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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Next November, Americans will face another choice. What do we
want our next two hundred and fifty years to look like?
Do we want to be California or New York or
do we want to be more like America's hardline. I'm
Brinker Harding. I was born and raised right here in
ol mong.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And I assume that a well produced video would not
be happening if your decision was that you're not going
to run. Brinker Harding joins us this morning live here
in the studio on kfab's Morning News. Brinker, good morning,
Good morning Gary, congratulations on the decision.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, and you're preempting.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Please, Okay, fifty thousand watts is yours?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Awesome? Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I do appreciate the opportunity to come in this morning
and officially announced that I am a candidate for the
second Congressional District of the state of Nebraska.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Is that it the speculation? Later tip your waitresses. I'm
here all week. Okay, So why this? Why now? Isn't
city council good enough for you?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Look, America is going to celebrate it's two hundred and
fiftieth birthday next year, and I look at my kids
who are growing up and venturing out on their own,
and I want to know what do we have in
store for the next two hundred and fifty years. Look,
I was born and raised in Omaha, as that video
(01:20):
was saying, I've been given so many opportunities in this community,
and I want to give back in this way to
not only CD two, but to the state of Nebraska. Look,
I want to take those the things that we do
here in Omaha so well. We have if we balance
our budget, we have record low crime rates, we have
(01:42):
a strong economy, we have public private partnerships that are
the envy of America, and we want to make sure
we take those things to Washington, d C. I say this,
I said this when I was running for the city council,
and I take this to a national level. We truly
have so much momentum and we have so much more
(02:04):
that we can accomplish together. So those are those are
the That's the why I'm doing this, and I have
a number of priorities and goals that I want to
work on. I want to have, you know, make sure
that we're providing with the economy with good jobs, We're
growing the economy, expanding those opportunities I talked about with
the public private partnerships. I want to make sure that
(02:27):
we continue to support the Offed Air Force Base and agriculture.
Agriculture is still the economic engine for the state of Nebraska,
and we want to make sure that we complete Epley Airfield.
But also as important as that is that I want
to make sure that we're investing in technological and innovative
industries like AI and support all the great things we're
(02:51):
doing at U and MC.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Let me jump in here quickly because time on our
sure our particular format is a little bit limited. You're
in a congress right now. What are you doing relative
to the big beautiful bill, because this is the razor's edge,
you know.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, yeah, and as you reported at the top of
the hour, in the bottom of the hour, I think
things are so they're changing by the second. What I'm
really interested in is how do we get to yes
so that we can get those tax cuts permanent if
we can. Otherwise we're going to have a twenty four
percent increase in the taxes. And what does that do
(03:27):
to the average Nebraskan. It's thousands of dollars every year
out of their pocketbook and if we're going to make
sure that we're growing in our economy and having those
good jobs, we need to get those tax cuts permanent, devastating.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
All right, how do you get to independence? Twenty six
percent of this district is independent, thirty eight percent Republican,
thirty four percent Democrat. This has become a blue dot
in the presidential election. What are you going to say
to independence?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You know, at Jim, it's it's really what I just
talked about. I mean what I'm talking about, what my
agenda is. It appeals to Republicans, it appeals to independence,
it appeals to Democrats.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But first I have to get through.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The Republican primary, which I will do, and then I'll
be in the general and I know I will win
that as well.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, you've got I'm going to say ninety ninety nine percent.
We talked to Brett Brett Lenstrom yesterday. I'm sure he's in.
I don't know about Dan Frye. He could be so.
And you know what it's like around here, this second district,
having to thread that needle if you're elected, but then
(04:33):
navigating a primary potentially with somebody who's I think fair
to say, Dan is kind of like you and then
somebody who's a hard right wing conservative. I suppose that
primary shapes.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Up that way.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, how do you do that? Because you because you know,
Dan will get Dan will fry, He'll get the real conservatives, well,
the real the true believers.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I'm not going to speculate who's going to get in
or who's not going to get in. But I'll also
tell you quite frankly, I don't care. I have a
great campaign staff, I have a great plan. We are
going to put that strategy in play, and it's something
that I think will resonate well with the Republicans in
the primary. I gotta tell you so if I can.
(05:20):
I want to back up about six weeks a month ago.
I took a look at when Don started, when Don
Bacon started, and by the way, thank you Don for
your service to our country, both through the military and
his ten years in Congress. And Don's a friend of mine.
But when he started making some noise that he might
(05:40):
not be running, I put in place kind of a
plan with my campaign team to put together a complete
campaign to see what that would look like. And if
Don decided he was going to run, great. It was
a good exercise for me to go through. But if
don decided not to run, then it would give me
the opportunity to hit the ground, run like I'm doing
(06:01):
today and announcing on air station that I'm running for Congress.
