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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Seven thirty three, fifty five casee de Talk Station. Happy
Friday Eve, Jim Lewis building blocks for liberty at the
top of the hour, News with the Constitution boot Camp
going on a daton in the meantime. Welcome to the
fifty five KRSSEE morning show. Running for US Senate, currently
a member of the House Representatives, probably serving Kentucky sixth
Congressional district since twenty thirteen, Andy Barr. Welcome to the
fifty five carssee morning Show. It's pleasure to have you
(00:23):
on today.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good morning, Brian. How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I am doing much better today. Not going to go
through my health history with you, sir, but it'sufficed to
say to my listeners and no, I've been struggling late.
I'm doing great and I feel really good today. So
and I hope you can say the same. What's the
motive good? What's the motive to run for Senate? Andy Barr?
What's your primary goal? And what do you hope to accomplish?
If you could pick one singular issue that you want
to get fixed or done or accomplished, what would you
(00:49):
what would you say? It would be?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, look, I mean the problem we have in this
country right now is that we've got extreme, far left
people who want to commit suicide. They want the country
to commit suicide, and they want to do it in
a lot of different ways. They want to open our
border to flood our country with people who disagree with
(01:14):
our culture, inundate our country with poisonous drugs. They want
to punish success by embracing socialism over free enterprise. They
want to use the fear of climate change to drive
an irrational shift away from reliable energy, which would destroy
(01:35):
and undermine our international competitiveness. And they want to weaken
our defense budget. They want to weaken our military with DEI.
They want to rationalize terrorism and anti semitism and appease China.
So there's a lot of issues in there, but it's
all fundamentally linked to this idea that there is a
group of people in our country who want to repudiate
(01:58):
everything that makes our country strong and good. And so
I'm running to prevent the suicide. I'm running to restore
the American dream. And as President Trump says, make America
great again, and that's what we mean when we say
make America great again. We mean to prevent the suicide
(02:21):
and to restore the greatness of our country. Yeah, that's
why I'm running for the United States Senate.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, and I embrace everything you just said, because there
are so many people out there that really just don't
believe the concept that, oh, they don't want to bring
down America, they just want some fairness. I just need
a little extra money from you to give to that
person over there.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Ultimately, this is just to bring down the United States
of America. I mean, look what happened to Europe talking
about this carbon dioxide removal phenomenon, this religion that people
have embraced. Look what happened to Europe. They're a cautionary tale.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Trump comes in and he wants to undo the energy policy,
and good for him, because clearly, keeping the lights on
when it's going down to minus six degrees over the
weekend is important thing to have. You can't do it
with windmills and solar panels, and of course if you try,
the price of energy goes through the damn roof. And
the government isn't offering a subsidy to help us with
our energy bills like they are with Obamacare, are they, Andy, Well, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Right, and you know, this religion of sustainability over American
competitiveness is what is going to threaten our ability to
compete with China, our peer competitor. We have a lot
of adversaries out there in the world, but the one
thing you can say about China is they are committed
to winning the race for these technologies of the future,
(03:39):
including artificial intelligence and an AI is a very, very
very important technology of the future. And we have to
win the race. And we have to win the race
at every phase of the stack, and at the very
base of that stack is energy, and China is building
(04:02):
two new coal power plants a week. Uh. They do
not care about emissions. They do not the United States.
The United States, we to the extent you care about
the climate or the environment. Uh. The answer is the
American way, which is innovation, technology, science. That's how we
(04:24):
compete and win. Uh, and and and solve problems. We
don't solve problems with another thousand pages of regulations. That's
not how you solve problems. But that's how the left
wants to do it. And frankly, they use climate as
an excuse to grow government and to control your life. Oh.
I've been I've been fighting that my entire my entire term.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Of Congress, without question. You take the idea of carbon
removal from the process, and you eliminate all of the
plans that they want to run after. It's all the
name of that religion post Roman Andy barr is where
you find them online, it's bar b a r R
four Senate dot com forty If you have kc detalk
station and you find them online, bar b a r
R four Senate dot com. And that is the word
(05:08):
for not the number four bar for Senate dot com.
