Huff Brown launches bid for Congress

ADAM: WELCOME BACK TO “CLOSEUP.” THE FIRST CORENGSSIONAL DISTRICT REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IS GOG TOIN BE ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING CONTESTS TO WATCH OVER THE NEXT YEAR, BECAUSE IT IS SO COMPETITIVE AND THE STAK,ES THE CONTROL OF CONGRESS, ARE SO HIGH. THIS MORNING WE’RE GETTING TO CONNECT WITH A FORMER COLLEAEGU IN THE MEDIA WORLD, WHO SHA JUMPED INTO THAT RACE. GAIL HUFF BROWN WAS A WELL-KNOWN JOURNALIST IN BOSTON FOR MANY YEARS. SHE’S NOW A CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS, AND SHE IS OUR GUEST THIS MORNING ON “CLOSEUP.” THANKS FOR JOINING US, GAIL. THANK YOU. ADAM: SO BEYOND TV, VOTERS YMA ALSONO KW YOU FROM YOUR HOME ON THE SEACOAST AND YOUR TIME CAMPAIGNING AROUND THE STATE WITH YOUR HUSBAND, FORMER MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR SCTOT BROWN, WHO ALSO RAN HERE. YOU’VE SEEN AND COVERED POLITICS FROM THE INSIDE. WHAT MADE YOU SA OY,K, I WANT TO SERVE, I WANT TO RUN FOR CONGRESS? THIS WAS THLAE ST THING I EXPECTED I WOULD DO. I AM NOT A POLITICIAN. I NEVER WANT TO BE A POLITICIAN. I WOULD NER GEVO TO WASHINGTON TO SPENDHE T NEXT 10, 20 YEARS. BUT I GOT VERY CONCERN.ED FIRST, IT WAS THE DEBT THAT IS OUT OF CONTROL, THE SPENDING THAT IS CAUSING SO MUCH DIFFICULTY, ESPECIALLY REGULATIONSND A TAXES ON SMALL BUSINESSES HERE. I AM SEEING IT FIRSTHAND, ETH LABOR SHORTAGE ALL OVER THE SEACOAST AND FIRST DISTRICT IS A MAJOR PROBLEM. THE BORDER CRISIS, WATCHING THAT UNFOLDAS H BNEE TRAGIC, WATCHING THOSE FAMILIES, WATCHING WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE. IT’S AWFUL. IT WAS ULTIMATELY AFGHANISTAN AND WHAT HAPPENED THERE THAT PUSHED ME OFF THE SIDELINES AND SAID, I HAVE TDOO SOMETHING BECAUSE I TAMIRED OF THROWING THINGS AT THE TV COMPLAINING BUT NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I THOUGHT, WE NEETOD MAKE THEM SERIOUS CHANGES IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON IS BROKEN. WE HAVE A AYDIN-PELOSI — A BIDEN-PELOSI TRAIN WRECK PUSHING OUR COUNTRY IN A SOCIASTLI DIRECTION, LEAVING AMERICANS BEHIND IN AFGHANISTAN, WHICH IS INEXCUSABLE AND, I THINK, CRIMINAL. WE HAVE TO STOP THIS TRAIN BEFORE IT GETS ANY FURTHER. THAT’S WHY I DECIDED TO STE UPP. ADAM: YOU DEFINE YOURSELF AS CONSERVATIVE, BUT HOW DO YOU DEFINE CONSERVATIVE? ATWH DOES IT MEAN TO BE CONSERVATIVE IN 2021? CONSERVATIVE MEANS A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE, JUST LIKE ANY LABEL. I HATE LABELS BECAUSE IT BOXES YOU INTO SOMETHING. EVERYWHEREOU Y GO PEOPLE TRY TO LABEL YOU WITH SOMETHING. I BELIEVE IN LOWER TAX.ES I BELIEVE IN THEM THAT INDIVIDUAL MANDATE. I BELIEVE IN PEOPLE HAVING THE FREEDOM TO DO WHAT THEY WANT. I BELIEVE THE FERADEL GOVERNMENT IS OVERREACHING AND SHOULDN’T BE REACHING INTO OUR LAWS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. THOSE ARE SOME OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT ARE AN ISSUE TO ME. AD:AM SPENDING, AN ISSUE RFO YOU. THAT INCREASED DRAMATICALLY UNDER FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHILE TAXES WERE CUT, WHICH BALLOONED THE NATIONAL DEBT. HOW IS THAT CONSERVATIVE? WHEN I WAS IN WASHINGTON 10 YEARS AGO, I…