Republican congresswoman-elect tells ‘Fox & Friends’ she will bring a much-needed perspective to Washington, D.C.
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Who, sadly, lost his life here?
Helenor Arkansas
Ainsley, another GOP victory in
the house, Natalia Takis,
flipping red after Democrat
incumbent concedes,
Republicans have now flipped ten
seats in the house with eight of
them won by female candidates.
New York congresswoman Elect
joins us now
good morning to you.
Congratulations!
Thank you good morning,
Ainsley good morning.
What do you think was the reason
for this seat, and so many other
flipping from blue to red
here in New York City, and I
assume cities in America. People
are fed up with the direction.
Democrats were trying to take
us
in New York City where we have
de Blasio, and we have Alexandria,
Ocasio, Cortez theyve moved our
city so much to the left, and you
have individuals, like my
opponent, who rallied with the
defund police movement and had
gone along with the gang and
people want to see a two party
system. They want to see checks
and balances, and I will be the
only republican representing our
city in Washington and its a
much needed voice and
perspective
Ainsley. I know that you
represent the southern part of
Brooklyn and Staten Island
theres, 16gop women, newly
elected to Congress,
is the party changing.
Was this the trump phenomena, or
is this a permanent change for
the Republican Party?
I could tell you its
much needed new blood coming to
the party. Not only do we have
most females in history of
coming to Congress from the
republican side, but we also
have a number of minorities. We
have immigrants who have come
from Korea from Cuba from the
Ukraine and also we have
military veterans as well as in
the republican side.
But I can tell you that this is
important because its the
message
you have AOC and the Socialist
squad, and now we have
individuals that come from
diversed backgrounds and many
fled communism or socialism
themselves or, like me, the
daughter of a cuban refugee, to
be those messengers to say why
is socialism bad and push back
and to fight to protect our
freedom and our liberties, and we
reopen our company and we keep
the capitalist system that
provides job and opportunity, and
that is something that I believe
and obviously in this election
results across the country. That
Americans want- and I think,
thats very critical point to be
making
Ainsley. I understand that you
want to form your own squad. The
Antisocialist squad
we dont have a name but
theres. Definitely an interest
and people that are concerned
and have similar stories at
mine.
My mother fled Communist Cuba in
one thousand nine hundred and fifty nine. She came here for liberty
and opportunity as millions of
immigrants did.
We want to preserve that.
We want to preserve the american
dream that allow my parents,
daughters. Their daughter is
now going to be a United States,
Congressperson and, as I
mentioned, we have immigrants
coming from Cuba from Korea.
We share the story and we will
get out there and tell the story
to Americans and fight back
against those who want to
dismantle the economy and want
to destroy capitalism and want
to takeaway freedoms and bring
socialism to the country.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-13.