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Rep. Van Orden is chatting with people in the audience (thanks to co-pooler Alex Gangitano for the spot).
One attendee, who identifies himself as an English teacher named Mike, tells your pooler “I’m interested in the message that JD is bringing. He’s a really intriguing candidate.” He goes on to say “He’s had a tough background he’s had to go through to work his way up. To make the change on Trump, I feel he and I are kind of the same on that.”…”A lot of republicans were turned off by some of the harsh rhetoric (referring to President Trump) but JD is kind of a representative of people who have seen through the rhetoric seen through the substance of what Trump has achieved. Substance is more important than rhetoric. I think JD the way that he speaks and the strength he portrays is on the same bar as Trump but I don’t think you’re going to see that absolute hatred some people have towards Trump to JD because he’s such a likable guy.”
Haley Bull
Scripps News
Wed. Jul. 8, 12:25 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2074895237827195116

White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Travel pool note #22 ✈️
Again, please triple check quotes against audio. Presser wrapped at 7:45 p.m.
POTUS was asked about why he has been unable to end the Iran war, and gives his usual standard answer on Iran, reiterating some of what he said earlier today: "I was there for one reason, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon…Look, they have no military left. Their air force is gone, as I said. Their ships are gone, 159 ships are gone. They're at the bottom of the sea. Their radar is gone. Everything is gone. So, when you say not a success, it's a tremendous success.”
On the dangers of communism, and the message he’d give to people living under communism, or don’t realize the dangers of communism: “Communism is easy to sell. I would be the greatest communist…right up there with Lenin … It's a very dangerous term, so I do talk about it, and I talk about it on TikTok, and I talk about it, and we were talking about it here, and you run it has to come into nationally, it's never worked, and it's not going to work.” He says he thinks the country is in more danger from communism than it was during WWI and WWII.
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