It is great to be here at the wing ding. I get to go first, and i got to tell you, the first time i was around the white house, bill clinton was president , i was a young prosecutor, i had done a lot of work on hate crimes, and he invited me to introduce him when he introduced that very important bil matthew shepherdsville as ice the Matthew Shepard bill. I had janet reno on one side, and the military been starts playing hail to the chief. I start working in and all of a sudden i feel a hand on my shoulder, and this voice says i know you are going to do great out there but when they play that song, i usually go first. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar world, that was my first time in the white house, iowa democrats, but it will not be my last. I have spent the last few days or, and after to the tragedies this weekend, it reinvigorated me. As i stood in front of the barn with a flag and i thought to myself you know what come this flag is flying over out asset today and over dayton today it is flying over el paso today and over again today. We are one america and there are not two sides. When the other side is the ku klux klan and the white supremacist, there is only one side, and that is the american side. I have had so many iowans approach me about gun safety and doing something about background checks assault weapons bans, and magazines. I told them about the story when i sat across the president after parkland and advocated for gun safety. Nine times he said he wanted universal background checks, than the next day he goes and meet with the n. R. A. And he folds. As your president , i will not fold. [applause] agenda for this country should unite moral and urban, and that is why i have been talking about the farm bill, but also childcare. We dont the issues. Also about housing, education, has patrols making sure hospitals making sure we have, enough Mental Health beds when there are only 64 in iowa. That is unacceptable. I will end the practice of privatizing medicaid. It is wrong in the state of iowa. It all starts here, this change, because you, iowa, you give us the granger movement, that took on the big monopolies. Burlock, us norman bor who believed in science, edna griffin who did not take no for an answer which he wanted to be served in des moines at the height of the civil rights movement. You give us many people who are change in this country. We have a guy in the white house now who is afraid, afraid of the future, afraid of the an array, he is afraid of science, afraid of equal rights. We are not afraid of equal rights. We are not afraid of the future. We are not afraid of women having a seat at the table. [applause] he is afraid of a woman in the white house. We are not afraid of that [applause] sen. Klobuchar he is afraid of working people having the same rights and chances to succeed as wealthy people, we are not afraid. We embrace that right. That is what this is about. He is looking back and he is afraid. We are not, and especially not in this state. So i am asking you to join me, not with fear. I am asking me to join me asking you to join me to build a future free of fear for the future. Lets go and get it done. Thank you, iowa [applause] announcer ladies and gentlemen welcome to the stage, montana governor steve bullock. Gov. Bullock hello, iowa about this time of year people, and try to make some attenuated connections iowa. Im not going to tell you my great great grandparents had settled in henry county in 1850. Im not going to talk about the fact that my mother was born in ottumwa. Because that is not why we gather. We gather for the sake of our nation, for the sake of our nations standing in the world. And for the sake of america that we are going to pass onto to the next generation. We gather to make sure donald trump is a oneterm president. [applause] but it is more than that. It is about soundly rejecting the behavior he is normalizing. Had we expectdes more out of preschoolers and we do the president of the United States. [applause] that, is even more than it is about soundly rejecting capitalism, when the person actually cleaned up tonight pays more than amazon and chevron in taxes, we can do better. Lot when they generation of workers has been replaced by independent contractors, at the same time that Union Membership is half where it was in the 1980s, when environmental regulations are being gutted by the polluters because that is what they ask for, this election is also about fighting back against citizens united, making the federal government finally work for us, not the koch brothers. That is the fat my career and the challenge of our time it is the fight of my career and the challenge of my time. There is a lot we have to do but first we have to be to donald trump. If we cant give people a reason to vote for us not just against him, if we cant change our, strategy, donald trump could win again. 2016, was the only democrat in the country to get reelected in a statewide election went donald trump won. Bytook montana by 20, i won more. 25 of my voters what it for donald trump. s is not just through the coast the past two victories not to victory the path is not just through the coast or the eastern part of iowa, it is through all the counties. Places like year. A third of your counties went obama and trump. We have to figure out how to get. Hose voters back this is not just about the white house, it is about your statehouse as well. [applause] mr. Bullock look, i am a prochoice, prounion, populist him across who wants free elections who won the elections in a red state not by compromising values, by getting stuff done. That is how we win back the places we lost. Showing up. Listening. Talking about the challenges of everyday americans. My legislature, guess what, is more republican