What do you say to them to convince them your way is the right way?

Well, well, first I would say this.

I think we need checks and balances in our government.

The, the problem in our state government currently is, among other things, we have a two-to-one Democratic super majority in the legislature, and we have a governor who rubber stamps all their proposals.

And I think balance is healthy in any organization, but especially in government, and we're lacking that in Connecticut currently.

That's exactly how you get a situation where you have a governor who paroles 44 murderers, a governor who tries to ban the sale of electric, uh, uh, of gasoline-powered vehicles, a governor who raises taxes on food in a state that's unaffordable.

We need balance, and we need checks and balances.

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Why isn't everyone pulling their hair out and impeaching Ned Lamont, the incumbent?

Well, listen, that's what the opportunity we have in November is.

I mean, listen, I think you have to understand and build in your expectations that Connecticut's a state that leans blue and other states are states that lean red.

But on the state and local level, voters are going to be more open to voting for candidates of different parties when they're examining the issues and specifically how this leadership from Ned Lamont and one party rule over many years has affected their daily lives.

Listen, there isn't a Democrat or a Republican around who is happy in Connecticut that they pay the third highest taxes in the country or among the highest electric rates in the country and all the hidden fees and taxes and essentially the Green New Deal that's embedded in their electric bills currently.

They, in their daily lives, are seeing the failure.

And I think that is increasingly opening them to change.

So if you pull off the upset and you're down to single digits and you're closing, if you pull off this upset, what do you do first? Is it income tax reduction, property tax reduction, doing something about the unfunded pension liabilities, which is the jaws, white shark that's out there that's going to swallow Connecticut and Illinois and California eventually? What do you do?

But I don't, I can't, I can't move to Florida but I, I wanna, I gotta get out of where I am right now." How do you make Connecticut more affordable for that?

Well a- as you said, Connecticut is a really great place.

You got really great people.

There's so much working in its advantage.

Um, you know, it's why people move out here, like almost, like as a rite of passage.

You know, they age out of New York City, they come, they look to Connecticut.

Fewer people are doing that because it is so expensive and the opportunity is lesser than it used to be.

How do you actually win?