Tomi Lahren talks to Oregon congressional candidate, 27, who became American hero – Fox News

Fox NationhostTomi Lahrensat down with Alek Skarlatos, a veteranhero who helped stop aterrorist attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015, about his run for Congress in Oregon's 4th congressional district.

Lahren previewed her interview with the 27-year-old Army National Guard veteran on hershow "No Interruption."The hero hopes to flip the seat Republican against 33-year incumbent liberal DemocraticRep. Peter DeFazio.

"He decided after taking downa terrorist he is ready to takedown the swamp in Washington,D.C.," Lahren told "Fox & Friends" Thursday of Skarlatos.

Her longtime friend is ready to "fight for the rural peopleof Oregon and show that not all youngpeople are crazy and liberal andleftist and that they believe inthe Second Amendment.They believe in freedom.They believe in small-townAmerica and he is ready to win," she added.

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Skarlatos played himself in the 2018 Clint Eastwood film The 15:17 to Paris, which depictedthe attempted attackon a train from Amsterdam to Paris. Skarlatos and two of his friends,Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone,were traveling in Europe in August 2015 when they incapacitated an Islamist gunman.

Since then he came in third on the show, "Dancing with the Stars," and now the hero wants to help flip his district red.

Skarlatos told Lahren his district is made up of timber, fishing, grass seed farming, rural and working-class, blue-collar people who've "had a tough time over the last 30 years."

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"Economically since the timberindustry went away, thingshave really gone downhilland the incumbent Democrat not doinganything to help us," Skarlatos explained, "it really just made me want to stand up andfight for the people that I livewith."

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt noted the 27-year-old "has done more than most of us in our lifetime."

Skarlatos won the Republican primary in May with more than 86% of the vote.

"This is somebody who could've justtaken his famefrom a Clint Eastwood movie and just been happy with that, but no, he saidthe people in my district, theyhaven't been fought for," Lahren said. "We have a Democrat that justkeeps getting reelected over andover and over again."

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She said his race is similar to so many across the country, saying people are "tired ofwatching Democrats run theircities into the ground and notpay attention to the littlepeople."

Lahren said that despite Portland's "craziness," Skarlatos' district wants the timber industry and good-paying jobs back, not what the radical leftists are offering with the Green New Deal and "other things that are going to completely decimatetheir livelihood."

"He's ready to fight for themand he'sa young conservativeready to do it and I think he isgoing to win," she said.

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