than yours. Yes. Yes, we have been able to expand health care, expand Mental Health care, control costs. We have made investments in education. We have kicked their money out of elections. We have been a way do that and more. That is how we win back the places we lost, getting stuff down. I have only been in this race for about 10 weeks, the eighth trip to iowa. Countryies across this are the stories i hear from you all. For that teacher who has to work a second job just to afford her insulin. Trump tweets, they lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. For the retiree in ottumwa that said to me are voices missing. Folks cant wait for revolution. There challenges are in the here and now. We can beat donald trump. But we needed to be able to give folks a reason to believe the economy and washington, d. C. Will work for them. We can take the steps. [applause] we dont just deal with plans and written releases. What people want is a fair shot. Things areo believe better. We can tackle climate without leaving communitys behind. We can actually invest in education without giving it all away. We can make people finally believe that this works for them. The core of the word progressive is making progress. I get iowa nice. You are somewhere on my list. I would ask you to join attorney general tom miller and so many others over the next 177 days because you are the ones who actually make these decisions. Please join me, go to stevebullock. Com i look forward to seeing you along the trail. Thank you so much. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage maryland congressman john delaney. [applause] delaney good evening [applause] rep. Delaney come on. We can do better than that. Good evening to the democrats will send john delaney to the congress of the United States. So, in about six months, you have an awesome responsibility when you go to caucus. You have to ask yourselves t two questions. First question is, what candidate can beat donald trump . We have to get that reckless, a law must come a dishonorable human being out of the white house as soon as possible. [cheering] but to do that, you need a candidate that has an Economic Vision that excites every american. Whether you are in a city or a rural community. And i have been to all 99 counties. So i know what people are talking about. You have to put forth a candidate that has Real Solutions to the challenges we face as a nation, not impossible promises. You have to put up a candidate that will built a big tent Democratic Party, like we did in 2018 when we flipped the house of representatives by putting forth candidates that progressives and moderates and independents and even disaffected republicans can get excited about. But the second question i think you have to ask yourself is, who should lead our country . Because we need leadership badly at this moment in time. We need to reestablish our leadership role around the world. Need a leader who is committed to finding Common Ground and getting things done that matter to hardworking americans at their kitchen table. And do you know what we need more than anything, we need an individual whole restore decency and honor to the office of the presidency. [applause] rep. Delaney i stand before you iowa, because i believe i am the answer to those two questions, and that is why i am running for president. Maybe it is the journey ive had with my life. I have lived the american dream, and i am so grateful for the opportunities this extraordinary country has given me to learn, to be the first in my family to go to college, to build two businesses and create thousands be blessed to be married to an extraordinary woman for 29 years and have four daughters. And the opportunity to serve my country in the congress of the United States. But my story is getting harder to find. Young people today will be the first generation of americans that will not do better than their parents. We are also leaving them debt that they will not be able to repay fiscal debt, and climate debt. So i dont believe that with the American People need is more gridlock, more partisanship or more rigid ideology. I think you need solutions. I think we need big ideas, like my plan for universal health care. But it preserves choice. I think we need massive investments in our country, in infrastructure and basic research, which is why i proposing the largest investment andn Infrastructure Research since we have had that we have had since of the building of the national highway system and the creation of nasa. I think we need Real Solutions to the big issues we face as a nation. And not only is that the right way to govern, it is the right way to win. You know, in 1958, john f. Kennedy looked out at the American People and said, we seek the republican answer, motion seek the democratic answer, we should seek the right answer. He was right then, and he is right today. This is the calling of the Democratic Party, to become the party that the American People are so desperately looking for. A party that conducts itself with honor and dignity. And works for hardworking americans, and gets things done that matter in their lives. And leads not only here but around the world, by getting back in a things like the Transpacific Partnership which president obama was right about. Every acre i of land in iowa with worth more today if we were in that agreement. That is how we beat trump in iowa. [applause] but this has to be our way forward. I fundamentally believe that our most important responsibility is to leave the world better than we found it, and the one thing i want to tell he is, this is not about me. There was a great day and there is a great day in all of our lives when we realize it is not about us, it is about what for other people. That is why i decided to dedicate