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And then all of a sudden, this guy named Donald Trump started talking about it about four years later.

I'm like, at first, the thing that's funny, Vince,

When this brash billionaire from Manhattan started talking, came down those escalators, it didn't click with me initially that this might have been the guy I was writing about that would be in pursuit of Americanism.

What does it mean to have a government of, by, and for the people that every day actually prioritizes the American people, which I think in many ways encapsulates America first.

It clicked with me in February of 2016 around the Virginia primaries that this might be the guy I've been looking for.

But

When you're in D.C.

and you're looking at how it's operating on the inside, again, my dad, his last year was 2006 in the House.

He was voted the most conservative member of Congress that year.

I think it was Congressional Quarterly that voted him that, I think, honor.

I really look at my dad as being really an example for me where if you come into D.C.

with your principles firmly in place,

And you do not waver on those principles, but use them as the lens by which you view everything that you're experiencing and having to deal with.

You have the ability to take strong stands, be able to make as many of the right decisions.

Again, we're all imperfect.

We all make mistakes, but be able to make a lot of those right decisions.

But I will say this, though.

There are a lot of temptations, Vince, to a lot of money to change your views on life.

So I think you have to go in and realize, yeah, there's going to be hard decisions that have to be made.

You're not going to make as much money.