President ial candidates spoke at the polk county steak fry in des moines, iowa. We are going to show you some of the candidates remarks now, beginning with 800 work and beto orourke and kamala harris. Orourke is a fourthgeneration texan, born and raised in el paso, where he served on the El Paso City Council and in congress. He launched a historic 19 Month Campaign to represent all 28 million texans in the u. S. Senate, running the largest Grassroots Campaign the state had ever seen. [cheers and applause] are you guys here with somebody or what . Beto ultimately received more votes than any other democrat in Texas History as he excited thousands of firsttime voters to go to the polls. Polk county, please join me in welcoming congressman beto orourke. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] orourke hows everybody doing . Huge honor to be with you here today. So grateful for everyone who has come out regardless of what campaign you are with. We are all on the same team, focused on defeating donald trump in november 2020. [cheers and applause] r. Orourke and for the there, theters out folks who camped out last night made these homemade signs, built a boat. I was wondering why they built a boat, but i thought maybe that is the boat in which we arrived in this campaign. Now that we are here, to the very end, we are going to burn that boat down, because there is no going back. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] mr. Orourke one of the things ive learned over the course of this campaign all across iowa and all across the United States of america is we are all in this together. We are all connected for better and for worse. In el paso, texas, on august 3, we are one of the safest cities in the United States of america, not despite the fact that we are a city of immigrants at asylumseekers and refugees but because we are a city of emigrants and asylumseekers and refugees. [cheers and applause] safe, so nothing so special about us that could disconnect us from a country that is violent and founded in a racism that is still with us today in 2019, a violence and a racism welcomed out into the open by President Trump and directed by our community. 22 killed in a walmart on the saturday before School Started ak47,ntleman who had an a weapon designed for war to kill people as effectively, as inefficiently in as great a number as possible. That is exactly what he did, fueled by that hatred and that racism directed by this president. Weeks later, we found ourselves in forest, mississippi, the side of the largest single state ice rate in the history of this country. Those communities of immigrants working in chicken processing plants, one of the toughest, shittiest Jobs Available in the United States of america rounded up like animals, separated from their kids. All this done and all of our names. And in Pacific Junction in this state, meeting with those in community that had never meaningfully flooded before this year, to learn that every single one of their homes was underwater. To visit with farmers to the store soybeans in their visions unable to find markets that had been closed to them by this president. For better or worse, we are connected to Climate Change. We are connected to these disastrous policies. We are connected to the violence and racism in this country. But for better, we are all connected to one another and to the solution. The people of el paso, texas, are the ones who gave me voice to say hell, yes, we are going to buy back every ar15 an ak47 in this country, to get those off the streets and out of our homes so that no one ever has to fear that again. [cheers and applause] mr. Orourke and people will ask us they will say, hey, beto, are you afraid you have gone too far . Fhat you have really pissed of the nra this time . Im not afraid of that. No, im not afraid of that. I would be afraid if i were a schoolteacher in a kindergarten classroom and those kids for whom i had already sacrificed so much were up against a gunman with an ar15 because we did not have the courage to stop them while we still had time. I would be afraid if i were the son of an immigrant who went to work early this morning and never came back, detained and deported back to a country he had not seen for 20 years. I would be afraid if i were one of those farmers here in iowa who had seen those markets closed to me, unable to get out of debt. I would be afraid if i was a trans woman of color who could be killed with complete impunity in this country right now with no one to follow up or investigate. I would be afraid if i had to drive 300 miles to make my own decisions about my own body to ord a safe, legal abortion for Cancer Screening or Family Clinic health because we closed on the Cancer Centers in my state. I would be afraid of my son were black and were stopped by the police in a country that has accountabilityre for the abuse of power in the deaths of young, black men who are not armed and posed no threat to this country. Then i would be afraid. But for all of those who live in fear in this country, we as democrats must decide we will not be afraid. We as americans must decide we will not be afraid. We must decide that we will free america from fear. [cheers and applause] and that means no fear as rewrite this countrys immigration laws to reflect what this country looks like, to legalize our fellow americans, starting with more than one million dreamers, and make them u. S. Citizens in this, their true home country. [cheers and applause. Mr. Orourke no fear as we pursue universal guaranteed highQuality Health care, and that means primary health care, and that means in iowa, 51st in Mental Health care, no copays to see a psychologist or psychiatrist or be treated so you are well enough to live to your full potential. Universal health care that means every woman makes her own decisions about her own body and has access to the care that makes it happen. No fear about confronting Climate Change before it is too late, putting farmers and Rural Communities here in iowa in the driver seat, getting behind regenerative agricultural practices that they are already pioneering, paying them for the Environmental Services that they want to provide. Every single one of us doing all notan, meeting this threat with half measures or half steps but with the entire country to ensure this planet is one that we can pass on to our kids and every generation that follows. [cheers and applause] orourke no fear about ending a war on drugs that has become a war on people and some people specifically in a country that has 2. 3 million americans behind bars, the largest prison population on the face of the planet, disproportionately comprised of people of color. We will end the prohibition on marijuana. We will expunge the arrest record for everyone caught in possession of marijuana, and we will make sure that we close forprofit prisons, and cash bail in america, do the right thing while we still can, and because a young man named henry came up to me while i was approaching the stage and said, i sure hope you are going to talk about puerto rico. I want to make sure that we follow the people of puerto rico, whatever they want to do, if it is independence or statehood, we are going to get behind them and make sure they are treated with respect and dignity and have the power they deserve as our fellow human beings and our fellow americans. [cheers and applause] orourke this is how we free ourselves from fear. We decided what we believe in and we fight like hell to achieve it and we dont let anyone, if its the nra, the corporations, or the Political Action committees, or even our fellow democrats tell us what is and is not possible. We, the people, decide what is possible in this country. [cheers and applause] ladies ande gentlemen, that is how we defeat donald trump in november 2020. [cheers and applause] mr. Orourke that is how we bring a deeply divided country back together again. Are you with me on this . [cheers and applause] mr. Orourke let me hear you say hell yes hell, yes you,rourke im with america. Im with you, iowa. Lets go out and do this. [speaking spanish] iowa. Go, thank you very much. