Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst blasts Biden-Harris ticket during GOP convention for being ‘hostile to farmers’

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Sen. Joni Ernst says the Biden-Harris ticket is hostile to farmers

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst speaks at the third night of the 2020 Republican National Convention.

Sen. Joni Ernst on Wednesday blasted the Biden-Harris ticket during the third night of the Republican National Convention, slamming the 2020 Democratic nominees for being “hostile to farmers.”

“I can’t recall an administration more hostile to farmers than the Obama-Biden administration,” Ernst said. “Unless you count the Biden-Harris ticket.”

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Ernst, R-Iowa, claimed that should Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., are elected, they would “essentially ban animal agriculture and eliminate gas-powered cars.”

She added that a Biden-Harris administration was one that was for “liberal coastal elites and radical environmentalists,” and she praised President Trump, and said farmers “have an ally in the White House.”

Ernst, in her short speech Wednesday night, touched on Biden’s support of the Green New Deal, a sweeping proposal introduced in Congress last year that aims to transform the country’s economy to combat climate change while enacting a host of new welfare programs.

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Biden, last year, unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat climate change, which used the Green New Deal as a framework.

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