Im a husband and dad, and I grew up on Air Force bases.

My dad was a master sergeant in the Air Force.

I was one of five children.

And for those folks out there watching this interview that are familiar with the military, we didn't have a lot of money growing up.

So I worked to put myself through college and law school.

So I worked as a busboy and I- and I worked in construction.

I worked as a painter.

I worked any job I could get really to kind of put myself through high school and college and, and then and then and then on to law school.

And I think I so I bring that whole perspective.

I know what it is to, you know, to, to not not to come from a lot of money and to work really hard to kind of achieve your goals.

And you know, Ive worked as a- been on the Policy Committee of the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

So very tied into the business community and the whole the whole, you know, the whole economic situation around, like, how do we create jobs, how do we foster business and foster opportunity and create those jobs for and move the economy forward?

As well as serving on Governor Youngkins technology and cybersecurity team.

And here in Northern Virginia, IT is, information technology, drives the economy, both, at the commercial side, but also in the government sector.

And so we have a lot of government contractors in the community.

I come from that background.

I understand their needs and their complications and how that business works and what they need to succeed.

70% of families say that buying groceries is their number one challenge, and that their wages haven't kept up with inflation.

And when you look at the groceries - four years ago, $100, you take $100 of groceries four years ago, it now costs almost $130.

The credit card companies are reporting that people are using their credit cards to buy groceries, and the interest rates on those are approaching 30%.

And so you think of what that costs them to kind of pay those bills.

And now the credit card companies are reporting a high delinquency rate as high as 40% in Virginia, where people are delinquent on their credit card.

So you can see that economic challenge.

And so that that is one that is - one of the driving issues for people and why people are saying the country is off on the wrong track.

The second issue is the border.

The Biden-Harris made the day one decision to open up the border to massive illegal immigration.

And that has brought 10 million illegal immigrants into the country.

It's also the source of our fentanyl crisis.

You know, there's Chinese fentanyl is coming into Central America, being brought in by cartels to the country.

And we've had that challenge right here in Loudoun County.

We've had fentanyl overdose cases in our high schools.

And the second issue that ties in with the border is crime.

So those are two our most hot issues for people in the district right now.

I think that data centers are a net positive for the area.

They generate tremendous tax revenue for Loudoun County.

But you're right.

There's a place for data centers.

They don't belong in neighborhoods.

They don't belong in our national parks.

They belong in an industrial zoned areas.

And that's the right place for them.

And, and I think you're seeing initially when data centers started getting built, I don't think anyone foresaw the how fast they would grow and what the energy demand and the technology demands would be for the data centers.

Because we are a technologically driven society now.

I mean, your phone is a computer.

It's not really a phone anymore.

It's actually a computer.

So.

Were using solar.

Were using wind.

We're using natural gas.

We're using nuclear power.

There's hydrogen.

There's research going with hydrogen driven, energy sources.

So there's a lot of work going on in the in the private sector with- in, in trying to - focused on addressing the energy issue and making sure that we have a strong, integrated, vibrant grid so that we can power the data centers, power our technology, power our economy.

I think this is fear mongering by the opponents and the Democrat Party to try to to try to, to try to, you know, find some kind of an issue because they can't run on the economy and they can't run on the border.

Right?

They can't run on global security, you know, or, you know, ever since the, you know, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan we've been weak across the globe and we've got a war in Ukraine, we've got war in the Middle East.

So they can't run on foreign policy, they can't run on national security.

So they have to the Democrats are trying to drive an issue.

And so they fabricated this Project 2025.

I never even heard about Project 2025 until the Republic- until the Democrats started touting it in their in some of their ads.

It's I've heard it described as, you know, 850 pages of policy statements.

I've never read it.

I havent even seen a table of contents.

My opponent is pushing for a national abortion bill.

And he wants full taxpayer funding for it.

Congress, should not get involved, should not be involved in the issue after the Dobbs decision.

Supreme Court has relegated this issue back to the states and let each individual state have the- and the voters of those states have the opportunity to to evaluate that for their state and for their and make their own decisions.

So my campaign is a mission to restore America.

And that's focused on the economy.

Its focused on border security.

It's and it's focused on on education.

And it's also focused on getting us back on track.

So the campaign is really about what's on the ballot.

In addition, you know, its the economy its border security but it's also our Constitution.

Free speech, religious liberty and honoring are the and respecting and reinforcing our Constitution as it's written And and not and not trying to- and against end-running the Constitution with these different executive orders and all that.

We've got to get back to our constitutional foundations.

That's what made this country great.

That's what's had us going for 250 years is that balance of power, and between the executive branch and the judicial system and Congress.

And so those things are all on the ballot for, for, 2024.

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