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting] quick take, everybody, we are still look hey, everybody, we are still looking for deshawn , and i misspoke. He is actually 12 years old. Else, deshawn is still we are still looking for deshawn. If you have seen him, he is an africanamerican boy, light gray tshirt with blue stars, a blue bucket hat. He is 12 years old, five foot tall. Found him . All right, we found him, everybody. [cheers and applause] look at our democratic family helping each other. Thats wonderful. Our next speaker is senator kamala harris. [cheers and applause] safetya lifelong public and civil rights leader, elected in 2016. She is the second africanamerican woman in history to be elected to the u. S. Senate. The first africanamerican and first woman to serve as attorney general of california. [cheers and applause] voice in thea key fight to hold the Trump Administration accountable, asking tough questions on behalf of the American People. Throughout her career, she has been a fearless advocate for the voiceless and vulnerable and a vocal and determined fighter on behalf of all people. Im going to tell a story real quick. We actually did a rally with her last november, and it was a really big crowd and i went backstage and saw a bunch of guys in suits. I dont know if you have seen her husband, but he looks kind of like a secret service guy. I thought it was security, so i walked back and go, wow, thats crowd out there and everyone went completely silent because i had just cursed in front of the candidates spouse. Of course the atlantic was there so my words were in the magazine. My mother has seen it and my grandmother has seen it, and im always embarrassed about it, and they always read me about it, but since they are here again, i will say, senator harris, this crowd. G, effing join me in welcoming senator kamala harris. [cheers and applause] Kamala KamalaKamala Kamala [cheers and applause] oh, i at the steak fry i am at the steak fry. I dont know if you guys heard, im planning on moving to iowa. Its great to see you guys. Its great to be back. I know weve got to get right to business. Im on a clock, apparently. I dont know where it is, but it is somewhere around here. There it is. Its great to be back and i want to thank you all for all the leadership, all that you do. The thing i love about iowa is that you have the ability to see what other people sometimes can see but what many cannot. Your state has always had the ability to know what can be unburdened by what has been, and thank you for that leadership. I want to thank you for the inspiration and support you have been giving me, and for those who are the new friends, i will tell you i was raised by a mother who was all of five feet tall, but if you ever met her, you would have thought she was 10 feet tall, and my mother had a lot of advice over the years. One of the things she would tell me is dont ever let anyone tell you who you are. You tell them who you are. [cheers and applause] senator harris so im here to share with you a little bit about who i am. In my career, i have been a fighter and ive taken on some tough fights. I have taken on the Oil Companies. Ive taken on pharmaceutical companies. On the big interest, the special interests who have always been keeping working families down, have always been motivated by profit to the expense of the american family. I have taken them on and i have won, and it has not been about a pretty speech. It has been about the work i have actually done. When i stand before you as a candidate for president of the United States, i say to you, look at my track record to know what i mean. I will fight for you every day of the week and we will win. [cheers and applause] senator harris when i think that this fight, i know this is why we are all here together, the fight we currently have is to get the current occupant out of the white house. [cheers and applause] successfullys to do that, i would suggest we are going to have to successfully prosecute the case against four more years of donald trump and it will take a prosecutor to do it. Working withe are a pretty good come along rap sheet. About it dudes got to go. Go. s got ago gotta lets look at what we are talking about. Heres a fellow that came into office talking about make America Great again, which to ask, lot of us andin exactly for whom . Because a lot of us to realize he was talking about going back to something, so back to what exactly . Back before the Voting Rights act . Back before the Civil Rights Act . Back before the Fair Housing Act . Back before the ada . Back before title ix . Back before roe v. Wade . Because we are not going back. We are not going back. And he came in making a lot of promises. To a lot of folks. He made promises to farmers. He made promises to working families, and he betrayed people. Lets just look at what happened. He betrayed our families when he said i see you. Ive got you. I will take care of you. I will honor your hard work, and then he passes a tax bill benefiting the top 1 and the big corporations in america. Betrayed families. Betrayed our farmers. Said, im going to hang out with you. Im going to respect you, and then what did he do . He engages in trade policy by tweet, born out of unilateral action essentially born out of a fragile ego, that has resulted in farmers here in iowa looking at bankruptcy because, of course, over decades, they did the hard work of building up a market to sell soybeans to china, and now they are looking at soybeans rotting in bins and looking at bankruptcy. Betrayed people. Betrayed us in terms of national be they, and what should responsibility of the commanderinchief of the United States of america because what have we seen . In donald trump, a socalled commanderinchief who on the subject of the fact of russias interference in the election of the United States prefers to take the word of the russian president over the word of the American Intelligence Community. On the subject of an american student who was tortured and later died, prefers to take the word of a north korean dictator over the word of the American Intelligence Community. A journalistt of who was assassinated, a journalist who had american credentials, prefers to take the word of a saudi prince over the word of the American Intelligence Community and just ,n the last 48 hours, yet again we find that he is in cahoots Foreign Government to manipulate the outcome of this election for president of the United States. S]rowd boo senator harris iowa, we need a new commanderinchief. And we need to absolutely, right away, begin impeachment proceedings. Go. Got to. E need to hold him accountable thats an obvious point, dude got to go. But we also have to recognize that we have had to endure years with his campaign and now with his presidency of a powerful force that has been trying to sow hate and division among us as americans, who has been trying to get us to point fingers at each other, and i would suggest to you that what we need both in terms of a Winning Strategy, but also in terms of leadership that is about truly strengthening our country based on our values and longstanding commitments is we need leadership that is prepared to unify our country around our common values, our common goals, our common aspirations and experiences. Because the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us. In this election, we cannot campaign and aa strategy that is about dividing people around ideology because im going to tell you, i have not attended one town hall or rally where anyone has raised their hand and said, you know the thing that keeps me up at night is this debate between socialism and capitalism. We need to have strategy that is a Winning Strategy about saying that we have got to recognize the challenges before us as a nation and a world. Our big challenges about who we are, our definition, standing, and strength as a nation, and to meet those challenges, it will not be about going back to the good old days. It will be about looking forward and taking on the challenges that meet us today and in the future. [cheers and applause] senator harris in the Winning Strategy that is the right thing to do is to say that we will big challenges of our nation the issues that wake people up in the middle of the night. Issues like health care, issues like so many of the Young Students i have met, elementary, middle, and High School Students who are in trauma about the drills they have to endure when they are being taught about how they should hide in a closet or crouch in a corner in case there is a gunman roaming the hallways of their school. We must address the common issue that we know affects farmers in terms of flooding, affects people in terms of hurricanes, wildfires in california, and the issue of our Climate Crisis, and what we must do to take that on with a sense of urgency and commonality in terms of outcome and experience. [cheers and applause] senator harris the commonalities we face in knowing one of the issues that keeps people up at night, whoever you are, whatever your race, wherever you live, whoever you pray to is can you get to the end of the month paying the bills, which is why i am proposing the most significant middleclass tax cut we have had in generations. [cheers and applause] thetor harris these are challenges before us, and i know we are up for these challenges, and i would say to everybody here that we as democrats have got to march toward 2020 knowing and our hearts and in our souls that the vast majority of us have so much more in common then what separates us, and to win this campaign, we must be prepared to unify our country around those common goals and experiences because that is the way we will get donald trump out of office, and im here to ask you to please stand in kamalas corner during the caucus. Thank you. