Ivan Raiklin

can work with in order to be successful like so that there's a little ROI obviously on on the investor billionaire side but aligns with my values at least on some of the key things that I'm running on yeah like way before Andrew Yang Yang was 2020 in 2018 I was like talking about AI right it's like I kind of know I've been in the system AI and and other issues so we'll just talk about the AI part

Because we need to regulate it.

There needs to be some knowledge and the economy has to change in order to be able to go from agrarian, industrial, right, in Virginia, to be essentially competitive globally, obviously, economically.

And so when I'm going down the list, I'm thinking, all right, Peter Thiel.

So going back from the time in 2012 when we were interacting, I got his contact information and reached out to him and said, hey,

I want to basically have a meeting with you to present to you why you should invest in my Senate run.

So I went up to his place in New York.

It was supposed to be like a 30-minute meeting.

I think we went like two hours or something.

Wow, so it went well.

And at the end of it, I'm like, yeah, are you going to support me?

He's like, yeah, easy.

So he only donated to three campaigns that election cycle.

Josh Hawley.

Senator from Missouri.

He was the guy that objected to the Pennsylvania electors on the Senate side on January 6th of 2021.

Wow.

And he's going after big tech.

The second guy was Kevin McCarthy.

He was the leader of the Republican Party.