All right this morning, another big election win for Republicans in the house, Brian congressman MIKE Garcia, keeping the seat. He flipped in a special election last May defeating Democrat Christy Smith and officially giving back the GOP four of the seven seats they lost in twenty eighteen. Steve joining us right now is congressman MIKE Garcia MIKE Good Morning to you good morning. Guys, thanks for having me Steve, congratulations you didnt know until yesterday. Officially, what do you think is going on? Because there was no blue wave. It was more of kind of a blue undertow. In many instances, many of us watching closely actually saw this coming. This has been a red recovery in some ways, a renaissance of conservative values and it did start in California. You know with our special election back in May. That was the first time that a Republican recovered a Democrat held seat at the congressional level, since one thousand nine hundred and ninety eight, so twenty two years of history in

the making and were able to pull this off were able to keep this seat. It was a little tighter but very proud of my team and especially the five hundred volunteers that made this happen Ainsley. I know it was neck in neck. Christy Smith got forty nine point. Ninety five percent and I know its been a grueling last few months for you, and here we are a month after election day and youre, just finding out that you won. This has been a great year for House Republicans. What does this mean in two years? Do you think Republicans will take back the house yeah? Absolutely. I was a little disappointed. We werent able to get it across the goal line, but we are within striking distance a few seats away. This means that Nancy Pelosi, while Shell be able to run the agenda on the floor. She wont be actually running the floor. Shes going to have to negotiate in good faith, and there will be moderates from the left side of the aisle that come to our side and break our way and get meaningful legislation done. So this is a big deal. We are on a trajectory to get the majority back in the next cycle and im. Looking forward to being a part of that as well,

Brian Congressman were seeing laboratory of liberal policies in action. You give them the power, and do you know what you got? You have states. Excuse me: cities going bankrupt, homeless, out of control, illegal immigrants pouring across the boarder and compassion is allowing them to stay in sanctuary cities. So you got what you wanted. Congratulations now try to save it with what higher taxes what people are doing is leaving your great state. So is that the best calling card for Republicans, and is there an organization underneath to at least get the people of californian alternative on the state level, yeah thats right and what you described is old news in California weve been experiencing that for going over, probably 10, 15 years now and thats why I ran frankly, I was seeing things happen at the national level that started to look a lot like California that scared the hell out of me. I dont want my country to become what California has become, and I do believe that, especially in California, we dont have to hit rock bottom, were going to get lower level

seats at the state legislative levels and get the majority in the house and make this country what its supposed to be, which is what we all deserve and thats to be the greatest nation that this planet has ever seen a lot of broken policies but, more importantly, a lot of broken politicians coming out of California and thats. Why im here Steve, you know a lot of people are not familiar with your background. I know. Youre, a Navy vet tell us a little more about your story, Sir yeah, so I was a Navy F. 18 pilot flew combat missions off of aircraft carriers. If youve seen the movie top gun, that was my life Steve. That was you. I had a blessed job, not actually that guy, but the real one so thats what I did for a living best job in the world. It was an honor to serve my country and thats. What ive taken up here ive been an executive. Now, since leaving the navy for the last twelve years, I had no aspirations of becoming a politician or running for office until I started seeing what was happening and in my district, we were unfortunate to be represented by our Representative Katie Hill at the time, and for me it was a bridge

too far I wasnt able to just sit on the sidelines and watch it happen. So I ran as a patriot and im now serving as a citizen legislator and doing whats right for the country and, like I said, making sure that our beautiful country doesnt become what California has become its a great state, great weather, beautiful people, a lot of opportunity, but the politicians in Sacramento have absolutely killed our state and I dont want that to happen to our country Ainsley. So many people feel the same way. You do. Thank you for your service. We wish you all.