Congresswoman-elect Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, says she hopes to work across the aisle with Democrats and ‘put people in front of politics.’
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Ainsley, well, you might
Ainsley. Well, you might
remember former Texas mayor Beth
Vanduyne from her Texas reloaded
ad, just in case you forgot here
it is.
I want to thank these
officers for a job. Well done:
hey Beth! When you are
finished over there, Texas could
use your help.
Ainsley vandine, defeating her
challenger in a close race. 24Th
district
joining me now is Congresswoman
Elect Beth Vanduyne
Good Morning to you,
Congresswoman elect
good morning
its a mouthful good to be on
this morning.
You worked hard to have that
title.
Former mayor of Irving, Texas.
You are parts of this new
freshman class of republican
congresswomen.
Congratulations!
What do you plan to do?
I plan to roll up my sleeves
and get some work done
quite honestly, hoping to find
Democrats willing to do the
same.
We have seen a tough election
across the country where, literally hundreds of millions,
literally hundreds of millions
of dollars have been spent its
been a radical agenda. We have
seen
my opponent
broken audio,
the idea of defunding police and
getting millions of jobs out of
our economy and basically
government policies that would
take a lot of control out of the
american people what they have
been focused on.
While that may be good for a
party to look at a radical party
democrat side, continuing
im hoping have you got
Democrats who are willing to
stand up and speak out against
the radical twitter trolls that
have taken over and hijacked
their party with conversations
of defunding police and complete
government take over and
stripping people off their
private healthcare insurance and
really look at getting millions
of jobs across the country.
I think about the last two years
and the opportunity that these
Democrats had instead of focused
on political theater and focused
on impeachment, if they had
actually done policy issues that
are hard work.
The things like passing an
infrastructure bill.
You know where you would have
had millions of jobs available
to the american people workers
when they needed it, the most
good, paying jobs that arent
republican jobs,
arent democrat jobs,
but are real jobs. That would
have been important at time when
we need them most.
Instead of concentrating on
things like impeachment and
Russia collusion
being able to work with
Ainsley, you mentioned some of
those issues.
What is your reaction to this
far radical left and Aocs?
I think its been
destructive
im quite honestly, amazed that
you dont have more Democrats
who dont care about America and
care about the pledge that they
made when they got elected, to
stand up to them and be willing
to fight
policy is tough,
but we need to put people in
front of politics
and we need to put our policies
in front of party.
I havent seen that as mayor, we
were in Texas, nonpartisan
im used to working with people
of all kinds of parties and all
kinds of politics to get
policies passed and work on
increasing jobs and
opportunities and expanding and
empowering those opportunities
for american people.
That will be my concentration
working across the aisle to do
whats best for America
Ainsley. Well, congratulations.
We look forward to following
your career.
Go there and fight for our
country and its great that you.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-11.