I m not just talking about one thing, wilderness and recreation. i m talking about all of the above. making sure we put land aside for kids for future generations and making sure people can keep the public lands in public hands. it is one of the things that helps drive the economy in our great state. montana senator jon tester, thank you very much for joining us tonight. one thing and i would be remiss if i did not say it, please go to jon tester.com and help me out. coming up, it is primary day in new jersey. we will be joined by the democrat who is going to run for senate now as the democratic nominee for senate. andy kim, the big winner in new jersey tonight, will join us next. (vo) when life s doors open, we ll handle the house. if you re living with moderate
Got him indicted. it surely read like he should have been expelled from the senate, but still professional democrats cheered him on. yesterday during his second criminal trial in court, defendant menendez had his nominating petition delivered to new jersey election officials so he can be on the ballot in november as an independent running for reelection to the senate in new jersey. robert menendez needed to find at least 800 people among new jersey s 9 million people to sign his petitions to be on the ballot as an independent. his filing showed 2465 signatures, so donald trump might not be the only convicted felon on the ballot in new jersey in november. congressman andy kim was the first new jersey democrat to call for menendez to resign when menendez was indicted. this time after the fbi found
$480,000 in cash along with gold bars in his home last year. soon a majority of democratic senators asked menendez to resign. tonight is election night in new jersey, where andy kim won the democratic nomination for united states senate. government works great for big corporations and special interests, so we need a senator who works for us. andy kim worked for president obama and then went to clean up washington. he wrote a new bill to stop politicians from treating stocks and using their power to get rich. washington works for them. andy kim works for us. joining us now in the winner s circle, democratic congressman andy kim of new jersey. he won the democratic nomination for senate in new
Jersey. congressman kim, thank you very much for joining us tonight. what is the number one issue for you going forward to the campaign in november? first of all, thank you for having me. we are very excited on this primary night. the top thing on people s minds is about their own challenges. whether that is the high cost of living and difficulties of housing, healthcare, all that is out there, but the thing we are trying to hit home is why is it that we don t have a government, a congress that is able to deliver and fix that? that is where we see so many broken problems out there. we live in a time of the greatest amount of distrust in government in modern american history, so people are connecting the dots that the government is not functioning in the way that it needs to to address their problems, so that is what we are talking about. we also have a republican nominee tonight to one the republican nomination in new jersey.
So i know exactly what it would look like in the senate. i served the first two years of my time in congress with mitch mcconnell leading the senate. so we know what that plan is looking like and that is why we need to make sure we are stepping up against it. i voted to impeach donald trump twice. we don t want him back in the white house. we need to make sure we are controlling the senate and making sure we have the ability to vote on and control who is going to the supreme court at a time when people are worried about what comes next, when it comes to reproductive rights, lgbtq rights, immigration, amongst so many other issues. people in new jersey recognize what s at stake and i think that is why they mobilized so much today for this primary. congressman andy kim of new jersey, thank you very much for joining us on this night when you have won the nomination. thanks for having me today. tonight s last word is next.