Story by Trenton Brink
Although it may not seem like it, there will be another election in 2020, with the republican and democratic parties once again trying to elect their nominee to the presidential position. The results of the 2016 election will have some effect on the years to come, good or bad.
The party who is predicted to be the most affected, is Donald Trump’s Republican party. Even before the results of the election have come in, members of congress are already withdrawing from their offices because of Donald Trump.
According to US News, forty members of the House and Senate withdrawn their support after the release of Trump’s tapes regarding women. Some of those being well known names such as John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
However, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Paul Ryan still support Trump, but have publically stated criticism about their party’s nominee.
Despite these claims, a member of the Jackson County Republican Committee, Kathy Woodley, is confident in her party’s nominee. She has studied Trump, along with his books, learning all about him. She went to his rallies, became part of a delegate group, and has seen Mike Pence, the vice president nominee task management app.
“The man is a really nice man and has helped people and doesn’t boast about it” said Woodley. “He is a good manager, he hires the best people in the world, but the media shuts him down.”
Woodley sees him as a fit candidate for office, especially when it comes to being a humanitarian. “This is what trump does, he looks for the right people and the right products under budget to build and get things done.”
The election is an event the media has been all over, but Woodley believes they are not accurately showing who Trump is. “They’re covering up who he really is, he is not a pervert or a sex mongrel, you know right away that he’s an honorable man, his heart can’t stand to see any more buildings go down. He cares about america deeply and that’s why he ran for president.”
She went as far as to say that the media is being bought out by the Koch brothers, owners of the second largest privately owned company in the U.S. Whether or not it as seen as right or wrong, Woodley also believes Trump’s values that have caused so much trouble stem from the birth of Trump’s daughters. “After he had daughters, has evolved as a person, he is a conservative.”
Sophomore Hunter Brandes does not understand why officials in congress are taking out their support. “I believe that for the people who left the GOP because of Trump have a made a huge mistake. To go as far as leave the republican party after many of whom have been in the GOP for several years was a bad judgment call,” said Brandes.
He went on to believe that the GOP members who are withdrawing all have something in common. “I think that for those who cannot stand by their party’s candidate in this election of the century in both the GOP and the DNC don’t belong in that party. I don’t believe that the decision to abandon the GOP in its time of need has any justification. I honestly feel that it’s possible that some of those who left may have left simply to look good in the public eye and if that’s the case there is certainly no justification behind that.”
However, he believes that there is fighting within the GOP that may have some effect as well. “It is certainly possible that if Trump wins the election the republican party could split between those who support Trump and those who don’t and I think the loss of several GOP members reflects that. There is a war inside the GOP.”
If Trump loses, he thinks it will serve as a benefit for the party. “I think that the GOP will be reunified. Everyone in the GOP will have the common enemy.” However, he does agree that some of his policies don’t align perfectly with Republicans.
“Some of Trump’s values seem to differ from those of the republican party. For the most part, a multitude of Trump’s ideas and policies align with those of the GOP but there are a select few that seem almost indistinguishable from that of the DNC.”
“This election it is important to stand by your candidate no matter your party,” said Brandes.
