Established. We have a minnesota delegation contest every single year and i won the first year and then have lost every time so [laughter] but it was a lot of fun and it is my entry with the tater to the hot dish, what which involves some tater to the and some pepper jack cheese. And in an iowasouthern minnesota good folk lower, it was very popular in statewide in minnesota but then i was getting emails only from southern minnesota which said you might want to use a different type of cheese because the pepper jack was so spicy. No one from northern minnesota said that at all. In addition to bryce with his great leadership, thank you, bryce, for that, we have shirley from the city council. Where are you . Thank you very much for being here and your leep leadership and your fourth of july first and that youre ready for, and also, she is not from this district but maybe you know her. She is actually from mason city, right . Marion, right . Ok, i got that. From that area and she was the first indianamerican legislator not just in iowa but in the United States of america. [applause] and that is an incredible story. And we were just meeting because shes been helping me out and we had this she told me her incredible story. I said howled you get involved in politics and her story is like so many women. Her story was that she had kids, she was at home, she volunteered every day at the school to help tutor in math and science day after day and threaten the School Started dialing back on the crick column that would ke it harder for kids to get certain degrees and to be able to apply to certain colleges if they got out of there so she went and talked to the school board we also have mikes thats great. In the middle of my story but it will be very good to mention that mike fitzgerald, our treasurer is here. Where are you, mike . [applause] very good. Thank you. Enjoying the shade. But anyway, so to finish her story. So she goes to the School Board Members and says this isnt right, its not good and she gets all her friends and neighbors to go to the scoop board and this thing is going on and finally one of them says you know, if you think you know what youre doing maybe you should run for school board and she does and beats one of them. I thoroughly enjoyed that story and then she ends up rung for the legislature, serving their admirably. That is the the story of so many of us and how we get involved in politics. For me it was many when my daughter was born and she was really sick and she couldnt swallow put this down. It was a complete surprise. Back then they had a rule, the Insurance Companies kick you out in 24 hours. Id had know sleep. We didnt know what was wrong with her. We didnt know if she had a tumor or if she was going to survive it and they kicked me out of the hospital. When she got a little better, i went to the legislature as a mom, not being elected and i joined with some legislators and we pushed for one of the first laws in the country guaranteeing moms and their new baby as 48hour hospital stay. I learned a few things. One, if you talk about things that make them uncomfortable at the legislature, especially male legislators like appease yacht mies, theyll go, ok, well pass it, no problem. The other thing i learned is we went to the Conference Committee and people well really couldnt say they were against this bill but they were trying to delay the implementation behind closed doors so i brought six pregnant friends to a conference and the they outnumbered the legislators you 1. The pregnant moms now. And that was exactly happened what happened so it was a great story for how you got things done. It was that kind of experience where you feel like you have to bring truth to power, take things on that motivated me to get hooked on politics and that was the beginning and that brings know write am today. So i announced on that much colder day by the river because i wanted to make this point, that its time to cross the recover river of our divide to get to a higher plane from our politics. I also wanted to make the point that we were a country that comes together. We come together because you dont ever know when youre the next one. Either something is going to go wrong or youre going to need a helping hand. The place where i announced is where that bridge announcinged in the middle of a beautiful day. Bridges shouldnt full down in america. Nor should levees nor crumbling infrastructure nor schools that arent good enough in this country. And that happened in minnesota. It was a bridge literally right next to our house. My husband, john, by the way, is right here. We saw medium running toward the disaster, not away from it. A firefighter offduty teethering herself to the side of the riverbank, diving in and out looking for swivels survive oirnings in manged cars and trucks. A guy couch saved his life in the school bus but he veered off to save the kids and burned to get. Depth. Or the school guard that was hanging precariously on this guard remain. He gets every kid off that bridge to safety. That is what our country is about and that is what this president , this guy in the white house is trying to fracture every single day, with every single tweet, with every single time he goes each of after immigrants, people of color. With every single time hell finds ways to divide people just o se meant he is own