Rep. Todd Young, R-Ind., implored voters on Saturday to support Republicans at the polls this November because he said Democrats have failed to leave the country better than when they took office.
In the GOP weekly address, the Senate candidate reminisced of his days at the Basic School at Quantico, Va., when he was in training to become a Marine Corps officer.
“One day, after shooting on the range, I cleaned my rifle and brought it back to the officer in charge of the armory. He declined to take it, telling me it wasn’t clean enough. Frustrated, I told him it was as clean as when I checked it out. He responded, ‘Lieutenant, this is the United States Marine Corps. We leave things better than we found them,'” Young recounted.
Young said as Americans look back at the last eight years and ahead to the next four, they will find President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s leadership have not “left things better than they found them.”
“As I’ve traveled Indiana over these last few months, I think the answer is clear: The failed policies of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Democrats in Congress have left many Hoosiers worse off,” Young added. “They feel less safe and secure; the prospects of getting a good education that leads to a good job are narrower; and the burdens of government regulation and Obamacare are choking families and small businesses.”
Young touted his plans to improve all three public policies if elected to the upper chamber, but made no mention of Republican nominee Donald Trump.
