Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird champions Trump record as caucuses near

Iowa Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird is one of former President Donald Trump’s highest-ranking endorsements in the Hawkeye State, and she believes he is the only, and the best, candidate who can beat President Joe Biden.

Contrary to the state’s Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, who endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for president, Bird made the decision that Trump was the best man for the job and endorsed the onetime president.

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“I think that President Trump is the one who’s going to defeat Biden and win our country back,” Bird said in an interview in early December. “And we were all a lot better off in Iowa when Donald Trump was president.”

Bird, who is in her first term as attorney general, won the election by beating the incumbent who had served in the role for nearly 40 years.

She has traveled the state and said that support for Trump is strong, even with DeSantis getting the governor’s endorsement and spending much time there. And the polls reflect this just a few weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses, which will take place on Jan. 15.

According to FiveThirtyEight’s polling average for the Iowa caucus, Trump is at 50%, with DeSantis quite a bit behind him at 18.4%.

“I see strong support for President Trump all over Iowa, and I think it’s because of his record and people know what he did as president, and they want that back again. So he’s got broad support from all kinds of people,” Bird said. “Iowans are really excited about President Trump and are going to caucus for him.”

To her, the main difference between Trump and the other candidates is the track record he already has, having served as president for four years, whereas the other candidates do not have that track record.

“President Trump brings a track record of showing what he would do as president, and people want what they had when President Trump was president,” Bird said. “They know that he knows how to govern, that he knows how to take on the swamp and do what’s right and stand up for America.”

She believes that Iowans are looking for someone who will “respect their constitutional freedoms and who will uphold the Constitution” and that Trump is the candidate who will do just that.

However, Trump has faced major legal challenges which could have the potential to upend his bid. In Colorado, the state’s Supreme Court ruled to throw Trump off its primary ballot over his actions on and around Jan. 6, 2021. Similar challenges have been filed in other states, but Colorado was the first state in which the effort was successful.

He is also facing charges connected to his handling of classified documents after leaving office and another connected to his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection of the Capitol. State charges in Georgia have also been filed against Trump connected to his attempt to overturn the election results in the state.

Since Bird endorsed him, she has led a multistate brief in opposition to Trump’s gag order and has been a staunch defender of him as he faces numerous legal cases.

As a prosecutor, Bird said she has worked hand in hand with the FBI to put criminals away and believes those in the local field offices are “excellent,” but the “D.C. office of the FBI has very serious that have to be addressed.”

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She strayed away from answering whether, as a prosecutor, the charges against Trump worry her at all and instead criticized what she believes to be a politicization of the Justice Department.

“As a prosecutor, I believe that politics has absolutely no place in prosecutions that’s wrong,” she said when asked if the charges worry her. “I never prosecuted someone based on their political beliefs. I would never do that. That is wrong. … So he shouldn’t have to go through that.”