base. We know that our country is better than that, and iowa is better than that or they wounltsdz have collected swati as the first Indian American legislator in the churn. I tried as much as i could on that debate stage to talk about it. Harmed when you have 60 seconds, 30 seconds, 45 seconds but i thought it was important to address those challenges service we can because we have a perspective right now that is resting on the laurels of all of you. Reston on the laurels of workers who got us outs of that downturn. Small businesses, that were resilient. People and study policies that arer that were put in place and when youre in targetarge charge of something, whether its your business or your own family, you dont just rest on the lawyers alarms. Oh, well, my kid got a good grade this semester so im not going to worry about nils. No, you think about bigger ideas and ways you can help people and improve peoples lives. Thats not what hes doing. We have big problems in front of us. We have an economy where not everyone is sharing in the pros pepperty. They passed that tax bill. You know what that meant for america, for most of us . 1 trillion in debt. Its meant that 100 billion alone went to pharmaceutical companies because of the tax breaks. It mefpblets that 150 billion went to people who remember storing their money overseas or sending jocks overseas and what is that to me, the rest of us . Were basically left with nothing. As i said on the debate stage, it was all foam and no beer for most of us, right . They get the beer, they get the fosme. That is not what we want in this country. So what do we need to do . We need to make sure we have a fair tax system for everyone that rewards jocks in america, that makes sure we have the money we need to do these really big things that need to get done. It means we have shared prosperity because if people cant buy stuff you dont have a strong economy. Its really that simple. Its about Economic Justice and about making sure that people are treated fairly if they want to pursue opportunities. The second thing is about making sure this economy works for the middle of the country. You look at this president. He made a whole bunch of promises, light . The night of the election, we all remember that night. The night of the election he said hed work on infrastructure. That was one of the things because youre trying to find some silver lining. Im like well he hasnt done that. You saw that meeting at the white house where he blows up the meeting because he doesnt know how hes going to pay for it. My pictures if approach was for a 1 trillion infrastructure plan clearly played paid for by rolling back some of the incredible tax changes that he made as well as some buy america bonds. And i put that out there and we still havent seen anything on this president full wants to do Something Big on frain structure. And we see rural america. And he was out in small towns a lot. And im going to be out in small touges, like im here in Dallas County right now. We have a major urban area, as you know in minnesota, but were also one of the top states for agriculture. Thats why i go to awful 87 counties every single year that is what ive done and i literal ly have, in some counties i feel like ive met everyone in the county. I remember there was one county near the Canadian Border where i had visited literally every business and met with most cafes so we finally found where can we go visit . Theres a new business that won a new Business Award and its called insect inferno and i went to see it and it was a bed bug killing operation and all it was was a truck that you went inside and on the side of the truck they put mattresses in is it, i they drive it around to kill bedbugs and turn it up to 300 degrees. On the side it said we kill bedbugs with heat. They had me go inside and it wenlts ok, well just turn it up to 100 degrees. I thought all right, this is the true test that i go not just just where its comfortable but where it is uncomfortable. To me bridging that rumor divide means understanding rural america. Yes, its about a strong farm bill and as one of the most senior members of the Agriculture Committee weve crafted several farm bills, one of them working with your great senator tom hark in. Its about that and having safety nets for our farmers and making sure you dont get a bunch of oil waivers. This administration has been doing that to chevron and exxon, ruining the renewable oils because of that. Its about economic development, right . About parks like this in small towns. It is about making sure our School System works, not just in the big metropolitan areas and the suburbs but in rumor america as well. Its about understanding that critical acts of hospitals may be different than a big hospitals in a metropolitan area. Senator grassley and i have a bill thats focus leds on Emergency Rooms in rumor areas to make sure that works. Its about rural broad band. How are we going to bridge the usual urban rumor divide if a kid cannot email their grandma here in this town if you dont have high Speed Internet . And it is about rural housing. And inning theres a Big Coalition to be built here on housing issues because you have urban and rural issues when it comes to the suspense of housing and more Affordable Housing and it is about making sure that people understand in the cities