Politics
Dale Crafts, the Republican nominee for Maine’s 2nd congressional district, told Breitbart News Saturday that China has been “ripping off” America “for way too long.”
Crafts wants to oust the freshman swing district Democrat Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME); Golden unseated former Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) during the 2018 midterm elections with help from Maine’s ranked-choice ballot system.
Crafts, a former Maine state lawmaker, said he served with Golden in the Maine Home, and noted that while Golden served the state as a leftist Democrat, he has actually combated for conservative worths.
” I served with Jared in your house and if you look at the NFIB rating … I was at 100 percent; he was at 17 percent. His NRA was D; I had an A since of all of the Second Modification legislation I put in,” Crafts informed Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle.
” So there’s a substantial contrast in between the 2 of us. I’m a small entrepreneur; he’s not. I’m socially conservative, the district is socially conservative, so this is really our time to recover the seat, I think,” Crafts said.
Golden represents one of the 13 congressional districts that President Donald Trump won throughout the 2016 presidential election by more than six percent, however Democrats handled to flip during the 2018 midterm elections. Republicans just require to retake a net 17 seats to gain back your home majority.
Crafts kept in mind that he has actually seen tremendous enthusiasm for Trump in Maine’s 2nd district.
” You will be absolutely surprised by the Trump indications that are on lawns. I have actually never ever seen anything like it. The enthusiasm to choose the president in the second district is off the scale, I have actually never ever seen anything like it,” he stated.
Boyle kept in mind that former Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said that working individuals vote Republican politician and that Trump has moved the Republican politician Party towards working-class concerns such as trade and immigration.
Crafts said that other nations’ unreasonable trade practices, specifically China’s, have made it harder for American business to conduct company.
” You sell a car over in Japan and other countries on the planet, it can be as much as $10,00 0 to $15,00 0 to import an American-built cars and truck,” Crafts described. “We have been ripped off. If we want this economy to come back really, really strong America can be higher, the economy can grow greater than it ever has because you get reasonable trade and then produce tasks and our economy can grow, and individuals forgot to see that– President Trump is best on the cash when it concerns china and what’ happening with us being duped this country for method too long.”
” I think you’ll see this economy grow when it happens. We’ll win that fight. A great deal of people wish to bail, a lot of individuals getting anxious, we have to got to stick to the president through this China [trade] war,” he included.
Breitbart News Saturday airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 10: 00 A.M to 1: 00 P.M. Eastern.
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @ SeanMoran3
