The Green Beret trying to win back a Trump district in Virginia
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John Solomon
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🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Delegate Nick Freitas is fighting to restore “conservative philosophy,” individual responsibility, and personal liberty in his district.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and welcome to a new edition of John Solomon Reports. |
| 0:09.4 | Yep, the podcast from just the news you've been listening long enough, except that you |
| 0:12.8 | would know that today is a Monday. |
| 0:14.7 | We don't normally have a podcast on Mondays, but we're going to have one today. |
| 0:18.6 | Why? |
| 0:19.6 | We've got a former Green Beret, a Trump loving former Green Beret who's trying to recapture |
| 0:24.9 | one of those house seats that were lost in 2018 and then so-called Trump districts, |
| 0:29.4 | at Trump carried in 16. |
| 0:31.6 | He's joining us. |
| 0:32.6 | Nick Friedas is here. |
| 0:33.6 | He's got a great bio, a great story. |
| 0:35.8 | He's running a very important campaign in Central Virginia against Alison Spanberger, |
| 0:40.7 | who was one of the prominent faces of the Democratic wave election in 2018. |
| 0:45.8 | She captured a district in Central Virginia that had been in Republican hands since 1971. |
| 0:51.7 | Nick Friedas is trying to turn that back. |
| 0:53.5 | He's got an amazing story. |
| 0:55.9 | His record of service in Iraq. |
| 0:58.7 | Reading the Green Berets after 9-11, he's been running a very substantive campaign. |
| 1:04.6 | Has this podcast that where he talks about issues, sort of like Ronald Reagan did in the |
| 1:08.8 | fireside chats. |
| 1:11.1 | And he's gaining a lot of traction. |
| 1:12.6 | Some of the Republicans have that district now leaning Republican. |
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