that food didnt magically appear on your table. Someone makes it and they produce it. So those are some of the cases that were going to take across the country to the Democratic Party and that ill be making in these debates. Other challenges we have, Climate Change, right . This is something, when i was talking about it in the middle of that winter day with the snow falling, four inches of snow on my hair, when i was doing that, the president cents out a tweet and he made fun of me for talking about Climate Change in the middle of a blizzard. So a few hours later i wrote back and i said well, yeah, the science is on my side, donald trump and id like to see how your hair would fare in a blizzard. [laughter] by the way, humor is an important thing to use on this president. Because he eullses humor all the time. You are just dont think its humor, right . But humor is very important, as well as ignoring some of what he says as well as having your own optimistic economic agenda and i think its really important to have a voice from if heartland when it comes to Climate Change. We know about those rising sea levels and the people on the coast have a real good understanding because theyve been seeing it now for years but for the first time were starting to see it in a big way in the middle of the country. Whether its the raging wildfires or the tornadoes or the tpwhrooled flooding right here in iowa and nebraska and missouri. The woman named fran who i brought as my guest to that detective came to miami and he is a woman i met in the middle of a sleet storm with binoculars around her neck in pacific junction, iowa. She looks like shes this woman of the prairie thats been standing there herself for years and years. She shows me the binoculars and has me look through them. She said thats my house i bought with my husband. We have a 4yearold. I thought wed retire in this house. I love the kitchen and the way the light comes in that kitchen. Now i dont know if im going to sit in that kitchen again because the house was halfway underwater. She said this house is so sturdy it has stood here for nearly 100 years. Theres still horse hair in the plaster. And then i said as the water is raging by, was this the river rights here . She said no, thats the road. I said wheres the river then . She said the river is two and a half miles away. The river had never come that close to that house. So with Climate Change thats not happening in 100 years, Climate Change is happening right now and thats why, if youre president , unlike donald trump, who just came back from the g 20 where 19 of those countries were in the Climate Change agreement and we were not. On day one i will sign us back into the international Climate Change agreement, on day one, all right, sir . I will introduce and make sure those rules in the first week, those Climate Change rules that the Obama Administration well thought through that were left on the cutting room through when donald trump came in, that we will put those through, and we can do that wort congress. As well as the gas mimeage regulations. Sweeping changes. Health care costs. No one knows better actually, people dont realize the Health Care Costs in rural america. The challenges when it comes to hospitals and finding providers and things like that. To me the answer is to bring those premiums down. You can do it quickly with reinsurance and cost sharing but you can also do it with a public option, something that i will make sure debts gets done. It was something president obama wanted to do it you can do it with medicaid or medicare and it allows people to buy into a public option that doesnt have the Insurance Companies involved. The over thing that i would do, which is incredibly important is to take on the pharmaceutical companies. Theyve had an easy time out there. Them two lobbyists for every member of congress. What do you see because of that . You have a president that claimed he was going to take it on. He went on fox news once and said im going to bring down the cost of these pharma drugs so fast it will make your head spin. It has made our heads spin because thousands and thousandses of drugs have gone you will astromom clip since he game president. Insulin drugs have gone up to the points where a guy who couldnt afford the 1,00 a month on insulin. Had a good job, working hard. He started rationing his insulin and within a few months he died. That happened in the United States of america for a simple drug like insulin that used to be 18 a vile. This is about taking on pharmaceutical companies in many, many ways. It is about using the consumer laws. They do it when they have monopoly power. It is about using medicare negotiation. I have been leading that bill since i came to the senate and this is a bill that limits the ban so that all the nations nations 4 impact seniors can get a better deal with prescription drugs and it is about bringing in less expensive drugs from safe countries like canada in minnesota we can actually see canada from our porch, as well as iowa so we see what those price are. In the ends, i can tell you in. For years now ive seen in it that town. Pharma thinks they own washington. I can promise you one thing, iowa, they dont own me. These are the challenges in front of us and i think especially today as we learn that iran is now closing closer to developing a nuclear