Ohio has backed all the two winners in every election since 1896. The top candidates are at their positions behind the podium. This is a Record Number of candidates, so to a comment the large group, there are no Opening Statements tonight. Before we begin, a reminder of the ground rules. You will each receive 75 seconds to answer questions, 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals, and 15 seconds for clarification. From interrupting fellow candidates is that will count against your time. And we remind our audience to be respectful of the candidates. Lets begin. In thehe last debate House Democrats have officially launched an impeachment inquiry against President Trump with all the candidates on the stage support. Saidor warren, you have there is already enough evidence for President Trump to be impeached and removed from office. But with the election only one year away, why shouldnt it be the voters who determine the president s fate . Sometimes, there are issues that are bigger than pol
[applause] please welcome our county chair. Hello, iowa. Fellow democrats from across america. All 50 states of america, welcome to polk county. Celebration for our Democratic Party. Together, we will get to meet 17 candidates who are leading a conversation about the future of our party and our country. One of these 17 people will be our next president. They say bad weather brings good luck, and it rained like heck at last years steak fry, and then we won back the congress. I hope the weather we have today is going to win us back the white house next year. Before we get started, please join me in welcoming the elected officials and candidates who are here today. Usually, we read all their names at our events, but obviously this is a little bit eager, so we are not going to go through all hundred of them. Please join me in welcoming them here today. Welcoming join me in five of our newer steak fry leaders. Lindsay paulson and peter crane are our steak fry chairs. Our executive director
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 d
Their parents basements for the first comiccon are now living in their grandparents basements. Their own kids living under them. Did you know every year at comiccon at least five people die from getting their cape stuck in an escalator. It also is world emoji day, this is an International Event organized by whom i dont know. But on behalf of everyone at the show, smiley face with hearts for eyes, prayer hands, prayer hands and a thumb up to you. Some parent are concerned that their kids are using emojis to communicate in code, and yeah, they are. They are doing it. Every emoji is also a sex thing. All of them. Even santa claus has some kind of connotation. But emojis have become a universal language in some ways. And in honor of world emoji day today we decided to put pedestrians to the test. We went out on the street and showed people some common combinations of emojis, like phrases that people use to ask them if they could tell us what they mean. If somebody sent you this, what does
This is about we know about who we are. I want to thank you all and it is great to be with you. Only got 20 minutes. I think we all know this is a reflection moment. Thatis the moment in time is requiring us each as individuals and collectively to look in america and ask a question. That question being who are we . I think we all know part of the answer to that question is we are better than this. Is a moment in time that is requiring us to fight for the best of who we are and fight we will. This is not a new fight for us. We have always been in the business of fighting for who we our fighting for i ideals. I am a daughter of fighters. Mitchents felt when when they were in the civil rights. Movement. They were shouting about justice. They reminded folks of that time articulated in 1776 that we are all equal. Thats what inspired me to want to become a lawyer. We are born fighters. Mother, myalso by a meter and i if you ever our mother you would think she was 10 feet tall. She was the ki