Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 6:50 pm
Sanabel wrote:Moderator (Mike Oxlong): “Thank you for your answers. Let’s move on to our second topic of the evening, with a question directed at all of the candidates.”
He looked at his notes briefly, before continuing.
“In 2016, Arnold Wolf won the electoral college by an overwhelming margin, thanks primarily to his ability to narrowly flip longtime Democratic states in the Midwest. This debate tonight is being held in one such midwestern state that has been solidly Democratic for generations- but one that Arnold Wolf also came within two percentage points of also flipping during the last election. According to many experts, these states that used to comprise the so-called blue wall could now swing either way. However, in the 2018 midterms, many returned to being solidly Democratic.
So my question to you is, how do you intend to win these states in 2020, especially given only two people on this stage have ever won a competitive statewide race? And what do you see as the path forward for the GOP in this election and beyond?”
Governor Jonah Prendergast Jr. of West Virginia
"President Wolf broke through the Blue Wall convincingly, and he did it by not treating the American people like children. That has been the defining, awful trait of Washington politics for some time now. A swamp-ish class of 'I-know-better' snobs who think they can shuffle the people around like kids on a school bus. It is an attitude that we must fight, and we must defeat, and we cannot pretend that Republicans are innocent of talking down to people and that this is a solely a Democrat problem."
Clearing his throat, Jonah continued.
"The President has acknowledged the pain that China and other trade and currency manipulators like Europe have caused to our industrial communities. I come from and represent one of those communities which has benefited from Wolf's substantial acknowledgment of who our enemies really are when it comes to trade. Some think we should blink and just accept that America should be second rate on trade. I think that's a cowardly position, and I think we should keep fighting for our American jobs, and our American workers, and our American products!"
Somewhat buoyed, he wrapped up his argument, not wanting to overstay the time-limit.
"We can keep going, and we can fight to complete those promises which have only floundered because of dirty Democrat opposition. We will make the Wolf Tax Cuts permanent and go further, to take American workers out of tax completely. We can mobilize the largest infrastructure operation since the New Deal, a war on decay. We will aggressively increase production so the price of electricity, of gas and of food will go down and make real wages go further. That is our answer to socialism, and that is how we will maintain our new relationship with the workers of America. Continuing to make America great again, and then to guard that American greatness against anyone who'd dare try to take it away."