well as theyre lifting the cap, rolling through the cam when it comes to uranium enrichment. When the president got out of he iranian deal, he told us would get a better deal. Well, now we are much less safe than we were when he baseman president. This was one of the biggest ten else of our foreign policy, to stop the Iranian Regime from developing a new well. It was right up there with one of the top things we had to do. Thats why we signed on that agreement. He decides to get out of it and now we are literally 10 minutes away from getting involved in a conflict with iran that. Happened. You look at what he has done when it comes to other agreements. Climate change i mentioned. The Nuclear Agreement with russia. They were cheating on that agreement, thats for sure. But what we should have done is work with our allies and try to recons tumet that agreement instead of precipitously getting outs of that agreement. I believe we should stand with our allies. I dont believe we should coddle dictators like he just did. When he is standing with vlad meefer Vladimir Putin and making jokes about going after journalists. Hen putin is associated with killing of journalists. And meddling in the election, he makes a jeong out of it. This wasnt a joke. This was an attack on our democracy. Hundreds of thousands of americans died protecting that democracy on the battlefield, brecting protecting our right to vote. We have people today here in Dallas County, people that made the ultimate sacrifice. Hes sit interesting with a dictator making jokes about it. We had four little girls in a church in birmingham who died at the height of those civil rights movements in those fights. They died because there were people that were standing up for civil rights and for the rights to every Single Person in this country to vote. This is not a joke that you make with wladimir pulettable. Our country i am someone that always looks at the glass hatch full. The happy warrior. The hubert humphreys. The Paul Wellstone who always finds joy in politicking because i do. I love doing this. I love grass roots politics. I came up through the dfl party in grass roots politics. I like meeting people and talking to people about issues because i think thats how you win and my whole work in Public Service has been about helping people and i said that on that detective stage when we had 45 seconds to summarize why people shout vote for us. My first argument is that my whole year across career ive listened to people and gotten things done. Thats why ive been the lead democrat on over 100 bills that have been passed and signed into law, all right . That is a lot of bills and ive done it by listening to people, by yetting getsing ideas. We were talking about drug shortages, farm cies. I led that bill. Bill about rumor calls, bills about broad band. Ive seen these things and gotten ahead of a lot of these issues, but the second issue and the most important thing for people in our country right now, whether they are democrats, independents or moderate republicans is that we have to win. And itch one. I have i was laughing on that detective stage when one after another, the guys kept saying im the only one thats done this im the only one that, i felt like saying im the only one that announced in the middle of a blizzard with four inches of show show snow on my he would. As a matter of fact, at this point only one that has won in a purple statement. Won every place, every time. I have won in districts that donald trump won by over 20 points. I have won big time in the Congressional Districts that mirrors king steves in the state of minnesota. The Congressional District along the west. I dont usually go into details but you guys know when what this means. The Congressional District next to north dakota and south dakota. Won it big time. I have won on the Canadian North dakota. Where my family is was. The daughter of a teamer and numberman. The first woman elected from the state of minnesota u. S. Senate and a cant for the president of the United States. That is because i have listened to these people in all these counties and done their work and i have won. U can go back to the run for city council. My slogan then was all the way with amy k. Ill tell you one more. But ive won and we need a candidates that doesnt see the midwest as flyover, understands how important it is for our National Victory and can win in states like iowa, can win in wisconsin and can win in michigan and the last last time i saw and not always in those lineups with trump, i was in the state of michigan. I was ahead by eight points and that was a statement that he won last time, which shocked everyone. So thats what this is about. It is about making sure you can put that coalition together, that you can lead a tickets, not just for yourself but you lead a ticket forget entire ticket. Every time i lead a ticket in minnesota we have done well. We just flipped the state house, which you would love to do in iowa, right . When i headed up the ticket. Because i see it not just as one office but the entire ticket. And the last thing about me is theres been a lot of promises out there. There are good promises. I have my own bold plans. Youve heard some of them today but i can promise you something that i think is more important than anything else right now, and thats i will have your back when