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The Republican Party of Marion County is hosting multiple events Saturday. U.S. House of Representatives candidate Marianette Miller-Meeks will speak and answer questions at the headquarters on the square in Knoxville at 10:30 a.m. Shell be joined by former U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad.

Following that event, vehicle rallies will be held in Knoxville, Pella, Melcher-Dallas and Pleasantville. Participants will meet at 11:00 a.m. at their respective locations, and the rallies will run from noon to 1:00 p.m.

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The reelection campaign of Sen. Heather Somers bristled this week at a campaign flyer from her opponent linking her to President Trump, calling it illegal, a violation of the state's campaign finance law.

Election enforcement officials will eventually decide whether challenger Col. Bob Statchen, a lawyer, is correct in his vigorous denial of an official Republican election complaint over theflyer, which links Somers and Trump.

But what might stick most with voters is the great lengths that Connecticut Republicans have gone to this election season to distance themselves from the person at the head of the ticket they are running on, the one person political candidates traditionally wholeheartedly embrace.

Indeed, in debates this week sponsored by The Day, both Somers and Republican Sen. Paul Formica of East Lyme pretended like the Republican president has no bearing on the lives of their Connecticut constituents, as if their own state government isn't going to have to cope with the turmoil stirred by Trump, from a bungled pandemic response to inciting racial turmoil, eliminating tax deductions for blue states like Connecticut and doing nothing to tame climate change.

Most Connecticut Republicans have gone to great lengths to neither support nor repudiate Trump, to not answer any questions about him or his policies.

And yet, despite the silence, we can see the state's Republican establishment is quite Trumpian in behavior, from attempts at voter suppression to their own votes against gun control, family leave, a higher minimum wage and an effort to make police officers more accountable, from increased training to wearing body cameras.

I was especially struck by the way Sen. Formica's Democratic challenger, Martha Marx of New London, a nurse, managed to bring home the difference between the policies of Trumpian Connecticut Republicans and the state's Democrats.

Her description of how her work takes her into the homes of the working poor was very powerful, and she made a heartfelt argument about how an extra $40 or $80 a week from a raise in the minimum wage could be life changing, especially for a single mother trying to put food on the table.

Making employers pay a fair wage, she added, could save the state from the need to provide a larger safety net.

Formica complained about the negative impacts on businesses of a higher minimum wage.

"As probably one of the only job creators on the stage this evening ..." a Trumpian Formica began his answer on the minimum wage, an obvious jab at his only opponent.

I don't see, though, how running a restaurant, or a chain of hotels and golf resorts, for that matter, is more noble than a career in caring for the sick.

A thorough and statesmanlike candidate, Statchen also hit hard on his opponents' votes against things like a higher minimum wage, paid family leave and banning bump stocks, gun superchargers.

He noted that even Trump eventually came around to supporting a ban on bump stocks.

He also called the senator out for denying that there is systematic racism in this country.

Somers sighed a lot and rolled her eyes more than a few times, an apparent debate technique, often looking annoyed she had to answer her opponent's arguments.

While watching the debate for the 18th Senate District, I couldn't shake the image of a high school debate for class president, with candidate Somers gathering with friends later at a sock hop, slurping milkshakes and laughing about the other candidate, a nerd with a briefcase.

I felt good about the debates, mostly because I liked what I heard and have already voted, using a dedicated ballot box at my town hall.

One of the reasons Somers gave at the debate for voting against the use of the ballot boxes, to make pandemic voting easier, is that someone might maliciously throw a cigarette inside one and destroy the votes.

She gave similar, fantastic Trumpian-like reasons for her votes against measures that would make life better for the people of Connecticut, especially the neediest and most vulnerable.

I'm pretty sure my vote made it past the dangers of a cigarette ballot box bomber and is safe.

This is the opinion of David Collins.

d.collins@theday.com

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Published: 10/23/2020 12:01:39 AM

On Nov. 3, I will be voting in my 12th presidential election. All of the last 11 were important, but this year my voting is even more imperative. This year we will determine what kind of country we will leave our children and grandchildren.

Since the election of Donald Trump, our allies no longer trust us. Russia is placing a bounty on the heads of American soldiers. Americans that have died or wounded in the service of their country are called suckers and losers. We have withdrawn support for international agreements.

Instead of living up to our agreements and defending our troops, when Putin interferes with our election, Trump praises him. He admires brutal dictators like Kim Jong-un.

Trump has attacked Social Security. The Republicans have passed a tax cut favoring the wealthiest Americans, which created a huge deficit, increasing our national debt. There is a slow dismantling of the Affordable Care Act. While many Americans cannot pay the rent or put food on their table, the Republican Senate refuses to help them. There are weekly revelations of a new scandal and corruption. We are watching an attempt to undermine our electoral system. Because of Trumps incompetence, 225,000 Americans have died due to the coronavirus.

