Retired Navy captain and House candidate Hung Cao served in U.S. special operations for over 25 years.
Now, he says he is ready to bring the fight to Washington, D.C.
Cao is running for the hotly contested Virginia’s 10th Congressional District seat, and he said it was President Joe Biden’s and the Democrats’ failures on the world stage that pushed him to run, according to a Thursday interview.
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“I left Kabul in January of 2021, and it was pretty stable,” Cao said. “Six months later, we watched Kabul fall, and that was just like watching Vietnam fall.”
“Now watching Ukraine, that was just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.
The combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan expanded on Biden’s failure to lead in a recent campaign ad.
“I’m going to Congress to put a stop to this madness,” he said in the campaign spot. “Biden is unfit to be commander in chief.”
The ad begins with a shot of a helicopter escaping the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the story of how Cao and his family escaped Vietnam.
“Defending America is the greatest honor of my life,” he tells voters in the ad. “But now, I have five close friends being kicked out of the Navy because of Biden’s vaccine mandate.”
“These are special forces and SEAL Team Six operators, the best and the toughest,” he said.
These are the warriors who do the work that most can’t and won’t do, according to the ad.
“Joe Biden’s woke government is kicking them out, discarding them like trash,” Cao said. “This is not how America treats our heroes. I will not stand for it.”
The race for Virginia’s 10th District sees a wide Republican field.
Many seeking the GOP nomination have sought to make the election about state education and the perceived threat of leftist encroachment on students’ education.
Cao admitted the topic is important but said it is part of a battle that must be fought at the state and local level.
“You bring this up to the federal level, they’ll muck it all up,” he told WMAL. “You want to keep this at the state and local level.”
When it comes to the teaching of intersecting crucial parts of society like race with education, Cao, a refugee and immigrant, said there is one lesson that must always be noted.
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“America provides the ladder of opportunity, but you have to climb up yourself,” he said.
