James Fishback

And then 600,000 foreign students are going to come to our universities, maybe a third of them to Florida colleges where their taxpayer funded universities are going to have to give up their seats from Florida kids from Charlotte County or Lee County to kids from Shanghai and Beijing.

It didn't make any sense.

And so I'm running because I'm the only.

That's literally true.

Literally.

That's part of the current framework, this bilateral framework between the US and China right now is that DC is now as a concession to the Chinese in this tariff war that we're going to have to accept 600,000 Chinese foreign students at our schools.

they would go to state that's so university of florida florida state ucf usf now i think it's easy to get lost in all those numbers but just take one kid from a small fishing village in florida and say hold on your ability to go to a horticulture program at the university of florida

has now been put on pause.

Your entire life has been shelved because we need to have a grand negotiating strategy with China and tariffs and the AI arms race.

It's destroying lives here in Florida.

It's just the latest analogy of we're losing sight of what the American

Who will not receive preference over them.

Correct.

In fact, will be inferior to them in a sense because when you have this DC mandate coming down that says, hey, because of our grand strategy with China, because the US-China, the Sino-US relationship is on the line, wink, wink, nod, nod, in order to maintain detente with Beijing and Xi Jinping.

we need this kid to get in.

And it's not going to ever be a direct order, but it's going to be implied in the zeitgeist that, you know, those pesky Americans, you know, the ones that paid to build this university, they deserve.

And forget this idea of fairness and who deserves what.

Just objectively speaking, Florida kids who grew up here know the state best.

When they graduate, they'll stay in this state.

They'll build businesses here.