Let me just start by saying thank you to each and every one of you for being here this afternoon. I know it has been a very trying week on top of some very trying years and i appreciate the Vice President and his team being here today and taking some time to meet with our iowa farmers that have been impacted by the Severe Weather we just experienced. I have spent the last two days touring the damage and as you all know, it is devastating and it is widespread. From flattened cornfields to destroyed grain bins and structures, its another huge load to iowas farmers. Early, and i will stress early, estimates show at least 10 million crop acres have been impacted, which is half of our cropland and that does not include bins, structures and storage that we have moving forward. Hundreds of thousands are without power. At its peak, we had 550,000 households that did not have power, including 97 of linn county. Throughout the devastation, the resilience and determination continues to show through. First responders, Emergency Management professionals sprung to action. Utility workers from around iowa and around the country are working 20 47 to restore power. Mitt them has 500 resources on the site yesterday. Alliance has teams coming in yes has teams coming in as well. People are opening their homes to those without power and food and i was touring a farm yesterday and i had not eaten all day and i said where is the nearest gas station and he said i can fire up the grill and we will fix you supper before you leave. And i thought that is iowa. [applause] farmers are busy assessing their fields and working to salvage their crops yield. Im here to tell you that we have a Strong Partner in President Trump and Vice President pence. I spoke to the president on finday and he called to out what the devastation was and to let us know we have his full support and the support of the federal government in response and recovery and i really do appreciate their unending commitment to iowa. Im also extremely, extremely thankful to have our senators, in senators joni ernst in washington. Shes an individual who embodies the strength and determination. F iola of iowans whether shes helping iowans covid19, protecting the Biofuel Industry or response to disaster recovery, we are so fortunate to have a fighter like joni. Iowas farmers and small towns could not have a more faithful a stronger her and advocate on your behalf. So now, it is my great honor and pleasure to introduce iowa up some amazing junior senator and my good friend, senator joni ernst. [applause] sen. Ernst gosh, folks, thank you for being here today. What do you think . [applause] and ofciate you so much course, just as the governor to everyones go out who has been impacted by these latest storms here in iowa and i have had the opportunity to get out and see some of the families that have been affected. I was out a little earlier today and will be back out i will be out again tomorrow morning. God bless them and we want them to stay safe and make it through this and they will because we are iowa strong and we are iowa resilient. So lets focus on it right here and now. What we have going on. It is great to be with you today and i see a lot of friends out there in the crowd and im so thankful for you and i am thankful to be here with my friend mike pence. We will hear from him in just a second. [applause] the Vice President is from i state, indiana. We will forgive him. We will make him and honorary iowan. He loves farmers. Being the governor of indiana, he loves farmers and he really gets it. So i am the junior senator from the great state of iowa. I am joni ernst. I dont want you to forget that november 3. It is coming quickly. Ok . 2 [applause] farm was raised on a small in southwest iowa and i am so proud of that. I still call Montgomery County home. Im so glad to have been raised there by the folks at home, really a community that raised me, but my folks instilled values of hard work, you name it in me that all of us farm kids have. I did work my way through college, iowa state graduate. [applause] have dedicated my life to serving iowans and of course our great country. I have served as a county auditor formic memory county, ive served as the Battalion Commander in our great Army National guard. Thank you. [applause] thank you. I have served as a state senator representing southwest iowa and found great honor as a United States senator. So what i would like to do is describe what we have in front of us. Here we have two roads. Choosingtion is about a direction for our country and ahead of us, we have those two roads. On one hand, we have the road of choice. Prosperity, and sounds like a pretty darn good road to me. On the other hand, you have a road of the radical left. On that road, it is paved by radical environmentalist policies that are so detrimental to iowa or culture. They are paved with abortion on demand. They are paved with the second the secondollbacks, amendment rollbacks nancy pelosi has been proposing, and of course the hopes and dreams of every coastal elite. That is the other road. Im going to choose that first road and that is the road of prosperity, of freedom, and of choice. And i hope you will come and take that road with me. [applause] so this is the road im going to fight for. I know you are going to fight for that road and this is the road that donald trump and mike pence are fighting for as well. Are we going to support them . [applause] folks, they understand that right here in iowa, our American Dream is still alive and still doing well because we will continue to fight for that right here in the heartland. For all of our farmers out there, anybody involved in agriculture . [applause] of you. D, that is most thank you so much. On that small farm i was raised on and i think some of you will probably have this same experience is i grew up around hogs, right . I think you have all seen my ad from six years ago. We know what to do with those hogs. We were taught to work with our hands, we were taught to clean out those stalls, shoveling with a now call organic fertilizer. Whatever the left wants to call it today. Really hardworked but that upbringing really did shape who i am today in a very profound way in understanding every job is worth doing and folks, we are feeding and fueling a nation right here in the state of iowa. Kudos to all of you. Thank you for doing that. [applause] it is easy to give cheap talk about agriculture. And there are some engaged in this race, like my opponent theresa greenfield, that is offering up a lot of cheap talk about agriculture. But those that are engaged in it know that it is 24 7. And sometimes you have to get a little dirty and get in the mud, right . Thats a lot