Democratic presidential candidates are making Republicans’ work to win reelection easy with their “fantasyland” proposals that would be devastating for Iowa, according to the chairman of the state’s GOP.In a pre-buttal to the Democratic National Committee’s two nights of nationally televised debates that begin at 8 p.m. Iowa time today, Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann said he’s anticipating that the Democratic forums will highlight proposals “that have absolutely no basis in reality in fiscal sense.”Kaufmann made his comments during a conference call Wednesday with reporters to provide the “Republican perspective, I would say the common sense perspective.”In particular, Kaufmann said a Democratic $93 trillion Green New Deal and $32 trillion government-run health care program would be devastating for the Iowa agriculture and insurance industries.“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.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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