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Tom Cole: “We sent him up there without a House, without a Senate, and…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Tom Cole Keynote Speech 2024 Fish Fry

Published | Video Starts at 26:54

And we were all really happy when he got elected in 1988, and I was actually state chairman. I got to cast the votes at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans at. And it was great. But We sent him up there without a House, without a Senate, and he got run over pretty quickly. Don't put President Trump now. I don't think anybody's gonna run over Donald Trump. He's cut from a little bit different cloth than most of us, but I know he needs the tools to get the job done. (26:54–27:02)

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Asserts that lacking control of the House and Senate led to political challenges for George H.W. Bush.

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