i am president , that i will govern with integrity. Something we dont have right now in the white house. That i will govern with honesty and that i will govern for you so thank you so much for having me out here and thank you for findsing a place in the shades. [applause] anyway, this is just we are really excited. We have a great team, by the way. Andy mcgwire right here. Your former party chair of my campaign. We have lauren. Wheres lauren . Right here, our state director. From brooklyn, iowa. Jamie, where are you . Our political director right back here. Thank you so much, jamie. And is emi emma here or one of her organizers . Chris. Chris, rights over there. Thank you, chris. We have a great team in iowa. We have a bunch of minnesotans that care a lot. I always item people in iowa if you wants to know about me, just call your friends and relatives in minnesota. For the most part youll hear good things. Ask them to come down and volunteer. Thats me, the senator next door. So thank you, everyone. Let me know if you want questions or just wants to eat the potluck . I think we can take pictures and you can talk to folks and walk around. Ok, because its so hot. Well do that. If you have individual questions feel free to ask them and i just want to thank you for being out on this beautiful hot day and look forward to being here many, many times again. Thanks, everybody. [applause] ok, all right. Ok. Woo there are trash conditions lining the picnic tables but when youre done with the garbage, if you can throw that in the black trash can, that will really help everybody out. That is such a midwestern thing to say. The major announcement about the crash conditions so Everybody Knows where they are. Thank you. Im a minnesotan. Oh, good, youre wearing your purple. 25 years ago i left the farm and came to iowa. 25 years later i final liam here moving back. Very good. We need more people coming back to do small farms. I know. Thank you for winning running. A picture . Sure. Thank you very much. Ill get ahold of your team and put some work in. Very good, thank you. Hey. My husband [indiscernible] and were going to do everything we can for you. Oh, i appreciate, that thank you. So youve been down here in this town since 1993 . Very good. Ok. Hello. Im on the minnesota border. I have in a diabetic, i deal with Blue Cross Blue Shield for 40 years. Are over that i take 500. Exactly. And there is no competition. And they mess around and nobody can do anything about it. Trigger. Do a if its going up by so much, you have competition. Heres the great thing, the president can do that without a law. They have the power to order that. You can use that to say, we are having this emergency and we have to bring in bring the prices down. Doctornt back to my asking for something else. A picture with my wife and i . Ok. There we go. Ok. Here we are. Good. My wife has alzheimers, unfortunately. Good to see you, though. A lot of cameras there. A good husband here. How are you . Good, how are you. Great, thank you. Thanks. Hello. I appreciate everything you are doing, i am glad you are in the race. Appreciate that. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Can we get a picture . [chatter] im from iowa. Number one, i was wondering, what is your position on Climate Change . I have already signed something on that. Are you willing to do a Climate Change debate here in iowa . We have already had several candidates. It would be in the fall. Yes. Yes. Is it already peer good. All right. Thank you. [chatter] i live just five miles away. Andve started my candidacy, im glad i could start with the. With you. I am looking at what my insurance would cover. [inaudible] hopefully, we can change that statewide. Can change that. And of course, with premiums, to bring down the cost. Yes. Thank you. Would appreciate it. How are you doing . Glad to meet you. This comes from our democratic county fundraiser. I am a local government teacher. It talks about the rule of law. Thats why you have to have a president you can talk about with the kids. Exactly. There is a big difference between what i teach and what he tells people everyday. How old are they . They are seniors. So they are well aware of the tweets. To be able to do a respectful job. Yes. All right. Thank you. Good. Got a registered republican. You. How are you . [inaudible] comprehensive immigration reform, which means that you would have a very a better system, have them apply for asylum in their own country, which was actually a partial policy under the Obama Administration. The Trump Administration reversed it. If you do comprehensive immigration reform, it brings the deficit down by billions of dollars. That revenue can give stability in those economies. One of the problems of the chaos is he has gotten so many people to keep running up there because you dont know when the policy will change. It is no surprise we are suddenly seeing this rush on the border. That. Of it has to do with the other thing is that it includes all immigrants. You have 10 of that population right now is asian, 2 million dreamers. It is a path to citizenship. [inaudible] have done that. There were plenty of republicans who would go for it in 2013. That would really help. When you pass comprehensive reforms, it gives you finances. In our country, with the finances, you can work on those things in a better