Andy bar on the program, UH trying to get elected
in Kentucky for I guess it's Mitch McConnell's seed correct, Andy.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, it's the people of Kentucky seed Well. Mitch McConnell
has has held the seat for forty two years, and
this is the this is the excuse me. This is
the first time, this is the first time in forty
two years that the seat has been open and there's
not been an incumbent running. So it's it's an important choice.
(05:37):
It's an important choice for the people of Kentucky. Uh,
and for the future of the country and control of
the Senate.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It clearly is. And Uh, I just got to stick
to the energy policy. You you sound or are clearly
and above the all the above type of strategy. Guy,
You'll do what's practical to give us efficient and reliable energy,
which we definitely need for AI. You know the interesting thing,
I got a of it over to artificial intelligence. I
think is great for a couple of reasons. One artificial
(06:06):
intelligence power needs has opened up the concept of actually
using small modular reactors which don't produce any carbon if
you care about that your religious fanatics out there, but
also produces an abundance of electricity and with a very
small footprint. These aren't the giant three mile island type
reactors anymore. It's new technology. We're in twenty twenty six
(06:28):
now for God say so, let's wake up to it. So,
by virtue of artificial intelligence, corporate lords and masters, you know,
the Bill Gates of the world, who are clamoring for
this reliable energy source. It sounds to me like we're
going to start getting it. It's been an impediment, but
there's the answer to so many problems. And then pivoting
over to the other benefit of AI, in spite of
the downsides of it, we can use artificial intelligence to
(06:51):
ferret out fraud, waste and abuse in our government programs,
which seems to loom everywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Andy, well, you're exactly right that AI has tremendous promise.
I mean, whoever wins the AI race is going to
shape the global standards that govern AI. Remember that, and
the United States needs to set the standards, not the
authoritarian communist regime in Beijing. And whoever sets the standards
(07:20):
will in turn help that country move markets towards its
companies and its norms. Leadership and AI can also produce
faster innovation, greater productivity, higher GDP growth. I was at
an AI kind of summit yesterday in financial services, and
you can see the amazing applications from fraud prevention to
(07:43):
improving credit underwriting, to providing faster ways to submit an
insurance claim. There's just amazing efficiencies that can be gained
in our economy. But in the military context, AI can
improve targeting, logistics, surveillance, wargaming, decision support, autonomous systems. And
(08:06):
believe you me, the Chinese Communist Party is applying AI
and some of the most sophisticated AI to their military platforms.
That's why they want to annex Taiwan. Taiwan is an
island democracy, and it's not just about their historical grievances
of the nationalists versus the communists from nineteen forty nine.
(08:29):
They want to take over Taiwan because Taiwan, that small
island democracy, produces ninety percent of the world's most advanced semiconductors,
the two to three and nanimeter semiconductor chips that go
into AI. And so you've got it. In order to
win the race of AI, you've got multiple stacks. You
have to have energy, you have to have semiconductors, you
(08:52):
have to have advanced semiconductors. You have to have AI infrastructure,
the data centers. On top of that, you have to
have the models. We have the best models for sure.
In Vidia for example, UH produces the chips. But we
have all these companies like you know, claud Anthropic, Chat, GPT,
Open AI. They have the best models. But but as
(09:16):
Jensen Wang says, the CEO of Nvidia UH China is
nanoseconds behind us in all of this. And then finally,
the applications, the technology companies that build the apps on
top of of these of over these models, so in
the entire AI stack, we have to be dominant in
(09:37):
order to protect our national security, advance our economic competitiveness,
and at the very base of that, at the very
base of that is energy. And you talked about all
of the above. Yes, we need all of the above,
but in order to run these AI data centers, you
have to have firm, baseload power, not intermittent power, not speculative. Yeah,
(09:58):
SMRs is definitely part of the in terms of the solution,
but we need to go back to baseload, firm power.
