He’s not the guy I remember watching growing up. I grew up in Iowa, where we had Democrat, Tom Harkin, we had Republican Chuck Grassley, and they’d go off to Washington and into the U.S. Senate. And you know, I wouldn’t agree with what everybody was doing. But you kind of knew, they still at least had Iowa’s back.
Finkenauer reflects on her changing perception of Grassley and his recent actions.
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You do not get to say those words on the floor of the U.S. Senate, defend a president who was trying to stay in office after he lost an election and expect to get reelected in a state like Iowa.
It is about having somebody who is going to step up for the health care, who is going to fight for lower prescription drug prices, who is actually going to have the backs of their family again.
This guy, who told his supporters on January 6th to march to the Capitol while they were wearing Trump hats, Trump T-shirts, and they beat our Capitol police officers with Trump flags and American flags. And Chuck Grassley saw that. He saw…
They are afraid. They know they`re vulnerable and they`re selling essentially democracy down the line because of the fact that they cannot stand up to Donald Trump.
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