INTERVIEW: GA Senate Candidate Latham Saddler Talks Big Tech Censorship, Communist China, And Much More

During a special runoff election in 2021, radical Democrat Raphael Warnock won a Senate seat in the state of Georgia.

Warnock defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed after former Senator Johnny Isakson resigned with three years left in his term. Because of this turnover, Warnock will face another Republican opponent in November 2022.

One possible Republican challenger to Warnock is former Navy SEAL Latham Saddler, who announced his candidacy in April.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Saddler on a variety of issues, including Big Tech censorship, the growing threat of Communist China, vaccine mandates, abortion, Iran, and much more.

Listen to the full interview via the SoundCloud embed, or read the transcript below.

Q: Can you tell me a little bit about your background and why you decided to jump into politics now?

SADDLER: So, I’m a proud native son of Georgia, was born in Atlanta, but my mom’s from a small town in south Georgia. I went to the University of Georgia for undergrad, then I went to Georgia Tech for grad school. 9/11 happened while I was at the University of Georgia, and obviously changed everyone’s life forever, and in my case, led me on a long journey to serving in the military as a Navy SEAL.

I spent my 20s working to get there, and deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and then after President Trump got elected, I got tapped to come up to his White House and serve as the Director of Intelligence Programs on the National Security Council, essentially managing our black ops portfolio up there. And I can tell you during our time up there, Frank, we put our adversaries on their heels, right where they belong.

And there’s, unfortunately, not a lot of that happening right now. Ended up transitioning out of the military for unique family reasons. I’ve got a twin brother with Down syndrome who’s going to come live with my wife and I and our two young sons. We’ve got a one year old boy and a four year old boy. And I came home to Georgia after the White House and was on the executive team of Synovus Bank here in Georgia as their chief of staff, and then 2020 happens.

And I think, as patriots, we all know that what has transpired in this country is just not us. I mean, we are so much better than the way we’re operating. And I view everything through a national security lens, and I’ve received all the briefings you can get in the situation room about what our adversaries are doing to harm us. And the stuff that I learned about China and their plans to overtake us, I mean, it keeps me up at night. And I look at the way we’re operating as a country, and we are operating in such a pathetic fashion right now, and it’s just not sustainable.

I mean, China’s four times our size, they’re hungry and focused and eager to overtake us. And we’ve got our heads in the sand here in America, and we’ve got a movement within our country that’s trying to push us down the river of socialism. And I look at those two factors, and as a father of two young boys, I think, they’re not going to have the American future that we’ve all enjoyed right now to date.

And I tell folks all the time, I would’ve never jumped in this race if things weren’t so dire and if I wasn’t a father of my two boys, because I refuse to let their futures be snatched out from under them, whether it’s from an enemy abroad or from this enemy within our country. So I jumped into the race in April, and it’s been an incredible experience so far. I mean, we’ve raised over $3 million to date. So, we’re doing incredibly well on fundraising. We’re batting 1,000, we’re tearing across the entire state of Georgia and batting 1,000 everywhere we go. And I can’t wait to knock Raphael Warnock right out of this seat.

Q: On China, with their development of hypersonic tech, and our own military being seemingly more focused on diversity and inclusion agendas, is there any particular legislation that you would push as a senator to make the United States more competitive with a growing China?

SADDLER: Oh, yes. I mean, this is the stuff that I stay up all night thinking of, and I can’t wait to get in that seat to put them on their heels. But you bring up something really important, which is, you’ve got our adversaries that are incredibly focused, and particularly, in the case of China, they look at us like a couple-hundred-year fad, and they view themselves as a 5,000-year dynasty. And they say, look, the 20th century where you all reigned supreme, that’s an outlier

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