The most reliable, affordable energy we know, and that's fossil energy,
including coal. And Kentucky, we're very fortunate in Kentucky our geology,
we have an ocean of coal. After one hundred and
fifteen years of mining coal, we still have an ocean
of coal. My plan for Kentucky, my vision for Kentucky
(10:21):
as Kentucky's next US Senator, is to put our people
back to work in mining, in energy, in manufacturing, and
help us build the AI infrastructure of the future so
that yes, Kentucky compete at Kentucky can compete and win,
but also to help Kentucky help the United States advance
our national security and help the United States win the
(10:42):
race for ai and these other energy energy demand technologies
of the future, including quantum computing and digital assets as well. Well.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We need electricity to run the globe. There is no
question about it. You have the only problem. And yes,
my tongue is in my tie, and you're can take
quick break here, but you're going to have to lure
those former coal miners away from those green energy jobs
that Obama put him in. Remember right, Continue with the
conversation with Andy Barr. He's currently representing Kentucky's sixth congressional district.
(11:14):
He's running for Senate, going to in his hope, take
over for Mitch McConnell after nine thousand years.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
B A R.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
R Bar four Senate dot com Real quick here, you
know you're talking about chip manufacturing. My son follows this
artificial intelligence in these industries very closely. And he had
commented to me the other day, had read an article
about maybe Taiwan investing in manufacturing here in the United States.
Trump's been around touting all of the foreign investment that
he has brought in the United States. Why given the
(11:43):
threat that China poses a legitimate existential threat to the
Taiwanese people, and this industry. Would it be whove them
to just move it over here to a safe place.
Let's start making these vital chips now here.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Well. Absolutely absolutely need supply chain resiliency. We've learned that
the hard way, and not only for not only for chips,
but also for the ingredients of pharmaceuticals. We are supply
chains are overly dependent on China. With that and critical minerals.
China dominates over ninety percent of the critical minerals, including
some of the rare earth elements to go into our
(12:18):
national security weapons systems. It's extremely dangerous. So there's a
lot of supply chains that we need to move around.
That's why President Trump is so focused on using the
tools of economic staycraft and not just trade, not just tariffs,
but export controls and outbound investment restrictions that I've worked
with this administration on. I've led on that, and you know, look,
(12:42):
I mean the bottom line, Brian is I wouldn't be
running for this seat if I didn't think I was
the best candidate for the job. You can tell that
I'm very immersed in you know, restoring you know, American
competitiveness through free enterprise, you know, making sure that we're
the global leader in these technologies in the futures because
(13:02):
we're in a competition, and I'm the only candidate in
this race who's actually helping President Trump right now enact
his agenda. There's a lot of candidates out there who
like to talk about supporting President Trump. They say they're
a Trump guy. Whatever. Well, I was the chairman of
his campaign in Kentucky in twenty twenty four in the primary,
and the President has worked with me over the years,
(13:28):
and that's a major difference between me and these other candidates.
I'm actually helping President Trump now in the Congress. And
the other thing is I'm the only candidate in this
race with a proven track record of actually advancing conservative
policies in the Congress. There are other candidates with other credentials,
but those credentials don't include the ability to hit the
(13:50):
ground running on day one. I'm doing the job now.
I know the job. I have existing relationships with senators,
with the administration, with cabinet members. I work with those
cabinet members. They have my cell phone number, I have theirs,
and we talk about how we can work with this
president to advance the cause that we all share and
then the last thing I would say is we owe
(14:12):
it to our philosophy to win, and I am a
proven winner in a tough swing district in Kentucky. I
represent the only purple swing district in the state, and
the Lexington area is known as the Big Blue Nation.
We say it because of the Kentucky Wildcats, but it's
the Big Blue Nation for another reason too. Politically, Fayett
(14:35):
County in central Kentucky, my home area, voted Obama, Obama, Clinton, Biden,
Kamala Harris, and yet for seven straight elections. Even though
I have been battle tested, even though Nancy Pelosi has
thrown millions of dollars to defeat me, even though I
flipped a seat from Democrat to Republican and held it.
I have won over and over again in that tough district.
(14:58):
And the only way a Democrat can win statewide in
Kentucky is to win my district. That's how one of
my opponents, the former Attorney General, was defeated in a
statewide election in twenty twenty three. He lost to our governor.
