Iowa Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird is one in every of former President Donald Trump’s highest-ranking endorsements within the Hawkeye State, and she or he believes he’s the one, and the perfect, candidate who can beat President Joe Biden.
Contrary to the state’s Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, who endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for president, Bird made the choice that Trump was the perfect man for the job and endorsed the onetime president.
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“I think that President Trump is the one who’s going to defeat Biden and win our country back,” Bird mentioned in an interview in early December. “And we had been all rather a lot higher off in Iowa when Donald Trump was president.”
Bird, who’s in her first time period as lawyer normal, received the election by beating the incumbent who had served within the function for almost 40 years.
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She has traveled the state and mentioned that assist for Trump is powerful, even with DeSantis getting the governor’s endorsement and spending a lot time there. And the polls replicate this only a few weeks forward of the Iowa caucuses, which can take place on Jan. 15.
According to FiveThirtyEight’s polling common for the Iowa caucus, Trump is at 50%, with DeSantis fairly a bit behind him at 18.4%.
“I see strong support for President Trump all over Iowa, and I think it’s because of his record and people know what he did as president, and they want that back again. So he’s got broad support from all kinds of people,” Bird mentioned. “Iowans are really excited about President Trump and are going to caucus for him.”
To her, the primary distinction between Trump and the opposite candidates is the observe document he already has, having served as president for 4 years, whereas the opposite candidates wouldn’t have that observe document.
“President Trump brings a track record of showing what he would do as president, and people want what they had when President Trump was president,” Bird mentioned. “They know that he knows how to govern, that he knows how to take on the swamp and do what’s right and stand up for America.”
She believes that Iowans are searching for somebody who will “respect their constitutional freedoms and who will uphold the Constitution” and that Trump is the candidate who will do exactly that.
However, Trump has confronted main authorized challenges which might have the potential to upend his bid. In Colorado, the state’s Supreme Court dominated to throw Trump off its main poll over his actions on and round Jan. 6, 2021. Similar challenges have been filed in different states, however Colorado was the primary state wherein the trouble was profitable.
He can be going through fees linked to his dealing with of labeled paperwork after leaving workplace and one other linked to his function within the Jan. 6 rebel of the Capitol. State fees in Georgia have additionally been filed in opposition to Trump linked to his try and overturn the election ends in the state.
Since Bird endorsed him, she has led a multistate brief in opposition to Trump’s gag order and has been a staunch defender of him as he faces quite a few authorized instances.
As a prosecutor, Bird mentioned she has labored hand in hand with the FBI to place criminals away and believes these within the native area workplaces are “excellent,” however the “D.C. office of the FBI has very serious that have to be addressed.”
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She strayed away from answering whether or not, as a prosecutor, the fees in opposition to Trump fear her in any respect and as a substitute criticized what she believes to be a politicization of the Justice Department.
“As a prosecutor, I believe that politics has absolutely no place in prosecutions that’s wrong,” she mentioned when requested if the fees fear her. “I never prosecuted someone based on their political beliefs. I would never do that. That is wrong. … So he shouldn’t have to go through that.”
