South Carolina Republican outlines the future of the GOP on 'Hannity'
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Just helps people like Joe get
elected
thats her choice
here now, with his choice and
reaction, South Carolina,
Senator Lindsey, Graham
a senator, am I wrong
thats the agenda
yeah, but the question of the
conference is a time for
choosing
what I would tell the people
putting on the conference. The
Republicans have already chosen.
They have chosen an
american first agenda to rally
the party around and if the
primary were held tomorrow,
President Trump would win if you
chose to run going away.
So the question really is: does
anybody in the Republican Party
doubted that to the
american first agenda is the way
to move forward
and Heres a question I have
if President Trump decides to
run in two thousand and twenty four and he wins the
Partys nomination? Will you
support him
its a time for choosing in that
regard?
Would you support
president Trump if he is our
nominee?
Every republican needs to be
asked that question
for the house to have,
in the Biden, Obama years at sixty five
votes to replace Obamacare and
not be ready with their plan in
two thousand and seventeen speaks volumes about to
that old republican Party.
First, ever republican senators
to vote in twenty fifteen for a clean,
repeal bill of Obamacare and
then, when it mattered, when it
wouldve been signed into law,
seven of them backed away from
their vote two years earlier,
thats the old week
establishment Republican Party.
I dont see that as a viable
alternative anymore.
So this whole conference is
how would you define being a
Republican?
I would look at what
President Trump did and choose
that as my way forward
that we believe in strong
borders. We believe in a strong
military that we are expecting
people to do more to help
themselves. America cant, be
everything to everybody all the
time
we believe in lower taxes.
We believe in free and fair
trade and not being a chump when
it comes to trade.
So the bottom line is, if you are
running for president or
thinking about running for
president, are you smart enough
to embrace the american first
agenda
on the question for the
Republican Party right now is
that Donald Trump ran in the
primary? He would win a going
away,
and the question is: why
are so many Republicans willing
to give him another shot at
this
because they believe in what he
did and they believe that his
policies worked,
and if you dont see that
if you dont get that, then you
really dont understand the
Republican Party in twenty twenty one.
So what is the point?
I see the establishment figures
are trying
thats the question.
I see that they are
fighting a cold war against
those that support the make
America first grade again agenda
and american first agenda.
I dont think that they have a
prayer.
They can try as hard as they
want.
If you have candidates that
dont support to those simple
principles that I believed in my
whole career im not going
to, I would no longer support
im not doing it.
What they are trying to do is
convince people. May be running
in twenty twenty four, that the Trump agenda is
not the right formula for
success,
and I respectfully disagree.
If you want to make the
Republican Party strong all over
the country and win in two thousand and twenty four we
need to embrace the policy is a
president Trump that worked
so the idea of having a
conference and trying to figure
out what the Republican Party
should do and be to me is sort
of nonsensical.
We know what it should be.
It should be an american first
agenda and a president Trump
runs. He is going to have some
damage to repair, but I think
that he is in great shape to win
the primary and could get
reelected,
and my question is: if he is the
nominee, would you support him?
I would like to hear a lot of
people answer that question.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-09.