Our governor, our Democratic governor won because he defeated my
opponent by nineteen points in my district. This may sound imodest,
(15:20):
but I'm not going to lose my district. I've won
it seven straight times. I can block their path. So
if you want to take Kentucky off the map, if
you want to defeat the Democrats and those who want
to help our country commit suicide. If you want to
stop the suicide, nominate the best, strongest conservative Republican who
(15:41):
is going to help this president, who will win in
the fall. And the Democrats released the poll, and the
poll showed in December that I am the only Republican
candidate with a comfortable double digit lead over all the Democrats.
The other Republican candidates who have been on your show,
who have talked about running for this seat, they risk
(16:01):
putting this seat in danger. They're either tied with the
Democrats and by the way, not just the Democrats, but socialists,
they're tied with them, or they have a very uncomfortable
single Digitally. I want to earn the support of Republicans
in northern Kentucky, not just because I can win, but
because I would be the best senator to advance our cause.
(16:26):
But you owe it to your philosophy to win, and frankly,
Republicans should not be worried about Kentucky and holding the
seat in Kentucky in the fall. They need to be
worried about Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire. We
need to take Kentucky off the map so that this
president knows he has a reliable supporter and principal conservative
(16:52):
in the Senate, all.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Right, and they'll have an opportunity to make that choice
on the Republican side of the ledger is the primary
in March, sir, I can't I apologize for not.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Knowing that the primary is May nineteenth. May May nineteenth,
and many of your listeners may have never met me
or know about me and my service in Congress because
I'm not in the media market for northern Kentucky. But listen,
it's been a privilege of a lifetime to fight big government,
(17:20):
to support free market capitalism and free enterprise and cut taxes,
cut spending, cut regulation, forced the government to live within
this means. It's been a privilege to fight for those
ideas and those ideals in the United States Congress for
the last several terms. But it would be an even
greater privilege to represent all of Kentucky, including northern Kentucky, which,
(17:41):
let's face it, it is an economic juggernaut for the
Commonwealth with CBG and the logistics up there, and I
would be honored to represent the folks.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Up there getting better every day. Andy Barr final on
line B A R R Bar for Senate dot Com.
Learn about his issues, where he stands on things help
matter if you choose to. You got choices to make.
May's coming up fast approaching, Andy bar It's been a
great heavy on the morning shows. Good talking with you
and good luck
Seven thirty three, fifty five casee de Talk Station. Happy
Friday Eve, Jim Lewis building blocks for liberty at the
top of the hour, News with the Constitution boot Camp
going on a daton in the meantime. Welcome to the
fifty five KRSSEE morning show. Running for US Senate, currently
a member of the House Representatives, probably serving Kentucky sixth
Congressional district since twenty thirteen, Andy Barr. Welcome to the
fifty five carssee morning Show. It's pleasure to have you
(00:23):
on today.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Good morning, Brian. How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I am doing much better today. Not going to go
through my health history with you, sir, but it'sufficed to
say to my listeners and no, I've been struggling late.
I'm doing great and I feel really good today. So
and I hope you can say the same. What's the
motive good? What's the motive to run for Senate? Andy Barr?
What's your primary goal? And what do you hope to accomplish?
If you could pick one singular issue that you want
to get fixed or done or accomplished, what would you
(00:49):
what would you say? It would be?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, look, I mean the problem we have in this
country right now is that we've got extreme, far left
people who want to commit suicide. They want the country
to commit suicide, and they want to do it in
a lot of different ways. They want to open our
border to flood our country with people who disagree with
(01:14):
our culture, inundate our country with poisonous drugs. They want
to punish success by embracing socialism over free enterprise. They
want to use the fear of climate change to drive
an irrational shift away from reliable energy, which would destroy
(01:35):
and undermine our international competitiveness. And they want to weaken
our defense budget. They want to weaken our military with DEI.
They want to rationalize terrorism and anti semitism and appease China.
