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Congressman Bill Huizenga Debate Reaction
So much to get to today, we wanted to make room for Congressman Bill Heising with Michigan's fourth district on the live line. Congressman, thanks for doing this today. Good morning, good to be with you. I want to get to legislation that has to do with those that block roadways, it's dangerous and old boy would tick me off if it happened to me. But speaking of a couple of angry candidates last night, talk to us a little bit about your take given last night's debate. Well, the interesting thing to me was of all of the claims of Joe Biden against Donald Trump, it seemed the thing that he seemed most incredulous about was Joe Biden claiming he had a six handicap out on the golf course. It was a wide ranging, shall we say. I can't believe we were, that was part of it. I mean, we should have been a little more focused on maybe some of the child care questions and some of those things. But look, the Democrats are in meltdown right now because he did not have, meaning Joe Biden, did not have a good night last night. That was evident. And in fact, I reposted something which was, remember when Robert Herr, the person who had had the report about Joe Biden in this classified documents that he had hidden in his garage, remember when he was called a liar for saying that Joe Biden wasn't capable of being put on trial. I think that was demonstrated last night. I mean, he is not ready for another four years of leadership of this country. In your opinion, how presidential was former President Trump last night? And I guess was it helpful that they muted Mike's in there wasn't just quite as much. There weren't quite as many barbs as there were the last time we saw this happen. If I was in the Trump campaign, I would be demanding that they cut off the mics for every single debate. Frankly, I believe it helped him all the way around because Joe Biden was able to just get out there, say things which he frankly was mumbling his way through a lot of it. It was incoherent at times and it forced Donald Trump to allow him to just lay that out and then have his turn. I thought it was far more restrained than he has ever been in any of his other debates. And it frankly, it worked for him. Congressman, I'm going to ask you this question real quick about from a voter perspective. I know you're big on this when you join us. Well, you're frustrated all with both candidates and the fact of just what you kind of said earlier, let's talk more about the issues. Let's talk more about policy and everything instead of the munchling and it constantly goes on. Yeah, I mean, look, the no, you're a horrible leader. No, you're a horrible leader. No, no, you really, really are a horrible leader. That was getting a little old, I think, for most listeners and watchers of the debate last night. And as I said, I mean, actually I think Dana Bash did a pretty good job of trying to pull that back into the issue of like child care. That's the one that keeps kind of leaping out at me as to what neither one of them really addressed it or what would you do about the debt? Joe Biden had one small statement about it. And I was raising my arms like, yes, finally, let's get to discussion about this because I've got a bipartisan visa legislation dealing with our debt and deficit situation. I think he had half a sentence about that and then moved on to other things. And so, you know, look, it was a first salvo. This isn't going to be the last one by all expectations. But you know, we're going to have to get to the issues, not just, not just the name calling. Thirty seconds, elevator pitch on legislation to try to do something about people shutting down freeways when they protest. Yeah, this has become a frequent, a newer and frequent tactic. People are going out and they're gluing themselves to bridges and highways. They're, you know, they're blocking them with wires and all kinds of stuff. What this says is my legislation would say, okay, for federally funded highways, if states are not going out and keeping motorists and the protesters safe by having these protests cleared, then they don't deserve all the federal highway dollars that they get. We have to have an enforcement of the law. We have to have prosecutions. And if there's states that are not doing that and not following the law, then they don't deserve to have the federal, federal transportation dollars that go their way. So this would be a penalty for those states that decide not to go after those protesters. That is Congressman Bill Heisinger. Thanks for your time this morning. Thanks, guys. And Bakeda, go get that six handicap.