way. He is threatening them, and on the wall, 8 billion. And the other thing is he goes after immigrants, it makes people not want to come. We have shortages of workers right now in Nursing Homes and and hospitals. We need more doctors in rural hospitals. There is a program that is named so if people graduate from medical school, a United States medical school, instead of making them go back to their country, we use those degrees for our good and underserved areas. Then you allow people to stay on the rugs the density their residency in america. There are a bunch of things we can do that would make a better economy here in iowa and in other states. Thank you. Thank you. Ok. Very good. [inaudible] ok. Ok. Yes, thats my son. Husband. Ve a nice [laughter] thats true. Thats very true. Hello. How old are you . Your birthday is coming up . How old are you going to be . Thats pretty incredible. Thats a good age. I really appreciate you coming. Are sensibility is why you my number one choice. That means a lot. You are probably too young to go to the caucuses. Look at that smile. There you go. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. You made the comment tonight as these guys stand up, there were the only ones who ever did any of this. I know. It was kind of amusing. But people do what they can. I think it will be important as the debates go on that we do a bunch of other things as well. I never got to do talk about my Mental Health proposal or addiction or infrastructure. Or the tariffs. They are really hurting our farmers. Day, we aree other taking a cleaver to them. It has been devastating. I was in another city and this woman was crying, saying her husband was having a hard time because its not just the money, it is the farm that has been passed down through generations. Framer a soybean farmer in minnesota that committed suicide. It is the trio of commodity prices, the weather, and finally this war. There are people on the edge and they dont have much margin. Are specially for a small farmer. Even harder. There are very interesting thoughts on the farm issue. [inaudible] ok. Early 1950s and the 1960s, the most profitable farming years. Farm income was . 37 per dollar. Now it is . 15. Right. Ok. Ok. The guy that is helping me on the campaign is great, dave, he was on the National Farmers union. And the ag commissioner on minnesota. There help me they are helping me. Thank you. He was head of the National Farmers union and retired. Then i hired him when i got in the senate. Such a mentor to everyone. We have had like three retirement parties. Now he is coming down here to help me. Thank you. Thank you. I love your shirt. Is a good shirt to wear. [laughter] [inaudible] i have very funny memories of the older guys on the trip. I have a good memory of that. I lived in minnesota, but now im down here. Very good. Are you in this town . Close, yes. Great. Thank you. Can we get a photo . Thats not my phone. Theres my phone. [laughter] one more. Great. Youre welcome. Thank you. I have a present for you. I came to america. I got my citizenship. I followed the law. But i feel like Illegal Immigrants are punished. And thats why we want to see this comprehensive reform. Just makes it clearer. I think we cant have a system that was based decade took a. Decades ago. We can make it at her better. Im glad you are here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. I bought your book at a democratic fundraiser. Thank you. I wrote it myself, which not everyone can say. 150 miles in one day . Yes. That was something. That was the first time when i was in middle school and my dad got this idea we would ride up were. Re his parents the wind was at our back, but we did 145 miles in one day. We went up to minnesota from the western suburbs. By the end, i was pretending i fell off my bike. It was really something. I had a bike that only the top five gears worked. That would be fun. We did that and then i rode from minneapolis to jackson hole. We did 1100 miles in 10 days. Where ournt to relatives are from. We biked in russia once down the river. Thank you. Good luck. Ok. All right. Very good. Im nancy. Ok. Thank you. Thank you so much. This is my grandma jane. April. My aunt, did he get started in politics because of you . [inaudible] thats great. Yes. Thank you for coming. I dont really have a question, but i agree with you wholeheartedly that to win the white house, we have to win iowa. Theres no way. ,e cannot appeal to particularly, Dallas County is the key. We have rural areas and then we have west des moines. Has it voted, republican mostly . For the last 30 years, mainly republican, but the last few years virtually purple. You have showed us that change can be made with the right candidates. Particularly when women win. Look what happened in these Congressional Districts. Look what happened in kansas. My favorite color is blue. There you go. You have always been a democrat, but he got you more involved in politics. [laughter] my husband and i caucused a couple times. [inaudible] thats why we are here. Even though i didnt know that until right now. That is why i picked this area. And i want to say dont forget the children in cages, gun violenceabout with children, and Climate Change. I had a target when i was 11 years old, so i am not antigun. I would say, look at these and does it hurt my rights . It does