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Ran on 'guaranteeing the right to an abortion' as a top policy priority and said he is running because Iowans deserve 'protection of women's reproductive freedoms.' Explicitly rejects any life-at-conception or personhood framework.
The son of Laotian refugees, Baccam explicitly rejected mandatory deportation as border policy; drew on his family's immigrant experience to argue against mass deportation while framing his preferred approach as 'bipartisan' — adding border patrol agents and fentanyl-detection technology at ports rather than the mandatory-deportation and enforcement-first model the rubric requires.
At a 2024 KCCI candidate debate called for red flag laws to keep firearms from dangerous individuals, saying 'We need to find ways to also alert our law enforcement to people who may have ill intents' and framed red flag laws and 'violent history checks' as 'common sense' measures — directly opposing the rubric's rejection of red-flag confiscation laws.
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