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Iowa GOP expects Democrats to offer ‘fantasyland’ policy debates

CEDAR RAPIDS — Democratic presidential candidates are making Republicans’ work easy with “fantasyland” proposals that would be devastating for Iowa, according to the chairman of the Iowa GOP.In a pre-buttal to the Democratic National Committee’s two nights of debates that begin at 8 p.m. tonight, Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann said he’s anticipating that two nights of debates between Democratic presidential hopefuls will highlight proposals “that have absolutely no basis in reality in fiscal sense.”Kaufmann made his comments during a conference call with reporters to provide the “Republican perspective, I would say the common sense perspective.”In particular, Kaufmann said the Democrats’ $93 trillion Green New Deal and $32 trillion government-run health care program would be devastating for Iowa agriculture and insurance industry.“Bottom line is, I think you’re going to hear about the trillions of giveaways, the trillions of programs that have absolutely no basis in reality in fiscal sense,” Kaufmann said in a conference call with reporters.So in some ways, he added, the 2020 hopefuls’ “ludicrous … ridiculous” proposals are making it easy for the GOP to respond.“If this was mainstream stuff, it would be difficult to combat some of this because you got to get into the weeds” and go beyond 30- and 60-second television ads to respond, Kaufmann said.

 

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