not. You can see more and more hunters, especially since parkland, and these kids getting motivated talking to their fathers, saying you are a hunter and this would not hurt you. I think this is a discussion that is more important than any other. Ok. All right. Ok. Get grandma in there. Perfect. Thank you. I always say the caucuses are the key to the white house, but the key to the caucuses is Dallas County. Let me tell you something. When i was first running for county attorney, that was a swing state. Voids n by eight votes. The suburbs were strongly republican, the city wasnt. Remember going out to a high school where it had always been republican forever. Awent in to speak and i saw conventional convention. There were like 10 guys. Guys, i am here for the convention. This guy goes, amy, are you looking for the democrats . They needed a bigger room. This is the golf club. [laughter] so then i go to the big room and there were like 250 democrats. It really is a changing time. In 2015, we had like six people on the Central Committee for the county party. We have 38 now. It is growing rapidly. People are fired up, energized, they want to meet the candidates. The goal here is to make sure that not just all the candidates come, but all the people are energized and active in democracy. And when you see how these districts change, it is a lot of people starting to talk and meet each other. I would say, you know what . I agree with my neighbor on this. Didnt knowe say, i my neighbor was a democrat. Now we can be outspoken and show that we care. It is sad that democrats are the party of showing we care about our neighbors. Thank you so much for coming. What peoplehats feel, completely isolated. There are some republicans that come to all of the stops. That is another interesting factor that doesnt show up on polls. Independents who may be voted in 2018, but probably not in the primaries. Now they are looking at the primaries. They are going the next step. And moderate republicans. I have people going, how do i rep is just register as a democrat so i can caucus . Its easy, you just fill out this sheet. Followup question is, how do we make them feel welcome . They dont have to just go back to being taking all people in. That know whats going on right now in the white house is wrong, and they want to see change. It is really that simple. That is how i have built these winning margins in our state. I think thats part of it. Especially rural. Right now, we are getting really hit hard. Thank you so much for coming. You are always welcome here in Dallas County. We met at that one iowa event. Back in 2016, you were here in the state with Jamie Lee Curtis. Ok. Ok. Another good story for you guys. I try to give you guys new stories i havent told at every speech. This was the Jamie Lee Curtis visit when i was here for hillary. She had never campaigned for a candidate before. I was paired with her and she was delightful. She really was. She was very funny. We walked into the room and she would be like, hello then we had questions. She would answer all the questions about like activia and all this stuff. [laughter] we were at one shop at a Shopping Mall at the nebraska border. It was a very crowded event. There was this hubbub in the back. Like, she was everyone, please calm down, i know i have some fans here, fans of halloween, my movie. I dont want people to be scared. It is not uncommon. There are people here with daggers that want me to sign them. And the people with daggers, if you could just stay on the side so you dont scare people, i will sign the daggers. Did, she wasng she taking photos and in iowa of drainage ditches. She liked the beauty of them or something. [laughter] she was delightful. We were together the entire day. She was great. You were great, too. That was fun. The key is to win. That starts at this grassroots level. If people think you can do it from the top with a bunch of money and commercials im not just talking about the primaries. You really have to get to know people. Tom harkin understood that here and why he repeatedly won. Paul wellstone understood that in minnesota. That is a lot of it. It is talking to people where they are, getting out there, doing events in small towns and rallies in small towns. Doesnt mean you have to go to every small town, because you cant, but everyone talks about when they went to a small town. Anything more . Ok. All right. I have a quick question. After last weeks debate, do you think you will do anything in the debate coming up . I will be there. Thats my start. I think that it is important to keep getting the message out there to make the case. I really hope we talk about some of these rural issues. Understandably, we were in miami and the focus was on Climate Change, which hits florida so hard, and immigration and the things we. Should be focused on think its time in michigan to talk about manufacturing and the ag economy, talk about the midwest. You can see this and a lot of my message. I specifically brought up michigan at the end of that debate and how important it is to win in those states. Let me see what else. I think hopefully we can have some order and people will be able to keep distinguishing on these issues. College thatse on we should double the pell grant so we can pay for it with the buffer rule and we should have 124 billion dollars so we