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J. D. Vance: “We had real recruitment problems under the Biden…”

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Published | Video Starts at 19:17

And I think you see evidence of that happening in a lot of different ways. Two important ways is, number one, we have recruitment at all time highs. We had real recruitment problems under the Biden administration because people didn't want to join a woke military. And what I mean is they didn't want to join any military that was geared towards a particular political narrative. (19:17–19:24)

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Asserts that recruitment issues under Biden were due to perceptions of a "woke" military.

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