Dusty Johnson: “I think America makes the best decisions when we plan for the long-term and when we use good data to make decisions.”

Well, I think an absolute onslaught of negative ads the last three or four weeks against me, they really worked. Told people I was a career politician, that I was a RINO, that I was a liberal, and we saw in the polling that that was…

And that can be hard in the political environment, because there’s always another election right around the corner and there are so many disparate voices pulling us away from one another.

The other thing we have to acknowledge is one party's not going to get this done. And I know that's hard for Republicans to hear because so many Republican office holders have sold the American people a bill of goods that this can be done…

Being involved with students, having thought-provoking conversations, is one of the most rewarding things that I got to do in office, and I’m looking forward to doing some of it once I’m out of office as well.