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Nicholas Begich: “California is going to lose some representation in the…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

Thursday 3-7-24 - Candidate Nick Begich & Senator Mike Shower

Published March 7, 2024 | Video Starts at 42:20

This is what's going on. Why do you think all these people are being housed in California? Because California is going to lose some representation in the House. They don't want to lose that power. And the Democrats don't want to lose that power. So they are brought in to the United States and sent to places like California intentionally. (42:20–42:24)

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Asserts that California is expected to lose representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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“We're spending a trillion dollars more than we're taking in every hundred days.”
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“There are people in the congress that believe that, that we, oh, we can't go bankrupt. We'll just print more money.”
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“We saw what happens when the government tries to print money that they, that they shouldn't have. We get inflation and we're still fighting…”
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“One of the ways that Rome fell over a period of time was that they debased their currency.”
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“Yes, we went off the gold standard in the seventies, and there's no value really, in the paper that it comes off the presses.”
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“If you went back to 1971 and you took a dollar from that time period, and you put it under your mattress and you waited until today in order…”
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“Another parallel between what we saw in the Roman Empire and what we see in the United States today is the extent to which foreign…”
Thursday 3-7-24 - Candidate Nick Begich & Senator Mike Shower | Uploaded March 7, 2024 | 17:26-17:44
“We're only 5% of the population globally as the United States.”
Thursday 3-7-24 - Candidate Nick Begich & Senator Mike Shower | Uploaded March 7, 2024 | 18:07-18:13
“We have districts around the country, 435 House districts, and those districts are either bright red or the bright blue, usually.”
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“If somebody is able to win their Democrat primary or their republican primary, as long as they win that primary, effectively, they win that…”
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“There are ways to fix the fiscal problem. However, we are running out of time.”
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“If we don't execute the solutions that exist fiscally, there will be a point at which no solutions will work or only dramatic solutions will…”
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“Alaska has been a part of [the] problem, and in order to understand how Alaska has been a part of the problem, you kind of have to roll back…”
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“When Anilka was passed under the Carter administration, Anelca locked up a number of really important resource lands in the state.”
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“The delegation in DC, our delegation started bringing more and more federal dollars back to Alaska as a reaction to our increasing inability…”
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“The federal government has prevented Alaska from advancing.”
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“We have to get more of that land out of federal hands, into state hands, and then down into the private sector.”
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“The state needs to do more to dispose of the land that they have.”
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“The return on assets [of the mental health trust] is exceptionally low.”
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“We need to make sure that the federal government... live up to their commitments for land selections, for conveyances, to Alaska native…”
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“Most universities have endowment funds that they've developed over many years that offset the cost of tuition of certain building projects…”
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“The university... has an endowment as a land grant university. It's in the form of land.”
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“Joe Biden's administration had brought in 300,000 plus illegal immigrants.”
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“They are actively facilitating this influx of folks from around the world.”
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“There's over 10 million since Joe Biden's become president. They have dispersed throughout the country.”
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“That's 3% of all people in the United States that Joe Biden has allowed to come in here and establish residency here illegally.”
Thursday 3-7-24 - Candidate Nick Begich & Senator Mike Shower | Uploaded March 7, 2024 | 38:07-38:18
“It's one more source of draining our treasury.”
Thursday 3-7-24 - Candidate Nick Begich & Senator Mike Shower | Uploaded March 7, 2024 | 38:21-38:26
“We're dealing with the downstream consequences of [Biden's] decision making in our state [Alaska].”
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“What it is is a vote grab.”
Thursday 3-7-24 - Candidate Nick Begich & Senator Mike Shower | Uploaded March 7, 2024 | 41:19-41:24
“Florida will get more votes in the house. Texas will get more representatives to vote on their behalf in the House.”
Thursday 3-7-24 - Candidate Nick Begich & Senator Mike Shower | Uploaded March 7, 2024 | 41:41-41:49
“California will have fewer [representatives].”
Thursday 3-7-24 - Candidate Nick Begich & Senator Mike Shower | Uploaded March 7, 2024 | 41:48-41:50
“Under the Constitution, anyone who is in the country, whether they are a citizen or not, counts in the census.”
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“I stand with Texas. I think what they're doing is asserting their state's sovereignty.”
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“If the federal government's not going to enforce the law, the states have to be able to enforce the law.”
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“Texas is doing the United States a great service by asserting their right as a state.”
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“Leadership has consolidated power, right? So that the committee chairs have less power and leadership has more power.”
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“That greater concentration of power has hurt the functioning of the United States House of Representatives.”
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“There are 20,000 lobbyists [in Washington, D.C.] for 535 members of the House and Senate combined.”
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“Interest currently consumes about a trillion dollars a year in spending.”
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“40% of all personal income taxes go to simply to pay interest on the debt.”
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“I haven't been supportive of ranked choice since the beginning.”
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“It was sold to the public as being a way to get dark money out of politics.”
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“Mary Peltola...voted with Nancy Pelosi 90% of the time, with Ilhan Omar 85% of the time.”
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“Mary Peltola...took in from federal packs last year was nearly a million dollars in federal pack checks.”
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“If I don't finish ahead of Nancy Dalstrom or another candidate right of center, then I'll get out of the race.”
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“If we don't like ranked choice voting, we need to reimpose a primary on ourselves.”
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