In the last three years, we have seen corruption, hypocrisy, and authoritarianism. As Patrick William Robertson once said, There are three things that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. This year the voters must show no mercy. Vote them out.

JOHN HARWOOD

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It is not actually clear that new states are on the agenda should Democrats win in November. House Democrats have passed a bill to admit the District of Columbia as a state, and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nydia Velzquez of New York have introduced a bill to let Puerto Ricans hold a binding referendum on their future, but Senate Democrats are still somewhat silent on the issue.

Nonetheless, congressional Republicans have raised the specter of new states as they fight to defend their majority in the Senate.

In June, after the House passed its D.C. statehood bill, Senate Republicans went on a tear against the measure, with Lindsey Graham of South Carolina condemning it as an unconstitutional power grab that would empower the most radical agenda in modern American politics. Later, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, used his time at the Republican National Convention to warn of dire consequences should the District become a state.

They want to defund the police and take away your Second Amendment rights. They want free health care for illegal immigrants yet they offer no protection at all for unborn Americans. They want to pack the Supreme Court with liberals intent on eroding our constitutional rights. And they want to codify all this by making the swamp itself, Washington DC, Americas 51st state. With two more liberal senators, we cannot undo the damage theyve done.

More recently, on Fox News, Graham fighting an unusually tough battle for re-election against his Democratic challenger, Jaime Harrison warned of a parade of horribles should Republicans lose the Senate and the White House. If they win, it is not going to be about a health care debate, he said, referring to the last period of unified Democratic control in 2009, they are going to structurally change the country to make it harder for a Republican to get elected president. They are going to make D.C. a state, altering the balance of power in the Senate.

On Twitter, likewise, Senator John Cornyn of Texas also in a competitive race for re-election against the Democratic challenger MJ Hegar warned that a Democratic majority in Congress would make D.C. and Puerto Rico states, adding four additional members to the Senate. This would also, he said, mean nine new members of the Electoral College, equivalent of New Mexico and New Hampshire combined. Presumably, these states would also vote Democratic in the next presidential election.

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On March 27, 2020, the House of Representatives passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act via a voice vote. The bill amounted to trillions of dollars in aid for hospitals, businesses, and individuals affected by the coronavirus. An overwhelming majority of membersleft, right, and centersupported the initiative, but it was not unanimous. Rep. Justin Amash (L-MI), a Republican turned Libertarian who opposed the bill, took to Twitter to blast his former GOP colleagues for hypocrisy. Just ten years after the Tea Party movement, he wrote, Republicans in Congress are defending a $500 billion corporate welfare fund for a select group of large companies.1

Thisviewthat Republicans had betrayed their principles by supporting a large,deficit-financed relief packageis hardly the majority opinion on the right,but it is nevertheless worth asking if it is true. Just as there are noatheists in foxholes, are there no economicconservatives in a national crisis?

The answer inevitably depends on how one defines the phrase economic conservatism. As Amash understands it, it implies a commitment to minimal government involvement in the economy, regardless of the circumstances. Amashs view, while no doubt honestly held and certainly worth consideration, has never been the dominant understanding of economic conservatism in the Republican Party. And while conservativism can mean virtually anything to anybody at any point in time, there is a voluminous historical record of speeches, party platforms, and laws that clearly establishes the parameters of Republican orthodoxy on economic conservatism.

Republican economics, as we might understand it, has had a strong and consistent orientation toward business. It sees the success of American business as the key to national unity, domestic prosperity, and international security. In that view, supporting business is an essential government function. The party has never really advocated for a minimalist government but rather a government that supports private industry.

The intellectual origins of this approach stretch back to the period before the Republican Party existed, in the political philosophies of leaders such as Whig Henry Clay and Federalist Alexander Hamilton. After the collapse of the Whig Party following the Compromise of 1850, ex-Whigs in the North combined their economic policies with a free-soil approach that restricted slavery in the territories to form the Republican Party. The triumph of the Union made the free-soil position obsolete, but the party continued its commitment to Whig economics.

While the specifics of Republican policies have often changed since the Civil War, the partys core commitment to supporting business has remained consistent. Indeed, the evolution of many policy positionsfor instance, on the debate over free trade versus protectionismhas closely tracked American business changing needs. While there is no doubt a lot to criticize about the connection between the party and business interests, Republican support of the CARES Act was consistent with its historical beliefs.

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'Reasonable encouragement to our home industry': The Republican Party's response to the coronavirus - American Enterprise Institute