At her election night rally, Navy veteran Rebecca Bennett calls her life the story of the American dream: college on a scholarship, an MBA on the GI Bill and a house bought with a VA loan. She says a mom of two with no political experience or connections took on $15 million in dark money and won.
The receipt
- Who
- Rebecca Bennett
- Where
- rally - election night, New Jersey's 7th congressional district
- Original footage
- FOX 5 New York · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 44 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 129 on Instagram
Read the transcript
My life is the story of the American dream. I went to college on RCC scholarship I used the GI bill from an MBA and Alex and I bought our house the VA loan and One of my favorite sayings is the harder I work the luckier I get Because that's the promise of America that if you work hard and contribute to your community Your kids will do a little bit better than you did Because nowhere else in the world could a Navy veteran 2010 Honda core driving mom of two with no political experience and no political connections take on one of the nation's oldest political 15 million dollars in dark money and win!
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.