00:00At Heritage, we not only have what I think are the best ideas for public policy, but also importantly, we facilitate the sharing of those ideas with other organizations around the country, around the world, and informally share those with policymakers from the administration to Congress.
00:16This is something that we've done for over 50 years. We'll continue to do that. But what we've done recently because of the political opportunity that exists, keep in mind, I think conservatives are going to be in power for at least 50 years, is talk about those policies in more detail, not just, in other words, for the next month or the next six months, but where certain policy areas or policy issues need to go over the next five or 10 years.
00:42Adopting that longer-term thinking, both for the policies, but also in helping to form, cultivating people who possibly might go into an administration, people who possibly might go serve as a Capitol Hill staffer, or for that matter, might serve as members of Congress, is what Heritage and the entire conservative movement needs to be doing because of the opportunity we have.
01:06If we fail to seize this opportunity, we may never get it back again.
01:12The vice president certainly looks like the frontrunner, not only for 2028, but perhaps equally importantly as the social and philosophical leader of the conservative movement.
01:27The great news is that our bench, our political bench, and the conservative movement is very deep. Secretary of State Rubio has obviously performed very well. Several members of the Senate as well. We have a strong bench of governors.
01:44But it's obvious to anyone paying attention that in addition to the politics and the philosophy, his ability to communicate, that the vice president has a certain way of connecting with the American people genuinely.
01:56Politics aside, what Americans want more than anything is authenticity in their leaders. And whether it's the vice president or the secretary of state Rubio, a member of the Senate, a governor who emerges over the next few years, if they're conservative, if they are aligned with President Trump's philosophy, which is to put the people ahead of Washington,
02:20and if they're authentic, then they're not only going to be one of the standard bearers of our movement, they're going to be president of the United States.
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