(DES MOINES) – Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann released the following statement in response to Senator Bernie Sanders entering the 2020 race:

“Bernie Sanders has gone from socialist pipe dream to Democrat-socialist mainstream as his party races to a government takeover of our economy. Venezuela is just the latest economic corpse, demonstrating a stark reminder of socialism’s long and murderous journey of cataclysmic failures. Socialism is a ruinous cancer to the freedoms we enjoy, not some utopian oceanside paradise of the la-la land left. And Americans should reject the politics of Bernie Sanders.”

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