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President’s campaign insists debate shows no daylight in GOP policies
President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign Manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez has called out Republican candidates who featured in their third debate of the 2024 United States presidential campaign in Miami, for embracing the same ‘extreme MAGA agenda’ promoted by former President Donald Trump but soundly rejected by the American electorate.
Rodriguez, in a statement lumping the five Republicans who participated in the debate with Trump, said there is no daylight between the policies of the GOP (“Grand Old Party”) members seeking to fly the Party’s presidential flag in next year’s polls.
According to her; “Normally, after you lose, you take a moment to reflect and course correct. But in Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican Party, apparently, you double down on the same extreme agenda that was soundly rejected last night in elections across the country. That’s what we witnessed tonight: the entire Republican field once again embracing Donald Trump’s losing and extreme MAGA agenda of banning abortion, cutting Social Security and Medicare, and rigging the economy for the ultra-wealthy at the expense of working Americans.”
Taking a further swipe at the Republicans; Rodriguez said; “In fact, the only thing that the American people agree with these MAGA Republicans on is that their extreme agenda has left them reeling as ‘a party of losers.’ A year from now, Americans will face a clear choice, between President Biden, who is focused on the issues impacting you, and MAGA Republicans, whose policy platform is to make things worse for you by taking away your freedoms. We’ll spend the next year making sure every American knows just that.”
‘Extreme MAGA’ has its roots in Ex-President Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan “Make America Great Again,” which became a rallying cry for many of his supporters during his candidacy and the eventual presidency from 2017 to 2021 and beyond.
Considered a movement populated by Trump’s supporters, MAGA was initially founded on the notion that the United States was once a “great” country but has lost this status owing to foreign influence, both within and outside its borders.
Of interest is the thinking by MAGA members that this perceived “fall from grace can be reversed through “America first” policies that would provide a greater degree of economic protectionism, greatly reduce immigration, particularly from developing countries, and encourage or enforce what MAGA members consider to be traditional American values.” – With The Guardian report
