Stratton and Tracy Split on Iran Actions
Lt. Governor and Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Juliana Stratton and former Illinois GOP Chair and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Don Tracy.
The two candidates for U.S. Senate in Illinois are divided on the Trump administration’s handling of the war in Iran.
Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton, the Democratic nominee to replace outgoing Senator Dick Durbin, opposes the incursion into Iran, while Republican nominee, Don Tracy, a former Illinois GOP Chairman, supports Trump’s actions to eliminate the Iranian regime.
Stratton appeared with me on the radio Friday. Tracy was our guest Monday.
Stratton criticized Trump’s handling of the conflict.
“It’s more and more obvious that this administration had no plan and no vision for how this war would unfold. And we’re seeing just the utter incompetence that has been highlighted over these last several weeks,” she said. “I have made it clear that I would not support any supplemental funds. There’s no justification for supplemental funds for a war that has no justification and no plan.”
Tracy, meanwhile, struck a more supportive tone.
“We’ve been concerned for a long time about Iran having a nuclear bomb. And every president for the last 47 years has had a foreign policy that said Iran must not ever allow be allowed to have nuclear weaponry. We’ve tried appeasement, we’ve tried negotiation. Nothing else has worked,” Tracy said. “The choice was between Iran as a nuclear power, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism who’s been running amok in the Mideast, and also developing the capability to deliver nuclear weapons to the United States. You you do you let that happen or do you do something about it?”
The Trump administration has indicated it will ask Congress for an additional $200 billion in funding for the war.
