left, we were a 47-year low on our
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crime rate. So it's the things that people care about. And that's why they're moving to Tennessee.
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They're moving to Florida and places like that. No doubt. No doubt. I think another key issue,
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I believe it was a key issue in the elections, again, on all fronts, presidential, House seats,
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and in the Senate, especially in the Senate, actually, was the common sense issue of keeping
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men out of women's sports, which you have been key on. You've been key on the Protection of Women
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and Girls in Sports Act. You signed on to the letter headed by Senator Blackburn to the NCAA,
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urging them to update their policies. You voted in favor, of course, of the Protection of Women
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and Girls in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, but really all to no prevail, as the Senate voted
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entirely on party lines, which I don't believe it would have mattered much anyways, considering
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I think we both know the actions that President Biden would have taken if a common sense bill like
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this reached his desk. But do you think now, with a majority in both the House and the Senate,
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that this is something that can get to President Trump's desk come 2025?
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Well, if the Democrats don't support it, they're pretty foolish. It's pretty common sense that we
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shouldn't have men playing in women's sports. I mean, I raised two daughters. I have six grandsons and
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a granddaughter, right? And look, think about how much time people put in, like my friend Donna DeVarona
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put in to make sure there was women's sports in college, right? I mean, it was decades to get that
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done. And now, all of a sudden, the Democrats say, oh, yeah, we'll still have that, but we'll let
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boys win all the medals. So I think it's common sense. I hope the Democrats have figured this out.
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It was a horrible issue for the Democrats. There's so many people, I think, voted over that one issue
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that hopefully the Democrats will understand it. And we've got, it takes 60 votes to pass legislation
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over here, but we're going to have 53 Republicans now, so it'll take seven Democrats to say, you know
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what, this is pretty much common sense. Why don't we, we should pass this. Why is it so partisan? I mean,
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again, I think for your everyday American, we see the harm, we see the trajectory of where this is
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leading us. We see how this is unsafe. We see it's unfair, not to mention the privacy aspect in the
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locker room. And, and similar, I agree with you in saying that I think there's got a lot of people
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who would call themselves lifelong liberals to vote for the Republican nominees. So why? I mean,
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is it fear? Do you think, do you think they actually believe this? Uh, I just can't wrap my
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mind around it. I, I don't, right. They can't, they, they can't explain a lot of their policies.
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They can't explain, you know, most of the stuff we do up here should not be partisan, you know,
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having a secure border. Yeah. That's pretty good for Democrats too. Not just Republicans,
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you know, have, you know, making sure women's sports are women's sports. That shouldn't be very
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partisan, but it's somehow they've made it that way. It's like the radicals in the Democrat
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party run the party now, but hopefully they saw they got trounced, uh, in this election.
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So hopefully there's going to be common sense for Democrats that come and say, you know what,
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that makes sense. We ought to pass that bill. Uh, I'm going to do everything I can, uh, to make
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that happen. What, what, what my goal is, one of my goals of being a leader is let's figure out how
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to do common sense things. When I was governor, what I did is I did common sense things that, you know,
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they're not repealing them because they, they made all the sense of the world, even though I've been
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gone for six years. And so that's what we should be doing up here. What are some common sense things
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we can get done? Like we shouldn't, we shouldn't be sending federal dollars, uh, to, to schools that
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don't protect women's sports. I mean, why did we pass the legislation to make sure we had women's
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sports if we're not going to make them women's sports? You know what I would love to see is
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legislation that codifies and defines words like woman in law words. Like, I mean, we've seen how
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words you mentioned title nine, even how these words like sex and gender identity have become
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conflated. And, and we have these unelected bureaucrats and officials who's who use these
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words interchangeably words. We've never had to define because we never knew we, we needed to,
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or that we would ever need to, but here we are. Uh, we've seen talks of it in the house. I believe it
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was representative, uh, Lesko and Diana Harshbarger. Um, but I think this is something that could be
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incredibly effective. I think nine States have done this now, and I think it would be huge if it
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could be done, uh, federally. We've seen lots of buzz around your name on social media, um, and the
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mainstream news recently, uh, for acquiring the Senate majority leader, uh, position, which I mean,
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uh, I believe you are suited to do, you are fit to do, you are someone who, uh, has led, uh, incredibly
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effectively and successfully. Um, and so I want you to be able to make the case, you know, why do you
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think this is something that, uh, as a role that you could fill? Well, the election is tomorrow. Um,
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they've rushed the election to one week after a little, you know, one week, one day after the general
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election, uh, which is a mistake. We should take more time to do this, but the election is tomorrow.
