CloseUp: Veteran makes GOP bid for Congress in NH-01
Julian Acciard is running for the hotly contested seat in Congress.
CloseUp: Veteran makes GOP bid for Congress in NH-01
Julian Acciard is running for the hotly contested seat in Congress.
ADAM: NEW HAMPSHIRE’S FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT IS ONE OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE IN ETH NATION. AFRTE REDISTRICTING, IT IS LIKELY TO HAVE A MORE GOP LIEN. A MARINE CORPS VETERAN WHO LIVES IN DERRY, NEW TO POLITICS ENTIRE, LYIS IN THE RACE. THIS MORNING, WE WELCOME JULIAN ACCIARD. JULIAN: HOW ARE YOU DOING? AD:AM TELL US ABOUT WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU STAND FOR, AND WHY YOU ARE RUNNING FOR CONGRESS. JULIAN: AS THE FLAG SAYS,ND A AS HE SAID, I AM A U.S. BEREAN MILITARY -- MARINE, MILITARY POCELI. I WENTCT AIVE DUTY WAS MEDICALLY RE TIRED IN 2011. I MET MY WIFATE THEIR, HAD MY NSO, THEN AFTER MY DAUGHTER, WE MOVED BACK HOME BAUECSE CALIFORNIA IS A LOST CAUSE. I MISSED THE SPIRIT. BUT WHEN I CAME BACK, SOMETHING WAS DIFFERENT. WHEN G IOT BACK, I NOTICEDHA TT NASHUA HAD FALLEN FURTHER DOWN THE HILL, THE SAME WITH MANCHESTER. OVER THE PAST 12 YEARS SINCE I LEFT AND HAVE MECO BACK, PRETTY MUCH SCEIN 2000, I NOTICED THE POLITICAL CONVERSATION IN THIS COUNTRY DEGRADING AT A MUCH HIERGH RATE, TO THE POINT WHERE WE ARE HAVING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS IN SPEAKING PAST EACH OTHER. I SEE IT AS MY JOB IF NONE O ELSE IS GOING TO BRING MESO RATIONAL CONVERSATION, IT IS MY JOB TO JUMP INTO IT. ADAM: WHAT ARE THE DINEFING ASPECTS OF WHAT IT MEANTOS BE RUNNING FOR OFFICE IS HOW MUCH ALLEGIANCE HE PLEDGE TO DONALD TRUMP. RUA TRUMP SUPPORTER, AND WOULD YOU WANT HIM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024? JULI:AN I VOTED FOR HIM TWICE. I TAKE HIM AS A MAN. HE IS FLAWED, HE GETS THINGS RIGHT AND WRONG. I AGREED WITH A LOT OF HIS POLICIESND A IS -- JUST AGREED WITH A LOT OF HE SAID. JANUARY 6 IS SOMETHING I WAS NOT PPHAY AUTBO, BUT STILL. I SUPPORT HIS PRESIDENCY. I LIKED HAVING HIM AS PRESIDENT. BUT IN 2024, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE TIM SCOTT AT THE TOP OF TH ETICKET, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE TRUMP IS THE KINGMAKER. AD:AM YOU MENTIONED JANUARY 6. WHAT ABOUT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS? IF YOU ARE IN CONGRESS THEN, WOULD YOU HAVE VOTED TO ACCEPT THE ELECTORAL VOTES THAT MADE BIDEN PRESIDENT? JULIAN: Y.ES AT THAT POINT, IT WAS FAR GONE. EVERYTHING THAT EVERYONE WANDTE TO HAPPEN, IT WAS A HLAI MARY, WHETHER YOU BELIEVE TOHE T ELECTION WAS STOLEN OR NOT. IEL BIEVE THE RULES WILL CHANGE LEGAYLL -- WERE CHANGED ILLEGALLY, AND THAT CHGEAN THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION. AS MUCH AS I DON’T LIKE IT A IND WANTED DONALD TRUMP TO WIN, TH ERE WAS NO TURNING BACK. THERE IS NOPE DIDN’T -- NO EVENT -- PRECEDENT FOR FLIPPING THE SWITCH. PEOPLE WERE DRIFTING OFF THE SITUATION. TRYING TO PROFIT OFF OF PAIN, AND I WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT THAT. AD:AM THE ECOMYNO IS RECOVERING FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC RIGHT NOW, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY. YOU CALL YOURSELF A SOLUTION AREA. -- SOLUTIONARY. WHAT POLICIES DO YOU HAVE IN MIND? LI:JU MY PROPOSALS TAKE THE CORPORATE TAX WNDO 15% AND 12% FOR COMPANIES REPATRIATING THEIR OPERATIONS IN A MANUFACTURING BACK TO THE U.S. IN LOCATING THOSE PROPERTIES IN AN ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA. ALL THOSE JOBS THAT GOT SHIPPED OVERSEAS DECADES AGO, NOW EYTH ARE BACK. THAT IS AT THE MOST COMPETITIVE PLACE. THERE ARE FEW COUNTRIES THAT HAVE THEIR CORPORATE RATE DOWN THAT LOW. ON THE FLIPSIDE, F TORHE AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL, THINCOMEE TAX -- I WANT TO CUT IT TAO 10%. I WANT TO MAKE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO FILE TAXES, YOU DON’T HAVE THIO RE AN ACCOUNTTAN OR TORCH YOUR WALLET JUST TO FILE TAXES EVERY YEAR. I WANT TO HAVE EVERYONE AT A FLAT 10%. THOSE WHO ARE MAKGIN A BILLION DOLLARS PAY 10%F O A BILLION DOLLARS. BUT I WANT TO SET THE FLOOR AT $30,000. JUST ABOVE THE POVERTY LINFOE R THE INDIVIDUAL. AT $30,000, YOU PAY NOTHING, PLUS A $10,000 DEDUCTIBLE PER ADULT. HOWEVER, WHEN YOU HIT OVER $4000,0, YOU START TO PAY TAXES. THIS GIVES YOU TIME TO BUILD UP THE EQUITY IN URYO LIFE SO YOU CAN BUD ILA FUTURE. YOU CAN INVEST, MAKE MEOR MONEY, STUFF LIKE THAT. I DON’T WANT TO TAX A POOR PERSONHO W IS MAKING $10,000 A AR $1000. THAT IS INSANI.TY ZERO CAPITAL GAINS TAX. I WOULD LIKE TO REWRITE THE TAX CODE. IT IS ALMOST 30,000 PAGES RIGHT W.NO :AD I DO WANT TO GET INTO THE CONVERSATION ON RACIAL JUSTICE. IT SEEMS TO BE BGEOGD DOWN IN THIS DEBATE OVER CRITICAL RACE THEO.RY TYE PROGRESSIVES AND LIBERALS COMING FORRDWA SAYING, NO ONE UNDERSTANDS TS.HI THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT. IT IS BEING APPROPRIATED TO STOP THE CONVERSATIONND A STOP PERFORM. WHAT IS YOUR PERSPECTIVE? JULIAN: BOTH SIDES HAVE A VALID ARGUMENT. IT IS A COMBINATION OF THE TWO. THE RIGHT IS BEING REACTIONARY WTOHAT IS BEING TAUGHT, WHICH IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY, WHICH IS NOT NEW. IT STARTED A WHILE AGO. IT IS BEING COMBINED WITH THE 1619 PROJECT AND WIFE FRAGILITY MOVEMENT. WH EN YOU COMBINE ALL THAT TOGETHER, THAT EQUALS THE CULTURAL MARXISM THAT EVERYONE IS COMPLAINING ABOUT, AND I AM COMPLAINING ABOUT AS WELL. THE CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE LEGISLATION THATAS W PASDSE BACK AND BE 70’S ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE 90’S THAT WERE DIRECTLY TARGETED AT THE BLKAC COMMUTYNI, AND HOW TO DISCUSS RACE AND GOVERNMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOW ITUR HTS PEOEPL. AS I SAID BEFORE, SYSTEMATIC RACISM ISRAEL. IT WAS BUILT BY -- IS RLEA IT WAS BUILT BY WOOOWDR WILSON AND BOLSTERED BY EVERY DEMOCRAT CENTS. IT IS FOCUSED HIGHLY IN MORAJ CITIES, AND NO LEVEL OF NATIONAL GOODES, AND NO LEVEL OF NATIONAL POLICY IS GOING TO BE AN AREA WE HAVE NOT HAD A REPUBLICAN ELECTEDN I DECADES, IN OVER 70 YEARS IN MANY CASES. ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, YOU CAN’T HAVE A GOOD POLICY AT A NATIONAL LEVEL THAT FILTERS DOWN THROHUG 60 LAWYERS OF SYSTEMATIC RACISM. IT IS MARXISM CROSS-DRESSING A SPROGRESSIVISM. ADAM: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL. I’M CURIOUS ON YOUR PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT GISOING ON IN TAIWAN. YOU ARE A VETERAN, YOU HAVE WORN THE UNIFORM AND THE FLAG. THERE IS A MOVEMENT THAT SAYS THE U.S. SHOULD NOT PUT LIVES AT SKRI MORE THAN IT HAS TO. SHOULD THE UNITED STATES INTERVENE MILITARILY IF CHINA MOSVE TO TAKE OVER TAIWAN? JULI: SEE, THAT IS A HARD ONE. THEY ARE AN ALLY, AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THEIR BACK. I BELIEVE IF WE ARE GOING TO GO TOBELIEVE IF WE ARE GOING TO GO WAR, THAT IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE FOUR. WEHOVER, I ALSO DON’T AGREE WITH WARS -- WE NEED TO BE THERE TO WIN, NOT FOR POLITICS. THE WAY I LOOKT A IT, PEACE THROUGH STRGTENH, PUT OURSELVES IN A POSITION OF STRENGTH AROUND TAIWAN AND PROTECT THEM FROM CHINA. THAT WAY, IF CHINA IS GOING TO ATTACK TAIWAN, THEY HAVEO T ATTACK THROUGH US. THEN WE HAVE A REASON TO GO TO WAR. IF CHINA WANTSO T BE THAT DUMB THAT THEY WANT TO STARA T WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES, I FEEL BAD FOR THEM. AD:AM ABOUT ONE MINUTE LEFT. THERE COULD BE A LOT OF YOUNG CANDATIDES IN THIS RACE WITH WASHINGTON CONNECTIONS. YOU HAVE FRIENDS ALL OVER THE PLACE,UT B YOU ARE MORE LOCAL. HOW DO YOU WIN AIN RACE WHERE THERE ARE PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF D.C. CONNECTIONS? JULIAN: ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL. I HAVE BEEN DOWN WITH GOP MEETGSIN, I HAVE ENBE TO ALL THE EVENTS, I AM GOING TO BE IN CONCORD FOR THIS NATIONAL VOTER INTEGRYIT RALLY -- THEY WANT A STATE AUDIT, AND I VIEW IT AS MY DUTY TO BE WHERE VOTERS NEED ME TO BE. EVERYONE IN THE STA ITES GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE THEIR DECISNIO, BUT I AM GOING TOAK ME SURE YOU HAVE TO SHAKE MY HAND AND MAKE THAT DECISIOAFN TER MEETING ME. AD:AM WE WILL SEE YOU OUT THERE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. WE A
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CloseUp: Veteran makes GOP bid for Congress in NH-01
Julian Acciard is running for the hotly contested seat in Congress.
Julian Acciard is running for the hotly contested seat in Congress.
Julian Acciard is running for the hotly contested seat in Congress.
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