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Interview with Republican House Candidate Joe Kent (WA-3)

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4.4519 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Storm and Matt are joined by GOP primary candidate Joe Kent (WA-3). Kent explains what it means to be an America First candidate and details his ideas to take on Big Tech, ensure the integrity of our elections, and much more.

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0:00.0

We're joined here on Trigger for a special interview with a great American patriot,

0:03.8

America First candidate Joe Kent, who's running in the Republican primary to unseat an impeachment

0:09.2

voting pro-illegal immigration Rhino in Washington State's third congressional district.

0:14.5

Thanks so much for taking the time to come on today, Joe.

0:17.2

Thanks so much for having me on.

0:18.5

So I knew I really wanted to have you on here when I saw you as pretty much one of the first, if not the first, using the phrase America First candidate in your run for Congress.

0:28.5

We love that. So tell us what that means to you and why you're stepping up to the plate now and running for Congress against this Rhino.

0:35.9

Absolutely. So America First is near and dear and very important to me. I think this is the current

0:41.6

fight that we – and the most important fight we're going to have internal to the Republican

0:45.6

party. So America First, to me, is creating a vision for America and creating a vision for

0:51.6

what this country should look like in the future really of our nation.

0:55.6

So to me, it's taking all the resources that we're blessed with by divine province here in America

1:00.8

and harnessing them to work for the common American citizen.

1:05.4

So I think that we need to restore our manufacturing industry because decades ago,

1:10.6

we had our manufacturing gutted from this country by establishment

1:13.6

Republicans and Democrats.

1:15.4

The Republicans did it at the altar of the free market.

1:18.3

And the Democrats did it largely under the guise of environmentalism, especially out

1:22.9

here in the Pacific Northwest, going after our timber industry.

1:25.4

But the result has been the same.

1:27.0

Your average working class American can't graduate high school and go right into a well-paying job that

1:32.1

allows them to stay in their small town and support a family. So we have this multi-generational

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