>> All right, Ben Wikler, thanks very much.
>> Thanks so much for having me on.
Senate candidate Eric Hovde snagged a speaking slot at the
convention, but he also sat down this interview.
>> Well, first of all, I think Wisconsin put on a great show
for this convention. I'm very proud of our state and the
people have been so nice. The weather accommodated all the
rest. But look, I've been talking about the issues all
along, how we need change in our country, we have major problems
with our economy. The inflation. That's impacting people's lives.
Our open border, the problems that has created, crime in our
communities, our health care system, the cost, the
accessibility of our health care system, you know, there was a
whole discussion about how the world the world's in chaos right
now. So I'm just staying focused on the issues.
>> Senator Tammy Baldwin has been tough to beat in the past.
Do you expect to get any kind of a bump from the top of the
ticket, >> well, right now it looks like
President Trump is doing very well, you know, I don't get
caught up in the daily swings and polls, but I think the
message that's come out of the convention has been very
favorable, you know, and a message that I've been talking
about long before what happened this past Saturday is that we
need to bring this country together, that the politics of
division, personal destruction has been so toxic for our
country and, you know, I've been saying it and I've talked about
it in my speech. We need to come together, you know, and the
world of business, you're never going to get much done if you
take the path that most politicians do. They just camp
themselves in their own party and fight amongst themselves,
you know, and the world of business, you have to
compromise. That's become a dirty world word in politics,
which I think is wrong. >> What issues do you think
there can be compromise on between Republicans and
Democrats? fentanyl crisis. I cannot
believe Washington, D.C. has really done nothing about this
for a decade, and we're losing 100,000 young people every
single year. The fentanyl is created in China. It's sent to
the drug cartels in Mexico, brought up over our southern
border. We have to attack it at every single level. And how it's
distributed here in our country. So that's a big one, look,
there's philosophical differences on health care, but
there's issues we can come together. Drug prices. Look, I
have miss you know, to see how drug prices have just gone like
this and almost every area, that is an area that I think we can
find common ground on. So I think you can find common ground