So if if someone's thinking this is a knee jerk reaction,
you're getting in without any preparation, without any plan, I
think it's pretty evident by what I talked about at
the top of this I have a plan, I have
a strategy.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I have a team behind me. Heck, on day one,
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Have endorsements from Senator deb Fisher, I'm going to have
an endorsement from Governor Hineman, from Senator to Kathleen Kylth
from Hal Dabb. We have a host of people who
are coming out on day one to support my campaign.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
What about the White House? Who's going to get Trump's endorsement?
Because it's a big one. He needs this district. It
is a big one, and I've got to tell you
that we look. We have a plan in place that
I think is going.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
To be very well accepted by Washington, and we will
be working on that.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
The big question people want to know is where did
you get the name Brinker you're the only person on
earth named Brinker.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Actually there I do know of one other person that's
named Brinker, and it was a friend of our family.
So actually named on their kids, and maybe they've made them.
I should have waited to see what I turned You
never ask your mom and dad? Why did you know
what it was? It was in junior high. Oh, actually,
you know what. I really embraced the name. It was
it's a family name. It was my great aunt and
(07:22):
uncle's last name, and it was it was something that
I was given and I've been That's that's what I've
been called since stam.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Obviously the key question in the campaigns.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, well this.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Could today, this could unleash a lot of funds for you.
Now that that's been clarified.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Bringer, thanks so much for coming out and and make
the announcement here.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I appreciate that, and and I hope you'll have me
back because I'd like to talk about more of those
specifics of the plan that you want to put in place.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, look going forward, Jim said the other day, said
we might see the ads starting in about five minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
This is going to be a hot race. True.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I think I've got a little radio bio on your
stage coming out here again. Thank you for the opportunity,
and I look forward to talking with the voters of Saunders,
Sarpi and Douglas for the next twelve months eighteen months excellent.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And incidentally, if you win, you can stay on the
council while you're running, right, and then if you win,
there's a special.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, you were talking about that earlier, and you have
to want to make sure that's exact. It would be
a special election if it's within the first two years of.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
The t Are you ready to name your successor yet? No,
not yet. You got a few you got a short lesson.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He didn't get the name of Well you hear the
words special election, the power of.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
His endorsement in the district.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I don't know if you understand the people decides.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh yeah, but the people are irrelevant.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Is based on Republicans in Congress right now, they promised
dead reduction.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I will guarantee you that I know we're rutting longer,
but I guarantee you that that person will not be
unopposed like you were talking about earlier.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, thanks so much, Franker Harding. Thank you appreciate you.
Good morning news,
Next November, Americans will face another choice. What do we
want our next two hundred and fifty years to look like?
Do we want to be California or New York or
do we want to be more like America's hardline. I'm
Brinker Harding. I was born and raised right here in
ol mong.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And I assume that a well produced video would not
be happening if your decision was that you're not going
to run. Brinker Harding joins us this morning live here
in the studio on kfab's Morning News. Brinker, good morning,
Good morning Gary, congratulations on the decision.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, and you're preempting.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Please, Okay, fifty thousand watts is yours?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Awesome? Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I do appreciate the opportunity to come in this morning
and officially announced that I am a candidate for the
second Congressional District of the state of Nebraska.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Is that it the speculation? Later tip your waitresses. I'm
here all week. Okay, So why this? Why now? Isn't
city council good enough for you?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Look, America is going to celebrate it's two hundred and
fiftieth birthday next year, and I look at my kids
who are growing up and venturing out on their own,
and I want to know what do we have in
store for the next two hundred and fifty years. Look,
I was born and raised in Omaha, as that video
(01:20):
was saying, I've been given so many opportunities in this community,
and I want to give back in this way to
not only CD two, but to the state of Nebraska. Look,
I want to take those the things that we do
here in Omaha so well. We have if we balance
our budget, we have record low crime rates, we have
(01:42):
a strong economy, we have public private partnerships that are
the envy of America, and we want to make sure
we take those things to Washington, d C. I say this,
I said this when I was running for the city council,
and I take this to a national level. We truly
have so much momentum and we have so much more
(02:04):
that we can accomplish together. So those are those are
the That's the why I'm doing this, and I have
a number of priorities and goals that I want to
work on. I want to have, you know, make sure
that we're providing with the economy with good jobs, We're
growing the economy, expanding those opportunities I talked about with
the public private partnerships. I want to make sure that
(02:27):
we continue to support the Offed Air Force Base and agriculture.
Agriculture is still the economic engine for the state of Nebraska,
and we want to make sure that we complete Epley Airfield.
