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André Jacque: “I've worked in the private sector.”

Featuring: André Jacque, Republican | Wisconsin Senate, District 1

8th Congressional District Republican primary debate

Published July 20, 2024 | Video Starts at 48:22

I don't have the biggest wallet up here. I've never had a silver spoon in my mouth. Very proud of my parents for giving me an ethic of hard work. I've worked in the private sector. I've flipped burgers, worked cashiers, worked cash registers, paid my own way through college. It's extremely offensive. (48:22–48:25)

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André Jacque

“When we had President Trump in a Republican Congress, they let us down.”
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“We're seeing not only the chaos at the border with drugs and thugs streaming across, operational control handed to the Mexican cartels.”
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“Bidenflation that is cutting into people's retirement savings, their ability to put food on the table.”
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“I have consistently removed abortion subsidies for elective abortions at the state level to the tune of tens of millions of dollars…”
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“The largest abortion subsidies still reside at the federal level.”
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“Kimberly Cheadle needs to be fired.”
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“We need to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas again because Homeland Security oversees the office of the Secret Service.”
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“We know that there were repeated requests for additional security by the Trump team.”
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“Robert Kennedy was being denied any sort of coverage for security by the Secret Service.”
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“Congress failed at making sure [the border wall construction] occurred in an expeditious fashion when we had full control of government.”
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“We need to build the wall because that's obviously something that Congress failed at.”
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“Remain in Mexico. Absolutely.”
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“We need to give tools to law enforcement to remove criminal illegals in an expedited fashion.”
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“We need to put in place statutory restrictions that are going to make sure that we have a thorough vetting.”
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“English as the official language or ending sanctuary cities at the state level.”
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“Yes, absolutely. I think the problem we've had, we've had too many continuing resolutions.”
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“We cannot disadvantage those who have come to this country legally.”
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“We cannot disadvantage companies that are following the law and making good faith efforts to do so.”
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“Voces de la Frontera...have knowingly facilitated individuals getting voting ID cards and...driver's licenses before we had real id.”
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“Build the wall, reestablish remain in Mexico, obviously put things in statute, give law enforcement the tools.”
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“Terrorists from the watch list...have gotten into our country and we need to find and remove them expeditiously.”
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“I have suffered the slings and arrows of losing staff and committee chairmanships under Robin Voss for saving taxpayers money through…”
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“I am basically somebody that's been willing to shut down government to make sure that we actually look in depth, line by line, zero based…”
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“I proposed those cuts to my colleagues on the Finance Committee.”
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“I've flipped burgers, worked cashiers, worked cash registers, paid my own way through college.”
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“I would have had to have been elected when I was 13.”
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“I have the scars to prove that I have not been in bed with either the establishment or the special interests.”
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“In the 2020 presidential primary, its record, you didn't vote.”
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“That's when we lost our conservative state Supreme Court majority.”
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“Mike Gallagher's team is not supporting me.”
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“Special interests are running ads against me.”
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“They're the ones that put forward the resolution to impeach Megan Wolf.”
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“I have fought against Zuckerbucks.”
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“I have engaged in litigation to stop what we're seeing going on with Uneven.”
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“I've been involved in election integrity lawsuits trying to deal with indefinite confinement.”
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“I've been involved in election integrity lawsuits trying to stop the ballot curing.”
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“I was the only state senator to sign [the letter to Mike Pence].”
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“There clearly have to be consequences when fraud occurs.”
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“We immediately found out they gave Michael Spitzer Rubenstein the literal keys to the central ballot count operation.”
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“The Supreme Court unfortunately did not step in.”
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“I think the most important thing as a member of the congressional delegation is to show leadership by calling for Megan Wolf to be removed.”
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“She [Megan Wolf] will give the wrong instruction and they're only beholden to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and Robin Voss.”
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“We saw what happened in the city of Milwaukee and how they exposed what they did with Janelle Branson in fraudulently issuing ballots.”
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“We have to look at the HAVA standards and basically all these areas in which we basically have the federal government continue to have…”
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“During COVID we had one of the greatest violations I could possibly imagine of so many of our constitutional rights.”
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“I'm very proud to have received the inaugural award as the Senate author of the most comprehensive medical freedom legislation.”
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“We were perfectly ready to end [Evers'] edicts and rescind those executive orders.”
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“We know from the state supreme Court that they were ready to do that as soon as we would have acted.”
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“I'm actually the Senate author of legislation that I put forward with Representative Scott Allen to prevent the mutilation of minors.”
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“I advanced legislation to stop men and women's sports.”
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“I believe very strongly that we should not be mutilating children.”
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“I am proud to be the only candidate with an A rating from Gun Owners of America and the Wisconsin Firearms Coalition.”
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“I have been a longtime co-author of Constitutional Carry.”
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“I actually had legislation vetoed by Governor Evers to basically allow for people to conceal carry within school zones.”
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“We need to enforce our existing laws on the books and I'm not looking to make changes to those currently.”
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“I would certainly support looking at those restrictions or penalties for bad actors.”
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“We need to starve the beast and the beast is government.”
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“We do need single subject spending bills, but we also need to end crony capitalism.”
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“We need to end the Fed.”
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“No, men should not be allowed in women's sports.”
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“Yes, we need to eliminate the federal Department of Education.”
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“Trusted by law enforcement, again by the majority of Republican sheriffs here in the 8th district.”
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“Helped Glenn Grothman defeat Mary Panzer, then the sitting Senate majority leader, 80 to 20%.”
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