So there's a lot of issues in there, but it's
all fundamentally linked to this idea that there is a
group of people in our country who want to repudiate
(01:58):
everything that makes our country strong and good. And so
I'm running to prevent the suicide. I'm running to restore
the American dream. And as President Trump says, make America
great again, and that's what we mean when we say
make America great again. We mean to prevent the suicide
(02:21):
and to restore the greatness of our country. Yeah, that's
why I'm running for the United States Senate.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, and I embrace everything you just said, because there
are so many people out there that really just don't
believe the concept that, oh, they don't want to bring
down America, they just want some fairness. I just need
a little extra money from you to give to that
person over there.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Ultimately, this is just to bring down the United States
of America. I mean, look what happened to Europe talking
about this carbon dioxide removal phenomenon, this religion that people
have embraced. Look what happened to Europe. They're a cautionary tale.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Trump comes in and he wants to undo the energy policy,
and good for him, because clearly, keeping the lights on
when it's going down to minus six degrees over the
weekend is important thing to have. You can't do it
with windmills and solar panels, and of course if you try,
the price of energy goes through the damn roof. And
the government isn't offering a subsidy to help us with
our energy bills like they are with Obamacare, are they, Andy, Well, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Right, and you know, this religion of sustainability over American
competitiveness is what is going to threaten our ability to
compete with China, our peer competitor. We have a lot
of adversaries out there in the world, but the one
thing you can say about China is they are committed
to winning the race for these technologies of the future,
(03:39):
including artificial intelligence and an AI is a very, very
very important technology of the future. And we have to
win the race. And we have to win the race
at every phase of the stack, and at the very
base of that stack is energy, and China is building
(04:02):
two new coal power plants a week. Uh. They do
not care about emissions. They do not the United States.
The United States, we to the extent you care about
the climate or the environment. Uh. The answer is the
American way, which is innovation, technology, science. That's how we
(04:24):
compete and win. Uh, and and and solve problems. We
don't solve problems with another thousand pages of regulations. That's
not how you solve problems. But that's how the left
wants to do it. And frankly, they use climate as
an excuse to grow government and to control your life. Oh.
I've been I've been fighting that my entire my entire term.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Of Congress, without question. You take the idea of carbon
removal from the process, and you eliminate all of the
plans that they want to run after. It's all the
name of that religion post Roman Andy barr is where
you find them online, it's bar b a r R
four Senate dot com forty If you have kc detalk
station and you find them online, bar b a r
R four Senate dot com. And that is the word
(05:08):
for not the number four bar for Senate dot com.
Andy bar on the program, UH trying to get elected
in Kentucky for I guess it's Mitch McConnell's seed correct, Andy.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, it's the people of Kentucky seed Well. Mitch McConnell
has has held the seat for forty two years, and
this is the this is the excuse me. This is
the first time, this is the first time in forty
two years that the seat has been open and there's
not been an incumbent running. So it's it's an important choice.
(05:37):
It's an important choice for the people of Kentucky. Uh,
and for the future of the country and control of
the Senate.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It clearly is. And Uh, I just got to stick
to the energy policy. You you sound or are clearly
and above the all the above type of strategy. Guy,
You'll do what's practical to give us efficient and reliable energy,
which we definitely need for AI. You know the interesting thing,
I got a of it over to artificial intelligence. I
think is great for a couple of reasons. One artificial
(06:06):
intelligence power needs has opened up the concept of actually
using small modular reactors which don't produce any carbon if
you care about that your religious fanatics out there, but
also produces an abundance of electricity and with a very
small footprint. These aren't the giant three mile island type
reactors anymore. It's new technology. We're in twenty twenty six
(06:28):
now for God say so, let's wake up to it. So,
by virtue of artificial intelligence, corporate lords and masters, you know,
the Bill Gates of the world, who are clamoring for
this reliable energy source. It sounds to me like we're
going to start getting it. It's been an impediment, but
there's the answer to so many problems. And then pivoting
over to the other benefit of AI, in spite of
the downsides of it, we can use artificial intelligence to
(06:51):
ferret out fraud, waste and abuse in our government programs,
which seems to loom everywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Andy, well, you're exactly right that AI has tremendous promise.
I mean, whoever wins the AI race is going to
shape the global standards that govern AI. Remember that, and
the United States needs to set the standards, not the
authoritarian communist regime in Beijing. And whoever sets the standards
(07:20):
will in turn help that country move markets towards its
companies and its norms. Leadership and AI can also produce
faster innovation, greater productivity, higher GDP growth. I was at
an AI kind of summit yesterday in financial services, and
you can see the amazing applications from fraud prevention to
(07:43):
improving credit underwriting, to providing faster ways to submit an
insurance claim. There's just amazing efficiencies that can be gained
in our economy. But in the military context, AI can
improve targeting, logistics, surveillance, wargaming, decision support, autonomous systems. And
(08:06):
believe you me, the Chinese Communist Party is applying AI
and some of the most sophisticated AI to their military platforms.
