Paul Dans

Clinton had just come up to be president.

And we're talking about base closures and realignments.

And...

This is kind of like, we had a great opportunity to make this the country of milk and honey.

Like you have to back up and say, why are we not overflowing here?

Why is, why do we live in, in a, in a society where people are literally knuckle dragging right now with fentanyl in Philadelphia and walking around?

Like, how could this be after we fought those wars and invested all that blood and treasure?

Yeah, I thought we won.

You would have thought, right?

But the struggle, the fight never ends.

And that's the point of why I'm running, that we need to... There's just so much shared sacrifice over 250 years from not only my ancestors, but pretty much everyone listening to this.

They have a story, some root back longer.

My wife's family came 300 years ago and they were...

farmers in Eastern North Carolina and kind of hardscrabble life.

You want to listen to the stories of my mother-in-law talk about the wall and like the deprivation after the civil war even.

But, you know, it's, it's to forget all that in a, in a generation or two is, is absurd.

And, and I have the ability now that I've,

I've worked on the front lines.

I was a top attorney in Manhattan.

I'm facing off with the progressives.