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TYLER \u2013 The interim Smith County Democratic Party chair spoke to KETK News on Saturday about the United States military\u2019s capture of Venezuelan president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Cam Ray said the move to capture Maduro is a violation of the pro-peace platform that Trump ran on in his last presidential campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t feel like he\u2019s promoting that peace at all. That\u2019s what he said he was going to come in and do,\u201d Ray said. \u201cHe was going to end the war with Ukraine on day one, that hasn\u2019t happened. Things are continuing there and in several different countries. Rumors of the attacks in Nigeria, these are not the actions of a peaceful president.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ray continued by comparing the United States capture of Maduro and strikes against Venezuela to the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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\u201cI really have to equate it back to Afghanistan and Iraq. We were in those countries for ten years,\u201d Ray said. \u201cNobody wants to get into a ten year war again. Nobody wants to lose all those troops on the ground and having whole new sections of Arlington National Cemetery opened because we\u2019re having deaths in another war, especially one that\u2019s unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking forward, Ray expressed concern about what the future of Venezuela will look after Maduro\u2019s capture.
\n\u201cThat is really concerning that we have stepped into another country and taken over another country with no clear strategy on how to get out of it. I think that\u2019s the future in Venezuela post-Maduro is potential chaos,\u201d Ray said. \u201cPower vacuums are not handled well in any country. There has to be somebody in charge. There needs to be somebody in charge and so who likes having the U.S. pick who that is. It\u2019s not what we\u2019re here for. That\u2019s not what this country is about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u2013 The interim Smith County Democratic Party chair spoke to KETK News on Saturday about the United States military\u2019s capture of Venezuelan president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Cam Ray said the move to capture Maduro is a violation of the pro-peace platform that Trump ran on in his last presidential campaign. \u201cI don\u2019t feel like he\u2019s … Continue reading Local Democrats react to Maduro<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1468742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Democratic-Party-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 09:30:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Democratic-Party-150x150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1468735"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469236,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468735\/revisions\/1469236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}