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you guys. Im going to go down here. Thank you. Am i going . Here . I going down whoo Kamala KamalaKamala Kamala like the eventis so much she stole our microphone for a minute there. Our next speaker is cory booker, senator [cheers and applause] bookers entire career has been defined by running toward challenges and achieving victories that conventional wisdom deemed impossible. After graduating from yale law school, he moved to a low income innercity neighborhood in newark, new jersey, where he still lives to this day. He was working as a tenant advocate Holding Slumlords Accountable when he was asked by his community to step up and run for the city council. In 2013, he became the fourth ever africanamerican elected in the u. S. Senate. Since then, he has worked to achieve some of the most significant progressive victories in recent memory. Polk county, join me in welcoming senator cory booker. [cheers and applause] senator booker hello, iowa [cheers and applause] senator booker i cannot tell you what it means to be here in polk county. I cannot tell you what it means to be back here in des moines. Some of you might not know this but this big, bald, black guy from new jersey, my roots are right here in des moines. My grandmother was born and raised in this state, right here in the morning. Moines. S [cheers and applause] senator booker this is what i know it was my family in crisis, my grandmothers grandmother, that was a poor woman whose husband was murdered her ninea, and her and children around the turnofthecentury moved up to this state and found a town called buxton, iowa. Like iowa had been on lgbtq rights, on womens right to vote, on civil rights, this town was ahead of its time. It was a place where you saw black migrants like my great great grandma and white european immigrants come together in an integrated town, and they went down together in the minds , working sidebyside to scrape out from the earth there american dream. That is the story of america. When my grandmothers child, my mother, was joining with my dad moving to the state of new jersey, every time they tried to find a neighborhood often with the best Public Schools, 50 years ago they would be met by a Real Estate Agent that would see a black family and say, this house is no longer available. This house was pulled off the market. Its already sold. But what they found in that moment of bigotry and discrimination they found people from that community, white folks who said, this is not who we are. They set up a sting operation with some incredible lawyers. I call it a conspiracy of love where they would send my parents out to look i house. No, and a be told volunteer white couple would come right after them and put a bid on the home and find out the house was still for sale. The house i grew up in, my parents were told it was sold. The white couple found out it was still for sale. They put down a bit for the house. The bid was accepted, papers were drawn up, and on the a of the closing, the white couple did not show up. My father did, and a volunteer lawyer, a white man named marty friedman, and they marched into that Real Estate Agents office in the Real Estate Agent did not give up. He literally was so angry he had been caught in the sting, this conspiracy of love, that he gets up and punches my dads lawyer in the face and six a dog on my a dog on my dad. Every time my dad would tell the story when i was growing up, the dog would get bigger. Eventually, he would be like, boy, i had to fight a pack of wolves to get you in this house. Who we, iowa, this is are. We are not a nation of hate and discrimination. When i was growing up around this kitchen table, my parents did not hesitate to talk about wretchedness and discrimination and bigotry, but they always told me that that has never defined america. What has defined this country is our ability to respond to hatred with love, for us to respond to people that try to divide us with our ability to come together and stand together and Work Together. [cheers and applause] senator booker i and proud to be in this election that is about many things and the policy issues are so urgent, but this election is really a referendum on spirit. Not on one guy in one office. This election is a referendum on who we are and who we must be to each other. Democrats we as have always told the truth of who we are. When my iowa grandmother married grandfather, my grandfather got a job on the Assembly Line as a union worker for uaw. At that time, most blacks in america were republican, but he went out and was an activist about converting district after district to the Democratic Party because my grandfather said, democrats, we are the party of we, not the party of me. Democrats, we are the party of inclusion, not the party of exclusion. There not the party of wealthy few. We are the party of everyone, everybody, everywhere. We are the party of civil rights, of womens rights, of workers rights, of lgbtq rights. Where the party that believes in science. [cheers and applause] senator booker i want you to know im running because my parents taught me the ideals of rugged individualism and selfreliance, but the truth of america is that we are not here because of rugged individualism and selfreliance. We are here because of each other. We did not get to the moon because of rugged individualism. We did not build the underground railroad because of rugged individualism. We did not beat the nazis because of rugged individuals. Every great gain in this nation was by patriots who brought people together because patriotism is love of country, and you cannot love your country unless you love your fellow countrymen and women. [cheers and applause] booker and love is not a sentiment. I am not talking sentimentality. Love is struggle, love is sacrifice. Love says that if your family doesnt have health care, if your family doesnt have great Public Schools, it is an affront to my family. It weakens our justice. [cheers and applause] so thisbooker election, we democrats have to understand we cannot define ourselves by what or who we are against. We must define ourselves by who we are and what we are for. [cheers and applause] senator booker there are those who want to demean and create a divide, but we in this moment must be the party of a revival of civic grace. We must be the party of a more courageous empathy. We must be the party of courage and sacrifice and love of your neighbor and your countrymen and women. [cheers and applause] senator booker i am here all my life because of the sacrifice and service of our ancestors. Every election was not an election about me. We are about a team sport. This election is not just about one office. We have to beat Mitch Mcconnell. [cheers and applause] isator booker this election not just about one office. It is about Supreme Court seats. This election is not just about one office. Its about state legislators. Its about governors. [cheers and applause] senator booker so im going to call to you right now i need everyones help in my campaign because we are not running an individual campaign. We will win this election not by dividing democrats, but have people that unite us together. We will win this election not by showing the worst of who we are but the best of who we are because we have seen tough times before. Donald trump has demeaned and degraded and divided. Poetry of maya angelou. You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me down like dirt, but still, like dust, we rise. [cheers and applause] senator booker im telling you right now, they came after us. At valleyafter us forge. They came after this country at pearl harbor. They came after us 9 11, and we carried the grief and the hurt, but we were always a nation that at the worst times pulled together and said to each other we will rise. Back ated to beat us the Edmund Pettus bridge. They tried to beat us down at stonewall, but we responded every generation with the words we will rise. Now, we must rise. We will rise or health care for all. We will rise for Public Schools. We will rise to end the scourge of gun violence. We will rise for union labor. We will rise for one another. Like kennedy who pointed to the moon, we will rise. Like king, who pointed to the mountain tops, we will rise. Iowa, america, it is our time to come together, to stand together, to Work Together. He does not define us. We define our truth, and im telling you right now we will rise. We will rise. We will rise. Rise will senator booker we will rise we will rise thank you very much. We will rise senator booker thank you, iowa. Thank you, america. [cheers and applause] cory cory cory cory cory cory [indiscernible] [indiscernible] we love you need to move the microphone down a little bit. Cory cory Elizabeth Warren is running for