J. D. Vance: “The army missing recruitment goals by tens of thousands of…”

“Now. There's another element to this, Margaret, too, which is we believe that military morale is, at least until the election of President Trump was historically low. You had The army missing recruitment goals by tens of thousands of soldiers. And already recruitment is starting to pick up because Pete Hegseth is fundamentally a war fighters leader at the Department of Defense.” (01:54–01:59)

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