{"id":1025156,"date":"2023-08-12T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1025156"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:59:11","slug":"meet-the-extreme-2024-republicans-speaking-at-the-iowa-state-fair-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/meet-the-extreme-2024-republicans-speaking-at-the-iowa-state-fair-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Extreme 2024 Republicans Speaking at the Iowa State Fair Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy are visiting the Iowa State Fair today, and they are just four of the candidates among the most extreme slate of Republican presidential candidates in history. Here\u2019s what you need to know about their extreme MAGA agendas:

Donald Trump had a disastrous four years in office and is now hellbent on bringing back his extreme MAGA agenda.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fortune<\/a>: \u201cTrump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cThe Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump\u2019s Watch\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Forbes<\/a>: \u201cTrump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Trump<\/a>: \u201cAfter 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the \u2018shock\u2019 of everyone \u2026 Without me there would be no 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks, or whatever is finally agreed to. Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing. Thank you President TRUMP!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Washington Post Analysis<\/a>: \u201cOne of President Donald Trump\u2019s lesser-known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he\u2019s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt. The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump\u2019s time in office.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cHis avowed stance, however, is at odds with Trump\u2019s own record as president: Each of his White House budget proposals included cuts to Social Security and Medicare programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Axios<\/a>: \u201cTrump suggests entitlement cuts could come in his second term\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cFox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Might\u2019ve Let Russia \u2018Take Over\u2019 Parts of Ukraine\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ron DeSantis is a failed governor pushing the MAGA agenda to new extremes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cFlorida is now America\u2019s inflation hotspot\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cWhile Ron DeSantis Is Fighting Culture Wars, Millions Of Floridians Are Losing Their Health Care\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Tucker Carlson<\/a>: \u201cYou signed a ban on abortion after six weeks in Florida. Would you do the same as president, nationally?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis: \u201cWell, I’m very proud to say Kim Reynolds is here and she signed a great heartbeat bill today. We were able to do that in Florida. We had a lot of opposition to that. I’m proud to have been a pro-life governor and I will be a pro-life president, so of course I want to sign pro-life legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cRon DeSantis once expressed support for privatizing Social Security and Medicare giving his rivals an opening\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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New York Post<\/a>: \u201cHis assertion, in a statement to Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, that it is not in America\u2019s \u2018vital national interests\u2019 to become \u2018further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia\u2019 was strongly criticized by numerous senior Republicans \u2014 including Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Marco Rubio.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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DeSantis<\/a>: \u201cThey’re never using that number one constitutional power they have \u2014 the power of the purse \u2014 to rein in these administrative agencies. And so you have something like DOJ and FBI \u2014 well, if you never hold them accountable through the legislative process, either through law, or through budget, of course power is going to accumulate there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The Hill<\/a>: \u201cDeSantis says he\u2019ll consider pardoning Jan. 6 defendants, including Trump\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nikki Haley is another MAGA extremist who will say anything if it benefits her politically.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fox News<\/a> : \u201cNikki Haley, 2024 Republican candidate, vows to sign federal abortion ban if elected president\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Haley:<\/a> \u201cThe younger generation \u2013 we go and we do a new system on how they\u2019re going to get [Social Security and Medicare].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cPresidential hopeful Nikki Haley failed to give a clear answer on how her policies differ from former President Donald Trump’s while being quizzed by Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Haley:<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m really proud of the successes of the Trump administration. Whether it was foreign policy or domestic policy, we should embrace those. Those were the right policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Haley<\/a>: \u201cWhat I\u2019d like to see is us go back to what Trump had under the tax cuts under him \u2026 I was there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Vivek Ramaswamy is desperately trying to out-MAGA the rest of the 2024 GOP field and continues to show how deeply unserious he is.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ramaswamy<\/a>: \u201cI remain open minded to any constitutional scholar convincing me of the legal basis for the federal government, which I believe has no authority to codify Roe v. Wade into law, to codify a federal abortion ban into law either. I remain open minded.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ramaswamy<\/a>: \u201cI think we should apply consistent principle on the front end, that\u2019s around the six-week mark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Hemmer: \u201cSo just to be clear, you\u2019re of the same position that Ron DeSantis is, then, based on the bill he signed last week in Florida, six weeks?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy: \u201cI think that\u2019s a reasonable bill for him to have signed, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Politico<\/a>: \u201cRamaswamy spoke to POLITICO reporters in their offices Monday just one day after he told ABC News that the U.S. could end the fighting by making \u2018some major concessions\u2019 to Russia. NatSec Daily pressed him after the meeting on what that would mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Putin would end [up] with Crimea and most of the Donbas,\u2019 he told us. Furthermore, NATO should vow that Ukraine won\u2019t join the alliance and the U.S. should restore \u2018full economic relations\u2019 with Russia. \u2018Those are big concessions,\u2019 he underscored.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Politico<\/a>: \u201cRamaswamy: I \u2018don\u2019t believe\u2019 the 9\/11 Commission report\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy are visiting the Iowa State Fair today, and they are just four of the candidates among the most extreme slate of Republican presidential candidates in history. 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