president to level the Playing Field and give every american a chance to build a life they can be proud of. She is fighting for big, Structural Solutions to tackle the corruption squeezing working people and undermining our democracy. On the campaign trail, she spends her time Holding Town Halls and taking hundreds of questions across our country to talk about a washington and an economy that are not working for far too many people. Elizabeth warren has spent her whole career taking on giant corporations, big banks, standing up for the American People, and now she is running to fight for all of us. Polk county, join me in welcoming senator Elizabeth Warren. [cheers and applause] senator warren hello, iowa. [cheers and applause] todayr warren im here to stand up for the constitution of the United States of america. Law, not above the even the president of the United States. [cheers and applause] senator warren when the Mueller Report came out, it showed three things first, that a hostile Foreign Government attacked our 2016 election system in order to help donald trump. Second, that donald trump, candidate, welcomed that help, and third, that as president , when our federal government tried to investigate those activities, donald trump did everything he could to obstruct justice. I read all 448 pages, and when i got to the end, i called for the impeachment of donald trump. [cheers and applause] senator warren congress failed to act, and now, donald trump he isown that he believes above the law. He has solicited another Foreign Government to attack our election system. It is time for us to call out this illegal behavior and start impeachment proceedings right now. [cheers and applause] senator warren not in a million years did i think i would be standing on a stage like this with all of you. I was born and raised in oklahoma. I have three older brothers. They all went off to join the military. Me, i have had the same dream since i was a little kid, and that is to be a Public School teacher. Can we hear it for americas Public Schools . [cheers and applause] moneyily did not have the to send me to college, but my big chance was a Commuter School that cost 50 a semester, and for a price i could pay for on a parttime waitressing job, i had a chance to finish my four year diploma. I became a special needs teacher. I lived my dream job. I loved it. Because ihere today see an america that is not an america of expanding opportunities. I see an america that just keeps working better and better and for a thinner and thinner slice at the top. When you see a government that works great for the rich and powerful and is not working for corruption, that is pure and simple, and we need to call it out for what it is. [cheers and applause] senator warren an america that works great for giant drug but not for people trying to get a prescription filled that is corruption. [cheers and applause] senator warren an america that works great for giant Oil Companies that want to drill everywhere but doesnt Pay Attention to the Climate Crisis that is bearing down upon us thats corruption. [cheers and applause] got goodarren so i news i got a plan for that. [cheers and applause] senator warren you bet. By taking the corruption headon. End lobbying as we know it. Make everyone who wants to run for federal Office Everyone have to put their tax returns online. [cheers and applause] attack warren when we the corruption, when we start to beat back the influence of money, we can make some big, structural change in this economy. Starts s where it put more power in the hands of workers. Make it easier to join a union and give unions more power when they negotiate. Unions built americas middle class, and unions will rebuild americas middle class. [cheers and applause] anotherwarren theres way we can restructure this economy it time for a wealth tax in this country. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting] senator warren here is how it works your first 50 million, free and clear. You feeling relaxed about that . Good. 50 million in first dollar, you got to pitch in two cents. Every dollar for after that, and heres the toption two cents on the . 1 of 1 in this country what can we do with that . Universalvide childcare for every baby in this country. All of them. Universal prek for every three and fouryearold in america. Wages for every Child Care Worker and preschool teacher in this country. College tuition free for everyone who wants to go. Field. Evel the playing put 50 billion into historically black colleges and universities. That with al of twosent wealth tax. Plus, we can cancel student loan. Ebt for 95 we can do that for two cents. two cents two cents can do allren we that and one more. We need to protect our democracy. We need to have a constitutional amendment to protect the right of every american citizen to vote and to get that vote passed. Get rid of all political gerrymandering in this country. Racist votery suppression law that has been passed. Return more we will citizens united. Democracy is not for sale. [cheers and applause] senator warren this is what we can do together. We can attack the corruption. We can restructure our economy. We can protect our democracy, and whatever issue brought you here today, if its gun violence or climate or health care, whatever brought you here, you are here because you believe down deep somewhere in your heart that we can make our democracy work, not just for a top. Slice at the we can make it work for everyone. Im Elizabeth Warren. I know whats broken. I know how to fix it, and we are building a Grassroots Movement to make it happen. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting] Bernie Sanders. Bernie sanders is the junior senator from vermont. He is running for president because he believes that the principles of government should be economic, racial, social, and environmental justice, not corporate greed. His lifelong record of Public Service demonstrates his dedication to restoring democracy to the American People. Polk county, please join me in welcoming the great senator Bernie Sanders. [cheers and applause] [music] hello, iowa a politicaly for revolution . [cheering] let me thank all of you for the you are doing to defeat most dangerous president in the history of this country. Crowd member yes we will not continue to have a president who is a pathological liar. Who is undermining the a racist, a, who is a homophobe, a zeno things. E, among other donald trump must be defeated in this important moment in american history. An unprecedented campaign. Same ole type of politics is not going to work. Continuing to be dependent upon the powerful for is notn contributions the way forward [cheering] we need to run a Campaign Needs ofocused on the the working class of this country and is supported by the working class of america, black and latino, native and asianamerican. Is how we create the largest voter turnout in history. We defeat donald trump. [cheering] but here is the rung. Create that we excitement, create that voter notout, is to do something often done in american politics, tell the truth. The truth, as i see it. The sweat and toil of the working families of this country, including undocumented haslies, the United States become the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. But that wealth is not filtering ordinary americans. Result of aa massive transfer of wealth over thelast four decades, from middle class to the top 1 , we income and wealth inequality than at any time since the 1920s. Peoplehree people, three own more wealth than the bottom 50 of american society, our people are working paycheck to paycheck. 