now, we can move beyond that. and the other thing that i ve concerned about is dr. king s 60th anniversary if his speech, and he was about expanding the voting base. mr. ramaswamy wants to shrink the voting base and say those that are 18 years of age and to 25 can t vote. and to me, that was a totally the wrong direction to bring young people in our party and set an example of where we need to move in our democracy and participation. so, i think those are really important points to make today at near this anniversary of dr. king s speech. i want to ask about something that another one of your competitors ron desantis said this week. he said he would send the u.s. military on to mexican soil on day one of his presidency to try to stop the drug cartels. one expert warned it would be a massive violation of sovereignty. you were also in your past a top border official under george w.
that you need to invade or you need to drop bombs, sure, we need to utilize the military for intelligence-gathering purposes, but obviously we have to work in cooperation with mexico. the trump campaign, governor, said they have raised more than $7 million since this arrest in georgia and almost $20 million since he was indicted. that is what they say. we haven t seen the report yet. if it is accurate, what do you make of that? well, in some ways it is not a surprise. whenever you look at the way donald trump has misled his supporters from day one, and continues to do so, he s depending upon those donations and everything that he does is designed to raise more money to support his defense. and right now whenever you look at the state of the republican race, i think what everybody saw in the debate was that there are good alternatives to donald