Rep. John Fillmore | johnfillmore.com
Rep. John Fillmore | johnfillmore.com
A Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives who is running for re-election in the Tuesday, Nov. 3 general election said the recent Republican National Convention presented a Republican Party that is “more optimistic and visionary” than Democrats.
Arizona Rep. John Fillmore (R-Apache Junction), who represents District 16, told Franklin Archer that the Democratic National Convention in comparison to the RNC “seemed focused on bad issues of what was wrong and blamed the Republicans for it.”
"They portrayed all the perceived wrongdoings of our society (race, transgender, free healthcare) etc., there was no road map to the finish line of change other than blame Trump,” Fillmore told Franklin Archer.
In his speech on Aug. 27 as Republican nominee for President of the United States, President Donald Trump said that the left has a “backward view.”
“They do not see America as the most free, just and exceptional nation on Earth. Instead, they see a wicked nation that must be punished for its sins,” Trump said, according to C-SPAN. “Our opponents say that redemption for you can only come from giving power to them. This is a tired anthem spoken by every repressive movement throughout history, but in this country, we don’t look to career politicians for salvation. In America, we do not turn to government to restore ourselves. We put our faith in almighty God.”
Fillmore told Franklin Archer that Republicans “stole the old Democrat ideals of hope and opportunity right out from under them.”
“The Republicans were seeming to attack the Democrats’ base by pleading to the people of color on the accomplishments of the current administration in the areas they are concerned with such as jobs and opportunity etc.,” Fillmore told Franklin Archer. “We are at a crossroads of change. We can look down the dark road of socialism and the destruction of free enterprise, or we can grasp the opportunity of new opportunities in space exploration, jobs that are meaningful, and education based upon free choice and good futures.”
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