87 million are uninsured or underinsured. And 500,000 go bankrupt because of medical bills. In America Today, working class cannot find affordable child care. Affordeople cannot Higher Education or leave School Deeply in debt. 500,000 people tonight are the street. On family farmers in iowa for all over Rural America are being driven off the ofd because of the greed large agribusiness conglomerates. Rural america is in severe decline and Water Systems are collapsing. Midst of all of these crises, among others, let me tell you my vision for the looks and what america like under a Bernie Sanders administration. [cheering] to winps strategy is reelection by dividing the American People up. We will do exactly the opposite. Oure gonna bring all of people together, around a Progressive Agenda that works for all of us, not just the 1 . Under my administration, we will ferociously the systemic racism that pervades all aspects our society. We will combat White Nationalism in all of its ugly forms. And whether the 1 likes it or grotesquell end the level of income and wealth inequality in this country. Powerfulrich and the will start paying their fair share of taxes. [cheering] yes, we will create millions of jobs, rebuilding our andbling infrastructure, these jobs will pay workers a wage, at least 15 an hour [cheering] are gonna give workers tounprecedented opportunity join unions yes going to provide quality, all,dable child care for and yes, were going to make universitieses and tuition free. And yes, we are going to make ine that every teacher america earns at least 60,000 a year [cheering] yes, in my view, health are is a human right, not privilege. Pass the medicare for all legislation that i introduced in the senate. Therethat legislation, will be no premiums, no copayments, no deductibles, no out of pocket expenses. You go t to the doctor that you want. You go to the hospital that you want. End up paying substantially less for health a system which gives the Health Care Industry 00 billion 100 billion a year in profits. [cheering] and yes, we are going to take on the greed, the corruption, price fixing of the pharmaceutical industry. And under medicare for all, nobody in america will pay more a year for the prescription drugs they need. And yes, i am proud to have the mostd comprehensive Climate Change legislation ever introduced by any candidate running for president or anything else i know its a radical idea, because my administration noteves in science, politics [cheering] hold the fossil fuel executives accountable for about the carbon production that they are now producing. We will stop all subsidies and the fossilthat go to fuel industry. We will lead the world, lead the entire world, moving Forward Energy efficiency and sustainable energy. Here is here is a dream, want you to work with me on. Right now, in this world, were trillion and a half dollars on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other. My vision is that we bring the countries of the world together that we use that we use those combat our common enemy, which is Climate Change. [cheering] and yes, we will bring brokenntal reforms to a and racist criminal justice system. Will end the war on drugs and legalize marijuana [cheering] crowd member woo we will end cash bail. Somees, when we talk about of the horrific crises that we face, this president , unlike trump and the republican not behip, will intimidated by the n. R. A. [cheering] americanl do what the people want us to do and that is gun safetysense legislation. Including a ban on the sale and of assault weapons in this country. Brothers and sisters, Nelson Mandela said something extraordinarily profound, which thing encapsulizes what this campaign is about. He said, and i quote, it always seems impossible until it is done. Means . Erstand what that it always seems impossible until is done. Big, nots to think small. Our job is to have a vision of the kind of america we want that working people, not just wealthy campaign contributors. I ask forfternoon, your help, to take on the greed corruption of wall street, the insurance companies, the fossil fueles, the industry, the prison industrial the military industrial complex. Let us create a government and works for every man, woman and child in this country, and not just the wealthy and the powerful. Thank you all very much [cheering] crowd member Bernie Bernie bernie [chanting] [chanting] andrew yang is an author and 2011 foundr who in adventure for america, a nonprofit that created almost 3,000 jobs in detroit, cleveland, pittsburgh, baltimore and other cities throughout the country. In his book, he makes the case the freedom dividend, a universal basic income of 1,000 for every american along with hundreds of other policies. He was named a president ial ambassador of entrepreneurship by the Obama Administration and a champion of change for his work with venture for america. Now hes running for president his bold vision for the country to the white house. Please join me in welcoming andrew yang [music] [applause] [cheers and applause] iowa [cheering] how beautiful are you . Its so great to be back here today . Us are whats the official count . Give a trumpian number there. Five Million People here today as you know, i am not a career politician. And problempreneur solver. And im here with a message. It is up to you, the people of iowa, to solve the biggest problem of our time. Its a problem our country has been struggling with. The problem is this. Why is donald trump our president . Oh, really . If you think about it, how the ninedid he win iowa by points . How did he win wisconsin . How did he win michigan, ohio, pennsylvania . And if you turn on cable news, you get this whole series of answers. The answers go Something Like, russia. Racism. Facebook. The f. B. I. Hillary clinton. Someome cocktail and mixture. The numbers tell a different story, a very clear story. Reason why donald trump is our president is this. Way away four jobs inmanufacturing ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin and 40,000 right here in iowa. How many of you have seen Stores Closing where you live right now . And why are those Stores Closing . Answer. Amazon. Amazon is a 1 trillion tech sucking 20 billion a year out of your communities. Play in did amazon taxes last year . Taxes thaness everyone here together today. 30 of americas stores and are closing as we speak, including thousands here in iowa. In most ofmmon job the country ask working is working in retail. Clerk is a retail 39yearold woman making between hour. 11 an when her store closes, what is her next move going to be . Have seenf you selfserve kiosks when you go to fastfood or in restaurants . Mcdonalds says they will be in every location in the country in the next two years. Call the Customer Service line of a big company and you get the bot, you do the exact thing i do. Zero zero zero, human human you get a person on the line. Am i right, iowa . Or three short years, the software is going to sound like hows it, andrew, going . What can i do for you . Its going to be delightful, a bit seductive apparently. You might not even realize its software. For is that going to mean the two and a half million americans who work at a call now making 4 ran hour 14 an hour . Was just at iowa 80. I know why you went for the buffet. Great value. And they say, very proudly, that 5,000 people stop there every single day. Friends in Silicon Valley are working on cars and trucks that can drive themselves. 98 of thee they are way there. There are selfdriving trucks on our highways right now. What is that going to mean for the 3. 5 million americans who orve a truck for a living the 7 million americans who work at truck stops, motels and diners across the country . Donald trump is not the cause of all of our problems. A symptom. A manifestation. Were in the midst of the Economic Transformation in the hois history of our coun. The last time you heard a politician say sports revolution . Just now and i am barely a politician [cheering] this is a set of problems that got donald trump elected. Saw it on your farm, in your manufacturing plants. Youre now seeing it in main street shops. Its going to continue to eat through our economy. Devastate rural areas in particular. We know that rural areas are getting sucked dry first. Solutions . E what is the vision . People of iowa, to take to the rest of the country as fast as possible . If youve heard anything about my company, youve heard this. Theres an asian man running for wants to give everyone 1,000 a month. You remember hearing that . Yangyang. And the first time you heard it, i know it sounded like a gimmick, like it was too good to be true. Ourwhen you dig into countrys history, this is a deeply american idea. Martin luther king championed it the 60s. Called it a guaranteed minimum income for all americans. Fighting for was the day he was killed in 1986. It. 0 economists endorsed it passed the u. S. House of representatives twice in 1971. Later, one state passed a dividend where now everyone in that state gets and 2,000 a0 year, no questions asked. Iowa . Tate is that, alaska how does alaska pay for it . Crowd member oil what is the oil of the 21st century . Thats right. Selfdriving cars and trucks. Big data. There is a study that says our than oil. Rth more how many of you got your data check in the mail . The 21sthe reality of century economy. Your community is getting sucked dry. In thees profiting billions. And you see zero. This is the math that we have to change. Trickleupbuild a economy that works for you all possible. [cheering] now, this 1,000 a month, after im president thank im president fter and we pass the freedom dividend month, get this 1,000 a what would you spend it on . I heard beer. Ha we are the steak fry. The money would go right back into your communities. Day care. O to car repairs youve been putting off. Signups. Gue local organizations. This is how we rejuvenate the economy and make it, instead of all economyake were all saddled with, an economy thats built around our needs, our values. Our value as people, as owners and shareholders of this great country. Giving the freedom dividend personally to families around the country for the last number of