like politics. But we are going to fight through this and i know our farmers will never forget how bad barack obama was for farmers. Think back. Think back. Anch phrase, quotas, what overreaching, overburden some regulation that was on our iowa agriculture, on our farmers and ranchers. And of course, joe biden and theresa greenfield are both forng, the catchphrase theresa greenfield right now is hiding a with biden. With biden. G i wonder if joe biden and theresa greenfield are going to come out of their basements long enough to say whether they support a plan like barack obama did that would regulate most of iowas croplands. I would love to hear and answer. At least one answer from theresa greenfield. The democrat to this country have gotten in lockstep with the plans called the green new deal. How many of you have heard of that . Thats what i thought. I hear from you every day and to taking that big boo washington dc. [applause] no green new deal. Because it is a rotten deal for farmers. Alongside our farmers and producers, we have fought a in and day out for iowas farmers, our tag industry, our biofuels industry. We have kept our farm economy strong, we have expanded opportunities for farmers to make a living around the globe and even during this pandemic. So, folks, again, lets go back. O those two roads the one road is of freedom, prosperity and choice. The other one, im not even going to go over it again because we dont need that. We dont need fundamental change to our great United States of america. Because, folks, we keep getting it right. Freedom, prosperity, and choice. That is what we need right here. [applause] i said it once, i said it twice, i said it a dozen times. This is going to be a tough election cycle and we need all of you out there participating. I would let everyone know that i am a fighter. Im a fighter and we are going to keep pressing on through the very last minutes and hours of this election cycle because we have to hold this seat and we have to hold the white house. That is why it is such an honor for me to be on this stage day introducing a man i have known for many, many years. Im a great admirer of this gentleman. He served in so many different capacities from congress to governor of the great state of indiana. He is none other than our Vice President , mike pence. And he will join me on the stage. Please give a warm iowa welcome to our Vice President. [applause] vice pres. Pence hello, iowa. It is great to be back in the Hawkeye State. Tom governor kim reynolds senator ernst to all of the great americans gathered here today, thank you for coming and being a part of a national movement. Farmers and ranchers for trump. [applause] i want to thank joni ernst for those great words and thank your governor. I will have more to say about both of them in a minute. But i have to tell you, the state of iowa is truly blessed that a principled conservative who has served this nation in uniform and who fights for the Hawkeye State every single day, senator joni ernst. [applause] she is a national treasure. I know we are all gathering here at a time of great progress, great hope. Am choosing right around the corner. Before i get started, let me address what i know what is on andhearts of every iowan people all across the heartland of this country. Storm that destroyed millions of crops and left hundreds of thousands without power and tragically took the lives of two iowans and one missourian. When i heard about this storm, as a lifelong hoosier, i was taken aback. To hear the magnitude of this storm and its impact. I just met with families who have literally seen virtually their entire crop wiped out. I assured them that they and all of those impacted by this direct derecho are in the hearts of millions of americans. Let me say, on behalf of the president and our administration, i want islands i want iowans to know we are with you and we will work with your governor and your senators to make sure we bring iowa all the way back, figure and stronger than ever before. I promise. [applause] but it really is great to be in iowa. From the first day of this administration, the president good strong with the people of this state. I promise you, he always will. He loves this great state and as a son of the heartland, i feel right at home. That is why i am here today. And here because iowa america need four more years of president donald the white house. [applause] and while you are at it, we need six more years of senator joni ernst in the United States senate. [applause] and let me also say that the president and i and senator ernst and your great governor need the great state of iowa to and marian, miller meeks david young to washington dc. Great leaders. Outthank you all for coming today. I know that in the summertime, the iowa state fairgrounds is usually busier. But these are no ordinary times. It is still a joy to be with you today. I am here because i stand with President Donald Trump. [applause] when this president stands up for faith and family and the american flag, i stand with President Donald Trump. [applause] when this president stands up to the radical left and their socialist agenda, we stand with President Donald Trump. [applause] and when this president fights for americas farmers and and knows that the strength of this nation begins with the men and women who work the land, we stand with President Donald Trump. [applause] for years ago a movement was born, a movement of Everyday Americans from every walk of life, and here in iowa, you knew we could be strong again. You knew we could be prosperous again. You said yes to president donald iowa in 2016, and i know is going to say yes to four more years of President Donald Trump in 2020. [applause] you know, the choice in this election couldnt be clearer, and the stakes couldnt be higher. In this president , you have a leader who has literally done more for this countrys economy, more to strengthen our military, more to stand for the godgiven liberties enshrined in the founding documents of this nation, than any president in my lifetime. You know, when i think of the last three and a half years, there was only one way you can describe it. Action. [indiscernible] been three years of promises made and promises kept, but we are just getting started, iowa. [applause] [no audio] we are havingsee, technical problems with our live feed, but are working to fix the problem and bring you back to the discussant to the discussion shortly. [no audio] democratic president ial candidate joe biden and running mate Kamala Harris were in wilmington, delaware today to talk about the coronavirus pandemic. They brought reporters into their meeting to answer questions. Vice President Biden weve got a lot of work