hello. hello. mr. yang: thank you so much. you are incredible. i want to say a special thank you to my wife, evelyn yang, for being such an incredible partner. i love you so much, baby. whoo. what a night here in iowa. thank you all so much for the hard work and dedication you put into making tonight a tremendous night for the yang gang and this campaign. [cheers and applause] mr. yang: and this is a great time to actually pause for reflection on how far we have come. we declared over two years ago. over 30 people ended up jumping into the race. remember that first debate stage, there were 20 candidates? they had to break it up into two nights. i am going right from here to new hampshire, where i will be one of the seven candidates on the debate stage on friday night in new hampshire. [cheers and applause] mr. yang: so many of you dropped everything and came here to iowa to fight for this campaign. raise your hand if you are here from out of state and came here. let's give them a round of applause. let's give you a round of applause. look at this. [applause] mr. yang: that is humanity first. that is what has made this campaign the political force of nature that no one saw coming. we have raised tens of millions of dollars from almost half a million americans in increments of only $30 each. that is because people have made this case to other people at every step of the way. and tonight, what happened? we saw that tens of thousands of iowans around the state realized that their economy is transforming around them in profound ways. i have seen it myself. it has gone from the farms to the factories to the main streets and eventually will hit the highways. this is what we have to turn around, yang gang. we have to actually make an economy that actually works for us instead of the bottom lines of these huge companies. [cheers and applause] mr. yang: to say it is all about our bottom line, because we all hear their record high corporate profits, record high gdp in this country. you know what else is at record highs in the united states of america right now? stress, anxiety, drug overdoses, suicides, depression, student loan debt, medical bankruptcies. if your corporate profits are going up, and your very life expectancy is going down, which do you listen to? >> life expectancy! mr. yang: that's right, it's our lives. it's our lives, america. we have to start measuring how we are doing by how we are doing and not how these giant companies are doing, because the two are no longer lining up. if anything, they are heading in opposite directions more and more. [cheers and applause] mr. yang: and that is what this campaign can change. this campaign can make our country's bottom line, our families' bottom line, our kids' bottom line, our towns' bottom line. you look around and see that our current economy does not reward the kind of work that stay-at-home parents like evelyn do every single day. it does not recognize and reward the kind of work that caregivers, like carl, taking care of their ailing mom, do every single day. volunteers and activists doing work in your communities, artists, people trying to make the community stronger. all of these are getting zeroed out one by one by one. our very democracy is getting zeroed out. it is the money that wins. this campaign is about turning that around. this campaign is about saying, the best way we can solve our own problems is by putting economic resources into our hands. that we know how to improve our lives better than any other government program. [cheers and applause] mr. yang: that message rang loud and clear here in iowa tonight, thanks to each and every one of you, and now we are going to take that message to new hampshire and the rest of the country. [cheers and applause] mr. yang: i got to say, i am a numbers guy. we are still waiting on numbers from tonight. we are all looking around, being like, what's the math? what's the math? this is one of those situations where we can essentially throw some algebra letters up on the wall and being like, i guess we will project onto these letters for now what the numbers are going to be. but the math that i care most about is the fact that this movement has become something that has already shocked the political world, and it's going to keep on going from here. it is going to keep on growing from here. [cheers and applause] mr. yang: you know what's fun is, when some of the other campaigns hold a fundraiser, they get together in a fancy place, put on their nice duds, come together, say expensive words. they think expensive thoughts. you know the way the yang gang has a fundraiser? we are going to have a fundraiser right now. what we are saying is, yang gang, if you want to keep this -- yang, if you want to keep this movement growing through new hampshire, chip in $5, $10, $30 tonight, show that this campaign is going to grow and grow all the way to the white house. we have shocked the world time and time again, yang gang. are we done yet? >> no! mr. yang: no, we are going to go to new hampshire. i will be on the debate stage on friday, and they will see that this campaign has just begun, and it is going to go all the way! thank you, iowa! thank you, yang gang! i love you all. ♪ mr. yang: thank you so much! ach an e you are beautiful human beings, and we are going to keep on going all the way to the white house, and then we are going to have a big celebration at the nd, a year from nowth morrison playing] ♪ ♪ return of the mack nce again return of the mack you know ♪ ♪ return of the mack return of the mack here ♪