months. The recipients is a guy iowa kyle who lives in falls, iowa. Hes at home taking care of his mom, recovering from cancer. Last month. He seemed like a new man. And he told me he snt some of guitar and was playing shows for the first time in years. Guitar. For jodie, it was car repairs. For mallory, it was going back school. But these are the choices. This is what the money means to us in real life. Now, i talk a little bit about how our measurements are messed up. Of you woke up excited about g. D. P. This morning . [laughter] record highs. T do you know what else are at record highs in America Today . Stress, financial insecurity, suicides, drug overdoses. Our lifeen so bad that expectancy has declined for the first time in three years. Wife andked with my boys, one of whom is autistic. Calculated at . K zero. We know thats the opposite of the truth. We know the work shes doing is among the most challenging, important and vital work there is. A couple the trail for days, looking after our kids. You know what i said after a couple days . Easy, back to Something Like running for president you know what i mean, if youre a parent, its so hard. Best work there is. This is a vision we have to take to the rest of the country as possible. Of an economy that works for us. If you look back, donald trump in 2016 by pointing out the problems. What did Hillary Clinton say in response . He said make America Great again. What did hillary say . Already great. And we lost. We need a new message. He defined the problems but his solutions were the opposite of what we need. Solutions, where were going to build a wall, turn the clock back. Were gonna bring the old jobs back. We have to do the opposite of all that, iowa. We have to turn the clock forward. We have to accelerate our economy and society as quickly possible. We have to evolve in the way we think about work and value, and i am the ideal candidate for that job because the opposite of whold trump is an asian man likes math. [cheering] now, math is an acronym. Stands for make america think harder. Were going to let our fellow that it is not immigrants that are causing these problems. ,t is automation and technology it is the fourth industrial revolution. There is one criteria you all have for your nominee. This. Who is the best situated to beat donald trump in 2020 . Your your hand if thats main criteria for the nominee. Oh. Im a numbers guy. Am one of only two candidates in the field that 10 or more of trump voters say they will support. So if i am your nominee, we will win [cheering] can bring in thousands of disaffected trump vote sers, independents, libertarians to join with us as democrats and progressives, because it is not not right, it is forward and that is where were going to take the country in 2020 you, iowa i love you i will see you soon thank you, iowa [cheering] crowd member Andrew Yang Andrew yang [chanting] President Joe Biden has made championing dignity and worker,ity for every every family and every Rural Community his lifes work. Time in public office, he successfully championed the violence against banned assault weapons and helped make obamacare the law of the land. Hes doggedly determined to fight our Climate Crisis by farmers in on the deal, to rebuild our middle class and our rural main streets, to an invigorated Education System and in our rural energy and water infrastructure. And hes fighting to build on obamacare by establishing a option to make sure every american has access to affordable, Quality Health care. Running for president , to unite our country, restore the tol of this nation and rebuild the full force of the middle class. Polk county, join me in welcoming vice President Joe Biden [music] [cheering] healthello, iowa [chanting] folks ha ha is holding off a little while longer. Front pew, no way out for you. Ladies and gentlemen, i know this is now the polk county fry, but i started off here when it was the tom harkins steak fry. It wasnt ever this big. Compliments of kind of what a great crowd. I served tom and together a long time. Battles, me pass helped me pass the assault weapons ban, the violence against women act. I played a small part in his crowning achievement, his with disability act that he passed. [cheering] tough, tom was principled and honest. I think he warrants being recognized here today. Folks, we meet here today as a by donald trump just seems to get worse every single solitary minute. Saw in el paso we see it where iran and god knows hes going to go with that. The stakes are only getting higher. Above all else, we must defeat donald trump, period. [cheering] and stop his abuse of power. A president who traffics in the ugliest forces. The ugliest forces in our nations history. In both clear language and code. President trump has fanned the White Supremacy in this nation. When charlottesville occurred were decent people standing there saying, we will not go along with this hate, and asked when a young woman was killed, he was asked to characterize what happened, he quote, there are fine people on both sides. No president no president has like that,nything save the possibility of before the civil war. Gentlemen, in doing moral has signed a equivalent between those the ku klux klan, the white supremacists, preaching supremacy, and those who are opposing it. At that time, i said were in a america. R the soul of and we are in the battle for the soul of america. Thats whats at stake. [applause] this country can overcome trump withof donald great difficulty, but eight years, eight years of trump, i will forever change the character and nature of the country we are. Is unique in all of history. Its an idea. An idea. American creed. All men and women are created equal. Fully lived up to that. But weve never, ever, ever walked away from it. Genius. Every generation of americans, every generation, has opened wider and wider access for more and more people. Why its never gathered dust in our history books. Who once president again values honesty, decency, dignity everyone with and respect, leaving no one behind. Shot. Everyone a fair and understanding that theres something bigger than our individual selves. Folks [cheering] thee also have to rebuild backbone of this country, the middle class. And this time, bring everybody along. Because wall street did not build america you built america you built america [cheering] unions built the middle class. [cheering] now, there are 50,000 auto workers and their families, so and women, who sacrificed much to keep General Motors alive. Gave up more than anyone to keep it going. And now theyre being left behind again. Learning their Health Care Going to be suspended. These families deserve better. Move from scranton, pennsylvania, when i was a kid, after coalno work died. My dad was not a coal miner, but my dad was a salesperson. Jobs. Were no if you listen to barack, youd with i came out of scanton a lunch bucket out of a coal mine, but i didnt. My dad was a white collar salesman. But my dad, when we moved down usedlittle steel town, he to say, joey, a job is about a than a paycheck. Its about your dignity. Its about respect. Its about your place in the community. Hed always send hate always end by saying its about being able to look a child in the eye and say, honey, its going to be ok. They dont believe they could say, its going to be ok. They dont believe that their child will do as well as they did. We have never ever had that happen in america. We are no longer the wealthiest middleclass in the world, so tore are two things in order have dignity as a parent, as a middleclass parent, you have to be able to turn to look to your child or someone you love and no that you know if they have a preexisting condition they can still get insured. You know that an Insurance Company cant come along and say, your time is up, suffering peace. , obamacaregentlemen did great things, but we have to go much further. I oppose anyone who wants to take down obamacare. [applause] covered,n people were 100 families we can do it because the American Public understands what they had and were given by obamacare as trump tries to take it away. That meansgentlemen, a public option to medicaid and the medicare option, that is similar to what we have now. Ladies and gentlemen, under my plan you have insurance. If you like it, you negotiate it, you negotiated with your company. If you are a union person, if you like it, you can keep it. We increased the subsidies to bring down the cost of middleclass. And anyone who is eligible for medicaid will automatically be eligible for the Health Care Proposal fully covered. We bring down premiums, we bring down drug costs. By protecting and building on obamacare. If i am president , im going to do everything in my power to make sure that it is done. Everything to make sure that this nation finds cures to cancer, alzheimers and other diseases. Defense department can ,nvest in a thing called darpa from Stealth Technology to the internet, why should we be investing 100 billion in four years in a health care puzzle focus on cancer, alzheimers and diabetes. We also have to provide for education. 