my life to Public Service 10 years ago, to make a difference in the world. So im not running for president just to be your president. I am running for president to do the job. To lead. To get things done. And restore dignity and respect to the most Sacred Office in the United States of america, the office of the presidency. God bless you iowa. And god bless america. Thank you all. [applause] announcer ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage colorado senator michael bennet. [applause] sen. Bennet good evening. Thank you, iowa, for having here tonight. Its been such a privilege to spend so much time in iowa, to come to understand how seriously you take this responsibility. We have a president in the white house who got that job in a very unusual way for america, he got the job by dividing one america from another america. And he is trying to keep that power by dividing america from itself. He thinks out there that there are 38 of the people that are going to stay with him no matter what, and a lot of those people live in rural areas, which is why it is so important for the Democratic Party to compete in rural iowa and in Rural America in this election. [applause] sen. Bennet and everybody in this room knows we have a decision to make about the future of america. And future of Rural America. The future of rural colorado and of rural iowa. And if we decide we are going to have a feature in rural iowa, we need rural hospitals in rural iowa. We need broadband in rural iowa. [applause] and we need schools in rural iowa. And when there is one group of kids that have access to preschool, and another group through no fault of their own, that dont, equal is not equal. When one group of kids has access to teachers and another group of kids cannot even find teachers to live in the community, equal is not equal. And when one group of American Children have the chance to go to college because they have Guidance Counselors and parents that went to college and they live in a city where others went to college, and another group of kids dont, equal is not equal. That is what we have to be about as democrats in this election. [applause] sen. Bennet that is what i have done through two toss National Races in colorado. And that is why my Health Care Plan which i wrote long before i was running for president , starts in Rural America, not in urban america. That is why my climate plan starts in Rural America. That is why i just introduced a broadband bill with your own congressperson in iowa. It is because i believe that we have to compete for these votes in Rural America. But even more than that, if we are going to unite the American People, we need to unite Rural America and the rest of america, and we need a president who will go to places where we will never win more than 30 of the vote, you, too. E believe in [applause] sen. Bennet we need a president for whom thats not an afterthought. The principal for being in the white house is to take the country away from a divider in chief and put it in the hands of a uniter in chief who knows that our future depends on everybody in this country, no matter where they come from. Repeating the talking points from the Cable Television the night before is not going to be what achieves victory for Rural America. These policies will. [applause] sen. Bennet and in the end, i believe that representing a state that is as rural as the state i represent, only one state away from you, that there is much more that unites us than divides us. That americans, no matter where they live, want a government that works again. They want unity, not division. They want progress over gridlock. And above all else, they want to know that we are not going to be the first generation of americans its been said before to leave less opportunity, not more, to the people coming after us. That is what we need to understand is our job in this moment. We cannot put our heads down. Cant tell ourselves how sorry we are that we are in the position that we are in. We need to see this as an american opportunity, just like our parents and grandparents who fought to make this country more democratic, more fair, and more free. That is what we need to do between now and november. If we do that, we will win and we will be able to govern the United States of america again. Thank you for having me today. Great to see all of you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome former colorado governor john hickenlooper. Thank you and good evening. Iowa is well known for producing a big share of the worlds corn. It is clear you are also in the cattle business. Im honored to play my part. This last week like every week for the last three years, we are once again been reminded why this campaign is so important. The immoral, unethical, dangerous president continues to divide us. Even as families in el paso and dayton are mourning their loved ones gunned down in mass shootings. And others in hospital beds recovering from their injuries. We as democrats might have our differences, but we all know who the real opponents is, and we cannot take our eye off the prize. I also think it will be foolish to think this would be easy. The fact is Donald TrumpsApproval Rating is 42 today. At the same point in their presidencies, Ronald Reagan was a 43, barack obama was at 44. Both of them were reelected. Both of them where neither of them had an economy is strong as what we have today. So we need to build a strong case to be donald trump. As much as we hate all his divisive racist assaults on our values, that is not going to be enough to win. As much as we are embarrassed and ashamed by his incoherent behavior on the world stage, insulting our allies, embracing our enemies, breaking all of our enemies, breaking all of our agreements, that is not enough