“So folks, are we ready to beat Raphael Warnock next year or what? I cannot wait to knock him out of that seat next year,” Latham Saddler, who is campaigning against U.S. Senator Warnock, said to the folks of the Fannin County Republican Party at their monthly meeting Monday, August 16.
Born in Atlanta, Saddler served the nation for eight years as a Navy SEAL officer and later served as Director of Intelligence Programs on the National Security Council at the White House during the Trump Administration for two and a half years.
“I would recommend to the National Security Advisor whether or not President Trump should approve sending out the troops to do the quiet work for the country, missions that I’d actually just been out on a few months prior,” he said.
“In that role, I got
exposed to everything in a situation room about what our adversaries are doing to seek their harm on us, and there’s stuff in those briefings that I learned about China that still keeps me up at night, and it’s one of the reasons I got in this race.”
He explained that his motivation for joining the military came as a result of the events of September 11, 2001, while a freshman at the University of Georgia.
As a graduate student, he attended Georgia Tech in pursuit of a Masters in International Affairs where he also learned the languages of Farsi and Dari, which are used in Afghanistan and Iran respectively.
“I think as patriots we all know that what we’ve seen transpire over the past year or so in this country is not right,” he said. “There’s something wrong with what’s going on in our country today, and I started feeling a very similar conviction that I felt after 9/11 to step up and do something about it.”
Saddler is a conservative Republican.