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Here's what I tell people we've got Trump. One, he got a mandate. We've got to elect a leader in the
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Senate. That's going to help him get his mandate done. So one, I a hundred percent support what
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Donald Trump is doing. That's number one. Number two, I'm a business guy. We get our stuff done
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because we, we create processes and we bring people along to get it done. We build teams.
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We have a plan. We have timelines, responsibility. We recalibrate if something's not working and we get it
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done. And so that's what I'll do is as a majority leader, whether it's getting Trump's nominees done,
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which we we've got to get done. Chuck Schumer is going to try to slow that down or the legislation
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he needs to make sure we repair the damage that Democrats have, have done in this country.
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I will do everything I can to get those things done as majority leader. So that's why I'm running.
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Uh, I believe in this country. I believe in our constitution. I live the dream. I want every
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child to have the chance to live the dream. Uh, I think it was the heritage heritage action score
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card. Uh, you scored a 92%, uh, while the other two who are in the mix scored in the thirties. And so
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it seems like the people have spoken. Uh, we want a Senate majority leader like you. Um, and so what,
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I mean, what are some of the kind of the behind the scenes dynamic that go into this vote? I imagine
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there's, there's lots of pressure, uh, internally amongst members of the Senate, uh, maybe swaying
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their vote vote. Well, uh, you know, very few senators have come out and said who they're going
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to support. Marco Rubio supported me and Tommy Tupperville and Bill Haggerty and Rand Paul and
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Ron Johnson. I think there's others that said they're going to support me. We'll see. It's a secret
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ballot. So you never know until, uh, until it happens, right? It shouldn't be secret. We should all
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know. I, everybody knows how I vote on a judge, how I vote on a bill. They ought to know how
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everybody votes on, uh, the majority leader, but, uh, it's probably going to be a secret
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ballot again tomorrow, uh, when we vote on this. Uh, so we're going to have a meeting
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tonight. I'm going to make my pitch to all my colleagues. We're going to have another
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meeting tomorrow. I'll make my pitch to all my colleagues and we'll see. Um, I'm, I'm
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making my pitch that this is who I am. I'm a business guy that believes in the Trump
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agenda that will get his agenda accomplished. And we'll see if that prevails. I think it
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will, uh, my colleagues have said they want somebody that wants an agenda, wants to treat
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them as equals. Uh, and they know my background with Trump and with the speaker of the house,
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uh, and with, uh, the Trump agenda. So I think I'm going to prevail, but we'll see tomorrow.
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Uh, you mentioned Marco Rubio, uh, any suggestions as, as to who DeSantis should appoint to take
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his seat? Well, there's a, there's a lot of great people. Laura Trump is one person that,
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uh, people have brought up. We've got a lot of congressional members, whether it's, um,
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Byron Donalds or Kat Kamek or Laura Lee or Vern Buchanan or Maria Salazar, that, you know,
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Corey Mills. We've got so many great Republicans in Florida. We've got some statewide elected like
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Ashley Moody and Jimmy Petronis and Wilton Simpson. We've got a lot of, we've got a lot of
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people that we, we've watched their, we've watched them perform. Uh, so we'll see. It's the
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governor's choice. Uh, so we'll see what happens. We are so grateful for you. Uh, thank you for
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taking time out of your day to, to hop on, uh, to discuss your plans. Uh, just know we are cheering
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for you, uh, supporting you every step of the way. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Senator Scott.
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All right. Thanks. Have a great day. And thanks for your support.
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Thank you guys for listening to the Gains for Girls podcast. Uh, I've gotten to know Senator Scott
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over the past two ish years or so. Uh, he's amazing. He's been a fierce and fearless defender
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of common sense values and legislation, things like keeping men out of women's sports. Uh, but
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also the, the America first agenda, securing our border, protecting free speech, lowering
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crime, uh, making our streets safe, uh, lower taxes. I mean, all, all things that I think
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most Americans, uh, can appreciate and get behind. So we thank him for his, his service,
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both as a veteran and both serving in the U S Senate. Uh, you can check out all things
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Hey everybody. Thank you so much for watching the fight to save women's sports and restore
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