12 years of education is not enough to make the middle class of the 21st century. Is within our power to change that. We can do it easily. What we should be doing is making sure every single child in america from age 3, 4, 5 has axis to preschool education. Creases that increases exponentially the possibility of them succeeding no matter what their background is. Community college should be free for anyone. Flatout free. That we areto making sure teachers get paid a minimum of 60,000 per year across the country. We are going to have a significant shortage of teachers within the next five or six years. Needs and gentlemen, we more school psychologists, we need more social work. Title do that by tripling i money. Isaddition to that, the fact we need to focus on what trump has done wrong. Worth, not wealth. Reversing his tax cuts, cutting his tax cuts for the super wealthy. Any teacher, firefighter, policeman, any middleclass person pay at a higher tax rate than someone making 50 million . It is wrong. I will make them pay at the normal rate they are supposed to pay. That we have to move immediately. About legislation back in 1986 and that is Climate Change. , as president the first thing i would do is rejoin the paris climate accord, within 100 days. A meeting of all the major nations in the world to up the ante. They are responsible for 85 of all the pollution. Weill lay out in detail how can significantly reduce consumption of fossil fuels and gets to net zero by 2050. We had a president with any imagination, we could have a Green New Deal and provide for a green new infrastructure. We can provide 500,000 charging stations along our highways, increasing the access for , creating 10 million new jobs. We should be the place that shows the rest of the world what we have to do. I also call for investing or hundred billion dollars immediately in new research to deal with Climate Change. It is estimated farmers will be part of getting us they will be the first group among us to get tos net zero under my plan. They will also provide good paying jobs for people. Folks, we have to unify this nation. Close,my time is getting but i am tired of walking around. People say well was me, what are we going to do . This is the United States of america. There is not a single ring. I mean it. I got elected to the senate as a 29yearold kid we had im more optimistic about americas chances today than i have ever been. We have more research and universities in america than all the rest of the world combine, ladies and gentlemen, its time we pick our heads up, remember who we are. This is the United States of america. Lets get up and take it back. We can do this. It is supposed to mist for the next half hour or so. If there is Severe Weather we will let everybody know. Thank you for sticking with us as we deal with the weather. Our next speaker has several titles. Veteran,eutenant,. Hodes scholar he hopes to add president to that list. Pete buttigieg of south bend, indiana understands the urgency of the problems our country faces. Hes has that he has seen his hometown ravaged by corporate closeness. Pete understands we need to meet this moment with fresh and Bold Solutions that emerge outside washington. He was offering a bold vision to do just that. Please join me in welcoming a fellow member, mayor pete buttigieg. [applause] thank you, iowa. Hello polk county democrats. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Guess i can cross out the part where it says my name is pete buttigieg. [applause] we are not going to let a little sprinkle get us down, are we . This is too important. I think our country is running out of time, and i think all of us know what we are up against in a moment like this. We know that when our country needs to rise to meet some of the rates challenges ever late at our feet, the leaders we are counting on have us divided. Is whats at stake in 2020 whether we can redirect the american project before its too late. That is not for years from now, that is not 10 years from now, that is right now and this cannot wait. The northstar of my politics is the idea that every life comes first, that because all of the decisions they make in those big white buildings in washington flow into our everyday lives and into our paychecks. You know that because i lived it. People in my life have been saved by obamacare and killed by the opioid crisis. My familys finances were rescued by medicare but pressured by sixfigure student debt. The course of my life was altered by orders to send me to war and the marriage hangs in the balance of the single vote. Thank you our by doing whatng you did. For me is about our everyday lives, thats what its supposed to be about, not the everyday fights among the politicians. We send them to washington hoping they will fight for us to get there, and they seem more interested in the part about fighting than the part about us, thats got to change. We are being divided around the very values that are supposed to hold us together, especially those in charge right now. They talk about patriotism. I say the greatest patriotism is the one that calls on us to speak our mind, not one that back us to disagree to go where we came from. Especially where they came from was michigan. They speak of faith, but tell me what faith condones taking money out of the budget for feeding hungry key hungry children. I was a stranger and you welcomed me. They talk a lot about freedom, but there is more than that then amazons freedom to not pay any federal income tax. How about the freedom to organize a good days pay for a good days work. Have a womens freedom to make decisions about their own bodies . We are getting more and more divided and it is beyond politics, it amounts to a crisis of belonging in america right now. One so profound people are selfmedicating. Have some good news, because in 135 days you get to be the very first in the country, to lead us away from the horror show, the reality show. That is in your hands. You get to caucus to not only defeat this president but to run the conditions possible to elect him in the first place. No one has been able to take over a political party, let alone gated it distance of taking the office. We are not going to be able to replace this president if we think he is just a blip, just an aberration. Deserve towin and win and we cant water down our values. About halfwn the country, we have to do this together. Thats how we win. He will do his usual rant about socialism, he will do his usual thing about washington. I come about six hours that way and we are going to bring whats best about our communities to washington instead of the other way around. They are going to try to go to that same old playbook. When i am your nominee this president will have to compete with an american war veteran on the subject of who would make a better commanderinchief. Thats how we are going to win the presidency. Picture a presidency where when you turn on the news and you see the white house your Blood Pressure goes down a little bit instead of up. Picture a white house that can deliver medicare for all who wanted, trusting you to decide if a public alternative is better for you then those Corporate Private plans out there. Picture a president who sees to picture a presidency concerned with the Racial Justice and ensuring that everybody has the opportunity to succeed in this country. When i am your president you will get a head of Environmental Protection who believes in Climate Change and a president determined to do something about it. A secretary oft education who believes in public education. Its about time. Its about making sure we know each other better as americans, calling on americans to be a part of everything from fighting Climate Change to serving this country. We are going to call on National Service to remind us what it is like to Work Together on something hard. Of what theart presidency can do is build up that sense of belonging. On going to tell you about one of the best moments on this campaign. I was in the backyard and the girl came up to say what my campaign man Company Campaign meant to her. I thought i knew exactly what she was about to tell me but i didnt, she said, i dont have to be ashamed just because i have autism. Thought, now this campaign is getting somewhere. Answering the crisis of the longing is manger everyone knows where they fit in. Thats what the presidency can do if its in the right hands. We could be proud of what we did in 2020. We can look into the eyes of the same kids who are looking up with tears in their eyes and tell them im sorry it ever got that way, but in 2020 we got together and change the trajectory of the country. That is my hope for our future. Went out of style for a while in american politics. Are you ready for a sense of hope that is required to make this country a better place . And are you ready to leave behind the reality show in washington and change the channel to something we can be i am askingen mark you to join me in making history because i believe with hope in our hearts and fire in our bellies we can change the trajectory of this nation. I will see you on the campaign trail. Thank you. Thank you. We are still serving meals. 