But also as important as that is that I want
to make sure that we're investing in technological and innovative
industries like AI and support all the great things we're
(02:51):
doing at U and MC.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Let me jump in here quickly because time on our
sure our particular format is a little bit limited. You're
in a congress right now. What are you doing relative
to the big beautiful bill, because this is the razor's edge,
you know.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, yeah, and as you reported at the top of
the hour, in the bottom of the hour, I think
things are so they're changing by the second. What I'm
really interested in is how do we get to yes
so that we can get those tax cuts permanent if
we can. Otherwise we're going to have a twenty four
percent increase in the taxes. And what does that do
(03:27):
to the average Nebraskan. It's thousands of dollars every year
out of their pocketbook and if we're going to make
sure that we're growing in our economy and having those
good jobs, we need to get those tax cuts permanent, devastating.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
All right, how do you get to independence? Twenty six
percent of this district is independent, thirty eight percent Republican,
thirty four percent Democrat. This has become a blue dot
in the presidential election. What are you going to say
to independence?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You know, at Jim, it's it's really what I just
talked about. I mean what I'm talking about, what my
agenda is. It appeals to Republicans, it appeals to independence,
it appeals to Democrats.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But first I have to get through.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The Republican primary, which I will do, and then I'll
be in the general and I know I will win
that as well.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, you've got I'm going to say ninety ninety nine percent.
We talked to Brett Brett Lenstrom yesterday. I'm sure he's in.
I don't know about Dan Frye. He could be so.
And you know what it's like around here, this second district,
having to thread that needle if you're elected, but then
(04:33):
navigating a primary potentially with somebody who's I think fair
to say, Dan is kind of like you and then
somebody who's a hard right wing conservative. I suppose that
primary shapes.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Up that way.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, how do you do that? Because you because you know,
Dan will get Dan will fry, He'll get the real conservatives, well,
the real the true believers.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I'm not going to speculate who's going to get in
or who's not going to get in. But I'll also
tell you quite frankly, I don't care. I have a
great campaign staff, I have a great plan. We are
going to put that strategy in play, and it's something
that I think will resonate well with the Republicans in
the primary. I gotta tell you so if I can.
(05:20):
I want to back up about six weeks a month ago.
I took a look at when Don started, when Don
Bacon started, and by the way, thank you Don for
your service to our country, both through the military and
his ten years in Congress. And Don's a friend of mine.
But when he started making some noise that he might
(05:40):
not be running, I put in place kind of a
plan with my campaign team to put together a complete
campaign to see what that would look like. And if
Don decided he was going to run, great. It was
a good exercise for me to go through. But if
don decided not to run, then it would give me
the opportunity to hit the ground, run like I'm doing
(06:01):
today and announcing on air station that I'm running for Congress.
So if if someone's thinking this is a knee jerk reaction,
you're getting in without any preparation, without any plan, I
think it's pretty evident by what I talked about at
the top of this I have a plan, I have
a strategy.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I have a team behind me. Heck, on day one,
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Have endorsements from Senator deb Fisher, I'm going to have
an endorsement from Governor Hineman, from Senator to Kathleen Kylth
from Hal Dabb. We have a host of people who
are coming out on day one to support my campaign.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
What about the White House? Who's going to get Trump's endorsement?
Because it's a big one. He needs this district. It
is a big one, and I've got to tell you
that we look. We have a plan in place that
I think is going.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
To be very well accepted by Washington, and we will
be working on that.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
The big question people want to know is where did
you get the name Brinker you're the only person on
earth named Brinker.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Actually there I do know of one other person that's
named Brinker, and it was a friend of our family.
So actually named on their kids, and maybe they've made them.
I should have waited to see what I turned You
never ask your mom and dad? Why did you know
what it was? It was in junior high. Oh, actually,
you know what. I really embraced the name. It was
it's a family name. It was my great aunt and
(07:22):
uncle's last name, and it was it was something that
I was given and I've been That's that's what I've
been called since stam.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Obviously the key question in the campaigns.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, well this.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Could today, this could unleash a lot of funds for you.
Now that that's been clarified.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Bringer, thanks so much for coming out and and make
the announcement here.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
We do appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I appreciate that, and and I hope you'll have me
back because I'd like to talk about more of those
specifics of the plan that you want to put in place.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, look going forward, Jim said the other day, said
we might see the ads starting in about five minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
This is going to be a hot race. True.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I think I've got a little radio bio on your
stage coming out here again. Thank you for the opportunity,
and I look forward to talking with the voters of Saunders,
Sarpi and Douglas for the next twelve months eighteen months excellent.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And incidentally, if you win, you can stay on the
council while you're running, right, and then if you win,
there's a special.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, you were talking about that earlier, and you have
to want to make sure that's exact. It would be
a special election if it's within the first two years of.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
The t Are you ready to name your successor yet? No,
not yet. You got a few you got a short lesson.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He didn't get the name of Well you hear the
words special election, the power of.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
His endorsement in the district.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I don't know if you understand the people decides.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh yeah, but the people are irrelevant.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Is based on Republicans in Congress right now, they promised
dead reduction.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I will guarantee you that I know we're rutting longer,
but I guarantee you that that person will not be
unopposed like you were talking about earlier.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, thanks so much, Franker Harding. Thank you appreciate you.
Good morning news,
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