Two congressional representatives from Florida offered very different takes on Donald Trump, the favorite for the Republican presidential nomination, on Thursday.
Jeff Miller, the Panhandle Republican who chairs the House Veterans Affairs Committee, endorsed Trump, saying the businessman can clean up the federal Department of Veterans Affairs. Miller is not running for reelection in November.
"Donald Trump is the only person who has what it takes to shake up the status quo and entrenched bureaucrats in Washington D.C.," Miller said. "I am more and more convinced that he has the ability to reach in and right the wrongs in the Department of Veterans Affairs once and for all.
“America needs Donald Trump and his conservative agenda to shore up and secure our borders and to rebuild our military," Miller said. “I stand today with Donald Trump, and l support his candidacy for president.”
But even as Trump won Miller’s support, he drew fire from Lois Frankel, a South Florida Democrat who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee, on foreign policy. Trump gave a speech on foreign policy on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
“Donald Trump’s speech Wednesday was meant to make him look serious,” said Frankel. “Instead, it underscored how dangerous and incoherent his foreign policy really is. His address was wrought with blatant contradictions only tied together by his ‘America First’ theme -- a slogan borrowed from World War II-era isolationists who wanted the U.S. to stand idly by in the face of Hitler’s rise. Very scary!
“And when it comes to fighting terrorism, Trump only raised more questions,” Frankel added. “For months, Trump has been playing into ISIS’s hands by denigrating Muslims. Now, he claims to have a plan to defeat ISIS in short order, but he can’t share it with anyone because he says we need to be more unpredictable. I respectfully suggest that his unpredictability is unsettling. He owes it to the American people and to our military to present a cohesive plan of action that demonstrates an understanding of the complexity of confronting radical violence in the world.”
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