work with two wonderful tag team partners and one the former president in the last congress and william timmons, both of whom have been extraordinary partners in the untaking and whose partnership i'm grateful. thank you again and look forward to the conversation and very grateful for the recollect ok nice. l.f.: i'll read this one, former members of congress, the 2022 distinguished service award presented to former members of congress to vice chair william timmons on june 16, 2022. congratulations. >> thank you. >> i'll be brief so we can get started with the conversation. but i want to say one, this is very special to be here, such a historic building and incredible architecture, it's beautiful. it's an honor to be before the former members. i've been working really hard the last 3 1/2 years and doing the best i can to make an impact. my campaign slogan was washington is broken, and i got up to d.c. and was like oh, that was a good campaign slogan, but i still have hope. i served for the first two years with chair kilmer and vase chair graves and they showed me that there is hope. there is ho

and another person his been so fantastic, congressman william timmons, thank you, william the -- william, so much. and a friend of mine, who i believe could win lieutenant governor, andre. i think he could win for -- a man who did a fantastic job. he was a real u.s. attorney. peter mccoy. peter, great job. and another friend of mine, i sent him to a country that makes the finest desserts in the world. he did ok. you are looking thin. ed mcmullen. a guy. ambassador. and there's an incredible group of state legistlative leaders who will give tremendous support all over the country. this is the first time i've done this. and when i announced a couple of months ago, the fake news said, why isn't he campaigning there must be something wrong. i said, there's two years before the election. but we have huge rallies planned, bigger than ever before. bigger than they've ever been, because there's a spirit like we haven't seen before. it has been unequaled in our history of our country. there is more spirit now than we had at any time, that includes 2020 and 2016. i would like to invite governor mc