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John Duarte: “I want to stop socialism.”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman.

Published June 29, 2024 | Video Starts at 05:28

We have a country where some guy with a greenhouse says, I want to be in Congress. I don't like the way the country is going. I want to stop socialism. And I can get my customer list, I can call my friends, I can talk to my employees here at the nursery to get excited about my campaign. (05:28–05:30)

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Asserts his political stance against socialism.

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“My family's been farming on this property for well over 100 years now.”
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“Duarte Nursery sells potted trees and potted grapevines.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 00:51-00:55
“We came in here in 1989.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 00:54-00:57
“95% of our grapevines stay right here in California.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 01:52-01:56
“Texas is getting more active now, folks.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 02:00-02:03
“Our son Isaac is the first Duarte family member with an actual horticultural degree.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 02:09-02:20
“We've had hundreds of millions of dollars of commerce through here with innovation, technology, hiring people smarter than ourselves.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 02:38-02:45
“A lot of our delegation in Congress, you know, We've got Navy SEALs, but even the Navy SEAL, one of my good friends, Derek Van Orden from…”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 04:28-04:41
“There's a lot of, a lot of farmers, Brad Finstan, Randy Feenstra in Congress who have working farms at home.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 04:46-04:56
“David Valadeo is a dairyman myself, of course, that have that real world experience.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 04:55-05:01
“I won by 564 votes.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 06:32-06:34
“O3916 is going to find itself in the Napa area, the north coast, because it's resistant to a disease.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 08:22-08:28
“In a good year, we'll do 4 or 5 million almond trees.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 09:47-09:50
“In a really good year, we can do up to 12 or 14 million grape vines.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 09:49-09:54
“Australia is in second place. They've got £300 million.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 10:23-10:28
“We've got £3 billion. Spain is right in there. They're a major almond producer, but they're still under a billion pounds.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 10:29-10:36
“Most of the rootstock that we use in grapevines is from American species.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 12:27-12:32
“There's been no failure of these rootstocks in phylloxerated vineyards.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 13:02-13:06
“California had since the 1950s and 60s, been using a rootstock with unsufficient levels of phloxer resistance.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 13:33-13:40
“The aphid doesn't like sand.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 14:56-14:59
“Clay soils crack and make little avenues for those phloxer to get around.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 14:58-15:03
“In sandy soils, those cracks don't occur just like you see when it gets wet and dry at your home.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 15:04-15:09
“So the phloxure can't attack and kill in super sandy soils.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 15:11-15:16
“In France they have the beaches or they're near Montpelier.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 15:18-15:22
“In Australia, they have some spots in the Barossa that are old river sands.”
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“They can't grow grapes outside of those small areas without the use of American specie phlox resistant rootstocks.”
The inspiring John Duarte : Local farmer to California Congressman. | Uploaded June 29, 2024 | 15:26-15:33