can make the change, so that in Warren Buffetts words, that his secretary should not pay more in taxes than he does. I made the case in the debate that you can double pell grants from 6,000 to 12,000 and have them extend to families that make 100,000 and less. Thats a lot of people that will get help that they are not getting now. I am concerned about proposals where you are giving free college to wealthy kids. I dont think thats how we should be spending taxpayer money. When youve got kids that want to get Community College degrees, oneyear certifications, that is the fastestgrowing job area right now, those kinds of degrees. I am focused on those. Right now, some of these proposals, i think the number is 10 of the kids in the public colleges are from families that make 200,000 or more. I dont get why you would be giving free college to them. Hopefully we can have that debate a little more fleshed out in that first debate. A lot of us have bold plans that are different than the other ones. Up atator harris went least nine points in the pole and a lot of people say it is because of her criticizing the obamabiden administration. Do you think you will do that on the stage . I think you focus on issues. If you have a disagreement with one of the other people on the stage, you make that clear. I did some of that on the Health Care Proposal where i didnt want to kick 49 million people, half of americans, off of their Health Care Insurance in four years, which is what that bill said. I would rather do a public option. I made a difference when it comes to the different proposals that we all have to pay for we hope wed i think have a better discussion and a more thorough discussion on that. I wasnt on that debate night. That was different than ours. Ours was a little more cordial. I think you will have different mixes of people. People will have moments throughout the debate. I think breakout moments can become can come in all different forms. But we are pleased, we are headed to the debate stage in the fall, our other focus. I know i will make it there based on the building an organization that is strong and there are a lot of people who end up winning Iowa Caucuses who are about where i am at this point. We know it is a long road ahead. Would you reverse the president s this into move the u. S. Embassy. No, i think it would have been better for a solution and unfortunate the way it is done now. Think i did not like what netanyahu did. I just think it is better to have global discussions with america playing a leading role and the dissidents soninlaw holding a summit in which leader neither of the countries leader so up. I dont think that is the beginning of how you will get this done, so thats where im done on that. Just recognize israeli sovereignty. Again, i think it should be part of the negotiation. Did you see any bob and donations or things like that . I think we had one of our biggest days. Capture peoples imagination and so yes, we did very well and we had a lot positive feedback and a lot of people coming up to me. A been approach on a different debate stage and one of my focuses was to not only get my message out of where i think the country needs to go and i think we can take on pharma prices and Climate Changes and other pressing issues, but also in contrast to donald will stop there is more that unifies our party and the people on it despite differences that have been expended on tv since. There is more that unifies us then people can say sometimes and we are certainly more unified than we are more divided and we are certainly divided when it comes to being donald trump. Wanted to make the point the fact he said we could get a better deal with iran and just today, we found out mayor are on a path to bus that cap when it comes to enriching uranium which makes us much less safe than when he became president. Having that argument made and i hope morris made in the next debate is important for america to see that there are things they need to know because not everyone is watching a debate is a democrat. Is a based democrat because they come up to me, including republicans. There are moderate republicans watching in some swing space like ill swing states like iowa. Job than juster primaries. We have to make our case, in a messy way because we have so many candidates. We have to make our case on why donald trump needs to go and im going to continue to do that on the debate stage. The Supreme Court ruling last week. I oppose with the Supreme Court did and i will do everything we can. On election reform, i got gut punched last week when i try to bring up the back of paper ballots a bill. Over leadingwe go and once again, the republicans stop that. I cannot tell you, we have a president that is tweeting out doctored videos and that is our biggest fear in the selection, we will have not just take news and fake video, made of things that are not even real and the voters are not going to be able thisstinguish and he did with nancy pelosi and she is Strong Enough to stand up for herself, but it is not just about her, it is about what this means when you have a president condoning this, so the very democracy will be on the ballot , they will i was stand up for democracy and not stand with someone who is trying to dismantle it. Thanks guys. Good to meet you. 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