00:00Hi, I'm just going to answer this question that he asked me since y'all are the vultures and surrounding.
00:06So he asked why Republicans like myself did poorly in this election.
00:10So I know CNN called my race, but we still have thousands of ballots in my district that need to
00:17be counted.
00:18We've been curing ballots for over a week, and we need to make sure that every vote counts and every
00:25voice is heard.
00:26We still have military and overseas ballots that are coming in, and we'll see what that number is.
00:30Hopefully we'll have that number on Friday, and whatever decisions are, whatever comes of that, then we'll accept that and
00:38move forward in whatever way.
00:40But I think overall, I mean, look at the kind of Republicans that are losing their races.
00:45I mean, yeah, things are not great in the 4th District right now.
00:50And also you have the Mike Lawlers of the world and the Fitzpatricks and the NRCC chairman.
00:55So this wasn't about a brand of Republican.
00:58People are frustrated, and I think I've talked to many of you enough over the past year and a half
01:01especially to even air my frustrations.
01:06I think that we could have done a lot more.
01:08We had a lot of wasted opportunities, and, you know, this is our opportunity to regroup and rebuild.
01:15There's a lot of freshmen that are coming in, and hopefully they don't take the bait and, you know, get
01:21the whole freshman orientation spiel of just do things the way we've always done them, and you could have a
01:27really nice life here.
01:28Because, clearly, America hates the way we do things up here.
01:32Do you think that would have to do with the Iran war and the president's handling of the Iran war?
01:35Yeah, I mean, obviously everyone the day after the election says maybe it was the war.
01:40I was very frustrated about the war.
01:42I mean, here in Congress, I mean, we had some procedural votes about the war that wasn't going to stop
01:47anything.
01:47So there was nothing that Republicans could have necessarily done to stop that, but I was very frustrated with that.
01:55And now, you know, I was facing an opponent who supported every war, said war was good for business even,
02:00but this is the one that she decided to be against, and that was enough, I guess.
02:06Do you blame the president at all?
02:09I don't blame any one person.
02:11We all could have done better.
02:12I mean, I was talking to my team in my district, you know, I don't think that more money would
02:16have made a difference.
02:17There's plenty of members who spent millions of dollars, and I refused to do that this time.
02:23I wasn't going to just squander millions to, you know, convince somebody to like me.
02:28I've represented 53 of our 64 counties in Colorado.
02:31People know me.
02:32And I think most politicians get on TV with millions of dollars to sell a lie, and it's pretty expensive.
02:38Will you vote to impeach PXF?
02:40No.
02:41President Trump told 60 Minutes that his immigration policies went too far.
02:45Do you guys agree with that?
02:46No, I don't think they went far enough.
02:48Who do you think will be best at leading the Republicans forward?
02:51We have a vote tomorrow.
02:53I'm supporting Tom Emmer for whip, for sure.
02:57I can make an argument that no one in current leadership should remain in leadership.
03:03I would make an exception with Tom Emmer.
03:05I think he's a fantastic whip, and, you know, his job is to count the votes, not to necessarily pressure
03:11anybody to vote one way or bring policy to the floor.
03:14So I am endorsing Tom Emmer for chair, or sorry, for whip.
03:20And it sounds like Greg Stubbe is entering the race for conference chair, and he has my endorsement.
03:27And what about for leader?
03:28We'll see.
03:34Republicans need to listen to voters, not political pundits and consultants.
03:39I mean, you know, I wish that more of us could have been listened to by our own leadership here
03:44at times.
03:45And, yeah, we are the ones who are with the voters each and every day.
03:51And then you get inside the bubble, and it's a totally different narrative, and people think differently.
03:56And when we try to bring the people's voice to the people's house, that needs to be heard.
04:01What policies do you think Republicans need to talk about more?
04:04Taylor, two things.
04:05Well, you know, it's interesting.
04:07So in Colorado, Democrats supposedly won because things are unaffordable.
04:12Well, my state of Colorado is unaffordable because of one-party Democrat rule and all of the fees and taxes
04:19and all of this.
04:19But also, while voting to say things are unaffordable, they also voted for every single tax increase that was on
04:27the ballot.
04:28So, you know, I mean, I think there's some policy issues that we can get right.
04:31But we have a younger generation that we need to start listening to and focusing on.
04:35So, awesome.
04:35Well, thank you, guys.
04:36We'll talk more this week.
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