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Steve Scalise: “Returned our state from blue to red. And now it's a very red…”

Featuring: Steve Scalise, Republican | House Majority Leader, U.S. House Louisiana, District 1

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Speaker Johnson Joins Steve Scalise and August Pfluger on the Right to the Point Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 07:25

And we ran a real grassroots campaign, and I was able to win overwhelmingly and ran on real policies that I said I would do and did those things when I was in the state House and ultimately Returned our state from blue to red. And now it's a very red state. All statewides are Republican. And I tell this to whether it's our colleagues from California, New York. Other states don't accept mediocrity and failure just because your state's being run poorly. (07:25–07:32)

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Asserts that Louisiana transitioned from a Democratic to a Republican state under his influence.

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