The month of July will go down in history from a political standpoint across America. After the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, the Republican National Convention was held in Milwaukee.
Hardin County Supervisor B-J Hoffman was an Iowa delegate at this year’s convention, and tells Radio on the Go News it was a strong event for his party.
“I think that the call to action of Republican, Democrats, and Independents in the state of Iowa is, are you better off today, or were you better off four years ago? And finding that unity and finding common ground. And the key term that you keep hearing out there is saving the democracy, protect democracy, was kind of put to bed at the Republican National Convention.”
Then came the announcement by President Joe Biden that he was not going to seek another term in office. Hoffman shares his thoughts on what is taking place in the Democratic Party.
“If he’s unfit to continue to campaign as a candidate, is he truly fit to answer that 3 a.m. call? That’s not a partisan comment. That’s national security and a foreign policy statement.”
Ruth Saulsbury of Clarksville is chairperson of the Butler County Democratic Party, and tells Radio on the Go News that her party wants to change policies instituted by the GOP in Iowa.
“Have candidates that can represent the will and the wants and the needs of the Butler County residents. It’s imperative. There was a lot of pushback on several bills that came before our state legislature this year. There were a lot of people in Butler County saying, we do not want eminent domain. We do not want carbon pipeline. We do not want services being cut out of our schools like the AEA. We do not want any more loss of funding to our public schools. And that wasn’t reflected in the vote that our Republican representatives did. It was just extremely difficult to watch them vote.”
She says her party will be okay.
“I think the party is going to be just fine. The reality is that whomever accepts the presidential nomination at the convention next month in Chicago will be extremely capable and will continue to represent the platform that we’ve had in play this whole time.”
The Democratic National Convention is scheduled for August 19th-22nd in Chicago.