That's why they want to annex Taiwan. Taiwan is an
island democracy, and it's not just about their historical grievances
of the nationalists versus the communists from nineteen forty nine.
(08:29):
They want to take over Taiwan because Taiwan, that small
island democracy, produces ninety percent of the world's most advanced semiconductors,
the two to three and nanimeter semiconductor chips that go
into AI. And so you've got it. In order to
win the race of AI, you've got multiple stacks. You
have to have energy, you have to have semiconductors, you
(08:52):
have to have advanced semiconductors. You have to have AI infrastructure,
the data centers. On top of that, you have to
have the models. We have the best models for sure.
In Vidia for example, UH produces the chips. But we
have all these companies like you know, claud Anthropic, Chat, GPT,
Open AI. They have the best models. But but as
(09:16):
Jensen Wang says, the CEO of Nvidia UH China is
nanoseconds behind us in all of this. And then finally,
the applications, the technology companies that build the apps on
top of of these of over these models, so in
the entire AI stack, we have to be dominant in
(09:37):
order to protect our national security, advance our economic competitiveness,
and at the very base of that, at the very
base of that is energy. And you talked about all
of the above. Yes, we need all of the above,
but in order to run these AI data centers, you
have to have firm, baseload power, not intermittent power, not speculative. Yeah,
(09:58):
SMRs is definitely part of the in terms of the solution,
but we need to go back to baseload, firm power.
The most reliable, affordable energy we know, and that's fossil energy,
including coal. And Kentucky, we're very fortunate in Kentucky our geology,
we have an ocean of coal. After one hundred and
fifteen years of mining coal, we still have an ocean
of coal. My plan for Kentucky, my vision for Kentucky
(10:21):
as Kentucky's next US Senator, is to put our people
back to work in mining, in energy, in manufacturing, and
help us build the AI infrastructure of the future so
that yes, Kentucky compete at Kentucky can compete and win,
but also to help Kentucky help the United States advance
our national security and help the United States win the
(10:42):
race for ai and these other energy energy demand technologies
of the future, including quantum computing and digital assets as well. Well.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We need electricity to run the globe. There is no
question about it. You have the only problem. And yes,
my tongue is in my tie, and you're can take
quick break here, but you're going to have to lure
those former coal miners away from those green energy jobs
that Obama put him in. Remember right, Continue with the
conversation with Andy Barr. He's currently representing Kentucky's sixth congressional district.
(11:14):
He's running for Senate, going to in his hope, take
over for Mitch McConnell after nine thousand years.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
B A R.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
R Bar four Senate dot com Real quick here, you
know you're talking about chip manufacturing. My son follows this
artificial intelligence in these industries very closely. And he had
commented to me the other day, had read an article
about maybe Taiwan investing in manufacturing here in the United States.
Trump's been around touting all of the foreign investment that
he has brought in the United States. Why given the
(11:43):
threat that China poses a legitimate existential threat to the
Taiwanese people, and this industry. Would it be whove them
to just move it over here to a safe place.
Let's start making these vital chips now here.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Well. Absolutely absolutely need supply chain resiliency. We've learned that
the hard way, and not only for not only for chips,
but also for the ingredients of pharmaceuticals. We are supply
chains are overly dependent on China. With that and critical minerals.
China dominates over ninety percent of the critical minerals, including
some of the rare earth elements to go into our
(12:18):
national security weapons systems. It's extremely dangerous. So there's a
lot of supply chains that we need to move around.
That's why President Trump is so focused on using the
tools of economic staycraft and not just trade, not just tariffs,
but export controls and outbound investment restrictions that I've worked
with this administration on. I've led on that, and you know, look,
(12:42):
I mean the bottom line, Brian is I wouldn't be
running for this seat if I didn't think I was
the best candidate for the job. You can tell that
I'm very immersed in you know, restoring you know, American
competitiveness through free enterprise, you know, making sure that we're
the global leader in these technologies in the futures because
(13:02):
we're in a competition, and I'm the only candidate in
this race who's actually helping President Trump right now enact
his agenda. There's a lot of candidates out there who
like to talk about supporting President Trump. They say they're
a Trump guy. Whatever. Well, I was the chairman of
his campaign in Kentucky in twenty twenty four in the primary,
and the President has worked with me over the years,
(13:28):
and that's a major difference between me and these other candidates.