to win either. It is not nearly enough to point out is sickening, pathetic, narcissism and misogyny. His voters do not care about this. They elected him because he promised he was going to bring back an economy that worked for them. It was a lie, course. But they believed him. My plan to be Donald Trumps to start by looking at our history. I would like to point out one important fact. No sitting senator, no sitting senator has ever beaten an incumbent president. Go backwards from clinton to ragan to carter to roosevelt to woodrow wilson. All former governors. Who defeated incumbent president s. Just want to make that point clear. [laughter] governors are closer to the people. [applause] we balance every budget every year and get things done. As governor of colorado we passed the countrys first methane regulation to fight Climate Change. We passed universal background checks and limits on the size of magazines. We achieved near universal health care and expanded reproductive rights in the process reducing unintended pregnancy by 54 . [cheering] and we created the number one economy in the country. In each case, we created a template that could be easily modified international policy. None of the others running for president have done any of that. You are proposing medicare for all, plan that might cost billions of dollars. A Green New Deal that would guarantee a federal job for everyone. And in some cases they advocate for policies that would play right into the hands of president trump. Meanwhile, this president lurches from one crisis to another. His tariff wars have cost American Farmers billions of dollars. His already had to ask taxpayers for a 28 bailout. Once tariffs are essentially a tax that will cost working families over thousand dollars annually in higher prices. Tariff wars are for losers. [applause] trumps tax cuts enriched people with boats and second homes, but they have done nothing for working families who live check to check. Hickenlooper he has done nothing to Lower Health Care costs. And in fact just wants to take it away and replaced with what . Nothing. What we should be doing is raising wages, addressing the high cost of health care, tackling Climate Change headon, taking on immigration, and keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people. [applause] gov. Hickenlooper but if we are going to win back pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, we need a candidate that has a vision and a record, who has created jobs and knows how to do it. Im the only candidate that has created jobs and made a payroll in Small Business trade and dramatically expanded our economy and the state of colorado as governor. This is a record of achievement and i believe that will be required to be donald trump in 2020. I got the job done in colorado. And i would be honored to do it again for america. Thank you. [cheering] [applause] ladies and gentlemen welcome tom steyer. Steyer good evening. Every candidate tonight shares a few basic attributes. We are more decent, more qualified, and more patriotic than the criminal in the white house. [cheering] steyer and we all have strong policy ideas and progressive values. But none of that matters. Not unless we break the corporate stranglehold on our governments. And retake power for all the people. I am tom steyer and i am running for president to take back our democracy i am running for president to restore our democracy of, by, and for the people. For 10 years across the country i have run people first campaigns from the outside that have taken on the corrupt corporate interests, and we have one. Im the only one in this race that can go toe to toe with mr. Trump on the economy. And call him out for what he has. He is a fraud. And he is a failure. [applause] i spent 30 years of my life building a successful Global Business from scratch. It is a lot more than mr. Trump ever did. [applause] his pattern of fraud is simple. He lies. He racks up the debt. And sticks other people with the bill. In this case, that is us. The american taxpayer. Like clockwork, his policies are blowing up in his face. And you are paying the price. Trumps trade work cost i went to billion dollars last year. That is 630 for every person in the state. He knew his trade war would hurt you. He papered it over with a hand out of your hard earned tax dollars. China said they would not buy anymore u. S. Tag equipment. They devalued currencies and it shook the markets. Guess he got hurt . Not mr. Trump. Not much mcconnell. I will farmers. I will families. Iowa farmers. Iowa families. Iowans trying to make ends meet. Your state continues to suffer from mr. Trumps illconceived, ill executed and on strategic trade war. My mother taught me a basic truth, actions speak louder than words. She was a teacher from minnesota who taught in the publics goals of new york and the brooklyn house of detention. My father was the first person and his family to go to college. He stopped his career to go into the navy in world war ii. He prosecuted the nazis at nuremberg. His actions speak louder than words mean tell you what i have done. Ive started one of the largest grassroots organizations in this country. I have gone toe to toe with big oil and big tobacco in the ballot box and we have one. We closed the Corporate Tax loophole for billions of dollars and sent it to the public schools. And we created over five under thousand union jobs. [applause] we can and we must fix the way that democracy works. That is why i called for term limits in congress. Steyer so our Government Works for the American People again. Speaking of term limits, i have six words for you. Mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, chuck grassley. [cheering] steyer every democrat has good ideas. But he want to get anything done, we