Rep. Tim Burchett
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But they could drop big money in and the dark money and-
And someday I'd like to, maybe if I had the opportunity to get to the U.S.
Senate, I wouldn't mind doing that, but that would be Katie bar the door.
They'd pour the money in all over the country to beat me.
Of course.
Yeah, there's only two ways to run, scared and unopposed.
And I'm a product of the primary.
The first race I won, I...
I beat an incumbent in a state house race, 99 house races that year.
I was the only person to beat an incumbent.
And I won with just two and three quarters percentage points ahead.
I knocked on over 6,000 doors.
I'd been run out of town or run out of business by the government.
And it was a great lesson.
But I did knock on over 6,000 doors.
And I think I raised around $8,000 or $9,000.
I can't remember.
And I thought, how am I going to spend all this dadgum money?
You know, every morning I'd wake up.
My mom and daddy, of course, were living then.