6 00,ave been here since getting the food ready, getting the vegan option ready. Can everyone join me in welcoming and inking the second thinking thanking the work of the caterers. Beakers mayor de blasio. Im just kidding, he dropped out yesterday. Senator Amy Klobuchar is the first woman to be elected to the nine states tenant in minnesota history. She has a strong reputation for working hard and getting things done. Instead of spreading the blame she is committed to improving the lives of the families in the heartlands and fighting for the bread and butter she cares about. Issues like infrastructure, our Schools Health care and Mental Health and addiction. Please join me in welcoming the person best suited for a little bit of weather during her speech , the great senator Amy Klobuchar. Thank you, iowa. You know what . I can handle the snow, i can handle the rain and i can handle donald trump. When they said what candidate wants to talk in the rain . I said to me. To be here with your great secretary. Thing whenink of one i think of state pride, the biggest complement of all. Thank you, iowa, for electing. Indy and getting a savvy it we are really excited to call rita a congresswoman next year. Are you ready to beat steve king . Do all that and to win that u. S. Senate race, we dont just , we dont need to eke by, we need to win big. To win big, that means we have to be focused on one thing. Today we are focused on the primary and state. Toan tell you what we need do in iowa and that we need to win the u. S. Senate, we need to win those congressional seats, and we need to send Mitch Mcconnell packing. To do that, you cannot just do it by winning the presidency. You have to bring in our fired longys and bring in a independence and moderate republicans and win big. We know how high the stakes are. President running this country like a game show. A president who doesnt an the difference between america as good as its prom a and an america he can sell for a promise. As i said the other day, whats the difference between greenland and President Trump . Greenland is not for sale. He has shared in Israeli Intelligence with russia. Over hislieved russia own intelligence officers. Front of that sacred atl of those we lost in duty the cia and said he fell in love with kim jongun. That is some and who cannot differentiate between partisanship and our country. I can tell you this, i am someone that believes in america. I believe in the goodness of america. I dont just want to be president with half of america, i want to be president for all of america. I just came back from a blue wall tour. This is about those states that we did not win in 2016. Its about pennsylvania. I went to philadelphia and pittsburgh. I talked to people who voted for donald trump, who feel that he sold them a bill of goods. They are not getting those thomases met. When i went to michigan and talked to those port workers, i went to wisconsin, i went with our farmers, and then i went to iowa. And then all that way i went from pennsylvania to iowa. We are going to build a blue wall. We are going to make donald trump pay for it. This is it. This is how we do this. We are here to talk about the primary today. If we want to win the general election, this is what we do. We meet them where they are. We say to them if you are tired of the noise and nonsense, which is what i say every day, if you are tired of being extreme in our politics, then you have a home with me. Iowa, is withs, an optimistic economic agenda for this country. Thats how we have formers how we have former Governor Scott walker. Party standwe as a by the Union Workers of the united auto strike on that pickup line. Picket line. It is a simple idea that our work does not end on election day but at but begins on inauguration day. People after the charlottesville there were not two sides when the other side is the ku klux klan. That is only one side, and is the american side. It is about standing by our farmers and telling them, i as your president will not treat you like poker chips in a bankrupt casino. We are going to stop those oil waivers to those big Oil Companies. And as someone who is on the agricultural committee, i understand that its not just one size that fits all. The hospitals are not the same in big metro areas as small towns, the education in our schools are not the same in big and small towns. If we want to bridge the urban divide we better be able to send our email to our grandma, because we dont have highspeed broadband in every county in iowa. I will deliver that every county in the country. And when it comes to climate of our the big crisis time, this president has moved us backwards. He stopped california in its efforts to do something about it. I can tell you on day one i will sign us back into the international Climate Change agreement. On day 20 bring back the clean power standard. On day three i will bring back on day 45 and six owl introduced sweeping legislation to take on Greenhouse Gases and do something about Climate Change. On day seven i will rest, i gunt really rest area safety. A kid named brandon came up to me. He was a survivor of pulse nightclub area i told him what i would say to the president read i would say, i sat across from you after parkland and i listened to you and i looked at timesnd i wrote down nine when he said he wanted universal background checks. Nine times, just like he said after el paso and dayton. What happened there . 30 seconds and dayton ohio, nine people gun down. Why did it all happen . The day after he met with me in the white house and we tried to push for sensible gun safety legislation, he met with the nra and he folded. As your president i will not fold. We will get this done. We will not achieve any of this if we do not have Voting Rights, if we do not have a democracy that works. We must reauthorize the Voting Rights act, stop the voter depression, past my bill to every person in this country when they turn 18, and pass a constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united. We must not just get all these great policies passed. The tone in change our politics. We must reach out to our friends and say, imagine if every morning you didnt have to wake up to one of those mean tweets. I dont know what the media would do, they would have to go to sleep again. What what our life be like. You say to your friends and neighbors and people you know voted for donald trump, you say to them, look what he has done. He hasnt kept his promises. He close about an economy he didnt v8, that our workers and businesses were so resilient on the downturn area and he sits there. When anything goes wrong of his own make from his trade wars and waivers and how he has handled the farm economy, what does he do . He whines. You tell your friends that work every day that may have made and ever, you tell them we dont want a whiner in the white house. We dont need that anymore. We need someone who is as strong as the backbone of this country. We need someone whos willing to take on the challenges of this country. Remember the march we are on. It started the day after inauguration day, when millions of people in the state of ohio state of iowa marched all over this country. The next day 6000 women signed up for office. Went on day nine, you are not alone, people spontaneously showed up. , theyey went to airports went to noninternational airports. They stood up and protested. . Today 100, my favorite march, the march for science. , what do wesign want . Science, when do wanted, after peerreviewed . Joined by three brave republicans when they try to do that meanspirited and overturn the Affordable Care act and overturn people civil rights to stay on their insurance when they have preexisting conditions, what happened . We won because of all of you. That is the march you are on. When all of a sudden people were winning in places we never thought they could win. , iind new jersey that said timethey will be home in to make dinner, that guy lost. He was beaten by an africanamerican woman. And then it is that victory of decency and victory, doug jones wins in the state of alabama. That is the march we are on. Lets win iowa in 2020. Journal,washington live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, Daniel Strauss from political, and Daniel Manchester from the hill or generous to discuss political news from capitol hill. Dame university of notre robert small on his book the glory and the burden. 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