00:00 I considered my age and the fact that at the end of a second term I would be in my mid-80s,
00:06 and I think it's time for guys like me to get out of the way and have people in the
00:10 next generation step forward, because they're going to be shaping the world they're going
00:14 to be living in.
00:15 And over the last couple of decades, people of my age, the boomers, have done pretty well
00:21 for ourselves.
00:22 We voted for all sorts of benefits and programs for us, and we haven't paid for them.
00:27 And I think some of the people that are coming along next want to have a say in how we leave
00:32 the earth and how they prepare for the future they're going to live in.
00:36 There was a recent poll in Utah which had me showing some very strong numbers.
00:40 I was very pleased to see that.
00:42 I think the people in Utah don't all agree with me, the posture I took with regards to
00:45 Donald Trump, but they respect people who vote their conscience.
00:49 And I appreciate that, and my fellow citizens.
00:53 And I don't have any question in my mind that I'd have won if I'd have run again.
00:57 I just don't think that we need another person in their 80s.
00:59 Well, there's no question, but the Republican Party today is in the shadow of Donald Trump.
01:04 He is the leader of the greatest portion of the Republican Party.
01:08 It's a populist, I believe, demagogue portion of the party.
01:11 Look, I represent a small wing of the party.
01:13 If you will, I call it the wise wing of the Republican Party.
01:17 And I don't believe we're going away.
01:19 I think ultimately we'll see a resurgence and come back into leadership of the party.
01:24 Look, my wing of the party talks about policy and about issues that will make a difference
01:29 to the lives of the American people.
01:31 The Trump wing of the party talks about resentments of various kinds, getting even, and settling
01:37 scores and revisiting the 2020 election.
01:40 What are the policies for the future?
01:43 And my party is only going to be successful getting young people to vote for us if we're
01:47 talking about the future.
01:48 And there's no question, there's no question, there's some portion of my party and the opposition
01:52 party who thinks we need to have a strong person, a strong man to put aside the Constitution.
01:58 For that matter, President Trump, former President Trump, said we should put aside the Constitution
02:03 and reinstall him as president.
02:05 I mean, so yeah, there are some people who believe that.
02:08 I believe they're sorely wrong.
02:10 I believe the great majority of American people believe that they're wrong.
02:13 I don't intend to make endorsements.
02:15 By the way, I think endorsements are, what's the old line, the John McCain line, they're
02:18 not worth a bucket of spit.
02:21 Who the heck cares who endorsed who?
02:24 You make your decision as a voter about what you think about the candidate and their point
02:28 of view and their vision, and you don't care about what some other person said.
02:31 So I'm not planning on doing that.
02:32 But who do you want to succeed you?
02:34 I don't have a comment on who might succeed me.
02:36 I hope that we get a very strong contender and that it's someone who's a little younger
02:42 than me.
02:43 I think it would be a great thing if both President Biden and former President Trump
02:47 were to stand aside and let their respective party pick someone in the next generation.
02:53 President Trump, excuse me, President Biden, when he was running, said he was a transitional
02:56 figure to the next generation.
02:57 Well, time to transition.
02:59 David Ignatius this morning made a strong argument that we should see that kind of a
03:03 change.
03:04 I think both parties would be far better served if they were going to be represented by people
03:10 other than those of us from the baby boom generation.
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