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John Duarte: “Student loan forgiveness was a giant giveaway to an elite…”

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

13th Congressional District Candidates Debate

Published October 7, 2022 | Video Starts at 21:49

We need to do real work, and real work gets done by working together. Right? Next question's for John only. Given that your company received $6 million in Covid, please explain your thoughts on student loan forgiveness. Student loan forgiveness was a giant giveaway to an elite class of folks. that overstepped all of what I see when I'm walking door to door in this valley district, in these communities. (21:49–21:54)

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Asserts that student loan forgiveness primarily benefits an elite class.

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“Our economy is crushing working families in this district, families are choosing between dinner on the table and a tank of gas.”
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“On the farm, we don't have water, we're paying gas taxes. We don't have decent roads to drive on.”
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“When they tried to sell the water from Modesto in San Francisco back in 2010, I led that community alliance against that.”
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“I will vote against any effort to nationalize abortion law, period.”
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“None of us have seen what the MoU is or what's in there.”
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“The delta water tunnel doesn't create any water, and it's going to cost a ton of money.”
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“The fish in the delta are dead. For 2030 years now, we've been flushing our water out to the ocean. The smelt have not recovered, the salmon…”
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“The politicians in California have voted through the new Green deal, the gas tax cap and trade.”
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“The working families in this valley are paying 66% more per kilowatt than the national average.”
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“There had been an adjunct professor from University of Santa Clara that was arrested and followed either and suspected as being motivated by…”
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“The student loan forgiveness never went through Congress, never went through appropriations.”
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“We don't even know if it was a half, a trillion or a half or a trillion dollars that was given out as voting incentives.”
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“When immigration and the border is left in a leadership vacuum, as it is now, and we've got fentanyl, we've got crime, we've got people from…”
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“We elected Joe Biden with the authorities he needs to work that border.”
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“Our communities in the valley are seeing more drugs, more crime, more gangs come across that border.”
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“We've introduced clonal rootstocks for almonds and pistachios and walnuts that allow orchards to be adapted to lower water use.”
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“We've been technical leaders in our field, we have scaled up and industrialized our nursing processes to where we've created jobs for…”
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“I will support whoever the republican candidate for president is because we've seen the disasters of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi's policy.”
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“We have higher temperatures, more outside jobs, more low income people, working families here in this valley than almost anywhere else in…”
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“I will vote against green energy fantasies that come back on the back, come down on the backs of working families.”
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“I will also drill american oil now. We need to have natural gas, we need to have american energy independence and we need to have it now.”
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“There's no use passing a $280 billion microprocessor bill if we don't have an electric grid that's powered to support the manufacturing.”
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“America's done its share for green energy. Until the world catches up, America cannot allow itself to become less competitive pursuing green…”
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“We've emptied the jails. These pro criminal policies have emptied the jails.”
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“These no bail policies have decriminalized all kinds of criminality.”
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“We destroyed people's economic opportunity over Covid.”
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“Inflation is coming. On top of that, these families are under even more stress.”
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“Interest rates used to be low until inflation hit us.”
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“Since last year, they've lost one month's salary just due to inflation.”
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“We're not building the houses we need to build.”
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“We have nowhere near the low income housing we need to build.”
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“Without a carbon economy, we don't have opportunity.”
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“The people who attack the Capitol are responsible for the attack on the Capitol.”
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“No, he [Trump] did not tell the people to go attack the Capitol.”
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“We've got a supermajority up at the statehouse. They can take responsibility for all the policies in California for decades now.”
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“Republicans haven't been elected office. If it's bad and happening in California, the Democrats own it.”
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“Governor Newsom that we voted in this district to recall by a little margin.”
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“We're going to ban not only certain diesel powered trucks that now make California logistics different, but we're to cut over to all…”
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“We're going to have electric heaters in our house that won't work when the grid's down.”
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“There is no center of energy or power around moderate Democrats in Washington right now.”
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“The Democratic Party in Washington, DC, it is a socialist driven party.”
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