The former Marine himself, as well as the brother of an army captain, the son of an army nurse major, and the grandson of two World War II veterans, one of West Point officer, the other Jewish Army Corps pilot.

Mike McCorkle says services in his blood. In recent years, he tried to translate his predisposition into elected public office.

This is the third consecutive attempt to win the fourth congressional district seat. The clerk will faced off against former congressional

congressman Ken Buck in 2020 and 2022. He lost each time by double digits. You got to give it to

him. He kept coming back. He kept coming back for more.

And I guess that's the name of the game. Abraham Lincoln lost a lot too before he won.

And I got to tell you, I guess he is a staunch. Well, he's a liberal. And I told you before that we're

going to have some good conversations.

We're going to meet in the middle.

And so I'm just going to ask all of you to lay down your sword.

We're going to have probably a healthy conversation.

So I'm just going to jump right in it with, like,

Ike and I get into pretty healthy debates and conversations pretty regularly on Facebook.

And I think his followers don't like me.

They don't really appreciate the fact that he tolerates me.

But we have some healthy conversations.

One of the things I said is let's start having the conversation.

So I welcome.

Well, thank you so much, Joe. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate you having me on today. And also just appreciate,

you know, what you do for our community and providing economic opportunity to folks and

just being a good American. And honestly, I think, you know, if I had to state one reason why I'm here today, it's because I think more important than anything else is kind of like what your commercial said, is that we need to bring Americans together and find consensus and agree on what the truth and objective reality is, you know, in order to make sure that we set conditions

to improve quality of life for the American people.

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