have to take on democracy first. Without that come oppressive values are empty promise. Without that, our policies are pipedreams. And without that, none of us is truly free. As an outsider, as a capitalist, as a progress of activist, unlike any candidate in this race, i have been in this fight here in iowa. Registering voters, knocking on doors, turning people out and winning since the beginning of 2014. The secret is you. When we place the American People back in the driver seat, theres nothing we cannot achieve. The right to health care the right to Free Education from prek to college. The right to a living wage. The right to clean air and clean water. When the people are in power, our future is brighter than anyone in this audience can imagine. Now we are called on to win the biggest, most sweeping victory of our lives. That is our mission. That is what we are going to do. It is what we are called to do. Thank you. God bless you. [cheering] [applause] welcome former pennsylvania representative joe sestak. Rep. Sestak hello. I am joe sestak. And i wear the cloth of the nation for 31 years. In war and peace. Over 80 countries, including the white house when i went to work for the director of defense policy for president clinton. On the ground in afghanistan, director of the head of the navy unit. In the arabian sea waiting was in her international armada twice as large as the American Carrier battle group i commanded. The minister of italy said why they had all come. America had been attacked, and we will be there for you. We have the world with us against evil. Because they are in that distant see what the realization that americans greatest power is our power to convene. To bring together nations and peoples of the world for common cause. That serves us all. Whether it is dire poverty. Human rights atrocities. Global recession. Or collective security. We founded and let the flame of justice in a global concorde. And then president s from john f. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan understood that it is this global concorde that provided for our peace, our prosperity, and our freedoms here at home. That is why the soldier that is closest to the oval office today is not of an american, it is of a foreigner, to remind the president that our retreat from the world would be disastrous for american dreams. Today as we come home behind walls think he we are going to be great here when we were great abroad. To protect our freedom is a danger we have. I will never forget when i was told i would to take my aircraft Carrier Battle Group out of the arabian sea into the persian gulf, and only two of those countries what with me to the strait of hormuz. To bring great cash to begin the precursor strike against iraq. The reason only to want is that democrats and republicans alike who had voted for the war could not explain how it would end the four began. But those other countries new. And they knew it was not in support of our ideals. That is why we need with this world greatly changing, somebody who understands with breadth and depth this global world, to convene it once again. For its challenges of Climate Change. And in a liberal world order, china that believes its value of might and right should rule this world. We also need someone here at home who walks in the shoes of american citizens. I learned that. When i was still in the military, and my fouryearold daughter, we could not get the brain cancer they said. When asked they replied she has about 90 days. That Little Warrior beat that scourge. I had to repay you. I changed to being a democrat and ran in a two to one district. I won and then i won my second election by 20 points with a 100 naral prochoice record. And they reelected me by 20 points and i did not spend a dime on a campaign ad. Because we learned to disagree well. Called the most productive congressman. 19 pieces of partisan legislation passed. Why, come aboard an Aircraft Carrier. Understand why am really running. My daughters brain cancer came back last year. That is why i am late. She is in a safe harbor today. There are 5000 sailors on an Aircraft Carrier pigeon new at their average ages . 19. If you do not think the youth of america are great, come aboard an Aircraft Carrier. They run a nuclear reactor, they fixture plane. Dont even ask a question or kick the tires. Then they stop you in the plane, connecting to a catapult, push that button and off you go into the night. Walt disney has no ride better than that. [laughter] then they say, suddenly, stop. Special forces have been ambushed. We need to get you into the f18. Then you see what america most urines four. A young 19yearold youth from iowa comes out on that deck. At zero 200 and the morning goes into the belly of the plane. And unhooks it from its catapult. That flips you into the air. Because no pilot will shut off their engine until they know theyve been unhooked from the catapult you turn off your engine and suddenly they push that button. You go off for a final great ride of your life. When that youth unhooks that catapult, they walk in front of that plane and give a very signal simple signal that says everything this country yearns for go ahead and trust me. Im willing to be accountable. If you suddenly have to go to your death, you will go through me. For you if youve ever felt anyone would stand in front of that plane for them from washington, d. C. I want to stand in front of that plane for america. If we do not have a united america, we can never meet that if challenges abroad or at home. That is our choice. Not just to elect the president. But someone to share our nations sole. Where people believe you are accountable to them above party, above any, anything else. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Wow. Iowa. You,