Austin Theriault: “As your congressman, I'm going to protect Social Security.”

“Let me make it very clear to folks listening here tonight. They're going to falsely claim that as a Republican, I want to attack Social Security. That's not. That couldn't be farther from the truth. As your congressman, I'm going to protect Social Security. We have to make sure that we defend those that paid their whole lives into the system. People are struggling to make ends meet as it is right now.” (04:53–04:57)

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