MILWAUKEE, WI — (WZMQ 19 News) — It’s day three of the Republican National Convention. Multiple Republican lawmakers and candidates are set to speak throughout Wednesday evening, including former President Donald Trump’s pick for Vice President, Senator J.D. Vance (R- OH).
“I’m excited. Of course, I’m partial to Marines,” said Rep. Jack Bergman (R- MI) of the freshman Ohio Senator. “He is a man who has come through the hardest of times with potentially the lowest percentage of life’s outcomes and look what he’s done. If he can do it, anybody can do it,” Bergman added.
Bergman, who arrived in Milwaukee Wednesday afternoon, spoke exclusively with WZMQ 19 News shortly after arriving. Top of mind for he and so many others, is the attempted assassination of the former President in Butler, PA on Saturday.
“It’s all on the Secret Service. They had the role, the mission to secure the perimeter. And when I saw some maps today, there is no excuse that that building wasn’t covered within the range that it’s in,” said Bergman. “We’ll do that oversight investigation and hold those accountable. And anybody who’s in charge of the Secret Service should be fired if they are responsible,” he added.
Bergman, like many others from both sides of the aisle discussed the importance of toning back personal attacks and harmful political rhetoric- even if it is difficult during such a contentious election cycle up and down the ballot.
“Negativity, increasing the temperature in the room does not lead to better results. And we continually hear the other side say ‘a threat to democracy, the end of the world as we know it,’ all of these things – that causes the temperature to go up and it causes people to do things that they normally wouldn’t do. So, it’s on both sides to keep the rhetoric to who we are as a country, that we are better than one group or another, we are America,” said Bergman.
