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Eric Hovde: “They've made us less safe and secure internationally with…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Senate candidate Eric Hovde of Wisconsin talks national debt, crime in 2024 RNC speech

Published | Video Starts at 02:33

They've emboldened drug cartels to flood our streets with fentanyl, killing over 100,000Americans every year. It is sad. I've talked to parents that have lost their child to this fentanyl poison. They've made us less safe and secure internationally with their incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan. Our adversaries moved Putin on Ukraine, Iran through their proxies, Hamas on Israel and China, getting more aggressive every day. Despite all of that, Tammy Baldwin called the Biden administration the most successful in generations. (02:33–02:41)

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Asserts that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was incompetent and made the U.S. less safe internationally.

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