Tommy Thompson: “I was hopeful, you know, that [Donald Trump] was going to…”

“I wanted to look him, you know, straight in the eye and find out, you know, where he was going to be in the primary, where he was going to do, you know, in the election. And I was hopeful, you know, that [Donald Trump] was going to encourage me to run, which he did. Thompson says he was so ready to run. He had a campaign strategy already mapped out. And I wanted one more chance to run the state of Wisconsin and see what I could do to build Wisconsin instead of tearing down.” (01:09–01:14)

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