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Rob Mercuri: “When you have bullets flying at you in Iraq and you're…”

Featuring: Rob Mercuri, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Pennsylvania, District 17

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Deployed: Life on Mission (Guests: Rep-elect Rob & Kelsey Mercuri; Mike Glass, combat veteran)

Published | Video Starts at 06:28

But I think ultimately that military career and Kelsey, as a military family, we felt really well equipped to kind of weather the storm. And When you have bullets flying at you in Iraq and you're overseas on a deployment away from family, which we did, these kind of attacks in the political sector in our community now, they were hard, but I think we had a framework to kind of process them. And so I think part of the surprise was good and part of the surprise was bad. (06:28–06:47)

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Asserts that he experienced combat in Iraq, which helped him handle political attacks.

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