Derrick Van Orden lays down a marker in western Wisconsin, Salena Zito reports
EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin — It takes a particular kind of person to run for a House seat, lose, then try again the following election cycle. It also takes a particular kind of person to laugh off the press referring to you as a barrel-chested freedom-fighting frogman in your first run, then two years later calling you the plaid-clad inflation-fighting grandpa.
Van Orden, who attended the Jan. 6 rally but wrote in an essay that he left almost immediately when he saw the event “dissolving into one of the most tragic incidents in the history of our nation,” ran a tireless campaign on the strengths he brings from his two decades in the military, never leaving one stone unturned on the trail. He lost his last race against Kind by 2 1/2 points but won this time by 4.
Born in abject poverty, Van Orden dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and was without purpose until he joined the Navy at the age of 18. “I got a GED in the service," he said."I wound up serving for 26 years, over 21 of those as a Navy SEAL. I did eight deployments of six months or longer, including five to combat. I got my undergraduate degree at 44, and I got accepted to law school at 50.
"People cannot afford the first two, and they are worried about the future for the third," he said."They also said they were worried about this open border that has led to the fentanyl scourge that's ruining America as well as crime, which is rampant everywhere."
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