I'm actually helping President Trump now in the Congress. And
the other thing is I'm the only candidate in this
race with a proven track record of actually advancing conservative
policies in the Congress. There are other candidates with other credentials,
but those credentials don't include the ability to hit the
(13:50):
ground running on day one. I'm doing the job now.
I know the job. I have existing relationships with senators,
with the administration, with cabinet members. I work with those
cabinet members. They have my cell phone number, I have theirs,
and we talk about how we can work with this
president to advance the cause that we all share and
then the last thing I would say is we owe
(14:12):
it to our philosophy to win, and I am a
proven winner in a tough swing district in Kentucky. I
represent the only purple swing district in the state, and
the Lexington area is known as the Big Blue Nation.
We say it because of the Kentucky Wildcats, but it's
the Big Blue Nation for another reason too. Politically, Fayett
(14:35):
County in central Kentucky, my home area, voted Obama, Obama, Clinton, Biden,
Kamala Harris, and yet for seven straight elections. Even though
I have been battle tested, even though Nancy Pelosi has
thrown millions of dollars to defeat me, even though I
flipped a seat from Democrat to Republican and held it.
I have won over and over again in that tough district.
(14:58):
And the only way a Democrat can win statewide in
Kentucky is to win my district. That's how one of
my opponents, the former Attorney General, was defeated in a
statewide election in twenty twenty three. He lost to our governor.
Our governor, our Democratic governor won because he defeated my
opponent by nineteen points in my district. This may sound imodest,
(15:20):
but I'm not going to lose my district. I've won
it seven straight times. I can block their path. So
if you want to take Kentucky off the map, if
you want to defeat the Democrats and those who want
to help our country commit suicide. If you want to
stop the suicide, nominate the best, strongest conservative Republican who
(15:41):
is going to help this president, who will win in
the fall. And the Democrats released the poll, and the
poll showed in December that I am the only Republican
candidate with a comfortable double digit lead over all the Democrats.
The other Republican candidates who have been on your show,
who have talked about running for this seat, they risk
(16:01):
putting this seat in danger. They're either tied with the
Democrats and by the way, not just the Democrats, but socialists,
they're tied with them, or they have a very uncomfortable
single Digitally. I want to earn the support of Republicans
in northern Kentucky, not just because I can win, but
because I would be the best senator to advance our cause.
(16:26):
But you owe it to your philosophy to win, and frankly,
Republicans should not be worried about Kentucky and holding the
seat in Kentucky in the fall. They need to be
worried about Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire. We
need to take Kentucky off the map so that this
president knows he has a reliable supporter and principal conservative
(16:52):
in the Senate, all.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Right, and they'll have an opportunity to make that choice
on the Republican side of the ledger is the primary
in March, sir, I can't I apologize for not.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Knowing that the primary is May nineteenth. May May nineteenth,
and many of your listeners may have never met me
or know about me and my service in Congress because
I'm not in the media market for northern Kentucky. But listen,
it's been a privilege of a lifetime to fight big government,
(17:20):
to support free market capitalism and free enterprise and cut taxes,
cut spending, cut regulation, forced the government to live within
this means. It's been a privilege to fight for those
ideas and those ideals in the United States Congress for
the last several terms. But it would be an even
greater privilege to represent all of Kentucky, including northern Kentucky, which,
(17:41):
let's face it, it is an economic juggernaut for the
Commonwealth with CBG and the logistics up there, and I
would be honored to represent the folks.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Up there getting better every day. Andy Barr final on
line B A R R Bar for Senate dot Com.
Learn about his issues, where he stands on things help
matter if you choose to. You got choices to make.
May's coming up fast approaching, Andy bar It's been a
great heavy on the morning shows. Good talking with you
and good luck
Brian Thomas News
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