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Daniel Crenshaw: “The fighters aren't actually fighting for you. They're…”

Featuring: Daniel Crenshaw, Republican | U.S. House Texas, 2nd Congressional District

Discussion with Congressman Daniel Crenshaw on GOP Dynamics and Policy Challenges

Published September 23, 2022 | Video Starts at 15:58

The people, and I'm asking for voters. Yeah. To think through this. This is why I expose some of these attributes and what I show you is, look, The fighters aren't actually fighting for you. They're fighting for your attention. There's a big difference between fighting for your beliefs and fighting for your principles and trying to gain some wins and victories on your behalf and just fighting for your attention. (15:58–16:07)

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“If [natural gas exports] displaced foreign coal abroad, that would be the equivalent of everyone driving an electric car in America.”
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“There's a plant in Houston that's been doing this for years now and actually just hooked up to the grid powers 7,000 homes, takes in natural…”
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“By the year 2100, you would see a 450% increase in GDP because of climate change.”
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“About 50% of global emissions come from foreign coal.”
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“I just don't think that these particular sources of energy should receive about 250 times the subsidies that say nuclear does.”
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“We don't need to be rushing on bad legislation right now to change the Electoral Count Act.”
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“The best [legal argument for impeachment] would be dereliction of duty, refusal to execute the laws passed by the Congress, which is a very…”
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“I think it's in the best interest of our party to have a wide variety of candidates running.”
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“Yes. So I think there's very clear grounds on the border.”
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“I think on the Democrat side, I actually do think they want [Trump] to run.”
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“The conservatives on the right have never been more aligned, ideologically speaking.”
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“There's no establishment. It's a myth perpetuated by people like [Marjorie Taylor Greene].”
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“They don't write any actual legislation. They won't negotiate anything.”
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“Those [carbon capture bills] have passed in a bipartisan way.”
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“Kevin's an amazing politician, so if anybody can do it, he can.”
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“The first strategy is elect as many good governing Republicans as we can.”
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“Matt Gaetz isn't even part of the Freedom Caucus, actually.”
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“He would never pass the Senate.”
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“I am for zero tolerance at the border, no illegal immigration.”
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“Well, look, that's one of the reasons McCarthy held this press conference today in Pennsylvania on commitment to America.”
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“I would say we are for a limited government philosophy that increases prosperity, and we're for ordered liberty and safety and security.”
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“I think our priorities should be energy, making sure that we have energy security.”
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“I think our priorities should be the border, making sure that we have border security.”
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“We're pro America leadership in the world.”
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“We want to keep more money in your pocket as opposed to giving it to the government.”
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“We're for rational environmentalism, not radical environmentalism.”
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“The cost [of climate change] is actually about a 4 1/2% decrease in global GDP from what it otherwise would be.”
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“Natural gas producers could probably quadruple their exports in the next 10 years.”
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“It takes 10, 15 years to build a [nuclear] reactor.”
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“We were doing [stopping illegal immigration] right for a couple years in Trump's presidency.”
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“Drug cartels are actively giving [migrants] instructions on what to say to claim asylum.”
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“The acceptance rate for an actual asylum case is still pretty low, about only 13%.”
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“The Flores settlement says you can't even hold people past 21 days if they have minors with them.”
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“The State Department considers [Mexico] a safe haven.”
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“D.C. and New York mayors were freaking out for what is, in reality, a handful of migrants.”
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“They're not being forced to [get on the plane]. It's totally voluntary.”
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“The backlog [in the asylum system] is in the millions.”
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“If you believe in America first, then why let Russia and China dictate what the global order would look like?”
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“It's hard to imagine a better investment where we're spending money. Yeah, we're spending money, but we're not spending in American lives.”
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“NATO is now expanding.”
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“The Europeans and all of our allies there are now extremely wary of Russia and China.”
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“The Russians are not going to keep invading countries because they can't even get this one right.”
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“They wouldn't have been able to defend Kyiv without some of our weapons.”
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“What we have done so far has been very effective.”
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“A big source of the problem we had in the Texas freeze was over investment in only wind and under investment in baseload energy.”
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“We're not even close to the point where batteries could possibly fix [intermittent energy source problems].”
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“Democrats want to shut down any kind of mining operation for the materials that you need to create those batteries and solar panels and wind…”
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“What I recently got into the NDAA was an amendment that would tell the DoD to start doing clinical trials on different psychedelics that…”
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“There's great studies from the VA actually on mdma, and I think the same needs to be done with ibogaine.”
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“Right now there's a ton of active duty and veterans going down to Mexico to a clinic down there to get this treatment.”
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“70 plus percent of Americans are regarding the abortion question.”
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“There's abortion on demand until birth in many places.”
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“We have a ton of legislation on nuclear.”
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“Some Democrats will be in favor of some of the carbon capture bills that we've had.”
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“I'm running for Homeland Security chairman.”
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“There's going to be a lot of partisan stuff on that, especially with regarding to the border.”
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“Everything to do with cybersecurity, cyber protection in the American people and private industry that can be bipartisan.”
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“FEMA reform. Democrats have the same complaints that Republicans have.”
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“Does it make sense to have one secretary oversee 17 agencies?”
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“I definitely don't want that job [Speaker of the House].”
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“I could firmly say no to that, especially if I get this chairman.”
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